Love is your core, that is who you are, it is so incredible.
This Love overcomes the world, just by Being. The world could never be without it. This Love is beautiful, powerful, whole and is a peace that cannot be lost. It may be obscured but never lost. You cannot in your illusions do anything ever to lose it.
For some of you it may seem difficult to say these things things about yourself ..... it may be easier for you to begin with, "this love is within me" rather than "is me". In time, you will be able to say it with conviction. Because it IS you...it is the truth of who you are. God is not a Being, a person, an entity.....God is outside of that kind of definition. And so are you. The "REAL" you...the eternal, outside of time you, the you that has no beginning and no end.... cannot be perceived by the five senses.....not the deeper, divine you. The "you" that exists just as God does.
We are love and there is no place for fear in your divine self. When Love is present, fear cannot be. In order for fear to operate you must be believing you are not your divine self, you are believing you are less than you are. You are believing you are just a body...a separate being.
This is natural. We start when very young, identifying ourselves as a separate being, with arms and legs and a name and then possessions, genitals and families and pets. And then as our brain develops we move on to characteristics like, "I am friendly ,"or "I am shy" and then on to abilities and then to schools, grades, colleges, clubs, societies, neighborhoods, achievements. Roles play a very large part in the self identity we are making. I am a mom or a dad or a pawn or a rebel, or a vamp or a Don Juan, or a nurse, or a powerful businessman.(put in whatever roles you like) In time, all roles shift and depart. Even our temperaments, or stars or numbers or archetypes do not reveal our divine nature.
Throughout this development fear plays varying parts in our lives, but always present in some fashion. The lack of these things or the abundance of them largely dictates how we feel about ourselves. We have, with the help of all those around us, our families, schools, communities and culture, identified who we are and then decided how we feel about that person. This is entirely of the ego's making.
The ego makes the substitute self in the place of our divine self. In the east, the substitute self is called the "self" and the divine is called the "Self". Of course, this could happen no other way. We start very young and as we mature we learn and change in our thinking. And then over time, as we age and age some more, things shift and all of the things we identified with begin to fall away until we identify with who we "were" and hopefully somewhere along the way, we have laid down this substitute self...somewhere.... we felt....
.........we experienced................. divine love................
.......an internal expansion
..................... a peace that passes understanding....
.................... a joy unimaginable .
..................and we know that there is something more..........more than this reality. A moment out of time...
And all fear is gone....it just is not there...it cannot exist where there are no illusions....in your divine self.
Fear exists only in the small self only in The Dream.
All the things we might reach for, want to experience, achieve, accomplish, master or own....while they can make a big difference in our experience in the time space reality, they still are not nearly as important as knowing this pearl of great price. There is nothing that can compare. With this awareness, you can enjoy what you desire but you are no longer driven. The real you does not need to achieve, accomplish or win. You have already all you need. You are already perfect.
Once you experience the power, the love, the beauty that is God (and you )...nothing else compares. In that place, there is no struggle. Faith is truly a "rest".
When we are not receiving that deeper stream, focusing at that level of consciousness, we are lost in the Dream. In the Dream there is so much suffering and discomfort. Much of that suffering is unnecessary. Even when there is no suffering, we carry a level of agitation, of restlessness...like the noise of a air conditioner in the background. We don't notice it until it stops and then we feel relieved. It has become such a normal part of our existence that we don't realize it is there. When we experience fear then we do know that things have gotten out of hand and we have begun believing something less about ourselves.
It is true, that we each do the best we can at the moment with what we have and hopefully we "come home" often. We hear our true nature , we recognize ourselves at the deepest level and "We know, that we know"..........We remember what we have forgotten about ourselves, about one another and about this time, space reality. Somewhere deep inside, without understanding, we know.
We don't have to perfect anything, or accomplish anything to "come home", we can do it in a moment....just one moment. Say the words," I am Love. perfect, whole, complete Love and in me there is no place for fear. This Love that is me (or in me) has overcome the world." It will have an effect on you...right away you will be able to tell exactly where you are. Whenever you speak the truth of you who are, it ill always effect you.
