Facets of a Diamond – Blog
The purpose of meditation, Zen master Dogen taught, was not to become the Buddha-Nature but to realize that we already are, that we always are.
The aura, the etheric body, is an external manifestation of the Soul, the God within.
It is love that banishes all the negative emotions. It is love that invokes the spirit and activates the life energy. It is love that balances our brains and makes us creative. And it is love for our true self, for the self that we can be, that drives us on to want to be
Without a deep, full, sense of personal identity, we are lost, and at the mercy of all those, equally lost, who choose to steal whatever there is of us so as to fashion a false identity of themselves. As we choose to be stolen hoping to find an identity as them.
But there is only one
First believe that every moment, each and every happening, of your life is Determined – by the Great Spirit.
And then believe that It is Always Smiling on you.
(2002)
Everyone, everything, is, to me, but one aspect or another of my mother. Enlightenment is coming to Know that all of her aspects are basically one – the Mother of Love.
(2002)
It’s said that the basic intention behind all spiritual endeavors is reconciliation with God.
I can’t directly reconcile you with God – but I can with your mother.
And to us all, our mother is God – as God on earth. For she was, and still is, our holiest intimation of the Divine.
The way to God is
Just before bed, I thank the Great Spirit, dear Mother of All, for all Her gifts of the day. And I find myself smiling.
I’m smiling to Her as She smiled on me.
(2002)
A healer is like a magnifying glass, concentrating and focusing the rays of the sun so as to cause the sufferer’s heart to burst into flame.
And he must always remember that the glass is never the sun. And also that the cleaner the glass, the better it functions.
And he must be constantly aware of
I believe in distant healing: that a sufferer can be helped by a healer directing Spirit to him, however physically separated they may be.
And I believe that the healer is but a channel for the Spirit: invoking It into himself, concentrating It, then focusing It and directing It out into the sufferer.
And I believe