Mastery

Mastery of Emotions is needed to make it through 
the second initiation. 
Use the mind to master the emotions. 
Experientially I know emotions don't change anything.

Mastery of Mind is needed to make it through 
the third inititation.
Have no opinions of anything or anyone and the mind 
will be still.
Let go of mental meanderings and focus on one 
subject, study, talent, pastime.

There is a war they say for the minds of men. 
The mind uses its side-kick, the emotions to ensnare one 
in its complicities
Together the duo can also be referred to as the desire mind 
or kama manas.
Entangled one tangoes to the beat of the opinionated mind 
coupled with seething emotions creating the downward drag 
that pulls one deeper into the tentacles of matter.

Let the initiate beware !!

BE - then ACT

You have to be the conduit for Light, Love and
the Will to good to descend before it can radiate
out - in life, in service.

You have to be the pillar of light descending
before it can radiate out through your triangles
work.

So BE first then Act

You will be aware of this poem on your planet ...

There was a young lady called Bright
Who set out at the speed of Light
She set out one day in a relative Way
And arrived the previous Night

 - that is how flexible your reality is.
   Let go of your constructs
   Let go of the idea that things have to be done a certain way
   Let go of the old idea of who you think you need to be.
   Let go of the old ideas of beliefs that do not work for you.
   Let go of the things that are not yours; you do not need to
    carry them around
   Let go let go let go ...
                                              chanelling - Bashar

29 July 2013   STAR OF DAVID CONFIGURATION
Isn't it beautiful ...

How one lives the first two thirds of one's life will determine 
the quality of the last one third of one's life.

Triangles Work of Lucis Trust

The Triangle work embodies two phases of their work, i.e., the forming of the network of light as the channel of communication between the Hierarchy and Humanity, and the forming simultaneously of the network of goodwill, which is the objective expression of the subjective influence of light.  Ponder on this statement.
                                      [THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS, p253]

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devastating floods in North India -

A stance people might wish to take during these times:

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What is Love?

Love esoterically understood is that invisible matrix that holds all in perfect relationship with each other governed by laws of physics as applied to the whole universe. Where relationships are anything but perfect there is a breakdown of love. Get love fixed and right relationship results.

But to fix love one has to understand what is LOVE ....

Explaining love as the love of human relationships as in mother/child, man/woman etc is limiting love. Love is what keeps all as a cohesive whole - iron filings held in a certain pattern in a magnetic field, a lizard on the ceiling in direct opposition to gravity, karma is love !! ponder on this...

An excerpt from the Alice Bailey books ...

We get three expressions of love: Love in the Personality, Love in the Ego [soul], and Love in the Monad [spirit]. Love in the Personality is love in the three worlds; love in the Ego is love in the solar system, and all that it contains; while love in the Monad demonstrates a measure of cosmic love, and embraces much that is outside the solar system altogether….as evolution proceeds it shows itself as a gradual expansion of the love faculty, passing through the different stages……Love is not a sentiment or an emotion, nor is it desire or a selfish motive for right action in daily life. Love is the wielding of the force which guides the worlds and which leads to the integration, unity and inclusiveness which impels Deity itself to action. Love is a hard thing to cultivate; it is a difficult thing to apply to all conditions of life, and its expression will demand of you the utmost you have to give, and the stamping out of your selfish personal activities…..the chains of love unite the world of men and the world of forms and they constitute the great chain of the Hierarchy. The spiritual effort you are asked to make is that of developing yourself into a vibrant and powerful centre of that fundamental, universal love.

Love is letting go of fear and expanding one's consciousness to want to see, to know, understand and not judge life unfolding around us. It is learning to go beyond borders stage by stage.... from personal borders - familial borders - racial, religious, national borders - seeing both the dark and light that is in the world and not be in a state of judgement for judgement comes out of fear. To expand one's consciousness beyond the known to the relatively unknown - for information comes as one seeks to know... to see, to know, to accept as is, to understand, to grow...

