Vision Beyond
Sight
How is your trust holding up? Are you continuing to look at the world outside to determine how you feel inside? Are you running into the same issues over and again? Perhaps these experiences are not circumstantial? Perhaps you've been carrying these burdens and now it's time to face them?
Mayhem is foul to be sure, but, affirming it & holding on indicates an imbalance within: It affirms your belief in darkness over light. When we feel "wrong" ourselves, we can mistake what's "wrong" with what's "real".
So you've found another reason, or the same ones on auto-repeat, to belittle yourself: They're loud. They hurt. But, be assured, no negativity can diminish the actuality of you. If everything is imbued with Spirit equally, Spirit must also exist in regions of your so-deemed futility and IN YOU. We're playing the long game here: Love always prevails as the future resolves and reveals.
Throw any self-recrimination into the future where/when "apocatastasis"* will work its magic in sequence tying the future to the past in a big beautiful bow of the present. YOU are the LIGHT you're searching for... Let us shift into NOW by calling on the Source of all within you, that Force, bold dignified strong and definite, bringing you into the present contributing to the you yet to come! I celebrate you! I sing the body electric!
Pride of ego is not the same as proclaiming your spiritual heritage & inner beauty. Ego can estrange you from your real self (problematic as it's what sees you through every time). While spiritual umbilical cords can't be severed, succumbing to the ego's demands can feel like we're taking a knife to our own lifeline and that, of course, is a form of self-imposed suffering.
When we are bereft of love, suffering must follow. However painful, we never forfeit our right to bear our burdens with whatever dignity we can muster and, imperatively, the compassion Buddhism emphatically advocates. Our suffering is our own and shouldn't be compared to others'.
The root of suffering can be "desire" according to Buddhist doctrine, but, moving closer still to the heart of it, is the lack of heart. To honor one's own being is to honor that which created you. Always the work of getting our little selves out of the way and letting Love be our guide remains to be done.
In times of dogged inertia there can be no greater ally than LOVE. Our faith, our trust, must carry us forward even if we ourselves cannot. What benediction this could provide! First tuning/trusting in something Greater, consulting that Love at our core, engages the "parachute" setting (what you call upon when all other options have been denied or exhausted). This is the realm where miracles occur and -- I could use some more of those -- how 'bout you?
Being led by Divine intelligence, moment-to-moment, giving your choices over trusting it will steer you correctly (it cannot do otherwise) lets us look at challenges and obstacles through love, freeing us to capably bless and face them...
For, when we know what we're made of & backed by what can't we face? What can't we overcome?
Meanwhile, bear your sorrow with pride, despite uncertainty and duration, know you're worthy of your challenges. TRUST this current process is bringing into being a solution containing the know-how to move beyond it. Think on this: If you're increasingly recognizing your divine nature more than your human fallibility -- what good can't follow? You are creating good by accepting more good -- accepting YOU embody more good and both your faith and trust shall be rewarded in mysterious and wonderful ways to behold.
There is a Thai aphorism: " We cannot see the mountain for the strand of hair blocking it." Faith is like that mountain -- it's there, always there -- it's WE who become distracted by the nonsense blocking our view. Faith requiring proof YOU DEMAND according to YOUR TERMS is not faith. You're bargaining with the Divine and these are attempts at control engendering more suffering. If prayer's the last refuge of a scoundrel, faith is the respite of the soon-to-be redeemed. What's faith on a good day? Faith is what we need when we're lost in shadows of uncertainty, suffering for what might seem interminably.
Be certain: Even in this land of confusion remains the Grace of God. Faith joins you to the Source of Love so that that which is Greater becomes a real and absolute presence you can count on... Perhaps having faith, in spite of all contrarian, is its greatest reward. This is the faith illuminating the path forward, pointing invariably to one logical outcome and decisive action: To be the best most loving person you can every moment of every day knowing you've the wherewithall to do it -- circumstances be damned! Faith is always the better more intelligent choice. Can you imagine having this kind of faith? Well, why shouldn't you? Dare you kick those barriers down and allow the REAL YOU to come through RIGHT NOW?
The day is manifesting itself when faith will evolve into knowing --then know-how-- but only because of your faith right now! Your trust is a declaration: You are bigger braver stronger than any/all attempts to destroy you, from within OR without. All nihilation shall be greeted and annihilated through your Love in action! Do you know yet who you are? Do you not yet see your Power? A wise person once observed, "We do not see Faith with our eyes, we see it with our heart."