Can we let go of our our desire to win, to be special, to be separate...can we shift our awareness to the stream of consciousness that brings us home? Home to peace, grace and ultimate power? Then from that place live the life we came to live, freely, lovingly and in great peace.? Yes, moment by moment.
Fear has no place in you. You do not have to allow it to flow thru you or work in you. It must have your agreement to do so....you must believe you are only the smaller self, the one that can lose everything and be lost.
When divinity...fullness of grace....Love...pours through you...it changes you. It makes you realize that it alone will quench the thirst you have and with it you will thirst no more. The rapture that is there every description pales beside.
You are so beautiful...so beautiful.....all fear falls away in your light....there isn't even a struggle....even at the thought of a struggle...you throw your head back and laugh outright.... and then a smile and
think on this.......say again, "I am Love, perfect, whole, complete Love and in me there is no p;ace for fear. This Love that is me ( or in me) has overcome the world........breathe and smile......
....selah
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Santa and all that goes with the season......for sure!!
The quandary of Santa and other holiday thoughts:
Is Santa real? Of course, Santa is real. Is God real? Is the spirit real? Is love real? Remember the ego , the mind based substitute for your divine self, thinks only in bodily terms. So, the question may mean,"Is there a flesh and blood man going to come down your chimney tonite?" I hope not! But that in no way detracts from all the pleasures of the season, including Santa...all of them. ( Santas, that is) Santa shows us the spirit of giving. So we do, we give gifts to each other and to our children. Santa works through us all, no matter our faith or mental constructs. Love knows no limitations.
All the Santas we see around Christmas time remind us to be kind and to care for others, to think about those who are less fortunate than ourselves in this time space reality.
There once was a man, a long time ago, who brought presents to children in a poor village far away from here. His name was St Nicolas. People thought that it was wonderful! It moved them. So to remind everyone what a good idea it is to give many stories grew up around Santa.
Some stories are sweet and some silly, Some are about his reindeer and toy shop and elves...but really if you look, inside each one is the dropping of the desire to fight, to protect oneself, to get what you want over others...to instead, forgive, to open up and to love someone else. To give and to share, to be kind and to forgive. To believe in Santa, is to believe is one's capacity to give.. To believe in the spirit of goodness. To believe you always have enough to be generous with others. Those stories could not be any truer! Those are the best stories!
People actually try to see the brighter side, to express caring and remembrances at this time of the year. In fact, we often hear it said that it would be wonderful if people could keep that same attitude all year long. So if you feel jammed up with all the extras you feel you must do, or you are momentarily forgetting your abundance and are feeling you haven't enough of value to share, remember the Little Drummer Boy.give a gift of the love you are.....
Think of...
................. the Grinch's "heart full of unwashed socks" ....his perspective is about what he doesn't have. And then his "heart grew two sizes that day!". It only takes a moment to "come home" and open up your vast treasure of Love within. Cindi Lou Who and all the others in Whoville knew while the toys and decorations were fun, they were not really Christmas, not really. All of Whoville forgave him and joined together because "Christmas was in their hearts".....as along as "they had hands to hold".
Or.........
..........Ebenezer Scrooge who said "Bah! Humbug! "to the idea of Christmas. Christmas meant just too much inconvenience to his schedule and to what was important to him. He didn't like the gift giving or cheerful attitudes, or solicitation for the poor.......until in just one night he saw different perspectives on his life, past, present and future and, Bam! "What day is it? "What, today?" "Today is Christmas Day! The spirits did it all in one night!"..He was so grateful to be alive and wanted enthusiastically to make a difference in the lives of those connected to him. He found joy unimaginable.
And of course............
....................... the man who, already had given SOO much to his family and community, sacrificed his own dreams...only to find himself in dire straights feeling very cheated and frightened. He learned that to just to be ALIVE, to be able to kiss the banisters top knob and be able to love that which only a few hours before he so disdained was such a joy. It didn't matter what actually happened...he was there alive in it, loving everyone and everything he saw. The idea he had "sacrificed" and failed disappeared when he saw the perspectives of other people and what he would have missed ...... everything changed for him. With his realization of how "Wonderful Life" was, the bell twinkled and another angel got his wings.
