Most of us don't think about peace until we don't have it. Peace can be just the absence of mental strife or it can be a deep sense of calm. We all need peace, but we settle for different levels.
Some of us want to experience the vastness of quiet, where we can get in touch with Oneness; a state of mind, where we can feel the loving energy of creation, and know our unity with Source.
Many of us, just want to get through the day, without too much annoyance. Some are in both camps; we struggle with annoyance most of the day, and yet we can reach very profound states of peace through meditation.
We all want peace of mind. From peace comes love. From peace comes joy. Peace is the necessary baseline for happiness.
Our mentors teach us, we can be at peace, regardless of what is occurring around us. Yet, we go through a day, and sometimes the most minor things, will disturb us. Just this Morning, I was in a discussion, and peace got sidetracked, because of minor definition that had no real significance.
Our egos are constantly measuring. They are comparing and checking, to see how we are measuring up, to those around us. To the ego everything is higher and lower, better or worse. The ego attempts to defeat, the idea of equality, at every turn. The ego has a place for everything and everybody. The ego is always on the lookout to disturb our peace. The ego is the enemy of peace. Peace is scary to the ego. The ego can't rule when there is peace.
The ego operates below our awareness and we often don't recognize its contribution to our everyday existence. If we decide to take notice, we will see how it influences us, when we find our peace disturbed. We were attacking or defending. Somehow we felt a minor threat to the idea of ourselves. We brought out a gun or raised a shield. Or both.
Love is flooding our planet. The consciousness of humankind is spiraling up. We will, eventually, feel so safe, and convinced of our oneness, that we will be able to let our egos take a back seat. For most of us our egos still have a hand on the wheel; for some of us, both hands, others only a finger.
This is a tough time. Despite the increase in Love; there is, also, huge waves of negativity coming from our dieing institutions. We cannot help but feel the onslaught of anger, rage and helplessness, that is engendered. At some level, we all feel it. Our egos job, was to protect our bodies from outside assault. Of course, the ego is going to have some hypersensitivity, it is trying to protect us. But it doesn't protect us, it isolates us and creates enemies and threat, where none exists. We created our egos, to protect us, when we first emerged, on this planet, in these fragile bodies. Our egos, were corrupted, to extend themselves to psychological threat, and all types of measurement of higher and lower. It was through, the corruption of the ego, that our controllers began to manipulate us and eventually enslave us.
Love is the only solution, and love can be found, by seeking and maintaining our peace.
When we awake in the Morning, let us first appreciate our peace; if we are not peaceful, let us find it. As we go through the day let us avoid feeling the little annoyances that life brings. Let us accept that those around us are doing their best. We don't need to react to their idiosyncrasies. We don't need to react when we get a glimmer of their ego. That glimmer, may just stay a glimmer, and not spark a fire, if we can look past it.
Let us dedicate ourselves to finding our peace and keeping it through the day. Let us radiate peace, everybody will benefit.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, June 29, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
A QUIET MIND
I went outside this Morning to let the chickens out. The first thing I saw, was chickens ambling all over the yard. Then, I remembered, I forgot to close them up last night. It is just matter of closing their little door to the outside world. The door is just big enough for the chicken to come and go easily. It is big enough for a skunk or racoon. A fox could probably squeeze in. I am not sure of a coyote. It doesn't seem to matter much if one forgets occasionally. Years ago, I experimented with leaving the door open, I discovered it takes awhile for a predator to discover it. In some cases, however, a fox or coyote will patrol the area nightly. Even if the predator couldn't get in the coop, letting chickens out, too early, is not a good idea in this area. The chickens will pop out at first light, and dawn is a very dangerous time. I have lost fowl to great horned owls who haven't retired yet, and coyotes and foxes like to hunt in the hours after dawn. By eight AM it is generally safe to let them out, this time of year.
I finally got my amaryllis and gladiolas planted. It is a little late for the gladiolas. The rule of thumb is that we should plant them before Fourth of July. I have discovered that everything has to be perfect for them to bloom before the first frost if they are planted that late. The blossoms are susceptible to even a light frost. The best thing is to plant them is succession, from late May to the middle of June, then you have a long period of bloom for cut flowers.
Some people don't plant their amaryllis, at all. They can be left in the pots, one can bury the pots leaving the plant undisturbed, or they can be taken out of the pots and planted in the garden. I like the last approach. I assume the plant must enjoy the freedom of being able to spread its roots wherever it wants. The bulbs don't have to be dug up until after a heavy frost. Sometime in early October, I will dig them and put them in the basement. If I want them to bloom for Christmas I will re-pot them around Thanksgiving. However, in the last few years I have discovered it is nice to have them bloom in the dreary days of February, so I re-pot them towards the end of January.
As I was out in the garden yesterday, I was admiring the size of the plants. The potatoes are huge. The lettuce is providing salads and everything looks good; including the weeds. The weeds love the week, on either side of the solstice, to show their stuff, and they do. Folks who have the most weed free gardens, in the neighborhood, struggle to keep up.
I am sitting here, very peaceful, enjoying a superb Morning on planet Earth. The world of chaos is very far away. A perfect world, created by love, is in my mind; it is all I can see. If I don't read the paper, or turn on a radio or TV, I won't even know that other world exist. Does it? What if all of us had a perfect world in our mind? Would we out-picture it? Isn't that how we create?
It isn't difficult for me to experience a perfect world. I can just look at this screen, in front of me, and watch the words appear. My mind is Peace. My mind is Love. This moment is perfect. Why can't it last forever? I think it can; so far it hasn't. A moment from now, I may latch onto a stray thought that takes me out of this peaceful place.
We have all experienced this peace. When we are absorbed in something we love to do, whether it be painting, writing, gardening, sculpting, carpentry, etc. Our minds can find this quiet place where everything is perfect. We can even experience it when we are doing mundane tasks like the dishes. Love can be both hands in the soapy water.
When we are into that peaceful place, in our minds, we extend that peace to all other minds. That is how we bring peace to the world. Let us all find that peaceful place and bring peace to the world. The world is awash in Love. It is available to all of us. We are like magnifying lens, when we let the love flow through, us unimpeded, it multiplies many times.
Love in Peace, Gregg
I finally got my amaryllis and gladiolas planted. It is a little late for the gladiolas. The rule of thumb is that we should plant them before Fourth of July. I have discovered that everything has to be perfect for them to bloom before the first frost if they are planted that late. The blossoms are susceptible to even a light frost. The best thing is to plant them is succession, from late May to the middle of June, then you have a long period of bloom for cut flowers.
Some people don't plant their amaryllis, at all. They can be left in the pots, one can bury the pots leaving the plant undisturbed, or they can be taken out of the pots and planted in the garden. I like the last approach. I assume the plant must enjoy the freedom of being able to spread its roots wherever it wants. The bulbs don't have to be dug up until after a heavy frost. Sometime in early October, I will dig them and put them in the basement. If I want them to bloom for Christmas I will re-pot them around Thanksgiving. However, in the last few years I have discovered it is nice to have them bloom in the dreary days of February, so I re-pot them towards the end of January.
As I was out in the garden yesterday, I was admiring the size of the plants. The potatoes are huge. The lettuce is providing salads and everything looks good; including the weeds. The weeds love the week, on either side of the solstice, to show their stuff, and they do. Folks who have the most weed free gardens, in the neighborhood, struggle to keep up.
I am sitting here, very peaceful, enjoying a superb Morning on planet Earth. The world of chaos is very far away. A perfect world, created by love, is in my mind; it is all I can see. If I don't read the paper, or turn on a radio or TV, I won't even know that other world exist. Does it? What if all of us had a perfect world in our mind? Would we out-picture it? Isn't that how we create?
