Following the Course That Your Life Provides…
You Should Never Fear What Storms Arrive

From the 1600s, one of the old philosophers compared our journey through life as traveling over the sea. He shared the following thoughts which I have in some cases modernized the words...

To the sea, this world may be compared,
For every person, who lives a life,
Is a pilot to a physical vessel there,
Some of little size or else a bigger frame.
Some, have their boat of their own life to guide,
Some of whole families who depend on their barge.

Some people govern whole townships and we may call this a little barge,
While others, rule great provinces, and they we may call captains of large ships.
Each has a course assigned to them as they enter their journey over the sea, they have their card, compass and due tack available for their journey,
And when each figures the course that they are on based upon those experiences that confront them,
They will accomplish all they have to do.

But many people leave the Care of their own course,
To judge or follow others, in their ways,
And, when their follies make their fortunes worse,
They curse the Destiny, which they should praise,
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For, waves, and winds, and that oft-changing weather,
Which many blame as the cause of their losses, though they observe it not, helps bring together,
A greater Wisdom to be learned through this change of course; new hopes may manifest,
So what appears to thwart one’s way, may soon depart and lead to a more enlightening pathway.
To inspire and empower. With love, in love and through love.

"Its Beauty Is Immense”

This was one of the descriptions that the ancients used to describe the Soul that resides in each one of us. That Divine Aspect that connects us directly to our Creator. Some refer to it as Soul and some as Spirit.

To reach this Divine Aspect, that is the direct link within ourselves, the ancient philosophers shared that we must rise up to a higher vibration which is reached with even the simple concept that ‘we know better than we do.” When one has the feeling that “we do not yet possess ourselves.”

Although many spiritual systems require long or intensive physical and mental regimes to reach enlightenment, there was another system that was used by some ancient teachers that took another approach.

This approach did not require a castigation of self and a constant questioning of why a particular action was taken. This approach was an offering of the earth-ego to work in conjunction with the more Divine Aspect that is within.

The Divine Aspect that is a wiser, loving, friend and teacher that we all possess, or we might more accurately say that we are within.

When you have the concept that we are here in the schoolroom to learn and that our Teacher is within and without, and you understand that “every sound that is spoken over the round world which you should hear, will vibrate in your ear,” you are becoming more in resonance with your Divine Aspect and Teacher.

“Every proverb, every book, every byword that belongs to you for your aid or comfort, shall surely come home though open or winding passages.”

When you are open and aligned with your Teacher within; every friend that should be a part of your life “shall lock thee in his embrace.”

When we raise from our personal ego-self, to follow our internal Teacher, and recognize that the heart within ourselves is the heart within all, when we understand that there is not “a vale, not a wall, not an intersection anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all people, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one, then we understand we are all One.

All things are sacred, all people are sacred and rather than just creating little shreds and patches as we go through life, we begin to live in a divine unity and understand that we are a thread in the total tapestry of life.

Emerson said, “The heart, which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind residing within finds itself related to all its works, and will travel a royal road to particular knowledge and powers…”

An aspect of the Creator is in your very being. That which you need is yours NOW, if you could raise yourself to the recognition of your true relationship to your internal Teacher.

The beauty that is your ‘Higher Self’ is immense. You align yourself to this higher aspect within when you have a heart that gives love and is open to receive love.

When you remember throughout the day that your inner Teacher has placed you within your activities to learn, and when you acknowledge this Divine Presence throughout the day and many times during the day, you bring your you have a greater understanding of life and why you are confronting particular people and situations.

Your Inner Teacher does not leave you alone and does not give you more than you can handle. Your Teacher instructs, supports and loves you.

When you listen, your Inner Teacher provides you a higher perspective of what is taking place along with the most spiritual approach to a situation.

Every religion and philosophy speaks of this higher aspect within us and how it supports, enhances, protects and guides us when we are open to its Presence within ourselves.

You don’t earn this Teacher nor do you have to join a group or follow any particular teachings to have access to this Divine Presence. You only need to raise yourself to the recognition of your true relationship with your Divine Self.

