A Stream of Surprises

Life continues to bring the most interesting blessings and challenges. The apparent consequences of one's actions mingle with what the world has to offer, providing a stream of surprises, as well as something of what one intended.
Yet one can be thankful for every moment, feeling every moment, swimming through the flow, mavigating the rapids, joyfully.

The pathway to everything

What could be greater than oneself?

One's greater self, the soul, the higher self, the pathway to everything. Invisible yet knowable, it transcends the personality. It knows everything that you know and so much more.

The unchanging core of you. It knows, it is. It is everything. And it is available to you right now, gently listening. And if you are interested, it is calling gently (and if you are not, it isn't).

And what is your path? It is the soul itself, the pathway that connects you with everything else. This greater self is the pathway and you are the explorer, occasionally coming up for air. Breathe deeply.

Going to a ball

Get your internal antennae out, we are going to a ball!

Within certain wavebands, we have become very good at seeing and hearing - though we smell and taste less - outside of them, we are blind and deaf. What we don't see and hear, we assume does not exist. Yet for all we know, there are whole unseen and unheard worlds. At the very least, we can have fun expanding our wavebands, and noticing just that bit more.

And as you explore natural environments, in the softer lights of dawn and approaching dusk, suddenly the unseen, or some small part of it, is there, glimmering, as though a gift for you. Now, at this point, you may notice that something is going on, and you may shudder slightly, but if you stay your hand and remain balanced, and even express thanks, you may see it persists.

You are moving out of that world and into this one, out of darkness and into light, balanced there at the cusp, on the brink of a wonderful adventure. Step lightly.

Envelope of light

There's a force of love all around you, an envelope of light, and it stands ready to embrace you; actually you are always within it, there is nowhere else to go. By and large, the noise of the world, and if not the world, the noise of the mind, prevents it from being sensed. But if you get still enough, you may just catch a glimmer of what has always been there, you can know what you have always known, that you are love and loved, and bask in sublime light.

Curiously, and this may be a little unnerving, you may start by imagining its existence, or at least accepting that it is there, and even welcoming its intrusion into your consciousness. The tendency is to imagine that what we have not seen does not exist, with a few exceptions like radio waves, and yet there is so much that is available now to experience. In this subtle world, there is nothing but that which radiates, flows and is.

You have been waiting, it has been waiting, and the time is now.

Sunlight

After some time trudging, you enter into the blistering sunlight. You realise, you deeply realise, that every worry was just you doing your old thing.
You feel weightless because you are weightless, floating through the world, observing from within your way of being. And each gentle gusts reminds you of who you are. It feels like you have awoken from a dream, you have more energy and vitality, and all of the silt slips away.
Ha, what it is to be alive this glorious day. Welcome September, clear those branches, the life continues unperturbed within, for life is life, and none can say otherwise. Unextinguishable. Lipping the very edges of existence.