It isn't difficult for me to experience a perfect world. I can just look at this screen, in front of me, and watch the words appear. My mind is Peace. My mind is Love. This moment is perfect. Why can't it last forever? I think it can; so far it hasn't. A moment from now, I may latch onto a stray thought that takes me out of this peaceful place.
We have all experienced this peace. When we are absorbed in something we love to do, whether it be painting, writing, gardening, sculpting, carpentry, etc. Our minds can find this quiet place where everything is perfect. We can even experience it when we are doing mundane tasks like the dishes. Love can be both hands in the soapy water.
When we are into that peaceful place, in our minds, we extend that peace to all other minds. That is how we bring peace to the world. Let us all find that peaceful place and bring peace to the world. The world is awash in Love. It is available to all of us. We are like magnifying lens, when we let the love flow through, us unimpeded, it multiplies many times.
Love in Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
CHANGES
I am getting a late start. I had things to do this Morning, besides my regular chores. It is almost 11:AM. Naomi is having some friends over this weekend and I need to do a few things to help get ready.
Our world is going to be different, here, on Laughing Water Farm. Noah has found a place in Ogilvie to live and Naomi has leased an apartment in St. Cloud. Noah has been with us for about a year and Naomi and Elijah have been here for about six years. Naomi starts moving on July 1st. We will continue providing some child care for Elijah.
It will be a momentous change. Jamie and I will have our house to ourselves. Their leaving is going to leave a big hole, but it will be a new beginning for us. Our retirement will continue.
The one thing we can count on in this life are changes. Sometimes we welcome them. Sometimes we resist them. They happen anyway. And the change is constant. Jamie and I were going along on a relatively predictable path for several years; just the two of us. Naomi and Elijah brought a great change in our life. There were challenges and also great blessings. The gifts, a growing child gives, are incalculable.
So Jamie and I are on the threshold of a new life experience. We could think, it would continue, like it was going, six years ago; but it will be new, it will be different, it will be what it is. It is exciting to think about.
One thing I have discovered, and I rediscover, and rediscover, again; is that change does not have to disturb peace. Of course, this is something our mentors have been stressing for thousands of years; yet, if your like me, we need to relearn it after most life disturbances.
If we want peace, we must find it inside ourselves, then we can extend it to our environs. When we are connected to a peaceful place inside ourselves, others feel it, and they respond much differently, than if we were frazzled. When we are peaceful, we see the whole world differently.
I, sometimes, forget to seek peace. It is easy to blame the lack of peace on what is going on around us. And things can be so chaotic, that peace eludes all but the Buddha-like among us. Most of the time, we can take a second or so, and calm our internal state, and experience peace.
It is invaluable to find time everyday, to sit and relax, and sink into ourselves, and connect with the peace, that is there. It may be frustrating for some, as they seem to be unable to quiet there minds. Please persist. Undoing is often more difficult than doing. Meditation, reaching peace, is undoing. It is not achieving.
We all have absolute calm at our center. It is a calmness that is vast. We all can reach it. Know it is there. It is our connection to Oneness. It is our connection to Source. We will all know it.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Our world is going to be different, here, on Laughing Water Farm. Noah has found a place in Ogilvie to live and Naomi has leased an apartment in St. Cloud. Noah has been with us for about a year and Naomi and Elijah have been here for about six years. Naomi starts moving on July 1st. We will continue providing some child care for Elijah.
It will be a momentous change. Jamie and I will have our house to ourselves. Their leaving is going to leave a big hole, but it will be a new beginning for us. Our retirement will continue.
The one thing we can count on in this life are changes. Sometimes we welcome them. Sometimes we resist them. They happen anyway. And the change is constant. Jamie and I were going along on a relatively predictable path for several years; just the two of us. Naomi and Elijah brought a great change in our life. There were challenges and also great blessings. The gifts, a growing child gives, are incalculable.
So Jamie and I are on the threshold of a new life experience. We could think, it would continue, like it was going, six years ago; but it will be new, it will be different, it will be what it is. It is exciting to think about.
One thing I have discovered, and I rediscover, and rediscover, again; is that change does not have to disturb peace. Of course, this is something our mentors have been stressing for thousands of years; yet, if your like me, we need to relearn it after most life disturbances.
If we want peace, we must find it inside ourselves, then we can extend it to our environs. When we are connected to a peaceful place inside ourselves, others feel it, and they respond much differently, than if we were frazzled. When we are peaceful, we see the whole world differently.
I, sometimes, forget to seek peace. It is easy to blame the lack of peace on what is going on around us. And things can be so chaotic, that peace eludes all but the Buddha-like among us. Most of the time, we can take a second or so, and calm our internal state, and experience peace.
It is invaluable to find time everyday, to sit and relax, and sink into ourselves, and connect with the peace, that is there. It may be frustrating for some, as they seem to be unable to quiet there minds. Please persist. Undoing is often more difficult than doing. Meditation, reaching peace, is undoing. It is not achieving.
We all have absolute calm at our center. It is a calmness that is vast. We all can reach it. Know it is there. It is our connection to Oneness. It is our connection to Source. We will all know it.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, June 22, 2015
BE KIND TO YOUR SELF
My older brother, who decided to shuck his body for greater adventures, almost six months ago, always ended a message with the recommendation to BE NICE TO YOURSELF or BE KIND TO YOURSELF. On the surface, my brother and I didn't have many points of agreement; but, on this point we were totally in accord.
So many of us are just learning how to be friends to ourselves. We grew up in a culture that equated loving yourself with self-centeredness or selfishness. It is easy to argue, that self-centeredness and selfishness, comes from not having a high regard for yourself. They are both fruits of being afraid that we are not good enough. They are defenses, to the fear, that we may not be lovable.
On our journey, back to ONENESS, I have recommended self-assessment. Unfortunately, self-assessment can morph into self-criticism, which I don't recommend. We need to see how we are stuck and it helps to see, why we are stuck. We have been taught to see ourselves negatively. We have been taught, we are aggressive, competitive and exclusive. These are all things that, not so subtlety, play into our low self esteem and make us easier to control.
To break out of the mold, that we have been caste in, we must learn to love ourselves. People who love themselves are unwilling to be sheep. People who love themselves, are unwilling to let other people, say what they should think.
Seeing how we are stuck, so we can move on, is helpful. Criticism and judgement is never helpful; it just gives the stuckness more energy.
Some mentors have suggested a self-assessment when we go to bed at night. However, I suggest, it is not a good idea. It is too easy to veer into judgement. It is not a good idea to fall asleep in the midst of judging ourselves. Of course, self-assessment, is not the problem; what we assess is the problem. Instead of assessing error and limitation, lets assess accomplishment; especially loving accomplishment.
As we lay in bed, preparing for sleep, let us survey all the loving feelings we had. Let us remember the joy we experienced. Let us remember our kindness, both given and received. Let us remember the little triumphs over our own perceived limitations. To say it another way, let's be friends to ourselves. Let us treat ourselves as we would treat a best friend. Let us be kind to ourselves. Let us go to sleep basked in a warm glow of love.
We have heard from our mentors, numerous times, we can only love others to the degree we love ourselves. We have known it intellectually, but our programming is difficult to overcome. Self- judgement comes easy to us, and we don't perceive, that we are limiting the fountain of love that we are. Yes, we are love, and any negative comment, we believe about ourselves, can limit the flow.
More and more of us are understanding the concept of Oneness. What we do to any of us, we do to all of us. When we attack ourselves, we attack everyone. When we love ourselves, we love everyone. It is simply; that, we are indeed, ONE.
Let us take my Brother Bruce's recommendations. BE KIND TO YOURSELF. BE NICE TO YOURSELF.
Love and Peace, Gregg
So many of us are just learning how to be friends to ourselves. We grew up in a culture that equated loving yourself with self-centeredness or selfishness. It is easy to argue, that self-centeredness and selfishness, comes from not having a high regard for yourself. They are both fruits of being afraid that we are not good enough. They are defenses, to the fear, that we may not be lovable.
