Nothing to Forgive Here

Nothing to forgive here:

forgiveness largely happens on it's own, Our only real effort is one of remembering the original innocence of this moment and allowing ourselves to stay here. That's really all forgiveness is, just the reduction of a wandering mind to those thoughts of past hurt, to keep returning again and again to the present moment until not even a husk of a painful memory remains to cause us any harm. Anything other than this only serves as a ritual for our return to the present moment - 

our original innocence is always right now.

and there is nothing to forgive here.

~

Peace, Eric 

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From This Point On

From this point on:

as everything else is just prepares me for this surrender - that's the entirety of my practice, every struggle with an asana, each time my mind wanders from the mantra, 

there is always a surrender.

that's where the magic is for me, a sweet spot of letting go and finding myself within the free fall. My truest self is found here, unencumbered, no longer holding on to any false sense of balance. I find myself first in motion and then the stillness of surrender, poised, and without concern of anything beyond the freedom of this moment.

my every effort brought me here.

yet serve me no longer.

from this point on....

there's just the letting go.

~

Peace, Eric

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Everything We Need

Everything we need:

forgiveness offers everything I need - those are the words offered in Lesson 122 of A Course in Miracles and they immediately strike me with the absence of mentioning another. This lesson is all about me and that's vitally important with forgiveness. Yes, others most certainly do benefit from our practice, the world itself becomes a brighter place due to the change of our perception. But forgiveness is a gift we give to ourselves, no one else is really involved accept for a brief moment recalled as we let transgressions go, surrendering to our new reality.

forgiveness offers everything we need.

what we gain here is tremendous, we have freed energy for our benefit, serenity follows, and true peace becomes an actuality. It's amazing to consider, so much effort given to holding onto a the past, grievances consuming such a large amount of our creativity and vitality. Letting go of resents heals us, we're free, lighter, and have so much more to give to the world. 

honestly, it takes so little effort...

we just let go,

accepting only the present moment.

continuously so.

until we truly see that only love is real.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Invitations

Invitations:

what I've been thinking about lately is invitations, how life is always inviting us to participate in the usual way to see the world - and with hardly even a consideration, we've almost always lived by the rules that have been handed down to us. These are the implicit invitations, an underlying yet persistent urge to dislike just the right people, always color within the lines of the usual way of living, and not to give too much thought as to another way of seeing the world.

no longer even remembering that this just an invitation. 

and we can always turn them down.

society wants us to conform to the standard way of living, maybe varying slightly through the years, but never too far from what's to be accepted. Paradigm shifts are rare, at lease collectively. Yet there's always been outliers, those who not only decline the usual invitations but actually invite others to join them in a new and beautiful way of living. 

most often it's a quiet, humble invitation, barely heard at all.

demonstrated through their love of others.

from this point on, this is my own invitation - and I'm no longer accepting or giving anything other than complete and unconditional love. It's a paradigm shift, personal, and a long time in it's arrival. Am I capable of this? I don't know, honestly, my heart says yes, but the mind instantly invites me to reconsider, instantly showing me the impossibilities of another way of living. 

but I'm now declining all invitations of impossibilities.

it's time to live entirely from the heart.

and quietly, humbly....

simply be.

~

Love, Eric

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One Problem

One problem:

in lesson 79 of A Course in Miracles we are asking to recognize the problem so it can be solved, and with this it's seen that, ultimately, there's only one problem and, therefore, there's only one solution. This simplifies things greatly for us, as every issues comes down to how we view the world, and all we ever need to do is ask for the miracle of a revelation, asking to see the true cause of every problem.

we believe that we are separate from our source.

and that the answer is beyond us.

one problem.

only one solution.

the answer here is clear seeing, we ask for the revelation of light so that the world is illuminated by the understanding that nothing is truly beyond us. No problem can be separate from it's resolution, no question removed from it's answer. We ask for a miracle so that our perception can be changed, obstacles seen through as illusions, and that the solution to what appears to be multiple problems arrives in the simplicity of a direct revelation....

nothing is ever separate from it's source. 

and therein lies our peace of mind,

~

Peace, Eric 

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Ask

Ask:

forgiveness is difficult as long as I'm alone in attempting this endeavor, trying to do the impossible, and it's only through being humbled by my inability to truly forgive - that I finally approach a complete surrender, asking for the grace and ease of a miracle, 

and it's then that peace is found.

I only ever had to ask.

the miracle is a mind shift, I'm asking for my perception of a given event, person, or situation to be changed so that I may view the world a different way. I can't do this alone, my every attempt in the past has left me angry and confused. Forgiveness is the work of miracles, and we're all entitled to them, continuously so - 

but we do have to ask.

for some,  it might be easier to invoke the presence of a holy figure that seems to hold the entirety of a loving universe within their gaze. For others, maybe an impersonal force love will work just fine. It doesn't really matter, it's being willing to surrender that gives cause to miracles, a true wish to let go of every grievances that imprisons us in a world of hate and resentments. 

yet it's the asking that triggers a response.

only then will a miracle occur.

it's all we have to do.

sincerely so.

~

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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