Dear Aina, Both the photo of the two young friends and the poem, are beautiful. Friendship is a special blessing.
Pleasure and responsibility blend
Spirit tells me that, as I care for the plants (He seems to
Disapprove of my calling them my plants) on my patio or
In my little back garden, they also care for me, and,
Even during Winter, they, as I do, require care.
However, we each may require more care or a
Different type of care during different seasons of
Our lives, as do different people we know and
Care about, in a personal way.
These special plants and people (for they are special, if
Only to us) seem to need what we alone can give them,
Our love, unconditionally.
We share a personal, interdependent relationship;
A bonding of emotion and thought, of
Pleasure and responsibility.
Awareness comes before response
Spirit tells me that awareness always comes
Before response, however limited or distorted
That awareness might be.
Knowing that it’s raining outside may inspire us
To dress appropriately for that particular
Weather condition, before we open the door.
Or, we may choose to remain indoors until
The rain decides to stop.
We adapt, each in our own way and to an
Individual degree, to whatever situation
Life presents us with.
We choose how and why to face it, or not to,
Or, at least not yet.
Is one of us stalling for time?
Yes, you are.
Slow is faster than slower
Spirit tells me that slow is faster than slower.
I had been complaining, again, that I seem unable to
Either accept or adapt to unwelcome changes in my
Environment.
And, He adds, while we’re on the subject of
A so-called personal environment, please try
To both accept and adapt to the reality that
There is no personal environment.
How do I plan to respond to His seeming
Indifference to my discomfort?
I’m going back to bed.
Existence doesn’t depend on a belief system
Spirit tells me that His existence does not depend upon
My temporary belief system, or my seeming illusion that
We are separate in any real way.
Belief in an individual ego, He tells me, serves us well,
As long as and to the degree that it does. But,
The reality is, we are as separated from each other as
Individual neighbourhoods are separated from
The city that they are a part of..
We are not our physical bodies
Spirit tells me that we are not our physical bodies.
They are, He claims, a precious gift of Life.
We only inhabit our physical bodies for a certain time,
But some seem to care for their personal precious gift
With greater care than do some others.
Is that a personal criticism?
Yes.
Imperfection as a Universal Law and a gift
Spirit tells me that imperfection is a Law of Nature,
Which is to say, a Universal Law.
Everyone and everything, He tells me, is
Necessarily imperfect, and always will be.
As such, it is a gift of Life, as is our
Awareness of this gift.
How can my awareness of my imperfection
Be a gift?
Not awareness of your imperfections.
Then what?
Awareness of The Law of Imperfection.
How is it a gift?
It allows you to aspire to become all that
You can be, without ever having to worry
About reaching absolute limits.
Success in small things prepares us
Spirit seems to scold me for setting goals that are
So limited that they do not, to Him, qualify
To even be called such.
Where is intention and striving toward?
Perhaps I’m afraid of failure.
What’s wrong with failure?
I’m also afraid of success.
Yes. But, why?
Where to go from there?
It would, or could, He tells me, become as
Just one more of the many everyday successes
In my life.
Such as?
Preparing dinner.
How we live develops patterns
Spirit suggests that I become increasingly aware of
The patters of thought, emotion, and behaviour that
I am developing.
How we live each lifetime is important, He tells me,
Not just for this particular lifetime but also for how
It will influence future lifetimes.
How we respond to any challenge that Life
Presents us with affects and is affected by
The individual patterns of thought, emotion, and
Behaviour that we have developed.
These lifestyle patterns; for they are styles among
Countless other styles, tend to become habitual
Ways of responding, or reacting, to whatever.
Our thoughts and emotions, He tells me, are
Different types of energies that harmonize, or
Do not. How we understand and respond to
Experience expresses both thought and emotion.
Spirit asks me to become increasingly aware that
My individual energies and how well they harmonize
With each other will, does, affect everyone and
Everything in my life, Himself included.
What an awesome responsibility.
Yes.
Two dimensions of one mind
Spirit tells me that He and I are, or represent,
Two dimensions of one mind that is itself just
One of many dimensions of a more expanded
Expression of an ever more expanded
Consciousness that continuously and
Unendingly expands, or, as some say,
Evolves.
Beyond New Age 