Month: January 2024

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First Gathering

Greetings Spiritual Seekers,

The start of the new year has been a true renewal of sorts for me. As I mentioned in my first blog on this site, a case of mild depression descended on me during the last quarter of 2023, which was the last time I felt like offering a teaching. Grateful for change as the depression I felt has lifted. This week I venture out into the world again with sharing offerings on contentment and peace.

Although we each live in our own thought worlds it doesn’t really mean a hell of beans if we are isolated from each other because that is where it stays, in our heads. Even though the way we think of the world is how the world is for us, that is not true – except only for us. You cannot find your thoughts in the world but only inside us. Yet that is where most of us stay, only venturing out in thought.

And at the same time, most of us usually look outside ourselves for fulfilment and for meaning. This is where they get you. The world is clamoring for our attention. And believe or not, it is not looking our for our best interests most of the time. It is looking to feed itself first. It wants to get you hooked. It is great at showing us a taste of what an “ideal” life looks like. It feeds on our desires to be successful –to be somebody.

A life lived is not full if not shared in communion with community. In community is also where we will see what is required in our spiritual practice, if we have one. We need to be tested. If we are spiritually fit that will translate into peace in our interactions.

Spiritual practice is not about feeding but on giving. And that is where my heart lies – in giving back. This is what is fulfilling. Sharing what we have been given gives me purpose, hence this offering. It helps me with my own healing, with my own strength and with dealing with difficulty.

Isn’t this something we all need? This is where Head and Heart Together comes in – to illuminate and explore the inner world with each other so that we are reminded and practice in community.

If you are interested I urge you to join us as Head and Heart Together will hold its first gathering this Thursday, January 25th on. We can do this together. We can support each other. We can cultivate peace from within and without. We can create a sacred space together. Join me.

https://rememberpresence.com/event/?eventId=1459&startDate=2024-01-26T05:30:00.000Z

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Harmony & Hell

 To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy … is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Ralph Waldo Trine

There was a time in my life when depression first reared its head in my life. Quotes, such as this one from Ralph Waldo Trine, helped me so much. Affirmations and encouraging words can help us to rise the light of contentment and peace in our hearts and minds. Kind words and friendliness, and caring for one another can also do this.

What kind of world do we want to live in? What world do we want for our children and grandchildren. Do we have them to have to experience war, intolerance, and hatred? A world with no joy? With birds singing and dolphins playing? 

I know, most likely, this is all a dream. And I know to hold it lightly. But this is something in my head and heart I cannot deny. For we need to hold all sides, the thoughts of peace and prosperity, love, and joy…and of violence and hatred, greed and despair…and, the one not thought of so much of, boredom and disinterest. Why? Because they exist.

To be free we must hold it all, to know it as it is, but at the same time, know there is another way. Things are always changing. This is the immutable law.

We are in heaven, but we also live in a hell of our own making. Oh say it isn’t so. That would be ignorance and I want to be awake.