A Show of Love

A Show of love: 

so largely, I've kept political commentary to a minimum for the last few years. I'm not sure it needs my voice. But here's what I've become keenly aware of - what's needed right now, from politics to social media and all the way down to our nearest neighbors, is a powerful show of love displayed kindly to the world. What we have right now is the ego writ large, forcibly on display, and it seems to be causing damage to the very fabric of our soul. It can't go on. And it won't. The hard question is, can we curb it before those darken clouds burst in a storm of escalating violence? 

ego is a powerful force. 

love is greater.

debate won't solve our present issues, yet small acts of kindness done repeatedly will certainly bring the ego down to its manageable size. And the reason is that it's hard to be kind in the face of meanness, it's difficult to be a light that shins through darkness. It seems much easier to be silent, to dim our light and try to wait the dark out. It isn't, and that's because we are the voice of love and light is our extension. This time, right now, is when we are meant to shine brightest. Peacefully so, kindly, no shouting, simply extending love through the guided action of our best and highest angles. Let's be intuitive, gentle and persistent, lovingly present to the concern of others. Yes, protest if it feels called for, wave a sign and carry flowers, do what feels right in every present moment. But just know, always remember, that only love is ever true and real...that's our only answer.

and we need  it right now.

~

I love you, Eric 

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The Real Secret

The real secret: 

and that we responsible for our own salvation, a secret revealed in Chapter 27 of a Course in Miracles in which we're told that every seeming assault is is an attack we brought  upon our self, and that only a shift of mind will save us. No matter what form this might take, still, it's our own mind that makes us a victim, and ultimately, it's the mind too that's our salvation. 

this seems a harsh and difficult lesson to learn, as if we are abdicating the responsibility of harm from its cause to the victim. The Course doesn't deny that tragic evens may happen, or that others might attempt hurt us deeply. But we're talking salvation here, a release from pain, and the end of suffering. The world is a projection of the mind, a story told of guilt, victims, and those who seek to do us harm. It's so real in our experience, we're all fallen hero's seeking to save and be saved. Yet this also perpetuates the illusion, trapping us in an endless cycle of suffering and blame.

but we are not victims of the world we see.

we're creators. 

truly the hero of all we dream.

yet only when we realize that we are the dreamer of the dream, not victim, but the storyteller with ultimate creative control. We can always reinterpret the script, realizing that we've orchestrated our own sense of being a victim by story that we've told. Yes, the event still happened, the wound itself might feel fresh and present - but our role is not to make the dream real, at least at the level of the mind. We might still set up borders of protection, defend our bodies as we must. The mind though, the dreamer, is free from all possible harm, exempt from blame in all directions. 

we've brought about our own salvation. 

that's the real secret. 

~

I love you, Eric 

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To See

To see: 

with growing determination I ask to see, not solely with my eyes, but with what A Course in Miracles calls Christ's vision, a deeper evaluation of all that's seen. This is finally looking at the world through the lens of forgiveness, recognizing the innocence of everything before a single story has been told. My perception is made by either ego or Holy Spirit, and it's not a choice until there's a realization that I have falsely judged the world by virtue of my every false belief.

above all else I want to see.

and now this statement really comes across as prayer, heartfelt in it's sincerity. Tolerance for pain is indeed high, but I have reached my limit, and I am determined to forgive until the entire world is cleansed of my every misperception. 

above all else I want to see things differently. 

until only God is in everything I see,

a sincere prayer...

answered.

~

I love you, Eric 

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It Starts Right Now

It starts right now: 

it's always going to be a collective awakening, eventually though, and depending upon each of us to finally confront ourselves in how we view the world, turning within and ending the projections of our fears. So it begins individually, personally, and starting right now.

for all of us.

and the way ahead will be forgiveness, how we'll learn to see beyond the ego's demands for self -righteousness, retribution, and holding on to grievances. True forgiveness is looking past our surface concern of proving others wrong, and through it's practice the ego's role of keeping us separate, fearful and seemingly alone is now diminished. 

we're healed.

awakening as love.

and this is what we offer to the world.

it starts right now.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Aftereffect

Aftereffect: 

so I wish to do with my life the same as previously done with my writing, a complete surrender to a creativity much greater than my own, a divine talent that guides me purely by inspiration. For several years now I've had faith that just the right words would arrive each morning, no fear of writers block and an assurance that, if patient, the perfect words would always appear. This has paid off with an easiness of writing, relaxed, and a calm sense that these early mornings are meant for listening, a contemplative time, and that writing is simply an aftereffect of my surrender.

and now I wish to offer myself completely...

inspired.

a contemplative life.

with everything else an aftereffect of my surrender.

~

Peace, Eric 

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