On our journey, back to ONENESS, I have recommended self-assessment. Unfortunately, self-assessment can morph into self-criticism, which I don't recommend. We need to see how we are stuck and it helps to see, why we are stuck. We have been taught to see ourselves negatively. We have been taught, we are aggressive, competitive and exclusive. These are all things that, not so subtlety, play into our low self esteem and make us easier to control.
To break out of the mold, that we have been caste in, we must learn to love ourselves. People who love themselves are unwilling to be sheep. People who love themselves, are unwilling to let other people, say what they should think.
Seeing how we are stuck, so we can move on, is helpful. Criticism and judgement is never helpful; it just gives the stuckness more energy.
Some mentors have suggested a self-assessment when we go to bed at night. However, I suggest, it is not a good idea. It is too easy to veer into judgement. It is not a good idea to fall asleep in the midst of judging ourselves. Of course, self-assessment, is not the problem; what we assess is the problem. Instead of assessing error and limitation, lets assess accomplishment; especially loving accomplishment.
As we lay in bed, preparing for sleep, let us survey all the loving feelings we had. Let us remember the joy we experienced. Let us remember our kindness, both given and received. Let us remember the little triumphs over our own perceived limitations. To say it another way, let's be friends to ourselves. Let us treat ourselves as we would treat a best friend. Let us be kind to ourselves. Let us go to sleep basked in a warm glow of love.
We have heard from our mentors, numerous times, we can only love others to the degree we love ourselves. We have known it intellectually, but our programming is difficult to overcome. Self- judgement comes easy to us, and we don't perceive, that we are limiting the fountain of love that we are. Yes, we are love, and any negative comment, we believe about ourselves, can limit the flow.
More and more of us are understanding the concept of Oneness. What we do to any of us, we do to all of us. When we attack ourselves, we attack everyone. When we love ourselves, we love everyone. It is simply; that, we are indeed, ONE.
Let us take my Brother Bruce's recommendations. BE KIND TO YOURSELF. BE NICE TO YOURSELF.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, June 19, 2015
THE BUMPS ON THE ROAD
It is a beautiful Morning. It is cool but not cold. It is Sunny and there is a slight breeze. A perfect day for weeding the garden and other outside chores. I still have my gladiolas to plant. I have to get them, in this week, if I want to be sure they bloom before an early frost. I have had some of the bulbs for thirty years, last year they didn't do too well, and actually got smaller. I let them get too weedy and didn't water them when it was crucial. Oh well, perfection eludes me. I need to buy a few more bulbs. I, also, need to get my amaryllis in the ground.
On our individual paths and our collective path, we are going to have bumps. On Wednesday, I stressed the importance of forgiveness in our ongoing relationships with each other. We will, also, experience bumps on our collective path as our society readjust. We can see how everything has to change. We cannot permit banks and corporations to rule over us anymore. Capitalism, as we now know it, has to end. None of the systems, that operate in society now, can continue without major adjustments. Our motives must be creativity and service. Profit, as the primary motivator, has to end.
If we can look at the world and imagine, love as the major motivator, for all actions and decision making, we can see what needs to change.
As a collective, we are not that far from making the necessary attitudinal changes. Most of us, already want to do our jobs in the most loving way possible. We are not greedy. We just want to be comfortable and happy. We are much closer to a loving, peaceful world than we know.
The dark still controls the media, so we don't realize how much progress we have made. It is hard to imagine the end of conflict and violence, when the media plays up all the negative that occurs in the world, and ignores most the signs of peace.
So, there will be bumps in the road as our institutions adjust to the new paradigm.
Then there is our Mother Earth. We need to listen to her and ask her how we can help. We need to see her as a living being; perhaps, a community of beings, making up a whole. The Earth needs to restore herself to her pristine condition. We need to be part of this. We need to learn how to remove the poisons from the soil and water. The Earth has amazing healing abilities, but she needs help.
The geologic history of the Earth indicates there have been many sudden, as well as gradual, changes. Those folks, who are interested, can easily access web sites that follow the volcanic and seismic activities. Volcanoes and earthquakes are cranking up. Some adjustments in North America are overdue. We are likely to experience more activity in California and on the New Madrid fault. Fear and apprehension are not things to indulge; but we must be aware, that our Mother, might have to sneeze and belch now and again.
We need to love our Mother with all our might. Listen to Her. Take care of her. Stop our crazy exploitations. Keep in mind, always, She is a living being. If we live with the rhythm of Nature we will know when we need to move or otherwise protect ourselves. There will always be some folks who will choose to experience a geologic event for reasons of their own.
Everything is unfolding perfectly. Everything is as it should be.
Happy Friday!
Love, Gregg
On our individual paths and our collective path, we are going to have bumps. On Wednesday, I stressed the importance of forgiveness in our ongoing relationships with each other. We will, also, experience bumps on our collective path as our society readjust. We can see how everything has to change. We cannot permit banks and corporations to rule over us anymore. Capitalism, as we now know it, has to end. None of the systems, that operate in society now, can continue without major adjustments. Our motives must be creativity and service. Profit, as the primary motivator, has to end.
If we can look at the world and imagine, love as the major motivator, for all actions and decision making, we can see what needs to change.
As a collective, we are not that far from making the necessary attitudinal changes. Most of us, already want to do our jobs in the most loving way possible. We are not greedy. We just want to be comfortable and happy. We are much closer to a loving, peaceful world than we know.
The dark still controls the media, so we don't realize how much progress we have made. It is hard to imagine the end of conflict and violence, when the media plays up all the negative that occurs in the world, and ignores most the signs of peace.
So, there will be bumps in the road as our institutions adjust to the new paradigm.
Then there is our Mother Earth. We need to listen to her and ask her how we can help. We need to see her as a living being; perhaps, a community of beings, making up a whole. The Earth needs to restore herself to her pristine condition. We need to be part of this. We need to learn how to remove the poisons from the soil and water. The Earth has amazing healing abilities, but she needs help.
The geologic history of the Earth indicates there have been many sudden, as well as gradual, changes. Those folks, who are interested, can easily access web sites that follow the volcanic and seismic activities. Volcanoes and earthquakes are cranking up. Some adjustments in North America are overdue. We are likely to experience more activity in California and on the New Madrid fault. Fear and apprehension are not things to indulge; but we must be aware, that our Mother, might have to sneeze and belch now and again.
We need to love our Mother with all our might. Listen to Her. Take care of her. Stop our crazy exploitations. Keep in mind, always, She is a living being. If we live with the rhythm of Nature we will know when we need to move or otherwise protect ourselves. There will always be some folks who will choose to experience a geologic event for reasons of their own.
Everything is unfolding perfectly. Everything is as it should be.
Happy Friday!
Love, Gregg
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
FORGIVENESS
I had a disappointing day yesterday. At least it was disappointing yesterday. Today, it was just another learning experience. There are no bad experiences, just experiences. We shouldn't take them too seriously We have them, we learn and they fade into the past.
Some people have tiffs, some ados, some settos. Jamie and I seem to have all out rampaging fights. Perhaps, I am exaggerating, somewhat. On the surface they don't don't have much content. We are both sensitive to blame and get our feelings hurt, when we think the other, is not sufficiently sensitive to our feelings. Every time it happens I am determined it won't happen again. It does. And it always takes me by surprise.
Jamie observed, "We are all just babies." An interesting way to look at it. In this relative world, this illusion made with fear, we never quite grow up. It is rare to obtain true maturity, none of our forebears did; our parents, as sweet as they may have been, didn't. We are all capable of being childish. Some folks have learned to hide it behind various facades.
