I find peace

I find peace in you

In your bosom I find peace

I find peace in your shelter

I find peace in your presence

Your heart is filled with love and kindness and much peace

This where I want to dwell

Your heart is where I want to belong

Where can I find you?

Where do you dwell?

Where ever you are is where I want to because in you is where 

I find peace 

In your bosom is where I cherish

In your shelter is where I build my home

-Herlay Maitre

This Day..

This week I was reminded of how important our relationships are. Relationships are the essence to our existence. Let's face it we depend on each other in the most molecular way! If we say we don't need anyone we are simply deceiving ourselves. Our relationships may be challenging in that they cause us pain but the theory that we can make it on our own, is false.

Our relationships make us, builds us and if we allow them can destroy us. The notion that something that comes from the outside can destroy is illusive yet terrifying. Needless to say why we pull away or build walls for fear that we do not want to be hurt or taken advantage of. The pain we have once felt is real, let's not deny that; but to allow this pain to dictate the rest of your every day relationships is missing out on the exquisiteness that life has to offer.

 Seeking to hold on to the torment of a past or current relationship is to deny ourselves an opportunity for a real spiritual alliance while creating a place of mental confinement where by the mind dwells in a place of perpetual solitude. Food for thought, if you could heal all of your relationships, would you?

 Love & Light

 Herlay M.

Living in fear

Marcus Aurelius had this to say in regards to fear:
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius


Living in fear separates you from arriving or doing anything productive. Your constantly thinking about what’s going to go wrong or right! Living in fear creates such a lapse in judgment because of the awareness of what one views as being constantly harmful. We tend to think about preparing ourselves for the worst. When preparing ourselves for the worst we spend so much time doing so, we create the “bad” event and say, “see I told you..I’m glad I prepared myself for this.” Without realizing it we plan a disaster. I’m not saying one should not cover their windows if it has been said that one should do so, in preparation for a major storm or hurricane. But what I am saying is that one should use the energy they have toward fear to do something much more productive with their lives. The amount of time we spend afraid of doing something or afraid that something is going to harm us, is the same amount of time we can use to pray and to send pure energy into this world.

I once meet a woman who told me her father was going to die. She said my father is on his death bed and I want to begin preparing for his death. She later received a call from her native county saying her father was getting better. She began to think about individuals back in her country and thought about all the preparations she would need to make to accommodate the people who are flying in for the funeral. Though her father has not passed and is getting better she thought, I’d better be safe than sorry. As she continued to plan, in the midst of her planning she received a phone call that her father passed, prior to her getting to her native country to see him. She thought to herself I’m so grateful I planned for his death. Though the woman was hurt she kept reaffirming to herself that what she did was right. We later talked and she realized that the time she spent planning while being in another country she could have spent with her father. She could have spent those last weeks with him, as he was feeling better.

Instead of planning on saying goodbye she could have actually said goodbye. The fear of losing her father caused her to think irrationally. The fact that she planning out her father’s funeral was not something to blame herself over, the purpose of hearing her father was on his death bed, was to help her to consider what is important. What was important the time of her preparations was the awareness that she needed not to worry or become afraid of not having enough provision for the people coming to her father’s funeral. If she was at all cognizant of the importance of remaining connected to what her intuition had been telling her, she would have been better off.

This experience taught her that she needed to be aware of the present moment, while allowing the fear and worry that she felt to dissipate and return to the nothingness it once was. If she had done so she would have realized that after her father’s death she could have then began to plan his funeral with her other siblings and shared that experience with them.

The concept of fear has the power to make you feel insane. Insanity is simply the mind that see’s itself outside of the context of love. This Love is Christ; this Christ is the True Self.

