still small voice

Nov 07 2019

Arrive and Know IT Again for the First Time

beyond the stuffed spurious schedules
past all devastating trauma and unrelenting tension
there lies a space of openness and grace
awaiting your arrival in perfect timing

there is always an opening there for you
space to be, to listen, to hope, to dream
divine connection awaits your seeking
divine wisdom knows your name

you are accounted for with every breath of your being
every hair on your head is known to the Oneness
this begins at first birth and continues eternally
as you make your way through all life’s roadblocks

proactive effort can speed this along
setting down fears, doubts, and negative expectations
calling out the anger, blame, and self-flagellation,
clears up ancient imbalances, suffering, and pain

but simply showing up in a space where nothing is needed from you
begins to reignite the Sacred connection that has always been
even if you are depressed, feeling failure or in deep pain
there is respite in creating an opening for reaching beyond self

goodness, balance, abundance, and hope
await you through your inner journey to loving self
humor, joy, delight, and satisfaction
accompany the journey into inner peace

that is, after all the wailing and self blame
after all the soul crushing fear that you may not be enough
after all the amends have been faced and attended to
after all the woe, loss, and protection of self have softened

somehow though rather miraculously
just opening to Silence while seeking help
begins the journey to Wholeness
that awaits every single one of you

through every form you ever take
through every time you close yourself off
through every profound loss you have
through every soul devastating event you experience

the Oneness is always waiting and open to you
the still small voice of love and encouragement
never fades no matter how long we take
to arrive and know It again for the first time*

* From TS Eliot, The Four Quartets

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. “

Sep 04 2009

Wholeness comes from the Silence

Before I learned to go, first thing, to Divine Presence when in need, I would observe an imbalance or pain in my body and immediately begin arranging whom to go see about it. I lived in doctor’s offices often going 2-3 times a week for a number of years. I was a medical junkie, literally looking for a high. I thought I was taking care of myself. I was physically. It was wearing on me completely though, looking back on that time. This was my response to chronic pain. I went to have all sorts of therapies tried on me, seeking some sort of relief. Usually the relief helped for a couple of days but in some cases, I felt the pain return driving home from the appointment. If I could have taken the practitioner home with me, perhaps that would have extended the sense of well being!

From a purely energetic point of view, the most important thing each of us can do especially when we are sick or out of balance is to go into intentional Silence in the Presence of the Divine.

What we usually do is go to the doctor, chiropractor, therapist, gym, masseuse, a movie, etc. We don’t generally go to God as our first response when faced with a physical or mental ailment. This is a curious reality. Seeking Divine Presence through Silence is much easier than making an appointment, getting dressed, finding transportation, maneuvering through traffic, sitting in the doctor’s office, all to don a paper gown for examination! Further, after getting the help, we have to get dressed again, pay the bill, usually head for the pharmacy, and then retrace all our steps home. Alternatively, sitting in Silence is our own private route to Wholeness.

When we go to a practitioner, we usually go because we hope for help, relief, medicine, reassurance, caring touch, attention and information. Why don’t we go first to Divine Presence when we are out of balance? We can get the same loving assurance, help, relief, attention, and care in the comfort of our own home with Divine Presence.

Cathy did not enter into Silence because she was afraid nothing would be there. Burton said, ” I get in there and am afraid I won’t get out or won’t want to get out.” Sharon shared, “I am afraid of what I will find out about myself. ” Amelia revealed, “I am always so concerned about what I need to do, I just get antsy sitting there getting none of it done.” Rob said, “I am afraid of all the anger I am carrying around. It might get opened up and I could not put it back in. ”

Any of these feelings familiar to you? These are strongly felt feelings, yes, but with not one ounce of lasting truth in them. The feelings seems powerful and real, because they are charged with emotion. However, there is a deeper truth in Silence which amazes everyone I have ever spoken with who intentionally enters into Silence.

There is Lasting Truth in Silence. It is the core of our own True Selves. There is more love and acceptance in Silence than anywhere else in the Universe. The more we experience this, the more we can bring that love and acceptance into our daily lives.

Another way to look at this is, we live in a spiritual world which we are trying to experience physically. We get as many chances as we want, to try and experience this earth dimension solely on a physical basis. Something BIG is missing though, if that is what we keep trying to do.

