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For March! The SWEET SPOT: The Center Point of Being and Becoming When you are in the ethereal “sweet spot” you will attract people to you like bees to honey. In fact, every aware person who walks past you will gravitate towards you! It is nothing personal, it is the vibrations of the universe condensing in harmony. What is the “sweet spot”? I heard mentioned 3 times in a few days the words “SWEET SPOT” - from a yoga teacher, a martial arts student and a skiing instructor. Well, it is a physical spot in your naval region you focus on for balance. (Who’s the one out there with the sexy mind? I heard you!) I had been waxing about a metaphysical subject, the place of stillness and balance between living a life of surrendering/letting go and living a life of intention/creation. I thought, where is that “sweet spot” of happiness in the middle? Of having no expectations or attachments to any outcome… yet nurturing hope? Staying in the sweet spot is like surfing! To reduce discomfort or emotional pain, we accept life; it is what it is. Then, when we have the urge to do something, and it makes us feel good, this is inspired action. As we envision our life and future and the future of the planet, our intention comes from a solid ground of accepting and loving the universe and how we are showing up in it, AS IS. From this peaceful reverence for Life we envision and manifest a new, wonderful way of living, using the Law of Attraction. But it’s not that easy, of course, to find or stay in that center point of being and becoming. We love to yearn, which perhaps is not the same as striving or craving. We came here to learn to dance with a mind that yearns to understand and be understood, and a heart that yearns to love and be loved. These are our gifts, yet how do we stay afloat in this longing and yearning of Life for Itself? I ask the universe: “Give me a way that stillness and yearning can exist side by side, as who I AM and who I AM becoming! Human nature mimics the nature of the Universe; we are made in Its image. We are the NOW of potential, as well as the intending creating desiring of life. Yes, the manifestation you see around you came from the desire of the universe to exist! Once human intention was blended into the equation, “How the Universe Gets to Know Itself” became a story we co-create with the Universe, and the open ending is not yet written. I realize now, that when we empty ourselves and detach from things, assumptions, prejudices, expectations, outcomes, and fears, then the pure harmonious ultimate desire of the universe pours into and through us as ideas and manifestation. So the center point, the sweet spot, stands in the middle of a paradox (of course!) To be in full control of our destiny, we just give up all control! By letting go of our desires (our attachments) and emptying ourselves, we invoke the greatest desire of Creation bursting forth and filling us up with perfect life. And sweet it is! Dance with the Beloved This is what I said to the Beloved this morning at sunrise. I have no doubt our relationship goes back as far as can be remembered. Who I am does not matter anymore. This is what I wrote for all my loved ones, including YOU. I want to blast down the walls you have been forced to live behind by your civilization, your culture, your psychology, philosophy and religion. And then gently, lovingly, walk you to that door that was created just for you since you were born. Your true Love is behind it, waiting for your embrace. Go. Find your joy. Forget your constructs. Be formless and free. Melt into the arms of love! Come with me. Chop the wood for the fire that’s been lit for ages. Who do you think you are? Were you there when the stars exploded into being from nothingness? Were you there when water formed its cooling buoyancy or fire erupted as cleansing ritual or air took to wing every living intention and thought? Or when the earth decided to be born, and nourish from her breast a host of loved ones? Who do you think you are? It doesn’t really matter! Because you were there in the beginning! I am more than who is showing up as me; this is not the whole me. I am transforming, but I don’t know into what. Be the Blessing YOU are today and every day, by dancing with the Divine, and also EACH OTHER! THE ARRIVAL OF LIBERATING ENERGIES Yesterday, my eye doctor said people had been asking if it was a full moon all day. I told him it was the energies of the Equinox, which will last 3 more days. This is the first time I’ve paid attention to such notions. In the past, I never paid attention to cosmic events. But this year I am feeling energy, my own changing, and the world and even the planet’s energy. Maybe we are becoming more cosmically in tuned! The real needs of a person are synchronized with the level of the energy vibrations of body, mind and soul. The whole idea makes sense: liberating energies arriving on a planet holding many restrictive energies, these lighter energies transmuting and changing us to a higher evolutionary stance, where our souls’ needs are met. The liberating energies assist detachment from the incompatible, conflicting and destructive energies of falseness, lies, willful ignorance and superficial social norms you accumulated from the past; your self-destructive notion of reality. I hope you are all able to feel these energies this Equinox. One would have to align in a positive and peaceful manner with the liberating energies to benefit. Needs must not