Within love,

Herlay Maitre

Come dine with me

Allow me to sip on your cup, the cup of life
Come rest with me
Allow me to rest at your side, the smell of your love makes me whole
Come and walk with me
Allow me to hold your hand, as the wind kisses my cheeks, I’m reminded of your oneness with me
Come, let’s talk about life
Allow me to be reminded about the life I’ve lived, so that I may continue in the life that I have
Come.
Come and dine with me.
Come and rest with me.
Come, lets talk.
Let’s gaze into each other’s eyes and become one.
Hold me, that I may melt into you! Trust me with your heart and I will trust you with mine.
We are one. We are the same. We have entered into each other for life.

Being You!

One of the most important aspects to life is that you decide to be yourself. Being yourself implies that you allow the most intricate details of your human existence to come alive. You allow your thoughts to become your reality. You live to allow your dreams to awaken positivity, life and divinity into another human soul. You live to transform, this universe, this earth and the present situations that occur around you.

Once you make a conscious effort to do this ; the most perfect way is revealed to you. True joy will implore you. Joy will lavish your being and create in you possibilities that were not there before. The dreams you’ve experienced through vision will come into fruition, you will begin to meet people who are aligned with your dream.

Divine influences happening in your soul will bring about divine connections that will manifest from spirit to what we know and see as reality. The difference between you and someone else is the amount of faith you have in your divine being. The faith that says I nolonger stand, but it is He that is in me that stands.

You are a blessing to this universe, at this very time in your life, you are here on earth as a promise that God came to fulfill. Seeing you succeed is the goal of the entire universe. Whether you realize this or not you have heard it said many times before; the universe what we know as God is conspiring for your success. You are an absolute miracle!

The Essence of Life

Beauty cannot be described; It is an inner awakening of your truest self. Once you get a hold of it you can only bestow it upon others. Clinging on to an inner awakening and blessing others is the beautiful intention of life.

As human beings we desire to make this planet a better place whether through our own existence or by physically doing something to put change into place. We can only do this through a sound mind. A mind that even at its molecular level speaks of peace. Scripture states that God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind 2 Timothy 1:7.

This peace we speak of may give the illusion of impossibility for some especially when life gets to be overwhelming. However when life seems to be overwhelming we must take a moment to stop and enjoy the roses. As you stand in front of the rose and contemplate it you will develop a sense of appreciation for the beauty of it and find like you, the rose had to go through a renewal process as it once was a seed as we once were in the womb of our mother.

In life we all have a journey we need to go through. For each person it is a different journey.The elements that arise within the soul is the beauty of the journey. When this happens we participate in the experience of the journey and enjoy it fully. As you smell the rose, the rose itself fulfills its purpose as it reminds you of yours. To truly live is the only way to live. Living a meaningful life means,much like the rose, you fulfill your purpose. Ask yourself what is your purpose? After doing so acknowledge that your life up until now has been about this very moment. Feel the love of God expressed through this moment.

With love,

Herlay Maitre

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Redefine death

Why is death such a hard concept to swallow.

It is only natural to find that as we age, our peers, parents, and associates will begin to pass on around us. But what makes this concept so difficult. When we think of death we tend to get sad at the thought of losing someone we love so dearly. Life without our significant other, parent, or best friend feels as if it cannot be lived. No matter how much were consoled there is still pain; that no one will be able to comprehend.

Let us redefine death and our understanding of it. What is death anyway? We have been taught that Death is the separation of the physical body from the spirit. There are different kinds of death, there is the physical and the spiritual. The spiritual death happens while here on earth. It is when we subconsciously choose to give our spirit or essential nature over to the things of this world. We make this decision unconsciously but sometimes we do it willingly. We do this all the time! Have you ever spoken to someone and while speaking to them they make reference to their spirituality by either saying they are atheist or just overwhelmed. Many people talk about spirituality as if it were a religion. This is not true. Religion is made up of ideas that people thought would be beneficial to the human race. Our spirit is the essence to who we really are. Your spirit self is the real you! However, one must also nurture the body, the mind and the spirit or soul. The mind, body and spirit or soul are entities that work together.

