SPIRITUAL BEINGS

Our spirits are as unique as the human forms we embody to navigate this earthly experience we call “Life”.  These temples, our physical bodies, house the God light within which is our spirit, the spark of our creator.

Divine light is flowing into you and this light within you is capable of creating anything.  It is true potential, flexible and malleable.  It is said that “thoughts become things” and this is important to us as humans having a spiritual experience.  The light within us has unlimited potential in accessing a flow with the universe.  There is an interconnectedness in life and the capacity we have through positive unlimited thoughts gives us mastery in living abundant and joy filled lives.  We are clarifying realizations about the way things work and also regarding the nature of consciousness.  Learning to reshape our consciousness to become positive and flexible is a pathway to merging with our Divine Selves.  The light within us that is powerful and has a direct capacity to both deepen our experiences and accelerate our mastery of why we can contribute to this life in a meaningful way.

Jesus said, “the Spirit gives Life”.  We already have what we are seeking yet somehow we become lead by seeking outwardly instead of loving ourselves enough to rely on the tools God prepacked for our journey.  Paul calls “Spirit” our true self.   When I am living from my true self, the fruit in my life is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control (Gal 5:22-23).  The false self is the person we construct based on all the roles we play, our deeply held beliefs and preferences, hang-ups and also our sense of entitlement. The false self is based on appearance and functions through our need for approval. It  becomes defensive when threatened.  Its reality is conditional, meaning that its worth must be earned.  Paul calls the false self the “flesh.”  He teaches that when we identify with the false self, the fruit in our lives is hatred, discord, jealousy, angry outbursts, selfish ambition, envy and the like.    

We all need inner experience instead of simple outer belief systems.  How we get to this juncture depends on a participative knowing that begins as an inner discovery.   Our cellular “gps” leads us to this through prayer, love and suffering.  You need inner experience whereby you can know things to be true for yourself instead of believing them because other people say they are true.  Thus, our identity comes from within which frees us to live a happy, joyous and fulfilling life.   

To arrive at this place is not to ask ourselves “what would Jesus do?” or “how would Jesus live?”,  rather to practice a process of self-emptying thereby realizing  that ultimately there is nothing real in us that is less or other than God’s infinite love, which is our spiritual light. The way we treat ourselves, the way we treat others and all living things then becomes holy work.  As we shine our love lights brightly we assist others in shining theirs.  We are free to love and serve one another without attachments or judgement.  Our soul purposes become unified for raising the consciousness of humanity which gives rise to miracles and synchronicities.  The fruit of our pure spirit, that spiritual light within our hearts is LOVE.

“And I will pray to the father and he will give you another helper, that he may ABIDE in you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells WITH you and will be IN you.” John 16-17

LOVING YOUR WINGS

Spiritual practice supports the development of personal power. Empowered people are not complicated, but people who have grown simpler and choose to live through their heart. Their spiritual fuel is LOVE <3

As sparks of the Divine, we courageously agree to serve on this mission for a wide variety of reasons; but the overarching goal is to recognize our true greatness is in serving one another. The popular definition of the word greatness is a grand illusion.  We think that it requires the accumulation of external things.  That is the illusion, a game that seduces us into a complacency from our real purpose.

We spend our primary focus on external accomplishments. School and higher education serves our brains, but the most important yearnings of our hearts are mostly a secret; private venture not acknowledged by the outside world. We don’t allow ourselves failures or imperfections, the open display of emotion or affection is often controlled. Those who express themselves with deep passion, emotion and creativity, and innovation are special or unique and placed in a category. However all of our deepest desires are to express our truths and be unique, to create from our divine spirits.

When we attune our hearts to the truth of our divinity, we know we have come to co create. Why is it easy to play small? It is safe and comfortable…. Do not sublet your heart and mind to the suppression of shame that another in pain would use to bind you. We must not believe we are not enough, that it is the “others” who will do something, who are special and who know the answers. We know; we have just believed otherwise for far too long. Misery doesn’t love company, for it does not LOVE. It feels safe in the reflection of powerlessness.

Listen to the “still, small voice within” and decide to honor it. To do otherwise will lead to dysfunction, grief and disappointment, disease and sadness. We stop the seduction of the outside world by choosing our internal one; our heart’s light is ignited as our guide. As we let our internal light shine brighter it is contagious to others. We think backwards, that we must change the world by external demonstration first, but it is actually from the inside out…. Then the external world effortlessly realigns to that consciousness. It is a law of quantum physics…. Be the change. The gift of enlightenment, is after exhausting ourselves seeking external authority, we finally realize like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, the power was always within us!  We are original, clear, wise, simple, creative, loving, compassionate beings that already are inherently divine.

To witness a person with Down syndrome stand with a gold medal around their neck, arms raised high to a cheering crowd says they are “Loving their Wings”. In societal standards this is a person who is on the edge and vulnerable, often marginalized because of intellectual disabilities.   

We cannot look at that perfect human being without slipping out of dualistic thinking. This is a profound moment of unitive consciousness! Shadow and light coexist in the same experience. One cannot believe in their own personal power and truth as long as we exclude and undervalue others; whether it is women, people of different sexual orientations, people of religious or ethnic minorities and both visible and invisible impairments.

After a while, even the densest of us may have our eyes opened to something which transcends all superficial distractions of disability and self imposed limits: the unimaginable beauty of every person. The beauty is ours for the seeing if only we wipe our lens, and pay attention.

To love ourselves with compassion and know that we are enough, fuels our spiritual tank. When we empower the truth within to ignite our light, it will reflect back upon us with its radiant splendor.