Thoughts come, thinking they are the only reality,
then breath intercedes quietly intertwined with heartbeat.
Notice this.
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:: Re-Membering the Healer's Spirit ::
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What I know is what I know only in this moment.
It helps to remember that we are not the boss of our life. We do try to control so much of it, even with supposedly good intentions. Our fake ego, or alter ego, thinks it is in charge, making up this and that.
Then something happens that throws everything up in the air.
Seems that upheaval is the only way to get our attention. Welcome chaos when it knocks on your door. Some-one(thing) pretty special wants you to do something pretty special. Don't let fear of black holes keep you immobile.
We each came here to do something. As Steven Pressfield says, Do the Work. "Start before you're ready."
For me today, the outer work is weed eating and cleaning my guest cottage.
My real work shows up minute by minute.
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Our central core gets buried by our shenanigans. We want to create our own versions of the truth, and we also let others tell us what it is. So we create madeup scenarios about our lives and the meaning of our lives.
Our central core sends us uneasiness, or even pain, twinges of conscience, and nudges us all the time. Honor your central core by listening to it. It will never fail you.
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We are constantly looking outside of ourselves to make everything just right. We sense something is missing in our lives, and we think it can only come from the outside. This misperception is the fuel behind greed, inequity, and even war.
*If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you.
If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you.*
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*from the Gnostic scripture recorded by St. Thomas,
circa 50-140 AD, found in 1945 in Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
We humans pretend we can gain control of our lives through discipline, dedication and determination. These attempts may keep our closets in order, or our bodies trim, or our children in line, or help us maintain an illusion we are the best. But, not for long.
Life itself is propelled by an innate imperative to become what it has not yet been, or seen, as Martín Prechtel calls it--"the never-before-seen-bird."
Welcome the unexpected as a long lost friend and a true heart-companion who will always reveal you as the artist you are, a co-creator of creation itself.
Martín's book where you will find the story of the never-before-seen-bird.
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The word God carries such a huge baggage, no matter what perspective you have. God does not judge, hate, punish, or harm. This mysterious energy field has given us free will choice, and we are the ones who have assigned these negative attributes.
Many religions have taught, and still teach, that we need an intermidiary to talk with God. Sometimes this is a priest, minister, or even other holy beings. God is as close as your breath, and is not called God by itself.
As the infinitely wise Taoist text says, it cannot be named.
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The Tao te Ching
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell (1988)
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If you can talk about it, it ain’t Tao.
If it has a name, it’s just another thing.
Tao doesn’t have a name.
Names are for ordinary things.
Stop wanting stuff. It keeps you from seeing what’s real.
When you want stuff, all you see are things.
These two statements have the same meaning.
Figure them out, and you’ve got it made.
Translated by Ron Hogan (1994)
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The way you can go
isn’t the real way.
The name you can say
isn’t the real name.
Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things.
So the unwanting soul
sees what’s hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.
Two things, one origin,
but different in name,
whose identity is mystery.
Mystery of all mysteries!
The door to the hidden.
translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (1998)
Judging thoughts of others, or ourselves, can show up so fast. These thoughts come with such power, destructive power. Learn the difference between judgment and discernment. One has a disconnection with the human spirit, the other is bathed in wisdom and compassion. One hates, and the other chooses the direction of love.
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So often we see ourselves and each other through limited filters. What others think about us, or have thought about us in the past, are actually energetic thought forms that can stick to us, inaccurately defining who we are. While it is not always possible for some people to see us as we really are, we can ask to be protected from and cleared of the inaccurate energetic goop that may be still stuck to us from the past.
The universe responds to every request we make. Ask that only that which is truthful and authentic to light up your YOU. Ask to clear any false hangers-on, inside and out.
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