I Trust

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I trust in the guiding hand of the divine love that flows through me.

I trust in my angels and the Archangels for guidance, support and protection.

The Future Beckons

The future beckons,
Life moves forward. 

Be true to yourself,
Allow yourself to be happy,
Allow yourself to be free,
Complete the journey,
Take the narrow path,
Reach for the sky,
Accept what is beautiful,
Allow yourself to be loved fully.

Have courage,
Have conviction,
Be consistent,
Believe in your dreams,
Let go of the past,
Make the changes.

Love drives away fear,
The universe supports the brave,
Don't be one of the crowd. 

 

 

Freedom in Silence: Absence and Presence

“The last sound is not the end of the music. If the first note is related to the silence that precedes it, then the last note must be related to the silence that follows it.”

 

Daniel Barenboim 

‘Everything is Connected The Power of Music’

We cannot hit the delete button and expect the music to suddenly stop immediately, leaving no trace. The music continues to resonate from the past, into the present and then flows into and informs the future. 

 

Ripples of sound flowing ever-onward: inward and outward even in what appears to be the silence following the music. The absence of the music contrasts with the prior presence of the music and can make us miss it even more.

This is perhaps related to the grief we feel when a valued relationship ends - when we are cut-off from that person physically. We might say that the music created by the presence of that person in our life still resonates in our hearts, even in their absence. 

So, there is no point in denying the presence of our lost loved one within the silence of their absence. Perhaps it’s better to acknowledge their presence and the connection we will always have with them, despite their absence. This seems to me to be a nourishing and healing approach. 

It does not deny, de-value or discard the other person or the shared past. It does not cut-off the other person and unilaterally disconnect from them. It does not punish or condemn or obliterate them from our past. This is not freedom from the past, this approach actually ties us to the past.

All cutting-off does is avoid and deny and 'hook-in', which, it seems to me, can never lead to true healing or personal evolution and development. Avoidance leads to suppression, rather than true freedom and liberation. 

We must engage with the past fully, unconditionally and bravely in order to process it, release it, set it free. Otherwise, the past - the very thing we are trying to avoid - becomes trapped within us.  

Maybe this is why both music and silence are so healing - they can both help process grief and a broken heart. And maybe this is also why buildings like concert halls and cathedrals are so important to the bereaved and the heartbroken. They are sacred spaces in which music fills the silence, presence fills absence and where we can connect with those people and times we still love, even in their absence. 

I read this recently:  

 

“Only if we can honour the past can we be nourished by it.” 

 

I’ve thought a lot about this - it’s very true. That is how we find continuity in life. All the highs and lows, mistakes, successes, joys and sorrows are part of the irreducible whole, which flows from past to future and which is comprised of both absence and presence. Absence and presence cannot exist without each other. 

It's important to continue to remember and honour all the shared 'small moments' - both during presence and in absence. 

 

Allow yourself to cherish what freedom there is in silence. 

 

 

Beloved Person

 

 ~ A ghrá, my love; my dear. 

~ mo chroí, my heart's beloved, my darling.

You were my beloved.

You seared your soul on my heart.

My beloved,
My darling.

So many names.

Words unsaid... no words left... too many words said.

 In desperation,

In the vain hope that you might listen or respond in some way.

How to respond?

It was complicated...

But,
I loved you,
With all my heart,
With all my soul.

I loved you.

I love you still,
You are with me,
Within me,
Always.

Your soul
Seared on my heart.

Oh Great Creator!

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Oh Great Creator!

Purify me in the fire of your divinity,

Dissolve the darkness within me,

Cradle me in the bliss of your grace,

Lift me up, set me free,

Renew me, create me afresh,

Bathe me in your golden rays of light,

Guide me home, elevate me, make me bright, 

May it be done.

Creativity occurs in the space of possibility

Creativity occurs in the space of possibility. 

When you look for certainty, and make a choice, you close down creativity and possibilities. 

The space of uncertainty is ambiguous, but full of potential.

Love lives in that space in between. 

That's where the magic is. 

