Bedrock

Bedrock: 

my own deep sadness is still often present, there's been no spiritual cure that has chased depression away and delivered me a perfect life. Not yet at least, and I suspect not in this lifetime. But there is a difference, noticeable so, and brings me great relief - there's an ever present state of joy now too, an underlying bedrock that the currents of sadness pass through. It's always been here, though largely unnoticed, yet as I grow older it has become more central to my focus, a sanctuary of absolute love that calls so readily for my return. Yes, I still get drawn into those upper currents, sometimes lost for brief moments. There's just no longer the fear of drowning.

as there's a bedrock of joy beneath these currents,

always.

~

I love you, Eric

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Miracle Workers

Miracle workers: 

and so we're call is to be a miracle worker, to set forth in life and cast away all judgement for the sake of regaining our own lost innocence, recognizing who we truly our through the eyes of another. A miracle is simply a shift of perception, taking us from a fearful thought system that's projected outward, to a mind that's healed through the practice of forgiveness. 

miracles heal our misperception of the world.

we're miracle workers.

all of us.

and we're called to heal right now.

~

I love you, Eric

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Our First Acknowledgment

Our first acknowledgment: 

and always with an emphasis on healing, forgiveness is first given as acknowledgment to what's present, but with a refusal to make our suffering real, that yes, whatever's occurring has an effect, yet ultimately it's a thought created sorrow that is only healed through love. 

our first acknowledgment is key though.

and then not bypassed, 

but explored through depths of pain, tended to, intimately so...

and only then surrendered.

finally forgiven. 

~

I love you, Eric

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We're Wrong

We're wrong: 

you are wrong, and so am I -we all are, simply mistaken in our interpretation of people and event, falsely seeing guilt and sin where innocence always reigns. This is a hard point to come to, a long arrival, and yet it's a passage in the Manual for Teachers section of A Course in Miracles that finally leaps from the page in sudden inspiration. 

we have only misinterpreted someone.

and we're wrong. 

of course we don't place this upon anyone else, it's not our position to correct anyone but ourselves, and even this we do gently, with infinite compassion and care. Our only role is to be aware, noting what we cast out onto the world, being ever watchful of how are own projections might take hold. The only true perception is of the reality of the present moment, seeing others through the eyes of the Holy Spirit which always and only knows the certainty of our innocence. This is real forgiveness, a truly radical practice that sets us entirely free of the past and our every belief of guilt and sin.

only our innocence is found here,

right now,

 it's this we wish to see in others.

our own guiltlessness reflected back to us.

and through this correction...

we heal the world.

~

Love, Eric

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Halasana

Halasana: 

more than a year has past since injuring my back, better now, but still a careful issue, and my feet have touched the floor in halasana pose. This is a bit of a celebration for me, a healing on many levels as it was a fearful asana for me, stretching my legs behind me in reach of faith that the floor would meet me in support, holding the posture for the length of several breaths, and then slowly return to savasana. Even before injuring my back it was never an easy pose for me. 

so it's a benchmark now.

a release of fear.

and for me, it's a sign of forgiveness.

releasing fear, working through issues that tightly bind us in its grip, is never an easy process. Yoga offers me this healing opportunity, breath and body being a proving ground for my release. It's from here, this point of finally letting go, that I step off the mat and most truly begin to forgive and heal the world. What I've discovered is that fear is projected through the body, knots formed, making itself known through pain and often injury. To truly heal requires trust, patience, and infinite care. Fear isn't really overcome, it's simply seen through and then released without effort.

it's an illusion. 

and forgiveness sees right through it.

so as my body frees itself from those fearsome knots, my trust begins to extend outwards, that sense of patience and infinite care is now given to others in a completely loving way. When my feet touched the floor in halasana there was a great release that reverberated through my world.

 I'm not healed - but healing.  

and forgiving all along the way. 

~

Love, Eric 

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Casting Shadows

Casting shadows: 

I'll admit that this election has thrown me for a bit of spiritual loop, that with such a heavy focus on cruelty and an emphasis on a personality over virtue - I hoped that Americas core values would shine through and we would make a better choice this time around. Still, I wasn't overly optimistic, although I wanted to be, but there was a heaviness in the air that kept too much hope at bay. Our collective shadow is not quiet ready for the light. 

but we're getting there.

maybe. 

and that brings us to this present moment.

right now I am a deep participant in this shadow process, my own fears projected outwards and joined with yours. Collectively, we're now in process of our spiritual and social evolution. Individually we get to shape this course of action. 

what will we choose?

for me, I'm back on track, only shaken slightly and not for very long - I am committed more firmly than ever to choose peace instead of chaos, love over fear, and to forgive my way towards a better world. I will place emphasis on healing my own shadow and more so, to see directly through yours and know that it is an illusion of subconscious darkness projected outward to the world, not to bring fear, but to be healed through the light of love. There's a great service to this election, our moment of healing is at hand if we're only ready to embrace this opportunity. 

what will we choose?

love?

forgiveness? 

or to remain within the darkness...

casting shadows to the world.

