Peace in Mind

Minds at home in metaphors
of fire and brimstone making war
with cultural canons are ill prepared
to enter the peace seen in civilizations
guided and governed by the law of love.

Composure

The children of God cannot be reduced to any one line of inquiry nor constrained by 'religious' beliefs. Their intellectual acumen and spiritual poise is shown in the calm demeanor manifest amidst a 'dialogue' where ignorance attempts to overthrow reason, fear mounts an 'attack' on faith, and hate is seen there to resist its absorption by love .

Doing the Will of God

How do we 'do' the will of God?

Simply by sharing the inner life with him;
allowing the fruit of this union to blossom as it will.

Revelation: Seen & Unseen

The purpose of any revelation of God is to increase the capacity to experience love, receiving and giving such as readily as we inhale and exhale. Alas, the inclination to embrace any single 'revelation' while rejecting truths revealed in others is a habit worn throughout milennia of isolation, just such practice that is gradually yielding to the increased spiritual pressure to come forth from this bondage. Otherwise, the sure test of authenticity of any purported spiritual gift is not made in the machinations of mind but in the soulful demonstration of a life dominated by love.
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Dreams

The extraordinary "dream state grows proportionate to one's progress in the practice of spiritual attunement. Indeed, upon invitation, our seraphic and other celestial guides can enter our minds and our dreams. They have brought dreams to people in need of healing awareness because we mortals can sometimes become more aware of divine love through this means than others. However, they do not delve into areas where we would shut them off, but only as we open up and give permission. They work with our angels, for these seraphic guardians are fully aware of all that goes on with us.

The dream state is a complicated matter. Though unseen friends may inject something into a dream, almost always other factors are involved and the celestial efforts become quite jumbled, and this is why dreams often do not make any sense. We need not be overly concerned with dreams for sometimes they will simply be telling us something about our stress points. Our turmoil may bring up points in a dream that may be remembered, or it may have something to do with our life style that can bring expanded awareness in order to correct something. However, rather than putting too much focus upon dreams, it would be more helpful to simply focus upon our life with God. Regardless, know many work with us any way they can. They are with us always and take every opportunity to assist through the openings they see available which we freely give them to broaden our horizons and deepen our experience.
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Harmonic Motion

To move with life in such a way,
that butterflies enjoin our sways,
adorning every finger as a ring,
while about the head they sing,
'til descending upon our crown,
a sign of peace that we've found.
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Beara Peninsula

It was a perfect day to follow the Kenmare River down to the Beara Peninsula along a road garnished with the richest ferns growing within and beneath a thick wood which broke often enough to gradually acquaint me with the spectacular water flowing no longer as a river, but swelling as an approaching sea, graced with vivid blues and greens translucent though not transparent, which when fully exposed by a farewell to the wooded land commanded more attention than the road therefore requiring periodic stops to hike and venture to stand along various outcroppings of deeply furrowed, aged rocky faces, staring out to sea, braced against its pounding thunder, sending water exploding, and my eyes, skyward to witness rain crossing over some mountaintops in the distance while simultaneously, sunlight illumined others, and where they commingled, a rainbow, whose otherwise alien colors began its climb from the ground only to disappear early in its arcing movement, dissolving in the opacity of a heavy mist still hiding the peaks of earth which left me wondering, where, or do, they end?
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Planetary Birth

Our world is being reborn. We are witnessing around us much of the mess that attends any birth, and those who have borne children, who have witnessed the apparent peril of such a passage, know that joy eclipses fear upon seeing the face of the beloved child. In this child that we are birthing together, we are making love present here as it is throughout our cosmic home.
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Dialogue

Oftentimes, we think of dialogue perhaps as a better conversation, but there is much more to it. Genuine dialogue is a conversation with a center, not sides. It is a way of taking the energy or our differences and channeling it toward something that has never been created before. It lifts us out of polarization and into a greater common sense, and is thereby a means for accessing the intelligence and coordinated power of groups of people.
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Singularity of Experience

Any lesson about divine love can be seen as divergent, but the experience of such love is singular and yields a grace representative of its unlimited and open Source seen in the lives of our siblings. The Source of this love encourages us to remain focused on expanding this light rather than battling our perceptions of darkness knowing the former is eternal while the latter is passing away in the course of ascension that finds us knowing more deeply it is in teaching we learn, in giving we receive, and in sharing we secure our lasting treasure.
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Currency

Fear is our resistance;
faith is our current,
and love the voltage.
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What Light?

Knowing 'about' the universe can never equal the value of our contribution to its ongoing evolution that is our own co-creation occurring in the context of time। While olden myths of origin have been succeeded by those more adequate to trace the contours of a cosmos, these have only framed deeper questions which lay still before and within us. Namely, who are we having wondered so well and answered in kind, to see the stars, their form and structure, bearing the signature of our own design? What light is this within us lay, seeing through us this light around us, holding sway; what meanings await our shared construction, what value remains hidden deep within our hearts, we who so often hold only matters of fact in mind? Liberated seemingly, from illusions of religion, what wisdom is yet to be born from our love divine?
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Reasonable Faith

Through living 'faith', sincere religionists experience the limitless 'value' of communion or 'at-one-ment' with the Source of all that is, ever was, or will be that is fully present in this moment - now. The 'reason' of genuine science allows finite minds to analyze the infinitesimal elements of the infinite in a progressive exploration of 'fact' whose re-cognition is made meaningful by the integration of these discrete realms of human thought and experience through the wisdom of philosophy, that intellectual labor weaving as one the part and whole, cause and effect, origin and destiny, beginning and end of every human endeavor to 'know' the truth that sets us free.
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Only Love

"Only is love"- living forever in and through countless offspring of its Source for whom survival is never in question. For having witnessed love overcoming all things, enduring all things, embracing all things, forgiving all things, proceeding confidently in the consummation of its desire to be fully present in all things; to become self evident, that God is love.
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Morning Song

As we awaken, grumbling perhaps a bit here and there, coughing maybe while clearing our throats, rubbing our sleepy eyes as we adjust to morning's light, let us listen to the soft and subtle tenderness of this moment and join all creation awakening with us.

