IS IT SNOWING MICROBES ON ENCELADUS? As NASA's Cassini spacecraft completes its deepest-ever pass through the plumes of Enceladus, researchers are wondering if it might be snowing microbes there. The idea is not so far-fetched as evidence mounts for a "uniquely accessible" habitable zone on Saturn's icy moon. [full story]

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Heavenletter #4143 Life Is Not a Lion , March 29, 2012 
 

God said: 

Treasure of My heart, what prevents you from full-scale happiness? There is something in you that calls the shots. You are like an umpire of your life. You decide: "This is good. That isn't." And so you keep score of your life. And so you keep yourself in a state of unhappiness, all because of judgments you form or learn and take to heart as if what transpires is all about you.

When you say you are disappointed, you are disappointed. You tell yourself. You label your experiences in life when they are, all the while, nothing but experiences in life. It is not truly for you to assign life its attributes. Let go of being an umpire of your life. Lean toward being an emperor. Emperors are royal.