Look to the light within, past those strands of hair... It's there. It's always been there.
Mayhem is foul to be sure, but, affirming it & holding on indicates an imbalance within: It affirms your belief in darkness over light. When we feel "wrong" ourselves, we can mistake what's "wrong" with what's "real".
So you've found another reason, or the same ones on auto-repeat, to belittle yourself: They're loud. They hurt. But, be assured, no negativity can diminish the actuality of you. If everything is imbued with Spirit equally, Spirit must also exist in regions of your so-deemed futility and IN YOU. We're playing the long game here: Love always prevails as the future resolves and reveals.
Throw any self-recrimination into the future where/when "apocatastasis"* will work its magic in sequence tying the future to the past in a big beautiful bow of the present. YOU are the LIGHT you're searching for... Let us shift into NOW by calling on the Source of all within you, that Force, bold dignified strong and definite, bringing you into the present contributing to the you yet to come! I celebrate you! I sing the body electric!
Pride of ego is not the same as proclaiming your spiritual heritage & inner beauty. Ego can estrange you from your real self (problematic as it's what sees you through every time). While spiritual umbilical cords can't be severed, succumbing to the ego's demands can feel like we're taking a knife to our own lifeline and that, of course, is a form of self-imposed suffering.
When we are bereft of love, suffering must follow. However painful, we never forfeit our right to bear our burdens with whatever dignity we can muster and, imperatively, the compassion Buddhism emphatically advocates. Our suffering is our own and shouldn't be compared to others'.
The root of suffering can be "desire" according to Buddhist doctrine, but, moving closer still to the heart of it, is the lack of heart. To honor one's own being is to honor that which created you. Always the work of getting our little selves out of the way and letting Love be our guide remains to be done.
In times of dogged inertia there can be no greater ally than LOVE. Our faith, our trust, must carry us forward even if we ourselves cannot. What benediction this could provide! First tuning/trusting in something Greater, consulting that Love at our core, engages the "parachute" setting (what you call upon when all other options have been denied or exhausted). This is the realm where miracles occur and -- I could use some more of those -- how 'bout you?
Being led by Divine intelligence, moment-to-moment, giving your choices over trusting it will steer you correctly (it cannot do otherwise) lets us look at challenges and obstacles through love, freeing us to capably bless and face them...
For, when we know what we're made of & backed by what can't we face? What can't we overcome?
Meanwhile, bear your sorrow with pride, despite uncertainty and duration, know you're worthy of your challenges. TRUST this current process is bringing into being a solution containing the know-how to move beyond it. Think on this: If you're increasingly recognizing your divine nature more than your human fallibility -- what good can't follow? You are creating good by accepting more good -- accepting YOU embody more good and both your faith and trust shall be rewarded in mysterious and wonderful ways to behold.
There is a Thai aphorism: " We cannot see the mountain for the strand of hair blocking it." Faith is like that mountain -- it's there, always there -- it's WE who become distracted by the nonsense blocking our view. Faith requiring proof YOU DEMAND according to YOUR TERMS is not faith. You're bargaining with the Divine and these are attempts at control engendering more suffering. If prayer's the last refuge of a scoundrel, faith is the respite of the soon-to-be redeemed. What's faith on a good day? Faith is what we need when we're lost in shadows of uncertainty, suffering for what might seem interminably.
Be certain: Even in this land of confusion remains the Grace of God. Faith joins you to the Source of Love so that that which is Greater becomes a real and absolute presence you can count on... Perhaps having faith, in spite of all contrarian, is its greatest reward. This is the faith illuminating the path forward, pointing invariably to one logical outcome and decisive action: To be the best most loving person you can every moment of every day knowing you've the wherewithall to do it -- circumstances be damned! Faith is always the better more intelligent choice. Can you imagine having this kind of faith? Well, why shouldn't you? Dare you kick those barriers down and allow the REAL YOU to come through RIGHT NOW?
The day is manifesting itself when faith will evolve into knowing --then know-how-- but only because of your faith right now! Your trust is a declaration: You are bigger braver stronger than any/all attempts to destroy you, from within OR without. All nihilation shall be greeted and annihilated through your Love in action! Do you know yet who you are? Do you not yet see your Power? A wise person once observed, "We do not see Faith with our eyes, we see it with our heart."
Look to the light within, past those strands of hair... It's there. It's always been there.