Comments on: What are we Waiting For? http://ukspirituality.org/blog/2007/12/03/what-are-we-waiting-for/ A conversation about liberal spirituality in the 21st century Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:36:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Satta http://ukspirituality.org/blog/2007/12/03/what-are-we-waiting-for/#comment-479 Satta Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:39:31 +0000 http://ukspirituality.org/blog/2007/12/03/what-are-we-waiting-for/#comment-479 I love the heartfelt longing for a whole world. Thanks Linda. I reckon every human if asked one question: If you had one wish, what would you wish for? They all answer similarly. Peace Love Happiness Freedom Even the people who would answer 'money' realise that underneath that desire, it is happiness they really want. Every person deserves to be in peace and joy. It is within and it is now, as we always hear! I'm not religious, but the saying,"First seek the Kingdom of Heaven and all else shall be added unto you." strikes me. Once we prioritize peace within, then peace without will naturally follow. Outside always reflects inside. Way too difficult to save the dolphins, end world hunger, feed the hungry, find a cancer cure, fund the poor, the list is endless. It is easy to look out and see places that need to be fixed. How much easier to look within and heal our relationship with Self. Contentment, silence, stillness. What a platform to then approach this beautiful world. Rock on awakening consciousness! I love the heartfelt longing for a whole world. Thanks Linda. I reckon every human if asked one question:

If you had one wish, what would you wish for?

They all answer similarly.
Peace
Love
Happiness
Freedom

Even the people who would answer ‘money’ realise that underneath that desire, it is happiness they really want.

Every person deserves to be in peace and joy. It is within and it is now, as we always hear!

I’m not religious, but the saying,”First seek the Kingdom of Heaven and all else shall be added unto you.” strikes me.

Once we prioritize peace within, then peace without will naturally follow. Outside always reflects inside.

Way too difficult to save the dolphins, end world hunger, feed the hungry, find a cancer cure, fund the poor, the list is endless.

It is easy to look out and see places that need to be fixed.
How much easier to look within and heal our relationship with Self.

Contentment, silence, stillness.

What a platform to then approach this beautiful world.
Rock on awakening consciousness!

]]> By: Fiona http://ukspirituality.org/blog/2007/12/03/what-are-we-waiting-for/#comment-106 Fiona Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:37:52 +0000 http://ukspirituality.org/blog/2007/12/03/what-are-we-waiting-for/#comment-106 Linda writes so beautifully for me about the human side of that which we term God....a fragile human being with human needs of parental love, support, his mothers milk, warmth. it occurs to me that we are not fed this image enough!...even in the christian crib preparations......i have never seen a baby jesus who is blue from cold, crying, hungry. i know in my life i have often thought that God is this perfect un-needy being who can continue to "deliver the goods" no matter what we human beings ask....demand... the truth actually is that i have my most clear experiences of being in contact with god when i am in the most agony of my human ego as it wrestles with trying to label things "right" and "wrong". recently i had a really tough period of profound bereavments, and although i am grieving, and have slowed down my work to just let myself be with it.....i also feel the most centred,connected and clear i have felt in a long time. i am able to see and feel clearly the vulnerability that we all are....whether it is a squirell as it contracts its tummy muscles as it cries out in the woods, human beings just trying to give their soul life either through music, or healing, and for the interconnection i truly feel with life and the god-ness of life breathing through every living thing in these moments....i feel fully grateful. A friend was telling me about putting her mother into residential care for the elderly over christmas and all that took of the family and what it brought her into contact with...vulnerability. I personally went out with my brothers and sisters on the eve of christmas to a bar, and walked past a child...of perhaps 17 years...in his sleeping bag...alone....not even another homeless person to be on contact with and watched myself register him, the perceived agony of his aloneness on christmas eve and walk by. it occurs to me that as i released my feelings of guilt and shame about my actions in that moment, that these two incidents show how difficult we in england seem to find being with vulnerability....our own or another's and in these moments choosing seperation instead of relationship. what would it have cost me to go over and talk to this youngster? maybe i would have received an earful of defences, or maybe a chance for love to connect us both in that moment.. i'll never know now...but it did firm my resolve to "get in there!" whatever that means at times where i can and allow love a more full expression and a chance to connect whatever the outer presentation of fragility and the vulnerable it shows up. may all humanity find ease and faith that love is around and continues to feed our lives in the most unexpected ways and will continue to do so in 2008. Linda writes so beautifully for me about the human side of that which we term God….a fragile human being with human needs of parental love, support, his mothers milk, warmth. it occurs to me that we are not fed this image enough!…even in the christian crib preparations……i have never seen a baby jesus who is blue from cold, crying, hungry.
i know in my life i have often thought that God is this perfect un-needy being who can continue to “deliver the goods” no matter what we human beings ask….demand…
the truth actually is that i have my most clear experiences of being in contact with god when i am in the most agony of my human ego as it wrestles with trying to label things “right” and “wrong”. recently i had a really tough period of profound bereavments, and although i am grieving, and have slowed down my work to just let myself be with it…..i also feel the most centred,connected and clear i have felt in a long time.
i am able to see and feel clearly the vulnerability that we all are….whether it is a squirell as it contracts its tummy muscles as it cries out in the woods, human beings just trying to give their soul life either through music, or healing, and for the interconnection i truly feel with life and the god-ness of life breathing through every living thing in these moments….i feel fully grateful.
A friend was telling me about putting her mother into residential care for the elderly over christmas and all that took of the family and what it brought her into contact with…vulnerability. I personally went out with my brothers and sisters on the eve of christmas to a bar, and walked past a child…of perhaps 17 years…in his sleeping bag…alone….not even another homeless person to be on contact with and watched myself register him, the perceived agony of his aloneness on christmas eve and walk by.
it occurs to me that as i released my feelings of guilt and shame about my actions in that moment, that these two incidents show how difficult we in england seem to find being with vulnerability….our own or another’s and in these moments choosing seperation instead of relationship. what would it have cost me to go over and talk to this youngster? maybe i would have received an earful of defences, or maybe a chance for love to connect us both in that moment.. i’ll never know now…but it did firm my resolve to “get in there!” whatever that means at times where i can and allow love a more full expression and a chance to connect whatever the outer presentation of fragility and the vulnerable it shows up.
may all humanity find ease and faith that love is around and continues to feed our lives in the most unexpected ways and will continue to do so in 2008.

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