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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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Child of the Dawn by Gautama Chopra
One of many masks, many faces. All different masks we wear, all different faces, but underneath we are the same being. Now that's real magic.
Space and time are illusions, my friend. The mind is a master magician. Loves to play tricks on us. Likes us to believe there's a limit to what we can dream, what we can do, I suppose.
Beyond this world of illusion, there is a dreamer who manifests the dream. Don't ask who you see, because you will only see disguises. Ask who is doing the seeing.
Parents cannot be with their children or watch them every moment to ensure that they grow into adults. It is the nature of life to grow --- to flourish and expand. it is the nature of plants to flourish if given the right conditions for their growth. I gave my plants what they needed, and trust Mother Nature to do the rest. She will support us when we have faith that she will.
If you remain still and cover your ears, you may even hear the sound of your own heart. But what is more important is to listen to its guidance. If we are always active, if we are always listening to the noise of the outside world, we forget that our heart will guide us if we only listen. We forget where the source of our creativity comes from --- stillness.
When we understand our place within nature's symphony, we can live in harmony with nature's song.
The Hermit means solitude from the activity of the material world, a period of silent reflection. If you do not find that which you seek within, then you will never find it without. The Hermit is the silent seeker. In solitude, the hermit finds multitudes, an infinity. Be prudent. There are impediments, even enemies.
The Emperor. The path of worldly power requires discipline. If followed properly, discipline results in mastery of whatever skill you seek.
The Devil represents the impulse to abandon our dreams and forget our true essence. Sometimes we exchange the mysterious and ambitious for the functional and pragmatic. That is the seduction of the devil. The devil tries to hold us back from the heights we are capable of reaching.
Th Chariot indicates a journey. A journey will often bring one full circle, back to the beginning. But just because one ends where one begins does not imply lack of movement. The movement takes place within. The chariot may test you by taking you through places of great confusion. Any major evolution captures the attention of evil. So beware.
The Sun card compliments your evolution. The Sun is about healing and light. The journey you are on is a journey of healing. Just as disciples go on a pilgrimage to seek their Gods, so, too, must the soul endeavor to find light. This is what the Sun card represents.
The Universe is a union, the unity of individual and universal purpose. When the individual self is in alignment with the universal self, success is the natural outcome of every action.
Listen to your heart, and you will know what to do. What you do depends on who you are. There is much wisdom in listening to your heart, and much joy in understanding your own identity.
Love is never wasted. Love always breeds love.
I once heard a wise man say that the best way to prepare for the future is to be completely attentive to the present --- to the choices we make in each moment. When we are conscious of the choices we make in each moment, the future takes care of itself and the journey becomes more enjoyable.
We are not living this moment if our attention is consumed by the future or the past. When we live in the future, we invite fear. When we live in the past, we invite sorrow. But when we live in the moment, we invite excitement, enthusiasm, and innocent wonder.
Darkness, child, is only another expression of light. Without one, we could not have the other. Just as darkness and light exist together, so do evil and goodness. If we refuse to acknowledge the shadows, how can we honour the light?
There are seeds of evil inside us, just as there are seeds of divinity. We have to accept both. What we call good or bad, beautiful or ugly, is merely a judgment. The moment we judge, we separate ourselves from a part of life and lose sight of the unity of all things. When we refuse to judge, our minds and hearts remain open to an infinite realm of possibilities.
We live in a world of opposites, a world of contrast between many forces. There will always be light and darkness, good and evil, pain and pleasure, chaos and order. Only when we accept the world as it is and embrace the rich diversity of experience will we know true happiness and freedom.
We call love by different names: mother, father, God... but we cannot forget where our true devotion must be. The self. The height of devotion is to have a passionate love for who you really are. Who you really are is iseperable from the force that exists within everything around you. Express love, then, at every moment to whatever is around you, and you shall become the beloved... you shall always feel loved.
Freedom and happiness come effortlessly to those who can reconcile the many contradictions of life: the divine and the diabolical, the sacred and the profane. When one can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both without getting stuck in either, then there is freedom.
When you begin to understand the world as an extension of your own self, of your own thoughts and feelings, then you will understand that you have the power to change it. Therein lies the key to true power.
Papa used to have a life that allowed him to walk with us, but now he has a new life. It is different. He will no longer walk with us. That life has ended.
Remember the songs we sang with papa? The ones we sang together?
Like the songs we sang in harmony, so, too, is a single life sung in harmony with all of life. You cannot hear papa singing, but his song continues. Only his voice cannot be heard.
Papa is not alive. But even though he has stopped singing with us, his song does not cease to be. Nature will give him another song to sing one day --- one that can be heard again in this world.
__________~*~SpRiNg * tAmZ~*~__________
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