Even our hero...................
...................... Snoopy was shown this Christmas magic when the Red Baron having Snoopy in his sights, didn't fire and later toasted him with "Merry Christmas , my friend". The song goes on to tell us that they knew they would meet again in battle another day, but not this day, not Christmas Day. Many stories show us that beneath our conflict, our quests, our material world (things we ordinarily find VERY important) there is another deeper, richer life. And tho they have this, what seems like magic, for only one night, and then return to the world as they know it, they all remind us....it is there. They touched it, even briefly.... We really do have a "wonderful Life".....love does conquer all. This is not only a child's story but the eternal truth of all existence.
Think of........
.......... "Frosty the Snowman"...talk about frozen hearted....came to life...there is hope for us all!
Why did St Nicolas give those first presents? Because it was a way celebrate the birth of Jesus. We give to the God in each of us...namaste......rich and poor alike. Does it matter when he was actually born or if he born as it is written? Of course not. This is about the spirit.........this is about Love. Whether it is the quiet, gentle, peaceful love of a silent night or the jolly, laughing, joy of love of a visit from Santa. It is about Love all the same.
Giving Christmas cards...telling friends we are thinking of them and love them. What a wonderful idea!
The small self looks at only the physical. It can be motivated by what we are or we are not getting or doing....we can be put out by the push to celebrate...by the salvation army's bell ringing as we go into the store...but maybe, just maybe...we might think if it is SO difficult to think of others, to stop our own story, our fast pace and racing mind to give, to reach out to our families, friends and even strangers.....we might question what it is that we ARE doing that makes it feel so inconvenient. Wouldn't that be great?!
The true you...loves it all. You could pat every Santa on the back, and always have something to give and are grateful to be part of it all. You are so full of joy, it can spill over and eek out at any opportunity possible. If others don't see any joy, that's OK...down deep they have it in them too.......... it's not that you have to love in spite of yourself, it is that you are Love. It is your very nature. This just happens to be a season where everyone is being reminded that it does exist.
I know...it is so easy to get distracted from who you really are...and it all becomes about time, and momentarily believing the illusion of not having enough.......
........take a moment and smile....let time ...go.....and in the now of this moment, bless that man who cut in front of you in line....he has no idea how wonderful he really is....laugh with the sales clerk who is obviously floundering and dig out even two dimes to put in the bucket you pass.
You can smile and love your children even when they don't get the TRIPLE XXX new big deal or seem ungrateful.. They are, after all, children....Loosen up a little...
....this season you can actually laugh while you give......
....."Ho! Ho! Ho!....
......to all of you.............."from the one that has everything...........
Peace on earth...goodwill toward man"....
Breathe.......smile.........laugh...........selah
Is Santa real? Of course, Santa is real. Is God real? Is the spirit real? Is love real? Remember the ego , the mind based substitute for your divine self, thinks only in bodily terms. So, the question may mean,"Is there a flesh and blood man going to come down your chimney tonite?" I hope not! But that in no way detracts from all the pleasures of the season, including Santa...all of them. ( Santas, that is) Santa shows us the spirit of giving. So we do, we give gifts to each other and to our children. Santa works through us all, no matter our faith or mental constructs. Love knows no limitations.
All the Santas we see around Christmas time remind us to be kind and to care for others, to think about those who are less fortunate than ourselves in this time space reality.
There once was a man, a long time ago, who brought presents to children in a poor village far away from here. His name was St Nicolas. People thought that it was wonderful! It moved them. So to remind everyone what a good idea it is to give many stories grew up around Santa.
Some stories are sweet and some silly, Some are about his reindeer and toy shop and elves...but really if you look, inside each one is the dropping of the desire to fight, to protect oneself, to get what you want over others...to instead, forgive, to open up and to love someone else. To give and to share, to be kind and to forgive. To believe in Santa, is to believe is one's capacity to give.. To believe in the spirit of goodness. To believe you always have enough to be generous with others. Those stories could not be any truer! Those are the best stories!
