The Growing Capacity for Forgiveness
The Holy Nights and the unfiltered light of the spirit have led us deeply into our soul as an evolving, developing inner moral imagination. Over and over again, the spiritual hierarchies ask us to reflect on the experience of becoming, the experience of polarities and the experience of freedom.
Do pause for a few sacred moments and consider your personal sense of becoming during these nights. Do you feel different than the way you were before the Holy Nights began?
What about the polarities of human consciousness? Can you feel a center or see a center between two opposing experiences? Have you sought the awesome and awful point of balanced ambivalence?
And have had any moments where freedom from your numerous identities appeared - when you realize the spiritual sense of "I" that lives free of all qualifiers, containers and judgments.
If you have experienced any of these awarenesses, tonight's message will be, maybe not easy, but less difficult. If you have some awareness, you have forgiven something.
Without forgiveness, can you become an evolved self, can you live between the ever-present polarities and can you be free?
Tonight look at both aspects of forgiveness - to forgive and to be forgiven. Do you seek both equally? Just imagine yourself in the inner experience of both. What do they feel like? If during the Holy Nights you can truly imagine forgiving and being forgiven, the coming year will be blessed.
Don't go into any of your stories or dramas tonight. The specifics of our stories generally keep us from forgiveness, so release any specifics and just focus on feeling forgiveness. Feel a release, a restoration, a renewal. Feel wholeness and lightness.
Now think about the five sense that perceive the world - sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. How does each sense forgive? Can you forgive easily through one sense? Is there one sense that cannot bear to forgive something that offends it?
Here is another Holy Nights imagination that calls for poetry. Begin writing down a list of feeling words connected to forgiveness. Choose three words from the list and use them in a poem (or a paragraph) about the coming year and how forgiveness will live in your soul. Please share your efforts.
Do pause for a few sacred moments and consider your personal sense of becoming during these nights. Do you feel different than the way you were before the Holy Nights began?
What about the polarities of human consciousness? Can you feel a center or see a center between two opposing experiences? Have you sought the awesome and awful point of balanced ambivalence?
And have had any moments where freedom from your numerous identities appeared - when you realize the spiritual sense of "I" that lives free of all qualifiers, containers and judgments.
If you have experienced any of these awarenesses, tonight's message will be, maybe not easy, but less difficult. If you have some awareness, you have forgiven something.
Without forgiveness, can you become an evolved self, can you live between the ever-present polarities and can you be free?
Tonight look at both aspects of forgiveness - to forgive and to be forgiven. Do you seek both equally? Just imagine yourself in the inner experience of both. What do they feel like? If during the Holy Nights you can truly imagine forgiving and being forgiven, the coming year will be blessed.
Don't go into any of your stories or dramas tonight. The specifics of our stories generally keep us from forgiveness, so release any specifics and just focus on feeling forgiveness. Feel a release, a restoration, a renewal. Feel wholeness and lightness.
Now think about the five sense that perceive the world - sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. How does each sense forgive? Can you forgive easily through one sense? Is there one sense that cannot bear to forgive something that offends it?
Here is another Holy Nights imagination that calls for poetry. Begin writing down a list of feeling words connected to forgiveness. Choose three words from the list and use them in a poem (or a paragraph) about the coming year and how forgiveness will live in your soul. Please share your efforts.
