You hear me, I know that. And because I know that you hear me, I know that you are there. To invert Descartes ("I think therefore I am"): you hear me, therefore you are. One knows when one is heard: and that is enough.
We cry out and we are always heard - whether we know it or not - every thought, every word, every action in every moment. In fact, there is no way not to be heard, there is no way not to resonate. We are always resonating, but resonating with what?
The splendid opportunity - the responsibility - is to develop your resonance. And then to speak, and having spoken to know that you are heard, and that is all.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Other Path
There is another path through life. But in order to see the Other Path it is necessary first to see that you are on a path and then to see that there is an Other Path.
The Other Path is not a path through the physical world. Such paths lead you everywhere and nowhere. There value lies in how they may change you, which is not a path through the physical world at all. The Other Path is neither visible nor physical but it is absolutely real.
The Other Path is neither the journey of the self into the world nor the journey of the world into the self.
The Other Path can be regarded as the Journey of the Self but it is more than that. It involves the transendence of the Self so that the Self is, to all intents and purposes, no longer the Self; at least it is not the Self you know. It is the path from the Little Self to the Greater Self and through the Greater Self to towards the whole. It is the journey into unity.
It is a journey into consciousness and through consciousness that into a greater consciousness, from little being, through becoming and into bigger being.
The Other Path is not a path through the physical world. Such paths lead you everywhere and nowhere. There value lies in how they may change you, which is not a path through the physical world at all. The Other Path is neither visible nor physical but it is absolutely real.
The Other Path is neither the journey of the self into the world nor the journey of the world into the self.
The Other Path can be regarded as the Journey of the Self but it is more than that. It involves the transendence of the Self so that the Self is, to all intents and purposes, no longer the Self; at least it is not the Self you know. It is the path from the Little Self to the Greater Self and through the Greater Self to towards the whole. It is the journey into unity.
It is a journey into consciousness and through consciousness that into a greater consciousness, from little being, through becoming and into bigger being.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
A little like love
I have had a great time here, really - it's been a blast. So thank you for letting me be a part of it, thanks for more than letting, thanks for creation, thanks for life itself. I am hoping for more, looking forward to more, not counting on anything, but confident of something. Of what? A presence. Something utterly glorious, unseen but not unsensed. And lo and behold, it is you, or at least the tiniest aspect of you - a brush across my cheek. And so I float, gently, in this soup of being.
There's more than that: divine promptings accessible in every moment. As if I needed anything more.
On my own, I am ... well actually I am never on my own, for you are always here, and how can you not be here, and that is the glory of it. And there is so much more of you to know while I bumble around, and that is OK too, more than OK. It feels a little like love.
There's more than that: divine promptings accessible in every moment. As if I needed anything more.
On my own, I am ... well actually I am never on my own, for you are always here, and how can you not be here, and that is the glory of it. And there is so much more of you to know while I bumble around, and that is OK too, more than OK. It feels a little like love.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
I feel therefore we are
French philosopher Rene Descartes famously remarked that, "I think therefore I am". But he might as well have said, "I feel therefore I am". Thinking is no closer than feeling is to being.
Or better, he could have simply said "I am", though that would have seemed less logical. However, it is possible to build upon the "I am" statement, without restricting ourselves to the valley of thought.
As Ken Wilber has observed, having noticed that "I am" one can notice that as well as an "I" that is being noticed, there is a noticer who is - well - doing the noticing, and now, hey presto, we have the "subjective self" and the "objective self".
However, we can go further in a particularly interesting direction. Better than "I think therefore I am" or "I feel therefore I am" is "I feel therefore we are". To adapt the saying "beliefs divide, values unite", we have "thoughts divide, feelings unite" or even the mind analyzes, the heart encompasses.
Better still, would be to notice that there is "one that is" and one that is "noticing that there is one that is", even if the latter turns out to be part of the former.
Or better, he could have simply said "I am", though that would have seemed less logical. However, it is possible to build upon the "I am" statement, without restricting ourselves to the valley of thought.
As Ken Wilber has observed, having noticed that "I am" one can notice that as well as an "I" that is being noticed, there is a noticer who is - well - doing the noticing, and now, hey presto, we have the "subjective self" and the "objective self".
However, we can go further in a particularly interesting direction. Better than "I think therefore I am" or "I feel therefore I am" is "I feel therefore we are". To adapt the saying "beliefs divide, values unite", we have "thoughts divide, feelings unite" or even the mind analyzes, the heart encompasses.
Better still, would be to notice that there is "one that is" and one that is "noticing that there is one that is", even if the latter turns out to be part of the former.
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