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Moving With The Current

heartsdeesire — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:09:54 +0000

We’ve all had them – challenges and circumstances that leave their unforgettable impact and change us forever. Abraham aptly terms it: the contrast.

I would like to believe that we have chosen the contrast on some level before we ever fully emerged into these bodies. I don’t believe we chose the specifics of it so much as the generalities. I do believe we chose it before we were capable of feeling fear and before we formed individual ideas of what’s good and what’s bad or even what’s right and what’s wrong.

The beautiful thing about making peace with having chose it all on some level is that I don’t have to understand why – just know that whatever it is, I chose it. This is a far more empowering feeling than the victim stance of this happened to me and I have no control over it and it sucks. And I feel it’s even more empowering than searching for positive aspects in certain situations where I just can’t come by it honestly.

I actually dreamed one night about someone very close to me who is a heroin addict. I dreamed we were in non-physical and talking about how we were going to come down to earth in these bodies and have this relationship with each other. We spoke eagerly about this adventure we were going to have and there was this sense that this undertaking meant lots of challenges with thrilling twists and turns. But there was no fear, no judgement at all about it, the only feeling was one of enthusiastic anticipation.

The dream scene then changed and we were in physical bodies here on earth. We were in a small boat on a river and we were still happily awaiting the contrast we were about to experience. Then the water became choppy, darkness descended and one of us was thrown overboard into the water. At that moment, the drama began to unfold and we were both lost in the dream. We forgot the initial agreement we made in non-physical. We become immersed and lost both literally and metaphorically in the water, in the dream I was dreaming, in the drama.

The dream ends but leaves behind its message: this was all a choice and from your non-local vantage point, you were not afraid, nor did you say this is a good pile of things to experience and this is a bad pile of things to experience. You wanted it all. You didn’t just come to paint with the color yellow, you didn’t just come to ride the smooth train from point A to point B. You did want it all. And remembering this, I step out of immersion and I make peace with where I am and what I have lived and will live. Making peace, I pass from moving against the current of life to moving with the current of life.

Spiritual Goody Two Shoes

heartsdeesire — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:13:26 +0000

Yes, that was me – aspiring Spiritual Goody Two Shoes. Just before I was about to receive my certification in Spiritual Goody Two Shoes, I had the sudden realization that I have a dark side. Well, let’s be clear it wasn’t a sudden realization so much as a willingness to take a look in my own spiritual closets and acknowledge there was in fact a monster in there. I’d closed that door on my monsters many a time. I denied it and privately lived in shame.

Perhaps it’s the toughest door to open and yet, ironically requires an innocence of us. An innocence of mind to open that door and be willing to look at whatever is in there. Rummaging through my spiritual closets, illuminated a new meaning for the term “mercy and goodness”, taken from the 23rd Psalm. It required of me a readiness to show myself that mercy and goodness even as I revealed my darker sides. Now that I’ve opened that door, I’ve discovered I’m not unlike anything or anyone else, this Universe consists of shades of light and dark and I am not exempt from that.

I also learned there is a softness, a leaning into life when I cease to resist this dark side. My world becomes a more welcoming one. No more running from what’s behind that closet door. The monster can come in bed with me now, we’ll read each other bed time stories. We’ll talk, we’ll have our giggles and tears. We’ll hug and sleep next to each other and in the morning we’ll step out into the full light of day and walk with an open hearted transparency about us because suddenly our world is a friendlier one and all the demons are no more.

There Is Nothing Wrong With You

heartsdeesire — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:31:11 +0000

Learn to be present.

Practice hearing the voices in your head
without becoming involved and without
judgment.

And take it on faith that any
voice, internal or external, that is
telling you that
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU
is not the voice
of your
Heart,
God,
True Nature.

The reason acceptance isn’t more popular
is that in acceptance
there is nothing to do.

In acceptance there is nothing “wrong”
that needs to be changed, fixed, worked
on or otherwise improved.

