Spiritual reading — gratitude and acceptance for what is; how to not crack up

October 4

There is a place where deepest sorrow and highest bliss meet. This is a place you may be able to touch, even rest in, today. It is a place of most profound gratitude and acceptance for what is, no matter its nature, and as such, is an extraordinarily sacred space.

*** the WWI movie “1917”

The book Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-18 by John Williams (which I read on Amazon Kindle thanks to donated Amazon gift cards) shows that Corporal Adolf Hitler had an eery serenity during four long years at the front lines while other men cracked and went insane.

He knew that, one, our souls are immortal, SO WE LITERALLY CANNOT DIE, just a body.

And two, war can either break you or evolve you to the highest level of love, heroism, focus and skill.

War forces you to be present, to live in the now. Lose your focus — and you will overlook something vital, get lost in your thoughts meanwhile, and thus you will be killed….. and perhaps get your buddies blown to bits as well.

Btw, there is a great quotation from Charles de Gaulle, my WWII enemy, in a statue at Omaha Beach in Normandy:

“War brings out both the worst and the best in humans.”

 

One loss of focus for one second, and you trip over a detonation wire. Or you scare a rat, and while you debate shooting it, it panics, it runs about, and it goes and hits the trip wire. 🙁

Mentally, be here now.

Shoot the rat. 🙂

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You may have found yourself in this territory yesterday; the energies were prepared to draw you in this direction. If that is the case, it may not be a such a great leap for you.

If it all sounds too strange, then just try to pay attention. Should it transpire that you are approaching any deep emotional state—whether it be what you categorize as positive or negative—try to drop more deeply into it.

Keep allowing yourself to go further into the feeling, and open yourself to the possibility that you will find its opposite number within, simultaneously.

The reason we encourage you to look for this space is because it will be very useful to you to know where to find it in the future.

As pure feeling-states increase in both depth and frequency, you will want a way to maintain equilibrium. Knowing that you can ride these feeling states—“good” or “bad”–to a place of at-oneness may just come in very handy.

The roller coaster is exciting, but there are times when it is absolutely necessary to get of it and to be touching a solid, still truth.

And contrary to what many people instinctively believe, you don’t have to stop the ups and downs to find balance and clarity. In fact, to do so often only deadens your relationship to the divine.

Rather, you can learn to follow the ups and downs until you trust the circle they always make, and know well how to use them to find that still and eternal place which connects your essence with the essence of all consciousness.

As you might have gathered, it will be another good day for looking within, listening and taking your cues from your own wisdom.

And this wisdom you already have is vaster, deeper and richer than you can begin to imagine.

Love and Blessings. — E. West

Embrace the hurt, the voyage of the hero, your highest wisdom, and your sacred duty.

Make no mistake:

Soon we will be in the same horrors. Will the rat-chewed face of a dead man freak you out?

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