Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Journey of the Joyful Heart
I used to search for happiness
Thinking it could be found
Someplace
For I had seen it in others
And they said that they had ‘found’ it
I no longer seek happiness
For I have been on a journey to the joyful heart
When I finally gave up my search for happiness
IT found me
Joy that is
My own Joyful Heart
Inspiration has been my guide on this journey
And as I follow it without question
The joy in my heart shows the way
Always beckoning me
“Look here! I found a beautiful sunset.
And over here, a golden eagle,
Wings spread wide in the clear open sky.
And here too,
The most eloquent of mountains
Mirrored perfectly in a still blue alpine lake,
Rimmed with crystal snow
And emerald firs”
The joy in my heart always knows the way
And that is all that matters
Through in-Spiration it draws me to myself
Forcing me to breathe in my own spirit
And dance to my own (joyful) heart-beat
The hidden angels of the valleys
And rivers and mountains
And of the moon and stars
Whisper to me
“This way”
“Just across the meadow”
“Not much further, and you will be rewarded”
And me, wanting one more breath of my own spirit
One more heart-beat of pure peaceful Joy
Am obliged to follow
Not really caring why or ‘for what’
So I no longer seek happiness
For I have found the journey,
the dance of the joyful heart
I have found Home
Thinking it could be found
Someplace
For I had seen it in others
And they said that they had ‘found’ it
I no longer seek happiness
For I have been on a journey to the joyful heart
When I finally gave up my search for happiness
IT found me
Joy that is
My own Joyful Heart
Inspiration has been my guide on this journey
And as I follow it without question
The joy in my heart shows the way
Always beckoning me
“Look here! I found a beautiful sunset.
And over here, a golden eagle,
Wings spread wide in the clear open sky.
And here too,
The most eloquent of mountains
Mirrored perfectly in a still blue alpine lake,
Rimmed with crystal snow
And emerald firs”
The joy in my heart always knows the way
And that is all that matters
Through in-Spiration it draws me to myself
Forcing me to breathe in my own spirit
And dance to my own (joyful) heart-beat
The hidden angels of the valleys
And rivers and mountains
And of the moon and stars
Whisper to me
“This way”
“Just across the meadow”
“Not much further, and you will be rewarded”
And me, wanting one more breath of my own spirit
One more heart-beat of pure peaceful Joy
Am obliged to follow
Not really caring why or ‘for what’
So I no longer seek happiness
For I have found the journey,
the dance of the joyful heart
I have found Home
Beyond Words
No words, no thoughts,
No beliefs, no concepts,
No ideas of time or space
Are here in this moment
Of Being
No beliefs, no concepts,
No ideas of time or space
Are here in this moment
Of Being
No judgment or fear,
No movement or tears,
No struggle or strain,
No pain
No movement or tears,
No struggle or strain,
No pain
Dis-illusionment sets in from here
There is nowhere else to go
Or Be
There is nowhere else to go
Or Be
This beingness is always here
Only short-sightedness makes it
Appear as if it is not
Only short-sightedness makes it
Appear as if it is not
Patterns of dis-illusionment are necessary now
Beyond healing, beyond growth,
Beyond even emotion or heaven,
Is all that IS beyond words.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
"Diamonds in the Rough"
I once heard a commercial with the following line:
“The precision of the cut is what brings out the greatest beauty of the diamond.”
We are all ‘diamonds in the rough’ if you will, allowing God/Spirit/Infinite Love to sculpt our lives and our spirits to bring out the greatest beauty that Infinite Love can express in each of us. What a wonderful thing to know that all of the things we think seem to take forever, and so we become impatient, are done that way so that the precision can be maintained, thus revealing our greatest beauty hidden within. This point of view can give Being present a whole new light for when we love ourselves and others enough to show up fully in our true Presence, we share the greatest gift of ALL. This beautifully sculpted Being.
Watching a documentary on how diamonds are formed in the earth and how, being the clearest and strongest element on the planet the only thing that can cut a diamond is another diamond, and thus shape it, I thought about the phrase ‘diamond in the rough’ and how there are many references to people as just that. Having heard the reference of crystals and ‘Christed being’, and being the curious kid I am, I looked up the word diamond in the dictionary to see where it came from or what it meant. The origin actually mentions that the word comes from the Greek term adamas (“a human being”). Yes, really. So of course this clears up my perceptions of ‘life on earth’ as each of us is here to help sculpt each other ‘with precision’ so that our greatest, clearest Being can be expressed. Having been blessed with learning and doing ‘subtle energy work’, I feel so grateful for each ‘diamond/spirit’ I work with, being well aware of the mutual and yet individual sculpting we are participating in.
