More than ever now we are each called to develop and embody an inner mastery. The pull of the world is stronger than ever. The pull to polarization, the pull to fear and judgment or the pull to helplessness and collapse. The intensity is almost overwhelming at times.
But none of these work if peace or equanimity is what we seek in our hearts.
And so we are called to develop inner strength, inner authority and inner guidance. To be guided by our deepest voice, not by the shouts and opinions of others (although they can be useful) requires a search, a cleansing and a healing of all that undermines us and disempowers us. It is, in many ways, a glorious and rocky road home.
The destination doesn’t matter, for it is the journey that forges us and brings an intimacy and wisdom that may have been absent all our lives. This is the journey of coming to know oneself, and there is no greater or more fulfilling journey.
Such is inner mastery. It starts with coming to know.
If we embrace our humanity With great love and profound acceptance It becomes the only spirituality we need. ---------------------- I let the world in Bit by bit Until it flooded My entire house As I drowned I merged with it And discovered The world and I were one. ---------------------- With tears in their eyes They danced their sorrow Which became grace They have torn off the veil And thrown off their armor Nothing left of their defenses They are the ragged ones Hearts that blaze like the sun Spirit soaring to the heavens Nothing left but this praising love As they make their way back to eternity. ---------------------- It may take an entire lifetime To realize the only truth that matters Is the totality of love. ---------------------- Let us dance in presence Not just a dance of delight But a dance over hot coals A dance through suffering Attachment and desire It is a dance that allows things to be And to flow through without resistance Even as it may hurt and hurt again The exquisite dance of life. ---------------------- Each of us must enter the forest of shadows alone There is a rites of passage on the true spiritual journey That means the books must be put down And what is feared, what is held in the recesses Must be faced alone. ----------------------- Wherever you go Carry no grievance Each moment Could be your last Go with a clean mind And an open heart. ---------------------- My teacher told me To speak to the invisible world With words of beauty and reverence Not to try and get anything But to recognize and love the intelligence That is beyond perception I remember this always. ------------------------- The world is healed By one who seeks To become empty And unpolluted. --------------------------- A million knots Tie you up A complexity Tangled together Like a great ball Of string But the divine Is tugging at you And all it takes Is one true pull And the whole thing Can unravel Mind says That sounds terrible Innermost says That sounds like freedom. ---------------------------- Spiritual freedom Won’t come From trying to get it right That is self torment Most true spiritual freedom Arises from the mess Of failing to get it right And accepting That you don’t know what to do Or who you are Sometimes in that unknownness A door to grace may open. --------------------------- Thanks for reading.
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So much clarity- how wonderful 😍