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Found this a gentle reminder to be in touch with the 'beauty that surrounds us'

As Summer appraches and Spring comes near an end, I listen to a beautiful mating

call from one of the winged ones outside my window. A wonderful way to begin

this beautiful day. Aloha pumehana to all! In Light )'( Skye

 

 

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Soul Perspectives on ... Beauty and the Heart

 

 

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Beauty and the Heart

When we enter the paradoxes of life – time and space, the infinite and the

eternal, form and Spirit – and we allow the opposites to affect us deeply –

through our senses and through our life energy – we enter transcendent

simplicity, we fall in love, we are inspired by Beauty. We then affirm life, and

accept death as a joyful part of it. We celebrate freedom without fleeing the

pain and limitations of old ties and perceptions. We embrace others in full

acceptance without bias or prejudice. We understand and forgive, and choose to

give freely of ourselves. Beyond the impossible and the irrational is the Real –

the Good, the True and the Beautiful.

Both Beauty and the Heart refer to soul – that dimension of being we call

consciousness that arises when we stand facing in opposite directions at the

same time – toward eternity and toward time, toward infinity and toward space,

toward unity and toward complexity. We stand in that dualism without being

dualistic, for in consciousness we can accommodate the opposites. We do this by

identifying with both. This identification results in the experience of being an

individual while at the same time being the whole, and we find no contradiction

in this experience. It is very easy in identifying with being an individual, for

we do it all the time. It is not so easy to identify with the whole. This is

where we need more experience.

The only way this can take place is by being at peace, which implies no

complex series of emotional reactions nor self-referencing (and therefore

limiting) thoughts. Simplicity or peace is a state of being that occurs within

the heart, the soul, the consciousness of being both Spirit and form at the same

time. In this consciousness there is no room for ego as the centre of being, for

ego is complex.

Spirit and form must be given equal value in the Path of the Heart, the soul

journey, for the beauty of the one is a dimension of the beauty of the other.

Our contact with reality is always either directly in the form or directly in

Spirit (such as occurs in meditation). But when beauty of the one is

experienced, the door to the beauty of the other opens – but only if the beauty

touches one’s heart and is experienced there. Soul as Heart is the instrument of

union, and therefore the initial contact with beauty will draw one into its

fuller dimensions.

That which gives the soul in us its magnetic power to link the opposites is

the fact that our soul is part of all soul. Our individual soul is part of the

soul of humanity, which in turn is part of the planetary soul, which is part of

the anima mundi (literally ‘soul of the world’). These are not souls but soul.

Soul is singular, not plural. Soul is a force or power that creates union. It is

omnipresent in all things. It is that bridge that is not seen that keeps form

intrinsically tied to its Spirit cause. Soul is what creates a unity between

time-space realities and their eternal-infinite source.

It is the soul of things that demands our attention, that reaches out to our

heart and to our imagination to grasp their essence. It is the soul in people

who cry out: ‘Pay attention to me!’ When we are not conscious, this takes the

illusion of ego crying out, but it is really soul behind ego doing it. When we

face the one crying out and we are not conscious then we do not hear with our

heart and do take the other into our heart. We are left then with only one

option – judge, reject, condemn, ignore, accuse. We stand separate, outside of

Love and untouched by Beauty.

Why the call, ‘Pay attention to me?’ Everything and everyone sends out this

message all the time. Behind this is another call – ‘Love me.’ And deeper still,

another – ‘Be one with me.’ And finally, at the deepest level the radiation of

the truth – ‘We are one.’ These messages come from the soul and can be heard

only by the heart of another. The heart will hear it if it is not preoccupied

with its own survival or isolated well-being. We experience the ‘We are one’

when we enter the Beauty of the other in our heart.

Heart is not only receptive; it is also active. It is therefore both yin and

yang functioning as one. The Heart observes carefully as it goes out of itself

into the other.

Through Heart we bring ourselves as individuals or parts into rhythmic harmony

with the whole or the greater reality. In the biological world of the physical

heart when a larger cell is brought into contact with a smaller cell, the

smaller cell stops its rhythm (cell-beat) momentarily and then aligns its beat

with the rhythm of the larger cell. This is analogous to what happens whenever

the lesser in life is brought into contact with the greater. This is the power

of transformation. When our consciousness contacts Beauty, that which is in our

consciousness that is not harmonious with Beauty stops briefly from casting its

influence and begins to align itself with Beauty. What is required is the

persistent focus on Beauty for sufficient alignments and transformations to take

place.

What is most real and most fulfilling for any part is its place and function

within the whole of which it is a part. Its growth or self realization occurs

when it aligns itself most closely to that whole and functions as one with it.

Our contact with Beauty enables this alignment to occur between our personality

and Spirit, between our individuality and our group, and between our humanity

and our divinity. We are one.

 

Exercises:

1. What attitude on your part opens you to a deep experience of unity with

another?

2. When Beauty touches you deeply what effects does it have on your thinking

and acting?

3. How can you make the experience of Beauty a more consistent part of your

daily life?

 

 

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