……Spiritual reading
April 22
Your life in form is like an exquisite string of pearls reaching from right where you are at this time, far off, farther than you can see and farther than you can fathom. Each pearl is a moment, an extraordinary orb comprising layer upon luminescent layer.
Today, we want to encourage you to again be conscious of each breath, every moment of your amazing life.
This is not something that most people can do for five minutes on end, much less for a day or a lifetime. But any increase in awareness that you can bring to your being—no matter how small– will have effects beyond the effort expended. In other words, a relatively minor expansion of your moment-to-moment awareness will yield relatively major gains in understanding, consciousness and joy. It is definitely worth a try!
Today, if you are able, allow yourself not just to be aware of your awareness, but of the different layers of your being. Try to notice the mind thinking, the body sensing and moving, the heart feeling, the consciousness watching. And anything else you find.
You are many things at once, and to hold them all at the same time is a rare form of mastery.
Even if you do it for a second—fantastic! We want you to begin to feel, to sense the wholeness refracted which is the essence of what is present within and all around you. When you are able to know this — within yourself — you will be better able to know it, and see it as it is in the world. To know and see both the One and the Many gives you incomparable compassion, and a clarity that will bring you great peace.
Keep in mind the image of the pearls. Each breath holding so much and yet simply a breath. Your lives in form are unbearably rich; we hope that you will be able to bear just a little more of the wealth that is yours today than you did yesterday.
We love you and send all blessings.
–E. West
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