I woke up the other morning with thoughts from a recent conversation on my mind and began to meditate on the judgment that surfaced about someone else’s behavior, someone close to me. I asked what the reflection of the behavior held for me. What I found in response to my query was that whatever judgment or disdain or anger or whatever feeling surfaces in my heart about another person is really what I am feeling about myself. In truth and Oneness, there is no “other”. What I define as the “other” merely serves as a reflection of myself.
Put another way, if the feeling exists in me, then it is mine, and it is about me.
My meditation then took me deeply and uncomfortably into a heaviness within my heart that held and felt those judgments that I was projecting upon another. Regardless of upon whom I project my dissatisfaction, I am the one who is feeling and experiencing the judgment and disapproval. So, again, here I am causing those feelings upon my own self. To cause those feelings upon my own being feels just like self disdain / hatred / judgment / criticism / punishment / etc. etc. etc.
When I asked myself "why do I hold myself in judgment?” an interesting response surfaced. "Because I keep doing these painful things to my heart!!!"
The wisdom of the Sacred Feminine recommends that we remain present with our feelings, including the ones that are the most painful, without judgment while holding them in love. As a conscious, non-judgmental witness we allow ourselves to experience our feelings wholly and completely. By experiencing the fullness of our heartache, anger, or discontent, and remaining a conscious witness to our true experience, love and consciousness serve to evolve our feelings into a higher state of expression.
This particular meditation became a very uncomfortable hour for me. My heart felt as though it wanted to “throw up” - to expel the goo of my judgment and disdain of myself. Yet, through the entire experience I was able to remain calm, assured that I was taking the swiftest route to liberation from self judgment available - through the heart and womb of the Sacred Feminine.
I have learned through my meditative healing experiences that repetitive thoughts ultimately become regarded as truths within my unconscious mind. I believe this to be true for all humans. As long as a thought remains alive and active it will continually attract more of its own vibration into our field of experience enhancing itself to become even more attractive to more of the same experience. This makes a great argument for doing whatever is necessary to dispel, dislodge, undo, erase, and un-create the excessive thoughts and belief patterns that lead us to judgment and disdain of ourselves and others.
Later that morning I received an email confirmation from Angelina Heart of twinflametruelove.com with this message:
"Soul Mates are part of your soul grouping – or soul family. They may derive from the original ray or soul fabric/family from which you were created, but they can also come from past life experiences in which you have formed a bond. As you evolve in this dimension, there are many soul mates who agree to act as divine mirrors. They have the ability to contain and reflect back to you both your shadow and your light, and as much of the divine Twin Flame energetic essence, or consciousness and love as you, yourself contain.
"They play any number of roles for you to assist your own soul growth – roles of lovers or partners, family members, friends, and enemies, and so on. You are the only real person in your play and these soul mates will faithfully reflect back to you what you are or those things upon which you hold a charge or judgment . They assist you to become consciously one with your Christ-self (also referred to as your higher mental body) and your I AM Presence (also referred to as your God Self). Soul Mates act as the means or catalyst by which you evolve as a soul."
It is through the Divine Heart and Sacred Womb that grace allows us to heal and transform during these most extraordinary times of soul advancement. Our honoring of the Sacred Feminine assists us immeasurably in our quest for true love, beginning with our self.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
We are the hearts and hands of the divine.
I have had an extraordinary day. Dr. Emoto's prayer has been so powerful, and we gathered in circle for the deeksha Oneness Blessing and again shared prayers for the waters of Japan this evening. I have this undeniable certainty of the power and authority that we, as awake humans, now have for affecting the waters of this planet, and through the waters, all creation. The mounting threat of radiation, solar flares, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanos is only one side of the coin when it comes to what is happening earth. We are like sleeper cells, now coming alive and awakened to the truth of our new reality.
Two weeks ago on the full moon we honored our sacred relationship with the water. Last weekend I brought the blessed water to an altar to the divine where we gathered to initiate several new Oneness Blessing Givers. When it began to rain on Sunday, my senses came alive with the awareness that all the power, prayer, love and intention of that altar, through the water, was now in each and every rain drop blessing our earth. These truths grow stronger everyday and I find that I MUST continue to speak them with gratitude and conviction. Perhaps the speaking of it expands our collective consciousness so that more and more of us "get" that this is really happening! The force of nature animates US as it does our earth.
