Inspirations
Inspirations
Artwork by Janaka
Inspiration # 1
"It’s
OK"
by Janaka
Dear friend,
it’s OK
that you are mesmerized by those full breasts
and want to stroke those smooth legs
and to taste those sweet lips.
However, none of it will satisfy you.
Do not be surprised that one day
you will wake up and see
that those breasts are already sagging
and those legs are a little rough and hairy
and those lips have the taste of ashes of a funeral pyre.
It’s OK.
It’s exactly what is supposed to be.
‘Why?’ you wail.
Because the body is not what you want.
It is only a corpse
that you have made alive
with ghostly images of the past,
of what your parents,
elders and peers,
and all those advertisements,
movies and books,
have created in your mind
of where love you’ll find.
The veil is simply lifting.
It is time to wake up
and see beyond the meat;
beyond the shifting images.
And see the Beloved,
Who is Beauty Eternal,
waiting with open arms.
Do you think those breasts
you grab at are wondrous?
Just wait until you dive into the Beloved!
Janaka currently lives in the Monterey Bay Area in California where he is a
Waldorf teacher, artist, writer and tarot reader. He is the author of ‘Silent
Ripples: Parables for the Soul’ and ‘Footprints Along the Shore of an Incoming
Tide.’ He can be reached at janaka_om@yahoo.com
or at 831-484-2354 to order books, set up an appointment to see his art work or for a
tarot reading.
 
 
Inspiration # 2
"The
Warrior's Creed"
by Stuart Wilde
This is a prayer by an anonymous 14 Century Samurai that Stuart used
to read to people at dawn at the Warrior’s Wisdom Seminars.
I have no parents: I make heaven and earth my parents.
I have no home: I make awareness my home.
I have no life or death: I make the tides of breathing my life and death.
I have no divine power: I make honesty my divine power.
I have no means: I make understanding my means.
I have no magic secrets: I make character my magic secret.
I have no body: I make endurance my body.
I have no eyes: I make the flash of lightening my eyes.
I have no ears: I make sensibility my ears.
I have no limbs: I make promptness my limbs.
I have no strategy: I make 'unshadowed by thought' my strategy.
I have no design: I make 'seizing opportunity by the forelock' my design.
I have no miracles: I make right-action my miracles.
I have no principles: I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.
I have no tactics: I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
I have no talents: I make ready wit my talent.
I have no friends: I make my mind my friend.
I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy.
I have no armour: I make benevolence and righteousness my armour.
I have no castle: I make immovable-mind my castle.
I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.
Author and lecturer Stuart Wilde is one of the
real characters of the self-help, human potential movement. His style is humorous,
controversial, poignant and transformational. He has written 11 books, including those
that make up the very successful Taos Quintet, which are considered classics in
their genre. They are: Affirmations, The Force, Miracles, The Quickening and The
Trick to Money Is Having Some. Stuart's books have been translated into 12 languages.
Inspiration # 3
"A Wish
For Dolphins"
by Igor Mikhailusenko
The Planet spins,
The Ocean grins,
The Love for Natutre always wins !
Let all the Dolphines swim in peace
And meet en route a sunny breeze !
--- Igor Mikhailusenko
world peace poet,
Moscow, Russia.
Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street
House 63, Apartment 87
MOSCOW 123056, RUSSIA.
Telephone: 7(095) 251-55-45
E-mail: mig@technoserv.ru
Website: http://www.tween.org/IgorMikhailusenko.html
Inspiration # 4
"Seeds of
Goodness"
by Michael Levy
Gentle beings riding........ on the wings of
time,
Harmonious cords........ forever upwards they do climb,
Encountering bliss ...........with every note they entwine,
The seeds of goodness.................. grown on Holy vine.
Celestial crops ...........on Planet Eden's soil,
Souls sprouting human form.......... from spirits magic foil,
Clouds of volcanic ash creation on the boil,
Days of splendor within a wizards joyful toil.
Lightening of might injecting intelligence of light,
Rainbows of joy..............infusing colors beyond sight,
Prisms in raindrops.............gems of mystical wealth,
Birds of paradise......... in fields of infinite health,
Simplicity of life in meadows of pure potential,
Exotic senses explode .........in the juices of the sensual
Gardens of delight...........happiness grown in God's strength,
Bouquet of beauty embedded............... in one's own true self.
Michael's Articles and Poems are now on over 1500 web sites, journals
and magazines. His latest story has just been published in "Chicken Soup for the
Jewish Soul" He has appeared on hundreds of radio programs, Channel 4TV in the U K
and recently a live interview on NBC 6 in the USA. Michael was a recent guest on the
Howard Stern Show. He is a keynote guest speaker and was a guest lecturer (Finance, Health
and Inspiration) on the maiden transatlantic voyage of the Norwegian Sun. Michael's new
book "Invest With A Genius" was published on the 28th January 2002.
Contact for an Interview or book review.
Michael Levy
mikmikl@aol.com
http://www.pointoflife.com
Fort Lauderdale.
Florida. 33308
Inspiration # 5
"Bolts of
Blue"
by Michael Levy
In the stillness of a moonlit night,
silvery beams of glistening light,
the eerie movements of formless clouds,
brief glimpses of their shadowy shrouds. In blackness enveloped we surrender to the night,
the velvet warmth protecting our sleeping flight,
the darkness unfolds a dream of Spirit's vision,
a time not separated by mankind's division. In dreams I am without a care,
ecstatic sensations without form, an air of flair,
waltzing between the stars, serenading violin strings,
surrounded by hosts of goodness, joy flying on wings. Kingly visions up above, in an
endless stream of love,
hearts of majestic lions, messages within a dove,
rocking gently in the cradle of creation,
the electrifying brilliance, a magnificent sensation. Bolts of power from "waves of
blue,"
dimensions in space and time, all thoughts renew,
illusions of imagination transforming to creativity,
essence of the dream, designed by a Soul let free.