When I began to meditate I sat outside up against a large walnut tree which grew up through our second story deck. I remember days of just sitting and realizing I was just sitting. I felt safe and supported by that old tree. The sitting in and of itself felt like a gift to myself. Then I began to experience currents of energy I had not experienced before. I remember one early day of sitting, it began to snow. I realized I was liking the Silence. I got up to get some cover from the cold. I found my bright pink and blue serape and hat, bundled up and returned to sit. I thought, I must be meditating, why else would I be sitting here in the snow? It was a great sense of peace and calm.

Silence is a self- teaching process. If you rest into Silence, you rejuvenate. If you float in Silence, you set down your burdens and responsibilities and when you come out you can reexamine what you want to pick up again. If you enter Silence and “bad things” come up, you can name them out loud and command them out of your energy field. They are already there affecting our sense of peace and balance every day, anyway. Feelings and thoughts are not our core being. Welcome to you own true self, that part of you that is basically Silent at the core and from that Silence all else is generated. Most of us spend 95% of our time with the “stuff” that is generated and next to no time with the core of who we truly are.

The entire idea here is when we enter into Silence, we will get the help we need, in the way we need it, when we need it. The inner space is not about being alone, it is about connecting with Divine Source, Infinite Love and Boundless Possibility. Why are you not availing yourself of this space of Utterly Available Wholeness? It is the shortest way I know of to health, happiness, laughter and peace.

Check in with your “stuff” around avoiding Silence. Begin by is sitting with Divine Grace/The Oneness/Spirit of the Living God who loves us each completely, thoroughly, just exactly as we are. Take 10 minutes (by the clock) each day to begin with or join others in Stillness and Silence. We don’t have to put on our best Sabbath behavior, clothes or manners. We are already loved, we just need to show up to feel it reflected back to us. Knowing Wholeness comes from the Silence.

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Mar 07 2009

Meditation Joys – The Still Small Voice

Many folks think that meditation is being quiet and breathing in an specified manner. That could be a good place to begin. However, if that is all that happens, the point of meditation is lost, not to mention that focused breathing and being quiet gets old rather quickly. Meditation is setting aside time to be still and listen to that still small voice. That still small voice can come as a voice, as a knowing, as an image, as a vibrational presence, as insight and in other ways as well. In the beginning, one may well have to mentally move through the “to do list” for the week, the worry list about kids and money and the memory bites of an argument before arriving at a place of stillness.

Om by rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr — Om taken in Mauritius by Adrasteia 9

Meditation is more than being quiet. It is being quiet with the intention of connecting with the I AM energy of All That Is. It is listening to the Silence for what is revealed. It is sitting until there is a change in breathing, energy flow and a sense of wholeness returns to our being. This may take several months before one is consistently able to enter Silent space with ease and confidence. It begins with taking that step to try it once and see what happens.

How can I know that what I am doing in meditation is working? If we are getting up from meditation and return to our old ways of operating, we are not getting it. If we still have the same arguments, get angry over the same issues or feel repeated irritation with ourselves or others, we have not actually meditated. We have perhaps sat in meditation but we have not actually arrived at a space of newness and balance. We have not let enough go, consciously connected with Inner Peace or opened to the God energy within. The God-energy within is there, for all of us. God-presence is not outside of ourselves. It is in the void of seeming nothingness from which all is created.

It is in the Silence that we can most reliably connect with God-energy. We are that energy. However, if our focus is mostly on what we are doing, how we are doing it, why we are doing it and if anyone will recognize our efforts, we will miss the still small voice. That voice is where the wisdom is. That is where our own best knowing is found. That still small voice is pure love but we must make a space for this in our lives. As is true for all sorts of practices, the more we do it, the easier it is to enter into the flow of meditation.

What is the real point of meditation? Why would we step out of our daily routine for something that is seemingly so unproductive? We have so many things that do require our time, what can meditation actually do for us?

Sky-Diving Over the Ocean 2 by C Ronaldo 7

Meditation is like stepping off the edge of a cliff and free-floating. That can be scary to some, even overwhelming to others. ” What if we fall, or find that we can’t get back to “real life” or what if who or what we find inside is not a pretty sight? What then? We should probably just let well enough alone. ” Many people leave the exploration of meditation at exactly this place. This way we can feel we are still in control of every aspect of our lives. This way there is nothing unconventional that we inadvertently set in motion. If we stay in control, we will at least know what is happening.

