The Return to Light

Hell Has Many Mansions. —Marianne Williamson

Love casts out fear like light casts out darkness. Violence, war, crime, and oppression affects every living thing on this planet. Plants, trees, animals, water, children, men, women, EVERYONE & EVERYTHING suffers when we abuse our power and allow others to abuse theirs towards us.

We cannot change people, but we can stand up for what we believe in and we can intervene when we witness human rights being violated and our world being raped and pillaged by greedy corporations and people.

Change comes from within. 

{God} is love within. Whether we allow love in or not is our choice and when we choose to be one with love, life is amazing. 

It doesn’t have to be called God, but that’s what it is. Peace comes from loving and it’s very difficult to love with a closed heart and mind!

I’m a spiritual person, and I like researching the metaphors of the christian bible. 

For example, Adam and Eve were happy living in their beautiful world until the “snake” came along and persuaded Eve to eat of the knowledge of good and evil, meaning perfect love was present until judgment and a half-closed heart came into the picture.

Hence, the Fall of mankind.

Enter doubt, judgement, guilt, shame, anger, fear, distress, emotional pain, obsession, envy, rage, anxiety, depression, contempt, sadness, disgust, disappointment, worry, revenge, grief, withdrawal, blame, control, perfectionism, embarrassment, pride, crime, violence, war, oppression, and hatred.

To surrender means to ask for help; To Let go and Let Love lead the way. We co-create through love, willingness, non-judgment, and by believing that a power greater than ourselves can restore our ability to mentally grasp harmonious ways of being and living to bring us closer together.

There is no I in team and not one of us can take on injustice alone. 

For this reason, we must be unshakeable. Unshakeable in truth, love, awareness, and faith. We all face situations and circumstances that render us unnerved. We’ve all experienced some degree of abuse and violence, even if we think our lives have always been perfect. 

We’ve had to look fear in the eye more than once, more than ten times, more than a hundred. 

We’ve all had a reason to doubt keeping faith and pressing forward. We’ve all had our patience tried numerous times and we’ve all felt like a hot mess, defeated, worn-out, and like we couldn’t relate to anyone else. We’ve all felt alone.

And it’s all okay.

—ALL OF IT—

The agitating, bewildering, discouraging, terrifying, weak moments that we’ve experienced do not define us. The deep, isolating journey many of us have known and endured has been long and cruel— but there is a Light at the end of the tunnel, guiding us home to Love.

Oppression is internal, as external as it may seem. It’s paralyzing and disgusting, and it renders us fearful, limited, and self-loathing. It makes us do crazy things and keeps us from bliss, joy, happiness, love, and pleasure.

Happiness spreads your wings, joy lifts you off the ground, bliss carries you everywhere you can imagine wanting to go, and pleasure is the external experience of the body and senses.

Bliss is being-ness, free from duality where no words can describe the elation and no opposite can be imagined. It’s our natural state of being.

Joy comes from the soul and is sourced from within. No outside circumstance or situation creates joy, but it IS reflected outwards around us. It’s created and nurtured by inner-security and an attitude of gratitude.

Happiness is in the mind and usually needs an external trigger to feel it, although it isn’t purely necessary. Just as we can think ourselves healthy, we can think ourselves happy.

If we want to go deeper, we can delve into OM and I Am. 

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OM, AhhOhhhMMMMM, is the primordial sound of creation. No other mantra matches its resonance in the human body. When OM and its frequency are sent through a cymatic device, it creates a perfect circle with no end and no beginning. It is a multi-faceted, universal, and infinite sound, creating depth, connectedness, and healing.

“Om is an experience rather than an arbitrary verbal label. It is a true symbol charged with numinous power. Experienceable in deep meditation, it is a sign of the omnipresence of Ishvara [the Divine] as manifest on the level of sound. . . . In other words, the human voice is employed to reproduce a “sound” which is continually “recited” by the universe itself — an idea, which in the Pythagorean School came to be known as the “harmony of the spheres.” —Georg Feuerstein 

I Am is pure presence and creation. It is the mystical heart, the permanent atom of being, our true identity; The God within. It can never be separated from us, no matter what we believe. 

Self-limiting beliefs and destructive thoughts are all that stands between who really are and who we perceive ourselves to be. We are not the fragile mortals we’ve been led to believe we are. We are immortal; Only the body can die.

Our personal experience of evolution and what we go through in our lives is all meant to propel us into the realization of our True Self. All we really need is truly within us. 

We can get caught up in how things that happen feel and it can throw us off track and lead us to believe that we always have to be on guard to protect ourselves.

The trouble with this is that it leaves our hearts half open and keeps us in a state of constant fear, worry, doubt, and confusion. 

Through spiritual alchemy and forgiveness of self and others, we can transcend matters of the third dimension and ascend into the higher realms of bliss, healing, and living where real power, love, and wisdom reside.

We can set the sacred, ever burning flame in our hearts ablaze through making conscious choices, by practicing mindfulness, and with self-awareness that leads to self-mastery. We care for this fire through clarity, unicity, innocence, consciousness, alive silence, truth, and spontaneity, which also balances karma. And we share this fire with all whom we meet along the way.

Let’s walk towards the Light at the end of the tunnel together.

Will you Vow to keep the Sacred Flame burning in Your heart?