This message is for any human being who is open to the possibility that your life is a gift, completely, and is to be lived out as an expression of your gratitude and joy every day .. and, for no other purpose whatsoever. There is a simple way to know if you belong in this group, for if you do, you will feel a response in the center of your chest, near your breastbone, where a sweet feeling that can only be interpreted as "yes" will awaken.

The value of this feeling cannot be overestimated. Within that feeling lies your truest friend for life. Living there is that which wants you to fulfill your lifetime.

Let me explain. Imagine, if you will, a child awakening from sleep early in the morning. The words spoken by the child are:

"What's for breakfast?"

As an adult, you may hear the words of the child as coming from a state of need. However, by an inexplicable grace these words can be spoken from a state of actual gratitude. As you are aware, the gap between "needy" and "grateful" is far greater than the Grand Canyon.

That which can move a human being from need to gratitude can be felt at the center of your chest. Instantaneously, the pauper becomes the prince, the last becomes first, the sick becomes well, the blind can see, the lost is found. That in you, in you, yes, in you, is that great!

The one who lives out that feeling in the heart lives by what I call Anonymous Creativity. Anonymous Creativity is anarchy in everyday life, unfolds by revelation, moment-to-moment, unbridled, unbidden, riding a free wind, from nowhere to nothing.

In such a state, a wild bird looks into my eyes and sees itself revealed there. A cat knows my name and calls to me in its purr-r-r. A rock I remember putting down comes home with me, in my pocket.

A human being who does what he loves to do, for the joy of doing it, without thought or care of success, who is kind without a name, forgets himself and finds himself, in love. It is to be present without wanting anything, anonymous. Such a one is real. You can be that one.

The secret for a way to live so that your every wish will come true immediately is now revealed:

Each day I simply wish from
my deepest self that I be
who I am, that I be right
here, where I am, now,
and that I have exactly
what I have right now,
the good and the bad.

If you will only do this simple thing you will soon discover the truth of who you truly are, already, without need.

Jonathan Smith
Summer 2002