Happiness

Happiness: 

there's an emphasis on happiness throughout A Course in Miracles, not a false one that is dependent upon any outer circumstance, but a happiness of depth and actual freedom from conditions of the world. I love that the course and it's what continuously draws me back to the Course, reminding me to practice forgiveness as my own healing and salvation. 

the trick is to not get hung up on the terms used, salvation being an example, doing I really need to be saved? And who exactly is the one in need of saving? There was a time when I would struggle with the language and miss the simplicity of the lessons. 

I am healed through the practice of forgiveness.

 that's my salvation. 

and therein lies my happiness. 

it's simply.

really. 

~

Peace, Eric

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Light of the World

Light of the world: 

lesson 62 of A Course in Miracle states that forgiveness is my function as the light of the world - and this seems to sum up everything for me, purpose as well as function. I am the light of the world, my own illumination, and forgiveness serves to keep the world from adding layers of dark cloaks upon me, that I shine most bright when I am free of these illusions.

darkness comes with my thoughts of separation.

believing that I am other than what I am.

forgiveness shows me otherwise.

lesson 62 is just a meditation upon light, it reminds me that illumination is the ease and grace of simply being as I am, deeply so, and without any dark illusions from the world to cause me disbelief. It's so easy to be drawn back into my own perceptions, giving them a firm reality that only truly has a basis in my mind. My only wish has always been to be free, liberated in a sense, shining brightly as myself without the shade of thoughts that clouds my perception. 

forgiveness reminds me that I shine.

already free.

exactly as I am.

~

Peace, Eric

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A Writer's World

A writer's world: 

there's always something to write about, subjects abound, and all we ever need to do is settle our minds for an instant and inspiration is immediately received. Writing really is that simple. Yes, sometimes there might come a struggle for just the right words to arrive, or perhaps a theme no longer seems to capture our imagination and our words begin to ring hollow. Everything's a possibility in a writer's world - except for failure of inspiration to be present in our lives, always available, guiding our minds.

a writers's world is inspired...

simply by virtue of being a writer.

everything's a story to be told.

and that's the secret to writing, for all artist really, to let go of our selective demands of inspiration and allow the world and it's infinite subjects to tell us its story. Imagine the stories an empty page or blank canvas holds for such an open mind. 

limitless. 

if we only remember to listen. 

Peace, Eric 

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Remembering

Remembering: 

we're not asked to bypass any experience, there's no sweeping our wounds under a rug of forgiveness and claiming that we're healed. Forgiveness is feeling our every hurt so deeply that we finally ask for the healing we deserve, one that we've long denied ourselves. 

we're now ready to let go.

that's the important first step, asking for the means of our salvation.

and being ready to receive.

what's being asked for is to simply see things another way, not past our wounds, but all the way through them to the point of our original innocence. It's a place that's shared together, where all of us most truly belong. This is where we see the projection of guilt and betrayal, no longer seeking to blame and only wishing to be healed. 

it's home.

our original innocence.

and we all reside here.

there's no way to arrive here, it's not a destination. So we're not asking for directions, just for the obscuring clouds of painful memories to part long enough for our clear vision to return. That's it, the entirety of forgiveness - seeing our innocence once more.

clearly so.

remembering that we all belong here...

and that others have forgotten.

~

Peace, Eric

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A Tender Act

A tender act:

yoga is the path of forgiveness - maybe not seeming so at first thought, yet in order to practice anything effectively there must be an understanding that our previous attempts and misconceptions, our every misstep and misalignment, must be forgiven in order to proceed. 

each small correction of posture, breath and thought,

a tender act of self-compassion.

and with everything forgiven...

our path continues.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Morning Prayer

Morning Prayer:

for decades now I've had the ritual of morning prayer, a simple one, not petitionary, adopted from the German mystic Meister Eckhart and very brief in it's moment -

"if the only prayer you ever said was thank you, that would be enough"

no other prayer is needed.

and so my day begins with the prayer...

thank you, thank you, thank you. 

three times and with sincerity, not for repetition, but for sincerity, spontaneously arriving to my lips now after so many years of practice. I am thankful for the dawn of  a brand new day, that I woke from a deep slumber of nothingness to a world filled with everything I most truly need - and none of this was asked for, given by the grace of my existence.

thank you, thank you, thank you.

what more is there to say?

~

Peace, Eric 

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Somewhere Between

Somewhere between: 

it's the balancing asanas that teach me the most, showing me that the essence of yoga is not found through an extreme stretch, nor the length of a complicated pose - but that it's in the sway and settling, a point of poise and balance however brief...

the entirety of yoga is there.

what I love most is the surrender, especially Vrksasana, tree pose, and it seems I'm never steady for long before some unseen wind causes me to sway. If  I resist too strongly, I'm sure to fall, and yet without a counter measure there is no return to any sense of balance. The secret is always found through letting go, surrendering my actions to pose itself, trusting the balance of my branching arms as well as the deep rooted connection to the ground. 

that's where the magic happens.

somewhere between the sway and fall...

a true moment of poise is found.

stillness.

if only for a moment.

and that's the entirety of yoga.

~

Peace, Eric 

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