Love is this expansion of one's consciousness beyond paradigms, boundaries and borders, limits and security checkpoints in one's psyche to the whole ... for creation encompasses the good tending to the bad, the black and white and all shades in between; all held in juxtaposition in this polarity based universe... when one is ready to see all and see the interconnectedness of all into a cohesive whole one is in a state of love - this is a physical phenomena - expressed as love in the self, family, groups, nation, planet, solar system, cosmos - and seeking this love and embracing it entails a journey into continually expanding awareness and consciousness into these realms. So for example to let go of fear to see what is happening in the world and not sitting in judgement of it, to not despair, lose hope, lose faith but to garner and gain understanding detachedly is learning to love regardless... this love saves, this love synthesizes, this love redeems the created worlds - and in accessing this love we access the heart of the Creating Essence. At this Centre we experience Oneness - the Swaroopam of God - Omnipresence, Omnipotence, Omniscience ...

What it means to 'be wise':


The Great Teacher, The Lady of Noble Repute, said to her
devotees, “He who thinks himself wise, proves he is not.
She, who knows herself, is.” A student spoke up. “Teacher,
do you mean to say Man is not wise, or at the very least, not
as wise as Woman?”
The Teacher smiled. “Surely you know I would say no
such thing.” She continued. “Is it wise to think myself wise?
If I know I am wise, I am. Do you now know of what I
speak?”The student replied, “Has it to do with thinking and
knowing?”“Yes. But is that all of which I speak?”
Another spoke, “Perhaps you speak of knowing yourself.”
“Ah. Yes. But what must you know of yourself in order to
be considered wise?”The students looked wide-eyed and
unsure. She took a deep breath. “How long will you not
obtain understanding? To think myself wise is pride and folly.
To know this is wisdom.”“Teacher,” the student interjected,
“If someone is wise, he knows it. But as soon as he knows it,
does he not also think it and then become unwise?” “Again,
to think I am wise is folly. I am wise when I know enough to
know I am not all-wise. Therefore, I am most wise when
I admit I know nothing.”
“How then does one know when he is wise, Great One?”
Another added, “And would the most ignorant among us
then be the wisest?”“Have I come to you proclaiming my
wisdom? Had I proclaimed it, would you have sought me
out to learn of me?”There was silence.
“If I proclaim my wisdom or my goodness, where is my
humility? If I walk in the world showing forth what I know
by my deeds and not my words, am I not wise?
Will others not see and seek such things for themselves?
To think myself wise is to strut like a peacock. To know I
am wise is to ‘be’. Such knowledge will flow from me like
water from a spring. A spring does not think to bubble forth
its essence. It just does. Is that not wise?”
The devotees nodded, smiling.
“Thought is transient; a wisp; imagination. It has no
substance. Knowledge is transcendent; it is power and light
and more a state of ‘be’-ing than a fleeting thought. My
knowing does not require a thought. If I am wise, I am.
What I know makes me wise - but only as far as what I
know. To think I know all, to think I know more than I
know, how is this wise?”
She looked about the room. “Wisdom is intimacy.
Be intimate with what you know as a man is intimate with the
woman he loves. Herein lies knowledge. Herein is wisdom.”
May we all be-come wise.

Much love,
Wind Sister, aka Teresa Crane

Wesak Day 2012
The Great Invocation

From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.
From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.
From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men –
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the centre which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

When the cows come home to roost....
When the crows moo the dawn of day...
When dogs purr and cats bark ...
shall we see another era begin ...

When the day dawns black and the night lights up
When men stay home to cook
and women bring the buck deer home...
When stars beam during the day
shall we see another story unfold on Earth ...

I think darkness is dark because it doesn't see any light for there is none in it.
So perhaps we should not judge it too harshly but learn to understand and feel
compassion and bring light into it. And so working with bringing light into the
world can  never be wrong or worthless. All light work is worthwhile beyond
measure.

Taking Care of the Heart

The Quandary of the Human Heart


One of the greatest casualties in this process is the human heart. We recognize and sense a deep sadness and despair in the collective human heart. Part of this is due to the disintegration of realities and your attachments to them. After all, what do you build your dreams on when the foundations of your world are crumbling?


Another aspect of this difficulty in the heart has to do with the toxic nature of your planet’s emotional atmosphere. As the solar energies increase, the tensions between polarities become ever more apparent. The polarization of human consciousness between those who would imprison and those who would free the human spirit are becoming clearer and clearer.


We would offer two suggestions as a means to deal with these challenges to your heart.


It is through your heart that new realities are birthed—by this, we mean realities worth living. Our first suggestion may seem overly simplistic, and yet as is often the case, the simplest things are frequently the most powerful. However you do this is not important. What is important is that you create an emotional antidote in yourself to the toxic poisoning of your planet’s emotional atmosphere.


