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  • Expectation

    Jacob's Ladder by William Blake
    Jacob’s Ladder by William Blake

    We all know how frustrating it is to see how suddenly the perfect image of reality that we have created in our own minds unfolds in front of us just like a nightmare, instead of like a blissful dream. How is it possible that everything we thought was going to happen, everything we planned, didn’t work out? Well, there is a simple answer to this question, and also, a not so easy solution.

    It is expectation and desire that lead the way to inner torment and victimism. The only solution for it is non-attachment; non-attachment even to the present moment, eventually. Accepting each situation as it is in the moment, and not wanting it to be any other way, is the secret to fulfilling our soul’s hunger for eternity. It takes practice and patience to achieve mindfulness, but in the end, it is the only way to supress our ego’s thrill for expectation.

    When we open the door to imagining an outcome that isn’t there yet, we let our expectation of the future moment take the reins of our lives, and thus, we loose complete control of our emotions, relying completely on an unidentified future image that doesn’t even exist. If that personal desire isn’t completely fulfilled as thought, well, we all know what happens next: we enter the turmoil of grief and lost hope, thinking it was something other than ourselves who is guilty, and we start blaming everything and everyone around us. But, as always, everything is inside us, the victim and the executioner. Therefore, pain and happiness are also part of us. We just have to learn the art of balancing the light and the darkness; none of which can exist without the other.

    We must never confuse ourselves into finding perfection, because as human being, our gift is to experiment all the opposites and thrive for equilibrium. Peace is found in balance. Completeness is found in balance. Stillness amidst the chaotic waters of life will lead us to the infinity of oneness.

    There is no goal, no end, in the cycle of eternity. Living is the way, creating and co-creating with the Laws of Nature is something to be thankful about. We can cry and laugh; feel extreme love, and extreme hate; we can feel our hearts break into millions of pieces only to be put back together to love unconditionally. It is all part of being human; spiritual beings in a human journey able to feel, to touch the infinite possibilities that exist in every second.

    We do not need to expect anything, we just have to learn how to surrender to what is, always with a thank you in our hearts.

  • Acceptance

    Ladies' Suit by Remedios Varo
    Ladies’ Suit by Remedios Varo

    Sometimes in our lives we are faced with different challenges that require us to act in certain forms; or must I say react, if we were still doing so. Later on we look back upon our actions and we might feel guilt, shame, regret… Is that who I am? We might ask ourselves. Or we might think we were stupid, uncontrolled by our emotions, or maybe fears.

    But that isn’t who we are, neither it was who we were. We were only acting upon unconscious programming and there is no way back. Therefore, there is no need to feel regret. Oh, it is so easy to write it down! I know, it took me more tan twenty years to accept myself, accept my past reactions, and I am still working on it.

    This is where patience and self love come into action. We must first nurture ourselves, our souls; we must empathize with our past beings to be able to accept ourselves and continue our journeys and paths without looking back. And the only way to accept ourselves is to do a continued work of soul healing, of meditating and connecting to our true beings. Only this way we can stop identifying ourselves with our ego, with our actions, with our mistakes, with our personalities; because all that is the illusion of self, it is not who we really are.

    Once we integrate this thought into our lives we can start accepting things as they are, without all the false fumes of identity. And only then we can share this experience with another soul, who we will accept completely.

    Union and love start with acceptance and respect for whatever the present may bring, for whatever the situation may be.

    Acceptance of the present moment; acceptance of our true beings; acceptance of the world, of our interactions with it; acceptance of our bodies, minds and souls. That’s the only secret for true, lasting, real happiness.

     

     

  • Breathe in… Breathe out…

    Art by Kinuko Y. Craft
    Art by Kinuko Y. Craft

    Creativity can only flow through one’s personal sense of life. We create in order to survive. In order to thrive.

    Each thought is a probability of existence. Each present instant was an ephemeral thought in another time, in another place, in another idea.

    And only in silence can we breathe. Breathe the echoes of all existence into that one instant of freedom, that will last eternally. Ignoring the power of our own being can only cut the wings of our own rebirth. Because time is eternal in one second, and eternal in infinity.

    Breathe in, breathe out.

    Everything was meant to be as it is, because in the present there is no space for other possibilities. Can you breathe and let go? Can you accept each instant as it is? Freedom will be your gift, freedom of being who you are; who you are.

    Some nights I catch myself lost in the entanglement of trying to understand, trying to grasp with my mind the complete structure of existence. But there is no understanding possible when the ego is limited. How can infinity be comprehended through the senses? It can only be lived, it can only be celebrated, it can only be felt through the path of no attachment. No attachment to the idea of yourself, no attachment to the structures that physical reality grants us.

    Our lives are a journey our souls need to able to experience in order to go back home. Although home has never left us. What a paradox to walk a path that has no destination; a journey that is the destination in itself. Being love, being light, being endless is who we are. All the rest is just a mirror, a reflection through which we can create a walking dream. It is only through the present instant that we can write our stories, live fully our dreams.

    Breathe in, breathe out.

    The palpitation of the Universe is in our breath. We anchor ourselves to reality through our ego, but we can fly through infinity through our breath.

    Breathe in, breathe out. Just breathe.

     

     

     

  • Vacío. Nada.

    Siento mi sangre recorrer mis venas. El corazón palpita. Estoy viva.

    Mi cuerpo está vivo, y muere cada segundo. Pero mi mente, mi ser, son infinitos y crecen cada segundo.

    Qué paradoja crecer y morir a un tiempo.

    A un tiempo que ni siquiera existe.

    Sólo puede ser que crecer, vivir y morir sean lo mismo;

    Nada.

    Todo.

    Nunca y para siempre. ¡Está tan clara la confusión! ¡Es tan transparente la confusión!

    Es extraño cómo todo cambia y a la vez permanece inalterable. Porque nada cambia más que nosotros mismos. Vemos todo como un reflejo de nuestra alma y, a veces, de nuestros miedos; que nublan y destruyen las más hermosas visiones para dejar en su lugar un rastro de pesadillas y monstruos imposibles de controlar.

    Respira…….

                               Respira……..

    Inhalar……

                   Exhalar……

    Conectar con el Todo. Ser. Dejar de ver la ilusión.

                                                   No existen ni los sueños, ni las pesadillas.

    Me tranquiliza pensar que sólo hay vacío.

    Vacío.

  • Empty

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    Art: Kasimir Malevich, Black Circle, State Russian Museum (St. Petesburg).

     

    I lost everything so I could be right.

    And then, winning felt so empty.