Dancing the Path of Love
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW 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.
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.
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, a delicate Johnny-jump-up, an aromatic rose in all its lush symmetry. Our bodies exist to support our consciousness. Consciousness is the 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 all 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.
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.
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