As hatred and intolerance increase, you must find a passage through this darkness. The simplest and most efficient way we know is for you to find the smallest things in your life that you appreciate, and to take a few moments to dwell on these feelings of appreciation throughout your day. It does not matter how small these feelings of appreciation may be. From the tiniest seeds of appreciation great things can arise. The vibratory state of appreciation, or gratitude, is an extraordinary antidote to emotional poisoning. We strongly suggest you cultivate this ally as you move through this next cycle of solar storms.


Finally, we are offering a sound meditation based on the heart chakra. This is from a previous Hathor Intensive. The first phase of this sound meditation rotates and activates energies within the heart chakra for the purpose of clearing. The second phase of the meditation is calming and nurturing. We believe you will find this sound meditation to be another helpful ally.


As you enter this new phase of solar storms understand that they are extraordinary opportunities for evolutionary advancement. They are also, paradoxically, fraught with dangers for devolution due to their intense nature. If you resist the energies of acceleration, you will experience great difficulties in this passage. If you embrace these energies and master them—finding a way to navigate through them with appreciation and a good dose of humor—you will find greater freedom. This freedom of which we speak is a freedom of the human spirit, mind and heart. It resides in a level of consciousness untouched by the dualities of your earthly existence.




The Hathors
April 1, 2012


http://tomkenyon.com/entering-the-solar-storms

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Blessings

On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth; for to bless is to acknowledge the unlimited good that is embedded in the very texture of the universe and awaiting each and all.
On passing people in the street, on the bus, in places of work and play, bless them. The peace of your blessing will accompany them on their way and the aura of its gentle fragrance will be a light to their path.
On meeting and talking to people, bless them in their health, their work, their joy, their relationships to God, themselves, and others. Bless them in their abundance, their finances...bless them in every conceivable way, for such blessings not only sow seeds of healing but one day will spring forth as flowers of joy in the waste places of your own life.
As you walk, bless the city in which you live, its government and teachers, its nurses and street sweepers, its children and bankers, its priests and prostitutes. The minute anyone expresses the least aggression or unkindness to you, respond with a blessing: bless them totally, sincerely, joyfully, for such blessings are a shield which protects them from the ignorance of their misdeed, and deflects the arrow that was aimed at you.
To bless means to wish, unconditionally, total, unrestricted good for others and events from the deepest wellspring in the innermost chamber of your heart: it means to hallow, to hold in reverence, to behold with utter awe that which is always a gift from the Creator. He who is hallowed by your blessing is set aside, consecrated, holy, whole. To bless is to invoke divine care upon, to think or speak gratefully for, to confer happiness upon - although we ourselves are never the bestower, but simply the joyful witnesses of Life's abundance.
To bless all without discrimination of any sort is the ultimate form of giving, because those you bless will never know from whence came the sudden ray of sun that burst through the clouds of their skies, and you will rarely be a witness to the sunlight in their lives.
When something goes completely askew in your day, some unexpected event knocks down your plans and you too also, burst into blessing: for life is teaching you a lesson, and the very event you believe to be unwanted, you yourself called forth, so as to learn the lesson you might balk against were you not to bless it. Trials are blessings in disguise, and hosts of angels follow in their path.
To bless is to acknowledge the omnipresent, universal beauty hidden to material eyes; it is to activate that law of attraction which, from the furthest reaches of the universe, will bring into your life exactly what you need to experience and enjoy.
When you pass a prison, mentally bless its inmates in their innocence and freedom, their gentleness, pure essence and unconditional forgiveness; for one can only be prisoner of one's self-image, and a free man can walk unshackled in the courtyard of a jail, just as citizens of countries where freedom reigns can be prisoners when fear lurks in their thoughts.
When you pass a hospital, bless its patients in their present wholeness, for even in their suffering, this wholeness awaits in them to be discovered. When your eyes behold a man in tears, or seemingly broken by life, bless him in his vitality and joy: for the material senses present but the inverted image of the ultimate splendor and perfection which only the inner eye beholds.
It is impossible to bless and to judge at the same time. So hold constantly as a deep, hallowed, intoned thought that desire to bless, for truly then shall you become a peacemaker, and one day you shall, everywhere, behold the very face of God.
And of course, above all, don’t forget to bless the utterly beautiful person YOU are!

http://www.eso-garden.com/index.php?/weblog/2007/08/

http://www.eso-garden.com/index.php?/weblog/2007/08/

Sometimes one has to leave one's
comfort zone and take a leap of faith.

try something new, be open and be opened.
tis the way to grow and open up to new
frontiers, expanding horizons, shifting paradigms
getting out of the box we shut ourselves in
out of complacency, security, lethargy ...


