Devotion.
What is devotion? To me it means to be all, give all, to be completely whole heartedly invested in the sacred dance of Love with whatever life brings. It is to be utterly undone by any tragically selfish rights we believe we may have to assert our will, our way or our own petty ego drama. It means to comply with the wishes of love itself. And what of that Love? What is that? To undeterringly, humbly, and openly, give in to that which requires our attention and service. It means to be bigger in heart that our minds can fathom. It means to be more generous of spirit that our beliefs can believe or rationally permit. To extend one's energy will full grace, trust and reverence to the cause that Devotion asks of us. If I am devoted to my own life, to my cause and my being, then let me bow and be expanded, uplifted by the spirit in me that wants to fly. For all things are equal in the eyes of love. No one is greater or more deserving than another, but let my devotion be true to what begs to be devoted upon. This great blessing, this opportune moment in time and space where existence manifests and unfolds like a blossom for me to embrace and hold beloved, let this be my pilgrimage of devotion. Let my words be filled with the word of devotion. Let my actions be for the sake of devotion's own ends: to be utterly sacrificed upon the slate of Love's purpose. Love calls me to give forward (forgive) all that I am and be the generated by the voice of devotion's intent. The sacrifice is sublime, for I am nothing without love; But a hollow aching shell striving to survive for my own driving ego's sake: A mind without a heart; A thinker without feeling; A woman without purpose. It is Life's devotion that pumps blood through these tubes and veins, life's devotion that ceaselessly stirs me, wakes me, moves these bones and makes me ride again another day to find the One who has devoted all and everything to me, so that I may exist. Devotion is both lover and beloved, the dreamer and the dream, the giver and the receiver. I am all that. Let devotion be my master, teacher, ultimate ruler of my life. I will play the devotee, and be enwrapped, enfurled and embraced by devotion's devotion for me. Life has made more than a commitment of love to me. Can I honour the gift and make more than a commitment of love to myself? Can I be the devotee to my own grace given gift of living? Yes. I can. What higher service is there? What greater cause?
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To everyone who's heart is wrenched, twisted, aching from the world war events right now, and distressed at the state of consciousness of some of our Hu men and women, I am sorry for your pain and distress.
Please forgive me that it seems immensely doomful, saddening and unjust. Please forgive me that we are hurting from the apparent lack of love, compassion, mercy and understanding between us all. Please forgive me it looks bleak and dark and foreboding on the horizon of humanity right now. Thank you for your forgiveness ~ to give back what seems true but actually isn't. Thank you for feeling the pain, suffering and disillusionment, and thank you for releasing it back to the Source, back to the Heart of where everything comes and to where everything returns; back to the heart of What Is. I love you. You are no less perfect and no less than Love itself. Love is your maker, your birther, your deather, your life inbetweener, your washer, your cleaner, your great master Being-er. Let your consciousness spread and fly to every person for whom you hold fear. Ask them to forgive you, and in an energy exchange give them instead your love, your light, your ability to see through the lies and illusion to see the whole truth. No man, nor woman, can use our fear-filled energy against another in attack unless we give it to them. Take it back. Reclaim your right to use your energy for the purpose it is meant for~ Love. Stand true to your heart in accordance with the great heart of What Is. Let us unite there, in that place of equality and peace, and feel together the greater truth of mankind's purpose. To Love. If you must drop everything else right now to do so, then so be it. Walk away from anything which does not align with your integrity of heart, either mentally, physically, emotionally or spiritually. Bless the space you used to occupy in fear and move forward with surety, into the light of your own truth awakening. You are the saviour of humanity. Each one of you is a truth bearer. Every heart is needed to speak and act for freedom. Cast your light over all that seems dark. Let what seems like tragedy to transmute and become the gift from which we all now reclaim our right to life, power of love and consciousness. Stop the war; within you and outside of you. Love everything. I love you! Thank you. Witnessing the effects of world events this past few weeks particularly, I am so sorry to see so many people in real turmoil and sadness. It is alarming & distressing. Possibly the worst thing is our feelings of helplessness that we can do nothing, or very little to create immediate or rapid relief and change from such suffering and tragedy. Please forgive me. I believe the problem is the solution. Where there is disharmony we are forced to recognise it by whatever means that gets our attention, whether it's a worldwide trauma, or a local one, or a physical condition within us. What festers in hidden shadows, skulking around in un-loving conditions, distorted by the lack of illuminating consciousness - must be seen, heard, empathised with and understood before any other action is taken. Unless we connect with it in unjudgemental terms, the conditions creating the disharmony will play-up, like a tantruming child, rightly expecting that their drama will gain the desperate attention needed for healing to occur. The disease must come to the surface for it to be recognised & understood before we diagnose the appropriate treatment for cure. Can we really be so ignorant as to hate and blame some human beings who have suffered distorted conditioning for generations? Could we exchange our disgust and hatred for them for a broader awareness? Would we be willing to shift our perspectives and judgements of traumatic situations until we see with the clear