Be Still, my Soul

Above me birds are gracefully soaring.  Across from me and the shimmering lake, tall seemingly ancient trees are reaching for the heavens. They cluster together as if for comfort and safeguard of those flocks of parakeets and other creatures whispering from deep within them. Then out of nowhere it seems a rainbow appeared, as if punctuating all this beauty to imprint it all upon my soul forever. 

Yes, suddenly I feel I must drink all of this in and quickly because behind it and beside it I can hear the telltale rumble of bulldozers and excavators and their sure intent to tear all of this beauty from the face of the earth.  

Still, and in-spite of the inevitable changes, I am thinking that I am so exceedingly blessed to see and to hear because beauty never really dies, it just changes form, one into another.

I allowed my spirit also to soar, to float in and out of all that surrounds me. I am infused with all the love and wisdom that is creation.

It is of utmost importance that we each come to the solitary understanding that we are singularly unique spiritual beings, born of a single Will with a single purpose…to evolve, to grow from within and back into the whole, the UNIVERSAL BEING from which we were born and to which we will return.

There lives within us each the truth of who we are…from the very moment of conception and the purpose to which we were born. We need only to release ourselves to it…And cradled in this realization comes the beauty of humanity, that it can be just as fluid as the air we breathe.

Seek every moment to be pure, that is our purpose, that should be every moment on our minds…WHAT IS MY PURPOSE. And from this thought the melding of body and  soul should bring us into the only path…the truth, the universe of BEING. 

We must also remember the breath! It is the essence of who we truly are. The body is simply and only the manifestation of humanity and a very temporary state at that…albeit a state that we are charged to take good care of.

It is, it seems as if by chance but can only be by design that as the world turns we somehow slipped out of the stream, only to be caught by the gravity of earth…and that, only for a time, because in what might be seeming only a moment in eternal time we will be pulled back again into that great mass The Universal Consciousness, no longer to be afforded that specialness of INDIVIDUALITY, which in itself resides only within the domain of humanity.

And so in order for us to return we must expire (as it is called here on earth) and that is a returning to that great perennial knowledge known as the universe, that formless, all knowing, all powerful being that is GOD.

So, why do we human contort ourselves into so many strange and disgusting creatures to achieve the very things…riches, sensual excitements and power over all that we see? Why do we lie and cheat and kill to achieve the very things out of which we were born, when all we have to do  is to very calmly release them from within ourselves. 

These things and concepts are the very nature of our eternal being……Simply BE. Go into yourself, go into yourself and smile at all the beautiful things that you already are.  Look into yourselves, they are already there in abundance.

To distort the human nature is an abomination.

“ TO EXPLORE THIS NATURE positively IS OUR PREROGATIVE, IN FACT, WE ARE COMMANDED TO IT.”

THINK RICH… you already are.

THINK POWER…you are a grain of sand and at the very same time a tower in the universe….release yourself into the mind of the great spirit, surrendering into the very essence of the gift that is your humanity, humbling yourself entirely to the Will of God and meld into that stream from which you initially flowed. 

Incredibly, we will never fully know the blessedness to which we were born. Humanity of itself cannot contain this power. We must go out of the human mind and meld, if only for a moment, with the fullness of the GOD FORCE and we will  return fulfilled, smiling with the knowledge.

Suddenly you are fully aware that you are  truly other than human that you are fully a spiritual being, but humbly a part of the omnipotent and the everlasting. 

We have been gifted with this special adaptation of humanity, as in an experiment, to make of it the very best that it could possibly be. 

We must therefore remember each moment, recognizing the duality of these two worlds…The infinity of one and the brevity of the other…and the delicacy with which we must therefore unwrap this precious gift of humanity with which we have been dutifully entrusted…this gift…entirely all knowing and everlasting. 

We must somehow learn to feel each moment of each day, becoming familiar with the spiritual power that is within us, allow it to evolve and envelop us, become one with it.  

I feel myself a traveler, effortlessly moving between worlds, (the context of which is so pertinently rich in connotations). I am in the middle of a sea of souls, each one a very different adaptation of humanity, each so beautifully defined and each as with so many variations of desert flowers in duration from budding to wilting, so very, very beautiful.

Somehow I must have forgotten what I had come to believe  in the most lucid of my ruminations… that indeed I am most blessed, that I had absolutely nothing to fear in this life, that I am always within the spirit of the great father, being always guided along the path he had laid out for me. Yes, my destiny is his Will.

In truth, as I look back upon my entire life…in this brief stint that is humanity…when has he ever guided me astray?, When?

I must learn again to release my every thought to the good, to the benefit of mankind only then I can feel myself being lulled into the richness of his tender, loving care. Indeed, I am blessed.

At every turning point of my life I have always been guided into blessedness. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Instinctively, I can feel the freedom and the fullness of infinity.  At this very moment I feel a smile I am sneakily peering over the shoulder of “ THE GREAT I AM”. I see the sly smile on his face as well and then he is shoeing me  away like naughty child who is seeking to know too much before its time,  to whom, for their own good, only so much must be shown at any one time.

 From where I stand now I see a crop of men and women within a season called LIFE. They are different from a field of corn only because they have the spirit of God within them but they are a crop nonetheless…a time to be born and so forth, and yes, even a time to die.

What then is the most important thing about us? It is simply the spirit within us…And because of its eternal nature…it is nothing but wisdom at our disposal to enhance the purposefulness of this Human experience.

In this hybrid life that we live…the more we concentrate on our spiritual being…the more our humanity will drift away, the more peace will come into our lives.

Even as I am convinced because I know it, that I am so much a part of THE EVERLASTING BEAUTY, I have no doubt that I must, like Moses before the burning bush, I must turn my eyes away from the shimmering brightness of its glory, lest I, because of hubris, be consumed.

It has to be enough for me to content myself to feel the undercurrent of that wonder like a gentle subterranean stream coursing into my humanity, enveloping it wonderfully.