People actually try to see the brighter side, to express caring and remembrances at this time of the year. In fact, we often hear it said that it would be wonderful if people could keep that same attitude all year long. So if you feel jammed up with all the extras you feel you must do, or you are momentarily forgetting your abundance and are feeling you haven't enough of value to share, remember the Little Drummer Boy.give a gift of the love you are.....
Think of...
................. the Grinch's "heart full of unwashed socks" ....his perspective is about what he doesn't have. And then his "heart grew two sizes that day!". It only takes a moment to "come home" and open up your vast treasure of Love within. Cindi Lou Who and all the others in Whoville knew while the toys and decorations were fun, they were not really Christmas, not really. All of Whoville forgave him and joined together because "Christmas was in their hearts".....as along as "they had hands to hold".
Or.........
..........Ebenezer Scrooge who said "Bah! Humbug! "to the idea of Christmas. Christmas meant just too much inconvenience to his schedule and to what was important to him. He didn't like the gift giving or cheerful attitudes, or solicitation for the poor.......until in just one night he saw different perspectives on his life, past, present and future and, Bam! "What day is it? "What, today?" "Today is Christmas Day! The spirits did it all in one night!"..He was so grateful to be alive and wanted enthusiastically to make a difference in the lives of those connected to him. He found joy unimaginable.
And of course............
....................... the man who, already had given SOO much to his family and community, sacrificed his own dreams...only to find himself in dire straights feeling very cheated and frightened. He learned that to just to be ALIVE, to be able to kiss the banisters top knob and be able to love that which only a few hours before he so disdained was such a joy. It didn't matter what actually happened...he was there alive in it, loving everyone and everything he saw. The idea he had "sacrificed" and failed disappeared when he saw the perspectives of other people and what he would have missed ...... everything changed for him. With his realization of how "Wonderful Life" was, the bell twinkled and another angel got his wings.
Even our hero...................
...................... Snoopy was shown this Christmas magic when the Red Baron having Snoopy in his sights, didn't fire and later toasted him with "Merry Christmas , my friend". The song goes on to tell us that they knew they would meet again in battle another day, but not this day, not Christmas Day. Many stories show us that beneath our conflict, our quests, our material world (things we ordinarily find VERY important) there is another deeper, richer life. And tho they have this, what seems like magic, for only one night, and then return to the world as they know it, they all remind us....it is there. They touched it, even briefly.... We really do have a "wonderful Life".....love does conquer all. This is not only a child's story but the eternal truth of all existence.
Think of........
.......... "Frosty the Snowman"...talk about frozen hearted....came to life...there is hope for us all!
Why did St Nicolas give those first presents? Because it was a way celebrate the birth of Jesus. We give to the God in each of us...namaste......rich and poor alike. Does it matter when he was actually born or if he born as it is written? Of course not. This is about the spirit.........this is about Love. Whether it is the quiet, gentle, peaceful love of a silent night or the jolly, laughing, joy of love of a visit from Santa. It is about Love all the same.
Giving Christmas cards...telling friends we are thinking of them and love them. What a wonderful idea!
The small self looks at only the physical. It can be motivated by what we are or we are not getting or doing....we can be put out by the push to celebrate...by the salvation army's bell ringing as we go into the store...but maybe, just maybe...we might think if it is SO difficult to think of others, to stop our own story, our fast pace and racing mind to give, to reach out to our families, friends and even strangers.....we might question what it is that we ARE doing that makes it feel so inconvenient. Wouldn't that be great?!
The true you...loves it all. You could pat every Santa on the back, and always have something to give and are grateful to be part of it all. You are so full of joy, it can spill over and eek out at any opportunity possible. If others don't see any joy, that's OK...down deep they have it in them too.......... it's not that you have to love in spite of yourself, it is that you are Love. It is your very nature. This just happens to be a season where everyone is being reminded that it does exist.
I know...it is so easy to get distracted from who you really are...and it all becomes about time, and momentarily believing the illusion of not having enough.......
........take a moment and smile....let time ...go.....and in the now of this moment, bless that man who cut in front of you in line....he has no idea how wonderful he really is....laugh with the sales clerk who is obviously floundering and dig out even two dimes to put in the bucket you pass.
