The thawing time between winter and spring seems so fitting to share this post on beginning again. In winter, we internalize, and in spring we awaken to externalize once more. To me, this means that I stop thinking so much and start doing again, and somewhere in between, I find myself simply being. With this in mind, I am pausing my search for truth and focusing on feeling what I already know. My quest for spiritual information, and my passion to communicate that information, cannot embody one of the fundamental aspects of spirituality – that ultimately the spiritual cannot be experienced or expressed in words. The journey is about finding the divine within and simply being in that blissful place of knowing.
Spiritual teacher Amethyst Freeman shares her quest: “Several years ago I became very tired of the search for truth and I thought to myself, I am throwing everything out, all my beliefs about everything. As I had that thought I felt this warm surge through my heart and being and then feelings of absolute bliss. I walked around in bliss for three days and it made me realize that ‘love’ and complete trust in God is the true path to enlightenment, happiness and peace.”
I’d like to throw out all of the instructions and simply, intuitively go within. One of my favorite places to do this is outside in nature, sitting in the rising sunlight. I am reminded of an empowering comment from my dear friend Francoise on this blog: “What I realize is that we already are ‘Light.’ We don’t have to try to get there or become it.”
I still believe sharing spiritual information is imperative as we navigate through life and wake up to who we really are. But, I’m going to revisit that place where we already are everything, without words and without want.
I needed to just “be” in your light today. Thank you.
We are all LIGHT, it is just many, many humans do not (realize) that they are HUMAN BEINGS and are not comfortable with that state. All that is and will be happens, without or with us. It is only our state of BEING that allows the LIGHT that we all are to SHINE out into the universe.
I like the way you say that many of us are not “comfortable” with being Light, James. That gives me such a new perspective. And Susan, I’m so grateful I got to see you last night and your beautiful Light!
This post helps me see the process as more a ‘clearing away to reveal’ as opposed to a ‘getting something from outside’ – a crucial distinction and one Suzy extends by taking us closer to our authentic selves by remembering this is not ‘something’ and we don’t need to ‘strive’ for it – we are being asked to get past the outmoded notion that anything of value is acquired through effort and cost and understand the wisdom of the “lilies of the field”.