All of you are absolutely awesome! Your light shines in the darkness, your joy lifts you high into the subtle regions of heaven, your love pours through your smiles, your wisdom draws from that great unknown source - heaven's data bank.
You are beloved, radiant, brilliant and eternal. That is your true self. That is who you really are. You are children of God, all sons and daughters of the great universal creator. You are loved beyond your wildest imagination. If you knew for one second how loved you are, how precious individually and known individually you are, your lives would be transformed in a twinkling of an eye.
Your life, with all its travails, is a path to that awareness, to that full comprehension.You were created to be vessels for the divine, to experience all the qualities of divinity and hold them together, like a heavenly glue, within your own being, and then, to realize that is who you really are. You are divinity itself, "gods" as Jesus said. As the Son of God, he said we were his brothers.
But, when you experience yourself other than pure brilliant joy, then you can know you've encountered a shadow, a blockage, to that light.
Even our beautiful lush fertile earth is in so many ways a reflection of the divine. Life flourishes in unique ways through the creative presence of God. Even DNA has God's fingerprint. Scientists are continually astounded by life's "cosmic imperative" that may be continually manifesting - for an interesting lecture see: Paul Davies on the origin of life
None of "life" is a random accident. Life is never an accident. How it happens is still being researched in your science laboratories and may never be fully understood. Today a wonderful meeting of minds is occuring between science and spirituality. It's a scenario of sacred geometry, ancient esoteric knowledge carved on pyramid walls, left in sanskrit and carefully scripted into ancient Hebrew, Greek and Coptic papyrus, meets Einstein, Tesla and our latest quantum and mechanical physicists. Today theologians read Scientific American and scientists read Genesis.
We're all on a path of discovery, if we're honest, if we haven't given up, if we haven't succumbed to the temptation to either fall under or reign over the resistance powers heaven has allowed in our lives to challenge us to grow. Some can spend a lifetime trying to get it right by our culture's standards only to realize they had it right all along. Fitting in is something we seek in our teens and resist in our wiser years.
Our path, "the way," which is the original term of the Jesus movement of the first century, is that very journey to find and live into our reason for being here. It's not so much "finding yourself," as it is losing yourself. You who are brilliant light beams, resonating to the great OM of the universe, synchronized to God's own breath and yet wonderfully conscious and individual simultaneously may have already realized that when challenges arise in your life, those times when life feels heavy and dark, murky and fearful, those are the very obstacles in your path that point you back onto the path of light. Fear is a warning that you are thinking wrongly. Fear is a dark spot in the light. It also blocks the joy. It is a bolder, a darkened window, a piece of shrapnel from our warrior past. It is a piece of unconscious material that can be overcome. There are ways to overcome it, but the original wise ones suggest transforming it with light and thus widening the path of light we're on.
Recently, I was dealing with some heavy fear, stuff that I just couldn't sort out, so I went into quiet meditation and visualized the fear floating out of my body. Then I imagined a strong beam of brilliant light flowing down into my body through the top of my head. After awhile, I felt the fear had left completely.
Later that day, I could see inside my mind the inner place where the fear had been. It was a clear, empty container within my mind, now filled with light emiting sheer joy and the conscious awareness that we are all designed in the image of God and that "image" is pure spiritual conscious joy, love, power - the very tools to carve out our life purpose.
I realized that when we find that precious gift of being, there is only joy. Joy is the marker on the path to authentic being, ultimate truth and life itself - real life, the only kind that is eternal. It is that joy that opens our hearts, gives us courage to stay on the path, the narrow way, and to love. The joy itself sang through me as love and in that love there was more self love which offered me the kind of inner guidance I needed to confront what needed confronting and the wisdom to peek down the road to make sense of some of my challenges which required wiser choices. Most of all, I realized that joy is the pearl of great price, the ancients talk about in parables and poems. It is God-stuff, and who wouldn't sell everything he had for it. It is life itself.
Above video: http://beyond.asu.edu/media/video-paul-davies-origins-life
