listening

(photo courtesy petteri sulonon)

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays." -- Brenda Ueland

a little humility

(photo courtesy little.jafa)

not so humbled by gurus and saints and spiritual celebrities as by the AIDS worker, the single mom waitress, the man mentoring a child. not humbled by words, and not personalities, but by actions; the mark we leave on the world

healing the past

(photo courtesy sister72)


As the past and future exist at the same time and are directly effected by consciousness, and as we are all intimately connected by the energetic web of life, then the past can be changed by actions today.

Let me offer a metaphoric example: According to the Bible, Perhaps I am whipped twenty times in Pilot’s palace 2,000-some years ago.

Perhaps you, today, are able to go deeply into your heart and forgive yourself, or someone who has wronged you greatly. That creates -- literally -- a wave of Love that resonates forward -- and backward -- through time, effecting everything it touches.

It even reaches me, in Pilot’s temple, and everyone there is effected -- changed -- by your act of Love and I am whipped nineteen times.

With the added Love sent from you, in the future, back to me, I am that much stronger and can send more Love forward in time to you. That Love in turn, reaches you and helps you to be yet more loving and forgiving and that, in turn, sends more Love back to me, where I am whipped eighteen times.

And on and on it goes, back and forth, beyond space and time, until one day you wake up, as if from a vivid dream, and are made aware of the story of an old prophet and teacher named Yeshua, who died as an old man in his sleep surrounded by wife and family. And this will be the truth of it. For my mission will have succeeded, through you, in the future, and my death on the cross will not have been necessary. In the past.

Exciting possibilities. Yes?

-- Excerpt from The Daughter Seminar.

a time to play

(photo courtesy mstecker)

We have to remember that we are literally at the end of the world as we know it.

Whatever we may have been working at earlier isn't important anymore. The times have changed. We are birthing a new world as the old one collapses. Too much is happening too quickly for us to do anything about it. The Universe and our higher selves have truly taken over. We just have to get out of the way and flow with the river.

"There's no way I can compete." That's true for all of us now: there's no way we can compete or control anymore. Only surrender. Only show-up. Only be honest with our emotional life. Only let go of guilt and shame and fear and judgment.

Only try to open to joy and play. We do more now to assist the Universe if we simply re-learn how to play, in all things.

Play is how a child -- like a new world -- is born.