Reflection for Radiant Living

15 September 2007
Gloria In Excelsis Deo
Thy will be done

"one caterpillar, a thousand hairs of God. So know constantly that this is only you, God, empty and awake and eternally free as the unnumerable atoms of emptiness everywhere."
- Jack Kerouac

Friends, may we realize that when life becomes heavy and sticky, that we can look back and see whether this is a false belief that we have accepted as true (eg, "I am unlovable" or "Life is terribly hard"), or judgments of the way things "should" be (eg, "I can only be happy if..."). When life feels heavy, may we discover the false belief or judgments within, and then may we do something that will restore joy to our being, whether that be meditation/prayer, or walking through the woods, or taking a bubble bath, or watching a funny movie, or just speaking words of love and acceptance to oneself...anything that our heart knows will bring lightness and joy. The dark belief has crowded out the love in one's heart, and so focus on something that shall restore one's openness of heart, to let that innate Love again flow through you. Every moment we have this ability, to open our hearts into a Flow of Trust and Care and Kindness. Love, Lalita

"Finally the autumn rains, all-night gales of soaking rain as I lie warm as toast in my sleeping bag and the mornings open cold wild fall days with high wind, racing fogs, racing clouds, sudden bright sun, pristine light on hill patches and my fire crackling as I exult and sing at the top of my voice. What strange sweet thoughts come to you in the mountain solitudes! One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny meek little childish look abashes their eyes...lambies all over the world. For when you realize that God is Everything, you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the ultimate sense it was neither good or bad, it was just WHAT WAS, that is, what was made to appear... ...silence itself is the sound of diamonds which can cut through anything, the sound of Holy Emptiness, the sound of extinction and bliss, that graveyard silence which is like the silence of an infant's smile, the sound of eternity, of the blessedness surely to be believed, the sound of nothing-ever-happened-except-God...'Ts only the Golden Eternity of God's Mind so practice kindness and sympathy, remember that men are not responsible themselves as men for their ignorance and unkindness, they should be pitied, God does pity it, because who says anything about anything since everything is just what it is, free of interpretations..."
-Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler, p.133