Floating Clouds

The Navajos have a wonderful term for a great realization or insight hat is not sustained.  They cll it a floating cloud..  It's just there. It is beautiful in its shape and we describe it and we talk about it---and then it dissipates because it hasn't been mobilized or grounded or sustained.  On the spiritual journey we are generating lots of floating clouds.  We need to ground them so that they can become part of our very being.  Nothing changes unless it is grounded and manifested.  We can have many wonderful "aha" moments and epiphanies, but unless we embody them as parts of us, nothing really changes.  These experiences or "floating clouds" must become an integral part of our very being,  We must have the intention to incorporate them into our daily lives if they are to last.  Whatever your practice is, whether it be through , or meditation, or contemplation, or a combination of these, the practice must be consistent if you are going to experience a permanent shift in your worldview.  This is how you can assist in bringing about the transformation that we are all seeking.

Transcendent and Immanent

The Infinite Spirit which we call God is both transcendent and immanent; both personal and impersonal.  Transcendent because it is above and beyond the physical universe, immanent because it is expressing in, through, as and all around us.; impersonal  because as Law it is indiscriminating  and automatic, personal because as the very essence of our being,  as Love it is the very air we breathe.

These are difficult concepts for the intellect to comprehend, but there is something within the depths of our being which resonates with them.  Somehow, in a way that we don't fully understand, we know and know that we know that in Truth we are indeed One with the Infinite.

A way of Life

As we deepen our meditation practice, we find that it becomes not just a process we  do for so many minutes a day, but a way of life.  With our ever expanding awareness, we see the world as if through new lenses.  We feel our interconnectedness with all of life---a sense of oneness---that expands the heart and fills the soul with wonder.  We find beauty in unexpected places, places where we once might have turned our eyes away.  We see everything as an integral part of a magnificent  whole.

A New Age

A new age is dawning---a great evolutionary leap is happening right now!  We find ourselves on the leading edge of this great evolution.  As usual with any major change, two emotions compete for supremacy---fear and faith.  Wr feel a great internal shift taking lace in our consciousness, and with it may come, at first, a sense of dread, a sense that we are about to be overwhelmed by great changes over which we have no control.  But then, if we take tine to go within into the silence and listen for the voice of Spirit, there comes a great sense of peace, the peace that cos when we have absolute faith that God is all there is, and it is all good!
Jean Houston says that we must be "Transparent to transcendence"  We must clear our minds of all doubt and fear and open ourselves to that Divine Guidance which
shows us how to use our creative minds to help bring about the appearance of the "new human", the human some call "homo spiritualis" , the new being fwh, with God, brings about the global transformation that has been only a dream until now.
Great faith creares miracles.  Now is the time and we are the ones!

Gratitude

Many successful people have declared that constantly counting their blessings in a spirit of gratitude has been the main reason for their success.  This practice seems to create s magnetic atmosphere which attracts ever greater blessings,  Developing the ability to perceive that every experience, no matter how it may seem at the time, carries within it a blessing or a possibility of a healing allows a person to live in a constant sate of gratitude.    We have been given the gift of life so that we can come to an understanding of the truth of who we are----each a unique, individualized expression of the One Life, created with unlimited potential to live life to the fullest,  As we come to realize yhe magnitude of this gift, it is easy to allow ourselves to live in a constant state of gratitude, fully experiencing all of the love, peace joy and  abundance that life has to offer us.