Dancing the Path of Love
HOW LIFE WORKS FOR ME 1. God is the living being that we call the universe. All that we perceive as good or evil, creative or destructive, beautiful or malformed, loving or aggressive -- all are parts of God, as are rocks and roaches, trees and tigers, oceans and orcas, moonbeams and rainbows, galaxies and black holes, everything.
2. We are parts of God, and can therefore commune with God at deep levels within ourselves. This communication is impossible to comprehend until we experience it: then we know. We do not reach out for God: we relax into God. We discover we are embraced by the Divine.
3. Like all life, perhaps in its highest form on this Mother Earth, we are God’s experiment in free will. We express our free wills by consciously choosing our values and acting upon them. The most powerful statement a human can make is, “I Choose!”
4. When we choose the path of love as our prime value, we re-create the Garden of Eden. Appreciations for this wondrous gift of life are like blazes along the path. Compassionate respect for all beings puts a soft carpet under our feet.
5. Consciousness is the flower of our being, like a magnificent amaryllis or delicate orchid, emerging from the compulsion of our programs to become the Pilot who directs our course. Our bodies exist to support our consciousness, which is the highest expression of our spirits, our Life Force. Celebrate ourselves as each an individual consciousness, a vast garden of different flowers!
6. The purpose of life is to evolve in consciousness. We move forward thru what we learn. Every adventure or challenge teaches us what is possible, and what the consequences are. Right now, even as you read this, the Human Race is evolving to a new level of consciousness, in which we identify ourselves as individual consciousnesses.
7. When we identify ourselves as consciousness, all else becomes input – all our instincts, emotions, thoughts, fantasies, physical sensations. Consciousness can thus evaluate the input without becoming captive to it. A natural space is created between the desire and the decision to act, so that we can act mindfully and from the heart in view of our values. In time, this process becomes automatic.
8. Happiness is not a destination but a method of travel. When we know we are not our inputs but ever-exploring consciousness, we have no reason to be unhappy in our approach to life, and good reason to celebrate every instant. Every instant we decide how to act. What a limitless adventure this is!
9. This is just one understanding among a multiplicity of possible understandings of our relationship to the Great Mystery. All may be useful; all are worthy of our appreciation and respect. Truth is what works. Over time, we achieve an increasingly accurate picture of what we are and what life is.
10. As we face ecological, political, and social catastrophes that our ignorant use of free will has created, this paradigm may help us see ourselves more clearly and think more clearly so that we can meet our challenges with intelligence, conviction, courage, tenacity, and above all, love for ourselves, for the process, and for all others. Thus we can become the nervous system of our beautiful Mother Earth, and fulfill our destiny.
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