You can smile and love your children even when they don't get the TRIPLE XXX new big deal or seem ungrateful.. They are, after all, children....Loosen up a little...
....this season you can actually laugh while you give......
....."Ho! Ho! Ho!....
......to all of you.............."from the one that has everything...........
Peace on earth...goodwill toward man"....
Breathe.......smile.........laugh...........selah
Your True Nature is Love
Your true nature is part of the universal mind. One mind...God's mind. You are divine. Your true nature is one with God..and is not separable. Your mind is connected to God's mind. Paradoxically you are a part of something that is infinitely greater than you and yet is you. This cannot be defined or explained. The words we use are only symbols. We add them up to create a concept. An idea...but please, remember, it is still something held in the mind.
The awareness of that unfathomable, indescribable essence, is just that...unfathomable. The source is greater than our minds can encompass. It encompasses us. The best we can do is to describe what Eckhardt Tolle calls "sign posts" toward the stream, the direction pointing toward the Source. What we truly know about God or the Atman is what has been made real to us. The sign says "Scenic view". The sign is not the view. It is left for each of us to go to the point where we experience the "scenic view " for ourselves. Most debates and religious quarrels are over the quality, accuracy and depth of the sign posts. Whether you argue for or against, it is an idea you are arguing about. God would never argue with you. God is an experience. Being in "the presence" of God is an experience...a beingness, one that changes our level of consciousness and peace is there waiting for us and within this space is joy unexplainable. There are no words here...no time...no beliefs...just the "isness "of Life and the beingness of the moment in perfect love and harmony.
There are many who would tell you the path to God and they have very differing opinions. One thing is sure, the source is total, One. The idea that "your God is false" demonstrates a total lack of understanding of God. These words come from the Dream. True they may be speaking about God, Spirit, but they are not accurate. "They know not what spirit they are of"....
Many of us have been raised in or been exposed to some religious ideas. Many have developed stumbling blocks in this area. I hear almost everyday people who actively connect "sacrifice" with their understanding of God. This is not God. It comes from trying to relate to God, explain God from within the Dream, at the level of the ego, the separate individuality.
One never loses anything by opening up to God. One gains immeasurably. Because your true nature is immense and expanding. How can you lose? To let go of the illusion and have reality rise up...this is sacrifice?
To come home to your true nature can be done in a moment. Just a moment. It doesn't take weeks or months...it is not something you achieve or master...you just "wake up" to the God within. You need not find God...God was never lost. You "wake up"...or "discover" or... experience... Your perception had become obscured. When you read these words and you are lifted. That is you inside responding to hearing the truth, your truth. You are actually listening to yourself.
When things outside you are what you perceive gives or creates joy for you, you are lost in the illusion, in the dream. You are believing that the cat , the flower, the person is the cause. The truth is that your own state of mind is the cause and determines what you see ( the effect). Your own level of consciousness, your own level of awareness, determines what you see coming back to you. Your level of consciousness determines your sight. What you are accessing in your mind is what is being reflected back to you in your "world".
You are part of a whole...connected to All That Is. I am whole.
I am perfect, whole and complete, lacking nothing. So are you. When I am thinking and feeling that I "need" or am "less" or inferior, have less, could lose, I have changed my level of consciousness and am now believing the Dream. Fear operates in the Dream about almost everything, Love, in real reality.
I am wonderful, created to live in joy as an extension of God.
It is never "over"...I have nothing I need to achieve, to master, to gain, to win, to accomplish, to prove, to get....my actions are an extension of the joy reaching out from me into the earth. It reaches to itself...to you.
I give because my fullness always wants to join with others for greater expansion. There is not one giver and one receiver. I am always simultaneously both.
I live, breathe and walk in unfolding grace.
I do not need to create or find joy, it is within me.
The peace of God, my peace, encompasses all.
All the physical things I see will pass away. What is happening today will become as a dream in time, just as last summer, or two Christmases ago seems now. It all is in time and God is timeless. It isn't that God has a past and a future. This universal beingness, the divine, exists outside of time. In the now...in this moment.