contain destructive but enlightening intentions, otherwise it will cause personal vibrations to mis-align from the flow of the liberating energies and one may not be able to catch up to it. Those who cannot give up their destructive nature will mis-align and move further away from the liberating energies. Those who can align to the liberating energies will be assisted and move in higher synchronicity and unification with similar-vibrating souls, and be taken even further to where they could go. Now is never a better time for purification. There is help from the Creator at this time to purge us of our impure intentions in heart, mind and body, that which brings suffering to our Soul. We are able to see through our patterns of attachment and addiction. We are encouraged to take the necessary steps needed for our purification and personal transformation, to accelerate our personal evolution. Then we need to ground the new liberating energies within our physical body, thereby helping ourselves to become rooted and safe in a world of inevitable change and uncertainty. This Equinox activates our core energies, and brings the energy for a powerful awakening. We are responsible for what today shall bring, and as we allow the light of this Equinox to activate our core energies, burning through our veils of illusion and attachment, our ability to fully embrace our destiny is birthed. We allow the birth of a new purpose, and we are being gifted with an opportunity to come into union with our Creator, the Great Spirit. We are now being called to cultivate our faith in manifesting a new civilization, and to take inspired action that will move us beyond the confines of the old paradigm. We are capable of a great transformation at this time, and have the very real possibility of fully embracing and consciously knowing our own innate divinity. This is a time of celebration for all of life, and the birthing of a new cycle of transformation! NAMASTE! Something new! A fable. Only One Heart is here, beating the rhythm of life eternal. But what a dance! Did the Lioness Leave the Woods? There is a great and powerful momentum that is part of your evolutionary Divine upliftment. It has come forward now, like a great and profound beautiful lion gracefully exiting the forest. Coming forward to say, I am here. I have grown up. Do you see my beauty? The time of “IN-LION-MENT” is NOW in full energetic flow, and you are either a cub or an adult. The grandmother sat around the campfire with her nearly grownup grandchildren, the lights in their eyes brighter than the flames that danced potent with creation. They loved her stories. And this one would begin: it was the time I thought a human love could take the place of my love for God. She spoke. “The Lioness, Mirabai, had been living in the woods, drinking from the pristine lake of pure beauty. She tasted the connectedness, the oneness of all, a beautiful All-ness… which her heart could barely absorb. The more she drank, she saw beauty everywhere. Looking out from behind her eyes was the pure beauty she had absorbed into her cells from the Lake of the Divine. Drinking from this lake had given her great Presence. And great presence is great beauty. Mirabai understood her time to leave the woods was coming. When a lion or lioness comes out of the woods, it is a courageous act. This is because for a lion to come out of its woods means it is to expose itself, to be seen. It must be in great power to do this because it knows when it comes out of the safety of its den into full daylight, that it is now offering itself to all of the energies that are prepared to greet it. Your power will attract those that love you, those that want to hunt you, and those who will run away in fear. So, when the divinely empowered Lioness feels safe to come out of the woods, to be seen in her power, she does not come out and let out a roar. She walks out and says, I am here, through her presence. She says, Dear Beloved, I now offer my heart as the platform for your heart.” “Who was Dear Beloved, Grandmother?”Asked Arianna, her oldest granddaughter. “It was the name the Lioness Mirabai called All That Is when she was a woman. She was a woman before she emerged from the forest as a lion. “ Arianna got up to stretch. She moved gracefully, like a dancer. “Do you know the Lioness danced for God, when she was a woman?”Grandmother smiled gently. “Tell us!” Arianna pivoted, and then sat down again. “I will do better than that, dear one.” The grandmother pulled from her gown a worn and crumpled stack of letters, loosely tied with a golden ribbon. “She left these behind when she made her transformation. I will let you read her letters to the Beloved.” She handed the all too familiar papers to her granddaughter. “Do you know she almost didn’t emerge from the forest?” “Why, grandmother?”Asked Arianna. “She fell in love.” She said quietly to Arianna. “You read about it. I will tell you more of the Lioness another day, but for now, read of the woman.” The Letters Dear Beloved, I have prayed for the power of compassion, so the people will see I am like them, and I can alleviate their fears. But don’t always give me more than what I ask for! I now feel as a mortal again, the pain, the suffering. I am weak and vulnerable. My heart has taken its own course and fallen in love. It is a love that never even lived or breathed, yet somehow fizzled and died. Except inside me. There it goes on and on like a Shakespearean tragedy. I have given away my joy, and I must go look for it.
