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

Love Revolution

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

Che Guevera

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.

The power of a dream

One of the most valuable things I have realised lately is what power a dream holds.

One of the things that brought me to seek more in my life was that I didn't really know what I wanted in it. I knew the space of silence and love that I wanted to connect to permanently but beyond that I wasn’t clear. It felt rough - I felt like I couldn’t do anything or include anyone in my life until I knew exactly what my purpose was. It felt just like a shallow survival type existence.

For a while when I discovered the connection I longed for I felt like all I needed was it. I could be happy living in a cardboard box as long as the depth and ever expanding and embracing nature of the stillness remained.

A few years on and now I find that I do have a vision, that there are important things that I hold dear and want to achieve in the world. For a little time I tried to deny these by ignoring them and sinking deeper into the quiet, but they kept coming back.

I see I was given this life to live - to fully bring Arjuna to the world: To explore what makes myself more and be this, continuously. I know that I want to see the world in a state of celebration, and I know that I can’t be fully free while suffering remains. I also know it is only through me fully living my life, without limitations, that the world is also set free.

Piece of cake…

So. I have a vision. It is of a future not far away. There fear, doubt, worry, condemnation are a ghost of a memory. There people live motivated by joy and love and the pleasure of giving. There, all see clearly and simply the power of choice and of thought, and use it to bring celebration to themselves and the rest of the world.

Humanity is free, never basing their worth on anything on the outside. Only one thing is relied on - the constant connection with the source of their soul. From that, all are given divine perspective: Lifted far, far beyond a life of survival, all are free to live for the delight of living, free to create whatever they wish, whenever they wish.

Spontaneous, beautiful, authentic life spirals onwards, upwards, forever and ever…

Truth

"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling."

Robert M. Pirsig

Be yourself

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

Steve Jobs, Apple Computers