“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”
~Hafiz
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Our next online gathering is next week on Tuesday, December 7. Please click here for details and registration. Feeling alone? Join for time together in loving community.
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If you’re like most people, you define your everyday experience by your problems.
What is wrong? What isn’t going right? What if all these bad outcomes I’m thinking about actually happen? Why me? Why can’t I just be happy?
These worst case scenarios and comments on your personal inadequacies are all thoughts that appear in your mind. If you’re identified with these thoughts, if you take what they tell you as absolute fact and think they accurately describe you and your life, then you’ll never know the peace of your true nature.
Simply said, you won’t find peace and happiness in your mind—ever. Can you feel the power in that statement?
But lose interest in the content of your thinking, and where are you? Who are you? You’re right here, undefined by thought, awake in the luminosity of present moment experience and one with life.
It takes no time at all to leave the limitations of the mind. You don’t have to wait for your thoughts to stop or for bliss to appear. You don’t need special knowledge or the right method.
You only need to lose interest in what your thoughts are telling you. Don’t give any attention to the commentary, judgment, and mental blabbering.
- Then open to your senses. Without labeling anything, just feel, see, hear, smell, and touch;
- Look from behind your eyes, prior to your brain, and be the seeing itself—with so much freshness;
- Forget words altogether, and directly experience what’s here beyond memory. No time, no space;
- Be the open field of perception that endlessly includes everything with no resistance or separation.
By believing your thoughts, you’ve simply overlooked a fundamental truth that is always here, waiting for your infinitely kind attention.
In any moment, you can go beyond the mind and experience the light that shines through everything. You realize expansion, pure openness, endless being, and the deepest acceptance.
You become aware of the sacred nature of everything.
Realizing this, your “Oh, no!” and negative drama—fueled by thoughts and emotions—become humility, gratitude, and the ease of receiving of things just as they are.
Practice going to the space outside of your thoughts, and you'll discover that familiar ideas about yourself don’t exist here.
There’s no “you” who gets hurt or takes things personally. No one to worry about what might happen in the future. No problems.
You're empty of fear-based, thought-based patterns and available to oceans of ease and well being.
It’s simple…silent…holy…and boundlessly peaceful…
Much love,
Gail
Note: Our next online gathering is this coming Tuesday, December 7, from 9-10:30am Pacific, starting at noon Eastern, 5pm UK, 6pm CET. You are most welcome just as you are with your fears, shame, stuckness, confusion... Come for supportive teachings, and loving community. Please click here for details
and registration. A recording will be sent out to all who register.
"Gail creates, embodies, and models a very safe space which is helping to create safety in myself on a day to day level." ~H. F.
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