When it seems that nothing is happening, when your cause seems to have lost its steam, when no new path appears, wait. In waiting patiently there is the opportunity to slow down the inner self as well as the chaotic world around you. Sit still and listen to birdsong, to the wind whispering past you, to the crunch beneath your feet, the Earth itself speaking to you. Notice that you are not alone but that all of nature supports you in your quest for change. When it is time to act, to take the next step, you will know.
A journey of change may at times appear to slow down, stagnate, but that is never so, for change is constant. There is never not something happening. On days when your journey of change seems dulled, it may just be a time when things are being prepared for a new step and your job is to wait patiently for the next sign to come along and show you where to go next. Remember, you have plenty of helpers in the background, whom you never see or hear, constantly working on your behalf. So pay attention, even on those quiet days of seeming little activity. Something is always happening. What’s next?
A healing journey may weave a mysterious web of circuitous routes that seem to have no end in sight, but eventually those circuitous routes will unfold and reveal the straight path ahead. Find healing in the everyday unfolding of life; in the plodding sameness of day after day, in the glory of each step taken no matter what lies in your path. With your intent set, there is no turning back; there is only the day ahead and what it will bring to further you along on your journey. Keep an open heart and an open mind, and with your intent strong await the unfolding of the next phase of your journey to wholeness.
Interconnectedness and oneness are the underlying truths of our spirit being. However, incarnation as a physical person is a journey of separateness, as we are born into a world of self and other. This world of distinctly separate objects offers a journey of evolution, where consciousness and knowledge grow, and creativity flourishes.
Nonetheless, evolution ultimately devolves into involution, where all that has been separated rejoins in the enhanced wholeness of ultimate oneness. At present, our journey of separateness is peaking, as expressed in the incessant clashes of nature’s storms and in polarized human interaction.
It is obvious that the solution to the warring elements of now is a movement toward oneness, where the true needs of the greater whole become the working intent of the world. How long this process will take, how much more destruction will be required, remains an open question, but be at peace in knowing that we move toward oneness.
The Age of Aquarius is upon us, a time of great spiritual advancement. The prelude to WW1 was the birth of Spiritualist and Theosophical movements, where the spirit world made physical contact with human awareness. WW1 brought forth a wave of channeling, with souls recently departed from human form sharing their experiences.
Current times are replete with Near-Death Experiences (NDE’s) and Out-of-Body Experiences (OBE’s), further advancing human awareness to experiencing its foundational spiritual essence, with life in human form understood as simply a season of its soul’s continued life. Great calamities appear to be the necessary balance for advanced spiritual realization. Be at peace with it all.
Knowledge of self as a spiritual being completely shifts one’s relationship with the physical world. With it comes the ability to manifest one’s intent through spiritual practice. The ability to heal and communicate at a distance, the ability to travel through mere thought, and the ability to transcend DNA programming through mastery of the subconscious mind are all human potentials coming on line. Be at peace with it all.
Knowledge of the underlying oneness of everything—which includes the bully who outrages us the most—equips us with a tool to hasten our evolution. Knowing that everything is a part of you, ask yourself: “Who is that being I can’t stand, or am so afraid of, inside of me?” Find the enemy within yourself. Value it and find loving compassion for it.
Reconciling a polarization within the self advances relationships outside of the self, as projection of the unwanted shadow ceases. This does not mean that the bully without may not need to be confronted, but when the shadow is reconciled within the self then the confrontation with the bully becomes only what is necessary, with an absence of malice. Be at peace with it all.
The title of this blog is from guidance attributed to Cochise, a powerful Apache leader, who battled with a changing world as Mexico and America encroached upon indigenous lands. May we all be such impeccable warriors, and, “be at peace with it all.”
Restrain that which has no place in a creative spiritual life, that which does not advance you along your path of heart. Do let go of excesses, as well as of limitations; those things that overtake you or keep you from reaching your potential. With all things in balance it’s so much easier to see the right path before you, to correctly read the signs that come to guide you and to know for sure what is the right thing to do when the time comes to act. With all things within in good balance then all things without will also be in good balance. Allow your spirit its freedom in this manner and your progress will be assured.
