Category: Spiritual Writings

“You’re here to remember your freedom. The sooner you remember your freedom, the sooner you can share it with all others.

You tend to think of freedom as an independent, free-of-others kind of thing, but freedom is union with all others. Not with their masks and their efforts and their false, defensive fronts, but with who they are. Freedom is union. Freedom is the truth of us, and it’s something you already have. Any struggle to get free denies that you are free now and gives power to illusion.

Simply pay attention to feelings. Whenever you’re oriented toward illusion, you can feel it. Whenever you feel this feeling, it is time to stop pretending to do things on your own. It is time to take advantage of the harmony in which you have always existed.

So you stop. You ask for help. You orient yourself toward guidance. You stay open. Eventually, you will feel a “go” impulse that holds no tension. It just feels very obvious.

If you are willing to use time to wait for these go-impulses, everything will start to flow because you are putting guidance first. Guidance comes from the whole of us. Trying to control things comes from an illusory identity. You will be able to feel the difference on subtler and subtler levels because you are willing to feel.

Situations that bring up your own feelings are always for you. They help you to understand how you have been feeling, and they assist you in tuning into guidance and making it primary.  When the signal of feeling gets too loud to ignore, you drop what you don’t need. It becomes very obvious. You don’t need adverse circumstances to tell you what you have been feeling and ignoring (through willful action) when you are willing to feel today.

This why paying attention to feelings instead of trying to control behavior is a very efficient means of remembering your freedom, thereby sharing it with others.

Put first things first, and allow your path to be obvious and well-lit. You are very loved and always appreciated.”

Channeled by Julie Boerst, lovesbeginning.com 

The ecstatic poems of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi master born 807 years ago in 1207, have sold millions of copies in recent years, making him the most popular poet in the US. Globally, his fans are legion.

Rumi was also a jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi’s influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions in the Muslim world and beyond. … Rumi speaks of Love in much of his poetry, and there is some equation of love with the divine, as well.

His most famous poem, “Only Breath,” is one of Rumi’s most powerful poems on the Spirit. Here he so clearly shows us that we are all one and inextricably linked to each other even though, through thousands of years, we have been conditioned to believe otherwise. Our true nature transcends race, religion, gender and borders.

                                              Only Breath    

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen.                              Not any religion or cultural system.                                                                    I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal. not composed of elements at all.

I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next,                                  did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.                                      My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless.

Neither body or soul.                                                                                                               I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

A Sufi’s way of life is to love and be of service to people, deserting the ego or false self and all illusion so that one can reach maturity and perfection, and finally reach Allah, the True, the Real. Sufism is less an Islamic sect than a mystical way of approaching the Islamic faith. It has been defined as “mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God.”

Rumi had been a devout Muslim for all his life, praying five times every day and keeping all the required fasts. But by the end, he also wrote about belief in a “religion of love” that crosses over traditional denominational boundaries.

The way of Rumi, the great Muslim mystic and poet, speaks of love’s divine influence. 

“Once you drop expectations, you have learned how to live.  Then everything that happens to you, fulfills you… whatsoever it is.  For one thing, you never feel frustrated because in the first place you never expected, so frustration is impossible.  Frustration is a shadow of expectation.  With expectation dropped, frustration drops on its own accord.

You cannot frustrate me because I never expect anything.  Whatsoever you do, I will say, ‘Good.’  I always say, ‘Good,’ except for a few times when I say, ‘Very good.’

Once expectations are not there you are free – to move into the unknown and accept the unknown, whatsoever it brings, and to accept it with deep gratitude.  Complaints disappear, grumbling disappears.  Whatsoever the situation, you always feel accepted, at home.  Nobody is against you; existence is not a conspiracy against you.  It is your home.

The second thing: then everything happens unexpectedly, everything becomes new.  It brings a freshness to your life; a fresh breeze is continuously blowing and it does not allow dust to gather on you.  Your doors and your windows are open; in comes sunshine, in comes the breeze, in comes the fragrance of the flowers – and everything is unexpected.  You have never asked for it, and existence goes on showering on you.  One feels godliness.  Someone that has lived unexpectedly, without any expectations, has lived in God-like wonder.

Life becomes an exclamation of joy.  ‘Aha!’ – so beautiful, so wonderful, so new, so novel, and beyond anything that you could have dreamt.  Yes, life is more adventurous than any adventure that you can imagine.  And life is pregnant, always pregnant, with the unknown.”

Osho, “Life, Death and Love”

“Beginning at the beginning…

Many times a human wants to jump ahead to the ‘good stuff’ and avoid the path to getting there…

The biggest part of your journey is walking your path, overcoming the obstacles and experiencing the situations that  you need to feel for your Soul’s growth.

Every experience is important and offers valuable additions to your growth. These experiences are part of your formation.  You cannot get from place A to place B without some kind of journey.  Don’t cheat yourself and take the easy way out. Life is more enjoyable when it is lived in real time, not when you expect to fast forward your moments.

Beginning at the beginning speeds your results, as you walk your path. When you do not walk the walk, you walk backwards, removing the growth you need.  Doing that resistant blocking will cause you to have to restart your lesson.

Begin at the beginning with an open mind and a clear heart.   Having great intentions and a good plan are the best ways to start.

Begin with easy things like Love and Faith, knowing that they grow as you journey.  Hold your truth in your heart as a guiding light and you will find your path.  All that is right for you will then unfold perfectly.

Joan Meyer, ♥ LIGHTWORKERS of THE WORLD ♥

“When not lost in comparing how life used to be with the way things are now, we acknowledge the opportunity to balance out a life of constant doing with the soul-nourishing necessity of learning how to let things be.

All too often, human beings promise to let things be, once they have used their efforts and ambitions to make life into environments of a preferred outcome.

This conditioned patterned has been successfully interrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, where no matter how deeply we want to speed up the quarantining process, it is an opportunity to strengthen the equally-vital skillset of letting things be, as a means of discovering that while we may not be able to change the cards we’ve been dealt, we always have the chance to make the most of this moment by becoming more aligned with the inherent flow of nature, which means strengthening relationships with ourselves as well as those we love.

Whether this time of incubation gives us the time and space to explore the inner ambitions that a full-time schedule rarely made time for, or the ability to finally enjoy quality time with those we love, or even a chance to process vulnerable emotions based on current or past losses, we are living at a time, where learning to let things be is the only way to peacefully move through this moment of global pause.”

Matt Kahn, info@mattkahn.org