And the simple,
astounding
mind boggling amazing
FACT
is that as soon as you accept yourself
EXACTLY
AS
YOU
ARE…

…all those “character flaws”
ANGRY
SELFISH
STRESSFUL
SHY
AGGRESSIVE
DEPENDENT
SNOBBISH
RECLUSIVE

BEGIN TO FALL AWAY

BECAUSE

those “flaws” have their
only existence
in nonacceptance,
in self-hate…

Once I catch on to how this
self-hate process works,
I see that it goes on all the time,
everywhere…

When I see this to be true,
self-hate ceases to be a private,
secret thing I do
that proves I’m a bad person.

I can begin to take it less personally.

At some point,
now or later,
you’re going to have to risk
Being You
in order to find out
who that really is.

Not the conditioned you,
not the you you’ve been taught
to believe you are,
who you really are.

And this perhaps will be
the scariest,
the most loving,
the most rewarding
thing you have ever done.

excerpted from There is Nothing Wrong With You:
Going Beyond Self-Hate
Author: Cheri Huber

The Power of Love

heartsdeesire — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:03:19 +0000

Come with me now, down this garden path, and sit with me at this stream. Watch how the water flows by. See how it flows over and around the rocks. See how it flows even where there are obstacles; even a dam of rocks, higher than the bed of the stream, cannot stop the flow. It may hold back the water for a time, but eventually, the water will prevail. It may rise up and flow over the top of the dam. It may simply leave the banks of the stream, spread out and go around the dam. Or it may find the weakness in the dam and through its relentless pressure cause the dam to crumble as the water is let loose to flow freely again.

This water is love, the source of all being. It is freedom and power, unrelenting, unending. It overcomes all barriers which lie before it through its unending flow. But yet its pressure is gentle. For the rocks over which it flows, it is soothing and purifying. For that which dwells within it and on the banks along the side, it is a life giver, flowing and gentle. And yet, when it is thwarted, as with the dam, it prevails through its unrelenting nature.

There is nothing that you can do, nothing you can fail to do, that will keep love from you. There is no blame you can place upon yourself that will stop the flow of love in your life. Love is the blood that flows in your veins, the breath that goes in and out of your body. Love is an essential part of who you are. It cannot be stopped. It cannot be overcome. And even if it is forced underground for a time, still it flows and will again be made visible in your life.

You are blameless before this love. You are not judged and found wanting. You, exactly as you are right now, are deeply loved, are a part of love, are made of love eternal. You breathe and it flows. You live and it flows. You are love.

The life-giving source is within you and it is the foundation of your freedom. The more you allow yourself to become one with the flow of love, the more freedom you will experience in your life. The more you give it away, the more it will flow in to fill you. The more you acknowledge its presence within you, the more you will flow and glow with love and freedom, going so deeply into the holy center of love that you finally see and know and feel who you are: a shining beacon of love and light in human form, as holy and free as anyone who has ever walked the earth and ever will. You–yes, you–are the ultimate expression of love.

The rocks of fear may pile up around you and in front of you, but you are not those rocks. You are the flowing stream of love and you will prevail over the barriers and watch them crumble and tumble before you. Such is your power, the power of love.

~Quado, as channeled by Carrie Hart

Tranquility

heartsdeesire — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:50:20 +0000

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

~Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa~

It is such a relief to be reminded that as outer conditions don’t always seem to
swing into agreement in the ways I want them to, that there is Grace. As Florence
Scovel Shinn once wrote, I am under Grace and not under Law. I am reminded
again that I live under the umbrella of a Benevolent Universe. The scales are
inescapably tipped in our favor. And so, I set my sails with a deep surrender,
which is not to say I cease to have my desires, but is to say I make peace with
the way things are now.

Is Disallowing Necessary?

heartsdeesire — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:51:27 +0000

I don’t know if I would use the word necessary
but I would say it’s inevitable.
It comes with the territory
of free will and the freedom to choose.

and it doesn’t have to be a bad thing,
it could be a clarifying thing
where you define more and more
what it is you really want to let in.

Two sides, same coin.
You could call it the buffer of time,
you could call it Abe’s data collecting side trip
or the holy creative space
of honing your true ever changing,
ever expanding desires.

Holy creative space…hmmm,
I think I like that alot.

There Is A Field

heartsdeesire — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:57:25 +0000

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.

