Cultivating the Higher Self

One of most amazing insights is how can I love all of life so intensely while not fully embracing parts of my own self? Cultivating self love in time will evolve into greater reverence for the interconnection of all things because of self actualization. Paying attention to my deeper spirit requires tenderly listening to my own heart beat and accepting my divine self.  Nature constantly reminds me to explore all facets of my inner world.  When I show how I care for all things then I see how linked in I am with the great web of life. The delicate balance for me is how I relate to all things.  My greatest challenge has to see how I can expand my love and forgive myself at times when I fall short. When I realize my universal love is like a tear drop then I unite into the cosmic sea of compassion.

My suffering is lessened when I realize that the “I” is really a “we.”  In my difficult times I search for some harmonic alignment no matter how horrific things are.  This is a birthing process bringing 
us a luminous gift of greater awareness.  This enlightens my shadows filled with deluded wants and brings forth my higher needs.  There is no greater treasure than expanding my higher well being. 

I find my true purpose when I deal with my adversity in a proficient and peaceful manner.   Also I lead by example.  When I can face my own anxiety a greater peace of mind results.  Going and accepting within is the best way if I can prosper.  If I be fearless to confront my most difficult issues then dealing with the world outside becomes much easier. Again when I get still, silent and profoundly listen to my heart I find the courage to benefit. 

A rich life comes down to these skillful interpersonal skills.  How I treat all things, most importantly accepting my profound self opens up new possibility and opportunity.  Expanding my lightness of being is linked to my higher relationships: with my self; people; things; and places.  These are extensions of my larger self. My highest love is inter-linked with all things.  By developing a kind positive feedback loop a ripple effect extends my compassion in all directions. Greater awareness that all things are not separate, I become united by this awe and wonder.  Trusting my mysterious journey is about what comes up not my destination.  Accepting my higher self I arrive at my refuge filled with light and love.   

Time to Ray Cycle

First say to yourself what you would be: then do what you have to do. ~Epictetus

There is no better gift to myself then to cultivate my higher potential. I now challenge myself to refine a character I past created. I had a vision of inventing a Super being who championed having fun while saving things called Ray Cycle.  Besides sharing the trademark of this comic hero with the State of Connecticut, this creation allowed me to accomplish alot of amazing things. On April 1st 1986, I proclaimed", Your not dealing with a full deck with you throw the joker out,"running for an American Precedent on the U.S. Capitol steps dressed as a court jester.

For years I have dreamed how I can reincarnate this recycled being.  I believe that all of our relationships are interconnected. This common strand both binds us and offers me unlimited possibility. Now can I re-create a identity so to once again celebrate my profound gratitude for all things.  

Since I am a living love poem sharing my love, empathy and hope. This heightens my deepest well being.Treating all things with respect, kindness and consideration I celebrate my greater self and inner wealth.

All around the world people of all walks share in this similar sacred acts.  Using less, and living in a wholesome way we reap many benefits.  Furthermore when I show my boundless compassion for this planet, its people and resources I tap into my higher and greater potential. 

Better use of resources such as reducing waste and preventing pollution or any of the other ways that I rever my world gives me joy.  Also now my inner game is to kindly be of greater service giving me a tremendous peace of mind.

Honoring many virtues I integrate together my inner and outer world. When I lessen my load I pass on a mightier gift that keeps on giving while helping me find my higher potential.

Leading by example, sharing, joy and loving friendlessness are a wonderful ways to gracefully live. Using localized materials, celebrating ingenious resource use and bringing community together with acts of kindness plant seeds for out future

Such care giving results in greater inner heartfull care. It matters not if this is done outside or in.  How I best relate to my world is what truly matters. I challenge you to prove me wrong.  So much of life we becomel distracted by doubt, depression, and other self- destructive mind-sets. When I focus on my higher potential I transform my fearful walls re-creating now a drawbridge.  Ray has been Cycled.  Thus used again to benefit me and my beloved home, Earth. All great things flow in a circle and so may my higher potential expand outward while I celebrate my inner light. 

Inside Job

Right now is a great time to show kind thanks for my inner being.  While death is inevitable choosing to exercise grace, awe and wonder is optional.  Neither avoiding nor holding on too tight may I embrace my present experience as the journey.  May I be fearless, joyful and peaceful.  Fully enthusiastic may my heart be happy, free and well!

Since I will never know when my last breath will be why not then celebrate every moment as my last.  Not to be morbid yet fully fearless, awake, and accepting to whatever comes my way. Otherwise my anxiety may escalate into greater fear and negative states of being.

Facing my limited time here, and embracing to leave this dimension with an intention of enthusiasm and appreciation, may I remember that in any given moment I can be alive in each breath. 

