Have you felt a longing... ?

The Soul longs for growth.  It yearns to grow, to learn, and to find its way back to the perfection from whence it came.   If you feel a chronic dissatisfaction with your life.  If you feel there has to be more...
It is probably the promptings of your soul.  But, you ask, what do I do?  The answer quite simply is to listen to those promptings.  
In a quiet moment speak to your soul.  Ask it to communicate to you what it wants and what it wants you to do about it.  And in whatever way you choose, prayer, meditation, spending time alone, possibly in nature, put out to the universe that you want assistance and to show you a next step, what to do. 
You have done all of that, now start paying attention.    Start watching for synchronicities.   The veils between the worlds are thinning.  I think you will be surprised at what starts to happen.  
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Introducing Don Miguel Ruiz...

Periodically I want to introduce you to literature that has been important to me and has moved me along on my inner journey.   Today I want to introduce or reacquaint you with the work of Don Miguel Ruiz.    He has accumulated quite a list of work that includes THE FOUR AGREEMENTS  and THE FIFTH AGREEMENT.   These are very practical and relatively easy to read self help books.
From THE FIFTH AGREEMENT: “When we become aware that we are living in a dream that we artists are creating, we take a big step in our own evolution because now we can take responsibility for our creation.”

and from THE FOUR AGREEMENTS:  “Death is not the biggest fear we have;  our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive--the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”

What If.......

Most everyone has their own ideas on what God is.   And I think I can be fairly accurate when I say that many people have not thought beyond the idea that God is an old human man who lives in the sky.  But....
What if...
God, Great Spirit, Allah, Infinite Creator, Creator, Mother Father God, is everything in existence and we are all, everything is all, part of God.
This is a concept that Metaphysics has worked with for some time but I can’t remember it being a concept of any organized religion.  In an earlier blog I wrote of how we have a tendency to make god in our image, the image of the male human, and then elevating him to somewhere above us where often “heaven” is reported to be.   The concept of God as all is often written “All That Is”.
Perhaps you know this concept, this idea of God.  Perhaps you don’t.   I’m asking you to think about it.  Question it.  Ponder on it.  It is quite a concept.   There are a lot of interesting implications. 
What if God is All That Is?

What Can I Possibility Do?

With floods, and droughts, wars and earthquakes, what can I possibly do?  With all that is going on in the world today and in the lives of individuals, what can anyone do?
What one person does has an effect on everything even though we are usually not able to see that affect on others and the world.    The idea keeps coming to me over and over again that anything we do, positive or negative, moves out in waves touching all.  Like the wind touching the grass, moving waves of grain, I read it, I hear it, it is an idea that is reinforced over and over again that what we do affects every thing else.

So what can you possibly do?

Find your shadow and face it.
Question a belief.
Question everything.
Take responsibility for your life, one little part of it.
Love something you have never loved before.
Love yourself.   That is a big one.  Perhaps it is THE big one. 

“Remember, the understanding and awareness you achieve here, based on accepting responsibility for your life, can ripple into many realities as a frequency  of self-empowerment to contribute to healing along the lines of time.”  PATH OF EMPOWERMENT by Barbara Marciniak

“Whenever one person heals one aspect of self, all humanity heals through the increase of vibration.  Such is the extent of our power.  At times the effects are immediate and measurable.  At other times they are indirect and imperceptible, though no less profound.  The world follows in our energetic wake.”    COURAGEOUS SOULS by Robert Schwartz

 What can you do?  What can I do?
Ask questions, love, give yourself permission to be more than you ever thought you could be.
That is what you can do. 

Meeting the shadow...

I have contributed to the co creation of quite an exceptional life.   And I say co create because I have not done it alone.   The exceptional people in my life have created with me an examined life well worth living.  
Recently, however, I met my shadow.   Now there are somewhat differing ideas of what the “shadow self” actually is and how it is defined but this definition from Wikipedia sums it up quite nicely for me:  “In Jungian psychology, the shadow or "shadow aspect" is a part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts.”
I like to think of myself as a quite well balanced individual but some very earthy type of problems brought up those things in me that I have faced before and apparently needed to face again.  They were car problems.     Those car problems brought up in me insecurities and fear about of not enough money, and not being good enough/capable enough to handle problems of this sort.  I hope that I have faced this shadow, looked it in the eye, and can soon say goodbye to it forever.  I hope by writing it about it I can gain insight that will shed enough light on it....  Shadows go away when you shed light on them...
and I hope that writing about it, a reader might be able to gain some insight, or some courage to face their own shadow. 
Where there is light there is, at least on planet earth, always going to be shadow.  But all it takes for the shadow to go away is to expose it to light.   Information is light.   Recognize it, learn about it, talk about it, face it, journal/write about it.  Sometimes you may need the help of someone else or even a professional.  If you turn your back on it you won’t see it, but it won’t go away.  But recognizing our shadow, learning what it takes to disolve the darkness and eventually integrating it is what we aim for.   Meeting and understanding your shadow is necessary for personal growth
Meet your shadow.   I certainly did...  Say hello to your shadow... Get to understand it.  You will be glad you did.  

The gate is opening....now is the time.....

From PATH OF EMPOWERMENT by Barbara Marciniak:  "Proceed to love who you are, all the while cultivating your creativity by believing in the unlimited possibilities of growth through your own personal transformation.  We suggest that you invest in your self, for on the web of existence, we are all one."

sparrowhawk speaks: How is your creation today?

sparrowhawk speaks: How is your creation today?: "Author and teacher Don Miguel Ruiz calls humans artists and their lives are their creation. Many do not choose to see their life as somethi..."