What's next?
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Where is most of your attention focused these days? Has it changed much lately? Are your survival instincts well honed and prepared for any eventuality? Are you responsible for anyone other than yourself? Are you clear what must be done, as though your life depended on it? Will you turn your back unto the front and forever disappear?
Each one of us has a unique understanding of what constitutes “security” but in the end it’s all a myth. There is nothing secure in this life, least of all that which we have accumulated. I know those who are worth “$millions$” on paper yet they lead lives of quiet desperation. I know those whose net worth amounts to little more than what they could carry in their panniers and they are full of creative joy. There is of course no outward security since that can disintegrate overnight. It is going on as we speak. We require no crystal ball nor economic forecaster to confirm this illusion and yet we regulate our lives heavily on its outcome. We continue to acquire knowing that we must be naked to receive the truth. We spend our precious time involved in activities that lead us nowhere and hope the lottery will be ours. We depend on others for the answers, whether spiritual or tangible and thereby give up all our power. There is no where else to see the light so turn your gaze around.
Beware of those who say they know for they are the detour that has no end. Be careful of the signs you read for they have been created to lead you astray.
Surround yourself with grace and never settle for less. Share your unique self with all who cross your path and give back to those who need it most. Invest in yourself and the freedom you deserve and never ever look over your shoulder at what might have been.
The only war zone that is happening is the one you are creating from within and without a fresh approach there can be no possibility of meaningful change. Are you up to the ultimate challenge and will you make the difference only you can make?
The brilliance of the present can only surface when you’re still. You can then receive the benediction but only when you are ready to hear the tune. Do whatever you can to rest peacefully with who you are and the sweet fragrance of this state will draw more sacred peace to your domain.
At the end of the day there will be no one there to judge you but yourself and you already know what you must do. What’s holding you back? What more do you need to accomplish? Is there something you missed in class?
There are no experts in this realm so get comfortable with being on your own. When you experience confusion just take a breath and fill your heart with understanding and the right direction will appear. The greatest challenge lies in the beginning of it as you know, after that it takes on an alluring pulse of its own. Resist prediction and expectation for they are the winds that will always blow you off course. The power of the pleasure/pain entity is also forever at play and you must avoid its seductive traps as well. We must play full on.
This is a game in which a “bad choice” has no fertile soil in which to grow. Everything is as you create it. You begin to see how inextricably responsible you are for everything you perceive, whatever the dimension and this knowing is connected to the divine from which everything manifests. That sounds a bit trippy but then the brilliance of anything is “trippy” isn’t it. I see that out of paying careful attention there emerges a refreshing view of everything. Can you see the same thing each day on your stroll in the woods yet never see it the same a second time? This is the perception I have of you. You are the potential and the expression of everything there is because you are this very moment which is always new. That is the beauty, the nectar of the potion left behind when time and separation walk out the door. This is the genesis of something not describable but its intoxicating fragrance is unmistakeably that of integrity. And it lingers, sweetly. Very aromatic and romantic indeed, streaming straight to the control panel and blowing every fuse.
How many others speak of you this way? I want to meet them all, put on my dancing shoes and celebrate long into the night.
Be sure to find adequate time to be alone with yourself, it’s so vitally important. Contribute wherever you can if you have something left over.
And remind yourself from time to time that I have been blessed by your presence beyond measure and whenever I feel your smile my course is changed forever.
The most loving embrace available is the one you give yourself and when you begin doing that repeatedly the most amazing things begin to happen.
I have always felt your presence,
Even in my tears.
And when your sweet breath fills me up with ecstasy,
I dissolve and disappear.
Dreaming of love and holding you close,
Dr. John