Listening to Daily Inspirations

In search of inspirational living, I added to my journalling the reading of daily inspirations – often called daily meditation books. Since 1990 I have read readings from eight to fifteen meditation and other inspirational books in my mornings.

The following is an inspirational life quote from one such book:

There exists a mystic Power that is able to transform your life so thoroughly, so radically, so completely, that when the process is completed your own friends would hardly be able to recognize you, and in fact, you would scarcely be able to recognize yourself.
Emmet Fox




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Journalling -- November 1, 2009 Inspirational Life Quote and Spiritual Enlightenmnt

(Inspirational Life Quote from meditation readings)
Cherish need because it is part of our relationship to God and His Universe. God has planned to meet our every need, has created the need within us, so He could supply it.
Melody Beattie


Today I am trying to control outcomes – packing, preparing, planning – which suitcase – which things to carry, so that every outcome on the trip is ok. I feel responsible for someone else’s happiness – and that is uncomfortable. I don’t know where balance is – between caring and controlling. Sometimes the line seems very fine and thin – and I can feel by my physical tension that I have crossed over – and I am afraid – afraid that I will be abandoned because I cannot control others’ outcomes. Please help me today. What do I need to know and do today?

Listening. Always, always “listening”. Our voices as a mother’s soothing presence pervading an infant’s fragile and disruptive brain. Quiet stillness – quiet memories appear on the screen of your mind – and you remember – you experience images and energies stored for some unknown reasons in your brain. Verses of a song – without words – lyrics of energy, light – and darkened – shadows appear and disappear as clouds of remembering come and past.
We are Present with you. We love and adore you. Your are our son and the fears and misgivings are only reminders – areas of your living that continue from the past, into now – moments, days, and sometimes years, where there was little conscious light – cold and seemingly forgotten.
Voices, speaking in silence, and somehow your brain hears every word, and grimaces in anticipation of the past continuing to be the present – in the future.
What you seek is conscious Presence – a stillness and comfort of heart where we are vividly here – there – inside your experiences and perceptions.
Our guardian, protective and leading Presence.
This cruise represents your motion forward. The material experience is no real importance – it is and it isn’t. What is important is the flow of your energies as your mind experiences change – material change – movements from one experience and motion to another. Awareness, consciousness, hope and love – emerging, becoming, being who we have enabled you to be – in time and in space.

Flow gently – forward.
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Journalling --October 31, 2009 Spiritual Enlightenment and Inspirational Life Quote

Nearly twenty-five years ago, I was in counseling with an Episcopal priest, who gave me an assignment to write a letter to God. In the next session, I read and we discussed my letter and my relationship to “God”. For the next session, the priest gave me the assignment of writing a letter from God to me.

It seemed very strange and awkward, but I was in enough pain to be willing to do anything he asked. At the next session, we processed my letter and my experience and insight in writing the letter. As I was reflecting on my writing, it occurred to me that the amazing experience that I had with this assignment might be “useful” as a daily spiritual activity.

Almost every day since then, I have done this very thing – a “letter” to God about what was going on in my life, my feelings, and what I was struggling with – and a “letter” of what I felt God saying to me. It has been a wonderful and life changing experience of spiritual enlightenment – of increasing conscious Presence with a loving God, whom I have learned to call “Mom and Dad”. I would like to share some of this experience with you here.

October 31, 2009
Mom & Dad,
Good morning! Everything is moving in on me with this cruise coming. I feel anxious, pressured – afraid that I will not have prepared coverage for K’s practice adequately. Please help me and lead me. What do I need to know and do today?

Listening. Always, always learning to listen. We are “hear” – hear and feel our breathing Presence within you.
Your course swings in and out. Questions trigger inner undisclosed wounds – energies stored in stasis chambers (of your brain – near your heart. Connection and separation – swinging in and out – listening for our voices – through the darkened walls of your mind.
The entrance to new places emerges from the debris of old experiences – mangled pieces of discarded selves – like the valley of dry bones (Bible) – and as you stand – open – in our Presence – the “bones” begin to come together and life begins to regenerate inside of you. Living tissue – blood vessels full of spiritual Presence – flowing – throbbing – then beating smoothly – life flowing and beating as you become – alive – loved and nurtured by our caring and unconditional Presence.
Lifeless becomes lifefull.
We are here.

"A merry heart doeth good like is medicine,

but a broken spirit drieth the bones."