But it takes practice time and patience to always live in that space with an open heart. 

It takes trust. 

It takes faith to align with and flow with the universe because the universe works in its own time in its own way. 

String and Bow: Tom Baxter

Half of what I say, I say in vain, 
Though I say it anyway.

I loved you.

Underneath my armour there remains,

A hidden ghost of you each day.

I loved you.

Aim your string and bow,

And let it go,

Because I loved you.

Angel set me free,

Don’t punish me,

 Because I loved you.

Deep inside my sorrow I’m estranged,

Part of me has been erased.

I loved you.

I’m aimless as an arrow without a bow,

I’ve no direction, no way home.

I loved you.

Aim your string and bow,

And let it go,

Because I loved you.

Angel set me free,

Don’t punish me,

because I loved you.

On and on our story goes,

The river overflows.

Time and time and time again,

I’ve tried to let you go.

Aim your string and bow,

And let it go,

Because I loved you.

To Be is Enough

Liberation comes when you realize there is nothing other than Being. 

All the Doing is distraction. 

To Be is enough.

To exist is exquisite.  

Forgiveness Prayer

I’m sorry for all the times I have done what I should not have done.
 

Please forgive me.

Thank you.

I am grateful for your unconditional love.

I love you.

Sun Rise Disguise

Sun rises,
I wear my disguises.

Tracing threads,
Across the sky.

On starchy mornings,
Birds circling,
Death defying leaps -
Like fish.

Lost in conscience,
You hide inside my heart,
Barely conscious.

I couldn’t give you my life,
But I gave you my love.

I Am Bliss

I Am Bliss,

I Am Desire,

I Am Love.

This Bliss is Me,

This Desire is Me,

This Love is Me.

I am sewn into your bed sheets.

And I weave my way,

Into your heart.

Watching Words in the Water

The Words come and go,

As I watch the water flow.

What it is to grow,

To reach up,

To stretch and 

To be seen.

To remain alert,

But all the while serene.

The Golden Light of Home

In the evening,

We walk the fields of our dreams,

In the bright golden light.

You show me the way home, 

We're hand in hand,

At each other's side.

And now my heart is aching,

In the early morning silence,

So near yet so far away.

I looked and looked,

I tried and tried,

And rarely got it right.

Little did I know,

All along it was you,

Hiding at home,

Who was wishing for flight.

And now finally you appear,

A shining star in my night,

A beautiful sight.

I'm breaking in two,

Because we're so far apart,

But you're always with me,

Here in my heart.

We're making a new start,

Now those stars are aligned,

I'm amazed at how they shine.

You've lit a spark in me again,

A light that I thought had gone out,

I'm whole again,

You're healing my broken heart.

Acting with integrity

 Image from: http://childrensyoga.com/indras-net-all-is-one-one-is-all/ 

The universe can only support us fully when we act with integrity.

The universe is fundamentally based on ethical and moral codes, which are developmental / evolutionary - not fixed, but which are essential for the cohesive integration and harmony of the whole system.

Coherence within freedom is integrity - integration.

When we are integrated (acting with integrity) within ourselves we are in harmony with the universe. 

We are parts of that harmonious whole. It supports us and we contribute to it. 

This is when the synchronicities / meaningful coincidences occur as we flow with that greater intelligence.

Insights From a Silent Pilgrimage

A complete rainbow at the summit of the hill. 

On one side sun, on the other rain. 

The rainbow at the boundary between light and shadow.

"The deeds and sufferings of light". 

Goethe

The woods battered by the weather, 

Trees with limbs missing and some fallen and broken. 

The scars of their experience. 

Nature just accepts and transforms the scars into new beauty. 

We also have our scars as we journey and gain new experience. 

The scars are the records of our life's pilgrimage - ever transforming, ever changing,

Transient like that rainbow, but leaving a record etched on our souls.

Based on a comment at: http://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Re-Creating-Science-Meetup/events/228399196/

Growth in the pain

 Image from: http://lizhester.org/in-every-acorn-is-a-mighty-oak/

There is growth in the pain....

