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[Guest guest]

Hello dear Family,

 

I find that my process is manifesting differently than what has been

shared on the Group. has encouraged me to share my experience,

and I would also like to encourage others to share their experiences

even though they may be very different. There is great beauty and

depth in how Shakti brings forth the Treasure that is contained in

each one of us.

 

The past 25+ years of my life have been devoted to God and service to

mankind, though in small ways with great love. I had continued on that

course until recently, as I felt Shakti leading me to shift from

serving to receiving. The shift has led me to withdraw from many

areas I had been serving in, and releasing connections of activity in

my physical life.

 

The result of that has brought me to a place where there is now plenty

of room for what is inside me to be heard and to manifest. In other

words, I am now able to receive it and embrace it, and release it into

the world.

 

It was also taken to a deeper level as I began to release the activity

of my mind, along with the activity of my emotional nature.

Attachments are falling away inside as well, and a new kind of life is

emerging. I'm sure there are many here who could say this better, and

maybe understand it more than I do through experience or reading about

it. I'm moving into it fresh and filled with wonder, so trying to put

it into words is very difficult for me...

 

I've also been experiencing a very deep hunger for kindred spirits and

a communion of souls. This has led me to begin to immerse myself into

the writings of Thomas Merton. He puts into words so clearly many of

the things I am feeling and experiencing. When I read them they are

like new life leaping up in me. So I will be sitting at his feet for

a while, and will share occasional treasures with you.

 

So what is left when we let go of all the attachments to life as we

know it? Another life...then another life...then another life...from

glory to glory? An awesome adventure.

 

So simplicity, silence and the return to innocence is the beauty I see

before me in the Moment. The outer hasn't changed. It is still the

glorious eternal Now. I'm seeing it with new eyes, and feeling it in

my heart more.

 

This just scratches the surface, but I wanted to make an attempt! lol!

 

Thank you for listening.

Love, dhyana

 

" We are warmed by fire, not by the smoke of the fire.

We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship.

So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths

of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts. "

 

Merton: A Book of Hours