~Rumi~

In My World I Am Good

heartsdeesire — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:05:37 +0000

I want you to do something. I want you to deal with this for the following week:
`This is my world, and in my world I am good.´ And I want you to apply that to
your lives. I want you to write what it means to you and how it can change your
lives if you realize it thoroughly. In your own lives, in your own world, you are
good. And, if you are good, and if you believe you are good, what changes might
you make? How might your attitude be altered?
Seth (ESP Class, 11-21-72)

I pulled this section out of a much longer explanation that Seth gives to the
question: why do people kill each other, why is there war? I think I see what
Seth is saying here that peace must begin with me. And what is inner peace
but to align with your own inherent goodness.

It must be then that if I am looking through a lens that says the world is
sometimes not a safe place it is because I am sometimes not a safe place. And
I say that because it seems I am willing to still give myself to the belief that
I am not good enough in some ways. During happier times, this voice seems
very quiet but other times, especially during “contrast-y” times it feels like
thunder rolling through me. I realize that if I don’t see myself as good, if
I’m not at peace, if I am not a safe place, then how can anything in my world
reflect that.

I want to live right here and now, as if I and everything is intrinisically good.
I know deep down I truly believe this. I just have practiced it’s opposite and
when the contrast hits the fan, everything like it seems to rise to the surface.
Well why is that? Maybe it’s a call to heal this once and for all. Maybe it’s
a call to really *consciously* question what I am willing to give myself to? Am I
willing to give myself to my goodness, am I willing to give myself to I am a good,
safe and peaceful place? Because that is who I really am and I do know this to
be true.

Now, am I willing to live what I know to be the truth, as truth?

Love, Bethie

Getting All My Ducks In A Row

heartsdeesire — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:25:10 +0000

How do you get aligned and how do you stay there?

When you poof into pure positive energy you will pretty much ‘stay there’
from what I gather Abraham tells us. But they also say you didn’t come
here to paint with the same color. You came here for the experiences
that flow into constantly developed new desires and preferences.

And my personal perspective tells me that it’s not being out of alignment
that bothers me so much as what I am telling myself about being out of
alignment. I could be saying things like: this feels so bad, why can’t I
get this right?, what am I doing wrong?, I’m a big fat spiritual fake, when is
this all going to turn around for me?, what am I going to do if I can’t get
this turned around?, I’ve got to change the way I feel right now cuz I can’t
stand living like this.

I could be telling myself it’s all OK, everything I’m feeling is OK and when
I stop judging myself for being out of alignment, when my life no longer
depends on alignment or not-alignment, when the feelings can waft through me
and I don’t grab onto any particular one, I bless them all – they are all
perfect, they are all me – when I can recognize that, the struggle ceases
it’s busy work. A deep and conscious breath fills me. I let it out. I am on my
way. I am the Compassionate Lover of it All.

Love, Bethie

Driven to Distraction

heartsdeesire — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:01:49 +0000

This is about distraction or the lack thereof…

It was in the midst of an email conversation with my good friend
Belle that I felt inspired to start a 30 day program.

What it entails is basically every time I have a ‘negative’
thought, I acknowledge it with one word: “distraction” and
then I move on. This includes all concerns and all judgments
of any kind, towards myself, any condition or anyone else.
All they are, are distractions from whom I choose to be.
It’s amazing how much BS I am refusing to make a dance
partner out of. Yesterday morning when I first woke up and my
mind was like a searchlight out to lock onto what might be
wrong, I probably said “distraction” a dozen times before I
moved on.

I am very focused on one thing in particular, besides just
general overall peace of mind, I really want to try not making
things mean anything. I want to suspend drawing conclusions,
making assumptions, building a story.

I had this wonderful opportunity while in conflict with a close
family member to actually practice this, to just state it was a distraction
and not engage in what any of it meant. As a result, within minutes the
whole situation completely turned around into a really beautiful exchange
with one another. But if I’d let myself be pulled into what it all could mean,
I would have responded so differently and that heartfelt exchange may
not have taken place.

On Christmas day, I will celebrate my present to myself, a free and
clear Bethie who isn’t lost in a story of her own making and suffering
because of it. I’m out to end suffering in the place I first experience it.
One person at a time.

Love, Bethie