In a way it is comforting to think of everybody as a baby. Forgiveness comes easy for babies and forgiveness is what we need more than anything right now. We especially need to forgive ourselves for all our babyish lapses. There is much love in the world right now. There is, also, much stress. In our attempts to grow out of our babyhood, all our unresolved issues come to the surface, they need to be dealt with.
We do want to grow up. We can see that paradise awaits us. Are we ready? Do we think we are deserving? Are we capable of unconditional love? I can answer all those questions for everybody and the answer is a big, YES. But each one of us needs to accept that truth; on the way to learning it, some babyish behavior will manifest. That is okay. We are in a hurry to learn. We don't want to be held back.
Because of the polarity, we can be creating heaven around us, one moment, and be peering into hell the next. It is very disconcerting. This time won't last. The dark, as an energy source, is fading fast. It will become easier and easier to focus on the light. The more we focus on the light, the less often we will respond to the negativity we may perceive in others.
The negativity [babyishness] we see in others is directly related to the regard we have for ourselves. The more we love ourselves the less we respond to the childishness in others. Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness. We need to learn forgiveness as our first response to the baby in ourselves and each other.
When we are truly forgiving of ourselves and we are truly kind to ourselves; then it will be easy to love our neighbor as ourselves. Of course we do, we always love our neighbor as ourselves. That is why it is imperative to forgive and love ourselves.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Some people have tiffs, some ados, some settos. Jamie and I seem to have all out rampaging fights. Perhaps, I am exaggerating, somewhat. On the surface they don't don't have much content. We are both sensitive to blame and get our feelings hurt, when we think the other, is not sufficiently sensitive to our feelings. Every time it happens I am determined it won't happen again. It does. And it always takes me by surprise.
Jamie observed, "We are all just babies." An interesting way to look at it. In this relative world, this illusion made with fear, we never quite grow up. It is rare to obtain true maturity, none of our forebears did; our parents, as sweet as they may have been, didn't. We are all capable of being childish. Some folks have learned to hide it behind various facades.
In a way it is comforting to think of everybody as a baby. Forgiveness comes easy for babies and forgiveness is what we need more than anything right now. We especially need to forgive ourselves for all our babyish lapses. There is much love in the world right now. There is, also, much stress. In our attempts to grow out of our babyhood, all our unresolved issues come to the surface, they need to be dealt with.
We do want to grow up. We can see that paradise awaits us. Are we ready? Do we think we are deserving? Are we capable of unconditional love? I can answer all those questions for everybody and the answer is a big, YES. But each one of us needs to accept that truth; on the way to learning it, some babyish behavior will manifest. That is okay. We are in a hurry to learn. We don't want to be held back.
Because of the polarity, we can be creating heaven around us, one moment, and be peering into hell the next. It is very disconcerting. This time won't last. The dark, as an energy source, is fading fast. It will become easier and easier to focus on the light. The more we focus on the light, the less often we will respond to the negativity we may perceive in others.
The negativity [babyishness] we see in others is directly related to the regard we have for ourselves. The more we love ourselves the less we respond to the childishness in others. Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness. We need to learn forgiveness as our first response to the baby in ourselves and each other.
When we are truly forgiving of ourselves and we are truly kind to ourselves; then it will be easy to love our neighbor as ourselves. Of course we do, we always love our neighbor as ourselves. That is why it is imperative to forgive and love ourselves.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, June 15, 2015
SHINING OUR LIGHT
Well, I am not beginning with any great moment of clarity, like I had Friday morning. No, nobody slipped anything in my coffee. I thought, that some readers, with psychedelic experiences, would say, "I know what he is up to." Nope, as Rom Dass's Guru said, "That is the way to visit the saint, not be the saint." That is a para-phrase, I am sure, but that is the idea.
We have all had moments when everything was clearer. We can be sitting on the lakeshore looking over the water, our minds at rest, participating in the beauty of the world, when we begin to see the perfection in everything. We will eventually understand that we don't need to have some amazingly beautiful setting to have this experience. It is available to us always. We live in this illusion, a relative world of judgement, when we see through the veil, to Reality, we see Heaven on Earth.
We see ourselves as how the illusionary world defines us. We probably have varied definitions of ourselves, and we have experimented seeing ourselves, different ways. Yet, however we see ourselves, it is a product of the illusion. We don't have the point of view, of seeing ourselves, as part of Source.
What if we saw ourselves as Unconditional Love sees us? What if we saw ourselves as great beings of light? Our mentors teach us, we are in reality, great beams of light, expanded beings having a temporary experience of limitation. We wanted to experience what it would be like to create separately from Source. Wow! We found out.
We have been struggling to get back to Source for what, in our time, is ages. We are tired. But, know what, we don't need to struggle, we don't need to wait. Reality beckons through a very thin veil.
We can make the decision that we are great beings of light, creative beings, as we create a loving world around us, we thin the veil for everyone.
There is a channeled blog titled, HEAVEN LETTERS, today's recommendation is to let your light shine. Have the intent to beam out your light. The idea is to know yourself as Source [God] sees you. Allow yourself, to be, who you are meant to be. Let yourself beam splendidly on the world.
We don't need to wait until we perceive the change in the world. We change the world by perceiving perfection around us. How, and what, are we thinking this moment? Choose to align your thoughts with the creator. It is simply a matter of choosing, the the most unconditionally loving thought.
Okay, It might not seem that simple to do. I know what it is like to be plagued by negativity. However, as we accept that our thoughts are our responsibility, it gets easier and easier to shepherd them. We are learning who we are. We can be determined to beam our light unto the world. We don't have to be perfect. We don't have to be saints. We are great, just the way we are. Let your light shine.
Love and Peace, Gregg
We have all had moments when everything was clearer. We can be sitting on the lakeshore looking over the water, our minds at rest, participating in the beauty of the world, when we begin to see the perfection in everything. We will eventually understand that we don't need to have some amazingly beautiful setting to have this experience. It is available to us always. We live in this illusion, a relative world of judgement, when we see through the veil, to Reality, we see Heaven on Earth.
We see ourselves as how the illusionary world defines us. We probably have varied definitions of ourselves, and we have experimented seeing ourselves, different ways. Yet, however we see ourselves, it is a product of the illusion. We don't have the point of view, of seeing ourselves, as part of Source.
What if we saw ourselves as Unconditional Love sees us? What if we saw ourselves as great beings of light? Our mentors teach us, we are in reality, great beams of light, expanded beings having a temporary experience of limitation. We wanted to experience what it would be like to create separately from Source. Wow! We found out.
We have been struggling to get back to Source for what, in our time, is ages. We are tired. But, know what, we don't need to struggle, we don't need to wait. Reality beckons through a very thin veil.
We can make the decision that we are great beings of light, creative beings, as we create a loving world around us, we thin the veil for everyone.
There is a channeled blog titled, HEAVEN LETTERS, today's recommendation is to let your light shine. Have the intent to beam out your light. The idea is to know yourself as Source [God] sees you. Allow yourself, to be, who you are meant to be. Let yourself beam splendidly on the world.
We don't need to wait until we perceive the change in the world. We change the world by perceiving perfection around us. How, and what, are we thinking this moment? Choose to align your thoughts with the creator. It is simply a matter of choosing, the the most unconditionally loving thought.
Okay, It might not seem that simple to do. I know what it is like to be plagued by negativity. However, as we accept that our thoughts are our responsibility, it gets easier and easier to shepherd them. We are learning who we are. We can be determined to beam our light unto the world. We don't have to be perfect. We don't have to be saints. We are great, just the way we are. Let your light shine.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, June 12, 2015
CLARITY
My morning is perfect. I would have difficulty trying to describe it. The weather is perfect; cool, sunny, and a moderate breeze. But I am not talking about the weather, or anything else outside me. I am having a moment of clarity. I see everything as perfect. All is progressing as it needs to. I see it without thought; without conclusion. I see it with a deep sense of peace. I have a huge smile on my face and I feel an intensity that is beyond happiness.
