The Measure
August 2nd, 2009
“The measure of our enlightenment is the degree to which we are comfortable with ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox.”
Deepak Chopra
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All That I Need
July 1st, 2009
Everything I need to know, I know.
Everything I need to have, I have.
Everything I need to do, I do.
Everything that needs to be said, is said.
Everybody I need to meet, I meet.
Anything I need to take care of, I take care of.
All that I need to be, for all that I want to be, I am.
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Abraham on Enlightenment!
June 28th, 2009
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time/space reality. That’s as good as it gets!
— Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Boulder, CO on Saturday, June 7th, 2003
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
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Glass Half Full
June 9th, 2009
Have you ever noticed how much we talk about problems, or about what we don’t want or about helping others (which implies they need help), or how to get more money (which implies we don’t have enough), or this or that or whatever?!
Two days ago something happened to me, I don’t know what to call it, but I know what’s different. Suddenly and without warning, I am noticing what a good day people are having. Everybody I meet has plenty to be thankful for in my eye. The server, has a job. The lady at the bank knows well what she is doing and has a comfortable job. The man at the restaurant is enjoying his food. My children are having the life of their choosing and are right on track. All that I want comes easily to me. I just know this now. No more struggle, no more judgment. Just lovely people having their day. And all really is well. There is so much to enjoy and be thankful for, so much. I can see this now. And suddenly the cup is half full. And the issues people are working with aren’t problems but opportunities to move toward that which they want. It is a kind of opening. Without fear, opening.
This has come right on the heels of another beautiful awareness I have been having. And that is one of surrendering and trusting everything, one by one, to my Greater All Knowing Self. Me, trusting me. Really trusting, no more control. No more figuring anything out. But just waiting for answers to come. And clarity to come. And it comes, easily and freely.
The surrendering has come just after ending my own personal work. Well, I guess we never really end our process of maturity, but a long chapter has closed, after almost two years of intense personal searching and questioning. I talk a lot about this in my blog posts. In fact, that is the reason I am writing this here. This blog and my book document the path I’ve taken toward awakening. Not that it has any great importance, only that I want to keep the remembrance.
Life is new, it’s not what I thought it would be. It is fresh and free and really peaceful.
I know a post like this may or may not feel so good to you. And that’s ok. But, if it’s what you want, I can show you how to get here. Either by reading and applying the ideas in my free book and blog posts or by contacting me. I won’t waste your time. I’ll work with you freely in love and freshness. Or not. I am allowing my teaching to unfold in the timing and ways of my greater nonphysical Self. And I know what I need to know, as I need to know it. And I……. am really enjoying the peace and love and joy.
I can’t imagine what might come along to knock me away from my connection. But if it does, I am trusting myself to stay aware and come back to myself.
Thanks to everybody who follows along here with me. I love and appreciate you.
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Listening for Our True Voice
May 15th, 2009
Before you read the words here, I want to acknowledge their clumsiness, I speak them from love and with trust.
It seems that fear captures any ideas it can to keep us under control. Using teachings from any spiritual tradition or way to disallow union.
Instead of listening to themselves and understanding I notice many choose to meditate away or stop thinking.
There is a place to give up thinking and for meditation but not to shut down the voice of the inner child that hasn’t ever been heard. I feel it’s imperative to listen to and hear that child and value what is heard and offer comfort and come to understanding. And then to redecide.
The more we listen and value the more we free the voice of ourselves. And the more that voice comes forward and the more we become ourselves.
Spiritual development doesn’t mean getting better and better at quelling the inner voice and emotion so that we don’t feel the stress of our separation. It means listening and allowing ourselves and redeciding and trusting so that we don’t need systems and ways to handle the stress.
The old stresses disappear and new open free life comes forward. And we are no longer usings skills to cope.
Our true self is free to move forward with life enjoying new views and realizing every desire, and openly trusting life.
