Spirit, Life, Love

It’s a process of trust. Trust that words WILL come. Trust that they will make sense. Trust that it will be meaningful. Trust that I’ll be a worthy ‘vessel’… because that is what I am when I surrender myself to this process. I am just being a carrier, facilitator, medium, instrument through which the words are being funnelled, broadcast, channelled. Yes, the words come through me, not from me. I simply allow that which animates you and me to get it’s message out to us both and everyone who reads this.

And what is it that animates you and me? Spirit? Life? Love? It is that which when it’s no longer there, makes the body a mere object – what we commonly call death – a topic mostly avoided in Western cultures. But I don’t want to talk about death today. I want to talk about spirit, life and love. That which animates us. That which makes us all part of the human family, part of humanity, that which makes us all One. Because at the level of humanity we are all one. We have the same fears, whether we recognise them or not. I am alone. I am not worthy. Who am I anyway? Why am I here? I am nothing.

Look again. I am NO THING. Yes, you are NO THING. You are that which animates you, by whatever name you want to call it. That means you are not your body, because the body is a ‘thing’, an object.

That brings me to some of the most beautiful and soul nourishing words I have ever heard. They are from ancient scriptures. Here’s how I remember it.

That which makes the mind think, but needs no mind to think, that alone is Spirit.

That which makes the tongue speak, but needs no tongue to speak, that alone is Spirit.

That which makes the eye see, but needs no eye to see, that alone is Spirit.

That which makes the ear hear, but needs no ear to hear, that alone is Spirit.

That which makes the life live, but needs no life to live, that alone is Spirit.

Treasure the spark in you. It whispers of your Spirit. The life it offers you, the love you are and are capable of. Without that, yes, without you, the world would be a poorer place.

May your Best Self be present each moment of the New Year.