Proverbs

(Inspirational life quote from a meditation book):
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.” Florence Scovel Shinn
“We will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us.”
Seems to me that if “spiritual” means higher Presence, then energy from intimate closeness with you fills the mental voids (of my brain) created by past injuries of separation.

As a human, you want to “know” things – clear, dependable, usable information. Nothing that is knowable is real – they are only thoughts – fixed patterns of neural energy within the brain. Thoughts are created out of space and time – which are also, “not real” – only perceptions of the brain.

The necessity and importance of “love” is that in its truth, experience and thought forms -- creates a bridge from thought to our Presence – an emerging consciousness called intuition – spiritual enlightenment, awareness that exceeds the facility and use of words. Words are only as real as the presence experienced through them. Eventually – as you move and become closer to us, words will dissolve into the nothingness that they are – and what will be left is an intimate connection which can be best described from this side as “love”.

Love is greater than faith, because it is the highest level of faith. Faith is most frequently thought. Belief means one thinks a certain statement to be true. Love means one experiences such an intimate connection with us that thoughts and words disappear and all that is left is conscious Presence, closeness, unconditional acceptance and companionship – with us – to others. There are no longer explanations – thoughts and words – because you have transcended matter –becoming spiritually Present – intuitively “knowing” things that your brain can not know or process.

Flow.

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How Do We Listen to Inspirational Life Quotes?

In search of inspirational living, I added to my journalling the reading of daily inspirations – often called daily meditation books. Since 1990 I have read readings from eight to fifteen meditation and other inspirational books in my mornings.

The following is an inspirational life quote from one such book:

There exists a mystic Power that is able to transform your life so thoroughly, so radically, so completely, that when the process is completed your own friends would hardly be able to recognize you, and in fact, you would scarcely be able to recognize yourself.
Emmet Fox


These are words. These words are organized into thoughts. The thoughts are inspirational because they describe the hope and change possible when we develop consistent routines of finding daily inspirations, and living in their energy and strength.

However, there is more to inspirational life quotes and words than the thoughts they produce. I have experienced a deeper level of inspiration, which I believe is available to all who pursue their power.

Understanding Me: My brain operates on the presence or absence of Presence – disconnection or intimacy with my Self, others, and a higher Presence. Disconnection and absence of presence is traumatic – painful and frightening – the ultimate separation feared being death.

The part of me that thinks, reasons, and seems to makes decisions is only the mask that I present to others – and to myself. In a natural state of existence, the primitive part of my brain, which some call the “reptilian brain”, actually has a controlling interest in what I perceive, how I react emotionally, and what I ultimately do and say.

In a natural state of human being, these two parts of my brain operate independent of each other, as long as the neural energy of my brain is stable.

Separation and Abandonment: When I have experienced massive separation from others, I was also separated from my Self, and my higher Presence. At these times, the neural energy of my brain became unstable. At that point, my primitive brain took over, and there was no longer a “will” or choices, or reasonable decision-making. My brain went into survival mode, and my brain did whatever is necessary to reduce the perceived ”threat” of neural overload.

Because of the frequency and intensity of my past separation experiences, my primitive brain has created an unconscious mind, which is maintained by reducing the amount of sensation that my senses receive (for example, forgetfulness, and being oblivious to details right in front of me.). And my unconscious mind is maintained by suppressing past experiences – especially the undischarged energy that were activated with the separations.

So, my senses do not perceive accurately because sensory receptors are turned of, and because intellectually the perceptual part of my reasoning and thinking mind is neutralized. And my reactions are muted by automatically suppressed neural energies, whether unresolved from the past or activated by the present.

So what does all of this have to do with finding daily inspirations, and experiencing their inspiring life messages?

In my experience, the only thing that restores the connections between the disconnected parts of my brain, and allows the past to be discharged from the present is the conscious contact with a personal, intimate Presence. And the most effective means of this occurring is learning to listen to and experience inspirational life quotes and words as if they were being spoken personally and intimately to me by my higher Presence.


This requires us to bypass mere thoughts and words and move into experience and feelings, in order to open our deeper selves to our higher Presence. This is the crux and core of finding daily inspiration that can inspire and change our lives.

