Spirit tells me that unconditional love is
Healthy love, while
Unconditional respect is dysfunctional.
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Uphill all the way
Spirit tells me that the path of enlightenment
Must necessarily be an uphill struggle.
We rise to enlightenment, He tells me.
We do not go down to it, but
There are landslides along the way.
Arrogance is one of them.
Enlightened people are no better or worse than
Those who are less enlightened.
A full container is no better than one
That is only hall-full.
It simply holds more of whatever,
While it does.
Life is a story that writes itself
Spirit tells me that Life is a story that writes itself.
Today is not separate from yesterday in any real
Sense. Today emerged from yesterday and will
Transform itself into tomorrow as part of a
Continuous progression of situations and events
Designed to serve Life’s purpose.
Which is?
To expand our awareness, both individually and
Collectively
Our awareness of what?
Our awareness of our own awareness.
Thinking is a game
Spirit tells me that thinking is a game and perhaps He’s right.I somehow need to struggle with ideas and Spirit provides me (bless His soul), with a seemingly endless supply of these.
Sometimes I think I know the what and why of a particular mental challenge He slips into my mind, but, before I can take hold of the how, it slips away, as my inner resources suddenly collapse, as a balloon does, when filled to beyond capacity with hot air.
Spirit smiles at my distress and suggests that I accept that there are games in this world, and beyond, that are beyond me, at least for now, and that I should be able to recognize games that I can’t yet win.
Stop. He spoke of this world and beyond. Now I challenge Him. How can there be a beyond if there is only one world?
“There is and yet there will always be a beyond”.
“As in Buzz Lightyear’s “to infinity and beyond”? (Buzz is a Toy Story character).”
“Yes and no.”
“How?”
“Our world expands to infinity, and expanding awareness is our mode of travel.”
How can I argue with such beautiful logic?
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My socially conditioned thoughts and emotions
When I insist to Spirit that I am what I am and I need
What I need, then He, with a confidence that I very
Much envy, tells me that my more or less loosely
Organized system of thoughts and emotions is a
Conditioned one.
Who conditioned me?
You did, with help, of course.
Why? and for what purpose?
To conform to a static social order that never existed.
Why would I do that?
God only knows, but hopes you will do yourself and
Everyone else the favour of getting to know who and
What you really are.
Opting out is not an option
Spirit tells me to be aware of what is happening around me
As I move through time and space, and as they move
Through me, and to be aware of how I contribute to
Whatever is happening, and I do contribute, He tells me,
To every situation that I am aware of, as well as to
All others.
We are each related to all that is, which also includes
Ourselves. We move or are moved through situations
That provide us with opportunities to respond from
Our unique perspective – a moving perspective.
We are each, at least to some degree, responsible,
Claims Spirit, for the creation, result, and future of
Any situation we are part of, and we are part of
Everything.
This is too much for me. I protest. What if I don’t
Want to play this game?
Opting out is not an option, He tells me. That’s not
In the rules.
Who wrote the rules?
We did.
Who are “we”?
You and I and everyone else.
When?
In the beginning.
The beginning of what?
The game of Life.
When was that?
There was no beginning.
Listen to the Energy
Spirit asks me to make an early New Year Resolution;
To choose to accept what my inner awareness seems to
Insist on what my reluctant and more or less conformist and
Wishy-washy personality fears, for whatever reason or
Reasons, to accept as true, or to face the truth that I
Cannot deny, that everything that anyone says or does
Is designed to present a false image if the essential
Energy of what they say or do does not harmonize with
The strength and frequency of their own essence.
Resolve, He asks me, to listen to the energy, and
He assures me, it can and will become as second
Nature to me, for it was designed for that purpose.
I may be a total failure at keeping this pledge, but
I will if I can and as much as I can. However,
Spirit needs to also pledge to remind me
Whenever I slip up, and it will likely be often.
I would not put any money on my short-term
Success, but I intend it to become a way of life,
Sooner or later – probably more later than sooner.
With a little help from our friends
Spirit tells me that, with help from friends and some others,
We can become more than we now are, in some areas of
Our life.
But, He cautions, this also requires intention. We must will
To do more, to be more, and to learn whatever it is that
We must learn to move beyond where we now are.
Before we can do even that, we must be consciously
Aware of what we are, where we are and what and
Where we intend to be.
We are all as one in purpose, He tells me, to express
What we are in essence, both individually and
Collectively, for the benefit of self, community, and Life.
We each see from a unique perspective
Spirit tells me that we each are as the stars in the sky,
Seeing each other star and the sky around it from
A unique perspective.
No star sees the sky or any other star from
An equal perspective. Is that fair?
He is so smug. I still like fair.
Knowledge is not Understanding
Spirit tells me that we live and share with each other
As teacher and student of wisdom, and that
Wisdom is understanding while knowledge alone
Is not.
Knowing what is what is not the same as knowing
Why what is what and how to use that knowing
To serve self, community, and Life.
A farmer usually knows more than what
To plant, when to plant, and where to plant.
Why requires understanding based on
Experience.
The same is true of compassion, He tells me.
The memories or personal pain compel us
To feel the pain of others, or we have not
Suffered enough. It’s as simple as that.
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