I choose peace.

right now. 

~

Love, Eric 

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I Promise

I promise: 

so my directive now is to love my way though this moment, forgiving as I go, and to change my own perception of the world all along the way. This is my perception of the world, as difficult this is to accept right now - but I have projected it in to existence and it's my role to heal my mind of all it is that disturbs it, cleansing myself of the fear surrounds me. 

the responsibility is always mine.

it's a tall order, and one I'm not sure I'm actually up to - is it possible to forgive my way to a better world, to see through the illusion of so much hurt and dismay? I'll be honest, I don't know and there's a part of me that doesn't even want to try. It'a easier to blame others, and I find myself tempted to place my focus on the outer world and seek to change people, to yell at friends and neighbors to wake up before we're all consumed by our collective fear.

but I know that it will never work.

no one is healed that way.

and most certainly that's what we need, healing, individually and then collectively so. It begins with me, it always begins with me because there is nowhere else to ever go. I will heal myself of every once of fear that is projected outward to the world.

I will do my part. 

I promise.

~

Love, Eric 

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Election

Election: 

this is a high stakes election for many, viewed as one that could change the course of the nation, and emotions are heated on both sides of the political aisle. I obviously have my own preference and most people guess correctly through conversations and my writing. But I don't talk about it as much as I used once did, there's little need as I don't need confirmation and I know that there's little, if any, chance in changing anyone's mind. 

nor do I really wish to.

I simply live my life by values held dear.

kindness.

empathy.

compassion.

forgiveness.

trusting that others will arrive here on their own.

so with this I surrender the results of this election. I will vote, but refuse to take a side that pits me against another. I am not a political party and neither are you. We're family, deeper still, we're heart connected, belonging together as loving thoughts in the single mind of God. There's no way I could ever take a side against you, an impossible task and one I will no longer even entertain. 

whatever the outcome...

I will love you.

happily so. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Smallest Act

Smallest act: 

how easy it is to be kind, it's a natural, instinctive urge to cooperate with others, and yet it's now been stifled and less expressed through the age of social media. It's easier to be clever and cruel apparently, or at least it sometimes seems that way. But we can reverse the trend, returning to the easiest path of kindness and extending love to others. 

it's just one mindful act away.

repeated often.

until the world is changed.

here's the thing, we believe that social media keeps us anonymous, our true self hidden from others, and that we're able to get away with just a little bit of cruelty. But in actuality we're really more exposed, our masks slip aside and the world sees the fear of our projections. Every mindless act is the ego's stance of separation, a yell for recognition at how special we believe we are. It's also a cry for help, asking someone, anyone, for the smallest act of kindness so the facade of cruelty can be laid aside. So with this, each gesture of love we offer in return to others is an opportunity to heal the world.

one person at a time. 

repeated often.

even if it seems to take forever.

but in reality, one person healed, one small gesture of love returned against pettiness and cruelty - completely mends a fractured world. We just don't see it yet. That's the nature of faith, knowing that the small takes care of the large, one person represents the whole, and that eternity of found right now. There's no other place, no other time...no others.

and so the smallest act of kindness -

heals the world.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Of Wounds and Harm

Of wounds and harm:

the problem is that we still believe that forgiveness is something that we bestow upon another, a gift of benevolence that's given to one that harmed us, demonstrating that we are larger than the hurt that they deliberately or accidentally delivered. This belief keeps us trapped within an illusion of lingering wounds, that we forgive only when we're healed and not a moment sooner. 

yet forgiveness itself is the healing.

it's what we offer to ourselves.

never truly about another.

what we're asking for is a miracles, one that we're entitled to, being the birthright of our existence. A miracles here is a change of perception, we ask to see the world in a different way, one that isn't based upon the ego's wounds. This simply means...from my innocence to yours, true seeing, that we are both invulnerable to harm. Forgiveness is a gift of freedom given to ourselves, a recognition that we are large and spacious by design and that only false beliefs keep us trapped within a painful world. With this gift also comes discernment, freedom means that we see clearly the wounds of another and how they are projected. We look past their pain, lovingly so, and now see only their original innocence matching our own, and this puts us in a position to no longer add our pain to theirs. 

we're free from harm.

ours.

as well as theirs.

and that's what forgiveness offers.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Never Really Left Behind

