Water and Love
Short sweet and to the point today!
A person desperately searching for love,” Merlin said, “reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.
Deepak Chopra
The Way of the Wizard:
Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
Love is all around us. It is foolish to search for something that is everywhere.
Your friends love you.
Your family love you.
God Loves you.
I’ll say it again:
Why search for something that is everywhere.
The universe is love
God is love.
Love is all around you.
Go out and embrace it.
Be Happy! Be Positive! Be Well!
Blessings to you.
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Chris
Whispering Angels
This is the place where angels whisper. You never know where it comes from. All the great inventions came from thoughts where the inventor didn’t know where they came from.
Man Seeks God
Page 67
Eric Weiner, the author of Man Seeks God, is talking about what he calls his Tokyo Story with the above quote. His Tokyo Story, abbreviated goes like this:
I was in Tokyo working as correspondent for NPR. I was working on a story for NPR and I always deliver. But this night I couldn’t. So I did something I’ve never done before: I gave up. Quit. I went to sleep knowing that I was about to disappoint my editors, and myself, and I simply didn’t care.
A few hours later I was awakened, not by a dream but by a feeling, one so intense and unprecedented that I still struggle to name it. I have experienced moments of happiness in my life, flashes of joy even, but this was of an entirely different magnitude. Waves of bliss broke over me, inside me. Tears rolled down my cheeks. My body trembled, almost like a seizure, and on my lips came these words: “I didn’t know, I didn’t know.”
I didn’t know such joy was possible. Slowly the waves subsided, and I drifted back to sleep.
Mr Weiner discusses this story several times through the book. The quote above is from his experience with the the Sufis. Eric is talking to Pieter someone he met at the Sufi Camp he attended. When his Tokyo Story was occurring and after it had been relegated to history, Mr Weiner has been concerned that it was his imagination. In fact, he asks Pieter as much. It’s Pieter who answers in the above quote.
How many of us who are creative, whether we be writers, artists, inventors, dreamers, whatever; keep a little notebook or recorder by our beds at night? It’s when we awaken at night with thought as Mr Weiner did in Tokyo, that our powerful dream state is still intact. In that dream state is when we are most clairvoyant, where as Pieter suggests is the place where angels whisper.
Have you had a similar experience to Eric Weiner?
Did you dismiss it as a flight of fancy, as simply as it being your imagination?
Or did you understand that it truly was angels whispering in your ear?
Would love to hear from you in my comment field.
Be Happy! Be Well! Be Positive!
Blessings to you.
–
Chris
The Present Moment
Staying in the Present Moment:
How many of us can really say we do this consistently? I’ll be honest. That’s why ALL of my challenges arise. We all know people who simply can NOT stay in the present moment. People who always look ahead.
It’s when we look ahead that we fall behind.
How many times have you fallen into a quagmire, fallen into the depths, fallen into turmoil when you’ve attempted to manipulate the outcome of a particular challenge you’ve faced?
How many times have you said:
If only this would happen. When what you SHOULD REALLY have been saying was:
Thank you for this present moment.
Don’t look ahead to some far off future.
Don’t be wishing for some gift to arrive in the future.
That’s when the turmoil can arise.
That’s when you can very easily fall into the pit.
Stay in the present moment.
Be happy now.
I understand that it is very easy for me to sit here and say this. The challenge becomes putting this into practice on a daily basis. I’ll be the first to admit that I fall into my old paradigm easily and I can very easily be looking into my own crystal ball wishing for something. But as I’ve said here before I’m fortunate enough to recognize when this happens and I do my best to pivot. The pivot doesn’t always happen immediately but as long as I continue to work at it I know that eventually I’ll dig myself out.
We all have to become aware of when we are not in the present moment, when we are attempting to manipulate an outcome, when we are wishing for something to change YESTERDAY. Recognizing it is half the battle. Once we see what we’re doing we can start move beyond.
Start to recognize when you’re NOT in the moment!
I’m currently reading a book called Man Seeks God. Wow! Very reminiscent of the movie Oh my God. The author of Man Seeks God. Eric Weiner has a medical emergency that sends him on a quest to find HIS God. He narrows his search to several regions. I just finished the chapter on Buddhism. I resonate quite a bit with this religion myself as I believe MANY of their precepts. One quote I found particularly enlightening was this one that describes Buddhism:
I know of religions based on grace, or submission, or learning. Buddhism is based on the pause, a tiny barely perceptible pause between our thoughts, a pause that, while we normally are not even aware of its existence, contains the entire universe.
So why did I include that in this column?
Be Happy! Be Well! Be Positive!
Blessings to you.
–
Chris
