Deep Within Us All (11/6)

“God is not someone else.”
-Thomas Merton

Let’s begin with music for calming the mind, opening the heart, restoring one’s soul.

Words to ponder in your heart from Quaker mystic Thomas R. Kelly: A Testament of Devotion. Always fresh and renewing, I invite you to read these words slowly and aloud to yourself. In your own being you experience the deep truth of these words.

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may continuously return.  Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto Itself.  Yielding to these persuasions, gladly committing ourselves in body and soul, utterly and completely, to the the Light Within, is the beginning of true life.  It is a dynamic center, a creative Life that presses to birth within us.  It is a Light Within which illuminates the face of God and casts new shadows and new glories upon the face of men.  It is a seed stirring to life if we do not choke it.  It is the Shekinah of the soul, the Presence in the midst.  Here is the Slumbering Christ, stirring to be awakened, to become the soul we clothe in earthly form and action.  And He is within us all.

Conclude with this blessing for you and for all humankind, for all beings everywhere.

“So it was you all along
Everyone I ever loved, it was you.
Everyone who ever loved me, it was you.”
-C.S. Lewis

With you in beginning to evolve from self-consciousness to God-consciousness.

We are all sparks of the Divine flame
Blessed Be
Boldly Be

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