The closer that you get to someone, the less you see of their face, the more you see their heart. From then on, I shall never notice their face, I shall communicate with their heart.
I ask you what area of your experience is troubling you? Remember, you cannot be perfect unless you remember you are.
In that moment of confusion, know that you are in the midst of a lesson, one that you cannot do without.
Stay in the moment so as to find the meaning and see forgiveness, forgiveness of yourself.
What I say is true of all these so-called challenges. There is no label, just understanding.
Rest in the knowledge that it is not your responsibility to know the way.
My pockets have been filled with gratefulness.
Today is going to be an incredible day. I'll stop and remember to follow the love. Love is the answer, love is the only way.
God is leading the way without watching the road. Why do I insist on watching the traffic as I follow the highway of life. I keep observing accidents and I begin to feel so much pity and then the lesson is lost. I will remember the experience is the king.
And I heard the whisper in my ear. If I lead you to it, I will guide you through it. Just hold my hand.
What, you can't feel my hand, look again. In the comfort of the animals who lay quietly with you. In the moments of health with your life partner. In the beauty of this morning unfolding. In the excited anticipation of this very day. That is my hand. Seize the moment, grab my hand.
Do not stop to think, just enjoy the moment.
You keep trying to lose me, I shall never leave you, so try me again.
I was "thinking", there you go again, stay void of your thoughts. Rather gather your thoughts, your garden of illusions needs pruning.
Why are the children so special. They have not yet learned how to think for themselves. And, they do not need to remind themselves to think like God, with love, for they know no difference.
What do you want? I want to be high in my thoughts in every moment. I want to be embraced in every moment as I am now. I want to be still and know that I am as you are.
Be among my creation, walk in awe of all that it is. I created this world as beauty and love and made it obvious. Yet without closing your eyes, you will not see it. It is in your heart where it shines.
What is my heart, how can it know? Because it is that place within your mind, the exact location of where I exist, that must make sense
Let me hold you, whoever you are, in my heart, which is my mind, which understands and continues to bless you.
My mundane human behavior makes so many mistakes. My job is only to feel the presence of every moment, how is it I forget.
My future remains secure in the arms of the unknown that is known to me by my faith in God.
Don't ask me to give it another name. I can finally speak the name without disguising it as less than more. I glorify in the sound.
God gave me the strength to leave the past. It was taking up so much valuable energy. I shall leave it laying, it belongs to no one and no one should care.
We would know only the very joy of being alive, if we could only remember who we are. What a challenge we face to unite. There I go, thinking again.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Eckhart Tolle
"Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real" I have posted these words to be in my face everyday. How often I have succumbed to the situation of time and allowed my mind to scare me to death. How insidious it is to be that out of control. Rather, how exciting it is to live my life in the now. I am reminded of the teaching around the word GUIDANCE. God is in the midst of my life leading the DANCE. God you and I dance.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
With the Heart I Shall See, therefore, I Shall Close My Eyes
With the heart I know that every 24 hours that I am blessed is an amazing gift. With the eye, I forget to make joy and happiness my first priority in each of those 24 hours. In my effort to do so, I shall follow my breath with my heart and there I shall find God. My breath sustains me, guides me and allows me to think. When I breathe in, God anoints me with his love and care. It is the responsibility of myself as a child of the Universe to stay in the moment even before the breath enters the body. Then I shall remember to anticipate joy and happiness as I anticipate the thrill of yet another opportunity to breathe.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Finding God as my Spirit
Do I want to find God, I'm thinking so. Is God in all places, I'm thinking so. Will God provide me with all answers, I'm thinking so. Have I found God, I know so, for beyond thinking there is believing.
God is what gives meaning to my life. The life I live is Universal life expressing as me. It is all that I am. How else could it be, how else could I live. This is my entire mind/body intelligence.
My thought and emotion are the use I make of this original creative thing. I am perfecting my surrender to the presence of God and allowing this perfection to find it's way through me.
There can be no intelligence that wishes me to be sick, suffer, to be in pain or to be unhappy. My nature is idential with God's. Great things are done by people who think great thoughts and then go into the world to make their dreams come true.
I was never punished when I missed the mark. My intention is only about love, ease and harmony, even my so called mistakes tend to align with greater good.
"Playfully you hid from me. All day I looked. Then I discovered I was you, and the celebration of That began". Lalla, 14th century Hindu poet-saint
God is what gives meaning to my life. The life I live is Universal life expressing as me. It is all that I am. How else could it be, how else could I live. This is my entire mind/body intelligence.
My thought and emotion are the use I make of this original creative thing. I am perfecting my surrender to the presence of God and allowing this perfection to find it's way through me.
There can be no intelligence that wishes me to be sick, suffer, to be in pain or to be unhappy. My nature is idential with God's. Great things are done by people who think great thoughts and then go into the world to make their dreams come true.
I was never punished when I missed the mark. My intention is only about love, ease and harmony, even my so called mistakes tend to align with greater good.
