Daily Devotional Aug 6, 2026: Turn False Starts Into Fruit

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Daily Devotional August 6, 2026: You Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’? | How to Turn False Starts Into Fruit

“Only Love is here, boo, that includes you.“

“Whenever a negative thought comes that hurts, shout ‘Guards!’ or ‘Objection!’… because if it hurts, it means it’s not true.”

“You want your sun to be perpetually rising? Then you must know only Light is here.”

Good morning. God morning to you.

I wish you knew how many times I started this episode. Every episode. Every day. There are many starts. False starts. Just like I’m sure there have been many false starts in your life, where it felt like you had made a breakthrough only to find out that you were back at zero, back at square one. And I’m sorry for laughing. It sucks. It happens to me, too. But these false starts are necessary because they give you awareness. They give you back yourself. You remember that it’s not the words. It’s not whatever it was that seemed to be starting that was going to make you happy or more fulfilled.

It’s not these episodes that are my purpose. My purpose is this Light. That is your purpose as well. Turn it back on. Right now, turn the Silence back on. They are one and the same. Yesterday, after yesterday’s episode, “Silence Is the Light,” I Googled “the Light is the Silence” to see if anyone else had said it, those words I heard at 4:00 a.m. for you. And I did not find that. I Googled “God is the Silence” or “Silence is God.” And the first thing that came up was Yogananda’s quote, “Be still. Stillness. Stillness is God.” Stillness, Silence, Love, awareness.

Can you hear it right now? Can you hear Him? You hear me. It’s appearing as this voice. It’s sounding like this voice. It’s looking like that body. But just like I’m not identified with this voice, you must no longer be identified with that body. You can’t identify as that body-mind. You must identify as consciousness, as awareness, as the Light. Only then will it be a good morning.

Like Bawa Muhaiyaddeen said, he said this to us in 1975 in a talk after telling us why we need to keep “Only God exists” on every breath, inhale, exhale, 42,000 to 44,000 times a day. Why that is important, he said, because only then will it be a good morning. Without that, it’s just a morning. That’s for you. You want to have a good morning. You want the rest of your life to be a good morning. You want your sun to be perpetually rising. Then you must know only Light is here. Only God is here. Only Love is here.

And when a thought comes that suggests otherwise, you yell, “Objection!” There was a series of responses to thought that I found on Instagram. And the one from Radical Star Love, she said she saw someone say they yell out “Objection!” as if they were in a courtroom, which is very inventive. Someone else said, “I sometimes shake my head like an Etch A Sketch and the thought clears.” I do that. And I’ve done it for many, many years, probably since I was a kid. I’ve shared that with you before. It might even be in Wake Up to Love, in my book. Someone else, Alina Jean, said one of her favorite things she read recently was about a woman who said whenever she had a negative thought about herself, she would shout “Guards!” and imagine knights entering and carrying the thought away.

So you do what you have to do. One very powerful thing to do, whether, you know, you could shout “Guards!” or “Objection!” if you like, but more powerfully, “Only Love is here.” Not that fear, not that worst-case scenario that you’re projecting. You’re having that thought and it hurts, which means it’s not true. Whatever you have to do, let that work be done and you’ll get to a place where it will be instant. It won’t even take a second. That thought will instantly trigger your practice. And then you’re back on the throne as awareness itself, as the Silence itself.

You don’t have to try to be silent. You’re aware as the Silence that was never interrupted, not even by that rude thought. The Silence that is not interrupted right now, even though these words are here. These words point to the Silence only. That is their only purpose, to point you to yourself, which is Silent without trying to be silent, still without trying to be still.

That body can get up right now and dance wildly, like breakdance, but you don’t move. You never move. And if you want to see that, try. Get up. You think you’re that body? Get up and dance and become aware of what’s not dancing. There’s breathing happening there. What’s not breathing? Who isn’t breathing? There’s something there that is not going in and out, coming and going. There’s something that is steady, that is stable, that is behind every breath, during every breath, at the top and bottom of every breath. It is uninterrupted stillness, uninterrupted Silence, uninterrupted Love, Light, Power, and it is the only power.

Joel Goldsmith said, “The Christ within me is my assurance that only It has power. The Son of God, the Spirit of God in me. It will never leave me nor forsake me as long as I realize and recognize It. And as long as I live the life It tells me to live, I look to It for guidance. I look to It for wisdom. Whenever a question is presented to my mind, I look down toward my heart and the answer comes forth in whatever form is necessary.”

