If you ever
have the chance to become all that you dream, to embrace your wishes, to kiss
the hand that feeds you love, beloveds, now is the time. This is no great mystery, this is no
enchantment; this is your choice, this is your road.
Look behind
you, they are your footprints that etch the ground. Do you see what’s before you? Life; simple, loving, exciting,
passionate. This is why you must
experience fully the body electric. That
light must race through you and you must offer it your darkest fears and God
will do the rest.
This is no
anthropomorphic shtick or religious belief of God. This is you, not the god in the sky, but the
God that makes your heart beat. Let the
wholeness come upon you. You need not
wait to feel whole again. Feel whole
now.
Rumi
How many
dreams do we realize in a brief human lifetime?
Not many. It seems as if external
situations, pressures, someone else coerced us or forced us to take this
direction or that.
There are
dreams of the mind and there are dreams of the heart. Which is worth fighting for? Neither.
Because when I fight for something I create a paradigm whereby some form
or other of resistance must be overcome or defeated. True loving manifestation, although pestered
by earthly resistance, occurs with the smooth blessing and intervention of the
most merciful God, and that God lives within us.
So when the
world questions us as to why, what for, how come, bring forth God in all of her
quiet glory to answer such a question, and that answers is always simple. It may sound like: because it is what I love
doing; it moves my soul; and Shams’ favorite, because I love it, it brings me
joy!
Perhaps the
eyes of the listener will grow glassy: What does that mean selfish one? Why can’t you be like the rest of us? Is that such a bad thing?
It is not
such a bad thing, you might reply, it is just not a good thing, and I am living
to love and loving to live, and so that is what my life is about.
Here, take
these words from Shams. Read them. Let it be etched into your consciousness what
this loving master said: “The problem
with living is that most people think their lives depend on it. The problem with loving is that so few do it.” Think on these words. I am off to do other things.
Rumi
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