Never really left behind: 

of the infinite things for me to write of each morning and I find that I continuously circle back to the subject of forgiveness, a calling really, as if there's a deep urge which calls for my expression. Similarly, after a decade or more of sitting on a bookshelf, ever present yet mostly unopened, there's been a strong pull towards A Course in Miracles, a teaching that I largely felt was behind me now. The teaching itself still felt vital, but after decades of studying the Course I guess I felt the work was done.

yet forgiveness itself, so it seems...

is never really left behind.

perhaps it's best for these troubling times, witnessing what feels like an ever increasing state of turmoil, and that right now there's so little action that can help actually bring about a change of mind. This is exactly where forgiveness plays true, not seeking to change the world but to heal my own perception as to what's truly going on. 

it feels as if I've been called to heal the world.

one forgiving lesson at a time.

and this is what I write of.

~

Peace, Eric 

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My Only Real Ambition

My only real ambition: 

here's my mission -just moving quietly through life with least disturbance, extending myself as love, and healing the world I see through forgiving each projection of my mind. It's an inner job, no one else is really involved aside from whatever role they come to offer. No one causes me an issue to forgive, they only serve as reminders for my own interpretation of situations and events, providing me with a vital opportunity to now see the world another way. 

that's it,

my only real ambition.

~

Peace, Eric 

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We Invent the World

We invent the world: 

our world is a forgiveness opportunity, all of it, and with every moment that we're involved. There are events that are horrendous, with extreme acts of violence against each other, as well as harming the environment that we depend upon for our very survival. The world is desperately in need of healing.

and so we forgive.

but we're not forgiving each other, this isn't an act of benevolence to ourselves feel better for the things we've done. It's a deeper healing offered here. We're forgiving the world for it's actual existence. By this I'm using an example provided for A Course in Miracles, that we have invented the world we see through our projections of fear and a sense of separation from the actual landscape of our existence. We view the world as "out there" and believe that we're safely harbored within an individual identity. So we feel justified in our resentments and narrowness of our opinions. 

we believe that we can hurt the world while being exempted from its sorrow.

and of course that's impossible.

as there are no individual projections.

collectively,

we invent the world.

and yet individually...we heal it.

forgiving ourselves of our every projection, each at a time as they occur, easily so, gently, until we find that only love remains - and that...

 is what we offer to the world.

Peace, Eric 

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Grievance

Grievance: 

from an early age on the world invites us to share its grievances. We're born into tribes that bear a history of being against other tribes for reasons that are seldom even remembered any longer and are never justified to be carried over so many generations. From the very beginning we're told that we are separate from others, and yet special too, but only so long as we belong within the tribal belief system. 

we're taught to hold our grievances closely.

perhaps our earliest lesson.

from here, it's a continuous grievance against others, and even ourselves, as we've learned to keep score as a means of earning our place within the world, that we succeed only by making others wrong, or placing ourselves ahead by means that keep us feeling special. It's a cruel way of navigating through life, meaning as it always makes us feel we're in a battle, one tribe against another, each person struggling to get ahead before someone else claims a vague sense of success before we do.

 if we fail our grievances grow.

and even if we succeed we continue to keep score.

yet there's a kinder way to live, gentle, one that doesn't ask us to keep score or view ourselves as separate from others. It's as simple as forgiving our every grievance, not as an act of bestowing favors and deeming others as now worthy of forgiveness - it's simpler than that, easier too.

we just acknowledge the innocence of each present moment.

that as of right now,

this very instant,

we're completely free of any grievance, that this moment, fresh, new, and every moment that will follow, is entirely clean of any past wound other than as a memory of whatever came before. What we're really doing here is letting go every yesterday and living directly in what this, and this, moment now offers - and that's the very nature of forgiveness.

it's how we heal.

and it's always now.

~

Peace, Eric 

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As If a Mountain

As if a mountain: 

most often now, it seems the asanas that call to me are the more basics ones, solid, leaving me grounded and feeling strongly connected to the world. Through the years of my yoga practice I have come to listen to the inner urge that guides me to a certain pose at just the right time, never failing to help me reach a sense of deep healing and connection. These past few sessions it has been tadasana, mountain pose, one of the least challenging  posture, at least in appearance, but it's definitely a beautiful alignment of the body, satisfying in it's complete display of poise and balance. 

as well as being healing. 

tadasana puts my spine in order, straightening vertebrae, lengthening, and leading me to feel connected to the earth as my arms reach upwards to the air. The name itself evokes the sense of enduring through time, that I'm eternal in my stance of pure awareness, indeed, essential to the very landscape of existence. I think this is why it now appeals so strongly to me, that I needed to heal from recent loss, to feel as if I belonged to something lasting beyond my personal world. 

tadasana lead me to my connection. 

a stance of awareness.

as if a mountain. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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