tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56988567070284900062024-03-05T09:10:06.371-08:00Reflections from WithinValeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07913831751287330033noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698856707028490006.post-9136383076144920592018-07-05T14:18:00.000-07:002018-07-05T14:21:47.893-07:00LET IT BEGIN WITH ME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Humanity is beginning to understand the sameness that bonds us all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It never ceases to amaze me that by getting up an hour earlier it's possible to hop on a plane and be in a different world by 10:00 the same morning. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I recently traveled from summer-scorched Denver to Southern California for an interlude of renewal. In the presence of the sea, I felt my soul entirely transfigured by wonder. The interplay of water and light we call "ocean" is alchemy for the spirit, a witnessing presence abiding eternally in calm depths and endless miles of liquid intelligence.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A sumptuous <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k">video</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> from the life celebration of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, set to his amazing rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." This offering soars to touch us in places that are hidden and cherished. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And as we move along the path, awakening to greater levels of reality, we deepen our ability to perceive the goodness and the beauty of the Divine in the world around us, the intelligence and benevolence of the created world in action. Initially it’s easier to see in nature, in the unspoiled character of plant life, rivers, mountains, animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the natural world there’s not the capacity of mind that has taken humans down a path distant from their divine nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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who have traveled to the moon share their experience of being outside the
density of consciousness present on earth. They describe a deep illuminating
awareness of their relationship to the galaxy and the entire cosmic organism.
They experience a deep conviction of purpose and benevolence in the character
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here on earth, we find it’s becoming more and more unbearable
being imprisoned by the limits of a materialistic, humanly dictated
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">By design, that unbearableness is the necessary motivation
to evolve, to escape the prison of fear-bound orientation. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Because</i> it’s unbearable, we choose to
evolve. We are driven to look
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right now are the things that galvanize us to move forward, to move upward, and
to embrace a more illumined and compassionate view of life. Let us take up those tools and craft a
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wish for, more than anything else; we long for this as a felt, embodied
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we're completely loved and cherished by the Divine, the Source of all life, and
in that experience we find the ultimate fullness in being alive. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They go together, the receiving and the giving. And that’s the experience we’re
awakening to: Knowing the fullness
of our divine humanity. The depth of fulfillment and joy and ease we will feel
in this world of expanded dimension will fill us to overflowing. And will bring us home again, at last, to being completely loved.</span></div>
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lifetime, for most of us, is not a time to go apart and seek the individual
illumination; that’s not what this life is for. This life is to be lived in the web of connectedness with
all that humanity is feeling and experiencing. In fact, it’s a role that’s been anticipated for eons through
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role, through the personalities we have chosen, is to be a part of the whole of
humanity, like yeast in a loaf of bread dough. We can’t play that role if we're off by ourself
somewhere; we have to be embedded. And in these times, the density of being embedded in worldly culture and institutions can be very challenging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we resist this life, resist the density and the constraints of it, let us remember that we have in fact chosen this role at this
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steps ahead will likely not be clear most of the time. But the heart can lead, and through the
heart, the way will show itself. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07913831751287330033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698856707028490006.post-37809868761488192772012-07-18T05:22:00.006-07:002018-06-05T12:31:22.445-07:00EXPANDED PERSPECTIVE<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As we move through these times, how do we nurture our capacity to see the hand of the Divine at
work and to trust it? It’s hard to trust when the trend of events appears to be
going in the wrong direction, a direction that appears not to be beneficial for
humanity and the planet. And it’s
the tendency of the human mind to think it knows, that it has considered all or
sufficient of the factors at work so that a judgment can be made. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And yet what we see as humans is such a small part of the
puzzle! It brings to mind a photograph from the
Hubble telescope that captures a slice of the known universe. Within the photo are hundreds of galaxies
of different colors and shapes and sizes; so many it just boggles the
mind. And yet the slice of the universe in this photo is so small it equates to what you would see through a hole the size of a dime -- if the dime was held out 75 feet out! So tiny - such a tiny, tiny bit of our glorious universe do we see.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our human intelligence is comparable to this lens in its limitations,
its smallness of capacity to perceive. Yet the mind thinks it can judge
what’s going on in the world - and feel certain that it’s all going drastically
wrong - and this is reason for anguish and consternation and distress.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So we are fortunate to have a larger
perspective made available to us. These pictures of our universe and our neighboring
galaxies… the amazing wonders of
our own galaxy; what a gift! The ability to see our home planet, Earth, from the perspective of the moon…
these expansions to our perception of our relationship to the larger cosmos
have come to us at a time when we need them most. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We need something larger than the chaos of the manmade world right now to orient to. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the beauty and intelligence of the
cosmos, we have found it. </span><br />
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planet and our species are currently at a crux point where shift is happening
on many different levels that humans are not aware of. We just see a surface level, which
looks and feels very chaotic right now, but at these deeper levels, all this
amazing change is going on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It’s an indicator of how far human perception has wandered from alignment
with life that we don’t know this, and that we doubt the outcome, that we worry
about it, we think we might be able to personally screw it up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In fact there
is no cause for worry or fear that we won’t make it. That’s not possible. The outcome is already assured at the
level of Universal intent. The energetic reality of its completion – that’s already
in place. All that remains is for
the manifest piece to shape-shift into the new earth, the new humanity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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while we think this event is out in the future, we are in the eleventh hour,
the 59th minute, of its final manifestation, its final crystallization into
manifest form. And really, all we need to do is relax and observe and love
what’s happening and ride the wave of it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Many of us carry an identity deep within ourselves as part of a cohort. It’s been carried deep, deep in the heart, at a soul level
that’s not always been understood by the personality. This deep sense of cohort has come into consciousness at times like a longing; an achingly deep longing for the group that one
knows one belongs to. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There’s an image that conveys this bond, one of companions
across the ages. It speaks of a brotherhood of the heart carried forward from other times
and other places. It's an experience of having fought side by side and back-to-back
on the battlefield. We find ourselves bonded at an unseen level by a calling of honor, a standing for the greater good.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The longing that we’ve felt for this calling, this cohort, is being fulfilled across the eons in the
work of this astonishing lifetime. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When we feel troubled that the chaos around us
makes no sense, and we are not given understanding of why it needs to be, it’s
good to remember that we don’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">need</i>
to understand. What’s taking place
is part of a design so vast it’s not in the nature of creation for the human
mind to be able to understand.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It’s not a small thing; it’s possibly the greatest leap our
species has ever been required to make.