Like the tide rushing to the shore, divine grace flows to and through us. We are the hearts and hands of the divine. Blessed be.
Two weeks ago on the full moon we honored our sacred relationship with the water. Last weekend I brought the blessed water to an altar to the divine where we gathered to initiate several new Oneness Blessing Givers. When it began to rain on Sunday, my senses came alive with the awareness that all the power, prayer, love and intention of that altar, through the water, was now in each and every rain drop blessing our earth. These truths grow stronger everyday and I find that I MUST continue to speak them with gratitude and conviction. Perhaps the speaking of it expands our collective consciousness so that more and more of us "get" that this is really happening! The force of nature animates US as it does our earth.
Like the tide rushing to the shore, divine grace flows to and through us. We are the hearts and hands of the divine. Blessed be.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
If You Want to Change the World… Love a Woman
by Lisa Citore www.magdalenewomen.com
When a fairly spiritual male friend of mine who had finally found and was deepening into committed relationship with his soul mate confided in me he was thinking of being single again, and in the next breath expressed his latest idea for raising consciousness worldwide, I wrote this poem.
If you want to change the world… love a woman-really love her.
Find the one who calls to your soul, who doesn’t make sense.
Throw away your check list and put your ear to her heart and listen.
Hear the names, the prayers, the songs of every living thing-
every winged one, every furry and scaled one,
every underground and underwater one, every green and flowering one,
every not yet born and dying one…
Hear their melancholy praises back to the One who gave them life.
If you haven’t heard your own name yet, you haven’t listened long enough.
If your eyes aren’t filled with tears, if you aren’t bowing at her feet,
you haven’t ever grieved having almost lost her.
If you want to change the world… love a woman-one woman
beyond yourself, beyond desire and reason,
beyond your male preferences for youth, beauty and variety
and all your superficial concepts of freedom.
We have given ourselves so many choices
we have forgotten that true liberation
comes from standing in the middle of the soul’s fire
and burning through our resistance to Love.
There is only one Goddess.
Look into Her eyes and see-really see
if she is the one to bring the axe to your head.
If not, walk away. Right now.
Don’t waste time “trying.”
Know that your decision has nothing to do with her
because ultimately it’s not with who,
but when we choose to surrender.
If you want to change the world… love a woman.
Love her for life-beyond your fear of death,
beyond your fear of being manipulated
by the Mother inside your head.
Don’t tell her you’re willing to die for her.
Say you’re willing to LIVE with her,
plant trees with her and watch them grow.
Be her hero by telling her how beautiful she is in her vulnerable majesty,
by helping her to remember every day that she IS Goddess
through your adoration and devotion.
If you want to change the world… love a woman
in all her faces, through all her seasons
and she will heal you of your schizophrenia-
your double-mindedness and half-heartedness
which keeps your Spirit and body separate-
which keeps you alone and always looking outside your Self
for something to make your life worth living.
There will always be another woman.
Soon the new shiny one will become the old dull one
and you’ll grow restless again, trading in women like cars,
trading in the Goddess for the latest object of your desire.
Man doesn’t need any more choices.
What man needs is Woman, the Way of the Feminine,
of Patience and Compassion, non-seeking, non-doing,
of breathing in one place and sinking deep intertwining roots
strong enough to hold the Earth together
while she shakes off the cement and steel from her skin.
If you want to change the world… love a woman, just one woman .
Love and protect her as if she is the last holy vessel.
Love her through her fear of abandonment
which she has been holding for all of humanity.
No, the wound is not hers to heal alone.
No, she is not weak in her codependence.
If you want to change the world… love a woman
all the way through
until she believes you,
until her instincts, her visions, her voice, her art, her passion,
her wildness have returned to her-
until she is a force of love more powerful
than all the political media demons who seek to devalue and destroy her.
If you want to change the world,
lay down your causes, your guns and protest signs.
Lay down your inner war, your righteous anger
and love a woman…
beyond all of your striving for greatness,
beyond your tenacious quest for enlightenment.
The holy grail stands before you
if you would only take her in your arms
and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy.
What if peace is a dream which can only be re-membered
through the heart of Woman?
What if a man’s love for Woman, the Way of the Feminine
is the key to opening Her heart?
If you want to change the world…love a woman
to the depths of your shadow,
to the highest reaches of your Being,
back to the Garden where you first met her,
to the gateway of the rainbow realm
where you walk through together as Light as One,
to the point of no return,
to the ends and the beginning of a new Earth.
