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God or no God; life still has meaning

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The Gardens of Ailana” will be controversial and many will hate it.
But in reading it some have already come to new terms with their lives and a God they see as either non-existent or cruel.
In this story, adults crippled by memories from childhood; two them suffered at the hands of evil and twisted men from southern fundamentalist churches; have to come clear with every ugliness within them before they can find any meaning and purpose for their lives. In the process they learn that if there is a Heaven at all, it would not be what their churches had told them to believe, and that forgiveness may not always be the healthiest option.
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Reaching the hopeless through our own doubt.

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My love/guide told me today that if I hadn’t had all those years of suffering and crippling doubt I couldn’t have written the books that I do, and could’t have reached the people I reach. I write books of hope for the hopeless; stories of deep meaning for the lost and out of touch. I couldn’t have come to them in compassion and empathy if I hadn’t myself felt disconnected, and like God and all meaning had turned from me.

Teachers point back at you.

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Quoting HPB or anyone else when exploring matters of spirit, we might not want to take them as ultimate authority. To almost reverence her for connections to great masters of the wisdom who themselves didn’t want to be reverenced. Our most usable insights come from within. At the end of any answer from a great teacher we should hear a little “hook,” as though s/he is asking us, “What insights does that set off in you?”

Great masters point and guide. They know your answers can and should be accessed through your own soul and experiences. If you are simply researching and quoting texts for answers, then your are still knocking on doors.

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Darkness along the Path.

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I keep hearing that so-and-so did something pretty nasty, or selfish “for a theosophist”. But to be a theosophist is to have a hunger to know and grow into whatever is Higher, Deeper, and Eternal. It doesn’t mean we’re already there. Not one of us starts out as a fully-fledged and evolved Master of the Wisdom. We each of us start out from somewhere challenging.

Even once we are nicely along the path, it would help to see that we are team-mates in some Higher Work of service to humanity, but that we may still have personality issues to work through.

We’d do well to keep in mind that we each walk a separate path toward enlightenment, and that each has its own unique potholes and cul-de-sacs. Let us honor each other for working our ways past them however we manage to do so, and however muddy we may get our boots along the way.

Stretching the Truth

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People come to me with questions regarding theosophy and spirit. I reach beyond myself to respond. To meet their needs I seek beyond what I know, and it comes. I tap open or bring through Insights and Wisdom that deepens my own understanding as well.

In the discussion she who queries may find her own bright understanding to offer as well. This too deepens and enriches what I have learned about Spirit.

As these others grow in Wisdom, others are drawn to them with their own curiosity and questions. I learn from the points-of-view and life experiences of each.

There seems to be no single locked down and strictly delineated set of facts out there beyond the physical. We each modify and develop the Universal Light as we express it through our lives; through deep understanding and caring for others. We become the deeper truths through our very Beings. The deepest wisdom grows as we grow.

When we are more than we are.

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Sometimes, when the vastness pours everywhere and I am merely part of it, following inspiration, following each moment, it is so hard to find nouns or pronouns to describe what the body is doing. IT is eating? WE are writing? I am down by the lake? THIS BRAIN is tired?

Flow should really be a pseudo-personal pronoun. FLOW is sharing thoughts with the world.

Check your ego. But step into your Power.

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When we feel ourselves radiating as healers; as powerful Centers of Light; is there still a part of us that wants to hold back? Telling ourselves that Spiritual Brilliance is for other Beings, much Greater Beings; we don’t want to show off?

Sure, if you can find any whisper of pride in such feelings, then most likely you are not ready. But what if you are, but you’re blocking it? Could you be buckling under to old, outmoded paradigms insisting you are still that little kid, hanging onto the coattails of bigger, more significant folks?

If you hide inside limitations you are ready to break free of, you are hurting more than just yourself. There are people out there praying for help; don’t deny them what you are able to share.