Breathing in I see myself as a mountain
Solid in any wind, thunder or rain
No storms of the world can bother me
When I am rooted in God’s love
All worldly conflicts can not take me from his peace when I’m connected to him
God’s grace and strength gives my heart and soul true peace that no storm can take away as long as I stay close to him
When I bow to you
I bow to God
For you are born in Gods image
Which is love
We must learn to bow to all creation
Bow to the homeless
Bow to the sick
Bow to your enemies
If we can’t bow to all beings
God will not bow to us and give us his holy spirit
We must bow until our last breathe
In perfect humility
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If your God is complex
It’s not the true God
But born in your image and likeness
Our intellect can never grasp God
The intellect will never understand God’s infinite grace and love for all
Only the heart can have divine union with God in pure love
Through stillness we can experience Gods love
God in direct experience is simplicity and purity
Pure love and grace
That can purify our heart from stone to flesh
Turning us into Christ moment by moment
Jesus came to the world in humility and grace
The light of the world
The darkness of the world tried to extinguish the light through persecution, violence and crucifixion
Even though Christ died on the cross
His light still lives on in the heart and souls of his disciples
Shining his divine light of love, mercy and grace into the world
Only those who have been humbled by life
Will desire mercy
Those who don’t desire mercy will never receive it
We must abandon all pride and only strive for perfect humility
In this perfect humility we receive God’s grace
In this grace
God’s love lifts us up from humiliation into glory
I live yet do not live
I die yet do not die
I live for Christ, yet do not live in this world
I die of self, yet do not die but are reborn in Gods image which is love
For Christ lives within me
Abandoning all worldly things in this moment I awaken to my true self
My inner most being is of Christ’s nature
In the Kingdom of God
Everyone is born in the image of Gods love
If you see the truth deep down in your soul
You will not judge another
Instead you will love your neighbor and seek to understand their sins
For we are slaves to fear, greed, and hatred within us
And Christ liberates us from our sufferings from worldly attachment
So do not look at the flaws of your brothers and sisters
Always point the arrow within and seek the Kingdom of God within you and rest your weary soul onto to Christ
Only then can you truly help your brothers and sisters
Love will save us all
It will liberate us from fear
Guiding us to a life full of inner joy and peace
Always look for love within yourself first
Only then can you shine the light of love into the darkness of the world
In the end
The first will become last
The last will become first
The meek and humble shall inherit the earth
The prideful will perish and burn up
In this world the rich and powerful rule
But in the Kingdom of God those who are humble,loving, and peaceful reign
If you look at the surface of life
All you see is suffering from greed, fear, and hatred
But look deep within yourself and you will see the ultimate dimension
You will walk in the Kingdom of God with Christ
And rivers of living water will rush within your soul
Shining the light of love into the darkness of the world
“If you want to be free, if you want to heal your relationship with God, with others, and yourself, enter your Inner Room– The Office, where the Divine Therapy takes place. Close the door so you don’t run away.
Quiet your interior dialogue, so that you can listen to what the Spirit is saying to you.
An enormous intelligence is guiding us through this process with a love that is unconditional and determined to bring about this healing, whatever the cost to Itself. Gregory the Great expressed it as resting in God.
Don’t judge Centering Prayer on the basis of how many thoughts come or how much peace you enjoy.
The deeper one’s awareness of one’s powerlessness and the more desperate, the more willing one is to reach out for help.
This help is offered in the next two steps. You turn yourself over to a Higher Power who you believe can heal you and work with you in the long journey of dismantling the emotional programs for happiness. They are the root causes of all our problems.
How should we handle these afflictive emotions? By facing them. By feeling them.
Feelings that are being repressed have to be allowed to pass through our awareness once again, in order to be left behind for good.
The radical healing is the acceptance of the situation. Because in some way, God is present there.
The real work of prayer is just to get rid of the very assumptions that was the foundation of all these other modes of prayer. It is a matter of shifting the location of the sense of identity.
The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don’t ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment.
For example, instead of drinking your friends under the table as a significant sign of self-worth and esteem, if you enter a monastery, as I did, fasting the other monks under the table could become your new path to glory.
We have to accept that the word “I” does not have a fixed, and clear, and obvious referent.
This is where the transformation that we undergo becomes more and more radical with each breakthrough or illumination.
The contemplative journey, because it involves the purification of the unconscious, is not a magic carpet to bliss. It is an exercise in letting go of the false self, a humbling process, because it is the only self we know.
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Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of Self-Knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning.
Contemplative prayer is a deepening of faith that moves beyond thoughts and concepts. One just listens to God, open and receptive to the divine presence in one’s inmost being as its source.
One listens not with a view to hearing something, but with a view to becoming aware of the obstacles to one’s friendship with God.
God has not promised to take away our trials but to help us change our attitude towards them. That is what holiness really is.
In this life, happiness is rooted in our basic attitude toward Reality.
For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
The Spirit calls us to transformation of our inmost being, and indeed of all of our faculties, into the Divine Way of being and acting.
Divine Love picks us up when we sincerely believe nobody else will. We then begin to experience freedom, peace, calm, equanimity, and liberation from cravings.
A total surrender of ourselves to the Spiritual Journey is required.
When the Presence of God emerges from our inmost being into our faculties, whether we walk down the street or drink a cup of soup, Divine Life is pouring into the world.
God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of this Divine Life in us.
Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.
To live in the Presence of God on a continuous basis can become a kind of fourth dimension to our three-dimensional world, forming an invisible but real background to everything that we do or that happens in our lives.
Silence is God’s first language, everything else is a poor translation.
Whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say something, it can only be a pointer toward the mystery that can never be articulated in words. All that words can do is point in the direction of the mystery.
Let Love Alone speak.”