And when we hear voices teaching one thing or another, let us ask ourselves, do they offer a simple peace or confusing distractions? Are we offered complex meditations and prayers and 'things' to do, or are we simply reminded of the truth we are and invited to rest in it? Are we told of a need to go on exotic pilgrimages, or do we hear the reminder that as we make our cup of morning tea, all of Heaven is present if we but remember our Source who is making us even as we make our daily rounds.

Focus! For in this moment there is coming forth a multitude of those who would be teachers of 'enlightenment', who will guide us into all knowledge. Let's look carefully to see; do they demand that we follow them? Do they demand that we give up our own discernment, or do they encourage us to look deep within?

Let's use time constructively. We can heal our hearts, we can practice forgiveness, we can awaken. We need to because the planet is doing the same, and if we don't awaken with her, we won't be able to handle her light, and we'll need to move to a different neighborhood. That's all. No judgment, no fear, no being struck dead by God, only a simple offering. We can awaken now, or we can awaken somewhere else, later.

We are seeing on the planet a polarization that is occurring as every soul is being confronted by the decision to heal and to forgive or to hold onto the idols of woundedness and judgement. The more souls that choose to awaken and to heal, the less need for shocking circumstances to gain our attention and easier will be the transition for the planet.

As we awaken, let us greet each other with love।
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Doing God's Will?

It is not easy for us to know what the will of God is, and too often we think that doing God’s will means to sacrifice all things that give us pleasure, that we need to give up all enjoyment and live an austere life though happily, more are conscious this is not the case. Obviously, doing God’s will has often been misunderstood, and while there appears sacrifice involved, it is only in bidding farewell to the animal in us.

Doing God’s will does entail overcoming the lower animal instincts through self-discipline to self-mastery. This is not easy, but a strong character emerges which can withstand temptations and is not easily swayed by the sophistries of others. God’s will always seeks the way with the most love and respect for all others living simply by the golden rule, doing to others as we ourselves would like to be treated.

In Jesus we see an exemplary life embodying the golden rule, always obedient to the will of our Father in heaven. As this golden rule is found in all religions, it is unfortunate this is not practiced throughout the world. We know Jesus always exhorted his followers to love one another. Well, looking around us, we find wars that have not ceased and among families, neighbors, and friends this blight carries on as the cave mentality persists largely because greed and material tendencies have mostly outstripped and replaced religion and its practices.

Too little attention is given to training in character growth as few of us pay attention to the still small voice of God within. Certainly, lip-service is paid when people dutifully attend churches, synagogues, mosques, tabernacles, etc. or their respective 'bible' studies paying their apparent dues thinking this is enough but contributing then to the illusiion that all is right in their world while avoiding the search for God within where dwells the meaning and purpose of life. Why? Because it seems initially much easier to have others do our thinking for us.

Surely, the time has come and is now, to take responsibility for our own thoughts and actions, and ask within what God’s will is, and how to surrender our self-will and discover a path filled with love and goodwill toward all others। One person at a time is how our world will be changed as the benign virus of love spreads all over the planet. Let us ponder how we will do God’s will today, and act with an open and honest heart knowing we have the help of many who are unseen but always available to encourage us.
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Waves of Time

While eternity is one, the consciousness of time functions as the 'perception' of sequential motion. Such events unfold contingent upon a nearly infinite vector field of influences that when modeled mathematically produce a range of probabilistic scenarios. These 'illusions' are the tool of every art used to assist anyone lacking vision to probe the surface of the phenomenal realm to see the depth of noumenal reality we are, even now, in truth and spirit.

As it has been said that vision is the art of seeing the invisible, this could be expanded to include a larger range of senses, including the handful possessed by us humans, to feel this very moment what otherwise we know only by faith is living in and through us।
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Predicate of Love

Subject and object in relationship through the predicate of love is a function of multiplicity acting as one. On the human level, this subject and object entwined as lover and beloved, male and female, engender a union bearing the fruit of such affection, living children whose presence enlivens the world with countless future possibilities already embedded in this present moment. As in the mortal frame, so in dimensions far exceeding our imaginations where greater levels of love's manifestation is born through unions of more expansive minds and spirits whose luminosity is undiminished by the density of material minds struggling to know in a diminutive conceptual framework what the human heart knows with ease, that all of us are offspring of a divine affection, whose Father and Mother sends us forth to worlds only beginning to awaken to the grandeur of our cosmic home that is governed by a perfect love limited solely by our exposure to the same। And as our capacity to expose ourselves to this light of life within us grows, the image of who we are emerges in these emulsions of living experience to reveal the image of God living in and through us.
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Resurrection of Icarus

See mountains melting into waves,
waters over which we travel many days,
with no end in sight, and no turning back
from our ascendant journey to light,
that rides on an elusive horizon,
kissing each rising crest,
that would crush us
if we didn't give our best,
to surmount the swelling tide,
filling any emptiness inside,
immersing us in lighter elements
like flying fish who forsook a return dive.
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Exotic Beliefs

However distant any beliefs may appear, our souls, minds, and spirits are joined indivisibly in our Father's infinite love even if such objective reality is known through the grace of his subjective fragment warming our hearts while illuminating our minds.
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