I found this article called “Comfort Lies,” by Aman Motwane, which is about our craving for comfort: our need and desire to hear comforting, reassuring words, instead of facing up to the reality of things.
Here’s a quote from it, “. . . face what you need to face and do what you need to do.”
I love this article because it gives such good advice. Avoidance of “what is,” means we’re not fully accepting the reality we have brought to ourselves; basically, it means we’re deluded, living in fantasy.
Yet, the more we face up to and accept ”what is,” right now, the more the light of our awareness heals the difficult situation. Our refusal to face something or someone always holds us in that situation or relationship, just as our avoidance of something or someone, will ensure it keeps on recurring or returning.
The website that the article “Comfort Lies,” is published on, is www.alive.com. Ms. Motwane has apparently written a book entitled, “WhenYou Change How You See The World, Your Whole World Changes.” Exactly right: perception is everything. Although I’ll have to add my two pence on that subject another day!
Go on. Have a read.
I came across this quote by Carl G. Jung, from “Alchemical Studies,” the other day, and it’s so very, very true, so I thought I would share it with you. First, however, a little story about moi, and moi’s own folly and delusion (or innocence, if you want to be kind.)
Years ago, when I first embarked on a path of spiritual development, I believed I could use the knowledge I was gaining to avoid all of life’s ”bad stuff.” I’d discovered “The Seth Material,” by Jane Roberts, you see, and believed I’d discovered the secret to how the universe worked.
All I needed to do, I thought, was study how I was creating my reality and I would never have to worry again about mundane things like struggling to find the money to pay the bills, I would be prosperous, universally loved, completely fulfilled, ecstatically happy - not to mention an enlightened being! I would, or so I imagined, float inches above the ground in my own ascended space and instruct lesser mortals on how to do the same . . .
Change occurs when you become what you are,
not when you try to become what you are not . . .
Change seems to happen when you have abandoned the chase after what you want to be
(or think you want to be)
and have accepted and fully experienced what you are.
Janette Rainwater.
First of all, thank you, Enid, for your appreciative comments on my article ”Addicted to Self-Improvement and/or Self-Perfection.” I am so pleased you found the article enjoyable. It’s great to know that that there are people out there who are actually reading my blog! To find in addition that there are those of you who derive some benefit from my efforts gives me a great deal of joy and spurs me on. So, thank you, thank you. I appreciate you taking the time and effort to post your comment.
Dropping Our Masks.
You are quite right, we do burden ourselves and others when we try ”to please, impress and perfect, etc. others.” One of our most significant spiritual leaps is when we decide to drop the masks we wear, worn in part in order to conceal what we consider are our human frailties and shortcomings, and to present what we believe is a better- self, or “face,” to the world. (My series, “Quest For the Soul,” examines how and why we manufacture these false-selves, or masks. ) Our task, as we journey towards wholeness and enlightenment, is to become aware of these masks, and, learn how to let them go.
This article was supposed to be about healing our body through healing our soul. The article was also to include how the body can help us in our journey to enlightenment, if we learn to understand how it is always trying to communicate with us. Then I realized I should really tell you why I believe so completely that the body can be healed through healing our soul.
So, here it is . . . I’ll post the “other” article on the body and its’ wisdom in a day or two.
Some years ago I was in constant physical discomfort and pain. Now I’m not. It’s been a miracle; I now have a new life.
To be truthful, I didn’t emerge from a pain-filled life by listening to my doctors. While they were sympathetic and supportive, their attitude towards my condition ( I had a spine operation from which I never fully recovered and later developed osteo-arthritis and a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis) was one of resignation. The problem was, I just couldn’t see myself as some kind of disabled person, and I wanted to live a full and enjoyable life. I knew I had to do something. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the most common mistakes people make when they embark on a path of spiritual progress is to believe that they have embarked on a journey of self-improvement. The reason for the misunderstanding, in my experience, is that in most of us, there seems to be a deeply held, though often unconscious conviction, that who we are now, right at this minute, is a defective, inferior version of who we ought to be, or should be. In fact, many people on the spiritual path seem to think their task is to become saintly or “perfect.”
In other words, there’s a belief that if they aren’t completely unselfish, self-sacrificing, and caring all of the time, aren’t always wise, patient, peaceful, compassionate and understanding (to mention but a few of the virtues many people imagine an enlightened being possesses) then enlightenment will forever elude them. This insistence on becoming perfect, however, is one of the biggest hurdles we need to overcome if we are ever to attain spiritual maturity.
“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”
Carlos Casteneda
Excerpt from The Heroine’s Journey
From the Introduction
There is a void felt these days by women and men—who suspect that their feminine nature, like Persephone, has gone to hell. Wherever there is such a void, such a gap or wound agape, healing must be sought in the blood of the wound itself. It is another of the old alchemical truths that “no solution should be made except in its own blood.” So the female void cannot be cured by conjunction with the male, but rather by an internal conjunction, by an integration of its own parts, by a remembering or a putting back together of the mother-daughter body.
—Nor Hall, The Moon and the Virgin
Working as a therapist with women, particularly between the ages of thirty and fifty, I have heard a resounding cry of dissatisfaction with the successes won in the marketplace. This dissatisfaction is described as a sense of sterility, emptiness, and dismemberment, even a sense of betrayal. These women have embraced the stereotypical male heroic journey and have attained academic, artistic, or financial success; yet for many the question remains, “What is all of this for?”
With thanks to: http://www.marthatierney.com/twelve.html
1. Body aches and pains, especially in the neck, shoulder and back. This is the result of intense changes at your DNA level as the “Christ seed” awakens within. This too shall pass.
2. Feeling of deep inner sadness for no apparent reason. You are releasing your past (this lifetime and others) and this causes the feeling of sadness. This is similar to the experience of moving from a house where you lived in for many years into a new house. As much as you want to move into the new house, there is a sadness of leaving behind the memories, energy and experiences of the old house. This will pass.
The return to popular consciousness of the Sacred Feminine is symptomatic of a new wave of energy sweeping over the planet. Some people refer to this energy as the Magdalene Energies, others just talk about the return of the Goddess. Whatever you call it, this great awakening of feminine energy will change and affect everything and everyone on the planet. Even now, for many of us, the awakening Goddess is already making her presence felt in very real and often turbulent ways in our lives.
Goddess energy will clear everything away that is not in alignment with it in order to redress the existing imbalance on the planet between Masculine and Feminine energy. What this means is that as this new feminine energy grows and swells, it will affect more and more people who will begin to feel the need for a new set of goals, a new set of values and a new way of behaving. There will also be a desire to see and think in completely new ways - in the ways of the Goddess!
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