The Journey of Awakening

After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.
Ram Dass Quotes

BEING

Most people do not know what it means to truly be loving and accepting of your self. It means that you allow and acknowledge as a part of you all those aspects that you have previously been denying, repressing or trying to get rid of. There can be no hint of judgment.  This is not as difficult as you might imagine, because at the level of Being, you are love and acceptance. So if you awaken into Being and then allow all those aspects of yourself that you have been condemning to surface and be owned, acknowledged and expressed within the consciousness of Being, a tremendous relaxation will occur. It will allow you to deepen even further into Presence and Being.
Daily Guru Quotes

Living Authentically....

Authenticity, is the crown of Whole Living, the coronation of your Being.  Its Essence is living in such a way that who you are, what you believe, how you relate to others, what you do, your connection with nature, & the guiding Infinite Field of the Universe are in Harmony. 
It requires great strength to face yourself honestly, the shadow & light, your generosity & selfishness, compassion & brutality, your love and your F.E.A.R and owning it all...
Living truthfully liberates you from pretense, duality, separation & F.E.A.R.
Being Authentic makes "Self~Defense" unnecessary.   You are Free to no longer battle for your limitations and illusions. Naked and pure...transcending  beyond the veil of illusion & otherness...to Union with Source Energy,  becoming again a vessel for Creation to flow Genius through you....
~Judah Isvaran

The Vast Expanse

THE VAST EXPANSE

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

Witness the contents of mind, the visions and sounds, the thoughts, as clouds passing through the vast expanse - the sky-like nature of mind. The rootedness of Being is in emptiness, clarity and awareness: unborn, unspoilt, stainlessly pure.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

I subject my awareness to the perfection of being, the perfection of wisdom and perfection of love, all of these being co-present in the Vast Expanse. I share this panorama of Being and appreciate all I can share it with...the seamless interweaving of consciousness with each moment.

Create perfection wherever you go with your awareness. That is why this teaching is admired by artists--they sense the correctness of the response to life as creative. Life is infinite creative play. Enjoyment and participation in this creative play is the artists profound joy. We co-author every moment with universal creativity.

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them--these nature spirits who call us here--sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

I am an intersecting kaleidoscope of Being in a rainbow refractive wave pattern: a corpuscle of light on the ocean...the transparency of my body with the rocks...sometimes the only way to summarize my feelings is to draw--to collapse the frenzy in my limbs enough to make a mark out of profound appreciation for my existence.

Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely openly lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being. We are constantly drawing the line between love and not love--enter into the Non-duality Zone, and all judgements dissolve in the Vast Expanse.

It's as though we are co-conspirators of consciousness--everyone, everywhere, everywhen, mixing up our openable minds. It's as though we could gather clouds in the sky and people into our lives. Like an eruption of consciousness, we discover the most important force is love. Experience yourself as the Source and appreciate every moment as perfection. Sunrise--Sunset. Thank you, Thank you, Creator, profound unstoppable connectedness of all beings, pattern to everything, most radical no-thing, the Vast Expanse.

Alex Grey August 22,1994

I Am The Phoenix© By Judah Isvaran (A New Thought Prayer)

I Am The Phoenix© (A New Thought Prayer)

From the ashes I Am Risen anew.
A Being of Fire and Sovereign Grace.
Liberated from yesterday and blind to tomorrow.
A New Vision rooted in Universal Consciousness.
Ashes surrender to nourish the commanding Flame.
With Death's ash, embers of Infinite Intelligence emerge.
Forever Now, Joyous Realities Spiral forth from painful past.
Pain gives birth to Transformation and Truth of Being.
With every Resurrection I Know I Am One of God.
Freedom from the Known and the shackles of conditioning.
Soaring in the Ever Giving Sky of Abundance.
I Am the Phoenix born from the Essence of My Soul.
I Am the Phoenix, Divine Spirit of New Unfoldment.

