the earth calls to me

she says, remember your roots.
do you know it is i who gives you life?
or have you forgotten?
my child, you are young

but your soul is wise.
you must carry forth what is being asked of you.
do you hear the calling?

it is time to arise.
to awaken.
to be reborn.
forget all you have known.

a new world is amongst us.
with the dawn comes blessings.
will your eyes see them?
my child, do not be afraid

for you are the great I AM.
i have nourished you from the start
and i shall cradle you once again.

in my womb.
in my arms.
with my everlasting love.

source: ninalove (evolver)

Most people live inside a house of memory, a house with windows of thick, wavy, deeply-colored glass, viewing life as through the end of a bottle. The sights and sounds that reach into this house all go through a dense filter of training, experience, and defenses built up long ago.

And everything that happens in this bright and sparkling world must fight its way through this thick and wavy barrier before it can even be seen.

Your job for yourself is to open your windows, glimpse the world as it truly is and let the air of new experience blow through. Your job is to truly clean house, to clear out the cobwebs of old experience and patterns and let your inner world sparkle with clarity.

And as for other people, it is useful to know that their reactions are rarely personal, even if they are expressed as such, and that they are often dealing with mere shadows, and what you think you say and do with such precision and clarity may be but a blur of movement and a murmur of sound by the time it makes its way through to them.

Experiment with new ways of expression. Be observant and see if you can begin to understand some of their filters of perception. And be compassionate and loving, knowing that the drama which colored and distorted their view may well have been a drama you were mercifully spared.

Cup your hands together, hold them out in front of you, and place within them a mistake you have made. Now, pay attention to what your mind is saying. It says that life would be better now if you had not made this mistake. It brings forth a whole host of fantasies, how this or that would be better if only, if only you had done this, if only you hadn’t done that, if only you had followed through, if only you had made a different choice.

None of this is real. This is mental chatter and fantasy about what might have been. It is not real. The only thing real is right now, right here.

So quiet your mind and release each mistake, each and every one. Take your mistake into your hands, notice the fantasy talk which accompanies it and choose to let it go, like a bird you are releasing so that it may fly away home. Just release it and watch it fly away. And away with this so-called mistake, release the old hopes and dreams, the disappointments, the blame and the shame. Let it all fly away.

You are as you are right now, and everything you have done has led you to this moment. And here, standing just where you are, exactly as things are, you are surrounded by opportunity. It is sparkling all around you, waiting to be noticed, obscured only by your tenacious hold on the past. Release yourself from all that shame and just look around. See this moment clearly. See how it sparkles with newness and opportunity.

You are standing on an open field of grass and it is full of diamonds sparkling in the sun. Each diamond is a choice you might make, an action you might take, a wondrous opportunity to be and grow and learn, a chance to embrace life in its wonder and beauty.

Let go the old and embrace this moment. Let it sparkle. Reach down and pick up a diamond, right now.

Today is a day for freedom. Today is a day to be as the bird, singing and full of joy, leaving worries, troubles and regrets far behind.

Right now, take off from that bough and fly. Feel yourself lifting up into the sky. Look down and see how your worries are as nothing, just like little dots upon the earth. Lift off and see how the past does not exist, the future does not exist. All that exists is this moment, full of freedom, full of joy, full of a deep peace inside.

Today, be as the bird. Fly, fly to adventures unknown. Let the wind gently take you where it will. Feel the ease and grace of it. No striving and trying. No controlling. Just lifting gently and easily on the breeze of life, tipping your wing just a little to go this way, just a little to go that way, using the power of the wind to propel you along, easily, gracefully and effortlessly.

This is the way to live. Free and powered by forces under your wings, gently, lovingly lifted and carried into each moment and embracing it as it comes.

Ah, how blessed you are!

Today is perfect in all its unfolding. Today it will unfold as it will unfold, a combination of your energies and the energies which are coming toward you, a combination of things already set in place and things that will occur just in the moment. All of this will be unfolding and your job is to create wonderful, positive energy, which encourages those things that are beneficial to you and to be very alert and observant, responding to things as they are in the moment.

Listen closely. Watch closely. Be open and receptive and willing to make great shifts to your previous ideas of how things should be.

Opportunities are most often missed when you are trying to fit the circumstances into a preconceived shape. Let things flow and be as they are. Let life take shape as it will. Just step back and watch and listen before you act.

Be well

Today, spend a few moments with nature and let peace build inside you. Spend a few moments just standing under a tree and breathing in the fresh oxygen that this tree is giving you as a gift of life. Look closely at a leaf and marvel at the infinite detail that is there presented, even in the most lowly and common of objects that nature has wrought. Marvel at the little veins and how each leaf is unique; there is only one in the entire world like the one in your hand. Infinite detail and infinite variety, this is life.

And you are a part of all this. You and the tree exchange air, you share the same earth, you are part of a living breathing organism that is closely tied together.

There is a deep well of peace within you and it extends down into the earth and up into the heavens. Nature is a wonderful way to connect to that well of peace and the infinity which is contained within each moment that you allow to be only as it is. Each moment that you spend just being in the moment, not in the future with its worries, not in the past with its regrets, but right now and only now, reaches into infinity and oneness and contains all that is.

Let nature be a gateway to that connection, for the tree lives only now, the grass grows only now, the clouds are as they are in this moment for this moment only. Allow yourself time to reach all of this, to be one with all of this. Allow yourself the grace to be one with the wonder that surrounds you.