Know That You Are Loved

[Sunlight81]

Afraid and empty, life is a lot of work. Loving and giving, life is a beautiful journey. How do we make the shift?

Imagine the running man, always running away from what he does not want and always running toward what he does want. If he stops running, that which he wants gets away from him and that which he fears catches up to him.

The stress eventually kills him and he dies, unsatisfied and afraid.

Fear cannot be satisfied.

It can be filled, like a vacuum, which is nothing or the lack of something.

What was the running man running for?

To satisfy his emptiness.

Nothing outside of him could fill his inner emptiness.

What he needed was love.

Somewhere he had gotten the idea that he was unlovable.

He ran to prove he was lovable.


What needs no proof cannot be proven.


“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46.10

Quit running.

The knowledge of God is simply the awareness of love.

You are love.

All of creation supports you.

Feel the earth pushing back against your feet.

Feel the chair pushing back against your rear.

Feel the air pressing against your skin.

Forget not, that the earth longs to tickle your feet and the wind longs to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

You have the best reason in the world for being sad.

You have forgotten just how loved you are.

Here’s a new word “lovedness.”

When we remember our “lovedness” all of our problems become challenges.

My only real problem is that my behavior does not always reflect my “lovedness.”

I haven’t mastered it, yet.

All this talk about God and love makes me a mystic.

Any other mystics out there?

[citychick]

mystic - someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension.


I guess I am, one among many.

Another great post Sunlight. Thanks.

[stone]

I am thinking along the same lines lately Sunny, when I can drop my ego I feel a sort of universal conciousness, it could be called god.

[stone]

“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46.10

Be still and know you are god.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

~Rumi
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"When you look through the eyes of the beloved, all you see is the beloved."
~Rumi.

We are the universe made concious looking at itself.

[Ann]

Fear cannot be satisfied.

I found the antidote to fear was faith. Faith in that which I could not see, or prove, or touch, faith in what the universe has always shown us...life is exactly as it should be and there is a reason we are not meant to understand.

So call me a mystic too, who knows in my heart that which my mind cannot comprehend.

P.S. Thanks for the Rumi, Stone, he's one of my favourites.

[Sunlight81]

Part of me was not born and will not die.
Part of me remembers.

Part of me moves me to share it with you.

FOR ME:

"melts" is right, "perishes" is not except for my fear based ego

My antidote to fear is not faith, it's acceptance.

I put my fears on paper: I was afraid of dying, ugly, broke and alone.

I looked at each one.

I wasn't afraid to meet my maker, so that wasn't it.

What's wrong with being ugly? It's harder to find someone to love you.

What's wrong with being broke? See #2.

What's wrong with be alone? See #2.

All my fear was based on not being able to love myself.

It has not been easy. Blood, Sweat and Tears (and years..


None of us gets out of this alive.

The question is not; is there life after death but is there life before death.

When I realize that having "seemingly" bad things happen to me has nothing to do with me or my lovability-I am free.

When I do the 3rd step and make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as understand (or don't understand) God, my will is me and my life is everything that happens to me. She and I are now on the same side.

I have a passion for this stuff and it shows but if I come off as arrogant, I apologize, I'm working on it.

If I ever figure out how to humbly share this stuff, I will be dangerous.

[stone]

When I read 'melts and perishes' I think he means the ego Sunny, that is my interpretation anyway. The ego melts and perishes leaving just god in 'the house'.

Similar to the AA program and god conciousness.

If I ever figure out how to humbly share this stuff, I will be dangerous.

Yep, that sounds arrogant.

[citychick]

Sunlight

I have a passion for this stuff and it shows

Your passion is appreciated Sunlight

[Sunlight81]

The historic mystics had a romantic relationship with life.
Think about romance, honestly for me, it's a feeling of I love the way I feel about myself when I am with you.

I was sitting on a closed life guard station early in the morning at the beach in Carpenteria one winter. It's a huge beach and it was almost deserted. As I enjoyed the sun and the sand and the water and the breeze and the birds, the thought came to me that- This was my beach, my sun, my water, my breeze, my birds. It was immediately followed by the thought- And you belong to them. I've been recycling ever since.

I have never had an actual experience of evil. I have been around some very fearful, tortured, twisted energy but it did not feel evil. Some people I trust say they have felt it and I believe them.
I met the devil in a dream one night, he was huge and nasty. My old catechism training kicked in and I said, I rebuke you in the name of Christ. He laughed at me and said, Yah, that's what they all say. I did not hate him and I was not afraid. It occured to me that even if he squished me like a bug, as long as I had love in my heart, he would not have won.

[Sunlight81]

Most people know Rumi and Gibran were Sufi's.

Some people know Whirling Dervishes are Sufi's.

Most people don't know Sufi's are Moslems.

How's that for universal spirituality?