© October 1998 M. L.
Michael's Articles and Poems are now on over 1500 web sites,
journals and magazines. His latest story has just been published in "Chicken Soup for
the Jewish Soul" He has appeared on hundreds of radio programs, Channel 4TV in the U
K and recently a live interview on NBC 6 in the USA. Michael was a recent guest on the
Howard Stern Show. He is a keynote guest speaker and was a guest lecturer (Finance, Health
and Inspiration) on the maiden transatlantic voyage of the Norwegian Sun. Michael's new
book "Invest With A Genius" was published on the 28th January 2002.
Contact for an Interview or book review.
Michael Levy
mikmikl@aol.com
http://www.pointoflife.com
Fort Lauderdale.
Florida. 33308
Inspiration # 6
"Go To
Hell"
by Janaka
Do you think
that by creating your own little heaven
You can find God?
By finding your Soul Mate
Who will agree to everything you say?
By having a lovely castle
With flowers all around
And No Trespassing signs that people will actually obey?
By having children who will do what you say,
And earn the honor of becoming a bumper sticker
On the rear of your car?
By having a sculpted body,
Beautiful enough to be in an underwear ad?
By going on cruises to visit happy islands;
By attending spas with their facial creams and boiling water?
By belonging to a community
Where everyone knows your name,
And may even carry your bags?
Go to hell!
that’s right.
You heard Janaka's words.
You must go to hell
And pull down your pants
To sit upon the steaming coals,
Open wide your mouth
And swallow fish hooks
That tear apart your guts,
And plunge heart first
Into a pit of stakes.
And as you feel yourself
Pierced and burned
And ripped apart
Smile
Laugh
Chant
And sing.
And like a spider’s web
Licked by a candle flame,
The horrors will disappear.
And there will stand the Beloved,
Offering a bowl of tears
To wash your cuts,
To sooth your stomach,
And to cool your burns.
So smile
Laugh
Chant
And sing.
And go straight to hell
If you see those doors open,
With the Name upon your lips.
What you call your hell
Will vanish
Into the Light
Of the beloved’s Heaven.
Janaka has been to hell.
A hell he created
With plenty of time on his hands.
And so many dear ones
Were kind enough to play their parts.
Now holding hands with my Beloved,
Where are my scorched footprints to be found?
What a joke!
Janaka currently lives in the Monterey Bay Area in
California where he is a Waldorf teacher, artist, writer and tarot reader. He is the
author of the books ‘Silent Ripples: Parables for the Soul’ and ‘Footprints
Along the Shore of an Incoming Tide.’ He can be reached at janaka_om@yahoo.com or at 831-484-2354 to order
books, set up an appointment to see his art work or for a tarot reading.
Inspiration # 7
"Paradox
(For a World in Crisis)"
by Merrifran Ingvoldstad
I do not believe the lust to kill lies in hatred,
I do not believe that souls are born with gun in hand.
The virus that finds its target in the troubled,
Is motivated by a force it does not understand.
I hear the voice that leaves a legacy of longing,
And paints a picture that is not for all to see.
The power of hate does not hold the hand of scribe or
artist,
Nor does it speak a language that can clear the
mystery.
What then motivates the mood of all mankind,
Who proves the power of the sword that slays.
Can mortal mind conceive of conscious killing,
What is the part that knowing and unknowing plays.
Dear God, help us to count our blessings not our
burdens,
And see the lessons in the longings of mankind.
May every human sacrifice that has been given,
Find and fulfill its purpose sealed and signed.
See all concerned through this time of crisis,
Clear the thinking of us one and all.
Bring cohesion to both cause and purpose,
No eye for eye, but just a wailing wall.
Inspiration # 8
"The
Breasts of the Beloved"
by Janaka
Dear friend,
I know it is not easy
to be with another
in the partnership of love.
You see the pain of separation,
as the other does not do as you desire,
with the eyes of wanting ‘you are the only one.’
Yet there exists only one One.
Not that ‘only one’ of your supposed to be’s.
What you call separation
is only the cleavage
of the Union
of your relationship.
Cleavage that the Beloved finds so enticing.
For you see, dear friend,
the Beloved wants to make love.
And you and your partner
are the two breasts of the relationship.
Where the one Heart beats behind the two.
Your pain comes from your confusion.
The two breasts are not for each other.
They are full for the enjoyment of the Beloved
and for the suckling of the world.
So get naked.
Bare your breast,
stripping away all your notions,
all your roles,
all your images.
And don't worry about what the other breast is doing.
It is not for you anyway.
Just enjoy the fondling!
And listen to the beating of the Heart.
--Janaka
Janaka currently lives in the Monterey Bay Area in California where he is a
Waldorf teacher, artist, writer and tarot reader. He is the author of ‘Silent
Ripples: Parables for the Soul’ and ‘Footprints Along the Shore of an Incoming
Tide.’ He can be reached at janaka_om@yahoo.com
or at 831-484-2354 to order books, set up an appointment to see his art work or for a
tarot reading.
Inspiration # 9
"Inspirational
Gems"
Selected by Janaka
SPIRITUAL GEMS #1
Question: Is the thought 'I am God' or 'I am the supreme being' helpful?
