“Learn to be at home in the universe. No
more loneliness. No more sense of isolation…”
“Later on, I’ll tell you about the
conversation I had a month ago with J. What matters now, though, is that this
is precisely what has been happening to me: I’ve invested work, time, and
effort; I tried to encourage my personal growth with love and dedication, but
nothing happened for years.” “What do you mean ‘nothing happened’? have you
forgotten who you are?” ~ Aleph
“That I need strangers like that,” I
explain. “My roots are ready, but I’ll manage to grow only with the help of
others. Not just you or J. or my wife but people I’ve never met. I’m sure of
that.” ~ Aleph
Paths
Caminos
Journey
Movement
Ssssshhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Quietttttt…..
Listen….
Can you hear that?
Open your windows… all of them… the
bedroom windows, the living room windows, the bathroom and hallway.
As I woke up
this morning I decided to open every window in the house. There were no cars on
the street. No people moving. No hustle. No bustle. All I heard was the wind.
Just the wind
chanting… it was swooshing…loud… whistling… it was moving in the form of a
song. The Goddess of Wind was echoing throughout my house. I asked her for renewal,
to remove from my path those things that do not serve me, to renew my space, to blow through my house in the far reaches of every
corner, under every doorway, cleansing every item and piece of furniture in my
space. In renewing my space, I am calling forth Oya to bring me the greatest blessings. I am growing through some
changes in my life right now and it is time my outside world match my insides…
this is the final stage of my WHOLENESS… this is a moment of renewal… a moment
of rebirth. Life is constant transformation and this renewal is swift.
During
meditation the words that came up for me were…
Loneliness
Feeling alone
Solitude
Space
Distance
The journey
People you meet on the journey
Order and control
“If I believe I will win, then victory
will believe in me. No life is complete without a touch of madness, or, to use
J.’s words, what I need to do is to re-conquer my kingdom. If I can understand
what’s going on in the world, I can understand what’s going on inside myself.” ~
Aleph
Re-conquering my
kingdom… this is what I am doing. Its not about the paint on the walls or the
new furniture in my space. The kingdom that I am re-conquering is where truth
lives, is where love lives, is where understanding lives, is where I LIVE. This renewal... this moment in my life is one of the most magnificent moments that I am experiencing... living... I am filled with peace and love... so many wonderful blessings surround me. ALL IS WELL!!!
“Am I doing what I need to do to make the
Chinese bamboo grow? I’ve been to six countries, met my readers, had fun, temporarily
driven away the depression that was threatening to engulf me, but something
tells me that I still haven’t reconquered my kingdom.” ~ Aleph
What I love
about what Paulo Coelho is saying here has so much to do with everything that
surrounds us, people, places, things… I know for me over the past ten years
there has been tremendous growth and change… evolution… unfolding… battles with
depression and huge successes and achievements. My spiritual practice has
gotten so much stronger! I have
gotten so much stronger.
For the most
part a lot of my spiritual practice is done alone… in private – I have never
really included anyone in my process/practice. It’s always been a moment for
me.. alone time. But as I continue learning, unfolding, and expanding I am
coming to understand that ALL the good
that I am receiving is even greater once it is shared.
Excerpt
from Finding Your Force A Journey to Love~
I feel you flying
shifting
twisting in the wind
you are a juggler
a magician on point
you are the homeland
you are the ultimate
but you are a carrier
you do the heavy lifting all the time
and so you know how to breathe
in and out
slowly
quietly
so you can hear yourself
because therein lies your truth
and you need to remember that
that you are perfect
you are exactly where you need to be
that everything is falling into place
in precisely the way things need to float down
so take a minute to slow it all down
right now
just for a few minutes
and watch is all fall like feathers
slowly
gently
and now the feathers turn into butterflies
like beautiful
brilliant
just like you
flying around
cascading luminous colors
you are centered now
you are focused
you are clear
you are in the pit of my stomach
the center of my universe
you make my heart beat
you are home now
take a deep breath
let it out slowly
you are HOME
now spread your wings again.....
and FLY~
I love you
YOUR Rock WILK
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
In
the Alchemist, Paulo Coelho writes
that there will be a point where
we will want to give up on following our personal legend. There will be a point
where it will be incredibly grueling, difficult, painful, unbearable and just
plain HARD. These are the moments where we must believe. It is hard work and at that the exact
moment when it hurts you must press on. You’ve got two choices. Do what you’ve
always done and get the same results or take a risk and say screw it! I’m going
try it anyway and actually DO something NEW, something different and go for it.
We get so used to doing what feels SAFE. We do what’s familiar. We do what we
know. We do what people are used to us doing. We do the same thing everyday.
When we do this we miss an important lesson. We miss out on NEWNESS of
EVERY—DAY.
I am
allowing my life to UNFOLD into what IT will become and not what I force it to
become.
The
greatest understanding and gain for me, is that I know exactly what I came here
to do. I feel myself changing. Today I started to think about my life and all
the ways I’ve changed in the past 40 years. I went back to the days where I
constantly needed to see proof that
change was happening. In my past I believed that I needed validation and
recognition for the changes that were happening in me. I was always looking and
desperately searching for that
someone to come enter my life and tell me how proud they were of me. But today I feel different. I am different
person. I could spend my life
resenting the people who fed me words that poisoned me trying to prove to them
who I AM. Or I can simply just be me and not worry about them. I am no longer
waiting for those people to tell me
they SEE ME ~ Finding Your Force A Journey to Love available on Amazon.
So I started to thinking
about the people I have met on this journey - - people who have come and gone,
people who have stayed. But really what I am thinking about is ALL that I have
gained, learned and how important each person I have ever met is in my life
story. Every person I have met is significant on my journey. There are
important lessons for me to be found in everyone I meet.
I AFFIRM
Today, I am
being called to see them in me… and me in them.
Today, I am
being called to see ME!
“Your union with God implies your union
with everything that lives.” ~ Ernest Holmes
“Learn to be at home in the universe. No
more loneliness. No more sense of isolation. See God in everyone—the same God
with a different face, the same animating Principle with a different form, the
same Divine Presence clothed in individual expression.” This Thing Called You.
Today, I see honor the God in YOU!
Today, I thank you Spirit for the winds of change that I am experiencing...
Today, I am so grateful for every experience and person in my life.
And so it is~
Aché
© Copyrighted Alicia Anabel Santos 2012
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