Monday, October 21, 2013

let your light shine

Light is one of the primary metaphors in sacred poetry, suggesting the Divine not framed within a mental concept. But for many genuine mystics, this light is directly experienced.

This sense of light is more than a brightness one might experience on a sunny afternoon. This light is perceived as being a living radiance that permeates everything, everywhere, always. This light is immediately understood to be the true source of all things, the foundation on which the physicality of the material world is built.

The sense of boundaries and separation, long taken for granted by the mind as the fundamental nature of existence, suddenly seems illusory, for this light shines through all people and things. It has no edges, and the light of one is the light of all.

Often, one describes being "bathed" in this light, and that is absolutely fitting. This light is not merely an airy phenomenon of the visual realm; it is tactile, permeating, embracing, profoundly soothing, revitalizing, healing. Some describe it in liquid language: water, fountain, lake, a shining white or golden ocean.

This light is recognized as your own Self, while simultaneously being the Self of all others. Since this light is you and, at the same time, it radiates within all, the question arises: How can there be separation? conflict? loss?
~unknown




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9 comments:

  1. These pictures kind of strike a different vibe in me somehow...loving it!

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    1. thank you Joe.. they don't look right in here.. the lilly was so white white. that it just glowed in the light..

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  3. Beautiful Hope. So glad you stopped. Enjoy your break. I will be here.
    Hugs. and Big Smiles.

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    1. hi Lisa.. thank you for stopping by.. I am going to enjoy it.. sort of like taking a mini retreat.. hugs and smiles back...

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  4. Love the shades the create sucha quiet feeling.

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    1. Hi Carrie... this lily and rose have a wonderful story behind them.. they were answers to prayers.. the lily was so brilliantly white white when you placed it under a light source.. it just glowed.. was trying to portray that feeling one gets when prayer is answered.. and the lizard.. was more of an after thought.. what I was going for didn't fit.. but liked the lizard anyway... "smile"

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