So it’s good to be patient with ourselves as the building blocks of
consciousness within each of us shift, one by one or ten by ten. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To expect to make this leap from start to end in a single bound is a fantasy of the human ego. Most of us have come into this
life with an agreement to be embedded within the human organism. Our evolutionary path will keep pace with
that larger organism. The service
to be rendered is that of sharing the common experience and working from within
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to be one of the many, traveling together, than to be a shooting star of
enlightenment whom no one comprehends.
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the greater service of the many does not follow that path. As this transition
progresses, we will unfold a deeply soul-satisfying companionship in our work
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open, a very beautiful stage of the rose.
This rosebud is surrounded by a pool of soft, brilliant light, and the
transmission behind the image is one of clarity and freshness; it speaks of the new life
that's unfolding amid the vast cultural shift we’re all going through. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The rosebud represents the deeper truth that most of us
don’t see or perceive yet. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We see the chaos and the confusion, and we see what
feels like a lot of darkness in the outer events that surround us. And yet the truth of what’s happening
is this freshness and beauty we see in the rose, perfect potential that is just
getting ready to start opening.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> It
lives in the light and the warmth and benevolence of greater reality. </span></div>
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at as a planetary organism in this transition. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We’re not a tight little green bud that hasn’t even begun to
show petal color, we’re actually a fully formed bud that’s already begun
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it’s hard to believe there’s even a bud on the thorny bush of our manmade
world, and yet in truth we’ve come all this way already. It’s good to remember that just as the
rosebud will follow the path of its destiny, in the same way we as a planetary
organism will blossom in our fullness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A stunning exploration of the galactic center.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Experience the deepest sense of home imaginable in this dance with the galaxy. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Witness it rising, in its sublime and majestic glory; </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wheeling, in a slow arc across the deep blackness of the night;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">whispering</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> its mysteries through the eddies of time and space. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our birthplace, our origins and home, all lie</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> in this magnificent </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">center of light.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is mastery </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">at a level so vast </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">our only response can be awe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As the world situation intensifies there will be more and more events of greater intensity presenting themselves for our attention, events that reach out to entangle the mind and the emotions. Anchoring ourselves in our deepest values, and strengthening the alignment between the personality and the innate wisdom of the soul will help us live from a place of personal peace. As the next few years unfold, we’ll find it increasingly important to avoid being pulled off balance by outer events. A new world is taking form within us and around us, and it’s there that we want to center our attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our path through this work is organic; it arises naturally as a progression of events – one follows another. While we have no map to follow, as we become more cognizant of the rhythms and patterns of this journey, we develop a path. The ways we work in the world and our responses to the events of our lives arise in the context of the moment.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most of the time, we can only see the single stepping stone ahead of us. We can’t see the progression itself, where it’s going. And with experience, we become comfortable pausing on the stone where we stand, waiting until the next stone comes into view. As we see the process unfold in this way, we come to trust the ground we’re standing on and our ability move to the next step. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because there is no map, we shift from an intellectual approach to an intuitive one based in trust. We trust the experience of being exactly where we are, comfortable or not, knowing we have the ability to take the next step when it moves us forward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When we move in this manner from one stepping stone to the next, there are many possibilities where the next stone could appear. If we had a map of the stones laid out from beginning to end, there would be no choice but to follow that single path. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">The mapped sequence is static -- it only leads to one place. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">In this step-by-step organic process of movement, if factors shift while we’re standing on one stone, the next one may appear in a surprising – but newly appropriate – location. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Going one step at a time and letting trust lead the way, we can end up exactly where life needs us to be. </span></div>
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