Tag: everyday sublime

* Gratitude for visions of glory as the new normal *

Potable peace

2013 – Year of my Life

In recent years, life has been flooding and flooding in.

In an intense Shamanic Healing, I was lead to envision my ancient defences. I saw they had ceased to serve their purpose. I took hands to them in all courage and I broke at them till they melted and then there was no obstacle between me and the world, only the world with me!

I have been able to pick up the many strands of spiritual thought and intellectual understanding that had accumulated in me untarnished over decades.

I began immediately to see their interconnectedness. These separate strands gathered self-organising and are even now still weaving themselves into whole tapestries.

This natural recombination of forgotten threads into treasures of meaning will never end!

I am blessed to have this process of learning and discovery continuing on and on with help from the magnificent wealth of positive inspiration I find every day in Facebook.

Most specially I am deeply grateful that I am learning how to re-integrate into the everyday but sublime world through close communion with a few friends, many of whom are also Biodanzers.

For this unending bounty, glorious in its new and welcome normality, I am truly grateful.

In some shape or form, we all carry deep inside us our loving hearts, which are what literally keep us alive, but which, in a real sense, are our own tiny heritage from the far greater power and peace and love from which we spring into being, and to which we return.

And some hearts also carry the weight, the pain of conflict. We do not yet see the pointlessness of our individual fight against misleading distractions and misdirected wanting. Some envision through their clouds of unknowing the universal truths our hearts always want to teach us about and lead us back to!

It is hard not to visualise this fight inside as an external storm or battle or even to identify it as an outside aggressor. After all, hate is love turned inside out.

Came the day, the awareness arrived that my struggles need not continue, because I was fighting only myself, that was when love, and not only love, but flat-calm oceans of potable peace, made their presence known in me.

It took a fraction under 67 years to be enveloped in this heavenly haven of peace.

* Gratitude for visions of glory as the new normal *

Joy-in-residence such as this will not change my engagement with the outside world, but I resolve to be entirely present to it for comfort, for healing, for loving connection, and for compassion, forever and ever

~ Love is present EveryNow

More than surviving

The everyday sublime

Beyond survival

I owe an immense debt of gratitude and respect to my inner child who had protected me by drawing on his own primitive source of love. He built defensive fortifications. These served me very well as a necessary place in which to survive.

It was not so much a place of darkness, as a place sequestered from “light”. In truth, there is no darkness, only a passing in front of light. I am talking about the light of human connection, and indeed all forms, from simple conversation to the most universally revered sacred connections.

When those first cracks of light had started pouring into my own dark space, I believed – as is probably natural – that I was finding something exciting outside of myself, when in reality all along what was being revealed to me was my own marvellous light!

For more than half a century, I lived on in the dark. I know I am far from having been alone in spending time at one remove from the full experience of living life in all its abundance and glory.

I knew about the majesty of light and peace, and about the love that can take root and flourish in it. But I neither saw nor yet recognised my own portion of light directly.

The most amazing thing is, when I am fully present in my own light, it connects healthily with the light of others, and in so doing we quite simply reflect each other’s light.

Each time we allow this to happen, with the courage of open hearts, we receive a beautiful and healing reminder of the brightness of our own light.

This is truly it – for me, for us, for the world. We are beacons of light and our challenge is to realise that the light we see outside is a reflection of the light we are inside.

So now, I can be a worshipper as I move in the world of the everyday sublime, in reverent awe at the joy of the little “ten thousand” things all around me wherever I go.

These continual acts of reflective worship continue to allow the light of my original love to shine out, and let it keep shining.

From here, without fear or harm, I can acknowledge another’s light by reflecting to them what they see mirrored in me.

I remember always, respect and honour always – that this is their own light and they are the guardian of their own light.

I do believe the light within all sentient beings has no beginning and no end and I believe it is our connection to the eternal, the divine, the universal vector of all life everywhere

~ Love is present  E v e r yN o w