Wednesday 28 March 2007

Perfection

It may seem at times that our search is for perfection, that one day we'll reach a state of ultimate purity and rest, finally fufilled, content, whole, finished. The reality I suspect, at least while we're still human, is of constant evolution, continual discovery of more.

Sure, there will come a time of an continuous experience of contentment and peace and fufillment, but as long as you continue to rest all of your awareness in the source of all, that source will continue to show you places where you can surrender more of yourself to it.

Which is a fantastic thing - a never ending, continually changing experience of being whole, and then even more whole, and then even more whole.

The great thing is that you can stop expecting that final stage, that final aha, because it never existed. You can give up getting it right, getting it perfect. What you are chasing is an idea of perfection based on a memory or a comparison of what you believe Truth to be. That either is gone, never to come again or it never was available to you in the first place.

Perfection is only available to you right now and you have no choice over how it looks.

In the same way you cannot be nearly full or almost there. It's not like that, there is no shallow and deep end to the swimming pool of God. You either are resting in Stillness or not. You're either wet or you're not.

If not Now, when?

Silence

"The purpose of all practice is Silence, your real nature.
Without Silence you cannot be in Peace,
so strive only for this.
Even while active, remain in Silence, as Silence, and be conscious of Silence always."

Poonja


Saturday 17 March 2007

Love Revolution

“At the risk of sounding ridiculous, I say all true revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love.”

Che Guevera

Thursday 8 March 2007

Inspiration

I've just realised how important inspiration is to me. I've also realised how I can be a source of inspiration - I don't need that to come from outside of myself. Of course it is lovely and wonderful to be inspired by others but the responsibility for the constant creation of that comes from me.

It's this great cycle of never ending greatness - I tell people what excites and makes me passionate and then they get excited and up their dreams and then I get excited and oh my goodness its onwards and upwards...

It's inspiring to have my experience of stillness growing and changing within myself too. That alone provides ample inspiration for me to discover and create and live. It's fantastic. The more I go within, the more excited I get about my outside life. It's almost too much. There's so many things I want to do and not enough time to do them all at the same time!

I'm so grateful to see clearly my role in my life and having the tools to create what I want.

Life is good, truly a wonderous thing.