Maharshi: 'I am that I am.' 'I am' is God, not thinking 'I am God.' Realize 'I am' and
not
think 'I am.' 'Know I am God,' it is said, not 'Think I am God."
--Ramana Maharshi, "The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi" (edited by David
Godman)
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The way that can be spoken of
Is not the constant way;
The name that can be named
Is not the constant name.
The nameless was the beginning of heaven and
earth;
The named was the mother of the myriad
creatures.
Hence always rid yourself of desires in order
to observe its (the way's) secrets;
But always allow yourself to have desires to
observe its manifestations.
These two are the same
But diverge in name as they issue forth.
Being the same they are called mysteries,
Mystery upon mystery -
The gateway of the manifold secrets.
--Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching"
(D.C. Lau, translator)
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May the events that seek me
Come unto me;
May I receive them
With a quiet mind
Through the Father's ground of peace
On which we walk.
May the people who seek me
Come unto me;
May I receive them
With an understanding heart
Through the Christ's stream of love
In which we live.
May the spirits who seek me
Come unto me;
May I receive them
With a clear soul
Through the healing Spirit's Light
By which we see.
--Adam Bittleston, "Meditative Prayers for Today"
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I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do,
because He Who sent me
will direct me.
I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
--"A Course in Miracles"
text, pg. 24
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You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. No other cause it has, nor
ever
will. Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God's Son, and made
him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself.
__"A Course in Miracles"
text, pg.542
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Christ: Son, trust not your affection of the moment, for it will soon be
changed into another.
As long as you live, you are subject to change, even against your own will; so that
sometimes you are joyful, at other times sad; now at peace, other times troubled; at one
moment devout, at another arid; sometimes fervent, at other times lazy; one day blue,
another elated.
But he who is wise and well instructed in spirit, is above all these changes: not
minding what he feels in himself, nor on what side the wind of instability blows, but that
the whole inclination of his soul may be directed towards the desired end.
--"The Imitation of Christ,"
by Thomas a Kempis
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When the mind has ceased to be because of the total absence of the notions of material
existence, consciousness exists in its own nature as consciousness.
That is known as pure being. When consciousness devoid of notions of
objectivity merges in itself losing its separate identity, as it were, it is pure
being. When all external (material) and internal (notional) objects merge in
consciousness, there is pure being of consciousness.
This is the supreme vision which happens to all liberated ones, whether they seem to
have a body or they are without one. This vision is available to one who has been
"awakened," to one who is in a state of deep contemplation and to a man of
self-knowledge; it is not experienced by the ignorant person.
--"The Concise Yoga Vasistha"
Swami Venkatesananda
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If you think that you know well in truth of Brahman, know that you know little. What
you think to be Brahman in your self, or what you think to be Brahman in the gods--that is
not Brahman. What is indeed the truth of Brahman you must therefore learn.
I cannot say that I know Brahman fully. Nor can I say that I know him not. He among us
knows him best who understand the spirit of the words: "Nor do I know that I know
not."
He truly knows Brahman who knows him as beyond knowledge; he who thinks that he knows
knows not. The ignorant think that Brahman is known, but the wise know him to be beyond
knowledge.
He who realizes the existence of Brahman behind every activity of his
being--whether sensing, perceiving, or thinking--he alone gains
immortality.
Through knowledge of Brahman comes power. Through knowledge of Brahman comes victory
over death. Blessed is the man who while he yet lives realizes Brahman. The man who
realizes him not suffers his greatest loss.
When they depart this life, the wise, who have realized Brahman as the Self in all
beings, become immortal.
--Kena Upanishad
"The Upanishads," translated by Swami Prabhavanada
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A person begins with dissatisfaction. Not content with the
world he seeks satisfaction of desires by prayers to God; his mind is purified; he longs
to know God more than to satisfy his carnal desires. Then God's Grace begins to manifest.
God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee; teaches him the Truth; purifies
the mind by his teachings and contact; the mind gains strength, is able to turn inward;
with meditation it is purified yet further, and eventually remains still without the least
ripple.
That stillness is the Self.
The Guru is both exterior and interior. From the exterior he gives a push to the mind
to turn inward; from the interior he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps the mind to
achieve quietness. That is Grace.
Hence there is no difference between God, Guru and Self.
--"Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi"
Inspiration # 10
"You
See With The Eyes of Source"
by Stars
of Celestial Waters through Rochelle Diane Sparrow
There is great change ahead for the world.
As you know it now, it will become transformed into a great catechism of
chaotic diversive force to become cleared by your own intention.
Up to now you have discounted your intention as meaningless to your own
life. However, it is your
intention and not "fate" as you have defined it that has created
your world. It is your clarity in
intention that will begin to change the world into what you see with clarity.
You must begin to understand yourselves
as the manifestors that you are. Your
intention is what manifests and
your intention is often is vague and beset with fear.
Fear that you disavow as of your own making.
Begin to see yourselves as makers of your own fear and begin to see
that your fear is what clouds the vision of peace that you believe is not
possible. It is doubt that
creates the delusion of inevitable war. It
is hatred of seeing yourself with great clarity that hides the truth of who
you truly are. Know that if you
look at yourself with great and exacting clarity what you will discover is
great connection to the Source which has been ever present but not
acknowledged. It is this connection to Source which you doubt.
It is this connection to Source that if you sought out with clarity you
would acknowledge as powerful and existant in its infinite and awesome scope.
It is this power you fear, not war.