I can be filled with joy, presence and possibility or I can be sad, fearful and stuck in my anxiety.  Breaking from past conditioning I can reframe these patterns into the gifts to be fully heartfelt. 

How can I best cultivate a kind, peaceful and free way of being?  Show the greatest form of self love where I embody grace, wise response allowing moment to moment awareness to be my guide.

What has heart and meaning comes when I listen to my inner truth.  Observing and discerning my shadows I can learn by waking up instead of my old habit of  judging .  Embracing my defects I find that home is right where my heart is.  All things are sacred if only I can remember to arrive back here and now.

It is time for me to let go of old ancestral messages that I am not enough.  For me to fully foster a mindset of grace I enjoy what is fully present.  This in turn moves me in greater peace, love, and courage further expanding my luminous and empathetic abilities. 

I am not tentative, I no longer doubt, I embrace my shortcomings.  Patiently I wait so I may find that harmonious relations will respond in kind. 

Since all things are connected I can best show reverence to life’s sacred hoop being well. 

Grateful for Thanksgiving

Every day I try to celebrate with Thanksgiving.   It is always a wonderful time to count my blessings. Appreciation constantly gives me the gift to cherish I am alive.  Generosity and kindness are the virtuous acts that I get from my appreciation.  Such gratitude may open new doors of possibility for me.  Also I tap a higher relationship with all things.

The idea of Thanksgiving gives me a sense of peace and grace. I live in a critical time where generosity greatly matters. By giving, I both awaken and liberate myself with the ulitimate gift of altruisim. When I hold on to things too long this causes me a painful disconnection. By becoming more mindful of how I take things, I can better return things and thus benefit from what I call, "Happy Returns." This outcome arises from being humble and observing my ultimate interconnection with my beloved world.

It's incredible that 67 million years ago trees, flowers, birds, bees and other things came into being.  Just 6 million years ago the first American migrated here. When whites came here at Jamestown, Virginia, Arthur Barlow remarked of the Poona's: "A more kind and loving people cannot be found in the world."

My ancestry dates back to the first born off the Mayflower. And this is doubtless why I believe thanksgiving is every day. We all ought to constantly count our blessings. The Iroquois celebrate their appreciation of this earth for days at a time, showing gratitude for all aspects of nature. Today we can share these wise earth teachings if we pay our respects to what we are so fortunate to have.

Each one of us can widen our collective circle of connection and love.  Now we have an opportunity to magnify our thanks by showing our boundless possibilities of compassion. If only we make this intention and take the time to show our gratitude then an upward spiral happens.

Let's celebrate our Thanksgiving with plentiful kind and generous acts. Giving appreciation is the greatest blessing we can give ourselves, thanking our surroundings and feeling good about our life.

Re-joy

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heart, but must be felt with the heart- Helen Keller

I am inspired how all things somehow inter-relate.  To constantly remember my oneness fills me with profound joy.  I term this rejoy where I touch a miraculous heart and meaning experience.  These mystical inter-relationships recharge me with greater luminosity.

Since all things are transient and so is my greater self.  We all are tied to collective connection of materials created by the earth, air, water, energy and other sources.  These elements both allow me to enjoy the sacredness of all things and to live.

I find liberation in our finite oneness. Here I find an unlimited treasure of joy and grace. When I look up to star filled night sky this experience unites me beyond what words may describe.

Beyond my personal issues I lessen my sense of separation. For example when I get distracted about selfish silly wants I disconnect from hub or source of oneness. Less joy then results. Remembering to just simply reconnect, I awaken to the collective unification by observing nature.  This expanded consciousness acts like a new birth.  Such possibilities fosters greater happiness.

When I let go of my self-consuming concepts I touch a place without causes or conditions.  This pure consciousness illuminates me with greater loving- friendliness and grace.  I benefit from this selfless rejoy experience.

Expanding my heart takes courage since such new exploration at first can be frightening.   However, a compassionate trust alters my mental conditioning and habits that once trap me with much fear, and despair.  The very word enlightenment is all about merging into the one.  This dissolves my miserable issues like a cloud in the sky freeing me of limitations.

All things in this cosmos intersect in one divine point.  All things exist dependent upon other entities. I am no different. Numerous conditions and causes results in nothing being independent since the environment shapes organisms by interchanging webs of food, nutrients and other forms interconnection.  Networks of ecosystems exchange birth, death, decay as energy material is constantly being recycled. 

