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To
survive in this world, this manifest creation,
You
have been a student of political expediency.
It is
never easy to fearlessly speak your truth.
* * * *
What is
it that has drawn you once again into manifest form
That is
worth all the suffering, and the mirage of death.
* * * *
Treat
your fellow life forms with the same respect
As you
yourself no doubt always appreciate.
* * * *
When
Jesus supposedly said
He was
the way, the truth, and the life,
He
hopefully implied you are as well.
* * * *
Your
prejudices are markers of ignorance.
* * * *
We are
all cousins of the same origin.
* * * *
Can you
look without desire
At that
you want most?
* * * *
In the
most absolute sense,
All are
immaculately conceived,
Cousins
of the same origin.
* * * *
The
dust of eternity runs in your veins.
* * * *
Who
cares how many lives you have had,
Or who
you may have been?
All
were probably only a bit less vain.
* * * *
That
moment scientists call the big bang
Is the
same creation you experience with any insight.
You are
the dream of godness in manifest form.
* * * *
The
effortlessness of absoluteness hidden behind all veils
Empowers
the tools which work to awaken your sovereignty.
* * * *
These
words speak to every man, woman and child
Of all
persuasions, colors, races, creeds and nationalities.
You all
suffer needlessly of your own choosing.
It is a
direction you are not forced to take.
Of the
many less painful possibilities
We have
chosen this expression.
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That
you believe yourself a personal identity
Is the
collusion of ignorance.
* * * *
The
language and mythos you subscribe to
Is
being used here as a tool, a fulcrum,
To
destroy you as a separate identity.
* * * *
You are
immortal.
Your
apparent mortality
Is the
veneer of duality's illusion.
* * * *
Be as a
guest in your own house.
* * * *
Surrender
the fruit of knowledge
And
your invitation to eternity is assured.
* * * *
All
covenants to Mayic gods are ultimately broken.
You are
absoluteness, nothing more, nothing less.
* * * *
The
gathering of tokens of wisdom is generally necessary.
Few are
born into this world already enlightened.
* * * *
Your
separation from absoluteness in any arena of the light show
Is the
concoction of vain identification with one limitation or another.
* * * *
Nothing
you have ever done will send you to hell
Without
your own creative consent.
* * * *
The
point of this experiment
Is to
see harmony exercised in manifest form,
And
what disharmony each will go through to reach that point in time.
* * * *
We all
carry a cross of suffering in one form or another.
When
will you put yours down?
* * * *
Smile
at the thought that you are divine.
That
you are the angel you always imagined,
The one
watching over you.
* * * *
Why
some suffer more than others is often obvious.
* * * *
What
you think about most each day
Will
tell you why you are here.
* * * *
Give
your best shot at waking up.
You
will be very happy about it.
* * * *
It does
little good to stare at the bare wall
Once
you have discovered your eternal nature.
God
realization is too good a vintage
Not to
want to buy your friends a round.
* * * *
How can
you not be exhausted lying to yourself?
How can
you not be tired of playing games
You
long ago stopped believing in?
* * * *
Banish
all self-deception that you are anything
But the
unmanifest manifest in conscious form.
You are
not an isolated, separate, personal identity.
* * * *
Each of
us seeks a resolution of spirit and form.
The
immortal nature is strong within all.
* * * *
From
the loins of your parents
Your
mind-body vessel was born.
Honor
it with courtesy and restraint.
* * * *
The time
of organized religion is ending.
You
must till your own soil.
* * * *
Those
discovering original nature die to their sin
And
absolve others of theirs.
* * * *
Mystics
who write thoughts like these
Are
like spies hidden in the works
To find
those who are ready
And
plant seeds in those who are not.
* * * *
Trinities
and other religious analogies
Are
fabricated components attempting to describe
An
unmanifest nature void of all division.
* * * *
You are
unity born into original separation.
It is
up to you to discover that you are astray
And
through inquiry within find your way home.
* * * *
Looking
back, you will find it easy to wonder
Why all
the suffering was so necessary
For you
to see what is now so clear.
* * * *
We are
all the suns of man and godness.
* * * *
All
manifestation is worm's meat
And the
worm is you.
* * * *
Look
closely,
The
shackles are not locked.
* * * *
Do what
you need to do
Until
you no longer need to.
* * * *
You may
as well give up
* * * *
Why do
you vainly worship
Those
who are long since dust?
* * * *
Mortality,
is it worth the price of admission?
* * * *
You may
appear to have drifted away,
But not
so far that you cannot find your way home.
* * * *
Ignore
the sensory play, let go all conceptual thinking, still the mind,
Unify
with the mystery you are, have ever been, will ever be.
Consciously
manifest eternity in every moment possible.
* * * *
Great
teachers were simply manifest vessels of the unmanifest.