I say it is a moment of clarity. I hope it last longer than a moment, but I know, I need to have no attempt, to hang on to it. Any attempt to, freeze it in time, will cause it to fade away. I have had glimmers of these feelings before, during meditation etc., but this is the most intense I have ever experienced. {I am still writing in the present tense-although the intensity has lessened it leaves me in a very peaceful place}.
Before I write my blog I often close my eyes and ask for guidance. This Morning I was doing that, and a parade of recent frustrations were passing through my mind, and suddenly from within came this incredible feeling of perfection. I could see without thought. I had an intense sense of knowing, but without words or shape.
This experience is incredibly reassuring. It tells me that everything is indeed going as planned, even though, the world looks horrible. I, always, hang on to the positive, and attempt to focus on the love, that is emerging in the world, but sometimes it seems like an intellectual process, and I am fighting doubt, that lies in the recesses of my mind.
This experience leaves no doubt. ALL IS WELL.
Later on, I might have to come back and read this, so I can remember what it feels like, to know all is well. And that it is okay.
We have one foot in each world. We are beginning to see through the illusion and realize, a world made of love, exist side by side, with this world made by fear. When we are in this illusion [I like to call it the relative world] we are immersed in fear thoughts. We need to keep our minds focused away from them. It is sometimes difficult to maintain the peace we are entitled to.
We need to know with every smile, with every loving thought, we are thinning the veil that separates us from the real world [the one created by love].
I don't have more to say right now. I hope to get some fence mending finished this afternoon in preparation for getting more sheep.
I wish everyone, a moment of clarity, like I just experienced.
Happy Friday!
Love and Peace, Gregg
I say it is a moment of clarity. I hope it last longer than a moment, but I know, I need to have no attempt, to hang on to it. Any attempt to, freeze it in time, will cause it to fade away. I have had glimmers of these feelings before, during meditation etc., but this is the most intense I have ever experienced. {I am still writing in the present tense-although the intensity has lessened it leaves me in a very peaceful place}.
Before I write my blog I often close my eyes and ask for guidance. This Morning I was doing that, and a parade of recent frustrations were passing through my mind, and suddenly from within came this incredible feeling of perfection. I could see without thought. I had an intense sense of knowing, but without words or shape.
This experience is incredibly reassuring. It tells me that everything is indeed going as planned, even though, the world looks horrible. I, always, hang on to the positive, and attempt to focus on the love, that is emerging in the world, but sometimes it seems like an intellectual process, and I am fighting doubt, that lies in the recesses of my mind.
This experience leaves no doubt. ALL IS WELL.
Later on, I might have to come back and read this, so I can remember what it feels like, to know all is well. And that it is okay.
We have one foot in each world. We are beginning to see through the illusion and realize, a world made of love, exist side by side, with this world made by fear. When we are in this illusion [I like to call it the relative world] we are immersed in fear thoughts. We need to keep our minds focused away from them. It is sometimes difficult to maintain the peace we are entitled to.
We need to know with every smile, with every loving thought, we are thinning the veil that separates us from the real world [the one created by love].
I don't have more to say right now. I hope to get some fence mending finished this afternoon in preparation for getting more sheep.
I wish everyone, a moment of clarity, like I just experienced.
Happy Friday!
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
NATURE
Yesterday wasn't the first hot day of the season, but it was the first hot day, that didn't cool off when the Sun went down. The temperature was in the high eighties and it stayed over seventy until midnight. It cooled off by Morning. It is 10AM and still in the sixties. I opened up several windows last night and it was delightfully cool in the house when I got up. Unfortunately, I am going to have to close the windows again tonight as it is going to get down to the fifties and it won't get out of the sixties tomorrow. Well, that is typical Minnesota weather.
Most of my hens, lay their eggs, in the allotted space in the chicken coop. I have two, that have other ideas. One was laying her eggs in the barn and one in the old chicken coop. I found the place in the barn, on top of some hay bales, and started collecting her eggs. She got miffed and started laying her eggs in the old chicken coop, in the same box, as the other hen. They lay different colored eggs, one deep tan and one ecru, so I can easily tell them apart. Well the one, that laid the lighter colored egg, decided she wasn't going to have any of that, and started laying somewhere else. For awhile I saw her every Morning tear out of the chicken coop and head in the direction of the barn, but I couldn't find where she was laying her eggs.
Last evening I saw her out scratching around, long after the other chickens were roosting. That is unusual. I figured she must be setting on her eggs somewhere and she just left them for a few minutes. When hens are setting they leave their eggs only once or twice a day and only for a couple minutes. There is an exception and that is when it is very hot, they seem to know, they can stay off their eggs longer. I expect we will see her come into the yard, one Morning, parading a dozen or so balls of fluff around her. A hen and her chicks are one of the marvels of nature.
I am entranced with Nature. I am in awe of the intelligence of Nature. I am in love with Nature. It is painful to see how separate we have become from Nature. How did it happen? How could we think we know more than Nature? Why would we want to control and manipulate it?
When we observe the perfection of Nature, and marvel at the intelligence displayed, in every cell, in every molecule, in every atom; how can we have the arrogance, to think it is okay, to manipulate the cell structure or atomic structure for our own greed? How can we believe that GMO crops are okay? Our ability to manipulate Nature has far out stripped our wisdom. Our scientific advances are amazing. What we can, and could do, are astounding. Our wisdom? Where is it? We are stuck worshiping the false gods of money and power. We won't have the wisdom required to interfere with Nature as long as we are stuck. And we are stuck indeed.
Look what happened when we learned how to split the atom. We created a destructive device with the potential of destroying life on the planet. We have a waste problem that has stymied us. We have power plants, dotting the earth, that are disasters waiting to happen. If we had wisdom would we have done that?
If we are to acquire wisdom we must start thinking with our whole capability. We have worshiped the egoic mind long enough. It is time we thought with our heart as well as our brain.
Our science should not separate us from Nature. Our science is Nature and Nature is science. We cannot escape Nature, we are one with it.
In order to use science with wisdom, we must learn to appreciate Nature. We must fall in love with it. We must appreciate how awe struck we are! We just nibble around the edges, of the huge subject of Nature, like fleas on a dog. We forget that we are Nature. There can be no separation.
When we really appreciate what Nature is; when we have found our loving place in it, then we will have the wisdom to manipulate it. But, will we want to?
Love and Peace, Gregg
Most of my hens, lay their eggs, in the allotted space in the chicken coop. I have two, that have other ideas. One was laying her eggs in the barn and one in the old chicken coop. I found the place in the barn, on top of some hay bales, and started collecting her eggs. She got miffed and started laying her eggs in the old chicken coop, in the same box, as the other hen. They lay different colored eggs, one deep tan and one ecru, so I can easily tell them apart. Well the one, that laid the lighter colored egg, decided she wasn't going to have any of that, and started laying somewhere else. For awhile I saw her every Morning tear out of the chicken coop and head in the direction of the barn, but I couldn't find where she was laying her eggs.
Last evening I saw her out scratching around, long after the other chickens were roosting. That is unusual. I figured she must be setting on her eggs somewhere and she just left them for a few minutes. When hens are setting they leave their eggs only once or twice a day and only for a couple minutes. There is an exception and that is when it is very hot, they seem to know, they can stay off their eggs longer. I expect we will see her come into the yard, one Morning, parading a dozen or so balls of fluff around her. A hen and her chicks are one of the marvels of nature.
I am entranced with Nature. I am in awe of the intelligence of Nature. I am in love with Nature. It is painful to see how separate we have become from Nature. How did it happen? How could we think we know more than Nature? Why would we want to control and manipulate it?