SO SHIFT OUT AND FLY FLY FLY ....

Beauty

unravels the Soul . . .

A blessing for solitude


May you recognize in your life the presence,
 power and light of your soul.
May you realize that you are never alone,
 that your soul in its brightness and belonging
Connects you intimately with the rhythm of the Universe.
May you have respect for your individuality and difference.
May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique,
 that you have a special destiny here
That behind the facade of your life there is something
 beautiful and eternal happening.
May you learn to see yourself with the same delight,
 pride and expectation
With which God sees you in every moment."


Blessing be upon you

One thing I seek to point out to you: humility must always accompany a spiritual self-respect which forbids a disciple to stand anywhere upon the Path, except in his rightful place. DINA1 562.

Consecrated Effort

Patience

Solemnity

Reverence

Humility

Sacrifice

Inner Quiet
Tread with care

   I play my part with stern resolve, with earnest aspiration;  
   I look above, I help below; I dream not, nor I rest;   

   I toil; I serve; I reap; I pray;  

   I am the Cross; I am the Way;  

   I tread upon the work I do; I mount upon my slain self;  

   I kill desire, and I strive, forgetting all reward.  

  I forego peace; I forfeit rest,  
and in the stress of pain I lose myself  

   and find Myself and enter into peace. 

Go against the flo~w ,
     Think [outside] the box,
Get out of fixed paradigms…

Alongside our natural ability to empathize with others, we also have a need for others’ kindness, which runs like a thread throughout our whole life. It is most apparent when we are young and when we are old, but we have only to fall ill to be reminded how important it is to be loved and cared about, even in our prime years.

- Dalai Lama

Skipping Tru Life

Skipping through the day, skipping from yesterday, skipping through the moments that make up time, skipping in the NOW, skipping to tomorrow and into worlds unknown, experiences untold, revelations new... I am just skipping through - AS I WATCH MYSELF SKIPPING THROUGH.  A wayfarer, a voyager, an explorer exploring space and time, an initiator initiating new experiences, a discoverer discovering new discoveries. Skipping... skipping... skipping...

In the depths of Being
I sense my Self.
In deepest silence ...
stillness ...
I touch my Essence.

In a breathless tension
I perceive
A Wholeness
That lays hidden within
in repose.

I get out of my way
beyond mundane self-ish issues
in silence
within I go
and know!

Know that everything that happens in my life is as per my soul plan. People, events, circumstances are but instruments and means by which I experience all self chosen experiences. Nothing happens because someone did something to me rather they were the instruments by which I had happen to me what was meant to happen that I may experience, learn, grow and know my Self thereby. So for all experiences I am thankful for the light that has increased in me, for the beauty that has unfolded in me, for the love that has grown in me, for the compassion that has arisen in me. For this I am deeply grateful and hold no malice towards anyone.

Blue dragonfly in the canal system in Bangkok. Jan 2011

Beauty shines forth in myriad ways; if we look closely we'll see it everywhere.

View from the plane - trip to Bangkok - Jan 2011.

Life flows. I flow with life. Up and down...unresisting...to accept what is. At times I am up, at times I am down. Always I try and remember I am not this. I am witnessing this. Yet all is as it should be. All IS now.

We hear so many doomsday stories and often wonder what life is all about. Not interested in anything and tired of sensory indulgences ... food, tv, paces and places, spiritual pursuits -everything seems to draw a blank. The psychiatrist would say it is depression. Rather something is missing in life. The mind needs something to do to keep itself occupied. Life, then, is bearable. When we come to the end of desires; to keep on keeping at the same old pastimes we are really in no-man's land - a place where we are neither here nor there - not here on Earth's playground yet haven't quite crossed over to spiritual pastures of heavenly bliss or whatever that state happens to be. This transition phase can be unsettling and one becomes moody and broody (my word) and up and down. All sagacious today and all gloomy tomorrow. Such is life. We walk the paces and trudge on regardless...

fr Global Psychics...

Here's a terrific exercise to help you begin creating what you want in your life..

