Rainbow: One Light, Many Colours

Most recent update September 8, 2004.

This page is nothing more than random thoughts, insights and words,
that have, for me, been 'growthful' on my journey to remembering.

Uni-verse: One Song, Many Voices.

There is Truth in all paths
and no path has all Truth.

Not even mine.

Learn from many paths ... honour all paths ..... and follow your own.

We don't find our Truth --- we live it.

Creator Creating Creation - all One.

I am That and You are That and That is All That Is.

There is much said and written about forgiveness,
but when you really think about it,
in order to forgive, you must first have blamed.

The only person you define,
when you judge another,
is yourself.

We are each self aware, individuated embodiments
of awareness in a Universe that is, Itself, Self aware.

The only thing 'wrong' with black and white thinking
... you miss the rainbow!

Many teach that the ego is something that must be conquered,
which puts us at war with an aspect of ourselves.
And what we resist, persists.

If we are made in the image of God/Goddess how can any
aspect of ourselves be unacceptable to God/Goddess?
I prefer the concept of the unevolved ego as being
the ego that needs to be right by making others wrong
and plays the hurtful win/lose games.

The evolved ego recognizes that there is no win
if anyone loses and ensures that the Self is included
in the win/win scenerio.

And the Evolved Ego is not in conflict with Spirit
rather it compliments and is in harmony with Spirit.

A simple 'rule' .. and probably the most challenging one:
No Hurt.

The first 'rule' of health and healing: Refuse Abuse.

Maybe its a matter of 'c'ing (seeing) differently;
ReactingCreating
ReactionCreation
ReactiveCreative
ScaredSacred
Which ways would you rather live your life?

Consider this: many negative emotions are preceeded by
a judgment of how it should have been or should not have been.
Something occurs which we judge to be wrong and then we feel bad.

The difference between a flower and a weed ... is a judgment.

Tell the truth, there is less to remember!

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

A few years ago, when I was blowing soap bubbles,
something I still love doing, this image came to me,
regarding a person's sense of preciousness,
a person's sense of being lovable, loved and cherished.

It's as if we each hold each other's sense of preciousness
in our hands, and that sense is like a beautiful soap bubble,
with shimmering rainbow irridescences swirling on the surface.

Held carefully the bubble survives and it's beauty is there
for all to see and yet it takes so little to break the bubble,
with a harsh or unkind word or even simply being discounted or
ignored, and it can take a lifetime to recreate the precious bubble
that represents our sense of the divine within.

The divine is always there,
it's our awareness of it that is
often as fragile as a soap bubble.

Regarding attachment, detachment and non-attachment,
following metaphor as been helpful for some:

The Pit

Someone is in a deep pit in the
ground and can not get out.

The attached person sees the trapped person,
cares deeply, and jumps into the pit with them.

The detached person sees the trapped person,
doesn't care, and walks away muttering something
like that person chose to be there or its their karma
to be there and I can't interfere with karma.

The non-attached person sees the one in the pit,
cares enough to offer to get a ladder and lower it to the
trapped person and may even offer to assist them to climb out.

The trapped person has to decide to climb the ladder
this person still has choice/free will.

If the trapped person doesn't choose to climb,
the non-attached person continues on their way but
leaves the ladder in the pit in case the other decides
to climb out.

And, of course, it may be that the person in the pit
may not experience it as being trapped at all.

A Metaphor

Once upon a time, long ago, last week, five blind men
encountered an elephant for the first time.

The man touching the side of the elephant said:
"Ah ha! The elephant is like a wall!
A wall that protects us from harm."

The man holding the tail of the elephant said:
"No! You are wrong, the elephant is like a rope.
We must climb this rope".

The man touching a leg of the elephant said:
"No! You are both wrong, the elephant is like a
tree with a big thick trunk and with deep roots
going into the ground and branches and leaves to shelter us".

The man who had encountered the trunk and
felt himself being lifted up off the ground by it said:
"No! You are wrong, the elephant is something that enfolds
us and lifts us up into the sky."

The man holding the tusk said:
"No! You are all wrong! It's like a very long sharp tooth.
We must be careful not to anger the elephant or
he'll tear us apart".

Of course each of them is 'right' as far as their
experience of the 'elephant' goes.

At this point there are a couple of choices --
they can each insist on being right and insisting that
everyone else is wrong.

They can argue and even go to war over which of them has
The Truth about the elephant.
Or they can actually listen to each other and expand their
knowledge of the 'elephant' and maybe even be willing to
move around and explore more aspects of the 'elephant'
for themselves
-- and they might even consider asking the elephant for Its Truth.

May Mother Earth guide your feet.
May Father Sky, keep his arms around you.
May Grandfather Sun warm your cold days,
May Grandmother Moon Keep the Glow in your heart.
May the star Nations Light the way to the next destination,
and the Great Spirit always keep you shielded from the pain.
Blessings to you.

with thanks to 'Cheecowah'.

It's not about self improvement it's about self acceptance.

We are always perfectly who we are AND we can grow.

Is a 3 foot tree any 'less perfect', less valuable,
less deserving of life than a 30 foot tree?

There is no place where I end and You begin.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart,
and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

It's not this or that,
it is 'this and that'
and everything in between
and beyond.

It's all paradoxodarap!

We each follow our own paths ... and some mistake their path for the whole mountain

If GodDess is infinite how could anyone
or any thing be separated from Him/Her?
If there is no place where GodDess is not,
then we are in GodDess and GodDess is in us.

All One!

The difference between alone and all one is one L.
And that L is Love.

Rather than fighting against something, how much more pleasant
and productive would it be to put our attention an our energy
into what we are for?

Focus on what you desire to have more of in your life, since
your focus brings you more of whatever you put your attention on,
and what you resist, persists.

Anyone can count the number of seeds in an apple,
but who can calculate the number of apples in a seed?

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People Need Loving The Most
When They 'Deserve' It The Least.
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