This Week's Quotation:
Let’s get loose with compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambiance of love. An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
~ Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, Persian Mystic
Radiating Love
Terri McCartney
I am on board with this invitation from Ḥāfeẓ. How about you? Let’s get loose with compassion. Heaven knows our world is indicating a need for that now. And we don’t stop there. Let’s drown in the delicious ambiance of love. Not “let’s take a dip,” but “let’s drown.” Let’s completely surrender to Love so that we die to anything that interferes with our knowledge that everything is whole, complete, and the manifestation of Divine Intelligence in the world.
We must not be fooled by the darkness that appears to be on a rampage in our world. God is in all things. Yes, there can be the denial of the Light but never an absence of Light. The darkness takes on a different meaning in our awareness that all things are moving toward God.
As a result, whatever arrives at our doorstep, we are equipped to respond from an awake heart…like a sky that pours light. We radiantly shine. We recognize it is love seeking to know itself. We understand we are under a strong impetus to move from polarized thinking to thinking holistically. We are all in this together.
Each day is an opportunity to die more and more to the old ideas about the nature of all things. A change in perception welcomes miracles. May we attend to our inner environment to ensure that the vibrational ripples we are emanating serve the highest good of all. We are one with our Creator, and our self-realization is the realization of Love in our world.
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We hope these weekly quotations and meditations speak to your heart and soul.
I love the way you say “I am on board with Hafiz”. Me too. On board means we are sailing with spiritual wind and loving it. Thank you so much, Terri, as always for offering so many tongues and accents expressing the one voice with such holiness. Love, tom
I love your observation: May we attend to our inner environment to ensure that the vibrational ripples we are emanating serve the highest good of all. This is exactly how we engage in spiritual service. I am not in position to change a lot of things “out there” with physical and mental effort. But I am the governor of my consciousness and as I keep seeding it with Love, that creative vibrational current ripples through the collective consciousness of humanity.
I cried when I got the message that a dear friend had passed away. Such a big empty space he left behind. Then my heart woke up with gratitude for the way he had filled so much space with his radiating love and dedication to serve the highest good of all.
So beautiful – Each day is an opportunity to die more and more to the old ideas about the nature of all things. A change in perception welcomes miracles. May we attend to our inner environment to ensure that the vibrational ripples we are emanating serve the highest good of all. We are one with our Creator, and our self-realization is the realization of Love in our world.