Of being aware.
Thinking, feeling, sensing, perceiving = Being aware.
KEEP REMINDING YOURSELF:
There’s no substance to my being aware But my experience of it.
“I am not identical to and
Limited by this experience.”
Physical pain is an intense version
Of the same stuff = the knowing of it.
Just because something is unpleasant Doesn’t mean it’s not made out of Consciousness.
Pain – or other demands – may seem
So intense that the knowing of it
May seem obscured.
A depression may be so deep that
We forget the fact that
The only substance to it is knowing.
A deep deep depression is rendered knowable by the Light of pure Consciousness.
“I am aware of being depressed.”
The “I” that is aware is what illuminates
Renders knowable
The experience of depression.
It is lifted up by something that is
Brilliant and luminous.
And transparent and empty
And innately peaceful.
Even our deepest depressions confirm
The presence of the brilliant
Light of pure consciousness.
Nothing can obscure that
Unless we consent to its obscuration.
If we believe a landscape on a screen
Has obscured it, it will be so
Only because we believe it.
BUT the landscape is just an image,
A modulation on the screen.
If we believe that our depression
Obscures consciousness
That’s how it will feel.
If we realize that our depression
Is lifted up or known
By the light of awareness
And our attention is drawn towards
The light of awareness
Rather than drawn towards
The darkness of depression,
Then that Light of awareness
Will be our experience.
The depression will gradually
Dissolve in that light.
All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck
Forgiveness extraordinaire!
There’s precious
Gold to be found
When we stop desiring
Something from somebody.
As long as we want/need
Something from somebody,
We can’t truly love them.
We only set people up for failure
When we judge and blame.
Mom, Dad, Bro, Sis, I need
Absolutely nothing – you’ve
Given me all there was to give.
NOW … for the first time …
I really -r-e-a-l-l-y- REALLY
Love you. <3
Who am I, you ask. R.Blok
Stolen moments
Who am I you ask
Yet the question always remains.
For who I am changes
from day to day
nay from moment to glorious moment I’d say
Yet all you who I meet have changed who I am
But am I not more than the sum of all that I have experienced also of all of who I’ve met
is there not some basic me
A version untouched, unblemished a version of my most perfect self
Yet I ponder this and still I am not who I once was…
Peace and love
Robert Blok
If you’re struggling with spiritual Truths
And basically think “so what?”
But realize you’re missing something,
Try this: God is Spirit
But this Spirit is right here
Closer to you than your breathing
More powerful than imaginable.
Because we’re talking “spiritual”
We can see that this realm
Is inside us: it’s God.
Start to dare to believe
And it’ll come clearer and clearer.
No one – especially not God –
Is trying to be confusing.
It’s just that the things of Spirit
Need a little leeway
Where human language is concerned.
Believe and dig more and
Then more clarification will come.
Jesus, Holy Spirit, God will take over now.
What is writing?
“Writing is…. being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”
― Mary Gaitskill
Spiritual Writers Network
THE HIGHEST PRAYER
Man’s limited construct of God
Has Him as reflection of man
When in fact it’s quite the opposite.
From ‘separate self’ view there’s
Mind, matter and God.
A gradual approach out of this
To the heart of Healing is
Pray to our God “out there”
Only because it’ll expand us somewhat
Out of our ‘separate selves’ mode –
At least the ego gets attenuated!
That view of “God” however depends on
Maintaining ‘separate selves’ paradigm
In lieu of I AM- Oneness- Allness
Spirit, Omnipotence, Omnipresence,
Omniscience, Substance, Life and Love.
–
The human mind sees God
As an object – The Largest Object
Imaginable – and puts a ceiling on Him.
Damning us to live our days in pride
And fear, while all the time God –
Who’s not above – is as
Quantum Physics Verifies – within us, as Love.
IMAGINE this human mind turning
In the opposite direction INSTEAD:
God, not a thing or being “Out There”
But way, way inside, so deep in fact that
The very Presence of God can be
Brought to our conscious awareness.
That which we find in there – in us –
Is ‘I Am’ = Awareness = I.
Free of limitations: I AM THAT I AM.
I Am the knowing with which I know.
Thought arises “out of” (not initiating) it.
Without ‘thought’, what is left?
Pure BE-ing. Rest in it. Rest AS it.
My consciousness is now
As it has always been –
Untouched by human experience.
I am intimately one with,
But never impacted by it.
My consciousness is now
As it has always been –
Seemingly taking shape
In the form of thought and perception.
Name and form.
Mind and matter.
Thought and perception.
Pure Consciousness is the only knowing.
There is no other substance
Beyond pure Consciousness.
I am the totality, but
My experience of being aware
Seems veiled by human perception.
Consciousness is existence, and yet
The only evidence Descartes could find
Is my knowing, my seeing,
My (immortal) mind.
Sometimes a hurt can be
So deep-seated and
Well nurtured over time.
We see its damage in our
Inability to forgive in general.
But, LOOK AGAIN !!!
See what’s been blossoming
In you as a direct result.
Hint: we’ve switched just now
To the realm of Spirit
The realm of God
The realm of JESUS
Where nothing evil can enter.
No! No! No! Not pretty words
But living, palpitating reality
AND THE VERY APPLICATION
NEEDED TO BECOME FULLY AWARE
Which, in turn, translates to Healing.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE
Between a Miracle and a Healing?
ANSWER:
Absolutely nothing!
We need our precious mind(s)
Healed of whatever blocks
Total free-flowing harmony,
Spirituality, present perfection.
Healed of blockage of all
That delays, depresses, destroys.
Healed of any ‘whatsoever’
That would prevent new
Exciting and wonderful adventures.
Healed of envy, hate and fear
Healed of bigotry & prejudice
Healed of missing our own personal
Wildest dream fulfilled.
MAKE UP YOUR MIND
If you ask someone
To help you achieve a healing
And then you proceed to
CONVINCE them that
You’re really, really SICK,
You’ve just rendered them
Unable to be of any help.
TRY THIS INSTEAD:
Turn your thought entirely away
From the so-called evidence.
(Do whatever you can to
Get your mind off it.)
Think of all the glorious truths
You know to be true Spiritually.
Then understand that these
Truths are the Realm of the Real.
Understand your way to awareness!
Make up your mind that
You’re not going back ever again
To that dark place of unawareness.
Don’t check the ‘condition’,
Don’t ever go negative at all –
Like your life depends on it …
Because it does.