light of unconditional love? See that the symptoms of their conditioning, although expressed differently to yours, are still symptoms of a not-so dissimilar conditioning. They suffer too. They are human beings also caught out of harmony and alignment with the unconditional giving-ness of Life. They also seek Peace and Love, or saving from the world, as you do. It's just that the ideas of how we get there, to the ultimate state of peace or love, are different. Bless us all because we are all on this same boat - the ship of planet earth, finding our way Home to what feels genuinely peaceful, freeing and enriching. Once we heal our own pain, our discordance with others, the world and with life, our perspective naturally and automatically transforms. When the bomb has been diffused, then we can make more heart centred choices about what to do next. We have greater clarity on the situation. Forgiveness may then take centre stage and dance her dance, sweeping in every un-enlightened, unforgiven, shadow-land within us all, and spread warm relief like the morning sun upon the hardened, frozen grounds of humanity's heart. Peace is possible. Unconditional Love is possible. It begins at Home. It begins with you. It begins with your next breath. Begin your peace talks with you. Peace, Love, forgiveness and golden blessings to all. Thank you. But, first of all... How could saying "I love you, Me!" Change YOUR World? And how could engaging your 'Me' in a deeper conversation of Self Love, utterly transform it? I'll tell you... So often, we look Out at the world, through the windows of our Soul, totally engaged in what's going on out there, working it all out, so that we can place ourselves in it; finding our place to belong. We want more than anything to be loved, and will do virtually anything to get it. We need to feel appreciated, like we matter, like we have value. So, we go about trying to love the best we can, not really knowing if it's working, often not feeling it received, frequently rejected. Often not feeling appreciated for all the little, and BIG things we do in the name of Love. Often, we try, try, try, and try some more to achieve our goals, our aims and desires… to create something good in the world, to do something meaningful, or useful; To be a success! And where does it get us? Are we still struggling, after all this time? After all this learning we've done? After all our effort and good intentions and positive thinking? And courses and healing and brilliant books? So what's going on???! What did we miss? Something simple, so obvious, so fundamental, and yet remembering it…and putting it right? Well….that's another story. How do we put something in it's right place, when we have no idea what that right place looks like? How do we know what we don't know? I'm talking about LOVE. Real love, True love. Not the ideal, superior, unreachable God that we think love is, nor the conditional loaded-ness of love that we flee from, with the weights and expectations that's enough to make anyone gag... but the practical stuff… And starting with YOU. I bet you forgot to put yourself in the picture of your life. I bet you forgot to practice the art of love on yourself, to discover what works, to see how loved you actually feel in your own arms. Did you taste your food of love before you fed it to your lover? Did you let yourself into your own heart, before you invited another? Did your lips melt in a delicious embrace with your own essence, and your body alight in the fire of your own wild beauty? I bet you forgot that the love you are looking for is right in front of you. How do I know? Because LOVE is WHO You Are. It's not a separate entity, it's not far from you. It isn't something you attain or earn if you are good enough. It's the very fabric of your being. It's your breath. It's your body. It's the spaces in between these worlds too, STOP. Feel it right now to see if thats true. The very source of your existence is pure, unadulterated, unconditional Giving. Has your breath ever let you down? Has your body ever abandoned you? Are you alive right now? YES! Life is giving to you, see, loving you without judgement. Is it You who judges life and what gives Life you? And do you battle with it, in an effort to win, When you are already winning! Your heart is yours, within you, given For You. Your Source, Your Fountain, Your eternal, is at your disposal. You won. Clean your eyes. Could You truly see and Love in return, Unconditionally, pure as it is given? Is your Me worth loving, entirely, without fault? Do You NEED IT? Heck Yeah! And... I bet you forgot that every need, desire, yearning, burning pain or problem, ailment, illness, trauma, or trait in your life, could be utterly transformed, resolved and healed IF ONLY you had enough LOVE for You and decided to put an end your own suffering. I bet you forgot that you have the Power to Love anything back into wholeness. Nothing needs changing. You just need Cleaning! Don't know where to start? Start with "I LOVE YOU, ME!" Out Loud, to your Me, like you mean it, make it REAL! And like a magic cleaning sponge, walk around inside the house of You, wash every little part of you in the blessing of "I Love You, Me". In every nook, crevis and vacant empty, lonely hole. In every dark corner where a little part of you is hiding. Under every floorboard where self denial lurks. Even inside the brick work, and all over the paint job, and especially up there in the 'know-it-all' tower and down there in the damp "I can't" basement. Every part needs an "I love you, Me"; Unconditionally. Bring it home; Finally; after your weary, searching journey. Bring all that Love, Effort and Attention that you give all day long, back home to You, where it belongs. Your You-full of Love shines like gold in this vast ocean of souls. And like the concentrated power of 'Domestos' Your little drop goes a long way. Clean your world. Love your world of you. And watch... As the rest of this big, wide world slowly turns and starts to look completely new! A life transformed is a world transformed. Try it and see. Guaranteed, or your money back! I Love You, Me, and I Love You, Another Me! I Love You all the Me's That I Am, That Are, Everywhere :) |
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