Musings
Friday, November 28, 2008 - 7:43 am
Window into the Red Rocks
Usually when I look out the window in my beautiful new home in Sedona. I see the magnificence of the Red Rocks. Right here, imposing and splendid. This morning I see clouds, not a rock in sight.
I am wondering about this as a metaphor. How something as insubstantial as a cloud could conceal something as large and powerful as these mountains. What else has been concealed by clouds in my life, in my mind, in my limited awareness.....
Something is happening in our world. I can remember as a teenager knowing something was coming that would change everything.
Now everyone is talking about it. I receive forwarded messages from people who channel teachings and information from other beings offering insight and advise. Even Hollywood is on the wavelength.
I'm not much of a skeptic, I would rather bring a new idea into my awareness for consideration and pondering than reject it out of hand.
Many of the modalities I practice have never seemed new to me. I started reading astrological charts before I studied astrology, in fact I decided to study seriously when I found myself saying things I had never learned. Same with Homeopathy, it made perfect sense even before I learned about it. Not so the Mayan Calendar, I am still a bit clueless there, though when I was walking with my French friend Jules on my first Camino, it was so clear in him that I took it in deeper, understand better than I did before.
Which brings me around to time again...
Time is flexible, even malleable, time has been placed here to be in service to us. The parameters of time are the arena in which we live and move and create and, most importantly have the opportunity to experience and collaborate with our creations.
Without the construct of time, we would always be aware of the mountain behind the clouds, the totality behind the illusion, the thought behind the emotion. All that would be left to do is hum with the essence of all things.
I think we often long for that state of humming awareness and yet would we not miss knowing the difference between the puffin and the whale, the ocean and the shore, the lover and the friend, the mountain and the cloud...?
The question I will go forth with today is this, how can I maintain the awareness of time as an illusion and utilise this illusion to create my greatest joy?
Always love,
Tiera
I am wondering about this as a metaphor. How something as insubstantial as a cloud could conceal something as large and powerful as these mountains. What else has been concealed by clouds in my life, in my mind, in my limited awareness.....
Something is happening in our world. I can remember as a teenager knowing something was coming that would change everything.
Now everyone is talking about it. I receive forwarded messages from people who channel teachings and information from other beings offering insight and advise. Even Hollywood is on the wavelength.
I'm not much of a skeptic, I would rather bring a new idea into my awareness for consideration and pondering than reject it out of hand.
Many of the modalities I practice have never seemed new to me. I started reading astrological charts before I studied astrology, in fact I decided to study seriously when I found myself saying things I had never learned. Same with Homeopathy, it made perfect sense even before I learned about it. Not so the Mayan Calendar, I am still a bit clueless there, though when I was walking with my French friend Jules on my first Camino, it was so clear in him that I took it in deeper, understand better than I did before.
Which brings me around to time again...
Time is flexible, even malleable, time has been placed here to be in service to us. The parameters of time are the arena in which we live and move and create and, most importantly have the opportunity to experience and collaborate with our creations.
Without the construct of time, we would always be aware of the mountain behind the clouds, the totality behind the illusion, the thought behind the emotion. All that would be left to do is hum with the essence of all things.
I think we often long for that state of humming awareness and yet would we not miss knowing the difference between the puffin and the whale, the ocean and the shore, the lover and the friend, the mountain and the cloud...?
The question I will go forth with today is this, how can I maintain the awareness of time as an illusion and utilise this illusion to create my greatest joy?
Always love,
Tiera
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Monday, October 20, 2008 - 6:17 am
Today we are here
And really, today is all we have. So let's make this day one in which we love more and laugh more. for when all is said and done, that is what will lead us most clearly through this transition. What ever we are going through, and we can all feel something going on, it is time to let love be the leader and laughter be the path.
I am learning that I can love in the face of anything. What that means to me is that I can keep my heart open and soft. Even when I am scared or think I am being rejected or my feelings are hurt. Even when I am bored. Sometimes opening my heart feels like over the top love filling all the crevices in my life to overflowing sweetness. Sometimes opening my heart is all I can do and feels like one small step toward feeling better. Better than staying closed.
I am also learning I can always laugh at my self. I am endlessly amusing. Often because I want to be and other times because I take myself so seriously, thinking I can control something or have all the answers or know better than someone else about what is going on. And especially when I make mistakes.
I used to be so afraid of making mistakes that I stopped my life force from fully functioning. I was so caught up in trying to prove myself, be worthy of love and respect, and not look foolish.
I actually look pretty good when I am foolish. I think my skin tone is improving. Certainly better than that prune faced look that says You-better-take-me-seriously-and-listen-to-what-I-have-to-say-as-I-over-explain-myself-trying-to-get-your-approval.
My ex once told me that he was going to think about me what he thought about me and no amount of explaining and justifying would change his mind. I feel very grateful for that piece of information. I think the energy I radiate is more apt to impact people than any amount of rhetoric or explaining I do.
So my job is to radiate good feelings in order to positively impact my world.
I call those good feelings Love and I get there most quickly by laughing, especially at my own foibles. I invite you to laugh with me. OK, you can even laugh at me. It is quite a good tonic in this ever changing, expanding, transforming world of ours.
I am learning that I can love in the face of anything. What that means to me is that I can keep my heart open and soft. Even when I am scared or think I am being rejected or my feelings are hurt. Even when I am bored. Sometimes opening my heart feels like over the top love filling all the crevices in my life to overflowing sweetness. Sometimes opening my heart is all I can do and feels like one small step toward feeling better. Better than staying closed.
I am also learning I can always laugh at my self. I am endlessly amusing. Often because I want to be and other times because I take myself so seriously, thinking I can control something or have all the answers or know better than someone else about what is going on. And especially when I make mistakes.
I used to be so afraid of making mistakes that I stopped my life force from fully functioning. I was so caught up in trying to prove myself, be worthy of love and respect, and not look foolish.
I actually look pretty good when I am foolish. I think my skin tone is improving. Certainly better than that prune faced look that says You-better-take-me-seriously-and-listen-to-what-I-have-to-say-as-I-over-explain-myself-trying-to-get-your-approval.
My ex once told me that he was going to think about me what he thought about me and no amount of explaining and justifying would change his mind. I feel very grateful for that piece of information. I think the energy I radiate is more apt to impact people than any amount of rhetoric or explaining I do.
So my job is to radiate good feelings in order to positively impact my world.
I call those good feelings Love and I get there most quickly by laughing, especially at my own foibles. I invite you to laugh with me. OK, you can even laugh at me. It is quite a good tonic in this ever changing, expanding, transforming world of ours.