When we observe the perfection of Nature, and marvel at the intelligence displayed, in every cell, in every molecule, in every atom; how can we have the arrogance, to think it is okay, to manipulate the cell structure or atomic structure for our own greed? How can we believe that GMO crops are okay? Our ability to manipulate Nature has far out stripped our wisdom. Our scientific advances are amazing. What we can, and could do, are astounding. Our wisdom? Where is it? We are stuck worshiping the false gods of money and power. We won't have the wisdom required to interfere with Nature as long as we are stuck. And we are stuck indeed.
Look what happened when we learned how to split the atom. We created a destructive device with the potential of destroying life on the planet. We have a waste problem that has stymied us. We have power plants, dotting the earth, that are disasters waiting to happen. If we had wisdom would we have done that?
If we are to acquire wisdom we must start thinking with our whole capability. We have worshiped the egoic mind long enough. It is time we thought with our heart as well as our brain.
Our science should not separate us from Nature. Our science is Nature and Nature is science. We cannot escape Nature, we are one with it.
In order to use science with wisdom, we must learn to appreciate Nature. We must fall in love with it. We must appreciate how awe struck we are! We just nibble around the edges, of the huge subject of Nature, like fleas on a dog. We forget that we are Nature. There can be no separation.
When we really appreciate what Nature is; when we have found our loving place in it, then we will have the wisdom to manipulate it. But, will we want to?
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, June 8, 2015
WAKING UP
The last couple weeks, I have had the urge to write about waking up. I have resisted it. What do I know about waking up? I am not awake. I want to be. I have learned a lot of intellectual things about the process. I am convinced it is going to happen. I see evidence all around me, that folks are seeing more and more.
As I understand it, to be fully awake is: being always in the present; being completely without fear; seeing only love; understanding and experiencing Oneness; being completely without judgement and, I am sure, there is more that is not coming to mind.
Many of us have been awakening for some time. We realize that the world we see is an illusion created by our group perception. We know it is an artificial world, that we were manipulated into making, for the benefit of the few. We know that the manipulators used fear and divisiveness as their major tools.
We assume that the 'real' world exist behind the illusion, available to anybody who can see, only love. Many of us had glimpses of that 'real' world.
So, once we see we live in an artificial world maintained by fear; what keeps us here? One thing is, we created an illusion, so real seeming, that we cannot fully believe it is not real. We are part of the creative source, after all; we wouldn't create a puny illusion. The illusion is made to interact with our five senses; it is difficult to see anything unreal about it.
Yet, if it is because of intuition, influence of our mentors, personal experiences or logic [no loving Creative Source would create a world like this], we have come to the conclusion that it can't be real.
What holds us back? We struggle, when the opposite of struggling is necessary. Struggling, striving, fighting it, all reinforces the illusion and keeps us captive. We can sink into our inner being and experience peace and vastness. It is hard for many of us to achieve a meditative state. When we try and it seems like we cannot succeed; accept the idea that we may be doing better than we think. A quiet mind happens. Those who are creative [all of us] have experienced a quiet mind in the process of bringing things to fruition. We all have a little different way of achieving a quiet mind; looking at a Sunset, weeding a garden, basking in the Sun, walking in the woods, playing solitaire, etc. We need to experience the quiet as often as we can everyday.
What is our resistance to living in the moment? Why do we hold on to the past? We have been lectured, interminably, about the necessity of giving up the past, if we are going to wake up. The good and the bad; they both influence our creation of the future. It is obvious why we want to give up negative thoughts of the past, we don't want them to influence our future. How about the pleasing past memories? Do we want to dwell on them? Do they create a positive sense in our present or do they show us what might be lacking now? Do they create longing? When we are fully in this moment, do we really know what the content of the next moment should be?
The Awakening will happen! Perhaps sooner than we know. We are looking forward to knowing Peace. We want to be embraced by unconditional love. We all want to experience living without fear.
Are we ready? We are going to have to give up all our petty judgements and prejudices [some we don't even realize we have]. We have to give up our attachment to worry. Gosh, we love to worry. What's going to happen tomorrow; are we up to the challenge; are our kids going to be okay; I can't begin to cover all the things we like to worry about.
Freedom. Freedom is something we don't yet understand. We have not experienced it in this artificial world and we are wary of it. We unconsciously equate it with negativity; our overseers have made sure of that. Those who profit from this artificial world have striven, to inculcate in us, an innate fear of freedom. We must bring this fear of freedom to our consciousness and reject it. It is nonsense, loving beings do not create negativity when they know they are free. Negativity comes from the slavery we have experienced.
How are we to be ready for awakening? Love is the only answer, I know. Every time we find our mind straying to a negative [or past] thought; we bring our mind to the present and remind ourselves to love. Love what is in front of us. There is nothing but love. If it is not love it is part of the illusion. There is no need to dwell in or study the illusion. It will be over as soon as we quit focusing on it.
The most important way to get ready for the awakening is to love ourselves. It is our disregard for ourselves that keeps us stuck. As we learn to know ourselves, the illusion falls away. Whenever we are not loving ourselves, we are paying attention to some remnant of unworthiness or incompetence. It is all nonsense. We are loved unconditionally. We can't be anything but Love. We are part of Source.
Love and Peace, Gregg
As I understand it, to be fully awake is: being always in the present; being completely without fear; seeing only love; understanding and experiencing Oneness; being completely without judgement and, I am sure, there is more that is not coming to mind.
Many of us have been awakening for some time. We realize that the world we see is an illusion created by our group perception. We know it is an artificial world, that we were manipulated into making, for the benefit of the few. We know that the manipulators used fear and divisiveness as their major tools.
We assume that the 'real' world exist behind the illusion, available to anybody who can see, only love. Many of us had glimpses of that 'real' world.
So, once we see we live in an artificial world maintained by fear; what keeps us here? One thing is, we created an illusion, so real seeming, that we cannot fully believe it is not real. We are part of the creative source, after all; we wouldn't create a puny illusion. The illusion is made to interact with our five senses; it is difficult to see anything unreal about it.
Yet, if it is because of intuition, influence of our mentors, personal experiences or logic [no loving Creative Source would create a world like this], we have come to the conclusion that it can't be real.
What holds us back? We struggle, when the opposite of struggling is necessary. Struggling, striving, fighting it, all reinforces the illusion and keeps us captive. We can sink into our inner being and experience peace and vastness. It is hard for many of us to achieve a meditative state. When we try and it seems like we cannot succeed; accept the idea that we may be doing better than we think. A quiet mind happens. Those who are creative [all of us] have experienced a quiet mind in the process of bringing things to fruition. We all have a little different way of achieving a quiet mind; looking at a Sunset, weeding a garden, basking in the Sun, walking in the woods, playing solitaire, etc. We need to experience the quiet as often as we can everyday.
What is our resistance to living in the moment? Why do we hold on to the past? We have been lectured, interminably, about the necessity of giving up the past, if we are going to wake up. The good and the bad; they both influence our creation of the future. It is obvious why we want to give up negative thoughts of the past, we don't want them to influence our future. How about the pleasing past memories? Do we want to dwell on them? Do they create a positive sense in our present or do they show us what might be lacking now? Do they create longing? When we are fully in this moment, do we really know what the content of the next moment should be?
The Awakening will happen! Perhaps sooner than we know. We are looking forward to knowing Peace. We want to be embraced by unconditional love. We all want to experience living without fear.
Are we ready? We are going to have to give up all our petty judgements and prejudices [some we don't even realize we have]. We have to give up our attachment to worry. Gosh, we love to worry. What's going to happen tomorrow; are we up to the challenge; are our kids going to be okay; I can't begin to cover all the things we like to worry about.
Freedom. Freedom is something we don't yet understand. We have not experienced it in this artificial world and we are wary of it. We unconsciously equate it with negativity; our overseers have made sure of that. Those who profit from this artificial world have striven, to inculcate in us, an innate fear of freedom. We must bring this fear of freedom to our consciousness and reject it. It is nonsense, loving beings do not create negativity when they know they are free. Negativity comes from the slavery we have experienced.
