Winter Solstice
You passed away on the Winter Solstice, as the world was at its darkest – you always did fear the dark. Your hands tremored too.
Contents — 4 chapters
Awakening
Tremors. The feeling of electricity and heat constantly pulsing.
From the age of 4 feelings and experiences of unity in diversity. Hard to tell the difference in the I and I.
Father, the beatings and the shouting, “Control yourself! Put out your hand.” – WHACK- “I am sorry Father I can’t stop.”
Cruelty, Pain, and Suffering – It will make you strong!
Years spent – must be stronger, better, earn more, BE MORE.
You passed away on the Winter Solstice, as the world was at its darkest – you always did fear the dark. Your hands tremored too.
More than forty years later and the things I have seen and done… some good, many bad – It is hard to love, it is hard to care.
Crescendo
We were wrong, what we saw as weakness, as failure – it was a gift. Neurotransmitters, hormones, tension, electricity all pointing at times to the state of Unity.
When you passed it was the darkest, but also the turn to the first light, a light which is brightest for its brief absence.
I hope the light has carried you on to the best possible outcome. I forgive, I love, I try to be better.
Dénouement
For all this reaches, through the grace of synchronicity and serendipity – know that it wasn’t your fault, you are good, you are free – even if only in your mind, heart, and belly. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow – only NOW!
Here everything shines with a newness that never fades – a place where anything is possible and you just have to realize that in the end, We are all One and act accordingly.
Preserve the essential, the beautiful, the true, and the good – remember who you really are.
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TAGS: Consciousness; Meditation; Spiritual Awakening
CATEGORIES: Healing; Philosophy
The roots of this work — where its teaching comes from
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
“Now that which is that subtle essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Khandogya-Upanishad VI.8.7 ('Tat tvam asi') — trans. F. Max Muller, SBE Vol. 1 (1879)
“Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis).”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Book I (Samadhi Pada), aphorism 2, trans. Swami Vivekananda (1896)