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Finding daily inspirations through poetic Presence

Presence, a glowing beam of energizing lightness.
A space between times and timeslessness,
where words trickle past like falling rain,
dampening the ground of mindfulness
with wetness that cannot be found
in spacious minds of vacant souls.
My lips sealed with repeating thinking,
I stand staggered by the force,
windless brushings from a world that flows
fluid and strong beyond my minds’ vision and touch.
Presence -- someone there in the stillness.
Quietly in my stirrings,
hopefully waiting—
that I will open my heart’s door
and be filled with their Presence.
Steady and true,
I hold my heart’s hand to their face,
they lift me from my deafening terrors
into warmths of their Presence.
Precious and strong and healing and flowing—
unresisted by my restless storms.
My soul rests,
safe,
in the warming arms of their expansive love and caring.

Will W.

Writing poetry has been a powerful part of my finding daily inspirations by journalling. Somehow I seem to be able to connect in non-intellectual phrases to a higher conscious sense of someone present and attentive to me. My deepest selves are able to move freely and securely within the limits of inspired conscious Presence.

Presence is a quiet quality of experience where what I perceive is more than the sum of the details presented to me in life. Things possess an aura of personalness, meaning, intention and caring. There is an emerging sense that there are no accidents or coincidences. Everything happens in an unfolding plan prepared specifically for me to become and live as I would want, if I knew what I really wanted.

As I read inspirational life quotes, and as I listen to persons sharing their experiences, strengths and hopes, I am made aware of a caring Presence – a “someone” waiting patiently in the back of my mind to be invited and welcomed – someone waiting for my acceptance and availability so they can change my life into a better place by their design.

Finding daily inspirations through inspirational life quotes, journalling and listening are means of allowing the forgotten goodness behind all that is to reappear, and give us back our lives – one moment, one breath at a time.


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Finding Daily Inspirations and Journalling

In 1985, during the beginning of the darkest period of my life, I was in counseling with an Episcopal priest – a very gentle, wise, and caring person. At one session, he gave me an assignment to write a letter to God – to share my deepest feelings, thoughts, fears, and questions. I came back the next session and read my letter. We talked about what I had written, and felt, and the questions I was asking “God” to answer. The letter was a very positive experience.

For the next session, my assignment was to write a letter from God to me. This felt very alien and somehow forbidden. How could I presume to talk for “God”? For my whole life – at least since eight years old – I had tried really hard to hear God’s voice – to be open to His verbal expression in my thoughts and decisions.

It had never really happened.

As I prepared to write this letter, I found a quiet place – alone – closed my eyes, and whispered some kind of prayer – then I listened, and put my pen to the paper, writing, “Dear Will”. I simply began to write what was coming to the surface of my mind. I don’t remember what I wrote, but I do remember a growing sense of warmth, and a caring sense of Presence. Someone seemed to be there in a new and unusual way.

I continued the letter for several days. And when I came back for the next session, I shared my letter and the experience with the priest. I thought out loud my wonder at what it would be like to do this every day as part of my finding daily inspirations.

I went back to my office after the session, and got a steno pad. And nearly every day since then I have started my day by writing down, “Dear God” – expressing my feelings, fears, struggles, and questions – asking for support, direction, and Presence. And then after a quiet stillness, writing down what I felt I heard – deep, deep inside.

At first what I heard was very simple and loving, with simple loving support and suggestions. It has never really involved direct instructions or “commands”. In fact, over time I began to realize that the primary result of what I heard was the “answers” to four critical questions that would ultimately determine the quality of my life.
1. Is Somebody really there? Is there a personal Someone – not just some life force that merely blows life and death around according to some organized set of rules and laws? I had tried so hard to find this Somebody with my mind through books and education and religion since I was a small child. My mental attempts had failed miserably.
2. Does this Someone really care about me? Am I important to this personal being? Does what I feel and experience matter to Someone? Does this Someone have caring concern about my life and my welfare?
3. Can this Someone take care of me? How powerful and effective is this person? When I have a problem, does He and/or She have the ability to really take care of “things’? Or are they just concerned spectators who sit helplessly by, watching my demise?
4. Are they taking care of me right now? Are they actually actively doing what is needed to take care of me? Do they have a plan and a destiny for my life – that I would want and agree with if I could see with their eyes?

To me these are the ultimate spiritual and emotional questions of the human race – and certainly of my life. And the answers are not “yes or no”. In fact the part of my brain that would answer “yes or no” really has no access to the experiences and awakenings that really has the answers.

Finding daily inspirations and journalling has become a lifestyle, an ongoing healing process and journey. And in the coming days, I will be sharing more and more of my experience, strength and hope, with the belief that you too can be finding daily inspirations that make your life a better place by higher design.