Saturday, September 26, 2009

peace this day

"Nature is made to conspire with spirit
to emancipate us."__Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a bold yet lovely statement here about the profound wisdom and impact of nature. Nature, in all its pristine wonder and quiet splendor, certainly has the capacity to emancipate our inner spirits if we but take the time to stop, look, and listen.

Removed from the hectic and frenetic activity found in cities, in nature we can find a rest, a respite, a gentler type of reality. A gentler type of reality filled with inner peace and the soul of serenity. As we relax with her we can also tap into her harmonious flow of the life forces as they create and move in their mysterious pathways for variety and change.

And what is going on is also of a higher type teaching that is available for us as well. A higher teaching that is able to tap within each and every one of us, our own inner soul and expanded spirit.

If these are contacted, we are then able to resonate to nature's innate wisdom as freely given and available in the moment. As we tap into this wisdom we can then become one with its beauty and balance for our own inner awakening and spiritual realization.

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Peace This Day


May peace be yours today.

May the beauty of nature
lead your soul with its wonder

while happiness is the song
that dances your spirit.

May you lift your heart
to open & blossom,

as in joy it greets the sun
& sweet harmony

of this day.


(c. 2009, Shanti Rose, all rights reserved)

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Friday, September 4, 2009

the inner dance of spirit and soul







"The love of the soul is for wisdom and knowledge."__Rumi


The soul is our deeper Self, connected as it is to more of our spirit that dwells within each and every one of us. We all have those ongoing tasks of our daily lives, where we must deal with the many seemingly endless practicalities of living. This being so, we feel that most of us could also really use more time spent with our inner being, so to be able to experience more of its richness and gifts that it can offer to us in an ongoing way as well.

And what are these types of gifts anyway? These gifts are of the spirit and have to do with the knowledge that we can intuit with our souls on the subtle planes within of spiritual energies and also existence.

For this to happen, it does take ongoing periods of inner focus and also a practice of deeper concentration. This type of inner focus can be put into place by any of us at anytime, by starting and maintaining a routine meditation, if at all possible, in our lives daily.





A meditation practice is what can help us to establish this inner spiritual connection ongoing. It opens up the inner channels, so then we are able to have the gifts of its wisdom and knowledge. This will go a long way to create a more positive energy flow ithat will enter into all the areas of our lives, and on all levels.