Count your Blessings

Make a list of all of the things you are grateful for in your life. Include your friendships and family, the floor that holds you up, the warm bed that comforts you at night and the computer that enables you to connect with fascinating folks from around the world. Include also the mistakes you have made, the setbacks that have disappointed and challenged you - and all of the opportunities to change, to learn and to grow that have come from them.
Then make a list of everything you are wishing for... and as you write each one, bring it into present time. See and feel yourself having what you want, being grateful for it as if it has already happened. Feel yourself jumping for joy at achieving your goals, and see your friends and family surrounding you with love and appreciation for your good work.
When you've completed the blessings lists, affirm your dreams regularly by repeating this prayer
"Godessence grant me the grace to live with gratitude."

Make an attitude of gratitude your magical approach to life.. You'll be so very grateful that you did.

Do not wait for the perfect day to happen

See perfection in today.

By accepting what is

Without judgement of how it should be.

Knowing that

All is as it should be

right here

right now.

And be at peace with

what is.

Sometimes...
I trudge through the day
expecting a miracle
to give meaning to life.

Sometimes...
I yearn to reach up to my soul
to sing to a different tune
then what is right now.

Sometimes...
I wonder if all this is not just escapism
to get out of
the drudgery of it all.

Sometimes...
such as now
I find peace in what is
As it is.

Let change come as surely it will
Only change is unchanging
All of this is just a blink
of the eye
In the eternity of Time.

We are creating a new world. A world of harmony, peace, balance, joy, equilibrium, freedom. Purity, Beauty, Joy ..... exemplifies this new world. Come into this sacred space O all co-creators of this sacred world....

We are the world, we are the people, we are the creation, WE are the Creators

What a new World means to me.....

For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing more than acting out of concern for others. If you practice sincerely and with persistence, little by little, step by step you will gradually reorder your habits and attitudes so as to think less about your own narrow concerns and more about others' – and thereby find peace and happiness yourself.
- Dalai Lama

Sometimes on days such as today
there is a spiritual glow to the day,
feeling of overbrimming joy,
of pure being, of completeness.
May many such days flow into our lives.

Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so
without attracting attention - Paulo Coelho

There is much we can do to influence our experience of suffering. Old age, sickness, and death are inevitable, but, with the torments of negative thoughts and emotions, we certainly have a choice in how we respond to the occurrence of suffering. If we wish, we can adopt a more dispassionate and rational approach, and on that basis we can temper our response to it.

- THE DALAI LAMA

I realize it is so important at this time to keep life simple.
Do what I can to handle life issues.
Without expectations.
Accepting all as they are
Seeing life as is
Being present, aware, conscious, moment to moment
Understanding, allowing,
Being available without judgement, criticism

and this is possible only when

I am centred, focussed, firm, unfaltering
having faced my own demons
being in peace
compassionate to self,
accepting myself as I am
that I can learn to accept others as they are
and cultivate compassion and love
and serve with an open heart
with love.

Only then can I say I am ready to do world service.
and not falter along the way.

Life is a flower
Let it bloom gently
don't rush it
don't push it
don't smother it
Let it unfold its variegated hues
into a delightful enticing offering
of shape and colours and perfume
A floressence of divine perfection.

My true religion, my simple faith is in love and compassion. There is no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are - these are ultimately all we need. THE DALAI LAMA

Chaotic moments are times to remember that you will not
gain your peace from anyone else and that you choose to
bring peace to every life situation you encounter.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Fire Tornado in Brazil in Aug/Sept 2010

When Everything Changes Change Everything
Never offer the kind of help that disempowers.
Never insist on offering the help you think is needed.
Let the person or people in need know all that you
have to give - then listen to what they want;
see what they are ready to receive.
- Neale Donald Walsh

‎"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan

Excerpt from The Metaphysics of Radiant Health Ebook by DL Zeta

Twelve Steps to Strengthening the Immune System

1) Practice positive self-talk. Pay attention to what you say to yourself. Do you lift yourself higher by being kind and loving with yourself or do you pull yourself down by being critical and negative about your prospects for the future? Practicing positive self-talk raises your vibration and strengthens your immune system.

2) Pay close attention to what you put into your body. What you eat and drink makes a strong statement as to how you feel about yourself and your life. If you find yourself eating junk or other low-vibe foods, pay attention to the thoughts and feelings that precede these choices. Develop a plan for healthy foods and make sure you have plenty around. Taking care of yourself and providing a healthy and conscious diet is an act of self-love that strengthens you on all levels.

