Spirit tells me that one of us seems to be unaware of
Where we are or where we are going, or
How we have planned to get there.
Planned? I don’t remember planning
This route through life.
There simply has to be
An easier way.
Perhaps there are ten thousand
Easier ways, He tells me, but
This is your/our way.
Did we draw straws or roll dice?
Neither of the above. Our way is
A gift that we have given to
Ourselves.
How? and Why?
Free will or, rather, the price
Or consequence of such.
Spirit tells me that repetition of
Similar experiences is not always
Enough to teach us the lessons
They might have taught us if
We had reflected or meditated on
Their cause and consequence, and
Considered how a different
Approach might have had
A different result.
Perhaps, He tells me, if we had
Put less salt into the soup, then,
A richer flavour of the soup’s
Contents could have been
Experienced.
Whether altering our approach,
Our response, can never be known,
For sure, until we try.
Experiment with your life,
He tells me, but in an
Intelligent way.
Spirit tells me that
New beginnings require endings.
We each must learn
Through experience, how far
We can go in making
Concessions to please others,
For whatever reasons.
There is a limit, He tells me,
That only experience can
Teach us.
When it becomes more painful
To hold onto than to let go, then
A chapter in our Life ends, and
A new one begins.
Even then, we may still be
Involved with whomever or
Whatever we have let go of, But
It will never again be as it
Once never was.
Spirit tells me of a certain woman He knows,
Better than she knows herself, who,
Lived a lie. To all she knew or
Thought she knew, she was a fool,
A simple fool who could not, or
Would not face the truth, and then
Something happened, or did it,
And, if it did, then how and why.
We only see what we see and know
What we know, and we hardly know
Ourselves, so how can we dare
To think that we can know
Someone else.
She was aware, Spirit tells me, of
Being considered a simple fool, and
She played that game, buying time,
Until the fear of facing the truth,
Her truth, would become less than
The pain of living a lie. And,
She seemed to know, or
At least trusted that it was
Only a matter of time, and that
Time was on her side, and
It was, and is, and, so it is
With everyone.
Spirit tells me that
All perennial wisdom began
As a one-to-one
Grass roots movement.
Our way is a new way,
A new way to the old way,
Spirit tells me, and
As the old ways began,
It too, is, for now,
A one-to-one grass roots
Way. Help Me. Help Us
To spread our message
Up and out to the world.
The whole idea scares me.
I surely was not designed
To be part of such a mission.
Give me a chance, Spirit asks,
To prove I can do it, My way.
A top-down message
He tells me, encourages
Corruption, dependency, and
Materialistic leaders.
Perhaps it is my destiny to be
A simple follower, but
I must believe in
My Spirit Teacher,
Even if somewhat
Reluctantly.
Spirit tells me that compassion flows
When it does, as a pressure gradient,
In response to a recognition of
Suffering, as that suffering flows
Back to us, to be relieved by
The compassion that we send
To those for whom we care for,
When we recognize their pain.
We may pity the plight of whomever,
And be thankful that we do not share
Their pain. but, claims Spirit,
When we feel compassion, we
Not only recognize the pain,
We feel it as we would our own.
Rules can teach us, or try to,
To feel pity for people or animals,
In distress, but, only personal
Experience can teach us
Compassion. It is
A precious gift we give, and in
The giving, we share a common
Bond. Compassion expresses
Awareness of having suffered, and
We share that experience with those
For whom we feel compassion.
Why do we feel compassion? We
Know the pain and, perhaps we
Suffered more than the one for
Whom we feel compassion, because
Perhaps we suffered alone, and
Could not Wish that pain
On those we care for, whether
We know them or not.
Spirit tells me that the rules of Life are
Not nearly as simple as
Some would have us believe.
The Golden Rule that we learned
As children – to do unto others as
We would have them do unto us
Is too general to easily apply in
Most specific situations we
Experience as adults.
A wide range of responses
Need to be learned in order to
Appropriately respond to
The wide range of situations we
Experience in daily life.
I ask Spirit if there is
A mathematical formula to
Determine an ideal response
In any given situation.
Spirit tells me that
My personal response to any
Situation must necessarily
Express the quality of
My self-awareness.
I understand that to suggest
There is no ideal response.
Spirit’s response: Whatever works.
Energy flows or it does not.
And, it does.
After the show is over, when I finally leave
The stage of human life; after a
Wild and glorious celebration,
I know that I will collapse into
A long, deep and well-earned,
More or less, sleep.
Then I expect to awaken to
A reunion with loved ones
And learn to adapt to living within
A loving, all-inclusive and
Non-threatening relationship
With family and friends,
Not necessarily those whom I
Attempted to develop
Meaningful relationships with, here,
In the necessarily heavy atmosphere
Of matter.
Then I will ask Spirit, if I can find him,
What was it all about;?
If physical reality is a school,
Then what did I learn?
What was I expected to learn?
How was I expected to learn
Whatever, and why?
I always needed to know why.
Spirit tells me – perhaps He tells me now
So He will not have to face me later.
The purpose of physical experience
Is to teach us how to live
In community with all life, as if
We were one, and we are.
Spirit tells me that the power of attraction is
A Universal Law, but it’s highest purpose is
To inspire everyone to reach for
The best within themselves, not to
Gratify greed and lust.
Moisture in the atmosphere
Is attracted to and attracts
Moisture in the atmosphere,
Without consciously wishing to.
An alien, Spirit suggests,
Might suppose that shoppers are
Attracted to each other when
They come together for
A mutual purpose, to shop.
The power of attraction,
Spirit continues, is a
Magnetic-type force, in which
The prize attract us.
We do not attract the prize.
Spirit tells me that we must transcend
The cultural mind-set that we were
Born into, and raised within. We are,
He tells me, as conditioned as
The countless millions of people
Living in other societies.
The socially-acceptable way of living
In our own culture may differ from
That of other cultures, but their people are
No less and no more conditioned
Than we are, Only the rules are
Different.
But, Spirit cautions, though some of us
Can and must liberate ourselves
From group-think, we must also
Be aware that freedom from one
Form of unacceptable social conditioning
Does not necessarily result in a better
Way of life. Tyranny has a history of
Being replaced with another tyranny.
Those of us who must transcend our
Social conditioning, for whatever reason,
Have a sacred duty not to liberate
Too many others.
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