Through the acknowledgement of your own
great power, you can own and be Gods. YOU
CAN FUNCTION AS THOUGH YOU HAVE POWER AND ACT WITH RESPONSIBLE FEELINGS TO
THOSE IN YOUR WORLD WHO DO NOT KNOW THEIR OWN CONNECTION TO THE SOURCE. It is the Source that is everpresent in your eyes that is the
that clears any immoral inturpitude upon your earth. It is in this vein we wish to speak.
You are now entering the world as a young
woman. You see the world as a
languishing place, a place in need of great pity, greater compassion and even
greater connection to God. You
see this world through the eyes of a woman, starved from lack of food.
You see she has children to support.
The children appear sick and in need of sustenance.
You see the children pick up some bug infested bread and eat it and it
makes you sick with distaste. Your
heart cries out against this injustice. You
swing your fists into the sky with anger and greater sadess.
This, you see,
is of your own making. It
is the world that you, man and woman, have created.
It is the Source which has provided you with great choice to manifest.
It is through this Source that you can now see with clarity that you
have made this woman's plight and with the Source you can manifest great
abundance for her plight as well.
How, you say, can we control the world's
poverty, the worlds wars, the worlds deprivations of spirit.
Let us go back to the woman. You
see her again. You see she is
hungry. DO YOU TURN YOUR BACK?
DO YOU IGNORE HER HUNGER? DO
YOU STATE TO YOURSELF THAT THIS IS HER CHOICE IS THIS LIFETIME IN THIS WORLD
TO EXPERIENCE STARVATION? OR DO
YOU SEE WITH CLARITY WHAT IS IN FRONT of you with your eyes.
Do you look and see?
You are now able to see with the vision
that has been ever present within you. You
see with the clarity with what the Source sees.
You see with the Source's eyes and you see with what is truth what is
in front of you. You can begin to
notice that there will be great change within yourself.
This change will create for you the essence of clarity.
This change will clearly create what you want to see in the world
around you.
Up to now you have seen the world around
you as the external part of you
that you cannot control when in fact the world around you is very much a
relflection of what exists internally within your thoughts and within your
heart . You now can see that
there is great hope, great change for yourself and the world around you. You can create what you want to see. You can create healing emotional pain, healing physical
disease and renewing the creative life force that exists on your planet.
You now know that there is change that is
ever present on your earth and
this change begins with your realization that change is possible.
You take your value upon this earth and you toss it toward hopeless
destruction when in fact it is your very value you most need to recognize.
It is your very fundamental recognition of your value which will create
the great change you most want.
Know your value.
Know that you can change and know that change is within you.
It is this very change which will create the change that you long to
see with your own eyes. It is through this change that you will understand your own
value as irredeemable upon earth. It
is this irredeemable value that you now must recognize and IT IS THROUGH YOUR
OWN RECOGNITION THAT YOUR WORLD WILL CREATE PEACE AND JUSTICE THAT YOU WANT TO
CREATE.
It is now in your best interest to become
valued in your own mind. It is
now in your best interest to see your own value to know your own value and to
believe in your own worth to the Source and to
yourself. It is your God
whom you must believe in with great FAITH THAT WILL COCREATE WITH YOU THE
PEACEFUL, JUST PLANET YOU KNOW CAN EXIST.
IT IS YOUR SOURCE AND KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR SOURCE THAT WILL MINGLE WITH
YOUR OWN VALUE AND COCREATE THE world as you want it to be.
YOU CONQUER WITH THOUGHT, YOU CONQUER WITH
INTENTION AND YOU CONQUER WITH FAITH. KNOW
YOURSELF, KNOW FAITH AND KNOW PEACE FOR THE WORLD.
You are creators with the energies of the
Source and through our cocreation you see the world as though it were external
and uncontrollable. Know that
this is false and that this falseness IS WHAT DECEIVES YOU.
It is now up to you to decide what path you choose to move forward
into. It is now up to you to
choose the path which is most beneficial to you.
Choose what is most beneficial and you will see that the world benefits
as well. Choose what is most
highest for your own benefit and see that the world becomes benefactor for
yourself. See the world change as
you change. See the world begat
what you begat to the world. See
the world expand as you expand yourself and
see the world bring forth the flowers of peace as you flower from within.
You are free now to go forth into the
world and to know it through your own eyes.
You are free to see yourself bloom and you are free to bloom through your own eyes as you look into that world that surrounds you.
Know that you have reached freedom when peace is attained. Know that at
last, the cries of humanity have stopped and justice is present listening to
all who bring injustices forth into light.
Know that the bearers of injustice are carried forth into light by
their own view of the world. Know
love and darkness will begin to recede with great love.
The greatest love of all is the love you bear within your eyes whose
soul beams out into the world with faith and with kindness. Know that your
great kindness is what what will begat great kindness to yourself and to the
world around you.
Go forth with love.
Go forth with kindness. Go
forth with peace. copyright 2003
Rochelle Diane Sparrow, channels
Stars of Celestial Waters, www.rdsparrow.com,
rochelledianesparrow@hotmail.com;
(602) 430-6447
Inspiration # 11
"Manifesting
Your Greatest Reality in the Midst of Crises""
by Matt
Guest
In the depths of my soul lives a great
sadness. It is the sadness of so
many unfulfilled dreams and lost lives. It
is the desolation of the many times that I and those close to me have chosen
fear over fulfillment, ignorance over awareness, or thinking over feeling.
And yet I know in my heart that this sadness was the result of choice
– the decision to choose fear over life.
