You Exist.

 

Once you start to awaken, no one can ever claim you again for the old patterns. Now you realize how precious your time here is. You are no longer willing to squander your essence on undertakings that do not nourish your true self; your patience grows thin with tired talk and dead language. You see through the rosters of expectation which promise you safety and the confirmation of your outer identity. Now you are impatient for growth, willing to put yourself in the way of change. You want your work to become an expression of your gift. You want your relationship to voyage beyond the pallid frontiers to where the danger of transformation dwells.

When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so that you can begin to see. 

As Meister Eckhart says: Thoughts are our inner senses. 

When the inner senses are dull and blurred, you can see nothing in or of yourself; you become a respectable prisoner of received images. Now you realize that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty' and you undertake the difficult but beautiful path to freedom. On this journey, you begin to see how the sides of your heart that seemed awkward, contradictory and uneven are the places where the treasure lies hidden. 

You begin to become true to yourself. 

And as Shakespeare says in Hamlet: To thine own self be true, then as surely as night follows day, thou canst to no man be false.

 

The journey shows you that from this inner dedication you can reconstruct your own values and action. You develop from your own self-compassion a great compassion for others. You are no longer caught in the false game of judgment, comparison and assumption. More naked now than ever, you begin to feel truly alive. You begin to trust the music of your own soul; you have inherited treasure that no one will ever be able to take from you. At the deepest level, this adventure of growth is in fact a trans-figurative conversation with your own death. And when the time comes for you to leave, the view from your death bed will show a life of growth that gladdens the heart and takes away all fear.

-John O'Donohue © John O’Donohue. All rights reserved.  http://www.johnodonohue.com

Truth...be told.

 

The truth is revealed to you when you are ready to see and transform it. It comes to you as a reminder of where you were not standing in your power, were in fear or doubt or forgot your own divinity. It is not there to remind you of your imperfections, although that is what you might see. This is where you can find the perfection in the perceived imperfections, the rose among what may appear to be a pile of thorns. It is a very powerful realization that can free you from lifetimes of experiences in which you wanted to learn the lesson of truth. When you can see the truth you are ready for the awareness of your power. 

The truth of your past is not the truth of your present moment. 

The truth is revealed when you are ready to resolve your lessons and create new realities.

New Earth Energies

 

Our life on this planet is about learning.

Every situation in our life is an experience we asked to receive. 

Our beliefs, past thoughts, feelings, and experiences create a continuous and restrictive life pattern that manifests into our daily life. 

Releasing the old restrictive patterns by replenishing old energy with new vibrant energy in our system enhances our daily life and allows us to more easily receive clarification and direction towards manifesting our desired goals and dream life.

Our physical form is the most phenomenal miracle for all us on this planet. 

We take our physical life on this planet for granted and not fully appreciate our physical form or the beautiful planet Earth that is hosting us while we are here.

When we understand and accept that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, not human beings trying to become spiritual, our life's meaning changes. 

As spiritual beings we come from a realm of pure love and abundance of all (prosperity, joy, peace, freedom), with a co-creative power to instantly manifest whatever we desire. 

Our human life allows us to experience lessons at a practical level with feelings and emotions.

Every incident in our life is an experience that our Higher Spirit Self (Soul) wants us to feel with knowing.

The planet Earth is the practical lab for us to experience everything we have learned in the Spirit realm. This planet's matrix is made up of polarity, which requires experiencing opposite sides of each lesson. So, when we receive large sums of money (winning the lottery, or gains from stocks or business) we feel immense joy, love, gratitude and acceptance. To complete the lesson the opposite also has to be experienced. 

At some point a large financial loss occurs. The experience is the feeling we go through when this occurs. The normal feeling during a financial loss is depression, anxiety, stress and other strong negative feelings. 

We end up victimizing others and ourselves. 

These negative feelings develop into a deeper hole, which ends up worsening our situation. 

The objective is to graduate from the lesson and move on to the next lesson.

To graduate from the lesson we must feel joy, love, gratitude and acceptance in both experiences. 

To graduate from this specific lesson we must accept the lesson of financial loss, have gratitude and joy with love that we have experienced it. 

Upon full acceptance the loss will be short lived and we move on to the next lesson our Higher Self wants us to experience.

While we are experiencing our life's lessons on this planet, we need to understand that this life we are living is actually a drama for our Higher Self. 

We are the personality self and the main character in our play. All family members, friends and associates are part of our drama playing (friendly and unfriendly) roles to help us with our lessons. Graduation from each lesson is through love, compassion, gratitude and acceptance (no matter how severe the pain). 

Forgiveness comes through love and compassion. 

Being aware that each experience is part of our growth and that each lesson requires love compassion, gratitude and acceptance to complete, will help us flow through life much more easily with a better attitude.

All aspects of our life are experiences we have asked to experience for our growth. 

We have free will and choice at all times. 

