My dear Alv, to me you always make perfect sense.
Those quotes are wonderful and truthfully I'd like to use them if you can tell me to whom they are attributed. You certainly chose those that get to the heart of the matter (if you'll pardon the pun). Really, they are so good and I think so helpful in the writing I'm working on now.
On the question of why more people aren't experiencing love/looking at the world with Divine eyes, i think that many more people than ever are and it's much easier for me to see than for you at the moment because I hear from 2 or 3 of them from all over the world on a daily basis because of the work I do. Not those who are necessarily experiencing Godself continually, of course, but neither am I. I am simply pointed toward it and "go there" as often as my consciousness allows. I am doing my best not to measure this in myself in a way that would ever lead me to believe that I don't spend enough time as Godself; instead I'm trying to appreciate that there is growth, no matter how small. This helps me to appreciate (and see) the growth in the world too.
In a book I ghost-wrote for a woman who runs a healthcare consulting firm, I learned about something called "Appreciative Inquiry"--perhaps you've heard of it, but if not, the basic premise is that in order to create a wanted change (in an organization typically, but it has other applications), you just look at what's already going well and figure out how to do more of it. With this perspective, I feel like my appreciation for my own growth accellerates it. My appreciation for the good I can see in the world increases the amount of good I see in the world. Noticing kindness from another driver on the road increases the amount of kindness i experience while driving. Noticing that my own response to a rude driver is more compassionate today than it was yesterday helps me to be even more compassionate tomorrow. When I notice that I have enough money that I am not overdrawn at the bank this week and I do so with true appreciation, my sense of financial security grows.
Know, though, Alv, that I am far from perfect. I will share with you that last week I was going through a very difficult break-up with a boyfriend of 3 years. Through it I was on a rollercoaster with bigger lows and (astonishingly) bigger highs than I'd ever experienced in my life. The relationship ended with his indiscression and my humiliation (in temporal terms) and it was amazing to watch as I was solidly locked in that gut-wrenchingly painful story sometimes and completely able to transcend the pain of it or the story at all for that matter, seeing it all from a completely Divine perspective at other times. All in all I am deeply grateful for the experience because of the gifts in it. He and I are already friends again a week later, as the temporal story dissolved and only the love remained. However, the point of this story was not to tell you of this triumph, but of the viscious, vindictive shrew I was "here and there" for about three days last week. In the temporal story "he had it coming to him," but in the eternal story, it was my part to be nothing but loving.
ALV
I think it was the novel "return of the native" by Thomas Hardy, where there is this discription of "love" between the main characters. It goes something like this ; "their love was so prodigous that it was difficult to believe that this will last for long". These are unfortunately not exactly TH's words but the gist of it in my words as I do not have the original book, now. I read it about 40 odd years back, and the impact/import of this profoundly cynical view of TH, refuses to go from my psyche.
The exchange of correspondance with you, which has been wonderful, ( prodigous perhaps) therefore brings a deathly fear in me, and I fervently pray (every time I start) thus ; Oh God, pl give me enough to share every day, so that this beautiful and divine experience lasts and lasts.
Your response is, as always, "heart warming", and a humbling experience which helps in realising how very little I know, and how far I am from that "realisation" of self, part. At the same time, there is also the re-assurance, that, this sharing is providence driven opening of a path which will take me there one day. To be in sync with the present times let me say " cho chweet of you, to have been there to help"..
Thanks
You asked for the authourship of the quotes in my earlier mail. These are (in the same order)
1. Jiddu Krishnamurthy - Indian well known philosopher
2.Emmet Fox
3.Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
The last 2 are part of their long quotes.
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