Dear Beloved, All week I was nebulous. In a slight fog. Off my mark. As if an etheric strand of my Being was left unraveled and nearly disconnected. As if energies and happenings beyond my control were playing out, that affected me at a soul level. Something wasn’t agreeable. Was he staying at his girlfriend’s house? Was she staying at his house? What started out as a slightly fuzzy week is now climaxing. It must be. I can’t handle life coming at me any stronger than this. I don’t want to go there! I’m tired of words; I’m tired of thoughts, just plain tired. Especially of the ones that keep repeating themselves over and over. Why don’t they just give me a break! The silence, the stillness, calls to my soul more and more.
My Beloved, When I long for someone to know every crevice and nuance of my soul, to adore and love me completely as I am, to passionately embrace my being, I could only be longing for YOU! Because this does not exist in a human. Why did I think it could? You said when you put the candle in my heart that it would never go out, and you would always be there, to illuminate my quandaries and quagmires. Speak to my heart now! Your words will surface like the bogs for my steps through the quicksand of this human condition.
Dear One, I won’t complain of a broken heart, when it was I that allowed it to break. Had I stayed by your precious side, this would not be! I won’t allow myself to bring the pieces to you to mend. This isn’t a face I want to bring to you, full of tears and puffy eyes; although I know you would dry them. I feel it dishonors your dream for me. You stand patiently at my door with a basket of blessings, and I refuse to come out. But I asked you to show me a mirror that I might dry my tears by what I learned there. I asked you for three days, at sunrise and sunset both, but no mirror was sent. Is not the Mother around to sweetly take my pain? Beloved, for now, just take these words and these thoughts, and leave me in nothingness.
Dear Beloved, When your heart hurts… it doesn’t allow you much dignity, as it grovels and snivels and chooses to sit in the puddle of pain it’s created. When the heart hurts… there is no talking it out of its misery. When you long for love, you invite misery. When you invite love, you ask for longing to surface. The only One who will truly love me back is YOU, Dear One. But when the heart chooses and focuses and obsesses on a human, and that type of love is not returned, is your great love sufficient? By my hesitating to answer that, I again do you disrespect, my Beloved. How can you love me so disheartened? With my lack of belief in the goodness of human love? Which YOU gave us! The platitudes aren’t working anymore! They say: “Allow, allow, allow,” so I allow myself to be. I allow the PAIN! They say: “Concentrate on the thought or feeling, and it will dissolve.” No it doesn’t! It leaves, and then comes in the back door! They say: “Suffering comes when we don’t accept what IS.” That’s apparent! And: “Just let go!” makes me just grab on! Get this one. “When we let others go from the very beginning, we'll find we have nothing to lose, and suffering can't occur.” Has anyone in the history of the world actually ever done this??? Or: “Change your thoughts, change your life.” But when a heart hurts, the thoughts you need to change your feelings have no power. None. When a soul weeps, it doesn’t just seep the water of teary eyes, it spills your life essence. Finally, when I mouth the words: “I wish for my highest good,” or, “This or something better,” without the feeling ehind them, I don’t really believe it. AM I DOOMED TO JUST KEEP SUFFERING???
My Most Beloved, You are trying so hard to show me your love! This morning after my meditation, the biggest flock of yellow songbirds I’ve ever seen landed outside in the trees… and sang to me for 10 minutes. The other morning, I lay in bed an extra hour because a single robin sat outside my window, serenading me. You are showering me in light, I can feel it. You are healing me. I dreamed of your voice, saying: “Come into alignment with the energy deep within you. Reach down. There! You will radiate a golden aura, and hold a pure deep center of the greatest love, of the most beautiful presence, of the most mysterious oneness that is in you. I am beginning to breathe again! I want my life to be so full of you, that I don’t know where your vision of me and my vision of you begins and ends. I want to drink deeply of each other, that our presence and our life are One. I AM empowered with you; every cell of my body vibrates. We will continue our time of sacred love, until as a Lioness I emerge from the woods… to love the rest of the world. Eternally Yours, Mirabai |