These decisions have brought grief, crisis and desperation into my life
and the lives of those close to me. How
can this be? Why do we allow these things to occur?
Sadness is a challenge.
It is an indicator that fear has the upper hand.
And when fear has the upper hand, the soul loses.
Your soul or ‘dreaming body’ is the Spirit – the Unknown within
you. It is every dream of
happiness and freedom that you’ve ever had.
It is your awareness, your fulfillment – your destiny waiting to
happen. It is poised and ready,
waiting for the moment when you will give it the reigns and allow it to
manifest your greatest reality. Your
dreaming body has its own agenda and will act under its own volition if you
refuse to give in to fear. When
free of fear, your dreaming body automatically produces all kinds of
experiences, from lucid dreaming to psychic awareness, from out-of-body
experiences to seeing auras, and from astral projection to communication with
your higher self and spirit guides. Your
dreaming body has no fear.
Fear is simply your reaction to the loss
of the familiar. The end of a
relationship, divorce, illness, death, financial upheaval, poor physical or
mental health, the loss of a job – all of these involve the loss of
something familiar, and they all produce some kind of emotional crisis. We usually think that we fear the unknown.
But this is not the case. What
we fear is the loss of the known – of what is familiar to us.
We are afraid of letting go of what we know in order to venture into
uncharted territory. But
uncharted territory is where we find the answers to the questions that we
don’t have answers to. If we
already had answers to our problems and crises, then they wouldn’t be
problems or crises would they? Do
you see? A crisis is an
opportunity to let go of the familiar and go forward into the Unknown!
The choice to use these frightening situations as springboards into the
Unknown is what makes them into challenges instead of disasters, or
opportunities instead of failures. Nothing
is a mistake.
The ‘crisis’ of cancer is a perfect
example of this. Because of fear,
the diagnosis of cancer in ourselves or in a loved one is an almost certain
death-sentence. This is because
of our society’s tendency to focus only on the negativity of illness and the
statistics that support this. We
are handed fear instead of courage. Why
are we not instead handed abundant examples of the spontaneous remission of
cancer and its ability to correct the poor lifestyles and fear-based behaviors
of those who contract it? Hmm. There are many, many instances of people who have decided
that they are not going to die and have used the opportunity to completely
revamp their lives and patterns of thought.
Perhaps your illness or the illness of someone you love has manifested
in order to help you see past your fears and inhibitions and into the eyes of
the Unknown! Perhaps this disease
is trying to tell you that you are not listening to the feeling-voice of your
dreaming body and that you are lost in patterns of self-absorption and
self-destruction! Perhaps this
sickness is giving you a very real opportunity to abolish the things that
interfere with your self-fulfillment, intuition and greatest happiness!
This positive way of looking at the
‘crisis’ of cancer can be applied to any other situation.
If this is done, then suddenly there is no crisis, is there?
You see? There is only an
opportunity to learn and become more self-aware.
This is the secret of life and of non-judgment.
To judge or condemn a situation as a crisis or mistake is to literally
suck the life and learning right out of it.
And if you remove life, you embrace death.
It is so simple. Instead,
choose to look at life in all of its manifestations as a process of learning
and growing – an adventure into the Unknown.
Your dreaming body communicates with you at all times. Are you listening? Are
you brave enough to turn off your thoughts and fears just long enough to hear
what it is saying to you? If you
are not, then it may have to scream at you.
This is what terminal illness is.
This is what a crisis is. We
are here in this world to find fulfillment and joy – this is our birthright,
our destiny. Anything else is a
sham and a waste. We are the ones
who choose to live in lack. We
are the ones who choose death or a death-like version of life over spontaneity
and energetic flow.
Yes, we will all have to leave this world
at some point. But leaving this
world with the awareness and joy produced by a life filled with the
spontaneity of the dreaming body will provide you with the ability and power
to see something other than the blackness and terror witnessed by those that
leave this world in the midst of fear, crisis and illness.
I have seen that our possibilities are endless, and that we have become
mere shadows of ourselves. Make
the choice to manifest something other than fear.
May you find your highest fulfillment.
Matt Guest is the author of “The Face of
Power” (www.thefaceofpower.com),
a true story about his adventures into the world of the dreaming body, lucid
dreaming and out-of-body experiences. He
can be reached at: mguest@thefaceofpower.com.
Inspiration # 12
"Children
Are Us, Externalized"
by Bruce
Scott
"Children cry not to get their own way
but because they know something and
they want you to hear it.
And you can."
We were little children once. We know what the truth is. We know,
from the inside, what is real in this world, and what is not. We know.
It is essential we remember.
We were in little bodies once, wanting only to laugh, cry, jump,
roll, play and hug. Yet around us we saw adult people being busy,
mean, hurried, loving; often attempting to reach us in some meaningful way,
not knowing how. They wanted to. They just didn't know how to slow
down inside.
Little people see our pretense, our trying, our efforts to appear
like we know what we are doing. They sense our discomfort at simply
being present, quiet, and still, without continuous thoughts. Children,
like us, recognize when they are not connecting or being heard. They
can feel the separation that exists between child and adult -
a collective belief that children are "less," and adults are more, that
they are to be taught, we are to teach.
Like you and me, they often stop trying to speak honestly or to be
heard. Instead, they amplify and escalate their actions to get us to
slow down and be present, just like we do in our relationships with
others. Exactly as we do in our relationships with others. The adult
world may label their attempts to be heard, "tantrums," or acting out.
What else can a little body do to get our attention but become more extreme.