"Playfully you hid from me. All day I looked. Then I discovered I was you, and the celebration of That began". Lalla, 14th century Hindu poet-saint
Friday, May 7, 2010
Here I Find God
I continue to ponder the meaning of God in my life. On "Self-Control" by F. A. Walker, I have found God. Through mind mastery supported by yoga practice, I surrender to this simple practice . Those of us who succeed in obtaining mastery of our mind by controlling our emotions, our glib tongue, our strutting pride and our indolence, find ourselves in a new world.
We wonder at the agreeableness of our friends, the loveliness of the tender blossoms, and the thousands of beautiful things all about us which heretofore we have passed without notice.
At last we have succeeded in pulling an old mask from our face and we are able to smile. We have in someway found a grain of faith (God) in ourselves and in our intimates. We are changed and the whole world is changed with us.
We soar on the wings of the dove. We have risen high about the bogs and quagmires. We have come from a state between sleep and waking. Our vision is clear. Our mind is alert, appreciative, considerate and kindly disposed. Our thoughts fly straight to the mark, never divered by ill-humor or a violent rush of hot blood.
In some indescribable manner, a burden is slipped from our galled shoulders, and we are buoyant, happy, unconquerable.
The ruling forces of the Universe have taken hold of us, while other and lower forces are losing ground. Affection, sentiment and compassion have become parts of our disposition. The control of impulse has grown perfect through the supremacy of our higher motives.
To some this may seem an impossible state. To me the impossible is the path of righteousness, right-use-ness of the gift of life.
We wonder at the agreeableness of our friends, the loveliness of the tender blossoms, and the thousands of beautiful things all about us which heretofore we have passed without notice.
At last we have succeeded in pulling an old mask from our face and we are able to smile. We have in someway found a grain of faith (God) in ourselves and in our intimates. We are changed and the whole world is changed with us.
We soar on the wings of the dove. We have risen high about the bogs and quagmires. We have come from a state between sleep and waking. Our vision is clear. Our mind is alert, appreciative, considerate and kindly disposed. Our thoughts fly straight to the mark, never divered by ill-humor or a violent rush of hot blood.
In some indescribable manner, a burden is slipped from our galled shoulders, and we are buoyant, happy, unconquerable.
The ruling forces of the Universe have taken hold of us, while other and lower forces are losing ground. Affection, sentiment and compassion have become parts of our disposition. The control of impulse has grown perfect through the supremacy of our higher motives.
To some this may seem an impossible state. To me the impossible is the path of righteousness, right-use-ness of the gift of life.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
One + Won = Now
In reading a mind, a famous set of brain scans illustrates two things: 1) a scanner can spot the difference between a brain recognizing a face and a brain recognizing a place and 2) imagining faces or places lights up the same brain regions as actually seeing them. How do we know anything for sure, if our brain cannot tell the difference between a real experience and an imagined one?
I understand that both experiences, as illustrated, take place in the now, the present moment. Jesus said "Ask and ye shall receive". He performed miracles as though they were the most ordinary experiences in human life. He made demands on an invisible power that no other man before had dared to make and this power honored his demand. His brain did not tell the difference between a real experience and an imagined one and honored his demand in the present moment. He placed no limits on his gift of awareness of who and what he continues to be, created in the image and likeness of the one life - of which I am one plus won equals now.
I understand that both experiences, as illustrated, take place in the now, the present moment. Jesus said "Ask and ye shall receive". He performed miracles as though they were the most ordinary experiences in human life. He made demands on an invisible power that no other man before had dared to make and this power honored his demand. His brain did not tell the difference between a real experience and an imagined one and honored his demand in the present moment. He placed no limits on his gift of awareness of who and what he continues to be, created in the image and likeness of the one life - of which I am one plus won equals now.
Life's Longing for Itself
What is God? God is Life. I acknowledge that I am a response to God's divine plan for the expression of Life (God). Life (God) longs for another first day of the rest of my Life. My attempts to understand the substance of that statement have often eluded me. Rather than to expect that this is the first day of subsequent days and living in expectation, Life (God) longs to renew itself in me each and every day as the first day of the rest of my life.
In the past when I thought of God's significance in my Life, I failed to feel empowered based on my ongoing circumstances. As often as I would pray and expect things to change, I realize now that I was merely imploring God to change and not changing myself to accept God. Yet I had no definition that supported my belief. I am certain of one thing at this point in my Life, I now know far more than I did yesterday, yet not as much as I shall know each and every consecutive tomorrow. This is not a riddle for there is something new to discover every single day. Those lessons of each day make that very day new to itself.
Life (God) longs for itself in its attempt to help me understand this new day is another day of opportunity to let consciousness flow into whatever I do and to do everything in a sacred manner. In doing so, Life (God) longs for itself in my activity as simplicity, patience and compassion, Life's (God's) sweetest treasures.