What if in thinking about death, we were to think about our personal awakening? What if we choose to redefine our feelings and emotions while in the moment of sadness. I say this because when someone passes away we begin to think about their lives and how their lives affected us. We think about our time with them, there smile; what they meant to us. In the new thought culture it said that one’s life should be celebrated and not forgotten. But what does that really mean? It means that we acknowledge the dead’s existence and while doing so we choose to be fully grateful for the encounter we had with the soul. This should lead us to thinking about whether or not this person truly lived and whether you are truly living.

I’ve once heard someone say death is not a loss, if you’ve truly lived while here on this earth. If we have truly lived our best life, we cannot go on to regret a person’s death; because we know that in our presence this person expressed their highest self. If we’ve truly lived we embrace the challenges that come with living on earth. Living a meaningful life, is living a purpose driven life. A life that everyday means something; a life that carries meaningful weight. An inspired life lived with love and substantial significance that you, can stand up and say that you are a proud partaker of.

Death does not have to be a scary thought. The topic of death can be an awakener, bringing us closer to our purpose here on earth. You know you’ve found your purpose when everything about you expresses peace, love and joy while acting on your purpose. Your purpose helps others tap into the highest form of life within themselves. In essence death is not a loss in the grander scheme of things. It is when we choose to quiet our gifts and talents that we experience true death.

With Love,

Herlay M.

Believing in purpose

Ultimately believing in your specific purpose is all that matters. We spend too much time believing in what others believe of us or for us, that we fail to understand our own purpose. We can spend an entire life time living in the unconscious. Believing in our own God given destiny of what we are here on this planet for is the reason to which our existence emanates. I’ve read that most people spend their mid twenties trying to figure it out. In trying to figure out an existence, they spend years making mistakes until they realize they are hurting themselves, eventually to stumble upon what is that they are suppose to be doing.

Although, this can seem like a great way to begin to truly live; to complete many tasks in order to conduct trial and error routines, this can be a waste of time. What if as parents we were enlightened to know what our child’s natural gift is and encouraged them toward it? Our children would be better off, I say this because not everyone who went through the trial and error period of their lives can say they didn’t make huge mistakes. Our life’s journey doesn’t have to be a distant one. It doesn’t have to be one filled with mistakes or misfortunes. It can be one that is guided and protected by the light of Christ within.

The remarkable presence within us is always there. We just have to be trained to hear it. As parents we must train our children to hear the silent voice within. If we don’t our society and its false personalities will. It is important that we rely on the presence of Christ within our own lives that we might awaken this presence in those around us. The enlightened word of God teaches us that if we “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6

Our children depend on us to encourage and love them. What better way to do this but by teaching them to cherish the life within; the Christ within. We must lead by example, not through our own mistakes. This is believing in purpose.

Peace and Love,

Herlay Maitre

A Sweet Visit to Yourself

The best thing that could ever happen to you is when you choose to visit the real you.

The real you is exploding and is ready to come out and manifest, as it may throughout this world.

You wonder what is this real you? I speak of? This real you is the essence of divinity that Christ speaks of when he states that Ye are God’s creating us in his image and likeness and making us like him is not an accident Psalm 82:1 . This is what the original intention was all about; that we might know who we are and live as we are.

Some of us have gotten this concept, where we have begun to create. Individuals such as Einstein and Socrates got hold of this idea decades ago, but somehow we believe that we might be different from them. We choose instead to let it go of the idea that we could be brilliant and are on this planet for a great purpose; due circumstances around us or lack of belief in the self. On this earth at this very time and moment there is only a selected few, who are functioning as we are made to. We hear it all the time, be the best You, that You can be! We hear greatness speak but we do not react because we do not truly believe in who really are. The only person that can uncover your inner potentials is you. You must therefore be willing to see yourself as you really are.

Today, I implore you with words of hope; that you might begin to believe in the infinite that created you, and the purpose he created you for. We are all individuals, none of us were created the same or with the same abilities, this is what makes up the word “individual”.

You are your own protype, the only you there is. You are special, a unique brand! You must love you. Without you the world would not be the same, you make up a unique part of this universe. You are a blessing, here and now. Your mark must be left on this planet!