When we were little, we did the same thing. If we didn't, we went
silent inside, going underground, shutting down our expression,
lost to an outer world that appeared to not hear us. There was no
one to blame. We simply went silent to a world that did not know
how to hear deeply, behind the literal words.
Many of our parents demanded that we adhere to what others said was
normal and socially acceptable. They did this to fit in, to do the
"right thing," to do the only thing they knew how to do – follow
the world around them. They left their internal home, the inner place
connected to heart and soul, the place that follows an inner voice.
And they asked we the children to do the same. We may, if unnoticed,
ask the same of our children and the big people around us.
Growing up, many of us learned to be afraid, and to look good for
others. We were consumed by a socialization process that precluded
living from the inside, an inner authority. We lived a secret life that
few around us would recognize, for they were lost in their own secret lives.
In the everyday hurried environment, the fresh and renewed vitality
of each younger person moving into the world is dampened immediately by
our own suppressed life force which we've adopted in an effort to deny
that we've given our spirit and passion over to a social order that is not
our own and this social order has no intent to expand beyond beliefs held
by those before us. It is as though we all live in a giant movie theater with
the same movie playing over and over again. Same dialogue. Same roles.
Same actors, complaints and beliefs. And each morning we wake up,
unaware that we are entering into the same theater, to once again watch
and participate in the same film with the same ending. And together,
six billion of us agree that this is the only movie playing.
What if we suspect there is a different movie playing somewhere
else? And we seek it out on our own? Would you go to school?
Would you ask your children to go to school? Would you ask your
children to be compliant? Quiet? Follow the rules? Get a job?
Prepare for the future? Would you get up every morning to go to work?
Would you have a religion?
Would you see women and men as wondrous beings without gender
separation? Would you have need to marginalize people by making
them wrong or right? Normal or abnormal? Crazy or sane?
Hallucinating or having amazing visions? Might you go exploring into
the wisdom of your heart and soul, and be with people from that place,
living differently, quietly inside, softer with others, sweet with innocence,
kind to the children, recognizing they, the little ones, will bring you home
to yourself deep inside, gently, with a giggle.
BRUCE SCOTT, Ph.D. (MFT), author of Being Real: An Ongoing Decision, and
FREE THE CHILDREN, is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, and national
workshop leader. He applies the teachings of Carlos Castaneda, Taisha Abelar,
Arnold Mindell, his eight year old son, Boye, and himself. scott_bruce@hotmail.com
Inspiration # 13
"Heaven
Letters" ("Reality" & "Life Is Your
Medium")
by Gloria
Wendroff
"Reality"
God said:
Light and energy are the same, but energy is not always what
you have thought. There is an energy that transcends the energy of
activity, which varies from day to day and moment to moment. The light
of which I speak is non-variable. Call it soul energy, if you like. Call
it God. Call it whatever you like, but know that there is an energy
within you that is immutable and irrepressible. In sickness and in
health, you have it. You are it. You are light eternal. The torch you
carry is Mine.
You are meant to light up. You are an ignited being. Your flame
is perpetual. I fanned light with My breath, and you came into
existence. You were never non-existent, but you became existent to your
own awareness. You were incepted in the same breath I was, only it took
a little while before your eyelids lifted and you could begin to bring
yourself into view.
You are My being breathed upon earth. You are My being, My
blessed being, My creation of Eternal Oneness, My hallowed thought.
Today, if you can, or on another day if you cannot, be silent.
Converse with yourself and Me alone. Conserve your light energy today.
Let it flame larger and savor it.
This self-same energy is the energy of trees and the grass that
grows. It is universal energy. It is a river of love, and it all flows
from you to everyone and everything and from everyone and everything
back to you, even though you and I alone are. You are saturated with it.
You are entranced with this light of being.
Take your attention off yourself today and put it on this
fabulous connection between Us. It is not even a connection. It is
Oneness itself.
When you look at a tree, you are involved in looking at the tree.
Look at the tree, and then close your eyes, and within the circumference
of your heart, you can begin to feel the essence of the tree, this same
essence located somewhere unlocatable within you.
Close your eyes to yourself for a moment, and soak in that
essence that is the essence of you. It is also the same fluidity within
every other being that is or ever was or ever will be regardless of
where they are or have been.
We are talking about more than the eye can see. We are talking
about more than words can say. Nevertheless, We are talking about that
which you can imbibe and express and get intoxicated on, this fulsome
silence of Oneness that underlies you eternally.
This Oneness is sustainable energy. It is foremost. It is
everywhere, and it is free. You are always drinking it in. Now it is for
you to notice. Look not for the glass it comes from. You are the glass.
And you are its contents, and you are the one who drinks from it. And it
is all beyond you.
Eternal omnipresent you, My beautiful child. We dreamt you
together. Any partition between Us is dreamed up. It can never be true,
this picture of you on earth.
There is you and there is I, and We alone are. Anything else is
explanation of that which cannot be explained. There are no words for
Our Oneness that spans across everything. Everything is only that which
We imagined long ago. We are in reverie, you and I, and all this worldly
existence is but a passing fantasy, but We, you and I, are always and
forever, and there is nothing else but this Supreme Oneness that only
seems to pass between Us.
"Life Is Your
Medium"
God said:
No matter how
marvelous and exquisite your life is right now, if it were locked in as
it now appears, you would feel unsatisfied.
Steps
in life once taken have been taken. In life, you are one who moves.
Neither life nor you can be immobilized. There is always a direction you
move in. You move towards.
Of
course, it is I you are always moving towards. Even though I am fully in
your life, you are moving towards Me. You ascend. You are always
ascending.