All of our experiences help to shape us into a Being that reflects our true inner beauty, our true infinite Spirit, which is Love and Light.
Thanks to all of my fellow ‘diamonds in the rough’. You are truly beautiful in every way.
Namaste,
Elaine
“The precision of the cut is what brings out the greatest beauty of the diamond.”
We are all ‘diamonds in the rough’ if you will, allowing God/Spirit/Infinite Love to sculpt our lives and our spirits to bring out the greatest beauty that Infinite Love can express in each of us. What a wonderful thing to know that all of the things we think seem to take forever, and so we become impatient, are done that way so that the precision can be maintained, thus revealing our greatest beauty hidden within. This point of view can give Being present a whole new light for when we love ourselves and others enough to show up fully in our true Presence, we share the greatest gift of ALL. This beautifully sculpted Being.
Watching a documentary on how diamonds are formed in the earth and how, being the clearest and strongest element on the planet the only thing that can cut a diamond is another diamond, and thus shape it, I thought about the phrase ‘diamond in the rough’ and how there are many references to people as just that. Having heard the reference of crystals and ‘Christed being’, and being the curious kid I am, I looked up the word diamond in the dictionary to see where it came from or what it meant. The origin actually mentions that the word comes from the Greek term adamas (“a human being”). Yes, really. So of course this clears up my perceptions of ‘life on earth’ as each of us is here to help sculpt each other ‘with precision’ so that our greatest, clearest Being can be expressed. Having been blessed with learning and doing ‘subtle energy work’, I feel so grateful for each ‘diamond/spirit’ I work with, being well aware of the mutual and yet individual sculpting we are participating in.
All of our experiences help to shape us into a Being that reflects our true inner beauty, our true infinite Spirit, which is Love and Light.
Thanks to all of my fellow ‘diamonds in the rough’. You are truly beautiful in every way.
Namaste,
Elaine
Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Journey and Joy of Being
When the mind is allowed to be at peace and the heart is allowed to heal and open to its true state of joy, spirit flows easily through our lives, expressing ecstatically its true Being here. It may take some practice to quiet the mind, but if we can simply allow the silence and stillness for a bit, letting all mental debris float effortlessly to the surface and gently back into our natural flow, we find ourselves in a clearer state of true awareness than we've ever known. From this place of simply Being, we begin to remember our true selves, seeing that we are infinite Love and Light itself. Our 'journey' here is simply Being. Anything our spirit feels inspired to Be.
My spirit is here to help awaken the Light of peace within, so that you may begin to heal your heart and open it to the joyful essence that you truly are.
Namaste,
Elaine
My spirit is here to help awaken the Light of peace within, so that you may begin to heal your heart and open it to the joyful essence that you truly are.
Namaste,
Elaine
Thursday, September 20, 2007
WHO YOU ARE
“It’s who you are, not what you do” (that ‘manifests’ your ‘life’ here.)
Since there is actually no ‘real’ cause and effect, as everything happens simultaneously, ( time is an invention/illusion of the mind), you are not the cause of your ‘life situation’ or problems. And you are not at the effect of the apparent ‘forces’ in the world. (unless of course you direct your thoughts, and energy in believing that you are)
Life streams. Not ‘life force’. Easy flow. Not pushed.
Being is your journey here. If you want to change something in your apparent life situation, change the thoughts you are Being. It’s that simple.
Who you are is what ‘manifests/reveals’ your life, if you let it. Mostly we do not allow our true selves to Be here simply because we have learned how to not trust.
A very long time ago a deep fear crept into the human condition when (as spirit) it began to fully experience this 3D world and experience itself AS form. That is, it began to identify itself as the form it was expressing to experience. Eventually it believed itself to Be the human form and a human mind and soon after began to feel a separation from itself, as infinite spirit. Forgetting it’s infiniteness, the sense of separation led to feelings of isolation which birthed this deep fear as not trusting.
Who you ARE already and have in truth always been, is this Infinite Loving Spirit.
There is nothing you have ‘to do’ in order to Be who you are. That of course would not make any sense.
Most of the struggle we experience in our day to day lives is no more than our mind’s unwillingness (or misunderstanding) to let go of all that we are NOT, which is everything except infinite Love and Light.
Feeding our minds continual doses of thoughts that make us feel separate from our infiniteness is the most heart-wrenching and most widespread of ‘dis-eases’ on the planet.
