When the Ice Breaks- Response

By: Deshna

Adrian, thank you for your comments!  These are exactly the kind of questions I love asking.  I think for so many people it really is a matter of changing perspective.  Its very hard to think that maybe God- and therefore all the love, compassion, and wisdom- is within when for their whole life they have been told that it is outside themselves.  Jesus went inside, Buddha went there, all of our greatest teachers and prophets have spent days, months, years going within.  Yet, we were told for too long that not only is it all outside of ourselves- but that we need someone else- someone long dead- to find it.  That is a major perspective shift and very frightening.  Means someone else is responsible for all the good and all the bad that happens in our lives.  What can we do with that?  Where is the room for growth?

And in response to the last comment- we don't have to throw it out!  We can incorporate the wisdom of Jesus and all others- including the everyday teachers we come into contact with into our awareness and our path.  Everyone will always have different words, but the basics are usually the same.  Go deeper and deeper within, see no difference between you and anyone else, and do what you can to bring love and light into the universe.

Comments

[AllInTheNameOfProgress]

Hasn't the Holy Spirit been the name for the indwelling of God for centuries?

I feel like there is a lot of growth potential in the idea of being called by the spirit of God to try to reflect God's glory. I realize that is probably different language than you would use, but it doesn't mean it is something lesser.

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Yes, I think we are saying the same thing! One might call it the Holy Spirt, or inner goddess, or inner wisdom, the spirit of God, or simply the way, the truth, whatever! I personally think that everyone is called in a different way to find a path of compassion. Language helps us communicate with each other, to teach each other, to love each other. But just as often, we use it to divide, to misunderstand, to hate. That is what saddens me the most- religion in the form of words being used to put down others, to start wars, to separate. To me being called by the spirit of God to reflect God's glory happens when a child loves without bar, when Spring emerges out of the death of nature, when I have a moment of clarity and I see how blessed I am, when I am able to look at someone without judgment or fear. When for those brief moments in time I am able to be still and quiet and aware that I have everything I need is already there. To me there really is no lesser way to say it all unless the way you are saying it excludes other ways to describe or experience that Glory.