Remember that chapter in The Thunder of Silence I told you about from Joel Goldsmith’s book? Very powerful book. He said it was like his most powerful teaching, like the most advanced teaching. And I believe it’s Chapter 9, about his lost baggage. And he said the mistake that he was making, which is one we often make, is our ability, your ability, one of your superpowers, to look on the bright side. Like he kept saying, “I know my luggage will show up. I know it’s going to turn up.” And that’s how we are. “Whatever, I know it’s coming. It doesn’t look like it right now, but I am a positive person. I know I’ve got God on my side. It’s all going to work out.”

What is the “it” that you know is going to work out? And until you recognize that that “it” does not exist, that that “it” is material, that that “it” seems to exist in time and space, but in the kingdom, there is no time and space. In the kingdom, there is only Light. There is only Spirit. That’s how we worship God, in Spirit and in truth. So until you recognize that whatever “it” is, whatever you’re waiting for, whatever you’re knowing is going to turn up, show up, eventually work out, unfold, until you know that “it” is Light, and not that thing or that situation or that set of circumstances, that amount of money, that promotion, whatever it is, you must know that it is Love. It is Light. It is Silence. It is stillness.

The more Silence you know, the more Silence you are, the more that is for you will find you. You’ll see it, but you have to see through it. You must see through it first. If you’re waiting on something, on someone, they can’t come because they aren’t. They are not. You are not. The one waiting is not. The one hoping and praying is not. When you say, “Only Love is here,” it’s not “Only Love is here and me.” Saying and thinking that, and waiting on something, it’s “Only Love is here,” boo, that includes you. Only Love is here. Period. No Nikki, no you, no computer, no phone, no nothing. That’s meditation. Nothing. Even though these eyes are wide open and it looks like everything is here: nothing. My eyes see everything, but I know nothing is here but Him, but Love, but grace.

That is how the foundation gets set. That’s how the building gets built. And you’ve been building. I’ve been filling. You build. And tears fall while it’s happening. It’s not rosy. It’s not always peachy. You have moments. You have fleeting moments of that sweetness. Yes. All you need is the Silence. That’s your Light. It’s so simple. You don’t have to strain. You don’t have to try to feel or do or be. Just hear the Silence. Can you hear the Silence right now?

Then you can hear your solution. You’re hearing the solution. You’re hearing the end. You’re also hearing the beginning and the middle. You’re hearing the victory when you’re hearing the Silence. If you can hear Silence right now, even though you hear me, then you are living from victory. You are living from answered prayer. It’s only a thought that comes and says, “Well, where is it?”

Guards! That’s an old thought from the old reality, from the old you, this you. The one who is not identified as that body and that mind or those crazy thoughts doesn’t have that thought, isn’t aware of that thought. This you is aware of: Only Love is here. Only God is here. Only Light is here. I and the Father are one. I AM is the Father. The source, this I AM that I thought was me, is Him. That’s why I don’t have to worry about anything. That’s why I don’t have to try to reach Him or contact Him. He is me. That’s where these words come from. He is me. And He is equally you.

And all you have to do is show up in whatever capacity He has for you there. No matter how seemingly annoying it is for you there, you show up and you know something magical happens every time. I was watching, you know Rick Rubin always shows up with his wild, awesome hair in the feed, he showed up in my feed and he was saying like, you go to the studio and it’s like, you know, business as usual, blah, blah, blah. But he was like, he’s always happy he went because there’s something at some point during that session where it’s like, “There it is. That’s why we’re here.” And it’s something you can’t plan. You can’t write it up. You can’t script it. It just happens. And while it’s happening, you know it’s happening and it’s so delicious.

And that’s what happens on every one of these episodes. I never know what’s going to be said. And I say that to you every time, whether you believe me or not, but I can feel it when it’s happening and I don’t stop until it happens. And so all the false starts are worth it to have a moment like this, to have a moment like that, to be with you in this way where it pierces through the veil, where there is no veil. For a moment, there are no walls, there’s no ceiling, there’s no body. And then there’s fruit. The fruit. That’s how you get fruit and free. That’s how you get free, too.

I Love you. And we’ll chat soon.

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