The oak seed shoot has to smash the acorn open to become a tree.

Living the journey into meaning

We start where we are......

Living the journey into meaning......

Meaning the journey in the living......

......Journeying the meaning in the living. 

We start as 'no-things'/'know-things'. 

We begin in the potential of possibilities. But we may also come with fear and lack of faith. We may try to push into the matter, where there is a resistance, which comes from past hurts. And the scars still show on our hardened and shadowed skins. 

The light is at the hub in our hearts. The light will speak as it radiates out to that permeable rim. And even then the shadows may synergise with that light to create the rainbow colours, which portray the full spectrum of who we are. 

When we start with meaning, it matters. The journey evolves of its own accord and the action comes at the appropriate time in the right way.

First published online as a comment at:

http://www.journeyschool.org/enacting/2016/2/12/creating-the-container-of-journey-school

Some Valentine's Day Reflections

"Emerging" by Sabina Iancu

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Take some time today to sink into that place of pure love, which is beyond but also within the distractions of matter.

It's incredible and multidimensional. There is beauty in the patterns of evolving form - Yes! - this is the explicit. The expressions of a deeper and underlying, but all encapsulating implicit and ever-present love, which is the silent presence within our hearts, containing all possibility and potential and from which all things Spring.

I feel like God is a perpetual playful child, but also the wisest child. The ultimate old soul who plays and laughs and loves and creates in equal measure. The spirit at the core of all events, things and processes.

We are within that all-encapsulating benevolence. And yet, we are also It. We are that Love, that Playfulness, that Joy, that Presence. God / All That Is / The One is here now always. As are We - the Can-Do-Its / The Conduits for that love to come through us and from within us. .... 

Our love will indeed Emerge .....if we allow it...

It is the pure light of love shining from the core of who We Are when we are simply ourselves. Humble and open. We have under-estimated ourselves. Our hearts of gold, spinning golden threads. A web of relationship and connection within the infinite flowering that allows us and God to emerge and merge even more fully formed as we find ourselves more fully.

 Happy Valentine's Day!

He Wonders

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He wonders what this is?
This Organism, this Being,
They have created from above,
That they have invested with their energy and love.

Something new and beauteous has emerged,
From the depths of who they really are,
They have found themselves,
Each in the eyes, ears and heart of the other.

No effort required,
Only love revealed,
No fear anymore,
Just infinite flow.

He sees the way ahead,
Her radiant eyes are glowing,
Lighting the paths,
Of his to-ing and fro-ing

In the midst of his darkness,
She hears his anguished call,
She reaches out to break his fall,
And her stars shine within him.

He is caught in the net of her wonder,
He spirals in the greatness of her galaxy,
He basks in the heat of her sun,
And the the threads of his heart

 Are gently teased apart and torn asunder.

Parts and Wholes

Armenian Wheel of Eternity

From: http://tours-armenia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Arenkhach.jpg

We are ALL 'parts' of the same whole and the whole is fully in each of us. We are The same One expressing differently through each of us. The same but different. There is multiplicity in the unity.

We are all connected and resonating with our soul mates and soul group and the collective of all humanity. When one heals, the others benefit too. Especially when the healing is regarding particular specific issues like the challenges of these beautiful new soul connections and the problems of holding on to old outmoded templates.

Hard to let go of the friends from the past who have served us well but inhibit are movement forward. All is change. All is process.

Like sand slipping through fingers we cannot fix our lives in place or grasp at the straws of the past.

As above so below, as within so without. Harmony begets harmony. Yes, we will create waves, but it's how we surf those waves. We can harmonise with those waves and let them bring us gently to shore, while enjoying the ride! Experiencing what it is to flow with life and trust in the wisdom of the universe coming through us. For we are all free and abundant expressions of the universe!

And the way forward is through deep heart felt connections that bring us more freedom and abundance. Only then can our creativity fully flow. We grow. 

We evolve. The universe grows. The universe evolves. An eternal wheel creating itself ever new as it revolves in perfection!