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Love Is Not Divided

1/3/2022

 
​I'd like to share this wonderful article by Charles Eisenstein 
​(link below)
which is about Love and Peace, Freedom and Joy
and how we sometimes lose sight of all of that
as we look at others with suspicion and judgment. 
​
Those unvaccinated sometimes look with judgment
toward those who are vaccinated
and those who are vaccinated sometimes
​look with judgment toward those who are unvaccinated. 

The other day as I was thinking about all of this this is what came to me, "How I live is more important than that I live." 
Divide, Conquer; Unite, Heal

Becoming Comfortable With 'The Uncomfortable'

5/31/2021

 
In your experience, are you discovering that it is possible 
to be open to uncomfortable feelings within 
without trying to get rid of them?
 
And in your experience, are you discovering that it is possible 
to be open to uncomfortable feelings within others 
without trying to get rid of them?
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Most of us – if not all of us – are conditioned to try and alleviate 
uncomfortable feelings within us by any means necessary. 
Whether through distractions like food or TV or exercise or even meditation – 
we try to get rid of what doesn’t feel good through resisting feelings rather than allowing them to be.
 
And many of us are conditioned to try and alleviate uncomfortable or angry feelings within others 
by any means necessary. Whether through distraction, humor or apology even though unwarranted – 
we try and get things ‘back to normal’ through resisting what they are feeling and expressing 
rather than allowing them that experience.
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​Realizing our Freedom
does involve 
becoming comfortable with 'the uncomfortable'



Differences Are Not A Problem - Positions Are

5/10/2021

 
A friend recently had an insight into our collective division and shared this with me:
“It is not our differences that create the schisms, it is our positions."

Any position which judges differences to be a problem is what creates the divisions between us – not the specific differences.

This is such a profound insight that holds true both externally and internally...

Any position which judges our different thoughts and feelings to be a problem is what creates
the sense of conflict and separation within – not the different thoughts and feelings.


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Our deepening understanding and practice of Freedom is, in my experience, the same as the deepening understanding and practice of Love.  

Without Freedom there is no Love – there is only fear and control – a misunderstanding of what is true.

When we take the position of fear we are easily controllable – by ‘external’ forces as well as all of the inner forces of our various thoughts and feelings.
 
When fear seems valid we seem vulnerable and our deepest understanding of Truth seems irrelevant.
 
Identification or taking a position with fear always veils the understanding of our true nature.

 
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Whenever challenges come externally or internally and fear does seem valid –
this is the time to take some time to see for ourself what is what.

Sense into what is true  – not think about truth but sense into truth.

Allow all external and internal voices their freedom – 
when we don't judge them we don't hold them into positions.
​
Without taking a position for or against all of these voices that are coming and going
we are free to sense into the very nature and flow of Life itself -
that which is not coming and going.
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​To be free of identification with fear
reveals the fullness of Love
for everything and everyone.

Bind No Visitors and Know Freedom

4/26/2021

 
Being aware of when fear shows up within us 
helps us to be more aware of when fear shows up around us.

And being aware of when fear shows up internally and externally 
allows a greater possibility that we will not be controlled by it.

Being controlled by fear is no fun at all. It drains Life’s joy right out of us. 
It confuses us and veils all that’s true and beautiful 
while suspicion, judgment, blame and attempts to control life take over.

Yet – how can we actually live without being controlled by fear 
at the same time there is so much happening in the world 
and so much happening within us?   

Rupert Spira’s words speak to this beautifully:

“If we want to live without fear we must first learn to live with it.”

If we want to live without identification with fear (being controlled by it) 
we must first learn to live with experiencing the pure sensations of fear.

Experiencing the sensations of fear is very different than identifying with fear. Learning to live with the raw sensations of fear is not the same as buying into the story of fear.

The former is allowing a visitor to move through freely and the latter is confusing the visitor with a resident.  
​
And what comes from the first is so very different than what comes from the second.
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Freedom
is what we are.
It is the DNA of our true nature
as well as all of our conscious expressions.

Nothing is meant to be bound.
Even thoughts and feelings are meant to flow.
 
Trying to control what is by nature free
distorts everything..

Bind nothing to you
and know your freedom.

Freedom From Free Reveals Love

4/19/2021

 
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​Freedom from fear involves freedom from trying to control both what's going on internally and externally. 

When conditioning yells “Be afraid!” and then tries to control what's going on internally it’s time to inquire about what is true.

When others dictate “Be afraid!” and then try to control what's going on externally it’s time to inquire about what is true.

Falling in line with any fear based ‘inner or outer’ voice
clouds our understanding and sensing of freedom and love.

Fear and control march in lockstep to confuse and veil
and
Freedom and Love flow as one to clarify and reveal. 

"To be free of fear is to be full of Love."   Adyashanti 

The Aliveness of Freedom

4/12/2021

 
Over a month ago a friend asked me, “What’s alive in you?” and immediately what came up was, “Freedom.”

How freedom moves internally – how freedom moves externally – and how it all works together so perfectly.

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When we try and control 'internally' we suffer because we’re unaware that freedom is the very nature of even our thoughts and feelings.

And when we try and control 'externally' we suffer because we’re unaware that freedom is the very nature of all others - as well as LIfe itself!

The understanding and honoring of Freedom internally and externally changes everything.

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I’ve always felt very strongly that what works internally has to work externally - and that there is absolutely no difference between ‘spirituality’ and ‘politics’. I see them both as constructs we human beings have created to try and make sense of things – ‘internally and externally’.

And one way to collapse the contrived difference between the two and discover what is at the heart of both - the very nature of Life - is through a continued deepening understanding of – and love for – Freedom…. and all of its many radical implications.
​
Because regardless of whether we begin with 'external' freedom or 'internal' freedom if we continue our discovery we will discover them both.


    It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face."
      Sri Nisargadatta     Maharaj

      Einstein said,
    "No problem can be solved 
      from the same
       level of consciousness
           that created it."
      
     

     
    To see new solutions
       we must see differently.
    ​Dhyana Stanley
                             
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