When a fairly spiritual male friend of mine who had finally found and was deepening into committed relationship with his soul mate confided in me he was thinking of being single again, and in the next breath expressed his latest idea for raising consciousness worldwide, I wrote this poem.
If you want to change the world… love a woman-really love her.
Find the one who calls to your soul, who doesn’t make sense.
Throw away your check list and put your ear to her heart and listen.
Hear the names, the prayers, the songs of every living thing-
every winged one, every furry and scaled one,
every underground and underwater one, every green and flowering one,
every not yet born and dying one…
Hear their melancholy praises back to the One who gave them life.
If you haven’t heard your own name yet, you haven’t listened long enough.
If your eyes aren’t filled with tears, if you aren’t bowing at her feet,
you haven’t ever grieved having almost lost her.
If you want to change the world… love a woman-one woman
beyond yourself, beyond desire and reason,
beyond your male preferences for youth, beauty and variety
and all your superficial concepts of freedom.
We have given ourselves so many choices
we have forgotten that true liberation
comes from standing in the middle of the soul’s fire
and burning through our resistance to Love.
There is only one Goddess.
Look into Her eyes and see-really see
if she is the one to bring the axe to your head.
If not, walk away. Right now.
Don’t waste time “trying.”
Know that your decision has nothing to do with her
because ultimately it’s not with who,
but when we choose to surrender.
If you want to change the world… love a woman.
Love her for life-beyond your fear of death,
beyond your fear of being manipulated
by the Mother inside your head.
Don’t tell her you’re willing to die for her.
Say you’re willing to LIVE with her,
plant trees with her and watch them grow.
Be her hero by telling her how beautiful she is in her vulnerable majesty,
by helping her to remember every day that she IS Goddess
through your adoration and devotion.
If you want to change the world… love a woman
in all her faces, through all her seasons
and she will heal you of your schizophrenia-
your double-mindedness and half-heartedness
which keeps your Spirit and body separate-
which keeps you alone and always looking outside your Self
for something to make your life worth living.
There will always be another woman.
Soon the new shiny one will become the old dull one
and you’ll grow restless again, trading in women like cars,
trading in the Goddess for the latest object of your desire.
Man doesn’t need any more choices.
What man needs is Woman, the Way of the Feminine,
of Patience and Compassion, non-seeking, non-doing,
of breathing in one place and sinking deep intertwining roots
strong enough to hold the Earth together
while she shakes off the cement and steel from her skin.
If you want to change the world… love a woman, just one woman .
Love and protect her as if she is the last holy vessel.
Love her through her fear of abandonment
which she has been holding for all of humanity.
No, the wound is not hers to heal alone.
No, she is not weak in her codependence.
If you want to change the world… love a woman
all the way through
until she believes you,
until her instincts, her visions, her voice, her art, her passion,
her wildness have returned to her-
until she is a force of love more powerful
than all the political media demons who seek to devalue and destroy her.
If you want to change the world,
lay down your causes, your guns and protest signs.
Lay down your inner war, your righteous anger
and love a woman…
beyond all of your striving for greatness,
beyond your tenacious quest for enlightenment.
The holy grail stands before you
if you would only take her in your arms
and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy.
What if peace is a dream which can only be re-membered
through the heart of Woman?
What if a man’s love for Woman, the Way of the Feminine
is the key to opening Her heart?
If you want to change the world…love a woman
to the depths of your shadow,
to the highest reaches of your Being,
back to the Garden where you first met her,
to the gateway of the rainbow realm
where you walk through together as Light as One,
to the point of no return,
to the ends and the beginning of a new Earth.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Men That Honor the Sacred Feminine
Reverend Misa Hopkins
http://www.findingyoursoulpurpose.blogspot.com/
It was many years before I finally attracted men in my life that truly understood what it meant to honor the Sacred Feminine. Oh I certainly knew men that loved me as a woman and enjoyed many aspects of my femininity, but that is different than deep respect for the spiritual essence of the Sacred Feminine. In my experience, in order for a man to truly respect the sacred within the feminine, he needs to, however he might define it, respect the Sacred Masculine within himself. He must see and know himself as a sacred being.