How are we to be ready for awakening? Love is the only answer, I know. Every time we find our mind straying to a negative [or past] thought; we bring our mind to the present and remind ourselves to love. Love what is in front of us. There is nothing but love. If it is not love it is part of the illusion. There is no need to dwell in or study the illusion. It will be over as soon as we quit focusing on it.
The most important way to get ready for the awakening is to love ourselves. It is our disregard for ourselves that keeps us stuck. As we learn to know ourselves, the illusion falls away. Whenever we are not loving ourselves, we are paying attention to some remnant of unworthiness or incompetence. It is all nonsense. We are loved unconditionally. We can't be anything but Love. We are part of Source.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, June 5, 2015
KEEPING OUR CONSCIOUSNESS ELEVATED
"I ain't the man I never used to be." I am late getting started. I had to run to the post office this Morning and decided to go to the feed store to combine trips. I just unloaded six sacks of feed [4-75 pounders and 2- 100s] and put them away in the chicken house. Every time I am finished with this chore, I think, "Well, I can still do it." Picking a 75 or 100 pound sack off the floor, and dumping it into the feed can, is getting to be at the edge of my ability.
I like waking up in the Morning and feel that deep sense of peace. The feeling that all is well. It is being in love with life. It didn't happen this Morning. It wasn't a bad Morning. Everything seemed a little off. Like the entity, in charge of orchestrating my life, was having a day off. For instance, I just came in the house, after unloading the feed, Jamie was standing in front of a kitchen appliance, that was humming a long; I said something and startled her to the brink of her grave.
Even when we have a rough start, we can elevate our consciousness. Have you ever noticed, that sometimes we like to wallow in less than a good mood. We like the range of our emotions, and we have to admit, that sometimes, we can enjoy the most sourest.
I am not going to do that today. After finishing that last paragraph, I sat back in my chair and connected with a deep sense of peace, that seemed to arise around me. I know that peace is always available to me. With peace, arises thankfulness. Thankfulness, brings a glow of love.
The good news is: we are the entity that orchestrates our life. We know when we are allowing a negative vibration into our lives and we can do something about it. It is relatively easy, to stop what we are doing and look around us. We can find thankfulness in almost everything our eyes fall on. The cup of coffee at our elbow. That tall glass of water waiting for us. The air wafting in the window. When we look out the window we may see the lushness of Nature. We have flowers blooming in the gardens, and this time of year, the world is bursting with new growth.
Speaking of growth, I have grass to mow and some other chores to do. I will have more to say about keeping our consciousness elevated.
Happy Friday.
Love and Peace, Gregg
I like waking up in the Morning and feel that deep sense of peace. The feeling that all is well. It is being in love with life. It didn't happen this Morning. It wasn't a bad Morning. Everything seemed a little off. Like the entity, in charge of orchestrating my life, was having a day off. For instance, I just came in the house, after unloading the feed, Jamie was standing in front of a kitchen appliance, that was humming a long; I said something and startled her to the brink of her grave.
Even when we have a rough start, we can elevate our consciousness. Have you ever noticed, that sometimes we like to wallow in less than a good mood. We like the range of our emotions, and we have to admit, that sometimes, we can enjoy the most sourest.
I am not going to do that today. After finishing that last paragraph, I sat back in my chair and connected with a deep sense of peace, that seemed to arise around me. I know that peace is always available to me. With peace, arises thankfulness. Thankfulness, brings a glow of love.
The good news is: we are the entity that orchestrates our life. We know when we are allowing a negative vibration into our lives and we can do something about it. It is relatively easy, to stop what we are doing and look around us. We can find thankfulness in almost everything our eyes fall on. The cup of coffee at our elbow. That tall glass of water waiting for us. The air wafting in the window. When we look out the window we may see the lushness of Nature. We have flowers blooming in the gardens, and this time of year, the world is bursting with new growth.
Speaking of growth, I have grass to mow and some other chores to do. I will have more to say about keeping our consciousness elevated.
Happy Friday.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
BEING
Imagine we all begin like flower buds; potential flowers, of all different shapes sizes and fragrances. With appropriate care; watering, tending and feeding we bloom magnificently. We express our true being.
In this passing world, the opening of our petals was often distorted. The world told us our ideal shape, color, and scent, should be quite different, from what we felt to be true. We doubted our very being, and tried to match expectations, rather than, just BE.
In order to gather the nutrients and love from a strange world we altered our very being. The world seemed to have a template, that we had to fit into, in order to get the nourishment we needed.
When we plant a seed in the ground. We trust in that seed to have the potential to be the plant it promises to become. We care for it, feed it, water it. We don't need to tell it when to open its dicotyledon leaves. We don't tell it when it is time to develop mature leaves. We trust it know when it is time to bloom; how and what kind of fruit to have; when to seed. We trust all that knowledge is in the seed. The seed knows its being. It knows what it is to become.
We can look at Nature and see how things should be. We acknowledge a creative force that gives everything its being. Yet, we don't trust it with ourselves. We don't trust it with our children. We can't imagine our children growing up healthy without our constant interference.
Eons ago, humankind created an artificial world. This world was not based on Cosmic Law. It was not based on Nature. It was based on our group egos, controlled by ruling egos. We created a world, with a hierarchy, that in some ways mirrors Cosmic Law, but is turned upside down. In the Creator's Law, a hierarchy is based on the achievement of higher consciousness. The more elevated the being, in the hierarchy, the greater their ability to love and serve. The higher one is, the more they have to give to the rest.
In the artificial world, we have been living in, the hierarchy is based on money and power. Instead of serving, the higher ups suck the energy [wealth and power] from those beneath them.
So this artificial world, creates rules, that keeps itself going. It is a closed system. It is a system characterized by fear and mistrust. How could its denizens, trust their flower buds [children], to have their being already encoded? This world was so unable to trust, that despite an example from Nature, all around them, they insisted they knew more than Nature.
Many folks have managed to find their true being despite the programming. We have seers and mentors, that urge us, to follow our passion and disregard the expectations of society. Many who have escaped, serve as models for the rest of us. However, many of us are unhappy, periodically depressed; our petals are wrinkled and our leaves droop. We have inculcated the ideas of the artificial world and we cannot realize our being.
We, all, like the seed that is planted, came in to this world with a great gift to share with the rest. We, all, make up a beautiful whole. We are different plants, but we all bloom in the same garden. We will not realize our true being, until we can understand we have been programmed, to be something we are not, and can shed it, so we can emerge as we were meant to be.
We are all originals. We are all creators. We were not meant to be clones, in service of a society, that doesn't serve us.
We will create a society patterned after the real cosmic law. To do this, we need to see how our creativity has been stifled. We must let our roots go deep into our Mother Earth and let our being blossom for all to appreciate. The Sun [unconditional love from the center of the universe] is shining on us. We have nothing to lose. Let's trust the Earth and the Cosmos. Let us trust our own Being. Let's Bloom.
Love and Peace, Gregg
In this passing world, the opening of our petals was often distorted. The world told us our ideal shape, color, and scent, should be quite different, from what we felt to be true. We doubted our very being, and tried to match expectations, rather than, just BE.
In order to gather the nutrients and love from a strange world we altered our very being. The world seemed to have a template, that we had to fit into, in order to get the nourishment we needed.
When we plant a seed in the ground. We trust in that seed to have the potential to be the plant it promises to become. We care for it, feed it, water it. We don't need to tell it when to open its dicotyledon leaves. We don't tell it when it is time to develop mature leaves. We trust it know when it is time to bloom; how and what kind of fruit to have; when to seed. We trust all that knowledge is in the seed. The seed knows its being. It knows what it is to become.
