Full Moon
April 2, 2007
12 Libra 35′

The whole system of life is One.  The whole system is consciousness. Our awareness of life’s wholeness is fragmented however, and some of this is necessary and functional.

The so-called real world is not a matter of what you connect to with your senses, but what you connect to with your sense (mind).

Life for most of us is a combination of sense and non-sense, but the non-sense is not necessarily foolish. Everything is Spirit. Everything is spiritual, whether we touch it with our physical eyes or our providential eye. Non-sense is not foolish when you keep your thoughts pure. Yes, pure. We are inclined to mess around with less than pure—it seems to be too high of a calling, and we want to live in the down and dirty once in a while. But keep it simple and keep it pure. Don’t worry. Purity does not negate spice, passion, fun and a little walking on the wild side.

Keep your thoughts, your intentions, free from the debris you attract when you live in an adversarial world, a world where there is other than Good. You, yourself, can stop being the origin, the headwaters, and the source of misery in your life.

The highest cause can result in the ugliest-appearing tragedies. Appearing is the operative word. Whatsoever you see, blessed be ye toward it. Raise the lamp of love. By an act of willingness, shine some light upon the dark places. All you have to do is say is, “Let there be light.”

Let there be light upon my hardship, healing upon dis-ease. Oh Lord, How I long to live at ease. When problems come, as problems must, let me banish them like a Superhero.

Let me go, Lord. I ask You even though it is not You that holdeth me to whatever I wrestle with and angst over. You hold me while I struggle and you do not abandon me, though I may have long ago forgotten You were there. You hold me in everlasting arms. I throw my own arms into Your embrace. I hold onto You. I bury my face in Your bosom and accept release by holding onto You, never letting You go, even as I struggle with the fiercest of beasts that some call the red lion. One day I will know that although I struggled with You, You are my True Identity. You are me. You call me to be who I am.

Appearances can be transcended. That is the key to overcoming, to being lifted up, rising above disasters and the fear of disasters large and small, practicing the transcendence of death by transcending the mortal fears of being overcome by one enemy or another. While you look at the ugly, hold on to the truth that it is not real. Ugly endures only because we all agree that it will. Yet, it shall pass. And if you will allow, ugly will pass on to glory through you, instrument of a higher good.

Do you want to, for example, see an end to the war in Iraq?  Bring an end to the war in your, home, especially your inner home where you must come to peace and equilibrium if you are to act with grace and not ugliness.

Reverse the appearance. No matter how awful, ugly, or crazy. Look upon it thinking, “hmmm.” So Good is in this place?  Good is in this person?  Good is in this circumstance?  I see it not. But I will experiment. I will play with the idea, that this, wherever I stand, in whatever circumstance I find myself, is Holy Ground.

if I am going to be other than ugly myself., then I can’t act ugly, or even act upon the ugly. If enough of us cease to live in adversarial consciousness and heal our own split, we will come out of the war overseas.

We can’t wait upon our neighbor. We may think, what if no one else does it?  What good can I do if I am the only one?  But who will do it, if you will not?  Don’t let your mind spell out the consequences. It can only go where it has gone unless it is open to the whisperings of your heart. The truth is that you do not do, really. All the sages say the magic is accomplished through them, not by them. One simple act, earnestly fulfilled by you, is multiplied by Good while you sleep.

Don’t wait. Be. You might not be quite ready to spring free from strife in one swoop, but a million tiny efforts multiplying themselves can sweep out canyons and bridge gulfs.

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