3) Visualize yourself downloading vibrant life force into your energy field. See the flow of life force moving through every part of your physical system. Focus on any areas where you have experienced challenges. See them filling with healing, radiant light.

4) Build in plenty of time each day for creative play. As you make the effort to find windows for creative activities, you will find it easier to find time in the future. When you regularly engage in creative play, you integrate creative thinking into everything you do. This keeps inspiration flowing and opens your energy field to downloads of life force and intuitive guidance.

5) Make time to work out and exercise each day. This enlivens your physical system, oxygenates the body and amps up the flow of life force into your energy field. The flow through your physical system is equal to all other forms of flow in your life.

6) Regularly still and quiet your mind while focusing your intentions on love and inner peace. During meditation, send love to your higher self and you will quickly feel this love amplified back to you. This builds and strengthens the bridge to accelerated guidance and life force flow.

7) As you move through your day, express gratitude for everything in your life, even those things you consider to be challenges. Challenges and obstacles are our best teachers for they help us grow in our understandings and develop resiliency. If there are objects in your life you no longer feel connected to, pass them on to others who can benefit from them. If you have relationships that seem to be ending, enter a place of gratitude for all that has been and move on from this place of complete love and gratitude. Nothing pulls down and weakens the immune system like anger, resentment and blame.

8) Make a list of charities and groups aligned with your desire to assist people, animals and the environment. Regularly donate and/or help raise funds to benefit these causes. An excellent idea is holding a garage sale to pass on items you no longer use and donating the proceeds to groups working to bring about positive change. This will give you a feeling of well-being that greatly enhances your immune system.

9) Make a list of large and small things that bring you joy and each day do as many of these as you can. Constantly add new areas of joy by exploring new and positive practices and trying out new ideas and possibilities you feel drawn to. Allowing more joy into your life uplifts and strengthens you at all levels.

10) Listen within. Listen to the voice of your intuition and act on the guidance you receive. When you lose sight of this connection to your highest vision, you become a slave of the world which amps down your life force flow.

11) Create environments and spaces in your surroundings that uplift and inspire you. Spending time in spaces with positive energy flow raises your vibration. If you need help in creating positive flow in your environment, study the art of feng shui.

12) Alkalinize your physical body with enzyme-rich, live, alkaline foods. When your cells are being properly nourished, you grow calm and serene, which raises your vibration and draws to you uplifting people and experiences.

From the net...a real gem

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Poem by William Blake

fr Auguries of Innocence...

To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

Quote

By a spanish poet, Juan Ramon Jimenez expresses the soul thus...

I am not I,

I am this one

Walking beside me whom I do not see,

Whom at times I manage to visit,

And at times I forget.

The one who remains silent when I talk,

The one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,

The one who takes a walk when I am indoors,

The one who will remain standing when I die.

We reveal ourselves by what we do as well as what we do not do...

We choose by chosing to act as well as choosing not to act...
choosing not to is also a choice we are making...

So no matter how we choose to look at it each of us are:

a symbol, symbolic of a particular psychological make-up...
a riddle, waiting solving...
a paradox, waiting unraveling...
a story, unfolding...
an expression of the Great Unknown.
an adventure, of Life seeking Itself...
a pilgrim seeking return to Wholeness.

How to transform pain into compassion - by osho

When you breathe in,
imagine that you are breathing in
all the darkness and negativity in your life.
Welcome it into your heart.
Stop trying to resist it, avoid it or destroy it.
That has been taking up all of your energy.
As you are breathing in this heaviness,
let it be absorbed into your heart before you exhale.
And then the moment you breathe out, breathe out golden light.
Breathe out your greatest lightness,
your highest joy,
love and blessing from your heart
INTO the source of the negativity.
You'll soon transform all the darkness in your life with your breath.
Breathe out all the love that you have,
all the blissfulness that you have,
all the benediction that you have.
When breathing out,
pour your love into existence.
This is the method of compassion:
drink in all the suffering
and pour out all the blessings.
And you will be surprised what happens
when you really do it.
The moment you stop resisting all the darkness and heaviness in your inner world,
they are no longer sufferings.

The heart has the power to transform any energy to light.
The heart is a transforming force, the essential alchemist.
It can drink in any misery, pain or sadness
and transform it into a lightness.
Trust the power of your heart.
Once you have learned
that your heart can do this magic,
this miracle,
then keep practicing it again and again.