Everything we go through in the physical life is through our own creation and doing. Every thought and feeling is registered. Our life path is structured by our beliefs, thoughts, feelings and past patterns ingrained in our system.

We are able to change our life paths by changing our beliefs, thoughts, feelings and past patterns ingrained in our system. We can change our thoughts and feelings to focus on more positive aspects. 

But how do we release our past restrictive patterns ingrained in our system? 

First, we have to understand that our life cycle is not linear. It is actually a circular flow of past, present and future. All past thoughts, experiences, and beliefs manifest our present situations. Our present situation is through our past reflection; this is carried and manifested into the future. This cycle is continuous throughout our whole life. 

The dream future we would like to manifest for ourselves is easier to attain once restricted past ingrained patterns are fully released and removed.  

Affirmation May Inspyre

I dedicate this one to Miss Inspyre and all others that question themselves~

Affirmation means acceptance of your own miraculous complexity. It means saying "yes" to your own being. It means acquiescing to your reality as a spirit in flesh. Within the framework of your own complexity you have the right to say no ' to certain situations, to express your desires, to communicate your feelings.

If you do so, then in the great flow and sweep of your eternal reality there will be an overall current of love and creativity that carries you. Affirmation is the acceptance of yourself in your present as the person that you are. Within that acceptance you may find qualities that you wish you did not have, or habits that annoy you. You must not expect to be "perfect." As mentioned earlier, your ideas of perfection mean a state of fulfillment beyond which there is no future growth, and no such state exists.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" Turn this around and say, "Love yourself as you love your neighbor, " for often you will recognize the goodness in another and ignore it in yourself. Some people believe there is a great merit and holy virtue in what they think of as humility. Therefore to be proud of oneself seems a sin, and in that frame of reference true affirmation of the self is impossible. Genuine self-pride is the loving recognition of your own integrity and value. True humility is based upon this affectionate regard for yourself, plus the recognition that you live in a universe in which all other beings also possess this undeniable individuality and self-worth.

False humility tells you that you are nothing. It often hides a distorted, puffed-up, denied self-pride, because no man or woman can really accept a theory that denies personal self-worth.

Fake humility can cause you to tear down the value of others, because if you accept no worth in yourself you cannot see it in anyone else either. True self-pride allows you to perceive the integrity of your fellow human beings and permits you to help them use their strengths. Many people make a great show out of helping others, for example, encouraging them to lean upon them. They believe this to be a quite holy, virtuous enterprise. Instead they are keeping other people from recognizing and using their own strengths and abilities.

Regardless of what you have been told, there is no merit in self-sacrifice. For one thing it is impossible. The self grows and develops. It cannot be annihilated. Usually, self-sacrifice means throwing the "burden" of yourself upon someone else and making it their responsibility.

A mother who says to her child, "I gave up my life for you, " is speaking nonsense. In basic terms such a mother believes, no matter what she says, that she did not have that much to give up, and the "giving up" gave her a life that she wanted.

A child who says, "I gave up my life for my parents and devoted myself to their care, " means, "I was afraid to live my own life, and afraid to let them live theirs. And so in 'giving up' my life I gained the life I wanted."

Love does not demand sacrifice. Those who fear to affirm their own being also fear to let others live for themselves. You do not help your children by keeping them chained to you, but you do not help your aged parents either by encouraging their sense of helplessness. The ordinary sense of communication given you through your creature hood, if spontaneously and honestly followed, would solve many of your problems. Only repressed communication leads to violence. The natural force of love is everywhere within you, and the normal methods of communication are always meant to bring you in greater contact with your fellow creatures.

Love yourselves and do yourselves just honor, and you will deal fairly with others. When you say "no, " or deny, you always do so because in your mind and feelings, a present situation, or a proposed one, falls far short of some ideal. The refusal is always in response to something that is considered, at least, to be a greater good. If you do not have too-rigid ideas of perfection, then ordinary denial serves a quite practical purpose. But never negate the present reality of yourself because you compare it to some idealized perfection.

Perfection is not being, for all being is in a state of becoming. This does not mean that all being is in a state of becoming perfect, but in a state of becoming more itself. All other emotions are based on love, and in one way or another they all relate to it, and all are methods of returning to it and expanding its capacities.

 

You must first love yourself before you love another.

By accepting yourself and joyfully being what you are, you fulfill your own abilities, and your simple presence can make others happy. You cannot hate yourself and love anyone else. It is impossible. You will instead project all the qualities you do not think you possess upon someone else, do them lip service, and hate the other individual for possessing them. Though you profess to love the other, you will try to undermine the very foundations of his or her being.

When you love others, you grant them their innate freedom and do not cravenly insist that they always attend you. There are no divisions to love. There is no basic difference between the love of a child for a parent, a parent for a child, a wife for a husband, a brother for a sister. There are only various expressions and characteristics of love, and all love affirms. It can accept deviations from the ideal vision without condemning them. It does not compare the practical state of the beloveds being with the idealized perceived.....one that is potential....

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