This is What Everything is For

This is what everything is for: 

it's simple.

really. 

I (ego) don't know what anything is for (lesson 25)

even relationships.

actually,

especially relationships.

but I do know what I want.

peace.

happiness.

real happiness...not based on my (ego) demands.

my (ego's) way has never worked so well to achieve this goal.

actually, 

it's never worked.

ever.

fortunately within me (Holy Spirit) 

wise and loving,

that knows what everything is for. 

so all I (the decision-maker) has to do is ask...

"Holy Spirit what is this for?' 

and it's revealed.

everything, including relationships,  most especially relationships are for the sole purpose of expanding love. It's how we remember who we truly are. Relationships serve only to bring us to a Holy reminder, an instant when we get to choose to see our own divinity reflected through the appearance of another. It's a practice. A commitment. 

and the only one that matters.

true forgiveness is our tool for transformation.

it's how we remember who we are.

here, in our relationships, forgiveness serve as a means of seeing.

I (decision maker) choose to see the light of who you are,

only this.

nothing else.

and so this is how we heal each other, ourselves, 

the world.

one moment of forgiveness at a time.

one Holy Instant.

extended through eternity.

I see You.

and I forgive those moment in which it seemed I had forgotten.

with this...we remember.

even if it seems to take some time.

and yet,

our Holy Instant, that moment of remembering who we truly are, 

that's forever.

I love You.

Eric 

Holy Relationships

Holy relationships: 

as with all things, we asked to bring our relationships to the Holy Spirit, allowing a shift to take us away from demands towards the purpose of divine love. What it takes is willingness, just a little as A Course in Miracles is fond of reminding us, and it begins with the recognition that we don't truly know what anything is for, including our relationships. Yet the Holy Spirit does. So with this our every trigger, each familiar pattern we believed served us somehow, is now an offering to the Holy Spirit, laid at the alter of a higher understanding. We simply ask...

show me the way.

and thus, 

transformed. 

our relationships now serving our salvation.

holy.

~

I love You, Eric 

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Ksama

Ksama: 

it's a mind asana, ksama, which is a Sanskrit word for forgiveness, and with every word of that ancient language, so much more is layered in its meaning. Sanskrit words are often meant to convey qualities of virtue, not just a single action of label but an actual way of living. Ksama too is such a word and it is deep in the gifts that it offers. Here' we're not asked to forgive in any traditional sense, but to hold it deep as a posture of the mind an asana that is returned to throughout the day and lived as an expression of divine grace. There's an implied strength within the word, forbearance, that we are meant to return to this as a practice, building a stamina of forgiveness that carries us through life. This is also the forgiveness of surrender, releasing others of long held resentments, refusing to judge or hold a grievance, and knowing that this is our own true path of salvation. 

it's the yoga of forgiveness. 

and so for me, 

A Course in Miracles has become my yoga - it's my forgiveness path, ksama in its purest sense of grace and purpose. I've been led to this point, countless asanas, endless repetition of mantra, and cultivating prana though my breathwork. All valuable practices, preparing for me for a final letting go...in the end, moksha, liberation, is freedom from the heaviness of grievances. 

forgiveness is enlightenment. 

it's the path that takes us home...directly so.

~

I love you, Eric

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Finally

Finally;

from this point on I will step back and let the Holy Spirit lead the way. Of course I've made this declaration countless times since my first encounter with this lesson from A Course in Miracles, and with equal sincerity every time. This morning, early and before the sun even hints at rising, I consider the lesson once more - there's no declaration made, it doesn't come to me as another grand announcement. It's much softer now, more of a grace than any sense of an achievement. I no longer wish to be in charge. I'm tired of my own self-created mess. 

I will step back and let Him lead the way.

and not in resignation,  

but relief.

being grateful to finally relinquish the role of leading the way.

it's time.

I love you, Eric

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Little Further Now

A little further now:

much like those balancing yoga postures that I've learned to lean into, every aspect of my life seems to have come to the same precarious balance now. I'm being asked to trust in a deeper way than ever before, frighteningly close to an edge that promises no assurance to the ego's wish for certainty. I think this is where I'm supposed to be, not without fear, but amidst the accumulated doubt of an entire lifetime, my insecurities and questions of self-worth -   

everything gathered right here.

forgiven,

all at once, and then let go.

trusting that it's time...to lean a litter further now. 

~

I love you, Eric

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Lean

Lean: 

I love the balancing postures, two in particular each morning, vrikshasana, or tree pose, and natarajasana, also called the dancer's pose. Both of these poses require trust, being mindful of just the right shift of balance to continue the posture a little while longer. What I'm trusting is not only the body, but ground beneath my feet and the very air that seems to support be when I reach the point of feeling perfectly poised and stead. It sometimes feels like I could hold each of these asanas forever, an eternal yogi trusting that a greater force will hold him. And fairly often too I stumble from the pose, as if the air defeated me and gravity frowned upon my effort to defy it. Lately though, my trust has grown, deepened into something nearly describable - 

I'm being held. 

not propped to support the the pose, and not always with a sense of ease, but with a grace that whispers to me that every fall and tug of gravity is in perfect order for the lesson of the moment. I'm not asked to trust that each asana will be perfect, no, it's that they will be perfectly expressed in such a way that I learn to remember to smile through every shift of balance. Trust is dynamic, requiring deep listening and keen inner sight that takes us beyond the appearance of what the moment offers. I know that each fall doesn't remove me from the hold of grace, but only furthers my commitment to smile and lean even deeper into the unseen arms that always hold me. 

it's trust.

and every morning...

I lean just a littler further.

~

I love you, Eric

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With The Holy Spirit

With the Holy Spirit: 

turning even my morning yoga asana practice over to the Holy Aspect, guided into each posture as to what is absolutely right for me to perform. This wasn't something that I willfully did, it wasn't a conscious surrender, and I unaware that I was being guided until I compared my practice from over a year ago to what I do now. My yoga has become a fine art of listening to this holy voice, shifting sequence without notice, holding a pose for just the right amount of time before letting go. There's a greater rhythm here and it's far beyond my own. The softest nudge and intuitive sense causes me to move in just the right way for the healing of my body to occur. My mornings have a peaceful reverence now, beyond mere ritual and routine, there's a guidance in every move that carries on throughout the day. More so than ever I'm beginning to trust the Holy Spirit, not an outside source, but the very voice for God that speaks through every cell of my body, informs just the right thought, and urges me to continue in this subtle art of listening...even as it guides me through my yoga practice. 

not a whisper to be left unheard.

I'm listening now.

finally. 

~

I love you, Eric 

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