I am Awakened and Unafraid.
The Kingdom Within is Love and Oneness.
I do not believe in God for I Am God.
I Am not afraid of You for I Am You.
I seek no-thing in the World for the World is my Bounty.
I Am the demonstration of Glory not the exception.
I Am the Phoenix...The Truth in Emancipation.
My Fire is Gift to All... Luminous...Numinous.
Peace is My Breath.  Everlasting Life My Covenant.
Know Me and Know Joy.  We are One.
I Am transcendence in Flight...Soar Beyond the illusion of Fear and doubt.
I Am the Phoenix.  I Am Triumph.  I Am Almighty Power.
Ascension on the Fiery Wings of Love.
I Am the One of the One.  I Am Free.
I Am Grateful... I release...The Law Corresponds Establishing Magnificence
and so it is. Amen...
Judah Isvaran

Pit Stops...

There comes a point on your Path when you must STOP & examine the direction you are traveling. I am traveling right? How is my vehicle (Being)? Check my fuel (Commitment), & the condition (obstacles/traffic) of the road. Ask, "Whats stands between me & my destination (Vision/Dream)? Shift Gears, ask for GUIDANCE & chart a new course. Put the key in the ignition & keep it moving! Pit stops serve the journey!

YOUTH

Samuel Ullman

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YOUTH

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

   Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.  This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty.  Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.  We grow old by deserting our ideals.

   Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.  Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

   Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.  In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

   When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

The Path of the Phoenix...Choosing The Unknown Path

The decisions that unfold in your path are not as significant as you make them.
This way or that way?  Red or Black?  The decisions are inconsequential.
What is paramount is that you make a CHOICE, that you summon the COURAGE to press forward.

Indecision paralyzes, you become stagnant, dull, lifeless like a beached whale....If you retreat to the safety & security of your "comfort zone" you regress, shrink, contract, deteriorate.
It is only by moving FORWARD, by BOLDLY facing the UNKNOWN, experiencing uncertainty, & SURRENDERING yourself up to the INFINITE POSSIBILITIES do you ACTUALIZE your VISION, MANIFEST your dreams & longings to UNEARTH FREEDOM & FULFILLMENT.
The UNKNOWN is the PATH with HEART...the ROAD where you will meet time & time again your POWER, BRILLIANCE, & INDWELLING GENIUS.  This where COMMITMENT, INTENTION & GRACE fuse and DEMONSTRATE as DIVINE GUIDANCE/PROVIDENCE...The Invisible Hands of UNIVERSAL LAW ALIGN to bestow MAGNIFICENCE.
This is the WARRIOR'S PATH...the journey only braved by the WILLING.
This is the road of RISK, CHALLENGE, ADVERSITY, FAITH & CONVICTION.
This is the journey where you will NEVER ARRIVE....INFINITE BECOMING...
SURRENDER will shape & mold you...This is the Path of RESURRECTION & DEATH.
Dying to the KNOWN.

How Much longer will you wait for your dreams? Financial Freedom? Start your own business? Get in shape? Find your Soul~mate? Start a family?  Start auditioning?  Write that book? Screenplay? Fashion Line?  Go back to school?
Better yet get out of that dead end job or dead end relationship?
How many more dreams will you stifle & bury?
Its Now or NOTHING.
Which will you choose?  
Know = stagnation.(((More of the Same)))  
Unknown = ??? (((Risk/Surrender/Faith)))

The Optimist Creed

The Optimist Creed

Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet.
To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.  To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return.  To live is to risk dying.  To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.  The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.  He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.  Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.  Only a person who risks is free.  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change;  and the realist adjusts the sails.
~William Arthur Ward

I Am That

To ignite a shift in Consciousness, One must have the courage to speak out, One must possess the strength & willingness to stand alone beyond the confines of the common & comfortable path. It takes the individual to create the collective. This is Power. I am that. ~Judah

The definition of Power from my perception.

Power for me is transforming ourselves, transforming our afflictions, fear and pain to experience freedom, certainty and joy. Power is a journey with others not over others...Power is not control, it is surrender...Power is Mindfulness not Righteousness, being fully present to all that is and giving all that you are to it. Power is living "from" service and contribution to be a vessel/opening for the divine to express through me. True power is from "love" nothing else.

~Judah Isvaran