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Be Still

This is from Steve Goodier - all I have to say at the moment, life has its way of enveloping us and I need myself be still a bit longer, a little more of that after Steve. :^)

BE STILL

I have noticed that the best way for me to get a few minutes of
solitude at the end of the day is to start washing the dishes! And a
few minutes of solitude is something I need frequently. A time to be
alone. A time to reflect.

I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness.
Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive - even to come alive.
Not loneliness.

German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested and
eventually hanged for opposing Hitler. While in prison, he wrote
letters to his fiancée. The last letter she received was dated
Christmas 1944. Speaking of the war that separated them, Bonhoeffer
wrote this:

“These will be quiet days in our homes, but I have had the
experience over and over again that the quieter it is around me,
the clearer do I feel a connection to you. It is as though in
solitude the soul develops senses which we hardly know in everyday
life. Therefore I have not felt lonely or abandoned for one
moment.”

I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude
are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the
pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be
still.

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted, ” says Hans
Margolius. “Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”

So I’ll find time to … be still.

– Steve Goodier

From Book 1, page 101:

Neale asks God if He could explain what God means by saying, “Passion is the love of turning being into action”?

God responds: “Beingness is the highest state of existence. It is the pure essence. It the “now-not now,” the “all-not all,” the “always - never” aspect of God.
Pure being is pure God-ing.
Yet it has never been enough for us to simply be.
We have always yearned to experience What We Are - and that requires a whole other aspect of Divinity, called doing.
Let us say that you are, at the core of your wonderful Self, that aspect of divinity called love. (This is, by the way, the Truth of you.)
Now it is one to be love - and quite another thing to do something loving. The soul longs todosomething about what it is, in order that it might know itself in its own experience. So it will seek to realize its highest idea through action.
This urge to do this is called passion. Kill passion and you kill God. Passion is God wanting to say “hi.”
But, you see, once God (or God-in-you) does that loving thing, God has realized itself, and needs nothing more.
Man, on the other hand, often feels he needs a return on his investment. If we’re going to love somebody, fine, but we’d better get some love back. That sort of thing.
This is not passion. This is expectation.
This is the greatest source of man’s unhappiness. It is what separates man from God.
The renunciate seeks to end this separation through the experience some Eastern mystics have called samadhi. That is, oneness and union with God; a melding with and melting into divinity.
The renunciate therefore renounces results - but never, ever renounces passion. Indeed, the Master knows intuitively that passion is the path. It is the way to Self realization.
Even in earthly terms it can be fairly said that if you have a passion for nothing, you have no life at all.

Now then, do you see the similarity between these two seemingly disparate treatises? In a way, what I have been about is what Steve said, “I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.” And, in another way, I have been letting the fire of passion fill me. It is possible to do both at once. It has never been, will never be, enough for me to simply “be”. It was not at “home”, it is not here. I can be still and be filled with passion. I can do both without contradiction. Passion without action, is inert, not living, not being. But even when filled with the greatest desire to experience a thing, whatever that thing might be at any given moment, there needs be time to be still and know that I am God, or that part of Him, that lives in gene. Without that faith, life here can be very difficult, with it, nothing cannot be borne, experienced, loved for what it is. And what is that? Experiencing life in the realm of the flesh, the physical realm of relativity, what we came here to do, at least partially. To BE here, as well as to be here. It is how God can say as, He will later, there is no such as right or wrong. Because that is the truth. In the stillness within, we can know that.

I don’t mean meditation though some would call it that, giggle, particularly Eastern “masters” or followers of them who have brought that particular philosophy to the west, not purely, but with their own spin. I mean, listening to the stillness within, to the soft voice that lives there and holds the truth of you while you forget that truth and experience life here in the relative universe with all its bombast and with all its bombs. Even in the most difficult of times, it is possible to find peace within, it is then that we are least likely to think to do so however, because we think we ARE what we are doing and forget who we are being in the same moment. They cannot be separated, though eternally we try. There are those who think that wisdom comes only to those who sit in the lotus position on mountaintops and make pronouncements for others to follow. There are those who think wisdom comes only with living, with experience. And there are those who know the Truth, that we were born sufficient unto ourselves, incarnate and wailing as we enter this life. It is what we do with the passion we are born with that defines the experience we will have here. We’ll come back to this too - because, of course, the conditions that we are born into and the guardians we choose play a role as well, a role we’ll talk about in depth. There’s no entrance exam for this role as there is no final exam as we exit stage relativity, giggle. But there are no coincidences here either. So what, then, are we all on about? Discovery. Experience. Passion. And, always, though sometimes obliviously, love. More later, much love, :^) gene

If today brings even one choice your way
choose to be a bringer of the light :^) gene