We can look at Nature and see how things should be. We acknowledge a creative force that gives everything its being. Yet, we don't trust it with ourselves. We don't trust it with our children. We can't imagine our children growing up healthy without our constant interference.
Eons ago, humankind created an artificial world. This world was not based on Cosmic Law. It was not based on Nature. It was based on our group egos, controlled by ruling egos. We created a world, with a hierarchy, that in some ways mirrors Cosmic Law, but is turned upside down. In the Creator's Law, a hierarchy is based on the achievement of higher consciousness. The more elevated the being, in the hierarchy, the greater their ability to love and serve. The higher one is, the more they have to give to the rest.
In the artificial world, we have been living in, the hierarchy is based on money and power. Instead of serving, the higher ups suck the energy [wealth and power] from those beneath them.
So this artificial world, creates rules, that keeps itself going. It is a closed system. It is a system characterized by fear and mistrust. How could its denizens, trust their flower buds [children], to have their being already encoded? This world was so unable to trust, that despite an example from Nature, all around them, they insisted they knew more than Nature.
Many folks have managed to find their true being despite the programming. We have seers and mentors, that urge us, to follow our passion and disregard the expectations of society. Many who have escaped, serve as models for the rest of us. However, many of us are unhappy, periodically depressed; our petals are wrinkled and our leaves droop. We have inculcated the ideas of the artificial world and we cannot realize our being.
We, all, like the seed that is planted, came in to this world with a great gift to share with the rest. We, all, make up a beautiful whole. We are different plants, but we all bloom in the same garden. We will not realize our true being, until we can understand we have been programmed, to be something we are not, and can shed it, so we can emerge as we were meant to be.
We are all originals. We are all creators. We were not meant to be clones, in service of a society, that doesn't serve us.
We will create a society patterned after the real cosmic law. To do this, we need to see how our creativity has been stifled. We must let our roots go deep into our Mother Earth and let our being blossom for all to appreciate. The Sun [unconditional love from the center of the universe] is shining on us. We have nothing to lose. Let's trust the Earth and the Cosmos. Let us trust our own Being. Let's Bloom.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, June 1, 2015
RELATIONSHIPS
We can know something for years; yet not know it. We hear it and think, "Yah, that's right." We understand the truth of it; but then, there is knowing and knowing.
I have understood for years, the concept, that we only have relationship with ourselves. We are in a house of mirrors and all we see are endless versions of ourselves. There are many levels of understanding in this concept.
In the course of struggling, with how I felt about the events of a relationship, I realized that the only relationship I needed to concern myself with was the one with myself. The pain I was experiencing had to do with judgement of self.
Until we are fully enlightened, we will have reservations about our own competency and worthiness. On a whole, we may feel very good about ourselves, and intellectually we may conclude we are "okay." We look through a glass kaleidoscope at the world. The little bits of colored glass are how we see ourselves.
When there is a disconnection in a relationship, we attempt to assign responsibility. We don't like to admit it, and we like to hide it from ourselves; but we tend to assign blame. Some of us tend to blame ourselves. Some of us tend to blame the other. Some of us like to divide up the blame. All three choices, cause us to experience some psychic pain.
What would it be like if we had a good relationship with ourselves? What is a good relationship with ourselves? I don't think it is possible to see ourselves without flaws. In this dimension, in these bodies, we cannot achieve perfection [whatever that would be]. However, we can see our flaws and not judge ourselves. We can accept our humanness. Sure, we have things to work on; that does not have to affect how much we love ourselves.
What if we could see the disconnection as, just that? Not something to mull over. Not something to find blame over. Not something to cry over. Not something to experience loss about. What if we saw it, as just a divergence of paths, that had to happen? Perhaps it is needed for growth of one or both of us.
I am using disconnection to mean all events that disturb the equanimity of relationship, from a thunderous fight to a slight snub.
In my case, I was feeling bad about something that happened and I was carrying it out longer than seemed reasonable. I, eventually, asked myself, "Would I be feeling this way if I loved myself?" On being honest with myself, I realized I was refusing to forgive myself. I was interpreting the others pain as a direct evidence of my own unworthiness. Instead of accepting the fact that I wasn't perfect, I was attacking myself.
So I rediscovered what I knew already. Our primary relationship is with ourselves. We are going to have disconnections and some will be painful. However, if we love ourselves we will quickly forgive ourselves. We are not perfect. We can be truly sorry. Our forgiveness of the other is not complete if we do not forgive ourselves.
It is a 'no brainer' to realize, the more we love and accept ourselves, the fewer disconnections we are going to have anyway. The more we love ourselves, the fewer emotional triggers, we will have, to manifest. But they will happen and we can accept the bump in, or the divergence of, our paths without judgement.
We have heard it over and over again, we can't fully love, someone else, if we cannot love ourselves. Let us look at ourselves, accept our flaws as accents of our gloriousness. When we appreciate the beauty in ourselves; we appreciate the beauty in all others.
We are surrounded by Love. Let us surrender to it. Let us fall in love with ourselves.
Love and Peace, Gregg
I have understood for years, the concept, that we only have relationship with ourselves. We are in a house of mirrors and all we see are endless versions of ourselves. There are many levels of understanding in this concept.
In the course of struggling, with how I felt about the events of a relationship, I realized that the only relationship I needed to concern myself with was the one with myself. The pain I was experiencing had to do with judgement of self.
Until we are fully enlightened, we will have reservations about our own competency and worthiness. On a whole, we may feel very good about ourselves, and intellectually we may conclude we are "okay." We look through a glass kaleidoscope at the world. The little bits of colored glass are how we see ourselves.
When there is a disconnection in a relationship, we attempt to assign responsibility. We don't like to admit it, and we like to hide it from ourselves; but we tend to assign blame. Some of us tend to blame ourselves. Some of us tend to blame the other. Some of us like to divide up the blame. All three choices, cause us to experience some psychic pain.
What would it be like if we had a good relationship with ourselves? What is a good relationship with ourselves? I don't think it is possible to see ourselves without flaws. In this dimension, in these bodies, we cannot achieve perfection [whatever that would be]. However, we can see our flaws and not judge ourselves. We can accept our humanness. Sure, we have things to work on; that does not have to affect how much we love ourselves.
What if we could see the disconnection as, just that? Not something to mull over. Not something to find blame over. Not something to cry over. Not something to experience loss about. What if we saw it, as just a divergence of paths, that had to happen? Perhaps it is needed for growth of one or both of us.
I am using disconnection to mean all events that disturb the equanimity of relationship, from a thunderous fight to a slight snub.
In my case, I was feeling bad about something that happened and I was carrying it out longer than seemed reasonable. I, eventually, asked myself, "Would I be feeling this way if I loved myself?" On being honest with myself, I realized I was refusing to forgive myself. I was interpreting the others pain as a direct evidence of my own unworthiness. Instead of accepting the fact that I wasn't perfect, I was attacking myself.
So I rediscovered what I knew already. Our primary relationship is with ourselves. We are going to have disconnections and some will be painful. However, if we love ourselves we will quickly forgive ourselves. We are not perfect. We can be truly sorry. Our forgiveness of the other is not complete if we do not forgive ourselves.
It is a 'no brainer' to realize, the more we love and accept ourselves, the fewer disconnections we are going to have anyway. The more we love ourselves, the fewer emotional triggers, we will have, to manifest. But they will happen and we can accept the bump in, or the divergence of, our paths without judgement.
We have heard it over and over again, we can't fully love, someone else, if we cannot love ourselves. Let us look at ourselves, accept our flaws as accents of our gloriousness. When we appreciate the beauty in ourselves; we appreciate the beauty in all others.
We are surrounded by Love. Let us surrender to it. Let us fall in love with ourselves.
Love and Peace, Gregg