where love and awareness dance
Sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees. Most people live life from the ego-self, not by choice, by conditioning. Awareness as curiosity and love as motivation help us open up the obvious.
John Harper
a curious person…
HERE is the doorway. THERE is the rejection of here, and the fuel for continued ego activity. The conditioning of here-to-there is deep.
I thought a good life depended on me “figuring it out,” and using that knowledge for better, more rewarding here-to-there, this & that. Being where we are is challenging. It’s subtle, full of nuance – not an activity.
The amazingly wonderful thing is that as we learn about presence, and to be where we are without messing with ourselves, the past dissolves, we emerge into the here, we wake up from the conditioning, and live a life instead of continuing our attempts to get a life.
It really is – ALL ABOUT YOU – just not in the way we usually think of it. If you’re interested in exploring the obvious, please get in touch.
I went to the bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. – Stephen Wright
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Reading John’s book, brought to mind what Ken Carey said in the Third Millennium: “To orient your life around a structure of some other human being’s understanding is to worship a false god. It is to prefer the past-oriented knowledge of another to your own present-moment perception. It is to doubt both yourself and the Creator who would, if you permit it, awaken within you.” – Mayuri Onerheim, author, Money, Spirituality, Consciousness
The heart has
A courage
The mind
Cannot understand
Thus, she spends
Much of her life
In prison or exile
If you can move
Beyond fears and beliefs
For only a moment
To set her free
You will stand in awe
Not able to understand
How it’s possible
That this radiant beauty
Bears no scars
From all her wounding
(JH)