The only true power in this world comes through "Surrender". It is quite the paradox that by Surrendering, you overcome.
It all started with what many would consider an "insane" prayer/vow:
"What I have made of 'me' is not fit to stand before you. Please take 'me' apart and remake me as you would that I be."
PLEASE, do not EVER underestimate the power in such a vow solemnly uttered.
We are all here in the world to learn one thing: To summon our "Will". But that too is not what you might take the word to mean. There is True Will and there is willfulness: an unconscious state of striving after some "this or that" which we
tell ourselves will allow us to be "happy".
The "True Will is Threefold: Firstly, it was the discovery of "godly estate". Godly estate is experiencing whatever comes with the knowledge that "Nothing happens
TO you. IT ALL happens
FOR you." What we experience
IS what we name it. We create subjective experience, for the most part unconsciously. Discovering of one's godly estate is the awareness that this is happening. Once you "know" this directly you are not unconscious. The second aspect of the True Will emerges: The Will looks for what it "wants" to find/encounter/experience and it declines to "judge" what *appears* to be "not in keeping" with those desires. It "forgives" CONSCIOUSLY as in "under direction of the Will.
There is yet a third level to the True Will -- and that is that all others in this realm ALSO know and understand ("have the ability to wield") THEIR own True Will (which is the same for all) which would result in the disappearance of the illusions ("personal experience") of "suffering" and "loss" and "separation". This requires a shift in perspective: from what is "real"
only temporally to what is "Real" = Eternal.
This is not to say that you do not see "suffering". Quite the contrary. It means, however that you FORGIVE the "visage of suffering" because you
know that suffering too is redeemed because
those who are dreaming happy dreams do not ever waken at all. One who sees this is moved with compassion but not overwhelmed and rendered unconscious in sympathetic suffering. Of course, it also involves the awareness that, to a great extent, we create our own suffering, by acting and thinking (and labeling) unconsciously--and therein is an inevitable cascade of consequences to all unconscious acting/thinking/labeling/doing/being.
When I first "saw" this, I was dead. That is to say, I had just been killed in a freak accident with a horse and had entered luminous darkness, where I met a being of massive intelligence and unsurpassed love. 'Twas He that made it clear and it was so clear and simple that it remains so to me now, 35 years later. We create our own suffering experience by judging and resisting what already IS. What is,
IS and sometimes it passes: situations change. Change is the only constant. But we have control,
RIGHT NOW, over what we
call the situation and what we *choose* to call it
IS how we will experience the situation.
An analogy (aptly named in this case): "When the back yard of your life seems full of horse sh*t, it is a sure sign of ponies. Procede with care, on account of the sh*t, but keep looking up, so you see the ponies. If you can catch one, you can ride it right out of the sh*t and on to a higher level of perception. In fact, until you see and catch one of the ponies, you are
doomed to slog through sh*t."
I hope that made you laugh.
For more clarity, read part 2.
When in doubt, laugh.
Loving regards,
Cailín Joyce Callagahan
"Little girl Lord of Strife"-- and my mother had not a clue when she named me. Never underestimate the power of a label.
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