Honoring the Sacred Feminine is not something you can learn to do in order to be politically correct around women who are exploring this nature within themselves. Typically, a man treasures a woman’s decision to discover more about her sacredness, when he has, at some point in his life, committed to uncovering his own sacred nature. While there are tremendous intersections between Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine, and ultimately it is all One, there are distinctions between these two Divine energies. Becoming aware of the nature of these two energies helps us in understanding ourselves—our own inclinations and impulses.
Women enter the depth of their presence with the Sacred Feminine through their wombs—something that obviously, men don’t have. While men can still access the Sacred Feminine energetically within them, the direct physical doorway does not exist. When women explore the depths of the Sacred Feminine through their bodies, they relate to the sacred through the experience of being pregnant, giving birth, mothering, having miscarriages, their cyclic emotions, shedding blood for their people through their monthly cycles, and eventually experiencing a new power as their ability to have children ceases. These are aspects of a woman’s daily reality and spiritual opening that a man can only experience vicariously. Women’s bodies and cyclic emotions are doorways to spiritual awakening unique to women.
In the Sacred Feminine, women’s bodies and emotions carry them into the vast and dark unknown, where all of life is held lovingly in its potential. This is the sacred in which all possibilities of life are honored without judgment. Imagine this womb of all life’s potential as the vast and dark night sky—an endless, cool, and wondrous place in which life explores itself through repeated acts of new creation. This dark and beautiful aspect of the Sacred Feminine is best depicted today in the statues of the Black Madonna. The mystery of these statues found throughout Europe is not a mystery at all when a woman remembers, through her own body and emotions, that the Sacred Feminine is the birthplace of creation.
On the other hand, men who choose to encounter the Sacred Masculine through their bodies have very different experiences. The Sacred Masculine principle is that of light bursting through the darkness—life longing to become and know itself. This light is hot, fast, explosive and blissful in nature. I believe most men can relate to this principle energetically as it pulses through their bodies. To know how to be with this energy is as vital for a man as it is for a woman to know how to be with her cycles.
Can a man experience the depths of the Sacred Feminine, or can a woman discover the passion of the Sacred Masculine? Certainly. In fact, in spiritual practice, this is part of the journey. Ultimately, especially if we age consciously, we embody the full expression of both sacred natures seamlessly. We become the Oneness. We become present to the One by first fully experiencing both.
One reason women like me have looked for men that could honor the exploration of the Sacred Feminine is that this sacred nature has nearly been forgotten on our planet. For thousands of years, we have recognized and held the masculine sacred principle as holy, while minimizing the very nature of the Sacred Feminine. That is perhaps why statues of the Madonna were painted black—to gently remind us that there is another aspect of the Divine nature to be remembered—the forgotten one—the Sacred Feminine.
In order for humanity to once again fully accept both the masculine and the feminine principles as sacred, many women today recognize that we must know and remember this Divine essence within ourselves. Only then will we give birth to sons and daughters from our deepest sacred awareness. Because we are remembering, we look to other women to help us rediscover the ancient practices that teach us how to be fully present to this vastness of loving space we can access through our bodies and emotions.
Men that honor the Sacred Feminine seem to somehow sense or know the significance of this exploration that their women are drawn to experience. They become our great supporters and protectors, perhaps because they have had the courage to explore the power of their own sacred natures.
When the women come to my home to experience ceremony in the Sacred Feminine, my husband has helped me get ready by honoring my need for extra meditation time, assisting me in putting the house in order, and adjusting our meal time to accommodate ceremony. He likes to be there when the women arrive to warmly greet them at the door. Then he quietly slips away, giving us complete and private space. If there is any outside activity that might disturb our space, he handles it. And when ceremony is complete, we call him to join us to share food. He never asks about our experiences out of respect for our privacy, but will gladly receive blessings from the women if it is appropriate.
The women often comment on how wonderful he is when they arrive, and how blessed I am to have such respectful support. I smile, knowing that he is embodying the powerful and loving energy of the Sacred Masculine. To every man that embodies the sacredness within him, I give thanks. Because in your love, support and protection, we are truly free to remember our most sacred selves as women.
http://www.findingyoursoulpurpose.blogspot.com/
It was many years before I finally attracted men in my life that truly understood what it meant to honor the Sacred Feminine. Oh I certainly knew men that loved me as a woman and enjoyed many aspects of my femininity, but that is different than deep respect for the spiritual essence of the Sacred Feminine. In my experience, in order for a man to truly respect the sacred within the feminine, he needs to, however he might define it, respect the Sacred Masculine within himself. He must see and know himself as a sacred being.