Besides the fact that these perceptions are myths, created by our ego and are therefore untrue, they are also common reactions of the mind when beginning meditation. That is because fundamentally the mind wants to be in control of our thoughts, feelings and actions. That is what we call the ego. We can choose to stay here but the costs mount as we have more and more challenges in our lives. In order to move beyond anger, judgment, anxiety, depression, grief, jealousy and pride, we have to enter into the Stillness and call forth the power of our God-energy. That energy is within us, all powerful, all knowing and always present. When we enter into Silence we have a chance to get to know that power, the Presence that is inside of us. That is the main reason for meditation. We open up the pathways to inner knowing, peace and balance.

Final Light Pacific Beach, San Diego, California by moonjazz

To really understand why meditation is advantageous, we need to completely embrace that there is ONLY one God, one Source, one Power. That Source is constant, true and reliable and it is the ONLY power that is. All other illusions of power are just that, illusions. Any other masquerading power we give our energy to may appear powerful and desirable at first, but that lasts only a short while. The lasting All Power is within each of us. Meditation can open our knowing of this power at very deep levels. However, this inner-knowing, God-power must usually vie for our attention and allegiance. We are constantly seeking out other possible sources of power in the form of money, influence, real estate, board shares, work, jewelry, club memberships, cars and education at the “best” schools, to name a few.

Frequently people say to me, “I just don’t have time for meditation“. I have to believe that this view comes out of ignorance of what meditation really does for us. Of all the choices in the world open to us, meditation is the most powerful step we can take to peace, balance, success and wholeness. There is no better way to know the God-presence within each of us. There are lots of ways to learn about that God-presence but no other way to truly know it. It must be experienced, not just talked about, mused over, theorized about or debated. There is no other way to really know the God-presence with which we have been gifted. All other forms of seeking power, influence, success and control are in the end, fruitless. “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.” (Psalm 127)

Meditation or a meditative state is the only way to hear the still small voice. Most of the time the voice we hear is our ego voice. “Don’t do that, who do you think you are? If you try this, you will just end up a loser. Why do you think you can make a good decision here, most of the things that have happened in your life have been simply random occurrences. He is really out to get you, watch out. ”

The still small voice is just that, still, small and a voice that is not our usual jabber of the mind. Wouldn’t you move heaven and earth if you knew there was an all knowing, all powerful, every where present Presence which was inside of you waiting to become more fully actualized? There is. Why then don’t we seek this with all our heart, all our mind and all our soul as we have been commanded to do for eons and eons ?

I think this is because we really, really don’t think there is just One power, just One Source, just One God. We may think we are a power unto ourselves. Look at all we can do, create, get, be, say, build, paint, write, etc. We may think that God is outside of ourselves, we are here and God is elsewhere. We may have bought into teachings which have placed humans and God as co-existing at the same time, sharing power.

These all miss the Truth point. Everything comes from God-power, the good and the bad as translated through our thoughts, feelings and perceptions of our connectedness to God. All That Is is the only Power, the only God, the only Source of God energy. All else parades as power and falls short of the mark. If we enter into meditation with the purpose of listening to the still, small voice we can’t help but be successful, for every step we take we are met with 99 others being illuminated by the God-Presence, within. When we listen to the still small voice, we can get all the guidance available to us. Take a risk. Sit in Silence. Any time there with intention to connect with God-presence will be worth your while. It is more loving, more powerful and more illuminating that any other experience in the entire world for spiritual living. As many of you know, spiritual living leads to tangible, specific manifestations in our daily lives. Or if you don’t know this, try meditating with the goal to develop a personal relationship with Divine Knowing, right within you own being.

You will learn that you are a deeply wondrous and significant being.
You will learn that if you want a conscious connection with God, you can have it.
You will learn that all the help you need is as close to you as the breath in your nostrils.
You will learn that aligning with the One True Power in the Universe means you clear out the rubbish and debris keeping you from manifesting a life of peace , balance, wholeness and joy.

Go ahead, dare to risk time in Silence and see what wondrous things are revealed about who you truly are. The greatest Counselor of all time is available 24-7.

still small voice

Footer