The radiant beauty of the world

Compels my inmost soul to free

God-given powers of my nature

That they may soar into the cosmos,

To take wing from myself

And trustingly to seek  myself

In cosmic light and cosmic warmth.

— Rudolf Steiner

“In this the sun’s high hour it rests
With you to understand these words of wisdom:
Surrendered to the beauty of the world,
Be stirred with new-enlivened feeling;
The human I can lose itself
And find itself within the cosmic I.”

— Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul (Eleventh Week– June 16-23)

“We have to be at peace with ourselves, we have to accept ourselves very deeply; accept this nature of ours such as it is, neither revolting against the fact that we are imperfect beings, nor hiding or disguising from ourselves any imperfections which we do not want to find. The confusion comes when we wish to change what cannot be changed and do not trouble to change what can be changed.”

J. G. Bennett

Thanks to Barbara Zuccarello for this quote.

We are most alive when we are in Love with the all of Life. The more we remain connected to that Love, the more we honor the deepest and most sacred space within ourselves. The more we honor our Higher Self, the more We know God in all of Life. The more We know God, the more we begin to understand that we are, in fact, one with God… We are One with every breath of the universe.

As we continue to awaken from our slumber, our vision becomes clearer and brighter. Our spirit’s eye is opening to the truth. We can now feel this clarity of Love pulsating through every atomic speck of every living being, organism, and cell of a new reality. We are able to see it, gently wrapping itself, threading itself around and through our very DNA…reconnecting us, reuniting us, stitching us back together one strand at a time.

Love IS the miracle cure that has the power to heal ALL ailments (both spiritual and physical), and it is the one thing that bonds us, because it is the one thing that every single soul on this planet aches to know completely. It is what pushes us and what drives us. It is what we are here for: It is our purpose and our destiny.

Love is the salve that closes every wound and kisses every scar. Love is the magic that will transform our every perception on this journey. Love is the path that leads us to the treasures that we seek in Life. Love is the rhythm of every heart. Love is an overflowing fountain of peace and of joy that springs from within and quenches the thirst of our parched soul. We need not go anywhere else to drink. We are blessed with an abundance, at all times, right here and right now.

Love is always the answer if we choose it above all else in every moment. Gratitude is the key to staying centered in the solution of Love. Let Us be grateful for everything, as we are locked into the knowing that all is for our highest good. There is nothing else we need except to be truly, madly, deeply in Love. Life really is THAT simple! ALL is Love, and Love is ALL!

Author: Christy Noel Fedderson

Unless you study Native American traditions in their purest form, you’ll never learn to live on this land with very much real direction, because there’s a spirit that’s already alive here, and you must touch a spirit that’s thousands of year’s stronger and deeper.

— Sister Maria Jose Hobday

Her Beauty

I heard them say, “Her hands are hard as stone,”
And I remembered how she laid for me
The road to heaven. They said, “Her hair is grey.”
Then I remembered how she once had thrown
Long plaited strands, like cables, into the sea
I battled in — the salt sea of dismay.
They say, “Her beauty’s past.” And then I wept,
That these, who should have been in love adept,
Against my font of beauty should blaspheme.
And hearing a new music, miss the theme.

by Max Plowman