Honoring the Sacred Feminine is not something you can learn to do in order to be politically correct around women who are exploring this nature within themselves. Typically, a man treasures a woman’s decision to discover more about her sacredness, when he has, at some point in his life, committed to uncovering his own sacred nature. While there are tremendous intersections between Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine, and ultimately it is all One, there are distinctions between these two Divine energies. Becoming aware of the nature of these two energies helps us in understanding ourselves—our own inclinations and impulses.
Women enter the depth of their presence with the Sacred Feminine through their wombs—something that obviously, men don’t have. While men can still access the Sacred Feminine energetically within them, the direct physical doorway does not exist. When women explore the depths of the Sacred Feminine through their bodies, they relate to the sacred through the experience of being pregnant, giving birth, mothering, having miscarriages, their cyclic emotions, shedding blood for their people through their monthly cycles, and eventually experiencing a new power as their ability to have children ceases. These are aspects of a woman’s daily reality and spiritual opening that a man can only experience vicariously. Women’s bodies and cyclic emotions are doorways to spiritual awakening unique to women.
In the Sacred Feminine, women’s bodies and emotions carry them into the vast and dark unknown, where all of life is held lovingly in its potential. This is the sacred in which all possibilities of life are honored without judgment. Imagine this womb of all life’s potential as the vast and dark night sky—an endless, cool, and wondrous place in which life explores itself through repeated acts of new creation. This dark and beautiful aspect of the Sacred Feminine is best depicted today in the statues of the Black Madonna. The mystery of these statues found throughout Europe is not a mystery at all when a woman remembers, through her own body and emotions, that the Sacred Feminine is the birthplace of creation.
On the other hand, men who choose to encounter the Sacred Masculine through their bodies have very different experiences. The Sacred Masculine principle is that of light bursting through the darkness—life longing to become and know itself. This light is hot, fast, explosive and blissful in nature. I believe most men can relate to this principle energetically as it pulses through their bodies. To know how to be with this energy is as vital for a man as it is for a woman to know how to be with her cycles.
Can a man experience the depths of the Sacred Feminine, or can a woman discover the passion of the Sacred Masculine? Certainly. In fact, in spiritual practice, this is part of the journey. Ultimately, especially if we age consciously, we embody the full expression of both sacred natures seamlessly. We become the Oneness. We become present to the One by first fully experiencing both.
One reason women like me have looked for men that could honor the exploration of the Sacred Feminine is that this sacred nature has nearly been forgotten on our planet. For thousands of years, we have recognized and held the masculine sacred principle as holy, while minimizing the very nature of the Sacred Feminine. That is perhaps why statues of the Madonna were painted black—to gently remind us that there is another aspect of the Divine nature to be remembered—the forgotten one—the Sacred Feminine.
In order for humanity to once again fully accept both the masculine and the feminine principles as sacred, many women today recognize that we must know and remember this Divine essence within ourselves. Only then will we give birth to sons and daughters from our deepest sacred awareness. Because we are remembering, we look to other women to help us rediscover the ancient practices that teach us how to be fully present to this vastness of loving space we can access through our bodies and emotions.
Men that honor the Sacred Feminine seem to somehow sense or know the significance of this exploration that their women are drawn to experience. They become our great supporters and protectors, perhaps because they have had the courage to explore the power of their own sacred natures.
When the women come to my home to experience ceremony in the Sacred Feminine, my husband has helped me get ready by honoring my need for extra meditation time, assisting me in putting the house in order, and adjusting our meal time to accommodate ceremony. He likes to be there when the women arrive to warmly greet them at the door. Then he quietly slips away, giving us complete and private space. If there is any outside activity that might disturb our space, he handles it. And when ceremony is complete, we call him to join us to share food. He never asks about our experiences out of respect for our privacy, but will gladly receive blessings from the women if it is appropriate.
The women often comment on how wonderful he is when they arrive, and how blessed I am to have such respectful support. I smile, knowing that he is embodying the powerful and loving energy of the Sacred Masculine. To every man that embodies the sacredness within him, I give thanks. Because in your love, support and protection, we are truly free to remember our most sacred selves as women.
Peace on Earth: The Symbolic Mary
Shared by Suzanne McQueen. Please visit her website about womnen's cycles and woman and men alike can understand, at http://4seasons4weeks.com/blog/2010/12/19/peace-on-earth-its-up-to-the-divine-mother/
December 19th, 2010
Mary teaches us that even the everyday girl is a sacred vessel. There is no lesson for us and no point to her part in the story if we put her on a pedestal. Mary represents all women as Divine Mothers and Joseph represents all men as Sacred Protectors (not dominators).
