The soul must learn to travel through the earthly world with the senses awake but under its sovereign rule.
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The heart must be able to transform the supersensory wisdom the spirit has attained into a fully human experience.
–Rudolf Meyer, The Wisdom of Fairy Tales
I awoke this morning hearing the following: Allow yourself to be blessed and caressed by the world. Then fear will vanish and you will blossom as you.
(Brian and I were shocked by the devastation around Cairo, compounded by recent flooding. Despite that, we partook of the power of the convergence of these two great rivers. We also met two young men traveling the entire length of the river in a canoe. Sometimes the world seems bleak and even dangerous. Still, we can take a courageous stand and command its blessing.)
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do. Doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in doing it. And the delight is the sense of the sacred.
—Helen Luke
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every [person], when [s]he gets quiet, when [s]he becomes desperately honest with him [or her]self, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
–Henry Miller
When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth… Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
― Thích Nhất Hạnh
Your body is a divine stream,
as is your spirit.
When your two great rivers merge, one voice is found
and the earth applauds
in excitement.
Shrines are erected to those songs
the hand and heart have sung
as they serve
the world
with a love, a love
we cherish.
–St. John of the Cross
(version of D. Ladinsky)
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
– Henry David Thoreau
“This practice – meditation rebranded – deserves serious attention from parents and policymakers. An impressive array of studies shows that integrating meditation into a school’s daily routine can markedly improve the lives of students. If San Francisco schools Superintendent Richard Carranza has his way, Quiet Time could well spread citywide.” (http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/global-news/n-america/usa/4474-quiet-time.html)
This morning I woke up hearing, “Serve through who you are.” At the same time I was reminded to breathe through my flesh and bones. In this very body I must serve through who I am.
I am grateful for the training I have received that enables this to happen. At Claymont Court in 1978-79, I spent nine months with 53 other people, including my husband, practicing “sensation,” through the initiative of J.G. Bennett. It has provided the foundation for living in the body, and it has stayed with me as I have further walked the path that teaches that spiritual growth happens in this very body. (This in not the only way to come to this, but it was the way I was initially shown.)
My training as a facilitator in the Crystalline Consciousness Work has provided initiation in the process of awakening the DNA blueprint. An essential part of the awakening of humanity to its divine potential is the opening of the whole of each individual’s DNA field. We are moving from the “slumbering” way of being– where only a small portion of the DNA is being used– to the reality of being awake, in the Witness state. The opening of the full, unique DNA blueprint corresponds to full Self awareness– to the continual, unbroken awareness toward which all true spiritual paths ultimately lead.
The more our unique DNA blueprint opens, fueled by grace, spiritual practices, and other means such as the Crystalline Consciousness Work*, the more we do serve through who we truly are. We find and work from our own unique purpose. We know it in our bones. We know it from the inside out. It cannot be taught by any dogma. It has to be discovered in the temple of the body.
* Crystalline Consciousness Work boosts the activation of the latent DNA.
On this Earth do I stand,
Unvanquished, unslain, unhurt.
Set me, O Earth, amidst the nourishing strength
That emanates from thy body.
The Earth is my mother,
her child am I!
-the Atharva Veda