Experiment with this exercise
and let yourself explore every dark area of your life.
If you feel overwhelmed, don't give up.
It it often the coldest and darkest just before dawn.
Just let yourself fully FEEL
that which you cannot feel,
what you've been resisting.
Only then will you have mastered yourself.
Continue doing this beautiful method
of transforming pain into compassion for 30 days.
You'll get better at it
and be able
to welcome in all the heaviness of the world
and pour out such a great love and light
that our entire planet is transformed.

You have the power within you
to do miracles, use it!

A story ~quoted~

A Story About Life

A young man asked his grandfather why life had to be so difficult sometimes. His grandfather was Old Hawk a Lacota indian. This was his reply.In life there is sadness as well as joy, losing as well as winning, falling as well as standing, hunger as well as plenty, badness as well as goodness. I do not say this to make you despair, but to teach you reality. Life is a journey sometimes walked in light, sometimes in shadow.You have weakness as well as strengths. You have both because in life there is two of everything. Within you is the will to win, as well as the willingness to lose. Within you is the heart to feel compassion as well as the smallness to be arrogant. Within you is the way to face life as well as the fear to turn away from it.Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.Being strong means taking one more step toward the top of the hill, no matter how weary you may be. It means letting the tears flow through the grief. It means to keep looking for the answer, though the darkness and despair is all around you. Being strong means to cling to hope for one more heartbeat, one more sunrise. Each step no matter how difficult, is one more step closer to the top of the hill. To keep hope alive for one more heartbeat at a time leads to the light of the next sunrise, and the promise of a new day.The weakest step toward the top of the hill, toward sunrise, toward hope, is stronger than the fiercest storm.

April is Autism Awareness Month


I salute parents of autistic children
Who have walked that extra mile with their child.
Who have not given up, not given in to despair,
But trudge onwards,
Advocates...teachers...guides...guardian angels
To their children
In their hour of need
As they journey together
The unresearched terrain
Of Autism.

We learn lessons in Compassion
We learn lessons in Inner Strength
We learn lessons in Courage
We learn lessons in Empathy
We learn lessons in Love
We learn lessons in Understanding
We learn lessons in truly Caring
To be a parent of a Special Needs Person
Calls us to take that extra mile
Down the Road of Life.

Bird watching at the Net...

My Nine Step Way to Wholeness

The Spiritual Path
Silence - restive Mind – NOW

Step 1
Accept all as is… ideologies, events, people, circumstances AS IS.
That means no ideas, opinions, judgements, criticism ad infinitum…
Accept all AS IS…

Step 2
Let go of wanting an Existential Ideology.
Meaning to life other than what is. The need to achieve something
spiritual or otherwise eg. what is my life purpose.

Step 3
Accept myself AS I AM. Accept my life As Is. My life is unfolding
exactly as it should. I am playing out my script.

Step 4
Let life unfold and unravel itself. If you want to do something do it.
Throw away the must dos which were never done.
It is a waste of mental energy and life force.

Step 5
Concentrate on right NOW. feel, smell, do, hear, taste, be present
with the task at hand. Be mindful in the present, bring that mind
back again and again to what I am doing now.

Step 6
Intensely B in the Now. The mind wanders to the hot and spiked up
topics in the present world scenario. Searching for something out there.
Keep abreast of developments but focus within in the Now.

Step 7
Get deeper beyond the phenomena.
To a place of complete stillness…the space between two breaths,
the space between two sounds….
be still and listen to the silence in between sounds…

Step 8
More and more stay unruffled…in the stillness of the busy market place.
Make haste slowly.

Step 9
Meditation * Stillness * Service/Charity * Higher Knowledge

Quoted...

It takes strength to be firm
It takes courage to be gentle.

It takes strength to stand guard.
It takes courage to let down your guard

It takes strength to conquer.
It takes courage to surrender.

It takes strength to be certain.
It takes courage to have doubt.

It takes strength to fit in.
It takes courage to stand out.

It takes strength to feel a friend's pain.
It takes courage to feel your own pain.

It takes strength to hide your own pains.
It takes courage to show them.

It takes strength to endure abuse.
It takes courage to stop it.

It takes strength to stand alone.
It takes courage to lean on another.

It takes strength to love.
It takes courage to be loved.

It takes strength to survive.
It takes courage to live.