Intimacy, Closeness, and Friendship

The closer we get to people, the more is required of us. Intimacy doesn't always feel "good." It's harder to hide our darkness from others the closer we get. True intimacy requires that we SEE our darkness and OWN that darkness, instead of blaming it on the other. And that we be willing to see that others are a reflection of who we are. Too many people just cut someone lose at the first sign of conflict or disagreement, without bothering to work it through -- which requires some effort. Real intimacy calls for effort and nurturing; otherwise relationships can easily fade away.

So do what you can to nurture your friendships. Our lives on earth are so fleeting. We may think we have lots of time, but we don't. Look at where you are holding onto darkness in the form of hurt, blame, and judgment. Do not harbor resentments and old hurts. Left unresolved, they turn into bitterness, and bitterness is much harder to resolve and let go of. 

If someone chooses to walk out of your life, gently let them go. Feel your pain. When you do, all the angels will shower you with raindrops of love. That pain will blossom into a beautiful flower, a mandala of love. You will come to understand that God is your best friend. Angels are always with you. You are never alone, even when you think you are.

ANGELS Are Watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSgojJukJdc

ANGELS Are Watching. You might like to watch other people's experiences with angels. And maybe share your own, if you have any.

On Being An Empath

On my website I have a link to learning what it is to be an empath: http://healing.about.com/cs/empathic/a/uc_empathtraits.htm Here is a "Ted Talk" on being an empath, also called Highly Sensitive People. You might be interested in viewing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi4JOlMSWjo .  It's not easy being an empath, as some of you might know. Combined with having had a near-death experience (NDE) and working with of all things...angels...makes it doubly hard. Trying to fit into the world when you are different is always challenging.
I think dogs are natural empaths. Penny was. She was the sweetest being and I miss her each moment.

Remember

"We do not become healers.
We came as healers. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become storytellers.
We came as carriers of the stories
we and our ancestors actually lived. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become writers … dancers … musicians … helpers ... peacemakers.
We came as such. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not learn to love in this sense.
We came as Love. We are Love.
Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are."

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (*1945) US American Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma specialist, poet, writer, The Contemplari manuscript, "A Simple Prayer for Remembering the Motherlode", 1976, 2012

about your teacher...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiAWfu7cu8&feature=youtu.be

This is a video of Jamestown, New York, where I grew up. Well, I  grew up in Falconer and Kennedy, very small villages -- part of the Jamestown area, the same county, separated only by an imaginary line you drive across. Jamestown is also where I am visiting right now, where my mom lives. Well, actually, this moment I am in Cattaraugus, way out in the country. The Amish live around here. It is very rural. Amish horse and buggies drive by, but not so many cars. Hills, trees, and fields. In the summer the fireflies light up the fields and the stars turn the sky into brilliance.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

When the soul is awakened, it is as if that person were to wake up in the middle of the night among hundreds and thousands of people who were fast asleep. He is sitting or standing among them, hearing about their sorrows and miseries and their conditions, hundreds of them moving about in their sleep, in their dreams, not awakened to his condition although he is near them. They know little about him, as each one is absorbed in his own trouble. This awakened soul, standing among them all, will listen to everyone, will recognize all that they think and feel; but his language no one understands; his thoughts he cannot explain to anyone; his feelings he cannot expect anyone to feel. He feels lonely, but no doubt in this loneliness there is also the sense of perfection, for perfection is always lonely. Imagine living in a world where nobody speaks our language. Yet he knows the world’s language. The experience of the matured soul is like the experience of the man who watched a play performed on the stage at night, and in the morning he saw the same stage again in the sun and saw that all the palaces and gardens and the actors’ costumes were unreal. Daily Meditation of January 9, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Fake Olive Oil bad for our health in USA

https://livingtraditionally.com/fake-olive-oil-companies-revealed-stop-buying-brands-now/ Fake Olive Oil Companies Revealed – Stop Buying These Brands Now! This is disturbing! 70% of Olive oil available in stores in the US has actually been cut with cheaper, nastier oils – meaning its fake!

NEW YEAR MESSAGE 2017

The New Year Message for 2017 

is now posted on my website 

and you can read it here:

🌟INTO THE SILENCE🌟

What you give out comes back...

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I had the honor of meeting Nisargadatta Maharaj in Mumbai, India. I will never forget the way his piercing eyes looked into mine. People have said he was harsh. To me he was the gentlest man I ever met. 