Have you ever stopped and wondered why you were born in this century and not in another? It is because the creator within you, thought this is the perfect time, the IAM in you which is the creator that you are, decided that this was the best time for you to be here, this is when you would be needed. You are here at this specific time because you are a blessing!

Be the Real You,

Herlay Maitre

Believing in "The" self..

You must
believe in something.

Our generation, teaches us that we must believe in something, outside of ourselves in order to be an achieving individual. An individual that is able to understand his or her self, an individual that is accomplished and self less.Although, believing in someone higher than ourselves is great. This mindset is created to take us believe that we are “better” or will be once we complete a list of actions. I was at a oncert recently, while being there it dawned on me that our outer expression of life through our talent is happens as a benefit to ourselves. As we are doing what we naturally love to do, we bless urselves as well as those around us. We feel fulfilled to be doing what we know we have been put on earth for. As I heard the singer sing, the audience was mesmerized, members of the audience even grabbed the singer’s attention.

The singer went on to hold some audience members hands, while smiling at others. As the singer began to sing, it made me think of how wonderful of a gift the singer expressed. I thought WOW! “This singer is singing from the depth of his being.” But what does that mean “being”? We use terms that we often look past or simply don’t fully understand. The terms often sound good as they are describing something we mean but what are we really saying. This means that the vocalist sang from a place of passion and of surrender. It was clear that the vocalist was in touch with greatness.

Greatness is nothing outside of you. Greatness however resides on the inside. Greatness expressed is the God like character expressing itself through you. Benjamin Disreali said best when he said, "Man is only, truly great when he acts from his passions." Being able to express greatness through one’s passions is a wonderful gift he gives to mankind. Living our best life, begins when we acknowledge the greatness within us. Acknowledging the “presence within” is the same as acknowledging the Christ within. The presence may manifest as a gift at times but it is ultimately the Ideal Man; the Real Self. We know this to be true because the holy scriptures
tell us to worship Him and Spirit and in Truth. We can only complete these two acts by way of the world within.

With love,
Herlay Maitre

The Essence of Life

Beauty cannot be described; It is an inner awakening of your truest self. Once you get a hold of it you can only bestow it upon others. Clinging on to an inner awakening and blessing others is the beautiful intention of life.

As human beings we desire to make this planet a better place whether through our own existence or by physically doing something to put change into place. We can only do this through a sound mind. A mind that even at its molecular level speaks of peace. Scripture states that God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.2 Timothy 1:7

This peace we speak of may give the illusion of impossibility for some especially when life gets to be overwhelming. However when life seems to be overwhelming we must take a moment to stop and enjoy the roses. As you stand in front of the rose and contemplate it you will develop a sense of appreciation for the beauty of it and find like you, the rose had to go through a renewal process as it once was a seed as we once were in the womb of our mother.

In life we all have a journey we need to go through. For each person it is a different journey.The elements that arise within the soul is the beauty of the journey. When this happens we participate in the experience of the journey and enjoy it fully. As you smell the rose, the rose itself fulfills its purpose as it reminds you of yours.

To truly live is the only way to live. Living a meaningful life means,much like the rose, you fulfill your purpose. Ask yourself what is your purpose? After doing so acknowledge that your life up until now has been about this very moment. Feel the love of God expressed through this moment.

With love,

Herlay Maitre

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Finding purpose

Finding purpose in all that you do. As woman there is so much that we have on our plates. The entire day can go by and your still moving with no break for yourself. Whether it is with children or with work, there is always a reason to why we are such busy bodies. As woman were always moving and never really have time for ourselves.
It is time to stop feeling guilty about not being able to complete the things that we were meaning to. Believe it or not the time we spend at the end of the other day, thinking about the things we didn’t get done is time that we can be spending meditating and praying.

I recently found in my own life that although I’m currently unemployed the day would fly by and as it did I still did not find the time to work on my personal mission. It’s interesting how time itself can take you for a loop. Since I made notice and stopped blaming myself for my lack of focus and commitment. Blaming yourself for something in the past only brings about more challenge, not change. Blaming yourself does not promote productivity but the lack there of.

