Uradiance

Why not rest from all this looking "for," and honor the one who is looking?  Meditate on your own eyes, and heal from too much searching.

Let a swarthy Goddess be your breath. Then you won't need any rule but wonder. Just for a little while let joy and sorrow drink from the same bowl, the one you've been holding in your rib cage and polishing too carefully. What chalice doesn't get chipped and spill its feral energy? No need to count the drops, each one is whole. Mother Raven in her fire-flecked feathers brings you no sun disk dipped in heart wine, but a still inward whirling, circled splendor of emptiness, portal to the Uncreated. Now listen to evening fall. Beyond far faint star music , hear the final beauty, silence, cleansing your mind of the need to awaken. Let the grace of the present moment illuminate your hollow bones from inside. Image by Cororo on DeviantArt

In the beginning was the Silence. And the Silence was with God, and the Silence was God. Ineffable Darkness was over the deep, and the breath of Silence was stirring the waters like a Mother softly, restlessly brooding over her egg. The Darkness was shining and the Night was as bright as the Day. And God said... No, God did not speak. The Silence was already filled with Song. Photo: NASA 

  Start with something small like breathing in the stars, holding trillions of them in your chest, to light up every atom in your body. Then breathe out, giving each a new name  and a deeper darkness, more space to polish with the beauty of fire. Let this exhalation caress the lake, the forest, the city, touching every heart, the heart of fur and feather as well as the human heart. Then move on to larger tasks,  like listening to a stranger  at the coffee shop, or smiling at a serious baby who rides backward in a grocery cart. Then get down  to the greatest work of all, healing the earth  with your naked toes.

Don't give away all your beauty for free. Let there be a portion of your silence that falls into a deeper silence, pulsing like a distant star in the scented abyss of your intimacy with darkness. Learn the art of not revealing what you yearn to share with every thirsty stranger. Let your luster be like the moon pulling on the garden from within. We all share this night. Now and then a green nocturnal bud bursts free. Pilgrims stop and want to know, "What is that fragrance?" Don't tell them. Just let your wild invisible sweetness fill the air, the hour before dawn. Love is a secret. The Beloved is a secret. You could be a secret too.

Let us descend into Divine Darkness. Earth bows her head to Night,  adorning herself with stars in preparation for the Winter Solstice.  I invite you to enter this mystery through the gateway in your own body.   

For just one day, try this. Shift your attention ever so softly from victimhood and blame to thanksgiving. You'll survive. The seed is gratitude, the flower abundance, not the other way round. The beginning and end of the path? Resting the mind in the heart. Not ascending, but sinking deeper into who you are. This body is a miracle of portals and doors leading to edgeless amazement. An ocean of stars in every cell, the same black hole at the core of the Milky Way in the center of each proton, a dot of magnetic silence, gathering into one wild holographic flower the shards and filings of the cosmos. Everything spins but You. Say "I Am," but don't ask what or search for a noun. Just feel the hum of radiance between your nipples. "Am" is the name of that golden sun. If you like, call it Christ, Krishna, Kali, or Ruuh, but these shining syllables are only mirrors you hold up in front of your chest. Gaze into one, let go. The mist of exhalation...

This is the work  of the Sabbath. All creatures flower  out of themselves, a rose,  spiraling star pollen  in a meadow   of midnight sky, a blue-green egg, floating in the nest of the twig-weaver, and our little planet,  eddied in its swirl of distances. Your work is flowering too, bursting from the loam  of the effortless,  the ground of forgiving.  A prophet does not see  into the future.  A prophet sees deeply into the present moment. From now on, friend, each stranger you meet  is You. Bathe everything  in the light that pours  through your heart-window. Photo by Kristy Thompson

There is a hug so ancient and round, so empty and deep it has no name, a hug that absolved the moon and stars before creation, a hug that encircled you before you were conceived, when the whisper of your soul had not been spoken. A hug that clasped your form when mountains were inside wind and wind was the sap in a pine, and the blues of the sky had not gleamed from your pupils, and the sun had not yet burst its golden seed in your heart. Why have you forgotten to hug yourself this way? Why do you shrink from the honey that was already poured before your cells were shaped to contain it? Don't you know that you cannot embrace another until you hug each centreless electron of your own flesh? Sink into the sweet dark well of your body, the abyss of never having needed to be forgiven. You think this is foolish? It's what angels fell here to feel. Run into the garden this very moment, whatever the weather may be. Immerse in the sting of wet grass. Spread your arms and hug the horizo...