Even
when your heart drops, you are ascending.
Even
when you are at a low point, you are ascending.
There
is no stepping out of life. You are always in the swell of it.
You
have no other recourse in life but to live it. Life has been given to
you to move in. Be graceful. Life is a high card you have been given. Be
grateful.
It
is the opportunity you have been seeking. Life is what you have been
seeking. You think you have been seeking outcomes, but it is the
vitality of life itself that you have and yet seek.
This
is a good search, your search for more in life. It is the search for you
to come to know yourself better and to express yourself more fully.
First you find out who you are. And then you express yourself to
yourself. Become a good listener.
You
are on your way. This is splendid. You are always on your way. It is
easy. It only becomes hard when you become stubborn. What is so hard
about moving in life except when you refuse to?
Life
has its way. You can balk all you want, but you cannot refuse it. When
you accept life, then you move on in it.
Life
comes to you, but you also rise to meet it.
Life
is a metaphor for your travels in consciousness. You have a
consciousness that far outsteps your life, and you are on your way to
meeting the consciousness you have never been separated from and have
always known, even when your eyes have been closed to it.
You
are consciousness moving in a Human body. You don’t really think it is
your body that I speak to, do you? You don’t really think I speak to
time and space? I speak to the only thing in the world that truly
exists, and that is you, the consciousness of you. You are the response
to the love in My heart. You are Creation. You are My Creation. I
created you so you would discover yourself and Me. By whatever name you
may call Me, however long it takes you to think of calling Me, you are
trying to find your origin. You originated with Me. I am your Source.
Yet
there is no beginning and no end to you. If there were an end, it would
be I. We began together, yet there was no beginning, and there is no
end, for there is no beginning nor ending to Being. You are Being, and
you live now as a Created Being.
This
manifestation of you in a Human body is such a minor thing. It is almost
irrelevant. It is irrelevant, and yet it matters, and this existence in
life exists so that you may know who you are. You can never be anything
but what you are. And you are being temporarily housed in a Human body.
You are housed but not imprisoned.
Just
as these words fall from My lips, so does life fall to you. Here are My
words. Here is your life. Do with them as you will. Make of them what
you will. Surrender your life, and then you move your life faster and
higher -- and less hesitatingly.
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Inspiration # 14
"Four
Poems by Karen Murphy"
Light Bridges
The bridges are the beings of light
Who stand and show the way
They form the link between our worlds
Hold steadfast come what may
They usher in the world unseen
They merge and blend the two
Heaven and earth entwined as one
Just as me and you.
They whisper to the sleepers
You never stand alone
The veil will be lifted soon
The whole world will be shown
Just beyond the realms of thought
The highest faculty of mind
We will dance across the bridge of love
The two will be combined
The salty tears of separateness
Will wash away the past
Heaven and earth entwined together
All are one…… At last
The Mirage
The planet if illusions is where we’ve
come to stay
Quite simply just a mirage which changes day
by day
The illusions are but work tools
As the potter has his clay
To mould, reshape and perfect ourselves
The mirage here to stay
It’s time now to remember
Just what we came to do
To evolve and grow spiritually
Nothing else is true
We’re blinded by illusions
Which hold us in our fear
The creator’s breath is ours to breathe
To hold forever dear
Lost in the mire of thought and deed
Our anxious minds do play
All is but a mirage
The mirage here to stay
Our
Journey
We
carry such a heavy load
It’s
really hard to bear
We
want to put it down sometimes
But
simply don’t know where
It
seems we’re on a journey
With
a veil across our eyes
Trying
to remember
So
we may surrender our disguise
Our
naughty little ego’s seem altogether quite real
They’re
just our manufactured selves
They
hold no ‘real’ appeal
We
need to learn the essence
Of
staying in ‘the now’
If
I ever master this technique
I’ll
surely tell you how
We
walk our paths so bravely
Our
destiny unknown
The
creator’s plan so perfect
Our
seeds already sown
A
whisper of a memory
A
love we cannot feel
The
two emotions, love and fear
But
only love is real
The
winds of time tear savagely
Till
our minds can stretch no more
We
will succeed our mission of peace
Hold
strong our mighty core
Thoughts
Independence
of thought
Freedom
of speech
The
will to survive
The
wisdom to teach
Hold
the truth in your heart
When
there whispers a doubt
The
strength to remain true
The
courage to back out
When
it hurts to look back
You
are too scared to look ahead
Look
beside you, God will always be there for you
Your
heart is free
Have
the courage to follow it
Karen
Murphy: karen.murphy43@ntlworld.com
Inspiration # 15
"Mary's
Message" by Irene Kaye
I am now totally convinced that there is life after death.
Mary was 93
when she passed. My parents were her neighbours and had cared for her for the
past twenty years. As for me, I helped them out now and again. Looking back
now, maybe not nearly as much as I could have. My parents did everything
possible to have Mary stay independent and in her own home right to her end.
And as for Mary, well she was feisty and stubborn enough to maintain her
independence. She was a very personal woman. Other than my parents, no one
really knew her. I wouldn't even say that, in the long run, my parents knew
her all that well, despite their lengthy relationship.
Around
the end of January, 2003, Mary had definitely taken a turn for the worse. Physically, she struggled to stand up and walking around her
home was challenging for her. But being typically Mary, there was no
discussion of a walker, cane or any other helpful devices. We were truly
amazed when she allowed handrails be placed in her bathroom. When the time
came to take her into the hospital, we knew this would be her last trip. She
lasted for about two weeks in the hospital.
