You must forge with your own hammer and fire the steel of your existence

You must forge with your own hammer and fire the steel of your existence.  It is tempered with your tears, true.  But would you give up the journey towards your own power for making life easy?  There is something to be said in overcoming adversity.  There is something so very Godly about it.  It is with that same Godliness that you walk with head held high and live the knowing. 

Hear me, live the knowing.  And you, your every experience adds to the knowing, it becomes the knowing.  It siphons into the great pool of consciousness, that others through your experience, knowledge and wisdom can better understand their own knowing.

Everything is shared.  All victory, all defeat.  Everything eventually comes full circle.

Divine Mother

To become the Christ, what does it mean?

To become the Christ, what does it mean?  It means everything and it means nothing to become what you already are: I AM.   

You are walking through a world of choices, do not forget that.  Your every thought is a choice.  To realize your Christhood, every thought shall you know, be responsible for and realize its power and its mercy.

Jesus

What is it to love?

What is it to love?  It is truly to God.  To truly love is to walk the path of God.  That means doing many things that humans do not want to do.  But there is such as mask that humanity wears that so very few actually see and recognize the face of God in another human being.

Words can tell you, feelings can enchant you, hopes can ensnare you, but only God, love, can free you.  It is the ultimate surrender, and that surrender becomes all-powerful.  It begets compassion and a deep understanding beyond words.  Because the world is dualistic, the polar opposite of love is fear.  Sadly, perhaps, that is where most of the world lives, in the half-light, the hopeless hope.

The subject of love can be so moving, charged and passionate, clouded and misunderstood, stifling and all-encompassing.  No wonder why the subject of love has been the cause of so many a poem and song. 

So, what is love?  Perhaps a simple answer is, it is not fear.

Rumi

What does it mean to be brave?

What does it mean to be brave?  How does one justify an act of bravery?  There are armies of humans that were brave and died, and there are the brave that lived and yet died. 

What is bravery?  Is it strength?  Commitment?  Action?  All of these things and more?  If bravery is the light, immersing oneself in it to such a degree that there is no fear, oh, evil might exist on the periphery of such a light, but that light cuts and that light purifies and the brave become that light.  And such a light goes with that soul to the grave.

There is another way to be brave, it is called neutrality.  When all else would demand the soul take position one way or another, remaining neutral becomes the badge of courage, becomes the poise.  Sometimes we must rise and spirit becomes us so magnificently that we are deaf and blind and dumb to all else but maintaining love. 

Rumi

These days are rife with the choice

These days are rife with the choice.  From whence comes action, positive, loving, compassionate; from the mind or from the heart?  To think with the mind is to suffer an emptiness; to be in the heart is to have a friend.  To practice mind is that, a practice.  As one with the heart is a life.  We don’t practice life, we live it.  There is a difference and there is meant to be a difference.  And there is also the strength to move such a heart into the mind.  

No mind, no brain can interpret the divine, the universal mind.  But it had to go somewhere, and so the heart unlocks it, the divine heart, universal heart, universal love.  And here is a secret that was not a secret thousands of years ago: love unlocks everything.  Everything.  And then there is no confusion between what is what and which is which, because everything is from the heart, the heart mind, because everything is from love.And that love is a single choice.  It’s not complicated; it never was and never will be. 

And when we speak of love we speak of something that is so prevalent.  It is like air upon Earth, air that is not polluted or toxic.  It is the magnetism that you feel when you place your hands very, very close together, and you feel that warmth, but there’s something else, something unique, something Goddess-like, something mystic.  You have great power in your hands, in the ability to truly touch, when you realize that the heart travels to everything you touch if you let it.  The heart moves down your arm and into your hands and fingertips, it spreads, it envelops, it blesses, it can cause miracles.

Buddha