In this moment you can come home to yourself.... as you take your next breath, there is no past or future, not really. The past exists in the memory synapses of your brain and the future only in your imagination. "Now" is actually all there ever is.
I say. "Yes!" to this moment...to Life
Evil is only weakness disguised. Power over others is only weakness disguised. Real power lies within you and is present now. This beauty, this power, the Love has never left you, and will never leave you. It cannot leave itself. You are One.
One cannot kill one's weakness, or the weaknesses of another. We love until the illusion of the weakness is released. Release love for those who are momentarily stuck, trapped or lost in the Dream...
Love knows, nothing is ever needed but more love....
Imagine that...never being disappointed in someone else again...even yourself....such wonderous love......think on this.....smile and breathe......
...selah......
The awareness of that unfathomable, indescribable essence, is just that...unfathomable. The source is greater than our minds can encompass. It encompasses us. The best we can do is to describe what Eckhardt Tolle calls "sign posts" toward the stream, the direction pointing toward the Source. What we truly know about God or the Atman is what has been made real to us. The sign says "Scenic view". The sign is not the view. It is left for each of us to go to the point where we experience the "scenic view " for ourselves. Most debates and religious quarrels are over the quality, accuracy and depth of the sign posts. Whether you argue for or against, it is an idea you are arguing about. God would never argue with you. God is an experience. Being in "the presence" of God is an experience...a beingness, one that changes our level of consciousness and peace is there waiting for us and within this space is joy unexplainable. There are no words here...no time...no beliefs...just the "isness "of Life and the beingness of the moment in perfect love and harmony.
There are many who would tell you the path to God and they have very differing opinions. One thing is sure, the source is total, One. The idea that "your God is false" demonstrates a total lack of understanding of God. These words come from the Dream. True they may be speaking about God, Spirit, but they are not accurate. "They know not what spirit they are of"....
Many of us have been raised in or been exposed to some religious ideas. Many have developed stumbling blocks in this area. I hear almost everyday people who actively connect "sacrifice" with their understanding of God. This is not God. It comes from trying to relate to God, explain God from within the Dream, at the level of the ego, the separate individuality.
One never loses anything by opening up to God. One gains immeasurably. Because your true nature is immense and expanding. How can you lose? To let go of the illusion and have reality rise up...this is sacrifice?
To come home to your true nature can be done in a moment. Just a moment. It doesn't take weeks or months...it is not something you achieve or master...you just "wake up" to the God within. You need not find God...God was never lost. You "wake up"...or "discover" or... experience... Your perception had become obscured. When you read these words and you are lifted. That is you inside responding to hearing the truth, your truth. You are actually listening to yourself.
When things outside you are what you perceive gives or creates joy for you, you are lost in the illusion, in the dream. You are believing that the cat , the flower, the person is the cause. The truth is that your own state of mind is the cause and determines what you see ( the effect). Your own level of consciousness, your own level of awareness, determines what you see coming back to you. Your level of consciousness determines your sight. What you are accessing in your mind is what is being reflected back to you in your "world".
You are part of a whole...connected to All That Is. I am whole.
I am perfect, whole and complete, lacking nothing. So are you. When I am thinking and feeling that I "need" or am "less" or inferior, have less, could lose, I have changed my level of consciousness and am now believing the Dream. Fear operates in the Dream about almost everything, Love, in real reality.
I am wonderful, created to live in joy as an extension of God.
It is never "over"...I have nothing I need to achieve, to master, to gain, to win, to accomplish, to prove, to get....my actions are an extension of the joy reaching out from me into the earth. It reaches to itself...to you.
I give because my fullness always wants to join with others for greater expansion. There is not one giver and one receiver. I am always simultaneously both.
I live, breathe and walk in unfolding grace.
I do not need to create or find joy, it is within me.
The peace of God, my peace, encompasses all.
All the physical things I see will pass away. What is happening today will become as a dream in time, just as last summer, or two Christmases ago seems now. It all is in time and God is timeless. It isn't that God has a past and a future. This universal beingness, the divine, exists outside of time. In the now...in this moment.
