Every Ray of Light

 

Every ray of light

removes a veil

revealing Divine Presence.

Shadows only exist 

to bear witness to 

the Divine Light!

Enlightenment

It’s not a goal you can achieve - the more you try the more it fly's.

It’s not something you can buy or own - the more you pay the less you get.

You can’t fake it to make it, and if you say you are - you aren’t.

If you try to think it up - you will stink it up.

 

Yet, enlightenment is no mysterious thing.

It is a simple, persistent, heart felt sense of being One with others and all life,

Where the barriers of self-centeredness and veils of separation are thin.

Enlightened beings are not perfect, whatever that means;

They are fully human and happily embrace it;

They fall, but they know how to get back up.

They can be anyone, anywhere, at any time - you won't often recognize them;

When they speak, you don't much hear the words "I, Me, Mine"; 

They do not put themselves 'on a pedestal' - and shy away from self-assertion

and they will not announce themselves!

 

They are not distinguished by mysterious looks or books,

expositions of mystical doctrine, nor any particular religious garb.

Recognize them instead by their heart-light, 

their selfless service, their love of others -

by their simple humanity.

 

In their presence you are uplifted,

you feel light, love and inspiration, 

for they see and affirm your higher self, and

They seem to enjoy you, more than they enjoy themselves.

 

You will recognize the enlightened by a

joyful demeanor, loving presence, infectious optimism, 

and continuous consideration of others -

Nothing more, nor less than this!

New Perspectives

 

The resolution of polarities

will always bring a wholeness

from which new perspectives

may be Born!

Who is evolving?

 

It is not you

who are evolving;

It is the whole of Creation

that is evolving,

Of which you are a purpose-full part!

Evolution

 

Evolution is always moving

toward a greater awakening

of Unity within life.

Let Negativity Flow Past

 

When we react to negativity directed at us, is like throwing a boulder in the emotional stream of our consciousness - it creates turbulence. 

If we can remain still, open or expand our awareness to watch the negativity, without reacting, then the negativity becomes like dirty water in a stream flowing past. Once this happens, we can again see clearly, and act rather than react.

When we don't react, the full flow of Divine Presence can manifest in a situation - sometimes through us, at other times we are witnesses to it. When we witness in stillness, we help manifest whatever divine intent is meant to be.  

 

You can never die!

Oh thou, blessed one, child of Allah, made in that image and likeness, yet of your own unique expression…

Know that you have been made by God's Mercy and you will not be unmade; as a star you shine ceaselessly and are forever known by the knower of knowers (Ya Allah -Ya Khabir). You are ever evolving, burning, turning, creating (Ya Bari), and when your star being ceases shining its light outwardly in the manifest world, its light remains and goes on shining ever brighter in the inner world - it is mingled everlastingly in the fabric of manifested intelligences. So, your existence does never cease to exist, its shining turned but inward (Ya Batin), still participating in creation (Ya Khaliq) and birthing new existences (Ya Zahir – Ya Mawjud) - New souls, stars and universes. Ah, recognized or not, we Humans shine outwardly and inwardly as bright as any star in the universe of Allah’s being, and if perchance we think we lose this existence, nothing is lost except our separation.

Ibn al Arabi writes: “And most of those who [claim] to know Allah, make a ceasing of existence and the ceasing of that ceasing a condition of attaining the knowledge of Allah, and that is an error and a clear oversight.  For the knowledge of Allah does not presuppose the ceasing of existence nor the ceasing of that ceasing. For things have no existence [other than Allah], and what does not exist [separately] cannot cease to exist. For the ceasing to be implies the positing of existence [other than Allah] and that is polytheism.  So, if thou knoweth thyself without existence or ceasing to be, then though knowest God; and if not – then not.”