Bonfire of the Vanities!

The title of this week's post refers not to the movie, but the far older practice of burning objects deemed to be occasions of sin - where 'sin' refers to missing the mark, or going against God's will... 

 As life continues to move at incredible speed I am, more than ever, aflame with wanting to be sharper, wanting it all to come together in me - now!  This morning, for example, I noticed a thought about not wanting to do something I had to do today.  If I give such thoughts my energy/belief then I'm in a world of pain and small self.  In letting such a thought go, I get to stay in what's deeper and lovelier.  Then whatever I do, whether it's working or painting in my studio - either way, the opportunity in life more than ever is to come from that deeper living Knowledge and true way of being. In that, doing something my small self wants to react against is all fuel for the bonfire of the vanities!

Speaking of blazes, John was aflame on Sunday afternoon.  Here's some Golden snippets:

"If you're under pressure

whatever you're coming from that pressure feeds."

"There's value in you, as awareness, under pressure

being in your weakest weakness.  

Your weakest weakness is you, 

from within the deepest, 

being meaning Knowing."

"When meaning Knowing is under pressure,

because of the subsequent and outward bodies that it has,

such as the heart, the self, the person,

compression builds."

"Where there is compression

Knowing within becomes hot.

That heat gives density to Knowledge - 

it gives density to meaning Knowing.

That density of Knowing becomes 

like a burning coal within the heart."

"When you're not, as awareness,

relating to meaning and you're relating

to what you experience in your self,

holding what you think and feel in your self

as being primary then, as awareness in your heart,

you're closing and hardening."

"Pressure fuels 

whatever you are being 

in your heart."    

This coming weekend John is back in The Netherlands for what will surely be an awesome five day retreat.  For more information on that, please click here.   And there will be another dialogue with John in a couple of week's time, so if you have a question you'd like to send in, please do so in the usual way.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti