Journey Within

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Journey Within

Peace and Blessings!

I am extremely happy and excited to share with you what is going on within my Spirit today. I have been sharing my inner dialog with others online since 1996; I started by sending a daily email entitled Essence of Paradise, then after a few years I renamed it From Within My Spirit. In 2008 I started posting on a new blog I call Essence Blogesphere. Now I have decided to also post on Facebook. You can find me under the name Essence of Paradise Wholistic Health and Spirituality. I hope you will enjoy my inner dialog there. Please join me in Creating A Beauty-full Life, One Day At A Time!

... how very important it is becoming for each of you to learn to follow the guidance and direction you receive through the channel of your own heart. All teachings serve only as signposts created by those who have gone before, pointing the way toward a mystery each student must achieve in their own unique way.

Eric Klein

When I read this by Eric Klein, I cannot help but say, Yes! That is what has been going around within my Spirit for the longest time. I am one who really enjoys reading. However, one day years ago I experienced a time when I just could not sit down for any length of time and read with the same joy I once had. At first, I could not understand why. That was because I had not taken the time to go within and ask why. I had slipped into the rut of seeking all of my guidance from the teachings of others in books, audio recordings, and lectures. Even though I was still practicing Early Morning Prayer and Meditation, the Still Small Voice of SPIRIT within my Spirit was getting faint. That was due to the fact that I was becoming more and more reliant upon the words and direction from the books I was reading. One book would say this, and another book would say that. There were giving me many different perspectives of the same thing. I was not paying attention to the fact that it is that way because of the many different experiences each writer had.

That was when I first started to truly understand something I heard a long time ago, that goes something like this. There is no right or wrong when it comes to an individuals understanding, truth, and belief. As you know, you and I could look at beautiful countryside, and our interpretation of what we see would be totally different. Was our interpretation wrong? Were we being misleading? Of course not. Who we are, and our life experiences paint the canvas of life with a picture of personal thoughts, beliefs, and understanding. That is authentic, personal, and true to us.

When I was reading as profusely as I was, I became unbalanced. That was due to the fact that I was trying to follow everything I read, causing me to be pulled in many different direction all at once. Even though each author was headed to the exact same final destination, many had chosen very different paths. If you were trying to go somewhere and you were not sure how to get there, and you asked a friend for directions and they gave them to you. However, as you started out on your journey you saw another friend, and you told that friend where you were going and they here is the way you should go. Then you began to wonder if the first directions were right. Now in your mind you were going back and forth wondering which set of directions was right. Later after making the trip many times, you realized that both ways were right, they simply took you on different paths to the same final destination.

Well, it is exactly the same with just about everything in life. That is why it is so important that we develop the habit of go within and check in with someone that is closer to us than anyone or anything could ever possibly be, I am speaking of SPIRIT. We should be communicating with SPIRIT just like we communicate with our best friend or our partner. In a normal situation, could you be with someone all day and not communicate with them at all. Well SPIRIT is with us always, and it will be that way throughout eternity. So that being the case, why do so many people end up having to go for days, weeks, months, years, and even lifetimes without communicating with SPIRIT in an intimate personal way? Every answer to question we could ever possibly ask, can be found within our Spirit by way of communion with our Eternal Parent MOTHER-FATHER GODDESS-GOD, also called SPIRIT. As Eric Klien said, "…how very important it is becoming for each of you to learn to follow the guidance and direction you receive through the channel of your own heart. All teachings serve only as signposts created by those who have gone before, pointing the way toward a mystery each student must achieve in their own unique way." We must follow the guidance given to us after checking it against our Heart/Spirit; which are one in the same. Moreover, yes, we must follow our own unique way, what I call our Souls Melody. If we do not do that, we will find ourselves wandering around following someone else’s Souls Melody and going from place to place and never reach our personal destination.

Every answer to ever question we have can be found within our Spirit, the dwelling place of our one and only true counselor. SPIRIT. We simply must take the time and effort necessary to receive the answers we seek. However, in doing so, we must practice patience. Today people have become impatient because so much has become instant such as automatic tellers, Microwave food, drive-in pharmacies, computers, movies on-demand, and the list goes on and on and on. We want everything right away or preferably yesterday. Just as it is when it comes to cooking, taking time to slowly marinate and simmer food makes the end result tastier. We appreciate things better when we take our time as we create and learn. There is an old saying that I heard from many of my elders. Stop and smell the roses, slow down and enjoy life before you miss it. We must slow down and be conscious of everything that we do, and be conscious of everyone and everything we come in contact with. We should start looking each other in the eyes and truly listen to them when we talk, and pay attention to the details of everything around us. If we do not fully take in and digest our every experience, we may miss some very important keys that will open some very important doors we need to walk through. Our eyes may be wide open, while our minds and hearts are shut tight.

I have committed myself to consistent communion with SPIRIT throughout each and every day of my life. Let me tell you something, there is nothing like communion with SPIRIT. Nevertheless, communion with SPIRIT does not eliminate all of my challenges and mis-takes. However, it does make everything I experience that is less than favorable, tolerable and a lesson I can learn from and stimulate additional Spiritual growth. Communion with SPIRIT helps me maintain a balanced attitude towards this experience called life. When I am consciously connect to SPIRIT through prayer (which is us talking to SPIRIT) and meditation, (us listening to SPIRIT) life becomes Wonder-Full no matter what.

I am enjoying taking time to go within and reading my personalized book that is kept in my Inner Spiritual Library. Hey, why don't you join me and go within and read from your personalized book today. The more you do it, the better and easier everything will get. Enjoy!

Create A Beauty-Full Life, One Day At A Time!

One Love, Unconditional!

Baba-Kundi Ma`at-Shambhala

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