Divine – Bright, shiny objects!

Mastin Kipp shares this:

What if it were true that nothing was wrong with you? What if you are actually perfect? And the only thing that prevents you from feeling this way most of the time is the story you tell yourself about why you’re not.

You could have gotten this story from all kinds of places. From your parents, from events that happened, from culture or society – there’s all kinds of places where this story could have come from.

But, what if your core is perfect? What would that feel like? What would that make you think and believe about life and what’s possible?

When I say perfect, I don’t mean the achiever’s definition of perfect… with the house, the cars, the money, the body, etc., etc., etc. I’m not talking about outward “perfection”. I’m talking about intrinsic inward perfection.

What if you were and are a child of The Divine and at your core, you are Spirit and there is nothing wrong with you? But instead, what you think is “wrong” with you are just brilliant ways for you to have gotten your needs met. Your need for Love, to feel valuable, to feel worthy, to feel significant, to feel variety and connection. And that you have been doing the best you can from your point of view to get these needs met?

And what if there were healthier ways to get your needs met?

What story have you been telling yourself about what’s wrong with you?

You’re too – what?

Or… you’re not enough – what?

Are those stories actually true? Or could there be another way? Could there be a more empowering story that you could tell yourself about who you are? Instead of feeling like a failure or feeling wrong or feeling like you aren’t enough – what if you changed the story to…

You did the absolute FREAKIN best that you could given your life circumstances. And that you know that you are MORE than your circumstances and so you can rise above them by making a new choice. That your circumstances are not your identity – your identity is a Soul – an Infinite Soul with Infinite potential connected to an Infinite Creator and that as you learn new skills, make new distinctions and become even MORE aware of The Divine perfection within you – you can create new habits and create a new identity.

If that were true – what would be possible for you? What in your life could change?

Source: Your core is perfect! Now what!?

Curated from Steve McSwain @ Mindful Living on Huffingtonpost.com who writes:

Benjamin Whichcote said, “The human soul is to God as a flower is to the sun; it opens at its approach; it shuts when it withdraws.”

Today, I will approach the sun; I will open to all that is divine. And the approach? Well, it’s just a simple acknowledgement, perhaps a thought, the awareness of desire, attention to a tiny inclination. It’s like magic really. There is no effort whatsoever.

It was Jesus who purportedly said, “Look at the flowers of the field … they neither toil nor spin … and yet, your heavenly father sees them … knows them” (Matthew 6).

No flower ever struggled to open to the sun. It simply turns and looks — and then, it freely shares its color and fragrance with the world.

How beautiful. I think I’ll be the same. Why must I make knowing God into a struggle? Why would I allow the religion within which I was raised continue to hound me inside my head with a catalogue of reminders of what I must do in order to be? No, instead, I’ll lay aside that narrow conditioning and just do nothing but be. I feel such freedom when I’m doing less and being more — more of who I am: a beautiful human flower, simply and effortlessly, opening to the sun.

Ah, that’s it for me. Which reminds me of something Thomas Merton once whispered: “As soon as a person” — that’s me and perhaps you, too — “As soon as a person is inclined to be with God” — as I am and, again, perhaps you are, too — “As soon as a person is inclined to be with God, they are … no matter where they are … in the monastery, in the city, in the woods.”

“Furthermore,” he continued, “Just when it would seem as if he (or, she) is in the middle of his journey” — and, for me, that’s like, most of the time — “Know this: he has actually arrived at his destination already.”

Already? You mean, I’m there now? In the sun? That this thought of God, this inclination for God that I feel from time to time, that’s all it takes and I’m in full bloom already?

Wow! What a Divine thought! Thank you Thomas. Thank you Whichcote. How could I not thank you? Whisper more, my friends. And do so often, this and every day. I’ll be listening for your reminders.

Will you, too? Yes, you, reading this. Can you lay aside the need to judge, to critique, to complain, to express your disapproval and so, temporarily suspend the insatiable need to evaluate the world — to fix, as if you could, what’s wrong with it? Can you release, at least for now, the impulsive need to see who’s reading what you’ve written, commenting on what you’ve labored over? Can you stop doing long enough to simply be? To look? To listen? To blossom?

I have to remind myself of this often, driven as I am to produce, to please, to proclaim, to complain, to impress, to make certain I’m heard, read and, mostly, admired by somebody — anybody. Even a critic and his criticism is better than nothing.

Today, however, I intend to do nothing. Instead, I plan to listen, to observe, to be open to perspectives other than my own, to watch for the divine reminders. They’re everywhere. But they usually come as whispers and are easily missed.

The same is true for you. Know that the sun is shining and you, my friend, are blossoming into Life itself. You are the color on the canvas of creation that creates what’s beautiful about this world. You are the fragrance that makes all things better. You are the flower that blooms and, in the end, what else could possibly matter more?” via Steve McSwain: As A Flower To The Sun”

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