Trying to find God
By John Robinson
Trying to find God on a dry and dusty dust highway excessive within the Los Gatos hills one stifling sizzling summer time day, I used to be intensely annoyed. The non secular retreat that introduced me right here was good, however I used to be not getting what I wished. I stored strolling, climbing larger and better, and repeating, “God, the place are you? The place are you? WHERE ARE YOU?” Instantly I sensed one thing and stopped in my tracks. A consciousness now surrounded me. House was alive, awake and conscious of me. I knew then that consciousness was not simply in me, I used to be in it, and it was God’s consciousness. Put merely, my consciousness was God’s consciousness. This gorgeous realization heralds the center of the magical expertise – divine consciousness permeating existence, calling us to awaken to our personal divinity.
I’ve been writing and educating concerning the mystical expertise for over 25 years – 12 books on the character and energy of this common expertise together with quite a few articles and workshops. Upon turning 75, I felt the compelling must disappear into solitude, to stay extra totally within the mystical consciousness I used to be writing about. So, I did. For 3 years! Because the expertise deepened, I began spontaneously writing mystical poetry within the custom of Hafez, Rumi, Kabir, and Gibran. A whole lot of poems poured forth, and so they nonetheless hold coming from the deep place of God’s residence in my soul.
I consider anybody can have an expertise God’s presence and that mystical poetry has the facility to awaken its insights and revelations. Sourced from mystical consciousness, the phrases and concepts from this style of poetry are alive with Spirit. They’re residing issues that may act in you when you allow them to. You transition from receiver to participant to mystic, for whenever you enter the poem, the poem enters you, and your complete orientation towards the divine cosmos is progressively remodeled.
Listed here are three poems to awaken your consciousness. Earlier than studying them, discover a quiet, uninterrupted, meditative second and use a phrase, prayer, intention or lit candle to create sacred house to obtain the poetry. While you’re centered, centered and prepared, learn the phrases slowly. Whisper them aloud when you like. Keep current. Absolutely expertise every line and take a second between readings to allow them to sink in. Start…
One Consciousness
God’s consciousness fills the universe.
All the pieces incorporates and expresses it.
The world is alive, awake, conscious,
loving, and breathtakingly clever.
We every share this consciousness
although we wrap it in private id and
assume everybody’s model is uniquely theirs.
What does this imply?
It means you have got direct entry to
the consciousness of God.
This realization alone can
start your awakening.
Discover Your Sacred Path
If you’d like the divine life,
take heed to consciousness,
for the Different seems out your eyes,
feels together with your physique,
loves by way of your love.
Your consciousness is already enlightened.
Experiencing this
sanctifies your life,
each element transfigured in magnificence,
for the divine is the holy essence
of your neighbor, lover, baby, buddy,
pet, plant, moon, solar,
your complete blessed Earth.
That is the divine world.
Unfold peace and love,
discover your life’s sacred path.
It begins proper the place you’re standing.
Getting into the Thriller
Cease pondering.
Be very nonetheless.
Breathe slowly.
Turn out to be intensely awake and
conscious of your environment,
particularly the best way gentle and shadow continually
rework the surfaces of the world.
Look at each little factor as when you’ve
by no means seen it so clearly earlier than.
Now focus consciousness again on itself and
really feel God respiratory you,
turning into you,
turning into Creation.
Whisper your secret title for God,
and love rushes up from inside,
ending all confusion about why you’re right here.
Enter Heaven right here on Earth.
Keep awhile.
Sit within the silence of mystical consciousness for one more minute or two. Really feel, sense and attune to its continued presence. Then write a little bit about your expertise. You would possibly even be impressed to start your individual mystical poem. While you’re prepared, return to on a regular basis consciousness and resume the day’s occasions.
Conclusions
The good Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, mentioned, “The one factor God asks of you is to let God be God in you.” Realizing that God is your consciousness, dissolve the self-idea into the One, and step into the divine thriller. Life on the earth seems so totally different from right here.
John Robinson is the writer of Divinity Rising: Past Phantasm, Struggling and Dying. It joins his first ebook of mystical poetry, I Am God: Perception and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness. Each at the moment are accessible. Be taught extra about John at www.johnrobinson.org and be part of him for stay studying of his mystical poetry at this hyperlink: https://conta.cc/3Ef7egj
