gratitude

A Base-level Rule of Life

You cannot live for this world! As a spiritual being, a divine spirit, you cannot live for this world! It’s as simple as that. It is right and appropriate, nonetheless, that you experience a blissful joy in life and that you live a rich and grateful life, with due gratitude for all the gifts you have been graced and given. It is right to experience all the gifts of grace with ample delight in all such riches in a most Epicurean way! But I’ll say it again: you cannot live for this world!

The Dream Dreaming Me

In the middle of a dream that was dreaming me, I dreamed to be or not – that was nay the question nor the doubt. In being I was with being the Creator of the Creator and was told I was made in the image of the Creator and, hence, could create what I need not need want.

So in the middle of the dream that was dreaming me I dreamt deliberate and slow of what I might want.

After dreaming on it an eternity I came up with my wish: that everyone feel a discernable connective yearning to advance closer to the actuality of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of Heaven being the real and now and future destiny of Creation manifest in all the ways that we are all connectively working on.

I was told that I had dreamt well and wisely and that what I wanted was granted: as it is exactly as Creation and Creation’s destiny is designed already. As has been said in the form of good news, of course, the Kingdom of Heaven is upon us! So my dream within the dream that is dreaming me is well within the realm.

I was told then, in no uncertain terms, that I may cease dreaming and that I should be very happy that all my wildest dreams have been answered. I was told, moreover, that, perhaps the whole manifest of destiny will certainly be advanced an extra notch or two thanks to my wise request.

I was furthermore told, without having to be told anything at all that because my wildest dreams are within the realm and have indeed been answered there is no further need for me to waste my creative powers on asking for anything at all. My time will be much better and much more wisely spent on further development of my well honed skills in gratitude.

So having awoken woke, that’s what I’m focused on: gratitude. The store of grace that I’m collecting to shower on my future students is vast indeed. And I will never stop nor slow down on finding new and novel ways to practice, manifest and experience gratitude at all times in all matters.

11/22/17

On the Eve of Thanks

I am only enlightened

and I wonder how it shows

and what has changed.

There is a joy, I know.

Always and everywhere

diffused, that I don’t always remember

to deign to show.

And I wonder how it can show.

My enlightenment joy

is like my baby face

that showed no doubt an otherworldly wisdom.

It was a face that knew

that prompted indescribable joy

to my bewildered parents

who had no doubt of the wisdom

or of the providence of its origin.

It has never gone.

I am newly aware and

I am on the Eve of thanks.

Positivity

To be a positive influence in the world is to truly and genuinely join up with the positive force that is positively behind everything. It is to embark on a positive journey. It is an active quest. There is a positive consistency involved. Positivity doesn’t come naturally or easily, despite the positive fact that the positive is at the core of everything and can’t be avoided nor escaped. Still one has to train oneself to seek and to see the positive in the core of everything. And I do mean everything. Everything at all. I’m positive about this.

Sure there are constant slings and arrows, but they are not to be minded. They are not real. Much of the journey (and I wouldn’t take nothing for the journey now) involves, of course a negating of the negative that seems to abound.

Tireless negating of the negative with ultimate purpose to explore and to experience and to bring forth to light the positive is part and parcel of the positive experience.

The more determined and stubborn the insistence on negative one encounters, the more positively determined and stubborn the negation of the negative necessary. This, of course, can give off the distinct impression of one who is often negative. This can and will be used against the positive. Many conspiracy theories smartly fit the bill and provide the framework. The positive one, indeed, gets literally framed

This can be a tiresome experience, I presume. It can certainly be construed that way, of course. Everything can be construed, that’s kind of my point. And I do mean everything. Everything at all. But no, I will negate that negative called “tiresome.” It is positively invigorating to me.

And, to negate negative once more, I repeat: I wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now.

Construe the positive. That’s positively me. Won’t you join me, neighbor?

 

Post-script:
Another, more simple way to put it to the negative would be like this:

“Hey, negative: you are a stumbling block to me, for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”

 

Post-post-script:
And sadly, some purport to divine things while they are all caught up in human things all the while. We call them, sometimes, “The Religious Right.”

They are highly political, of course. Caught up in human things.

(Sorry if it hurts).