Life (God) longs for itself by removing the veil of pessimism from me. Negativity has become so ingrained in thinking that it has almost become second nature in the foundation of life. Life's (God's) longing for itself is in the path of success for its creation, illuminated by optimism. Life's (God's) longing for itself gives me the courage to face things exactly as they are without any self-deception, knowing that being alive is to live in a supernatural life. In the wisdom of the I Ching, "A light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized".
Life (God) longs for itself by opening us up to receive our gift of awareness, our Mercy. Life (God) comes forth into expression through me as perfect life, perfect being, perfect God within. I choose to become that which I am for I am the Life of God that longs for itself. It is our birthright to live our divinity, to recognize the power that we have within. As Rev. Herracia Brewer eloquently states to the understanding of Life (God) longing for itself "to show up, express forth, and live in deliberate perfection as our individualized person hood".
In the past when I thought of God's significance in my Life, I failed to feel empowered based on my ongoing circumstances. As often as I would pray and expect things to change, I realize now that I was merely imploring God to change and not changing myself to accept God. Yet I had no definition that supported my belief. I am certain of one thing at this point in my Life, I now know far more than I did yesterday, yet not as much as I shall know each and every consecutive tomorrow. This is not a riddle for there is something new to discover every single day. Those lessons of each day make that very day new to itself.
Life (God) longs for itself in its attempt to help me understand this new day is another day of opportunity to let consciousness flow into whatever I do and to do everything in a sacred manner. In doing so, Life (God) longs for itself in my activity as simplicity, patience and compassion, Life's (God's) sweetest treasures.
Life (God) longs for itself by removing the veil of pessimism from me. Negativity has become so ingrained in thinking that it has almost become second nature in the foundation of life. Life's (God's) longing for itself is in the path of success for its creation, illuminated by optimism. Life's (God's) longing for itself gives me the courage to face things exactly as they are without any self-deception, knowing that being alive is to live in a supernatural life. In the wisdom of the I Ching, "A light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized".
Life (God) longs for itself by opening us up to receive our gift of awareness, our Mercy. Life (God) comes forth into expression through me as perfect life, perfect being, perfect God within. I choose to become that which I am for I am the Life of God that longs for itself. It is our birthright to live our divinity, to recognize the power that we have within. As Rev. Herracia Brewer eloquently states to the understanding of Life (God) longing for itself "to show up, express forth, and live in deliberate perfection as our individualized person hood".
Monday, April 5, 2010
This is the Love of God
When I read the words of Van Dyke, I feel true love. Without having to deal with the word, God, these words evoke a feeling in me of true love from that which created me. This is the flow, the "zone", that I am in during prayer and meditation. Endorphins are released that give me a sense of deep happiness, a sense of rightness that I am right where I am supposed to be and right with the spirit of awareness. I recognize how consequential I am to the Universe as is all God's creation. We must use our power of Mercy aligning ourselves with our larger good if we choose to be happy and feel the love.
Love by Henry Van Dyke
Let me be but love, my love without disguise,
Nor wear a mask of fashion old or new,
Nor wait to speak til I can hear a clue,
Nor play a part to shine in other's eyes,
Nor bow my knees to what my heart denies.
But what I am, to that let me be true,
And let me worship where my love is due,
And so through love and worship let me rise.
For love is but the heart's immortal thirst,
To be completely known and all forgiven.
Even as sinful souls that enter Heaven.
So take me, Dear, and understand my worse
And freely pardon it, because confessed.
And let me find in loving thee, my best.
Nor wear a mask of fashion old or new,
Nor wait to speak til I can hear a clue,
Nor play a part to shine in other's eyes,
Nor bow my knees to what my heart denies.
But what I am, to that let me be true,
And let me worship where my love is due,
And so through love and worship let me rise.
For love is but the heart's immortal thirst,
To be completely known and all forgiven.
Even as sinful souls that enter Heaven.
So take me, Dear, and understand my worse
And freely pardon it, because confessed.
And let me find in loving thee, my best.
My Time of Mercy
George Harrison wrote "I really want to feel you Lord". As moved as I am by those words, I have come to understand that the feel of the touch is in my sense of awareness, that deep place of intuition beyond sensory, beyond affect and reason. My sense of awareness is heighthened during prayer and meditation, that time when I am happiest in my understanding of the rightness of it all.
Monday, March 15, 2010
On Mercy
The teacher teaches what he/she needs to learn. Have we not heard this expressed over and over. On mercy, I am teaching as I learn about right action. As I am filled with mercy, I am filled with the feeling of right action. Not that I am responsible for "doing it", whatever I am doubting about my safety in that moment. Rather in the presence of a threat I am not overwhelmed with the lack of safety but rather I am feeling that performing the right action is more important. I am making myself available to the Presence of God in that moment, that what is being done, is being done through me. In other words, the right action is there already, all I can do is serve it. I am filled with mercy. For those who shudder at the word God, myself as well, that is another lesson I am teaching myself.
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