As the Christmas season approaches, as people pour their energies into filling windows and houses full of seasonal lights, I can’t help but remember an Indie documentary, Killowatt Hours which showed how the Earth was exploited for electricity. Wonder where all the proponents of global warming are when it comes to that?
I so value really walking the walk and talking the talk. Doing A and saying B just doesn’t cut it for me. It has no honor, no alignment, no inherent value. What is the point of saying one thing and doing another? I remember years and years ago while teaching English in Spain. The director was a staunch Catholic who wasn’t paying the government the employment taxes for his staff. After all, we were all foreigners…. And the point was?? You only have to be or act Catholic in church??? Mind you, I’m not pointing fingers at just the Catholics. I’ve seen and experienced these incongruencies with many other faiths as well. Some people do the external motions very well and just don’t see how they aren’t able to apply it to their own lives.
I believe there are times where we are all simply doing the best we can. Sometimes I can come down pretty hard, especially with my kids. If I am going to be in alignment with myself, I had better make sure my standards and values with them are also consistent. I seem to be making a bit more headway with them lately. Phew!!
I look around and maybe what I see is beyond what most people see. Our outsides, our shells, our external identities is NOT who we are. The deeper, more sacred aspects of ourselves, our Soul Essence is really who we are meant to be. We have incarnated onto this great planet Earth to enjoy and discover, re-discover the core of ourselves, who we are on a much more expansive level than most of us are living.
Perhaps the real reason we are here is to dig deep, look at who we are, find that out, embody and integrate our findings into our Hearts and expand them out to the rest of the world. Before that, it really helps to learn how to “process.” It is the term many use to ‘dig and peel,’ to look and every situation, at every challenge or misunderstanding not as relating to others but rather as how it relates to ourselves.
As we do this more and more, not only do we get to the essence of ourselves, we also become so much more humble realizing our own imperfections, humanness and sacredness in the cosmic play of life. We learn to process faster and deeper. We are not afraid of ourselves, of being “wrong” or even of having to defend ourselves. We accept who we are, we love our humanness, we cherish and value the sacredness within each of us and we thank God for every moment.
Processing, to me, is how we throw off limiting beliefs and expand into our own Divine selves, where we can find Unlimited Transformation, the reflection of who we were intended to be. This is how we learn to expand, breaking free of our self-limiting beliefs.
The following is slightly modified from an interview with Krista Tippett and Irish poet and philosopher, John O'Donohue aired on NPR. Apparently John was delighted by a quote from Meister Eckhart and in explaining, said something to this effect, ‘there is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's still a sureness in you, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you. And I think the intention of prayer and spirituality and love is now and again to visit that inner kind of sanctuary.’
THAT, my dear readers, summarizes the prayer and spirituality I live and breathe. I also live the aspect of love in a very quiet, internal way. In time, the external too will manifest. LOVE to all.
BLESSINGS,
Gina
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