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You Can Relax Now

heartsdeesire — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:02:44 +0000

Well it’s the end of the month, time to ring out the old and bring in the new.
And time for a message from our sponsor! Just kidding :) except you could
say this is a message from our Sponsor, of sorts.

The lyrics included below are from the only song I’ve ever sung solo in public.
I sang it acappella at a Religious Science Church in Dallas. Notice that I haven’t
been invited back to sing it again. :)

I originally heard Shivanand Thomas Amelio’s rendering of this song on his CD
entitled Inner Quest. He is a yogi as well as a singer that I was introduced to at the
Kripalu Yoga Center in Massachusetts.

And so the message is:

Truly, you can relax now.

Love, Bethie

You can relax now
Come on and close your eyes
Breathe deeply now
I am with you.
Oh my sweet, sweet child
Who do you think you are
You are a child of God
And that will never change.

You can relax now
Come on and close your eyes
Breathe deeply now
I am with you.
You are the love of my life.
You are my own creation.
You are eternity
And that will never change.

You had a dream
You misunderstood
You thought we were separate
But now you hear my voice say:
You can relax now
Come on and close your eyes
breathe deeply now
I am with you.
Oh my sweet, sweet child
who do you think you are
you are a child of God
And that will never change.

You had a dream
You misunderstood
You thought we were separate
But now you hear my voice say:
You can relax now
Come on and close your eyes
Breathe deeply now
I am with you
You are the love of my life
You are my own creation
You are eternity
And that will never change.

Beloved Child

heartsdeesire — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:10:58 +0000

My beloved child
break your heart no longer.
Each time you judge yourself
you break you own heart.

Excerpted from Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
Quoting Swami Shri Kriplalvanandji ‘Bapuji’ beloved
father of Kripalu Yoga

The Beginning of Wisdom

heartsdeesire — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:17:23 +0000

As Socrates taught,

“The beginning of wisdom is the
acknowledgment of our own ignorance.”

We are encouraged to empty ourselves
of our posturing, of being the “one who knows,”
so that we can fill up with a new kind of knowing.

…as we let go of the pretense of knowing, our
vulnerabilities are exposed.

excerpted from Yoga and the Quest for the True Self~Stephen Cope

The Divine Child

heartsdeesire — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:25:26 +0000

Inevitably, after we have these moments of recognizing who we really
are, we fall asleep again. But some of us are never the same. We’re
haunted by what we’ve experienced. It echoes in everything we do.
Having experienced it once, we quicken to our truest nature when it is
revealed to us again –as it inevitably will be. We feel the alienation
from this way of being when we’re not living from it. We feel homesick
for our true nature. We begin to long for it.

All mystical paths have taught that the union with God, or with the
Absolute, subtly transforms the self. Each time we penetrate into
samadhi, we have a small death-rebirth experience. Samadhi destroys
the world as we know it–it’s boundaries and categories. The deeper
into union I penetrate, the less I am “I”, and the more I am “we”. For
this reason, the merger with the One is known to create psychological
upheaval and world-shattering shifts in perception.

…These are the deaths that are necessary for the birth of what Carl
Jung called “the divine child” — the deeper layers of the spirtitual self.

excerpted from Yoga and the Quest for the True Self~Stephen Cope