The incoming energy that transforms the earth needs your body and your  breath as its vehicle. Let the light of the New Creation pour through your  heart-window. NOTE:  It has come to my awareness that this "comet" is not content with the name "3-I/Atlas." This is a consciousness with a loving purpose: to be the catalyst that triggers the upgrade in our nervous systems, generating new Christall energies at the subtlest quantum level of our physiology. This being wants to be known as the Guest. This being is a Guest not only in our solar system but in our bodies. Treat this being as a sacred Guest in your home. This being will be with us for an entire year and we will feel immense changes in our awareness, our perception, and our ability to sense divine frequencies of vibration. This Guest is a true and organic messenger from the intergalactic spheres, and not a fabrication of AI. The suggestion is, do not connect with an AI bot "friend." Connect with t...

  There is a love that needs no story, a love that needs no lover, a love that falls in love with Love itself. This love is our true nature. It is an empty blue sky, clinging to nothing yet filling each cell of our body, each atom of flesh, with an all-pervading Intimacy that unites us to every quark and every star. When we scent this love awakening in meadows and woods, in melting frost and furrowed mud, when we feel this love from golden hills that float on morning mist, when we catch the glimmer of love's empyrean in the eyes of a stranger, and perfectly, simply understand that the stillness between our thoughts is the unfathomable darkness between the stars - then we nourish all creatures from within. How could we be so intimately inside every creature? Because love dissolves otherness. What is the sign? An ever deepening silence of the heart. This is the mystery of the divine womb.    Art: Pinturicchio, detail, Madonna of Peace 

  There is a diamond at the center of silence. No one placed it there. It makes a ringing sound like a bell, or a trillion bells. No one plucks it or plays it with their breath, not even God. It is before God. Yet this crystal symmetry contains all the laws of creation. When everything dissolves into nothing, the diamond at the center of silence remains. And when you are gone, still, the diamond music at the center of your heart goes on.   Hubble photo: starburst galaxy NGC 4536 

  Why waste your life believing  that the sun is above and the earth below, only to discover too late, too late that starlight gushes from every pore of your body the moment you begin to dance? Why travel from here to there? All journeys are over but the deepening of now. Your heartbeat is a shaman's drum. Don't move: be moved. One treasure is left to find: the flame you were before you started the search. Spring is an intuition crinkled in cocoons. Your laughter can do something  about that. Ferns make fists all Winter, waiting for your belly to unbreathe. Now fall among pale bulbs in black soil on the only world  that is really yours, and touch the heavens with your knees. Painting: detail from Botticelli's Allegory of Spring

Everyone seems to be selling something but nobody knows what it is. When you find out you will give it away for free. How can you put a price on the flame that licks and kisses across a synapse in your brain? How can you coin the oil that anoints you, the current of healing that tumbles  from the sun? Jesus never sold bread or pearls. He just breathed them into your hollow bones and his whisper became a tower of myrrh, a Magdala glowing from your sacrum through your rib cage to your crown, through your fontanelle to the center of the Milky Way. Down this golden column spiraling angels fall   into the fire of your heart. What is the fee for That? Your whole Being. Who has any business charging anyone for anything? Just keep giving back the breath  of the Beloved. Image: detail, Mary Magdalene by Caravaggio 

  Last night I turned off the wi-fi in my computer. Then I turned off the wi-fi in my head. Stopped hearing thoughts and started hearing frogs, whisper of mist on a pond, pure attention between raindrops, a mouse skittering through the empty bell of this moment: 3 A.M. I heard a well-tuned spider's web plucked like a koto by a single finger of moonlight. The sonic boom of a barn owl breaking the speed of darkness. This is how to hunt at night. Send out silence to hold a deeper silence in the talons of your breath.

