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Journey to the Innermost Shrine
'God' is I am
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Apr 18, 2016 |
LOTUS OF THE HEART
All is Welcome Here
Living in Love beyond Beliefs
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wilderness of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet. It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune. The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said, "Here art thou!" The question and the cry, "Oh, where?" melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance, "I am!"
*Tagore. Gitanjali.
The Journey Home is to yourself, even as the journey to 'God' is no other than to yourself. Soon or late, the spiritual man or woman must see that self-denial is transformed into a self-affirmation, for he or she discovers the journey to self is the journey to Home, meaning self-denial is no other than self-affirmation and, finally, when Home, there is neither. And no other can take this journey from self to self, to find that what I am is what I have always already been, with 'God' and no other; for in 'God' there is ultimately no intrinsic otherness, so no intrinsic separation. The totally Other encompassing in Itself all others and otherness is perfect Harmony, for otherness in 'God' is Harmony, again and again expressing as the diverse journeys of one self Home to one self - from 'God' to 'God': 'God' being impetus and destination. We are, then, since what is is already always, always arriving where we are, while in 'God' there is no leaving, no journeying, no finding - for Home is, even as I am. 'God' in some mysterious way inhabits my 'I amness,' as an expression of the one self; to say, 'God is' is to say 'I am.' This even as Jesus said, "The Father and I are One."
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*Move cursor over pictures for photographer and title. Lotus of the Heart is given by a Hospice Chaplain, who offers this Work to encourage in a spiritual, inclusive life to embody and encourage peace among all, as each is an expression of one Grace, a single, sacred Life.
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