Gently

 

Gently: 

Regard him gently. (ACIM, T-26.IX.1:5)

such a wonderfully soft description of the Holy Spirits directive in the world, it's a heartfelt way of navigating life and extending ourselves to others. 

my lifelong search for a sense of transcendence and enlightenment has largely been replaced by the gentleness of this soft approach, a focus centered more on a holy instance that offers room for others in a truly loving way. 

and oddly too,

this is the place of my own awakening.

exactly where I found you.

~

I love you, Eric

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I Need Do Nothing

I need do nothing:

it's become a continuous theme for me, a deep expression of trust, softing playing through the undercurrents of my mine. Jesus, in A Course in Miracles, gives the ultimate zen expression, a whispered urge to drop the frantic chase towards....anything. 

“I need do nothing.” (ACIM, T-18.VII.5:7)

of course life goes on as always, my outer life appears much the same - and yet my inner stress has lessened, there's an easiness to forgiveness now, it's more immediate and available as a practice. Gentleness is the world that comes to mind, my life has become increasingly gentle. Even in the midst of problems, some serious issues at hand. Yet throughout everything I'm reminded that I need do nothing, there's no rush to get the ego involved.

it's as if I'm always held in loving arms.

guided.

and all I have to do...

is remember.

~

I love you, Eric

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Mending

Mending:

there's still a call for some deeper healing, not just feeling better, but to allow the recent anxiety, distress and sleepless night to reveal to me their meaning. I love how the psychology of A Course in Miracles explains this all a single problem, not a thousand things that need to be addressed - just one. Fortunately the appearance of every issue points me towards forgiveness. I don't need to assign a greater meaning to their appearance, they're all symptoms of my belief in separation. 

there's only one false belief to be healed.

one thing to be forgiven.

appearing in a thousand different forms. 

this is the self-honesty of forgiveness, my every projection owned and stripped of the illusion of their betrayal. This is the world I dreamed, my body as well - and they're my responsibility to heal. Or should I say mend, a preferable word for me, as it implies returning a fragment back to it's original source. So really, I'm in the process of mending my world, bringing my every issue to the light of forgiveness, dissolved, mended, returned.

whole again.

that's the deeper healing.

~

I love you, Eric

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Bellwether Poses

Bellwether poses: 

and it's those few asanas that assure me, balancing poses, and they're the bellwether postures for the morning. For me this is trust on display, commitment, showing how much of myself I'm willing to give to an unseen force that gently holds me. 

it's yoga with the Holy Spirit. 

and of course it's different each day, variables always at play such as quality of sleep, stress, and a distracted mind. But these are also factors in trust, indicating just how willing I am to ask for help, if there's still a depth of hurt I wish to cling to keep hidden. The Holy Spirit asks for all that I have to be given, every once of fear and doubt, keeping nothing for myself alone. 

and these asanas often reflect how much I wish to share.

bellwethers.

the more I give, through each moment of my practice, brings me closer to a clean instant of surrender. I'm unburdened of an inner weight that keeps me earthbound, lighter, feeling softly held by loving arms. This how I'm supposed to feel. Always. Those arms are always available, and yet I so often forget to seek them out to hold me. 

so really, my yoga is trust.

and I'm still learning.

but each morning, 

those bellwether postures show me just how willing I am to learn.

~

I love you, Eric

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For Our Salvation

For our salvation: 

and so it's really a course in trust, an entire curriculum designed to take us from ego dependence to complete reliance on the Holy Spirit. Our primary tool is forgiveness, learning to shift focus from a material world filled with potential harm and seeing instead a universal Christ that's always extending grace towards us all. A Course in Miracles delivers tools for guidance, workbook lessons with real life applications and a text filled with lyrical prose to assure our understanding. 

but we're not to asked to trust.

not straight away.

only a little willing is required.

and then we're gently led along the way.

learning to trust,

forgiving,

an entire course designed for our salvation.

~

I love you, Eric

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In Praise of Doubt

In praise of doubt:

here's a moment of praise for doubt, an important role at play, that finally, finally - there come a beginning point in which the ego's thoughts are questioned. I've written quite a bit this year on trust, how my focus this year was a conscious shift to living by faith more fully. And yet it was many years before this when that the seeds for trust were planted. 

first comes doubt.

trust is a gradual development that grows from the cracked foundation of the ego. My once mighty thought system that guided me so surely began to show it's true design. Why wasn't I happy? And really, why did happiness seem to elusive? The answers that came ti me were simply more of the same, only doubling down on all the things that obviously weren't working.

so doubt began to creep into my thoughts.

along with a single line that held such great meaning...

 there must be a better way. (ACIM, T-2.III.3:6) 

and there is.

it's clear to me now how everything serves the purpose of awakening. The Holy Spirit uses everything to its advantage. Even doubt. Maybe even especially doubt as it's here, one small crack in a once mighty foundation that the seeds of trust are planted...and later come to bloom.

~

I love you, Eric 

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Reliance

Reliance: 

thinking about my earlier days with A Course in Miracles and an obvious issue that played through decades of my practice - regulating the role of Holy Spirit to what I considered spiritual concerns alone and allowing ego free reign to the areas I believed it was better suited for. Now, not with hindsight, but with a greater sense of true reliance...

I smile.

my life is coming closer to a full surrender. 

complete reliance.

and only the Holy Spirit has a role. 

 seem like it's been a long arrival.

and yet,

the Holy Spirit was always waiting here.

~

I love you, Eric

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