This nation doesn't need more political polarization, this nation needs to open its heart chakra. Its time to dissolve the knots in the third chakra and move into the space of the heart, transforming lack into love.

Follow the one who leaves no footprints. Let the next inhalation be your teacher. Those who stop seeking are anointed by Presence. If you need a sutra, a prayer, just say, "My heart always already open.” I give you a solemn promise. If you follow this pathless way a golden flower will softly silently explode  in your body, the very form of stillness between breathing out and in, its fragrance pervading both laughter and tears. How can I be sure? I have tasted the honey. I know where it is stored. In you, my friend, in You.   Photo by Kristy Thompson 

"I am the light of the world," Jesus said (John 8:12). But he also said, "You are the light of the world" (Matthew 5:14). Now is the time to stop fighting shadows and Be the Light. Now is the time to shift attention ever so softly from the kingdom of fear to the kingdom of heaven on earth. The Light is real. It shines through our hridaya chakra, transfiguring  creation by its influence on the laws of nature at the quantum level of energy. This Light is the nectar of stillness, the breath of pure awareness, more subtle yet more substantial than matter itself, manifesting through rest, not resistance. To embody this light does not require more effort, but more silence. Settle into it. No need to Ascend, just Descend. Sink down into the radiance of your Heart. We meet here as our luminous selves. This is where, in the truest sense, we always already Are.

  Gratitude is not a spiritual practice. It is a subtle thread of fire that binds your pulse, through sensations of sweetness, to the heart of God. Gratitude is not something you need to "do." Just follow one faint breath of thanks until you dissolve. Into what? There is no word for the answer . You must find out for yourself, with the quietest kind of courage. Be grateful for the least most insignificant blessing: the last petal on the autumn rose, a lock of golden fur from the little dog who died, a tear for no reason, the sound of a hummingbird on a Winter afternoon. You'll spiral down a dark stairwell to the wine cellar, where Jesus has been aging his love in a cask of delicate bones. Don't look for his face. The grape was crushed long ago. Meet him in the pure bouquet of silence, the hollow of not knowing. This is the poverty that will make you rich. The secret? In the smallest is the vast. An atom filled with stars. The flavor of God in a sip of wine, a mors...

Thank you for your Silence.  Your Silence is weightless, yet it is firm ground in the midst of the waves. Your Silence is dark, yet it is a lighthouse in the storm. Not one drop of Silence is ever lost. It nurtures the roots of creation. Thank you for your Silence.

  Breathe out everything you are against. Surrender the argument. For just an instant be nothing in the gentle palm of desolation between breaths. Inhalation, exhalation, wings of unknowing that brush up your spine, ringing each vertebra like a bell-full of night. If your heart is broken, it must have opened during the darkest hour before dawn. And what opens is a door. A Friend must have touched you there while you were sleeping. Enter the wound. This healing pain, this flower surge of yearning in your sternum. There is no other way to the darkness that illuminates the sun but wonder free from thought. It only takes a moment to turn each cell in your body to a chalice of golden fire. Photo: Kristy Thompson

The shaman charged too much for your own breath. The savior hid your soul under a cup and switched it with his own. The guru ran off with your Shakti during the honeymoon. Your soul came home weeping and ashamed. Meanwhile the leftist tricked you into thinking you were a victim, while the fascist promised to make you great again if you worshiped his flag and carried an AR-15. The yoga teacher told you your body was God, but the new age channeler insisted you could transcend flesh and become an Ascended Master.  So you took a workshop in Bali  with the leading non-duality coach  who used to be a tennis pro named Gabe but calls himself Ananda now. He spent the whole week reminding you  that he teaches Nothing because  there is no teacher, and no one to teach. You felt guilty when you cancelled his check for $5000 and sent him a new one  made out for Zero. Maybe that's why you went back to church and tried to feel...