Wisdom

The Earth is alive,
The trees can speak.
One can feel wisdom everywhere
when the heart is open.

How to Have a Conversation - Letting Go of Defenses

Where defensiveness is, there listening stops. Then one's consciousness is attuned not to what is taking place in reality, but to what the ego-self believes it needs in order to protect itself.

To listen, defensiveness must be let go of. To speak, the heart must be clear. Only in this way can one have a real conversation.

There is a path of healing involved in speaking. Listen to your own voice. Let your breath fill your voice and carry it.

If you find that you are not breathing, notice that, and begin to breathe more deeply.

If you find that you are not listening, notice that, and practice detaching from your defenses.

"I am safe. I am protected. I am not my fear." These are the ways of aligning with God's truth and your own truth.

Speak. Listen. Become one with the moment.

How to Have a Conversation - Being Vulnerable
How to Have a Conversation

Essence

God's presence infuses the present
like aroma in incense, or like
hardness in a piece of wood.
It is not an added feature,
but rather part of the essence itself.

How to Have a Conversation - Being Vulnerable

What is the purpose of using words? It is to articulate and make known the inner being of oneself.

It is also to give voice and expression to the indwelling divinity - the Self that is part of God.

Many feel that words cannot adequately describe their inner state, and some have great difficulty finding words at all to represent themselves with.

The point of speaking is to make oneself known. To say, "I Am." This is not just for the listener's ears but for one's own ears. And it is not just to express the ego-self, but the self that is a creation of the Divine.

Fear of self-expression sometimes creates a hurdle that one must leap over in order to be seen and heard. In order to leap, the willingness to be vulnerable is needed. The willingness to be nakedly seen, to be viewed with flaws or limitations and also to be viewed in one's beauty.

There are many who have an easier time being viewed in their flaws which they are familiar with than in their beauty.

One learns to have a conversation through practicing the art of listening, but one also learns to have a conversation by practicing the willingness to be vulnerable.

Blessings.

The World of Possibility

The 'world of possibility' exists within each moment. It comes into being through our relationship with the Divine which is the strongest creative power in the universe. This creative power flows through all moments, yet is invisible to us when we are closed to it - when we view ourselves as formed and shaped by the roles we play and the past we have lived through.

On a collective level, this past has separated the physical from the spiritual and held visible evidence to be the underlying structure of reality rather than invisible grace. Based on separation from the Divine, our collective past has created a world that predicts from the past to the future based on what has been seen and known. This view conditions our expectations and restricts our hope. It also restricts our hope for the possibilities inherent in each moment.

Today, this worldview is being challenged by the new awareness arising in many. This awareness is expanding perceptions beyond the visible and revealing new realities that have never been open to us before. Beyond logic or reason, Divine life and light are bringing into being the confluence of spirit and matter. They are closing the gap between the spiritual and the physical and making what was impossible before, possible.

Our outlook, then, if we choose to flow with the Divine in each moment, must be that something new can take place if we allow it. We can be new, because the fixed identity of the past is now loosening its hold on us. Divine light is causing the heart to awaken, and with it a deeper truth about who we are.

We cannot be new if we are afraid of change or if we believe we are the past. These beliefs must be let go of for they close down the moment and limit the possible. However, we are being invited to claim our Divine heritage, to join with the sacred core of who we are in a unity that has always existed, however unrecognized.

This movement into unity is the reason things can be new. For we are joining with that part of ourselves that has never left the grace of God, the love of God, the oneness of God. We are joining with the higher aspects of our selves and entering the realm of multidimensionality. This is the world of our higher self or soul, now able to express itself more clearly within our consciousness and within our life upon the Earth.

More than anything else, fear of the Unknown restricts the opening of the 'world of possibility'. Fear that the Unknown is not trustworthy. Fear that the Unknown will not guide us. Fear that we will not be led, or shown, or illumined in ways that will teach us how to live. This fear is based on what has been, and also on the transition we are in - one in which a new reality is emerging yet has not fully emerged. And so we are unsure of its stability and its ability to be the firm foundation for a life.

Fear diminishes and confidence increases through embracing the Unknown – through allowing it to teach us, and guide us, and shape our actions and decisions. When we believe in our capacity to live a Divinely guided life, we have already begun to build the foundation for that life. We have opened the doors so that the currents of creative inspiration can enter.

Today, we live in a time of change and of awakening upon the Earth, of letting go of the past in favor of an unknown future. In this movement, the light within all things is leading us toward a life that is fluid rather than solid, undetermined rather than known, changing rather than static. To be in this new life, we must learn to swim with the currents of change.

Today, we are being called, each and every one of us, to embrace this shift and to become fluid. For it is the time of possibilities and the Earth itself is now moving from a state of pain and limitation into a new state of beauty and grace.

Looking in a Mirror

What do you see when you look in a mirror?
Do you see the form and think it is you?
Now see the solidness of the form blur and become softer,
see it emanating a field of light.

If you are tired, see through that.
If you are frustrated, see through that.
If you are physically ill, see through that.
If you are unhappy, see through that.

All of that is connected with the form.
Beyond the form and within the form
you are a radiant being of light.
This never changes, no matter what you see in the mirror.

Visit From a Bear

A bear came for the first time late last night and knocked over the bird feeder. It took its mighty paws and bent the entire post down to the ground in its search for food. I did not know this till the morning, yet as it approached, the wind chimes hanging in a small tree not too far away tinkled in the windless air. I heard them, wondering in the stillness what kind of animal was announcing itself, and why, of all the places it could have passed through, it had brushed up against the chimes.

This plausible communication might be thought an accident by some, a deliberate gesture by others, leading to the question of why make an announcement?

No interaction in life is truly accidental. None is meaningless. The sound of a bear moving past wind chimes interacts with my ears and heart, and creates a relationship. In that new creation is a choice - the choice of how to respond, the choice of how to acknowledge another.

Statistics would tell us that bears in the springtime in certain locales are on the prowl for food. The heart might tell us that the bear was looking for something in addition to food and thus announced its presence. Which we choose to believe determines how we respond to life and with what degree of presentness. Neither explanation rules out the other. Both take into account the beingness of another life.

Praise

A Spring day, the birds have returned,
In the earliest morning each shouts
its note joyfully,
calling to God in a chorus of praise,
effortlessly,
innately,
lovingly,
drawn to the light.