As the past few months have joyfully yet busily ambled by, I have been feeling a familiar and friendly call from my Soul to claim some time from activity, and allow for some concentrated receptivity. I was reflecting recently on an intention I have held for several years to claim the month of August as “off and inner time.” I realized that though I have held the intention in my attention, I have never followed through with the actual action in terms of my calendar. Well, my friends: this is the year! I am faithfully following the prompting of my deepest heart, and devoting August 2008 to BEINGNESS. I will not be coaching, writing, lecturing, or blogging. I will be meditating, staring, floating in the pool, playing, traveling, and basking in the inactivity that renews my Soul and invigorates the creative me.
I learned a while ago that when my Source is calling me to stop, it is wise and prudent to follow that prompt. There were certainly times when I sped right through such inspiration, and always with less than beneficial results. When I am feeling pulled to listen more deeply, there is always a great gift in centering in the depths, and thus hearing what I am in need of hearing. I gave a lecture the other evening in which I described my own personal SOS: Stop, Open, Surrender. Our culture is racing ahead at break-neck speeds, and we are in need of a global SOS. I am so grateful to be at a point in my emergence when I will actually listen and heed the counsel of my Soulful Self. Not that at times it doesn’t make me a little nervous. My mind does a “mini-freak out” at the thought of a month without work. That’s okay. I can watch the freak out, and listen in below it. If I am being guided to take a break, I know that the Source of that Guidance will provide what I need to agree with that call. It can actually be great fun seeing how the ever-creative Universe orchestrates that fulfillment.
In the land of my birth, we often call unexpected breaks “ GONE FISHIN.” Well, I guess that’s what I am doing. I am going’ fishing. Not literally, of course. But I am going to sit back, drop the line of my attention into the depths of my being, and see what inspirations come to the surface. Leaning back in “no-think,” I will see what is next for this Soul-on earth. I will taste deeply of my days, and live my love out loud. If you see me on the bank, give a shout, will you? Maybe we could sit a while and just stare together.
Have a great August.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
JULY RADICAL EXPRESSION
If you have been around my teachings with any regularity, you will know that I love acronyms. One day several years ago now, I simply started thinking in them, and seeing them where no one else seemed to notice. I find them to be a wonderful way of calling important principles into my awareness, and they have been a fun and often-profound teaching tool for me and for others. It has been a practice for me in the past few years to tap into my inspired heart-space, and allow an acronym theme to arise that guides me through my years, and also through each month. I rarely share these with others, but the one I chose for July feels too good to keep to myself!
My theme for the month of July is: JOYFUL UNLIMITED LOVING YES! I have long resonated with the thematic behind our nations birthday celebration, and FREEDOM is perhaps my most compelling value. As I reflect upon the deeper meaning of INDEPENDENCE, for individuals as well as for our country, I appreciate more and more the fundamentals upon which this United States was established. LIBERTY and JUSTICE are key components in the functioning of a democracy, and the same holds true for the spiritual engagement of we as individuals. We often hear the Sacred Truth that all people are ONE, and it is a vital part of our emergence to learn this in a deep and practical way. Theory will not heal the separation that has divided the human race. FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, LIBERTY, and JUSTICE, are the right of all people. In order to embody and to extend that Truth, we must first know those values for ourselves.
In order to know at depth an intimate connection that leads to ONE, autonomy must be firmly established within the individual making that choice. To come into a real and true ability to choose requires a quantum leap in consciousness. To be truly FREE, INDEPENDENT, AT LIBERTY, and to become a stand for JUSTICE, we must integrate and embody what we say we believe in a stable and mature way that demands rigorous honesty and deep integrity. We must let go the notion that other people and outer circumstances are dictating or coloring our inner atmosphere. We must know that we were given in our creation absolute FREEDOM. Mass consciousness need not determine individual consciousness. In that regard, INDEPENDENCE becomes crucial in how we choose to live our spiritual inheritance. LIBERTY is holding to Truth, even when the masses are holding to the illusions of fearful outer appearances. We are invited to recognize the Divine JUSTICE that operates as Law without fail, and to know that this JUSTICE is far superior to human logic.
As these values become firmly established in our consciousness, our experience of this ONE Life becomes more and more JOYFUL and UNLIMITED. Our FREE and INDEPENDENT choice to LOVE leads us to align and to flow with the Universal YES that is the Cosmic Dynamic. Steeped in Divine autonomy, our consciousness literally becomes a space of YES. There is nothing to fight or defend. True FREEDOM is the ability to say YES to whatever is in the moment. And being a space of present moment YES will always lead to JOYFUL UNLIMITED LOVE.
My theme for the month of July is: JOYFUL UNLIMITED LOVING YES! I have long resonated with the thematic behind our nations birthday celebration, and FREEDOM is perhaps my most compelling value. As I reflect upon the deeper meaning of INDEPENDENCE, for individuals as well as for our country, I appreciate more and more the fundamentals upon which this United States was established. LIBERTY and JUSTICE are key components in the functioning of a democracy, and the same holds true for the spiritual engagement of we as individuals. We often hear the Sacred Truth that all people are ONE, and it is a vital part of our emergence to learn this in a deep and practical way. Theory will not heal the separation that has divided the human race. FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, LIBERTY, and JUSTICE, are the right of all people. In order to embody and to extend that Truth, we must first know those values for ourselves.
In order to know at depth an intimate connection that leads to ONE, autonomy must be firmly established within the individual making that choice. To come into a real and true ability to choose requires a quantum leap in consciousness. To be truly FREE, INDEPENDENT, AT LIBERTY, and to become a stand for JUSTICE, we must integrate and embody what we say we believe in a stable and mature way that demands rigorous honesty and deep integrity. We must let go the notion that other people and outer circumstances are dictating or coloring our inner atmosphere. We must know that we were given in our creation absolute FREEDOM. Mass consciousness need not determine individual consciousness. In that regard, INDEPENDENCE becomes crucial in how we choose to live our spiritual inheritance. LIBERTY is holding to Truth, even when the masses are holding to the illusions of fearful outer appearances. We are invited to recognize the Divine JUSTICE that operates as Law without fail, and to know that this JUSTICE is far superior to human logic.
As these values become firmly established in our consciousness, our experience of this ONE Life becomes more and more JOYFUL and UNLIMITED. Our FREE and INDEPENDENT choice to LOVE leads us to align and to flow with the Universal YES that is the Cosmic Dynamic. Steeped in Divine autonomy, our consciousness literally becomes a space of YES. There is nothing to fight or defend. True FREEDOM is the ability to say YES to whatever is in the moment. And being a space of present moment YES will always lead to JOYFUL UNLIMITED LOVE.
I invite you to join me this month in a devotion to JOYFUL UNLIMITED LOVING YES! FREEDOM is a right and a privilege, and one that bears a responsibility. As we commit ourselves to establishing and maintaining an inner space of Universal FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, all people are lifted as ONE by those values. It is a choice that’s time has come. And that is cause for great, great JOY.
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