The learning never ends

What can I say about all the living examples of love that have crept or barged their way into my life?  And all of those examples of " love lite" (like Mr. Windbag) that connect me to my well of compassion.  There is nothing like the struggle to find the positive in a moment that loosens the serious grip we have on our particular version of reality. And every so often, an outright gift of a person makes their way into one's real world. For me, it is a person who takes time to say or do something nice for me. Who takes the time to smile, or call, or write, or see me--ala Avatar. How often do we really see a person--the framework that their personality is constructed around? Inside their latest hairdo (or lack of hair), their posturing or lack thereof, their fashion sense or ......

Many of us hide our more tender loving sensitive content as a protective measure. The concept of protection has its implications obvious or not. Otherness. All of the new-agers and spiritualists talk about our unity--our implicit oneness. I talk about it. It is hard to wrap your head around this fact/idea isn't it? Because there is me in my little life with my curly hair and affinity for poetry and there is you and you and you with your unique physical looks and qualities and affinities. How are we all one?

A really lovely little excerpt from a channeling session with Carla Rueckert and the Principle of Q'uo* gives a little primer on our connectedness:

Imagine that you, spirit just born, sprung from the Creator’s fertile love, sailed through many, many universes and saw many, many beautiful stars, constellations, vibrations of being-ness and through many, many densities, many, many experiences you moved that infant soul until there was a choice, a preference, a bias. This star, this constellation, this planet. And one day you were water, or earth, or rock, or rain, or wind, or sand. And your incarnations had begun. Was this unity then forgotten? Not in the deep mind. This essential unity remains that truth which for all, moving through the densities, cannot be denied, for it is felt within as a heart’s truth. It is not that you are like others—rather, you are all that there is. This is your foundation. This is that plinth upon which you build that creation which turns stone to statue and form to life. This is the rock upon which you may stand. You are one.

Our unity is that basic--on the particulate level and beyond, we all share the stuff of creation. It is laughable, then, that we battle and profile each other based on the stuff of our physicality--on our created and developed personalities. Laughable and the cause of all of our problems. So how do we change our perceptions? By recognizing the gift of "other" people in our lives--the joyous reflection of that shared stuff we are. If you find someone lovely and admirable go ahead and claim your connection! That awesome woman or man is indeed a part of you, for you are admiring those same admirable traits innate within yourself--dormant, slightly hidden, or already actualized.

I will share another gift with you--one that arrived in paperback from the keeper of all-- Amazon;-} This is a Bob Hicok poem from his newest collection called Words for Empty and Words for Full:

See Side

 Mind as wave: whoosh. As wet. As yet

thinking needs a dress to wear, what better look

than sea green or sea foam, within

never gets out without without, how cool

is that, that the sealed self's 

not an option, hence the object of my affection's

conception. As in, I notice you 

on your boogie board, therefore I exist 

to see you're bad at balance, a savant

of oops. The fall's all we've perfected,

reaching for the apple with the words of our hands,

the yums, the Henny Pennys at our disposal.

I come onely, you two. Boo hoo. Group hug, the all 

of us, this wave charging hard, foaming 

at the mouth, as if to slather with embrace.

Thanks to Bob Hicok for his lovely squirming, phrase-laden sensibility.

*The Principle of Q'uo is a group of entities from the Confederation of Planets, consisting of those of Ra, Latwii, and Hatonn representing wisdom from the 4th-6th densities.