Fulfillment

Fulfillment: 

I've always liked the principle of manifesting, first coming across it many years ago through some authors that might be considered "New Age" in their beliefs, and it immediately appealed to me as an almost magical way of fulfilling my desire. My yoga studies at the time explained it in way that seemed to make the most sense, that it's simply a matter of entering an intent, a sankalpa, into the infinite field of pure consciousness and allowing it to align with the potentiality of it's fulfillment. Magical, yes, but also based up sound principles of yogic knowledge. And it worked, right circumstances always seemed to reveal themselves for me to trust the process, patiently detached as the universe cooperated with my intentions and brought my desire to its fruition. 

and yet, there was never fulfillment, or not completely so, as the next desire almost always emerged soon after the first appeared. An endless cycle of desire. Deepak Chopra coined the term "spontaneous fulfillment of desire" and it urges us to follow the synchronicities that naturally appear through the mind that grows quiet with the practice of meditation. Again, into that vast still of consciousness we enter a more general intent of trust, having the good faith that the universe knows exactly what we need for our every need to be met. This has been my practice for many years, it appeals to my growing sense of trust that I am part of an infinite Source that loving guides me on my way through life. 

but even this practice now feels a bit incomplete, as if I am not ultimately trusting that God alone will meet my every need if I just surrender to His love. This is where my long practice of A Course in miracles has led me, that ultimate surrender, complete faith that I am cared for through the love of God. I'll be honest, I'm not quite there yet, close, being on the precipice of this surrender. What I've found, as I'm balancing here on the edge of faith - is that this is now my only true desire, allowing God to be the one fulfillment that has need for another to arise. It's the end of the cycle of desire. Or close to it for me. So as the Course offers in lesson 242:

And so we give today to You. ²We come with wholly open minds. ³We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. ⁴Give us what You would have received by us. ⁵You know all our desires and our wants. ⁶And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You. (ACIM, W-242.2:1-6)

yes, I'm still on the precipice...

but closer now to finally letting go.

~

I love you, Eric

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Only When I surrender

Only when I surrender: 

it's only when I surrender, complete trust in the will of God, serene in the faith that I am cared for - and with this I know the way ahead is clear for me to follow. Every time I read lesson 155 of A Course in Miracles I am recommitted to the path of my surrender. Here, I am asked to step back and let God lead the way, having that little willingness to see through my fears and allow my heart to guide me. In this way I walk through the world,still most often confronted by illusions...

yet knowing now that I have never walk alone.

my every step embraced by love.

~

Love, Eric

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A Different Way

A different way:

here's the tough one, and it's still not easy for me to answer or explain - how do we forgive the truly unforgivable, those horrendous acts that so often occur against each other, violence and war? And the answer is, that we don't, it's beyond us, we're not yet at that level of being able to forgive. 

or, at least, I'm not.

but I'm willing to surrender it to something or some that is. 

what's asked for, prayed for really, is the grace of this surrender, that we can turn the whole matter, whatever it might be, over to God. We pray to see the event or person in a different light altogether, one that is untainted by our own perceptions. 

a return to innocence. 

of course it's difficult, no one has ever said that forgiveness is easy. Not at first at least. But that's only because we're addicted to a certain way of thinking, we're addicted to the fear and guilt that's so deep within the mind that we're hardly aware that it exists at all. Yet our addictions run the entire show, our world is seen though the lens of fear, projected outward and showing us a life that's filled with all sorts of unforgivable things. And as it is with all addictions, the only way to truly heal is to surrender to the grace of a higher power - a force of love existing beyond the ego. 

forgiveness is always of the spirit. 

so that's what we ask for...

grace.

and through this, 

we see the world a different way/

~

Peace, Eric

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A Small Willingness

A small willingness: 

it comes down to being willing, just a small willingness to surrender to something greater than myself and then to allow the will of God to take over. What I'm asking for here is a better plan than mine alone, knowing that my ego has lead me too far away from God and that now I'm willing to return. The word God, at least for the sake of this prose, is synonymous with love, it stands for peacefulness itself, holiness, and even this is just a choice description. 

God is the actuality of my surrender.

reality.

so with this, there's a willingness now, small, just the slightest urge to give myself away and experience a far larger love then the ego now allows. It's a greater reality than I see right now. But I'm willing to see it, and this small willingness creates a void in which a holiness rushes in, filling me with love, a peace beyond understanding...the reality of God.

 and all it took was a small willingness to surrender. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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