Glimpses Into The Mystery Of The Unfolding Universe
Current exploration into the complex and
mysterious nature of our Universe reveals how
little is actually visible/known to us. Visible
reality - all solid matter -is merely 5% of the
whole while 27% is dark matter and 68% dark
energy.
We, all beings, are
a microcosm of this
reality….
Each of us is an
inexhaustible mystery
with inexhaustible
richness within:
we will never
know it totally.
A.H. Almaas
Within us is the soul
of the whole, the
wise silence, the
universal beauty
to which every part
and particle is
equally related, the
eternal one
RW Emerson
Our c.14 billion year evolving, expanding Universe has 3 guiding
principles, giving it identity, values and direction.
These principles of Differentiation, Interiority and Interconnectedness
are reflected in every mode of being in creation.
Each being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect
and particular mode of self-expression. Together each is unique
but not separate in the wondrous web of life manifesting the divine energy
pulsating through the unfolding Universe.
Thomas Berry (adapted)
We are woven into the dynamics
of the Universe
The secret turning in your heart is the entire Universe
turning.
Rumi
We are woven into the dynamics
of the Universe
The sheer wonder of creation is enchanting, from the realm of mystery
and deep space to perched songbirds lilting in my ear
as I watch children play in the fading light of sundown.
I gaze into myself – the universe self – pondering fragments of meaning
as questions flit across my consciousness….What is life? Where did it
come from? What is the essence of it all?
???
WHO AM I –REALLY?
We are each gifted in a unique and important way.
It is our privilege and our adventure to discover
our own special light.
Mary Dunbar
You are a child of the Universe
Maria Montessori
The stillness
and vastness
that enables
the universe
to be is also
within you.
E. Tolle
In reality the human activates the most profound
dimension of the Universe itself, its capacity to
reflect on and celebrate itself in
conscious self-awareness.
Thomas Berry
Your abilities are as limitless as God’s because you’re
a distinct portion of the essence of God.
Wayne Dyer
Let us establish ourselves in the divine milieu. There we shall find
ourselves where the soul is most deep and where matter is
most dense…..
In the divine milieu all the elements of the universe
touch each other by what is most inward and ultimate
in them.
Teilhard de Chardin
By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails,
penetrates us and moulds us. We imagined it as distant and
inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers.
Teilhard de Chardin
We are born with pure essence…
with divine qualities, like love,
generosity, humility, power, beauty,
gratitude, deep peace, radiance.
Barbara M. Hubbard
In order to survive the family system and other outside
influences, we develop an ego self to protect ourselves.
Sadly our true essence goes underground. We become
separated from our true origin.
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything,
to falling, or changing or dying. The ego is that part of you
that loves the status quo even when it is not working.
It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
Richard Rohr
Ego is just an illusion…so ask yourself if you wish to continue to be
controlled by something that isn’t true, or would you rather look into
what’s real and never changes?
Wayne Dyer
So many people are frightened by the wonder
of their own presence…when we experience
real presence, we break through to that which
is latently in us, that is eternal, but which the normal
daily round of life keeps distant from us.
John O’Donohue
At some stage in our lives we need to set out
on the spiritual path to retrieve the lost jewel, our essence.
There is a God
shaped vacuum
in the heart of
every person.
ST BLAISE
I pray that according to the riches of God’s glory,
you may be strengthened in your inner being
with power through God’s Spirit, and that Christ
may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being
rooted and grounded in love.
Eph.3:16-17
The journey from Ego to Essence is
a meandering voyage of a lifetime…
By trusting in your inner vision, you’re trusting
the same Wisdom that created you.
Wayne Dyer
What great music quickens your heart?
St. Cecilia
Sophia…she waits to lead me to an unknown meadow
where the truth of who I am will be revealed to me….
when will I come to the meadow
where the truth will set me free?
Joyce Rupp
The only thing that ultimately matters is this:
Can I sense my essential Being-ness, the I Am,
in the background of my life at all times?
E. Tolle
I open myself to the wisdom within, knowing that
there is only one Intelligence in this Universe….I trust
this Power and Intelligence…
Louise L. Hay
Whether we find our TRUE SELF, depends in large part on
the moments of time we are each allotted and the
moments of freedom that we each receive and choose
during that time.
