Rapturous Love,
Be now the blessings of the warmth and the fire.
Consume all deception,
Cleanse my perception,
Reach into dark spaces,
And light them with Joy.

Your true essence knows only Love. As you connect more with it, wave upon wave of Love and Joy will flow through you. Like a fire, each flicker builds upon the next, into flame and blazing larger and larger. To know how far that fire might spread, and just how purifying it might be, it must be experienced directly. Welcome it. Welcome it.

“Drop the shield that protects me from you.”

Putting up walls seems prudent, when we’re barraged with negative influence day after day. And yet, how do we think about people when we put up these walls? Perhaps we are disgusted, and so put up the walls to create some distance and separateness. Often we are coming from a place of judgement.

There is another way. If we make a conscious choice to drop the walls and be open, we may experience people and events in a new light. We may welcome them with compassion, and realize that the apparent negativity we felt was our mind, projecting.

Satsang,
A place to spill forth,
Question upon question,
Until questioning ends.

“The greatest gift you can give the world is the permission to be who you really are.”

If you are disempowered, you cannot be of fullest use to the world or others. If you are resisting who you are you cannot make the best use of the gifts innate in you. Being yourself means you will be happy, inspired and beautiful, and that is just what the world needs. Being yourself is not just self-serving, it is serving the world.

Say it now and mean it:

“I give myself permission to be who I really am.”

Children laughing, playing,
Can you share in their joy?
Open your heart and be one with them?
If you cannot, ask yourself why.
There was once a child inside you,
And can be again.

Apple tree,
You share your gift of love so freely.
Your blossom is beauty made manifest.
I want to capture it,
To bottle it and have it with me always.
But I know it cannot be so,
For beauty is free and will always be.
It cannot be tamed, or caged, or held on to.
Beauty is what is left when fear drops away.
Beauty is your home,
And it is who you really are.

All living things grow from rich compost, and so often it is the things that we let go of and the experiences of suffering we have had along the way that enable our beauty to really flourish.

Can you speak,
Of the heavenly place that has no name,
And no words to express it?

Can you open,
To a love that is blessing you,
Even as you choose to close your heart to it?

Can you imagine,
A sound that has no sound,
But a vibration all of its own?

Can you trust,
That beauty is here to stay,
Forever and ever and ever again?

Whenever we are creating or expressing, the quality of the result is imbued with our state of consciousness at the time. Thus pretty words can come through without the beauty behind them, if the mind is clever enough. And while the mind may marvel at these things and be impressed… yes, impressed upon even… it will not feed our spirit and soul. What we really need most is to be drawn into resonance with our highest selves, with our true essence. And this occurs naturally when we are exposed to those things that are created from that connected place. So, if we must have a goal, then let it be to express our innermost in everything we do.