To
vainly worship them as personalities misses the point
That
their identities were no longer important.
* * * *
What
else is there to really do
But to
know without doubt that you are
That
which you have always most feared being.
* * * *
Believing
someone else's divinity and not your own,
What is
the point?
* * * *
The
trickster is a sly old curmudgeon
And you
fell for the storyline as you always have.
Who
else could any of it be but you?
* * * *
Who
dares throw the first stone?
All
reside in lives of glass.
* * * *
Watch
the vanity of others.
See
your own.
* * * *
The
coating of civility
Over
your elemental nature
Is an
amusing touch.
* * * *
Answer
all your questions
Until
there are none left.
* * * *
Find
those who are ripe, ready to fall.
Listen
closely to the teaching they offer.
* * * *
Must
there be such chaos that manifest consciousness
Is
forced to face extinction or awaken?
* * * *
Do you
realize that all those bits of untainted affection,
That
goodness you exude toward others at various times
Is the
way you could be every moment of your life?
* * * *
Enjoy
the pleasure of your loins as you will,
But
take responsibility for life whose entry you bring.
* * * *
You are
every wave crashing on every grain of sand
In all
corners of the infinite realm of godness.
* * * *
Because
you do not realize your absoluteness
Does
not make you any less so.
* * * *
The
life etched in your face and body
Reflects
your inner awareness.
* * * *
There
is no caste system in heaven's way.
Beggars
and billionaires, saints and sinners,
Are all
from beginning to end equally clay.
* * * *
Identity
is a tenacious delusion.
* * * *
You
must look inward to see
What
there really is to see.
* * * *
Disown
dogmatic reasoning.
There
is no law but your own.
* * * *
Why do
you choose leaders who have no wisdom,
Whose
havoc is destroying the garden?
* * * *
Limits
woven in your patterning will manifest
Until
you discover your unlimited nature.
* * * *
Dreams
are the restlessness of irreconcilable desire.
Absoluteness
requires no resolution.
* * * *
An
actor sheds his character when the play is over.
What
would happen if he did it in the middle of the show?
What
would happen if the entire cast did?
* * * *
Trust
your Self.
You
would not lie about this.
These
thoughts are from you to you.
One
day, through you, earth will join heaven.
* * * *
There
is no need to suffer unrequited love.
You are
the beloved.
* * * *
Your
home is wherever you are.
* * * *
You are
that you are.
* * * *
Your
death now
Eases
the pain of your birth.
* * * *
Smug
piety lacks real religion.
* * * *
There
is no image or form
Which
does not contain absoluteness.
View
all as equally divine.
* * * *
The
greed of little self
Is an
amazing thing to witness.
The
only result is suffering all around,
Yet so
few learn the lesson.
* * * *
Hell
and heaven are not places,
But
qualities of consciousness in awareness
Born
either of ignorance or knowing.
* * * *
Whining
and bemoaning your fate will not win eternity.
Only a
strong heart and mind earns the fare.
* * * *
How
serene it is to release that burdensome identity.
Its
falseness drowns you in ignorance.
* * * *
You
must be a warrior
To meet
god as an equal.
* * * *
There
is no copyright on wisdom.
* * * *
Be as
godness manifest in the world.
* * * *
Travel
the cord to the wall socket
And
peer in.
* * * *
Check
out any big bang.
God is
not a wimp.
* * * *
The
lover you take tonight
Is
worm's meat in some tomorrow.
* * * *
Your
perfection is in your intention.
* * * *
Ultimately,
in this manifest journey,
It is
the union of heart and mind.
* * * *
To own
this is to be among the wealthiest
The
world has ever known.
* * * *
The
ravenous desire to own material things,
To
experience endless pleasure,
Is an
arid path.
* * * *
The lie
of collusion is confusing and exhausting
For
many born with the potential for realization.
* * * *
Take
off your mask and play your Self.
Take a
break from all that unnecessary suffering.
* * * *
The way
many practice piety
Is a
show for everyone else to see,
When
there really is no one else to see.
* * * *
Know
that you are a valued player in the dance.
You are
playing your chosen role well.
* * * *
Why you
would choose to hurt another
Is
interesting, is it not?
* * * *
What a choreographer you are.
* * * *
Want nothing bad enough,
And you shall surely find it.
* * * *
It is merely a quickly passing, touchy-feely,
Three-dimensional, dreamy mirage.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Why are you attached to anything it offers?
* * * *
It is your garden world.
You created it, and now you may
Take care of it, or destroy it.
The question is really
Whether or not
You want to continue
This manifest dreamtime.
* * * *
The dream of creation is all happening right here-now,
And the you that you are, have always been, and will ever
be,
Ever aware, ever still, ever at peace, ever blissfully one.
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The
Stillness Before Time (Compendium)
©
Michael J. Holshouser 2009
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