As women there are so many responsibilities that we keep placing on ourselves, that keep us from giving time to our personal walk with truth. We place responsibilities on ourselves and we do not ask for help out fear that if we do we will be seen as a woman that can’t handle her business. There are many people around us that would love to lend a hand. How many times have complained whether aloud or in our mind about our significant other not helping?

But in reality we never even asked for help. It is amusing the pressure we place on ourselves when we assume. Assumption is an enemy of the mind. Ultimately, the people in our lives are there to help us along our path of truth and asking for help can help contribute to their walk as well. Your asking for help can serve as a gift toward someone else’s soul. It therefore okay to ask for help.

Finding purpose in all that you do is what is important. If we choose to find purpose in the small things in life such as care taking or cleaning, everything we do essentially becomes an act of worship. The meaning to life does not come when it is forced but through the energy of ease. What we do with ease creates a field for every day improvement. Socrates said it best when he said "Beware of the barrenness of a busy life." Living with purpose is living triumphantly. We must live triumphantly in our everyday moments; it is in this triumph we live on purpose.

In Him we live,

Herlay Maitre

You Inspire Me

You inspire me to be better
To be the best me
To be marvelous, to feel loved and free
You inspire me to inspire others in your light
You inspire me to realize the gifts that I have in having you as my all in all
You inspire me to find truth every difficulty

You inspire me

You inspire me to be who I am meant to be
Who I am is inspired by the spirit of who you are

You inspire me

Thank you universe

Thank you universe for sending people my way
Thank you universe for allowing me to see even when it is perceived I cannot

Thank you

Thank you for your continued hope in times of hopelessness
Thank you for your peace

Thank you

Thank you universe for your protection when I am afraid
Thank you universe for your embrace when I am in need
Thank you

The Treasure Chest

Why treasure life
Why treasure destiny
Why treasure love
To treasure life is to fully participate in life
To treasure destiny is understand the prosperity of

living here right now
To treasure love is to let the flow of love

consume the heart

Why treasure peace
Why treasure talents
Why treasure people
Peace is found in the depth of all that is
Within a talent are the elements of a robust freedom
A world without humans would add no value to the earth

Why treasure hope
Why treasure forgiveness
Why treasure the creator
Hope sketches the lasting impressions of love on the heart
Forgiveness soothes the bones and awakens the vessels of the soul
The creator is the originator of all of life, honoring the originator is becoming one with the substance that is within all

The truth is

The truth is you are who are

The truth is you are ONE with the Divine Source
The truth is you are precious and every way
The truth there is no one else on this planet like you
The truth is your mother and father are not the direct means to which you came into existence
The truth is you are perfectly created in the ether and made a choice of who your parents would be.

The truth is you are who are

The truth is you are an excellent unfoldment of the Divine manifesting on this planet earth here and now.
The truth, I tell you; is you are the most delicate being that ever existed
The truth is the planet we call earth is blessed to have you here!

Be Divine

The divine is awaiting to unfold
The divine is awaiting that you uphold his teachings
The divine is awaiting your presence here and now
The divine awaits to have and to hold the fullness of himself in “You”
The divine is you, wrapped up in this physical body, just awaiting…
Awaiting full awareness from yourself to acknowledge his presence
in and around you. Your true essence within is wonderfully crafted.
Crafted with splendor and majesty that is awaiting the adornment of
Itself. The adornment spoken of is not of material well-being; this adornment
is the awakening of the supreme life within you. Therefore, Be You!
Be divine, Be the physical manifestation of life, love, laughter and beauty;
that happens here on this planet we call earth.

To love...

What does it take to love?

What does it take to live?

What does it take to forgive?

Well these questions cannot be answered by the human mind or the intellect.

The questions could only be answered by what the depth of the soul knows to be true.

Therefore to really love is to be in the present moment; while enjoying the warmth of the sun the coolness of the moon and the stars in the sky.

