On The Detour...

 

Sharon Cummings

On the detour of seeking "perfection," 

there was a time in my life 

when I carried around inside myself 

a sense of shame that I was imperfect, 

that I made mistakes, 

that I couldn't get everything "just right." 

A very wise woman one day said to me 

"What right have YOU to be perfect?" 

And I thought about that deeply 

and how even my highest heroes had imperfections, 

and YES, those very flaws were what made them unique, 

human, personal. 

It was a Kairos moment for me. 

Giving up the HUBRIS of thinking I could be perfect. 

And yet there is something "perfect" 

which is willing to make its home in us, 

to grace us with miraculous happenings, 

if we can simply get these silly notions of "perfection" 

out of the way, 

that illusion 

that we can control everything (or ANYTHING!).

~J

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We Must Believe.......

"People must not be afraid to take second step.'

It seemed and still seems to have two sides. 

First of all, it seems connected with a quite 

new scale of attention, permanent attention, 

remembering all the time, as a continual state. 

We have to demand from ourselves. 

But it also seemed connected with the realization 

that quite new things are possible, that higher 

influences are much nearer than we thought, 

and that with their help our ordinary self, 

the machine, can actually be transcended. 

These two sides are inseparable, each impossible 

alone, but each making the other possible.

Only one has to believe that it is possible. 

The slightest breath of doubt, not only of those 

higher forces but of oneself, immediately seems 

to cut one off from new possibilities. 

Perhaps one has not only to believe new things 

possible, but to be sure that they will come." 

- Rodney Collin quoting Ouspensky in 

The Theory of Conscious Harmony

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My Sincerest Suggestion...

Salvador Dali

My sincerest suggestion 

to a “student of other worlds” is … 

LET THE OTHER WORLD IN. 

Do this by stopping thoughts or Imagination 

and allow the world of the Soul and the Divine 

to speak to you. 

Oh and a word of advice.... 

don’t let your mind get hold of it 

and turn it into Imagination. 

Keep the realizations of your Soul 

and the Divine to your Soul and the Divine. 

“Render onto Caesar what is Caesar’s 

and render onto God what is God’s.” 

In other words don’t let your machine 

run with the realizations of your Soul.

~Mervyn Brady

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