Richard Rohr
You can’t change what’s going on around you until you start
changing what’s going on within you. The outer work can
never be great if the inner work is small, and the outer work
can never be small if the inner work is great.
Meister Eckhart
As we journey we remember the words of Joanna Macy:
“The smaller our sphere of attention, the smaller
our sphere of influence”
When your inner world comes into order your
outer world will come into order
I. Ching
Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that.
It is an essential part of the purpose of the whole…..
E. Tolle
We are all ONE in the community of life, kin to all that exists.
The day of my spiritual awakening was the
day I saw and knew I saw
God in all things and all things in God.
Mechtild of Madgeburg
As we journey our breath guides us into our inner sanctuary where
we experience our own essence as a warm, gentle, compassionate,
nurturing, still presence in harmony with the divine presence
in all creation….
…we move into a different
consciousness where we can
absorb the resonance of the
Divine … and listen to the
gentle voice within.
Our SHADOW SIDE echoes in the deep recesses of our
being…in the stillness we become aware of it.
We need healing of the separation between ego and
essence…
Our ego is our fearful, driven, angry, competitive,
wounded/hurt, judgemental, lonely self etc.
These can be seen as subpersonalities, often in conflict
within us. All operating from separate fragmented
consciousness…..
On this journey we need
to accept and love each
of our subpersonalities...
each one is a gift gone
into compulsion. So we
need to bring them into
our inner heart
sanctuary, allowing them
to have a voice.
Then lifting them into a
different vibration….allowing
them time to absorb the
peace and radiance of this
sacred space within and the
sense a different way of
being…a different
consciousness.
Released from their delusion of
separateness when their needs
are met…in time each of our
sub-personalities will release
their grip and choose to
surrender to the radiance of
the divine presence within –
our essence.
Dropping our masks
and relating heart to heart,
we notice
our lives work better.
With a new consciousness
to discern the deeper
patterns of Earth and the
wider universe …outer work
will begin to unfold
effortlessly, bringing
freedom, lightness and joy.
Our essence influences all aspects of our lives creating
energy, harmony and oneness. It is like a prism dazzled by
the sun reflecting rays of light, warmth, serenity. …
Here is the oasis – source of our wellbeing and nourishment
There are three words that convey the secret of
the art of living, the secret of all success and
happiness:
ONE
WITH
LIFE
E. Tolle
CLOSE UP OF A LEAF
CLOSE UP OF HUMAN HEART
CLOSE UP OF AMAZON
French Mystic, Marguerite Porete says the miracle happens
when the river reaches the sea – the river loses its own name.
As it mingles water with water in the vast moving sea.
And no one can tell where the river ends and the sea begins.
And so it is with me, like the river, I enter the vast moving sea
of God and no one can tell where I end and God begins.
There I am, God and I, my nameless self lost in the vast sea
of God’s presence. Who can tell then, where God ends and I
begin? 13th century
Let the drop of water that is you become a
hundred mighty seas.
But do not think that the drop alone becomes the Ocean.
The Ocean too becomes the drop.
Rumi
We are ALL
enclosed in God
and
God is enclosed
in ALL of us
Julian of Norwich
I am the fiery essence of God:
I flame above the beauty of the fields;
I shine in the water;
I burn in the sun, the moon and the stars
And with the airy wind I quicken all things vitally by
an un-seen all-sustaining life….
Hildegard of Bingin
Every day
I hear or see
something
that really kills me
with delight.
Mary Oliver
I have come that you may have life
and have it in abundance.
John 10:10
Whoever you are no matter how lonely
The world offers itself to your imagination ..
over and over announcing your place in the family of things .
(Mary Oliver)
It is empowering to BE in our Essence - the wise, loving,
compassionate, powerful and radiant part of us…and to live
out of it. This will help us to move from fear into love and
creativity and prepare to help catalyze the wave of planetary
change required for these times.
The creativity within
the Universe dances
in every life-form. In
the stillness of our
Essence we connect
with the vibrations of
life unfolding moment
by moment, breath by
breath.
The journey of the cosmos depends on those creatures
and elements existing now, you among them. For the
unfolding of the Universe, your creativity is as essential
as the creativity inherent in the fireball.
Brian Swimme