Not Lost

   

You are not lost. I am not lost. We are right here. Each of us exactly where we need to be in order to wake up. Here, in the stillpoint at the center of chaos. Or did you want to go back to sleep for a hundred more lifetimes? No, here is the only place where awakening happens. Here is the "holy place" which Jesus spoke of.* Here is the centerpoint of the Cross where all the opposites converge - heaven and hell, pain and beauty, male and female, past and future. You cannot awaken at a Yoga retreat on a tropical island, or on a seventh dimensional world with the ascended masters, because that is not Where You Are Right Now. And you cannot understand this chaos with your intellect, your politics, your endless conspiracy theories. "Figuring it out" is not why you were born on this planet of opposites. You were born to practice a much deeper alchemy: to discover that this confusion is not who You are. Deeply truly witnessing the chaos releases you from mental self-talk, and frees you to sink into the ocean of your Heart. Repose in Hridaya, the heart center, and open your Single Eye.** Act without re-acting. Radiate the splendor of the sun, the beauty of the moon. Breathe God. Stand in the holy place and know your true Self. You are the glory of the Friend who outshines the darkness of the world. Isn't it time to stop looking FOR this place, and start looking FROM this place?

*"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place." (Mat 24:15, KJV)

** "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." (Matthew 6:22, KJV)

Water color by my friend, the ever luminous Marney Ward