OUR SELF (GOD) – AWARENESS
Knows itself by being itself:
Self-illuminating, Self-knowing,
Self-aware.
This is our knowing of our experiences.
By, in, through, and as Self.
Awareness is irreducible,
Indestructible.
Self-aware (God) isn’t known by
Another mind.
Being itself, it knows itself.
We, too, simply need to BE
In our awareness.
Much like attention and direction
Which Emanate FROM ourself
As light comes From the sun.
To KNOW our Self
We have to BE our Self.
Regard the “I” that I am
As being aware that I am.
And empty of anything other than itself.
So in order to know anything
About anything
You need to know the nature
Of the knower.
Therefore an investigation into
Our own true nature
Is hardly an egotistical one
But the highest and most divinely
Orchestrated Godlike one.
Everything we know is a reflection
Of the nature of that which knows it.
If we think we’re a temporal body-mind
Everything we know is
An extrapolation of that belief.
The ultimate Science then
Is the Science of Consciousness.
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Dealing with feelings
Are you having a helluva time reining in some unfortunate feelings you find yourself caught up in far too often?
Do you belittle your own sweet self for indulging yet again in stuff you’ve thoroughly dealt with many times?
Would you like to quit the whole kit ‘n caboodle and just be free … but can’t?
Well, I have wonderful, wonderful news for you!! Take a diametrically opposite approach. Here’s how:
You already love God with your whole heart, right? There’s precious little you wouldn’t do to be in His presence day and night, right?
How about this – next time those unwanted thoughts come a calling, look at them and say “Hey, I can even live with these unwanted thoughts for the rest of my life and still be happy – it’s a very small price to pay to be free! The “thoughts” come and hey they’re not so bad! They come again and they’re a little less bad. And again but not quite as often. In lay language, they no longer have a leg to stand on.
They’re actually interfering not one iota anymore because quite frankly you haven’t been resisting them. Don’t even start resisting the last vestiges of them now: don’t mock them or try to push them out. Just realize you’ve suddenly grown tremendously in stature and essence. God’s bounty of love has exploded on the inside of you and it’s getting all over everyone who comes into your eager consciousness.
Even depression is illuminated by the Light of awareness
Of being aware.
Thinking, feeling, sensing, perceiving = Being aware.
KEEP REMINDING YOURSELF:
There’s no substance to my being aware But my experience of it.
“I am not identical to and
Limited by this experience.”
Physical pain is an intense version
Of the same stuff = the knowing of it.
Just because something is unpleasant Doesn’t mean it’s not made out of Consciousness.
Pain – or other demands – may seem
So intense that the knowing of it
May seem obscured.
A depression may be so deep that
We forget the fact that
The only substance to it is knowing.
A deep deep depression is rendered knowable by the Light of pure Consciousness.
“I am aware of being depressed.”
The “I” that is aware is what illuminates
Renders knowable
The experience of depression.
It is lifted up by something that is
Brilliant and luminous.
And transparent and empty
And innately peaceful.
Even our deepest depressions confirm
The presence of the brilliant
Light of pure consciousness.
Nothing can obscure that
Unless we consent to its obscuration.
If we believe a landscape on a screen
Has obscured it, it will be so
Only because we believe it.
BUT the landscape is just an image,
A modulation on the screen.
If we believe that our depression
Obscures consciousness
That’s how it will feel.
If we realize that our depression
Is lifted up or known
By the light of awareness
And our attention is drawn towards
The light of awareness
Rather than drawn towards
The darkness of depression,
Then that Light of awareness
Will be our experience.
The depression will gradually
Dissolve in that light.
Forgiveness extraordinaire!
There’s precious
Gold to be found
When we stop desiring
Something from somebody.
As long as we want/need
Something from somebody,
We can’t truly love them.
We only set people up for failure
When we judge and blame.
Mom, Dad, Bro, Sis, I need
Absolutely nothing – you’ve
Given me all there was to give.
NOW … for the first time …
I really -r-e-a-l-l-y- REALLY
Love you. <3
Who am I, you ask. R.Blok
Stolen moments
Who am I you ask
Yet the question always remains.
For who I am changes
from day to day
nay from moment to glorious moment I’d say
Yet all you who I meet have changed who I am
But am I not more than the sum of all that I have experienced also of all of who I’ve met
is there not some basic me
A version untouched, unblemished a version of my most perfect self
Yet I ponder this and still I am not who I once was…
Peace and love
Robert Blok
If you’re struggling with spiritual Truths
And basically think “so what?”
But realize you’re missing something,
Try this: God is Spirit
But this Spirit is right here
Closer to you than your breathing
More powerful than imaginable.
Because we’re talking “spiritual”
We can see that this realm
Is inside us: it’s God.
Start to dare to believe
And it’ll come clearer and clearer.
No one – especially not God –
Is trying to be confusing.
It’s just that the things of Spirit
Need a little leeway
Where human language is concerned.
Believe and dig more and
Then more clarification will come.
Jesus, Holy Spirit, God will take over now.
What is writing?
“Writing is…. being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”
― Mary Gaitskill
Spiritual Writers Network
THE HIGHEST PRAYER
Man’s limited construct of God
Has Him as reflection of man
When in fact it’s quite the opposite.
From ‘separate self’ view there’s
Mind, matter and God.
A gradual approach out of this
To the heart of Healing is
Pray to our God “out there”
Only because it’ll expand us somewhat
Out of our ‘separate selves’ mode –
At least the ego gets attenuated!
That view of “God” however depends on
Maintaining ‘separate selves’ paradigm
In lieu of I AM- Oneness- Allness
Spirit, Omnipotence, Omnipresence,
Omniscience, Substance, Life and Love.
–
The human mind sees God
As an object – The Largest Object
Imaginable – and puts a ceiling on Him.
Damning us to live our days in pride
And fear, while all the time God –
Who’s not above – is as
Quantum Physics Verifies – within us, as Love.
IMAGINE this human mind turning
In the opposite direction INSTEAD:
God, not a thing or being “Out There”
But way, way inside, so deep in fact that
The very Presence of God can be
Brought to our conscious awareness.
That which we find in there – in us –
Is ‘I Am’ = Awareness = I.
Free of limitations: I AM THAT I AM.
I Am the knowing with which I know.
Thought arises “out of” (not initiating) it.
Without ‘thought’, what is left?
Pure BE-ing. Rest in it. Rest AS it.
My consciousness is now
As it has always been –
Untouched by human experience.
I am intimately one with,
But never impacted by it.
My consciousness is now
As it has always been –
Seemingly taking shape
In the form of thought and perception.
Name and form.
Mind and matter.
Thought and perception.
Pure Consciousness is the only knowing.
There is no other substance
Beyond pure Consciousness.
I am the totality, but
My experience of being aware
Seems veiled by human perception.
Consciousness is existence, and yet
The only evidence Descartes could find
Is my knowing, my seeing,
My (immortal) mind.