There is only joy here

There is only joy here.  Can you feel it?  Can you let that seep into your veins of creativity and build a new and vibrant heart that feeds your dreams?  Oh if you can, then we will have something to discuss! 

I have not stopped dancing.  I will take each of you and give you etheric blisters if I must.  There is only one way to the heart of God, my beloveds, and it is through joy; simple, simple joy.

I send you a blessing for this new year of life, that we go hand in hand, and that you ask me to help.  Have I ever mentioned that I never fail?

Eternally, I AM Shams

My beloveds, for each of you experiencing human life

My beloveds, for each of you experiencing human life there are bands of light cascading all around and above you.  You might call them blessings.  For each soul that seeks the heart opening are these waves of light available.  This light is the welcoming from the in-dwelling soul to God everywhere.  It draws to it and welcomes the new and immaculate light frequencies of change, separation from fear and the remembrance of enlightenment. 

For the soul that seeks a kinder and more compassionate path these bands or waves of light act as gentle integration of the energies of purification and cleansing that rain down upon every shadow in your world.  Every soul is capable of creating the soft and gentle radiance of welcome, yet not every soul, perhaps very few, will partake of this gift and hence will feel the overwhelming enormity that emanates from these lights of change and purification.

As a race you cannot come to the Beloved bearing the blood and scars that fear, anger, greed and manipulation brand each soul holding fast to pain and suffering.  It is time to be big again.  Responsibility is rife on the winds of change.  View not your life as a series of weaknesses and mistakes.  Everything has a purpose.  All things occur in the divine balance of life.

The inner light of welcome is yours to have, to hold, to wield.  Make use of it.  No one stands alone against the storm.  The angels surround each and every one of you, if you will let them.  Great, loving and powerful gods and goddesses work ceaselessly on your behalf; believe it or not.  Not a single soul will be left behind, but not a single soul can shun the responsibility of making a choice. 

Life is perfect; you need not go out and fix a thing because nothing is broken.  At this time of whirling conflict retreat to the nest of your life and give thanks for all that you have.  We suggest you do not want for more.  Enter the new year in the gentle throes of grace, with the warm winds of gratitude at your back pushing you gently but surely into the vibrancy of love and spirit that is the rest of your life.

Rumi

The truth is that thou art the Christ

The truth is that thou art the Christ.  It is only gender perfect and you always are what you aspire to be.  What life on earth is about is shedding and purging and losing the layers of what would keep the light from your recognition.  You already are the Christ, and now you aspire to be the risen Christ. 

The risen Christ is the perfected you, the I AM.  And here is the key to the door, what is it you truly want?  What did the Master Jesus truly want?  He wanted the truth.  He wanted to understand the truth that he sought; he wanted to understand that it does not matter, he or she. 

The goddess/God of light, the Supreme Being does not care about gender.  The Supreme Being cares about you, the soul.  And the soul can be either and all.  And don’t fool yourself.  No one has been just female upon earth on all of their incarnations, and no one has been simply male throughout their time on earth.  You’ve been both so you could understand both sides of this third-dimensional coin, so you could see life from the oppressor and the oppressed, from the beloved and the loved.  The Master said just a very short time ago that what you experience on earth, the reason that you return time and time again to earth is to enjoy your hobbies.  What a unique way to see life.  And if you don’t like the hobby you’re experiencing you can change it, but most people don’t.  Most people are so limited in their scope and their ability to see beyond their own egoic cell, their prison, that they keep repeating the same hobby, or something akin to it, over and over again.

Simply put, that’s karma.  When you’re done with understanding why you do something or why something has been manifesting in your life it’s time to move on.  This runs the whole gamut on earth of: when it’s time, it’s time.  That means in relationship, that means in your job or career; that means in the things that are hobbies.  It’s simply time to move on and experience something, perhaps richer, or more apropos to who you truly are.  The soul is always, always hungry for experience and for knowledge and for something different, just like the Goddess is! Cut from the same celestial cloth, you might say. 

And so all of this conglomerate, as it rolls down the hill of life picks up speed and sometimes you notice you’re not going quite as quickly as you might, and that’s because there is something that is holding on.  Something hasn’t been let go of, jettisoned, hasn’t been forgiven.  This is what you’ve been doing, everyone is discerning what is worth holding on to.  You could say, love is worth holding on to, but you don’t have to hold on to what you are, you simply are love.  As that seed/truth comes forward and bears its truth to you, everything that is love is a part of your true inner reality, your soul scape, if you will, and everything else isn’t; it is simply part of a hobby, part of an old way.

Attaining a state of Christ, a state of consciousness which is truly Christ, is the most beautiful thing.  And every bit as magnificent and majestic is staying there.  It’s something you can attain this incarnation, that’s why you’re here, that’s why we are here.  You can break through at any moment, in a single thought if you’re not concerned with, or worried about, or afraid of, fearful of letting go of all of your attachments, and that is the Buddha mind.  It is the mind that so magnificently focused on the truth that the truth became the way.

And there is what is called the alignment.  The alignment is every single moment making the choice to stay in the state of Christ.  That may sound archaic but it’s not because what you are doing is you are defeating what is left of the ego personality by making a choice to see life from a higher echelon, from a peak that every few even know exist.  And it makes everything peaceful.  You see in peace, you feel in peace, you exude peace, you practice peace.  Christ does not know chaos.  Christ does not know diversion or distraction.  The risen Christ in you will look at these things and will feel compassion.   What a beautiful thing.