In spite of having many hardships and doors shut in their faces by the Inn Keepers (symbolic for those who defend war, excessive competition, bigotry, poverty, hunger, and homelessness), she delivers the Prince of Peace in a stable. The story shows us that anything is possible when we women accept the sacred wisdom that has been implanted in us, not as bearers of children but of unconditional love, asking us to step forward to deliver Peace on Earth.
The three Wisemen tell us that when we all follow the inner compass of our pure and clear hearts—our super nova or guiding star—we will find peace and unconditional love no matter how far-fetched the idea seems or no matter how far from it our minds are. The message I get from the story of the Nativity is that with the divinity and deliverance of women, the support and protection from men, and the courage of both, Peace will prevail.
December 19th, 2010
Mary teaches us that even the everyday girl is a sacred vessel. There is no lesson for us and no point to her part in the story if we put her on a pedestal. Mary represents all women as Divine Mothers and Joseph represents all men as Sacred Protectors (not dominators).
In spite of having many hardships and doors shut in their faces by the Inn Keepers (symbolic for those who defend war, excessive competition, bigotry, poverty, hunger, and homelessness), she delivers the Prince of Peace in a stable. The story shows us that anything is possible when we women accept the sacred wisdom that has been implanted in us, not as bearers of children but of unconditional love, asking us to step forward to deliver Peace on Earth.
The three Wisemen tell us that when we all follow the inner compass of our pure and clear hearts—our super nova or guiding star—we will find peace and unconditional love no matter how far-fetched the idea seems or no matter how far from it our minds are. The message I get from the story of the Nativity is that with the divinity and deliverance of women, the support and protection from men, and the courage of both, Peace will prevail.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
A Call to Women: Midwives of Planetary Change
Dear friends, I invite you to visit Rev. Misa's inspiring blog entry following our weekend gathering in exploration of the Sacred Womb of Creation and our roles as Women during these changing times. Click below to read the message shared with us by the Grandmother Guardians of the Sacred Path of the Feminine -- A Call to Women: Midwives of Planetary Change.
A Call to Women: Midwives of Planetary Change: "This past weekend, some beautiful and powerful women gathered together to explore the true nature of their Sacred Feminine selves. It seems..."
A Call to Women: Midwives of Planetary Change: "This past weekend, some beautiful and powerful women gathered together to explore the true nature of their Sacred Feminine selves. It seems..."
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Cultivating an Intimate Relationship with the Divine
There is a "quickening" upon us. Great leaps of evolution are occurring as we sail into the Golden Age. The best thing each of us can do to ease our journey is to Lighten Up! It's time to heal old wounds, forgive old quarrels, and most of all learn to love ourselves just as we are. The Divine dwells within us. Our opportunity is for loving more.
As some of you know, I've had my share of challenges in recent months, plenty of opportunity to grow accustomed to high levels of stress. There are many of us who have had to face unexpected difficulties and life changing experiences, and many others who have witnessed it happening to friends and family members. Current events have placed a fair amount of stress on all of our nervous systems.
Paradoxically, our nervous system may be a valuable asset when it comes to the evolution of our species. Could it be that we are being "set-up" for a major shift in consciousness? Sitting in a presentation by Stuart Mooney this week (The American Buddha – (www.stuartmooney.com), he stated that in order to become "awakened", our nervous systems have to learn to handle “God’s energy flowing through it”. He describes "enlightenment" as like having a finger stuck in an electrical socket permanently.
Recent emotional challenges may actually be making us stronger.
I have learned to cultivate a positive attitude in the face of surmounting difficulty by maintaining an unshakable trust in a higher organizing principle of life. I look at it this way: if we're going down, no amount of worry is going to make a difference. But just in case there is a good reason for the changes that we are going through, conscious alignment with the highest and best outcome can further our collective success.
There is no better time than right now to strengthen (or develop) our relationship with that higher intelligence. Gone are the days of a vengeful, punishing God. The Divine dwells within us. The opportunity presented to us at this time is to learn to love more. How we define "the Divine" is an entirely personal choice. If you could have any kind of relationship at all, how would you like to relate to the Supreme Creator?
