Spirituality, Self-Knowledge and The Art of Living

The earth holds secrets not to be shared

secrets need within the natural energetic world a place to dwell

they exist like gold or diamonds to enrich

the life force of the earth

unknown to humanity

We are all connected

but some scoff at this

just look at global media,TV and radio

news bounces around the world like a plague

we are all connected,

third world food grown for first world dinner tables

Champagne drunk in Shanghai

Kicking Horse Coffee in Moscow

Canadian Maple Syrup in Berlin

Gossip started in London finds its way to Ulan Bator

we are all connected

there is so many of us

that we can not isolate ourselves anymore

as nations, religions, beliefs or hurt or whole individuals

we harm each other by our individual separation

we breathe the same air, drink the same water

we need to be with each other in order to be our truest selves

and to stand in our own light

as our population grows so do we as individuals need to know the

responsibilities of interconnection and individuality

The rush and the panic that the world is feeling now

is ancient and terse, it has happened all before

in creating a belief in unsustainable prosperity

based on the desire to forget the past

people’s attitudes towards

prosperity  and belief in themselves

becomes unsustainable

commerce is the accomplice of humanity since people first had surplus

and it always has been unsustainable;

this is the lie of  superficial prosperity

prosperity is in how and what you feel and think

and from that what and how you live

prosperity is not wealth or money

it is not consumerism

economics or the ‘bottom line’

prosperity is being content with who you are

and from that with what you have

and knowing that what you have

is not who you are

everything comes

to show us

the path

to

love

and that

is the real currency of an enduring prosperity

the path that you walk is what you believe

even if you have no ‘beliefs’

the words that you speak  are the words of your belief

even if you do not believe in the power of words

the actions you express are the doctrine of your belief

even if you do not hold to doctrine

you are your own belief

conscious or unconscious

knowing or unknowing

you are the belief

of your inner state

The wisdom that you seek

is not to be found by searching

but by receiving

if you wish to know the truth that is true for you

sit at the crossroads that is within you

and wait

eventually you will see the truth approaching

and in that moment

you will know in which direction

you should travel

if you search for meaning it will run just out of your grasp

sit

be still

wait

be still enough

to know when truth

aproaches

The only real freedom is freedom from fear

fear comes to us in many disguises

seeking to seduce us into

the identity of anxiety, pain and suffering

as anger glues us to the repetition of unhappiness

so fear makes our world small

and so our minds shrink

we lose the capacity for thinking

for gaining inspiration

for rationality

for love

and for the tastes of consciousness

and the challenges of living

the only freedom is the freedom from fear

and when that freedom comes as light in our clouded states of being

the nature of suffering is understood

and falls away, discarded as an old skin

we, each of us, become shrouded in the mystery of transcendental beauty

the interaction of consciousness with form, body, mind and soul

Holding silence in the heart

generates life force

generating life force

awakens connection

to all living things

and reveals the paradox of inequality

and shows you

the why and how of things

there are no questions to be asked

only answers

which exist as self-evident truths

in the

world of energy and manifestation

judging others becomes

the judgement of oneself

the predilection towards hysteria

and the judgement of others

has become a fixation

in the same manner of

the worship of celebrity…

that which is within you

attracts the correspondence

of that which lives within the world

when you find yourself

in situations of which

you are made

to be detested,

despised and demonised

activate the capacity of love within you

and direct it out into the world

love your enemies enough

that they will embrace self-knowledge

and that your love for them will set them free

from their own mental traps

all of us upon the earth

share the same path

and we tread the same earth

we are all in the same breath

and our aspirations

are in the atmosphere

of our fragile world

fragile because we are fragile

the earth though is far stronger than us

it does not judge us

it only holds us

as we should hold each other

In the wind , if you listen you can hear the voices

seeking to cause the world harm

and the harm is contagious if you believe in it

evil is afoot and it finds its nest in anger,

anxiety and despair

listen to the wind

add your voice to it

speak on the wind

words of help, love and care

of respect

even in the most fearsome gale

words of love are found

in the epicentre

people seek the anger within them

and create it in their lives

speak on the wind

prayers of compassion

words of love

make room for forgiveness

so that all can be redeemed

saint and sinner too

To listen from the heart creates everlasting change

everlasting change comes about

by going beyond your daily self

to where the highest part of you

dwells complete,

liberated from the illusion of will

and the power of will

there are times when the power of will

is needed to overcome

but essentially there is a time

when that will must be surrendered

to the true will

the will of life as opposed to the will of the self

the psyche is a fragile chariot in which the

divine rides hidden in the coachwork

look into the everness of things

and you will

feel the truer will

defining its path