To live truly is to move from one smile to the next and from one tear into a joyous occasion.

To forgive is to die of ego and to embrace the ideal man, who always loves, always living and always moving forward in depth of his souls practice.

What does it take to love?

It takes character,

It takes courage,

It takes Christ.

Live to Transform

Live to transform
Live to move
Move to create
Create to believe
Believing is the key to living;
Live to believe in one’s dream
What’s the point of a dream without
a belief. Belief feeds a dream.
A dream never dies when in the presence
of belief and love. Love is the powerful element
that lies within the dream and creates the manifestation
of a dream we see before our eyes.
Allowing an inspired dream to come into a mind
is the allowance of life birthing into this world.
Therefore, live to transform, dream to believe
and create to manifest.

Why Say "I do"...

One might start to ponder about the act of saying, "I do".
The figures that usually come to mind when thinking of the words "I do", are a husband and a wife, standing before a church confessing their individual plans to love one another.

At the beginning or ending of their plans they most often say, "I do" a means of signing off to the love they have confessed to one another.

Does anyone ever ask what "I do"actually means in relation to other relationships.
Lets take for example a relationship with Christ or the relationship you are keeping with yourself.


May I ask, how you are treasuring those relationships and have you actually kept the idea behind the "I do"?

Did you in fact know that the relationship with self and christ are the same. One can not be separated from another. "What is she saying," you ask?

What I'm saying is that the divine within "You" is Christ. The divine is therefore who "You" are. It may sound as if there are two individual You's, but their isn't.


You ever notice that when you are upset or angry you say something like " I don't know what has gotten into me, I just became another person." This other person you are speaking of is your false personality. The divine You, is actually the person that smiles at the circumstances or challenges of life and considers them menial. You might have said well, "there was another individual present in this sentence. The individual that came out when upset. " If you asked this question, then you are on the path of realizing TRUTH, for what it really is.


This other person presented here is actually what I'm choosing to call the false self, or the ego. I'm choosing to call this the false self because it only comes out at during certain situations. The fact that its appearence is timely means that it is not real. The essence of the real "You", is who you are; it therefore does not need circumstance or situation to appear. It just who "You" are.


You ever notice a mother get so angry at her children and then turn around in the same instance and smile and while saying, "I don't know what I would do without them". This mother in this moment is displaying the divine presence, that she is. The question is finding out what creates those instances that cause the divine "You" to come forth and how to allow those instances to become our present reality.


A wonderful way to manifest or see this divine "You" is by first acknowledging that the divine "You" exists. Think about it if you don't believe something exists how could that thing appear real to you.


Another wonderful concept that can be applied to seeing the divine "You" in manifestation is to simply get to know the divine "You". Logically, how can you identify with something you know nothing about.


Lastly, another wonderful tool to actualizing the divine "You" is to create avenues that enable the Christ personality or consciousness to come forth. For example, if there is someone that you have not forgiven or feel as if you can not forgive. The suggestion would be to create an atmosphere of forgiveness where you literally practice forgiving this person. To create this atmosphere you would:


would bring this person to your mind and allow the heart of forgiveness to pour into this atmosphere you have created, by consciously choosing to say or think words like " I love you (name of person)," " I see who you really are (name of person), I see the Christ in you arising (name of person)." " (name of person) I love the Christ in you, for it is my reality of you." " ( name of person), I now cause for every illusive strong hold in your life to be broken."


note: At the end of each of these affirmations, make sure to thank God and believe you have caused great influence on this planet because you have began with yourself.


You are what love is truly made of. The Christ personality or consciousness that you are is in fact is love. Love can not be anything else but what it is: Love. Therefore, if at any point in time you forget who "You" are in a time of illusive ciaos; remember one thing "You can only be who "You" really are, LOVE.


Saying, "I do" simply means that you are committed to the release of the "YOU", that has been itching to appear permanently for so long.
I now ask you the question you've been waiting for, will you say " I do" to your true identity today?


Peace and Blessings,

Herlay