This Week's Quotation:
Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
~ Rumi
Abiding Radiance
Terri McCartney
What a ride! Humanity is deep in the trenches of the crucible of change. Life is presenting us with many opportunities to perceive and respond to our world differently. Can you see how Love is teaching us that challenges are a useful tool for evolving consciousness? Labels like good/bad, and right/wrong polarize and give rise to resisting or excluding what we judge as not part of divinity. Yet, all is divine and to deny the divinity in anything denies it within ourselves.
It’s gloriously liberating to see what unites us beyond our differences—love is a central tenet in all religious traditions. It is only the dogma around love (especially the idea that it can be earned or taken away) that results in shame and feelings of unworthiness. As we learn to resist nothing and become astute in contemplating patterns of judgment, blame, and victimhood with compassion and forgiveness, we clear longstanding patterns born in the cauldron of separating dogmas.
Our conscious participation in clearing the frequencies related to all human suffering welcomes all the Divine Graces to emerge through us to discover creative solutions. We do our part when we are honest in recognizing where the frequency of fear and separation is still operating through our personality and do so with gentleness and love. This integration of polarizing forces frees us of their gravitational pull.
As we purify our perceptions and attitudes and bring mindfulness and loving-kindness to everything we engage, we begin to see how our suffering is the source of all our gifts. What was once polarized in expression is integrated and unified. Transmutation occurs. We are freed of the limitations created by the field of fear and separation. When there is no resistance, the Divine Light shines to reveal harmony and balance where it once appeared not to be.
This transmutative process liberates a unifying quality of consciousness that is our uniquely creative genius to bring to the world. Then our deepest purpose for being meets the world we live in with abiding radiance. We fully become the sun we were born to be!
About Open Windows
We, the authors of this blog, dedicate it to the transparent exploration of the world's sacred scripture and enlightened spiritual thought. We believe that the original inspiration of all faiths comes from a common source, named and revered in a myriad of ways. With that understanding, the innumerable symbols, beliefs, and practices of faith cease to divide. They become open windows to a common reality that inspires and unifies us. We find deeper insight and nourishment in our own faith and from the expression of faith from others.
We hope these weekly quotations and meditations speak to your heart and soul.
Thank you, Terri. What a creative way to view what is happening in our world!
As you indicate, Terri, “all is divine and to deny the divinity in anything denies it within ourselves.” Yes, in essence, in its authentic nature, everything is divine. But oh how human beings have distorted, diverted, diluted and desecrated the divine in their expression. We are here to bring expression back into alignment with essence and thus restore the divine state on earth.
Terri – this is such a beautiful reminder of where our world, and those who live in its surround, have the inner knowledge and capacity to truly make the world a better place when we share from within out rather than from outside in.