In this moment you can come home to yourself.... as you take your next breath, there is no past or future, not really. The past exists in the memory synapses of your brain and the future only in your imagination. "Now" is actually all there ever is.
I say. "Yes!" to this moment...to Life
Evil is only weakness disguised. Power over others is only weakness disguised. Real power lies within you and is present now. This beauty, this power, the Love has never left you, and will never leave you. It cannot leave itself. You are One.
One cannot kill one's weakness, or the weaknesses of another. We love until the illusion of the weakness is released. Release love for those who are momentarily stuck, trapped or lost in the Dream...
Love knows, nothing is ever needed but more love....
Imagine that...never being disappointed in someone else again...even yourself....such wonderous love......think on this.....smile and breathe......
...selah......
Monday, December 5, 2011
Doubting your Value: Feeling the need to be "special".
In "The Dream", in our movie mind, we believe that we have value only if we are "special". That "specialness" may be in what we can do, in how we look, how we can win or out do others, or are better than others, faster, smarter, richer, more productive, more spiritual, more wealthy, more honest, more attractive.... whatever. In some cases, we believe that we have value because we have friends, that we are loved by others, or at least by one other person who believes us to be special and thereby confirming our desire.
While in our dreaming it is true that having an education, a well paying position, good health or friends can certainly make a difference in our life here, it still is not the paramount thing. In this time space reality...these things are important but still not nearly as important as experiencing our true value, our true Self. I do not mean to demean these quests, or minimize the effects having or not having can have on us and on the people close to us. Still, ultimately, all of it will pass...all of it..... but you....the deeper you...will not. Everything you see is temporary, it has form and by its very existence must pass back into the formlessness from which it came. It may only take a day or a year or 75 years or 175 years but it will again return back into the formlessness. All of the manifested returns to the unmanifested. You, the "real" you is formless....vast....timeless, powerful, loving and growing (expanding continually).
You are so extremely precious and vital. You are as wondrous as God...as the universe...as pure as the completely innocent...your generosity immeasurable...your wisdom unfathomable.......there is no one who is more vital than you are.
And no one who is any less vital either. In this world of comparison, of contrast, we see ourselves in relation to others. But in God, in Spirit, we don't. There is no comparison. We are One. We are as closely knit to the source as is the sap in the tree. We each are one with the source, with God. and with each other. Each as valuable as the other and not separable. Our minds cannot grasp this. Not really. We can however grasp the feeling within the words, " I am beautiful! I am pure! I am good and lovely and wonderful!"...and SO are you!"
You see, our loveliness is not in our "specialness." That exists only in the mind movie, the Dream. Because, our specialness must mean that we are different from each other.....separate from each other....and we are not....we are one...the same beauty, the same perfection. The perfection of Christ is our perfection.
The really hard thing for our finite minds to grasp is ...that description fits every one of us. The comparison I mentioned is ingrained in us, what one might consider a normal habit. But really the measuring we do....of ourselves, of each other...every conceivable comparison....our manner, our speech, our voices, our work, our appearance, our "gifts", our ways..... is really only illusion. Like smoke....not real. In this time space reality they do "make a difference" but ultimately they are not where real "Life" is.We can be carried away with our waking dream and can actually cause ourselves and others great suffering. Often the dream has parts that are shared by others and that convinces us of its reality.
We, born in separate bodies, believe in that separateness. We have forgotten what we once knew and we want to find what makes us "special" and thereby establish ourselves as valuable. (desirable) Every temptation is common to man. Every pain, every conflict, every fear is universal to all mankind. Your uniqueness comes in that you are part of One. You are the part that is operating in your body, mind, for this time...and I am operating in mine. The beauty of the One does not ever diminish but only grows and expands. To think you are limited by your body is as silly as thinking that the lamp defines the electricity that powers it. It is true, however, that one can use the body as a doorway....a portal so to speak....to a greater awareness of God... of Presence. The body responds to the thoughts of the mind...it doesn't "know"itself. The mind informs it. It isn't that we need to think certain thoughts.... as much as it is, that we need to be able to still the mind, the running commentary, the liking, the disliking, the struggle for power, the quest for desirability, the comparison.....and just "Be".