I don’t speak from anything I read or was taught, I speak from my own experience of finding and listening to my own child’s voice and learning to value that precious voice. And becoming trustworthy (learning not to judge or turn on myself) and being there for myself.
Then, and only then, that person, the real me, little by little has surfaced.
She’s found freedom It’s my job now to stay awake and continure to listen and allow and value.
I offer these words as gently as I know with great love.
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The Natural Way
April 21st, 2009
If left alone everything on earth returns to it’s natural state.
To withdraw the modification
We only must quell the desire to maintain the facade.
This is done through love and trust.
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Desire
April 6th, 2009
If you suppress desire what will you do with the creative flow once you release it?
Desire is a natural human occurrence born of experiencing life.
Not to be confused with grasping, needing, or concern.
Yes to letting go of all needing, grasping, or concern.
Yes to embracing desire and creating my own life by allowing the flow.
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Back Up and See
March 22nd, 2009
Take a few steps back from something and it looks different. A few more, different still.
When the sages instruct us to let go of the world, that’s what they mean. Step back until you see things from a new perspective, over and over and over until you notice you can step completely out of the picture. ‘To be in the world but not of it’, as one sage put it.
One of the challenges for us is the desire to bring everybody with us. We can get hung up here. When we look at the state of the world, or when we see the frustration or pain of anther we want to help. We feel we cannot go forward because we would be abandoning others and that would be very selfish.
Here’s what’s going on:
1. The desire you feel to help is real, it’s you and it’s love.
2. Through their deep desire to help and their realization that we are all One Being, the sages have found another much more powerful way to help.
3. The sage can see as he moves further away, that we are together -One Being- and that each life, each one of us, effects the whole being. Like the cells in your arm. Each one has an effect on the whole. So, if one of the whole becomes open to the flow of life, the source, that one creates a powerful opening that allows the reception of life for the entire organism.
As one person he may only be able to effect a portion of the forearm with this vitalized energy. But the sage understands it only takes a few openings by a few sages to really change the whole organism.
4. The sage chooses to follow the voice of his soul. And comes to understand that he cannot tune in to his own voice without quieting or disconnecting from the voices of this world. So he begins the process of focusing on the voice of his Self.
5. And with the desire to help in place, the sage follows the voice of the inner knowing on a path toward a whole new view of himself and his world.
6. The view from this place he’s been led to by the inner voice is beautiful. He no longer considers the chaotic doing, thinking or feeling of others, he only sees their heart, he recognizes the voice of the self that sings freely and beautifully in everybody, the voice that never went away, but was just covered by the chatter of the world. Now the sage, having tuned himself to that voice within himself, recognizes the same in everyone and everything.
When you meet this person you meet unconditional love. Love that has given up all conditions and flows freely. Love who sees who you really are.
This person changes himself, his immediate world, and the greater collective voice in a very powerful way and demonstrates great peace and joy in so doing.
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Freedom
March 19th, 2009
No matter how you experience this idea of freedom I think it boils down to one thing……I get to do, have, be what I want. I get to make my own choices.
You could divide the stream of life into two parts:
Part 1 Becoming aware of my desire. This is about allowing and feeling:
- Noticing that I want something
- Allowing it to get bigger, if it does
- Feeling to see if I really want it
- Deciding, yes, I really do want that
- Finding the essence of what I want
Part 2 Supporting my desires. This is about appreciating and thinking.
- Finding a way for my desire to be OK with me
- Finding a way to look at what I want that makes it valuable
- Encouraging myself to follow my bliss (another word for what I want)
- Dealing with my thoughts that don’t believe I can, will, should, am worthy of, whatever it is I want.
- Trusting that we can all have what we want here, no matter what it looks like to the contrary.
Moving forward with life means awareness of what I want and the courage to mentally take myself toward it. When you are this lined up with who you are things happen, life starts, new ideas come, people come, opportunity comes.
You are free to persue your life, your way!
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Beauty
March 17th, 2009
When you choose to see
the beauty in everything,
you are transformed.
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