This has been a month of days that
have been filled with a new acceptance of all that is, and the
mirroring back to me of the love that is available to me if I say YES!
Emmanuel would say:
"Darkness is the absence of
light, and fear is the absence of love."
Everything is becoming
clearer, and so simple.
I have
been receiving such wonderful "sharings" from my students and friends.
I would like to offer some of these gifts to you now.
"Love is fierce and tender,
A wave of beauty,
A fire which burns all
which is not true of who we are."
--
from Lynnie, (UK)
the inspired creator of the Pathwork of
South East Europe.
"You take needle and thread
Stitch the world together
with your loving hands".
--
from Toby
(a documentary film producer from Beijing)
What I
have been practicing this year is to know when love is present, and to
know that when love is present G-d is present. This is when I
stand in the middle of "heaven on earth" As I commit to love, and
make love my spiritual practice, miracles happen. In an instant, when I
choose not to defend, when I choose not to separate myself from
you, when I choose to focus on the loving, and the light, I can bring
myself into His presence and into the light.
All
teachings are the same, unless I surrender my will to G-d's will,
unless I choose to know that we are all one....unless I choose to
forgive myself and other, I cannot serve my purpose for incarnating
which is to be love, and bring that love into the darkness, the
forgetting.
I received
this from Mandy (a student from Montana):
"If the world, the people and our
relationships,
mirror back to us our own inner state of
being,
then I have to ask myself in every moment:
What kind of l world do I want to live in?
What kind of world do I want to create?
Am I willing to accept that my life becomes
what I think?
(I suggest
that you too ask yourself these questions and journal on them.)
If I am unwilling to forgive
myself,
then
I cannot forgive you either.
If I am unwilling to see the
divinity in me,
then
I will not see the divine in you.
If I am unwilling to see
myself for who I truly am,
and not who I think I am, or
think I should be,
then
I am unwilling to see others for who they truly are,
and
not who I want them to be.
If I am unwilling to accept
myself,
then I cannot accept anyone
else.
If I feel impatient, I will
see and experience
the impatience of others.
If I feel angry, I will see
and experience
the anger in others.
BUT......
If I can forgive myself, then
perhaps there is
nothing and no one else who
needs forgiving.
If I can begin to love myself,
then perhaps
the world will appear as it
truly is... loving and benign."
--
Mandy
I would
like to share more of the gifts I have received this month. My student
Mandy (who raises llamas on her farm) was the midwife of a llama named
Charlotte. Charlotte's Mama died in llama birth. Mandy and her
husband have adopted and are raising and socializing Charlotte.
Mandy was adopted and is using her birth experience to heal
Charlotte and herself. Mandy is also pregnant for the first time.
There is
no separation, not even between species when love is chosen.
Please see
the picture of Charlotte "feeding" on Emmanuel's teachings (click on
image below for larger view):
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
begins at sundown on September 13, 2013.
It is the
holiest of the Jewish Holidays. It is a time of introspection and
forgiveness.
It is
exactly what we are all attempting to practice in our lives in this
moment "to love my neighbor as myself"... since we are all one.
Are you
willing to forgive yourself, are you willing to know that you never did
anything wrong and neither did anyone else?
"The
practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the
healing
of the world, it is the key to
inner peace."
-- Marianne Williamson
I wish you
peace, and remind you that fear is the absence of love,
-- Barbara
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