I used several terms to describe this inner source so that you will find the one that is most comfortable and resonates with you.

To inspire and empower. With love, in love and through love.

The One, The Beautiful and the Good

The Platonic Triad of the past was used to remind individuals that there is more to life than just the collection of ‘things.’

The One referred to the substance of all natures and being is the essence of the Creator. The Beautiful referred to the perfection of all natures and being, their rising to their highest and best. The Good referred to the proper utility of all natures and being.

Plotinus declared that the most worthy profession is the service of the beautiful and the destruction of beauty was the most heinous of all crimes.

The ancient Greeks emphasized the necessity of esthetics and established reference to the beautiful as one of the pillars of the State.

“In addition to the beauty of form, we have beauty of sound, which is harmony; beauty of mode or tempo which is rhythm; beauty of morality which is virtue; beauty of mind, which is intellect; and beauty of spirit, which is the ultimate good.”

We say people must eat in order to have the physical live. Not only do we need physical food, but there is a spiritual nature within us which must be fed with a superior diet for its highest and best development.

Sitting in a building one day a week and repeating words that have lost their energy might just be akin to taking in GMO foods. It is not about talking, it is about living and acting the philosophy behind the words.

The soul is fed through your eyes and other senses. The soul is fed through your thoughts. Incongruity regarding what you know is right and how you are acting causes the soul within to suffer. Those things that are grotesque and distorted are a poison to the soul.

He who surrounds himself with beauty nourishes his esthetic nature and will reach his highest spiritual potential. Beauty is essential to human survival and without its influence, people steadily deteriorate ‘into a state of crassness and degradation.’

Whoever reads the lives of the ancient giants of philosophy will be convinced that they studied things more than words, they looked to participate in a wisdom that included the understanding that a higher essence was contained in our physical vehicle.

The fears, hates and worries of people show that they have an undirected and bottled up emotional energy. When people involve themselves in esthetics they give a healthier channel to the impulses of their nature. When one is truly dedicated to the beautiful they will not fail to develop an inward grace.

“Nearly all human beings are in some way emotionally inhibited. Those inhibitions often break out in unbeautiful action and thought. These periodic outburst usually are attended by unfortunate consequences.

It was the profound writings of Ficino, during the Renaissance, that stated the fact that beauty generates love. The Divine Beauty created by God and placed within nature and all creatures allows them to recognize the Beauty without. When you allow yourself to recognize the Beauty without, you stimulate and generate the aspects of love because beauty looks to reunite with beauty.

The ancient writers said, “Love arises, then, from beauty holding to itself and yet going out from itself and finally returning to itself. So the generating aspect of love, seeks its final rest in its source, beauty.
Beauty holds to itself because it is the splendor of the Divine Goodness, and Goodness cannot ever become other than itself.”

Although 2300 years have passed since Plato’s Symposium on Love, it still stands as a high point of philosophical value. The love of a single form of beauty is then deepened into an impersonal love of all beautiful forms. The soul aspires to an appreciation of beautiful laws, institutions and sciences.

“Although specific objects of beauty are still of value, the soul cognizes clearly that they are but relative instances of true beauty. This expansion of consciousness makes one aware that the IDEA OF BEAUTY inherent in the soul is more to be desired than any of its outward expressions.”

“Taking its meaning into itself the soul knows beauty as a universal IDEA and henceforth people are capable of pondering the beauty of reality itself, and ‘Beholding beauty with the eye of mind’ they will be able to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities.”

If you believe in beauty then clap you hand as you read this now. Let this be a reminder that there is something grandeur that rides within our physical vehicle. This something does not carry the babbles of this earth plane on its continuing journey.

Navajo Walk in Beauty…

As I walk with beauty
As I walk as I walk
The universe is walking with me
In beauty it walks before me
In beauty it walks behind me
In beauty it walks below me
In beauty it walks above me
Beauty is on every side
As I walk I walk with beauty.
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To inspire and empower. With love, in love and through love.