Being who you are (Infinite Love and Light), truly allowing and accepting it, is the only real ‘cure’.
Insight:
If you fear anything, you fear yourself. (It is like god fearing god.)
When you trust yourself and in who you are, you know there is nothing to fear.
This is trusting the eternal YOU, your eternal loving essence, not as a thing or even an idea or thought, but as that infinite Love that you already are.
To fear ‘something’ or believe in fear or in the idea of ‘needing to be’ afraid, is to deny your truth as already Being infinite Love and to choose instead to believe in the concept or idea that you are separate from yourself, your true nature as infinite Love.
You are that which wishes to ‘heal’ itself. To essentially return HOME to Its own Truth.
Since there is actually no ‘real’ cause and effect, as everything happens simultaneously, ( time is an invention/illusion of the mind), you are not the cause of your ‘life situation’ or problems. And you are not at the effect of the apparent ‘forces’ in the world. (unless of course you direct your thoughts, and energy in believing that you are)
Life streams. Not ‘life force’. Easy flow. Not pushed.
Being is your journey here. If you want to change something in your apparent life situation, change the thoughts you are Being. It’s that simple.
Who you are is what ‘manifests/reveals’ your life, if you let it. Mostly we do not allow our true selves to Be here simply because we have learned how to not trust.
A very long time ago a deep fear crept into the human condition when (as spirit) it began to fully experience this 3D world and experience itself AS form. That is, it began to identify itself as the form it was expressing to experience. Eventually it believed itself to Be the human form and a human mind and soon after began to feel a separation from itself, as infinite spirit. Forgetting it’s infiniteness, the sense of separation led to feelings of isolation which birthed this deep fear as not trusting.
Who you ARE already and have in truth always been, is this Infinite Loving Spirit.
There is nothing you have ‘to do’ in order to Be who you are. That of course would not make any sense.
Most of the struggle we experience in our day to day lives is no more than our mind’s unwillingness (or misunderstanding) to let go of all that we are NOT, which is everything except infinite Love and Light.
Feeding our minds continual doses of thoughts that make us feel separate from our infiniteness is the most heart-wrenching and most widespread of ‘dis-eases’ on the planet.
Being who you are (Infinite Love and Light), truly allowing and accepting it, is the only real ‘cure’.
Insight:
If you fear anything, you fear yourself. (It is like god fearing god.)
When you trust yourself and in who you are, you know there is nothing to fear.
This is trusting the eternal YOU, your eternal loving essence, not as a thing or even an idea or thought, but as that infinite Love that you already are.
To fear ‘something’ or believe in fear or in the idea of ‘needing to be’ afraid, is to deny your truth as already Being infinite Love and to choose instead to believe in the concept or idea that you are separate from yourself, your true nature as infinite Love.
You are that which wishes to ‘heal’ itself. To essentially return HOME to Its own Truth.
Monday, July 9, 2007
Perspectives
Today is infinite. Always.
This leads to disillusionment.
What's on the next list of temptations?
Perspectives only.
If we but ask and allow no 'answer', we will begin to get a glimpse, of the infinite perspectives
that will guide our lives without reason. It will appear as if there is even no 'rhyme' as the saying goes, but there IS a rhythm, as natural as the sunrise, the flow of every river on earth, a cool breeze in springtime and the quiet atop the stillest mountain.
If we but allow uncertainty to steadily creep into our conscious thought process, we may find the grandest and gentlest of rhythms. That of infinite peace and silence. Grace. It takes patience and a willingness to BE with it, but it is there.
We can still choose our perspectives day by day, moment by moment. But with an open, joyous heart, we choose the infinite as well. We choose grace while choosing to live in the flow of our Truth of BEing Love and Light.
It's all perspective.
This leads to disillusionment.
What's on the next list of temptations?
Perspectives only.
If we but ask and allow no 'answer', we will begin to get a glimpse, of the infinite perspectives
that will guide our lives without reason. It will appear as if there is even no 'rhyme' as the saying goes, but there IS a rhythm, as natural as the sunrise, the flow of every river on earth, a cool breeze in springtime and the quiet atop the stillest mountain.
If we but allow uncertainty to steadily creep into our conscious thought process, we may find the grandest and gentlest of rhythms. That of infinite peace and silence. Grace. It takes patience and a willingness to BE with it, but it is there.
We can still choose our perspectives day by day, moment by moment. But with an open, joyous heart, we choose the infinite as well. We choose grace while choosing to live in the flow of our Truth of BEing Love and Light.
It's all perspective.
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