"When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wishing you Love, Abundance, Peace for 2017

Dearest Friend

The words "Dearest Friend " coming from the angels have deep meaning. Coming from a human being, the meaning is not the same. This is because angels are always our friend. Angels know what it means to be a friend. Why? Because angels are friends first and foremost with God. God is the best friend of every angel. God is whom angels turn to. God teaches angels and angels teach us. We are fortunate this way. We are fortunate to have come across the teachings of the angels. From the angels we can learn what it means to be a friend. When we are a friend to God, we can be a friend to ourself. Only then can we be a friend to anyone else.

So do not despair when you let yourself or others down. Do not despair when others let you down. Do not despair when the friends of this world block you on facebook or from their life. This is the way of the world. It is not the way of God.

It is not the way of God! 

God never hurts us. Angels never hurt us. Hurt is not the way of God. God will never give up on us. God is always here, shining in true friendship. God is our best friend.

So when the world and its ways hurt you, do not despair. The world can only be the world. You are in the world and you are not of the world.  You are of the kingdom of heaven. Light is your true nature.

Schopfheim, Germany, Christmas 2016, Reflections in a Window

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. -French Proverb

 

Awakening

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness comes when you recognize that there was never anything to forgive, but there was only something to understand.

Self-Realized Beings of Truth

From two of my favorite Teachers, Self-Realized Beings of Truth, these beautiful words...

“Simply stated, the problem is that there is a perception that there is an individual self which wants to extinguish itself so that the state of Realization will be revealed, but anything which this individual self tries to do to eliminate itself merely prolongs its own existence. If one sees spiritual practice as something that one does to attain Realization, then there is no solution to this problem; there is no solution because the whole problem stems from the totally false assumption that this individual self has a real existence.”– Sri Ramana Maharshi

All that a Guru can tell you is: ‘My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you think yourself to be.’ Trust nobody, not even yourself. Search, find out, remove and reject every assumption till you reach the living waters and the rock of truth. Until you are free of the drug, all your religions and sciences, prayers and Yogas are of no use to you, for based on a mistake, they strengthen it. But if you stay with the idea that you are not the body nor the mind, not even their witness, but altogether beyond, your mind will grow in clarity, your desires—in purity, your actions—in charity and that inner distillation will take you to another world, a world of truth and fearless love.– Nisargadatta Maharaj

Beautiful words of true love, beautiful doves, beautiful that we are left this Truth on this dark and lonely small blue planet spinning somewhere in space, filled with the human race held captive by their own desires, we can destroy ourselves, and never Mother Earth, never Light, never Truth...Reality is our only salvation. –Judy Indira Parsons

Fear is not your friend

In spite of all the fear being broadcast into the world today, you can continue to align with your higher nature. You can find out what is true for you. You must not be compelled to blindly believe everything you hear on the news or read in the papers. News today is not meant to enlighten you, but to enslave you with fear. Fear is addictive. When the media or government can excite you with fear, they know they have you hooked, that you will continue to come back for more, giving away more of your power to them.

MY BODY IS A CANDLE

MY BODY IS A CANDLE

I have become a candle.
The flame of my being is on fire
I am watching the candle
melt before my eyes
Soon my eyes shall melt too
My flesh is dripping

upon the earth
leaving my bones naked
and disconnected
The sockets of my eyes
have become empty
My spirit self rises
from what used to be me
and the me I have become
dips her spirit thumb
into the melted mass
of bones and flesh
and devours the me
I never was

Angels of Death
Angels of Life
arrive and say,
Turn from the unreal to the Real
and when I do
my spirit body
becomes a candle

My spirit self melts
and reveals a new self
and when I turn to look
I see nothing
where my spirit used to be
and the new me
the me I Am now
begins to melt . . . .

ENLIGHTENMENT

Love is flowing through my body
Light has replaced my bones
I no longer sleep
I am awake
During the night
When the angels sing
They come to me
On ribbons of light
Shining with joy
Diamonds of light
Jesus appears
A holy flower
Shining power
His scent is grace
His face is lace
He sears my soul
With passion
I rise with the angels
I kiss the face of God
There is a holy dance
My soul is enraptured
Forever captured
By the Holy One
For whom my soul
Has yearned since birth
I shall not wait for heaven
Night has no power here
Sleep is but a dream
Eternal Wakefulness
Has come at last.

After the USA election disaster