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The shattering of a way of life

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Spirit guided my hand as I drew the card,

The Tarot card XVI (16) – The Tower.

I could have guessed.

The image visually displays

An explosion. The tower is shattered,

And two people are sent falling into

Whatever hostile environment, below.

This graphic image represents a

Crisis; financial, physical, emotional, whatever.

Everything is gone. How

To go on. For me it was an

Ending of a relationship that,

Perhaps never existed. Could it

Have been an illusion? Anger

At my disclosing that Spirit was

With me and within me. Does he

Really believe me. Or, does he suspect

That I have lost my mind, if

I ever had a mind to lose.

Communing with Spirit? Of course

It was foolish of me to even think

That he might believe. But,

Why the anger, if I am happy

In my illusion, if illusion it is,

And I am. I feel blessed, but,

What a price to pay; rejection by

Someone I love.

 

 

Dare to face what seems to be the Truth

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Spirit asks me to make a pledge

To dare to face whatever seems

To be the truth, and,

To respect it as the truth, until

I know or suspect otherwise.

 

Make no mistake, He cautions,

About this being an easy task.

Lessons in appropriate forms

Of response come later.

 

For now, practice accepting

What seems to be true, to be true,

Whether experience later proves

Them to be so or not.

Is not important, for this lesson.

 

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Nothing more and nothing less

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Spirit tells me that

Other seekers of enlightenment

Who read of my struggle to learn

From Spirit, while maintaining, or

Attempting to maintain, devotion to

Physical as well as spiritual life,

Alone or with others who are

Alone together, more or less,

May find that my struggle

Offers something to think about

That may help them grow in

Understanding of why

Life is as it is, or

Seems to be,

An endless cycle or series of

Experiences, designed,

If they are,

To teach us what?

 

Spirit tells me that

We share what we care

To share, nothing more, and,

Nothing less.

Relationship is Social Connective Tissue

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Spirit tells me that

Social connective tissue

Serves the same general

Purpose as physical, biological

Connective tissue, within a human

Or animal body. How?

 

It allows individuals, groups of

Individuals, and groups of groups

Of individuals to live as

One life form, while seeming

To live separate existences,

Each possessing, possibly

Different ways and means of

Achieving, or attempting to achieve

A Universal goal of health

And happiness.

 

Spirit then tells me, as if

I could not figure it out

For myself, that Our way is

Not for everyone.

 

We each must learn from

Experience, what lifestyle is

For us and then to develop it,

One step at a time.

 

 

We are all addicted to something

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Spirit tells me that

We are all addicted to something.

Our individual needs and desires

Could never be fully fulfilled.

Maslow’s hierarchy had it right,

If only partially.  But, he didn’t reach high

Or far enough. He spoke of needs,

Suggesting, material, physical,

Survival needs, as if these alone

Could somehow satisfy our

Mind.

 

Spirit tells me that, our spiritual

Needs, drives, and desires

Can never be satisfied and,

That Compassion allows us

To feel this need to fulfillment

In others.

 

An ancient dictum to

Go forth and multiply.

Referred to more, much more

Than reproduction for

Its own sake. It was

A Divine command, as if

A command was necessary.

It is in the essence of

Our nature to seek

Without possessing the capacity

For self-satisfaction. We need

To learn to accept and respect

Needs and desires fulfillment

As a holy purpose and

A sacred duty. Of course,

We can get sidetracked.

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A Joyous Struggle

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Whenever I complain, and

I seem to complain much more than

I care to admit, or even

Remember, Spirit tells me,

In a pleasant and assuring manner, that,

If walking the Path of Enlightenment

Is not a struggle, then

I’m not on the path at all,

But only pretending to be, or

Into denial or illusion.

 

But, I protest,

Where is the joy?

Then Spirit gently tells me that

The struggle for awareness is

A joyous struggle if

I will only allow it to be.

 

 

Every Relationship is a Learning Experience

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Spirit tells me that

Every relationship is a learning experience

In which each participant is both

Teaching and learning something.

 

Deep or shallow, Long term or

Short term. how far will

Each particular relationship

Take us, if we allow or

Invite it, to?.

 

How does or will each relationship

Change us and how will we

Change the other or others?

 

Is it, or will it be worth the effort

If we are aware and intend

To change and/or be changed?

 

Any relationship either stimulates or

Drains our energy and

Other resources, precious or

Otherwise.

 

Where will each relationship

Take us, and how can we know

Until…..?