This
is my story of Mary's last day. My mother called me at home about 11:00 a.m.
The hospital had placed “the call”. Mary’
condition was quickly deteriorating. I told Mom that I would get dressed and
pick her up so that we could go visit Mary.
Mom agreed, reluctantly at first. She said she had lots of laundry and
cleaning and “stuff” to do. Then Mom went silent and simply said “I will
still see my stuff, I may not see Mary again. What truly counts?”
I
took my time. I showered; dressed; even made myself toast and cream cheese
before I left. The trip to Mom's is at worst half an hour. I picked up Mom,
and off we drove to the hospital. This was another twenty-minute trip.
We
entered Mary's room.
She
was very, very frail, visibly agitated and apparently in pain. Her eyes were
all spirit - white. She was non-verbal. All medication was stopped. The nurses
had "made her as comfortable as possible." Her breathing was
irregular and laboured. Mom and I stood at the foot of her bed.
For
a very brief moment I was speechless. I took some deep breaths, centered
myself, asked for Divine Guidance and began Therapeutic Touch and Reiki.
Beginning at her feet, I moved the energy down her legs and out through her
toes creating flow. I moved up to her hips and kept moving energy, down her
legs and out through her toes. I worked my way upward, her abdomen, solar
plexus, chest, thymus, down her arms and out through her fingertips. By the
time I reached Mary's throat, my mother commented on how settled both Mary and
her breathing had become. From agitation to calmness. From shallow irregular
breaths to, well sort of as deep as possible, but steady and rhythmic.
Once Mary seemed a little more settled, I stood at the bedrail by her
bedside. Mom and I watched in
amazement as Mary's frail hand reached through the bars to my thigh, up my
thigh following the rails and found my arm. She followed my arm with her
feeble hand to my fingertips. Finding
the palm of my hand with the palm of her hand we joined. It was an incredible
hand to heart connection. I became an open channel of Love, Light Energy.
My only thought was that Mary takes what she needed in the moment for
her highest and best. My mother looked on in awe. Mary was at rest and very
peaceful. We stayed connected to a brief yet eternal moment. It was long. It
was short. It was everything. Nothing outside of our connection existed. Our connection
transcended time. It transcended space. It was beautiful.
It was at
this moment that I told my mom that Mary had a message to share and asked
whether she wanted to hear it. Mom was a little taken aback as she quite
clearly witnessed Mary's inability to speak. Nevertheless, Mom nodded her head
in affirmation. "It's not
about money," I intuited. "It's all about people and your
relationships with them."
Mary
had spent her life gathering "stuff" and money. She made it no
secret how money was the most important thing in her life. Mary pushed
everyone away. Even the church ladies who would come and friendly visit were
nastily evicted from Mary’s home. Other
than my parents, Mary had no one.
When
Mary was resting and calm I told her that Mom and I were going to go
downstairs to the hospital cafeteria to have a cup of coffee. We would not be
gone long. There was no obvious
response. We knew she heard us. We just knew. We left for our coffee.
Not
only did Mom and I have coffee. We ordered and ate lunch. We also chatted at
length about the meaning of Mary's message. Finally, we went back upstairs. Checking in with Mary, I found her to still be at rest,
however, a little agitated again. Her
breathing was still regular but much shallower.
It was becoming shallower and shallower with each laboured breath. Once
again, I did some T.T. and left her room to ask the nurse to find a priest to
administer Mary's last rights.
Mom
and I sat at Mary's bedside. With mom by her shoulders and I around her
abdomen, closer to her feet. We
began to quietly chat. Mom told me of her years working in a palliative care
facility. How the people who had money, family and friends were taken to
special rooms to pass on, while those without caregivers, the seeming "no
body's", were left by themselves with the curtains simply pulled around
them. Mom told me it broke her heart to witness such isolation. Mom told me of
how she would kneel by their bedsides and pray while they passed. Mom told me
of the nuns that would stop her from praying and chase her out to go do her
work instead of being with the dying. Mom told me that was the real reason why
she left her job. She simply couldn't take the unfairness anymore.
There
we sat: Mom, Mary and myself. Starring out the window, I was partially
listening to Mom and part wondering whether I should be doing something more
for Mary. I was wondering about my own life meaning. I was curious about how
Mary was feeling. What she was going through at that moment? In this
stillness, I realized that there was a shimmering whitish energy shadow that
began rising on the side of the wall outside the window. It was similar by
comparison to the heat rising off the road where the sky meets the pavement. I
knew it was not there before. Somehow
I also knew Mary's time was at hand. At the very same instant as I recognized
the rising energy on the wall, I heard Mom say, “It is time.”
Synchronicity? Coincidence?
Mom
started praying. Not the repetitious prayers taught and memorized, but using
her own words for Mary's peaceful transition. I wasn't quite sure what to do.
In an instant it occurred to me to pull the energy from bottom of Mary's feet
upward. With my extended hand palm down, I began at Mary's toes. With a
deliberate upward motion I helped move the energy from the bottom of her feet,
all the way to her thymus and open up my palm upwards. But to where? The
Heavens? Another dimension? At that instant I realized there was a magnificent
dove hovering above us. The dove was at the top of a golden fountain ray of
light. I have no words to truly describe one of the most spectacular
experiences I have ever witnessed. I was embraced in the realm of Spirit while
fully conscious. The veil between heaven and earth was lifted. Mary breathed
her last.
My
mother said that Mary's passing was the most peaceful she had ever
experienced.
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