In truth, every one of us is a spark of Divine light expressing in human form. To acknowledge that we are limited in our ability to fully comprehend the true nature of God and Creation is the first step in developing a relationship with that power.
My choice is to relate to the Divine (God, Higher Power, Organizing Intelligence, Creator, Creation, All that Is, the Light of Love ...) as a trusted, caring, highly skilled, compassionate, omnipresent and omnipotent best friend. Think of the most loving person you know, someone who has been kind to you in immeasurable ways, who you can trust with your life, who loves you unconditionally. Why would you expect anything less than that from your God?
When we learn to see the Divine as someone or something that we can relate to, sit down and have a heart to heart with, speak honestly about our fears, tears, and desires, we find ourselves having a truthful, intimate and trusting relationship. The more truthful we can be when relating in this way, the more intimate we become in the knowledge of our own being, and the more likely it becomes that we will receive, and recognize the guidance that we are asking for. When that happens, trust grows stronger. And when that happens, well, then we truly are co-creating the reality we want to experience.
We sometimes need a refresher course on how to talk to God, especially if we don't have someone close to us with whom we share our deepest truths. It's important to know ourselves well, to be truthful at least to ourselves. This inner truth is the gateway to our own Divine essence. We are the stuff that God is made of. Each one of us emanates forth from the One Source of all Creation. As Alan Watts put it, "We don't come into this Universe, we come from it."
My dear friends, do yourself and our world a favor, please. Work on your inner smile, and let the light of God's grace shine on! After all, we are the world!
As some of you know, I've had my share of challenges in recent months, plenty of opportunity to grow accustomed to high levels of stress. There are many of us who have had to face unexpected difficulties and life changing experiences, and many others who have witnessed it happening to friends and family members. Current events have placed a fair amount of stress on all of our nervous systems.
Paradoxically, our nervous system may be a valuable asset when it comes to the evolution of our species. Could it be that we are being "set-up" for a major shift in consciousness? Sitting in a presentation by Stuart Mooney this week (The American Buddha – (www.stuartmooney.com), he stated that in order to become "awakened", our nervous systems have to learn to handle “God’s energy flowing through it”. He describes "enlightenment" as like having a finger stuck in an electrical socket permanently.
Recent emotional challenges may actually be making us stronger.
I have learned to cultivate a positive attitude in the face of surmounting difficulty by maintaining an unshakable trust in a higher organizing principle of life. I look at it this way: if we're going down, no amount of worry is going to make a difference. But just in case there is a good reason for the changes that we are going through, conscious alignment with the highest and best outcome can further our collective success.
There is no better time than right now to strengthen (or develop) our relationship with that higher intelligence. Gone are the days of a vengeful, punishing God. The Divine dwells within us. The opportunity presented to us at this time is to learn to love more. How we define "the Divine" is an entirely personal choice. If you could have any kind of relationship at all, how would you like to relate to the Supreme Creator?
In truth, every one of us is a spark of Divine light expressing in human form. To acknowledge that we are limited in our ability to fully comprehend the true nature of God and Creation is the first step in developing a relationship with that power.
My choice is to relate to the Divine (God, Higher Power, Organizing Intelligence, Creator, Creation, All that Is, the Light of Love ...) as a trusted, caring, highly skilled, compassionate, omnipresent and omnipotent best friend. Think of the most loving person you know, someone who has been kind to you in immeasurable ways, who you can trust with your life, who loves you unconditionally. Why would you expect anything less than that from your God?
When we learn to see the Divine as someone or something that we can relate to, sit down and have a heart to heart with, speak honestly about our fears, tears, and desires, we find ourselves having a truthful, intimate and trusting relationship. The more truthful we can be when relating in this way, the more intimate we become in the knowledge of our own being, and the more likely it becomes that we will receive, and recognize the guidance that we are asking for. When that happens, trust grows stronger. And when that happens, well, then we truly are co-creating the reality we want to experience.
We sometimes need a refresher course on how to talk to God, especially if we don't have someone close to us with whom we share our deepest truths. It's important to know ourselves well, to be truthful at least to ourselves. This inner truth is the gateway to our own Divine essence. We are the stuff that God is made of. Each one of us emanates forth from the One Source of all Creation. As Alan Watts put it, "We don't come into this Universe, we come from it."
My dear friends, do yourself and our world a favor, please. Work on your inner smile, and let the light of God's grace shine on! After all, we are the world!
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