Divine Mother

When I died and the Master cometh upon me

When I died and the Master cometh upon me she said, “What do you want to do, Shams?”
“I want a hobby,” I said.
“That’s interesting, Shams.”
“Why?”
“Because life is a hobby.  The life that you just led, that humans lead is just a hobby.”
“What do you mean?”
“People enjoy camels, people enjoy horses.  People enjoy cooking, people enjoy hammering copper, people enjoy making jewelry.”
“Yes?”
“People enjoy reincarnating.”
“Really?”
“Why wouldn’t they?  Because they get to play.”
“But, Beloved Star, the people I saw, these people weren’t happy.”
“Well, unhappiness is a hobby.  Isn’t fear a hobby?  Isn’t anger a hobby?  Isn’t hate a hobby?  Everything on Earth is a hobby.”
“What was Rumi?”
“Rumi was the one object beside myself that you truly let yourself love.”

Shams of Tabriz

Eventually everything becomes what it must

Eventually everything becomes what it must.  Patience is not a curse, patience is a stream, is a flow of preparation.  Patience is an expanded, almost liquid magnet that draws to it the pieces of creation; that is to say, every and all things that we, as creators, can accept in our consciousness, in our present state of thinking.

To be impatient is to grab, is to reach into the void, not once but consistently, and return empty handed.  Impatience is also a repelling force.  It keeps that which we desire a step or two beyond our manifestation.  God, God within us, knows beyond our mortal mind when it is best that we should receive.  The mortal mind, ego/personality, seeks incessantly instant gratification.  That is why complete and utter surrender is the only cure for walking a spiritual path. 

If I walk in the light, the only shadows that exist are within me.  Once again, your race believes that walking in such a light is an external occurrence.  Quite the contrary; to walk the belighted path, the light will be not only before us but behind us.  That is to say, as we walk from our center into an uncertain world, we will feel the warmth, the radiant truth that emanates from our great within.

Whatever your wish for manifestations, be not impatient.  The beloved Creator’s capacity for giving is unlimited.  Break the chains of limitation and your life will be showered with the stars that are your dreams.  You need not venture far and wide; you need not go on extended journeys.  You need but love the journey within and express that outwardly to the world.

Rumi

What is energy?

What is energy?  Energy in its simplest, purest form is the radiance of God.  God is so multi-everything that there is indeed an endless, boundless supply and differentiation of energy.  It is neither good nor bad; it is rather the servant of the soul who would wield it.  Once again, that brings everything back to responsibility. 

 

Thought is energy.  Thought imbued with emotion evokes, molds, sculpts and utilizes energy to create matter.  Matter is not solid; it is the harmonious and peaceful coexistence of certain energies.  Even the most solid of matter bears a fluidity.  We as the divine light possess immeasurable energy.  We are individualized yet we are the source.  But the source, likewise, is everywhere present.  There is no place where the light, the energy of God is not.  That is why even in our darkest despair God is closer than our breath.  We are the creation of the most prevalent, yet unique energy which we call love.

 

When we create of love, it need not mean that we love the creation.  It means simply that at some level of consciousness we devoted enough concentrated thought energy to bring something from the etheric into the world of matter.  We are in every sense creators because every single thought contains the spark of power needed to bring forth manifestation.  So we, as a race, must be very conscious and aware of this great gift of power, lest we suffer the consequences of thoughts directed towards less than loving ideals.  But being human we seem to have to learn the hard way.  On the bright side, what is done can be undone and recreated.  The only catch here is that it takes some self-examination and a bit of hard work, something that not everybody is prepared to do.

 

Well, I’m going to speak of something a little more joyous, exciting perhaps.  And that is paying attention to the things that we really love.  How important is that?  Just incredibly!  These are the things that soul remembers when soul crosses the threshold into heaven.  We look back and examine our pain and suffering, our hard works and say “Thank you, hard lessons that taught me well.”  But when the soul turns to the page of its own experiences of love, it is the simple things that read like the finest poetry and evoke tears of joy that conjure visions of “I really did that!  That’s me!”  And then that part of us, somewhere way deep inside of us says, “No, Shams, that’s us!”

Shams of Tabriz



It is important not to judge

It is important not to judge.  We’ve spoken of this before.  What another soul chooses, my children, is none of your business, is none of my business.  It is between that soul and that soul’s affair with God.  I am not preaching to you; I never do!

But I am suggesting that life is so much easier to let people be.  Let people be whoever they wish to be and live, anyway they choose.  When they ask for help it becomes our choice.  Once again we return to the power of thought.  Would you or I be responsible for another’s thought, for their perceptions of life, for the choices they make, for the roads they walk?  We have our hands full making our own choices, and the God-power that thought evokes is better spent other places, like living a joyful life, like seeking the good in everything.

Champions may acknowledge the opportunity of defeat, but they focus and use their God-power on the victory of love, which brings us to the big picture, again, the big picture.  What do you see?  Where are you in the big picture?  If you do not see it, it cannot serve you.  Every harp plays its own tune; whether there exists dissonance or not is unimportant.  The greatest significance is compassion; the power of listening is much greater than the power of attempting to rush in to solve something.  The new teachers encourage the individual to heal, to recognize, to bring forth their own Christ-love healing.

We would like to believe we all want the best.  Be careful about creating darkness in the guise of knowing what is best for.  So we must be responsible and truly examine what we feel is the best.  The best for me is to be joyful and happy, yet that may be lifetimes different than what one soul has come here to learn.  Extending unconditional love is its own reward, is its own healing balm, is all it needs to be.

There is a mercy in detachment.  A space is created wherein miracles might occur.  Diligence pays off, my beloveds.  We all eventually climb the mountain and every heart makes that last leap, and eventually we all see the fire that burns so bravely in the darkness.  It makes life a lot easier.  I almost sounded serious!

Shams of Tabriz