Once I allow my contracted self to let go I elevate my well-being.  All things become unified by this mystical togetherness.  This oneness is beyond, words, thoughts, beliefs, concepts.  A state of oneness is beyond an idea.  Here unity, peace, and the mystery of wholeness exist. Separateness ceases and any sense of concepts are lost.  The sum of the parts unites me together in a luminous whole.  Profoundly aware I find this unified mind-set best happens for me in a pristine natural setting.

Such awakened oneness is not about one belief versus another belief.  This divine spirit is about a deep trust of the greater self.  Exploring my divine nature, I deeply listen and become one through my transformative direct experience I call rejoy.

Inspired by “With One Voice”   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmvoDcigxQ

May I give my thanks to all life's gifts, and further count my blessings.

May I pay my respect to how all things are interconnected.

May I give thanks to the air and my lungs that I breathe.

My I give thanks to the sun and my heart that provides energy.

May I give thanks to my body and water that provides life.

May I give thanks to my spirit and the land that sustains me. 

Thanks to all my ancestors and future beings. 

Thanks to all the things on the earth that make life happen.
Thanks to our amazing web that unites all together

Exploring Grace

A higher power can be an interior dimension of psyche, transcendent it's beyond what ego can muster or master. The transcendent is the more that cannot be grasped by intelligence, only by experience. It can be felt truly, but not fully understood intellectually.  It is like the love of favor, like the awe felt in nature.p. xv *

Recently my father gracefully passed away. Grace touches us when we allow our higher self to surrender from our ego-centric ways. It alters us taking us out of the ordinary and allowing us to behold the extra-ordinary.  It unites the opposites or moderates the extremes by its very example. Grace evolves us by its wise and seamless quality that bands together- separate parts become unified as one.

Grace is about being not about becoming: beholding rather than holding; responding not reacting; and being light not dense.  Rather than human doings, we are human beings.  It brings out the profound possibility within each of our souls.  A sense of liberation comes upon us as we accept the mystery with equanimity.  

Beyond description, grace is a phenomenon that happens beyond the ordinary.  A blessing outside our individual selves.  This amazing form of virtue fosters awe, wonder and flow. However, grace is like art in that it defies simple language and words. Such things as poetry and direct experience best conveys this graceful spirit of possibility. 

This mystical quality brings a spaciousness as if you looking at the milky way or Northern lights. Cultivated through good will, appreciation, mindfulness and other illuminating things, grace is resilient, sincere and heart felt.  Complimented by coincidence, grace stimulates a freshness.  It entertains something new in each moment resulting in a form of divine higher presence. 

This phenomena inspires others and benefits us by its nature. This divine power that magically flows. It awakens, and transforms. Grace happens in special conditions.  When there is compassion, calmness, kindness, generosity, respect, and other virtuous states grace tends to be close by.

Grace allows us to tap the larger spiritual possibilities.  It transmutes us from the ordinary ego self to a higher place of unconditional and unlimited opportunities filled with positive transformation. 

Imperfection and inadequacy no longer are curses yet are transformed into a sense of loving kindness.  It frees our inner chains that we have imprison ourselves with.  Short-comings become reversed into strengths.  Grace is synthesis of the positive with negative. It is like the rainbow that happens after a intense storm.  It combines the sum of the parts into an integrated whole.   Grace provides a peak experience to celebrate there is heaven right now on earth.

It is conceivable that by intense effort a person may catch a fleeting glimpse of his own wholeness accompanied by the feeling of grace, which characterizes this experience. - Carl Jung

* The Power of Grace- David Richo, Shamabhala Press,  2014

       

Earth is Our Best Friend

Move H from Heart, place at the end

It spells earth, your best friend

Listen to the birth high above

Dolphins singing of deep love

Rock, air, fire and rain connect

We are all related one divine effect

Illuminated play with rays cycling

All souls unite, a great recycling

Optimize kindness first letters, OK

Meanness and fear bring us dismay

If your mood begins to decline

Recharge yourself and fully align

Stand with your back to a tree

Its pure energy will set you free 

Embody this grace and be still 

Engage yourself with this skill

Quiet your thinking, hear your breath

Allow your spirit go beyond death

There is no beginning or an end

All things unite in a timeless band

Darkness your foe and light a buddy

Kiss the soil even if it’s muddy

Laugh and love we are one

A cosmic dance and have fun

Circle around the healing medicine wheel

Feel the star-shine and its cosmic appeal

Add up the beneficial ways that respect

Subtract your suffering, do not expect

It’s a inside game of showing gratitude

Expanding yourself with a higher attitude

Increase acceptance, lessen any resistance

Expand your awe of graceful existence 

Move H from Heart, place at the end

It spells earth, your best friend

Listen to the birth high above

Dolphins singing of deep love