As I do to you, think of you, react to you...I am doing all of this to me as well. We are all one. I do not need to defend myself from myself....
I am vast....deep and unlimited. I am one with God, with the universe, with the spirit, with Atman. I am not bound by the substitute self the ego has made for me in my dream....I am divine....I am loved and am even love itself. I am very necessary...as are you....
...do not doubt who you are...do not be tempted into thinking you are less than you are....
You have a huge store house of peace within your being and joy waiting to bubble up.
Smile...breathe and bless this body you inhabit...feel it's aliveness ....
Breathe...smile....breathe....selah
While in our dreaming it is true that having an education, a well paying position, good health or friends can certainly make a difference in our life here, it still is not the paramount thing. In this time space reality...these things are important but still not nearly as important as experiencing our true value, our true Self. I do not mean to demean these quests, or minimize the effects having or not having can have on us and on the people close to us. Still, ultimately, all of it will pass...all of it..... but you....the deeper you...will not. Everything you see is temporary, it has form and by its very existence must pass back into the formlessness from which it came. It may only take a day or a year or 75 years or 175 years but it will again return back into the formlessness. All of the manifested returns to the unmanifested. You, the "real" you is formless....vast....timeless, powerful, loving and growing (expanding continually).
You are so extremely precious and vital. You are as wondrous as God...as the universe...as pure as the completely innocent...your generosity immeasurable...your wisdom unfathomable.......there is no one who is more vital than you are.
And no one who is any less vital either. In this world of comparison, of contrast, we see ourselves in relation to others. But in God, in Spirit, we don't. There is no comparison. We are One. We are as closely knit to the source as is the sap in the tree. We each are one with the source, with God. and with each other. Each as valuable as the other and not separable. Our minds cannot grasp this. Not really. We can however grasp the feeling within the words, " I am beautiful! I am pure! I am good and lovely and wonderful!"...and SO are you!"
You see, our loveliness is not in our "specialness." That exists only in the mind movie, the Dream. Because, our specialness must mean that we are different from each other.....separate from each other....and we are not....we are one...the same beauty, the same perfection. The perfection of Christ is our perfection.
The really hard thing for our finite minds to grasp is ...that description fits every one of us. The comparison I mentioned is ingrained in us, what one might consider a normal habit. But really the measuring we do....of ourselves, of each other...every conceivable comparison....our manner, our speech, our voices, our work, our appearance, our "gifts", our ways..... is really only illusion. Like smoke....not real. In this time space reality they do "make a difference" but ultimately they are not where real "Life" is.We can be carried away with our waking dream and can actually cause ourselves and others great suffering. Often the dream has parts that are shared by others and that convinces us of its reality.
We, born in separate bodies, believe in that separateness. We have forgotten what we once knew and we want to find what makes us "special" and thereby establish ourselves as valuable. (desirable) Every temptation is common to man. Every pain, every conflict, every fear is universal to all mankind. Your uniqueness comes in that you are part of One. You are the part that is operating in your body, mind, for this time...and I am operating in mine. The beauty of the One does not ever diminish but only grows and expands. To think you are limited by your body is as silly as thinking that the lamp defines the electricity that powers it. It is true, however, that one can use the body as a doorway....a portal so to speak....to a greater awareness of God... of Presence. The body responds to the thoughts of the mind...it doesn't "know"itself. The mind informs it. It isn't that we need to think certain thoughts.... as much as it is, that we need to be able to still the mind, the running commentary, the liking, the disliking, the struggle for power, the quest for desirability, the comparison.....and just "Be".
As I do to you, think of you, react to you...I am doing all of this to me as well. We are all one. I do not need to defend myself from myself....
I am vast....deep and unlimited. I am one with God, with the universe, with the spirit, with Atman. I am not bound by the substitute self the ego has made for me in my dream....I am divine....I am loved and am even love itself. I am very necessary...as are you....
...do not doubt who you are...do not be tempted into thinking you are less than you are....
You have a huge store house of peace within your being and joy waiting to bubble up.
Smile...breathe and bless this body you inhabit...feel it's aliveness ....
Breathe...smile....breathe....selah
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