{"id":38,"date":"2010-02-08T00:33:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T00:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/?p=38"},"modified":"2023-06-23T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T11:03:24","slug":"quiet-rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Rapture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lovelight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-107\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"lovelight\" src=\"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lovelight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lovelight.jpg 300w, https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lovelight-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mmmmmmmmmmmhhhh. . .<\/p>\n<p>I am completely open<\/p>\n<p>to direct guidance<\/p>\n<p>I let go of any illusion of me<\/p>\n<p>as a lone individual<\/p>\n<p>and I\u2019m aware of the many spirits who are connected to me<\/p>\n<p>and I have open, direct communication with them<\/p>\n<p>I welcome spiritual guides as part of my awareness<\/p>\n<p>it feels like a partnership<\/p>\n<p>What I realize is that what\u2019s gotten in the way in the past<\/p>\n<p>is simply my ego \u2013<\/p>\n<p>the belief that I am the one doing this.<\/p>\n<p>I liked that because I could take the credit<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see you guys so it must be just me . . . \u201c<\/p>\n<p>(bright laughter)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what a silly thing!<\/p>\n<p>When I relax into what&#8217;s more real,\u00a0 I know that I am a unique individual<\/p>\n<p>and I also understand that<\/p>\n<p>I am a teeny tiny little light<\/p>\n<p>In a sea of infinite light<\/p>\n<p>and to try to shine less or more<\/p>\n<p>than any other light<\/p>\n<p>is a really silly idea.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I can see a million moments in my life where I\u2019ve done that<\/p>\n<p>(more loving laughter)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, that little ego<\/p>\n<p>The thing to do with that little ego when I notice it wanting to be more special and take credit<\/p>\n<p>is to just remind myself that there is nobody else just like me<\/p>\n<p>that\u2019s all I need to know.<\/p>\n<p>My significance is felt when I see my truest light shining<\/p>\n<p>my significance is to shine, to shine pure love<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m realizing that my mind uses these words love and light as though they are separate things<\/p>\n<p>But what I\u2019m experience now is that the love and the light and the dark are exactly the same.<\/p>\n<p>Pure energy. Vibration.<\/p>\n<p>The most core reality there is.<\/p>\n<p>Everything. EVERYTHING is energy.<\/p>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<p>EVERYTHING is LOVE.<\/p>\n<p>It is what we are made of. What everything is made of. And the dark is where EVERYTHING originates.<\/p>\n<p>The sun is light.<\/p>\n<p>The sun is love.<\/p>\n<p>Food is light.<\/p>\n<p>Food is love.<\/p>\n<p>We are light.<\/p>\n<p>We are love.<\/p>\n<p>Light, the only constant \u2013 Love, the only constant. Same thing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to have a new word for this<\/p>\n<p>Just to say love and light creates two words with distance between them.<\/p>\n<p>A distance that is not real<\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that somewhere in language there must be a word that means both.<\/p>\n<p>In my body I\u2019m feeling Love\/Light as one<\/p>\n<p>This feels like the real stuff<\/p>\n<p>I can feel all these separations that used to exist blending, coming together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the experience of duality operating in separation<\/p>\n<p>Light was Spirit<\/p>\n<p>Love was Emotion<\/p>\n<p>Somehow those felt like different things<\/p>\n<p>This feeling is permeating all of me<\/p>\n<p>From here, these beings &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>these other presences<\/p>\n<p>are right here.<\/p>\n<p>And they are completely Love.<\/p>\n<p>I also understand why I don\u2019t have a lot of verbal dialogue with them<\/p>\n<p>When I ask for specific questions or guidance<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s much more about sensing a very quiet guidance.<\/p>\n<p>These guys are not chatty<\/p>\n<p>They say \u201cBe Still and Know\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s beyond language<\/p>\n<p>There is a physical sensation too<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s an anchor that\u2019s a way of recognizing that knowing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a deep calm in my solar plexus.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s interesting because it&#8217;s a place where I have felt so much tension for so long.<\/p>\n<p>The calm pulses very quietly and effortlessly pulls me to the right action.<\/p>\n<p>This is my guidance system when it comes to taking action.<\/p>\n<p>There are other centers that have other purposes at other times, but this is the important one to pay attention to now.<\/p>\n<p>It has to do with my purpose. It has to do with healing my relationship around Time.<\/p>\n<p>It has to do with healing my Self, my understanding of Self and how brightly I choose to shine in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I can trust this feeling completely<\/p>\n<p>I can trust it&#8217;s movement completely<\/p>\n<p>I can be still and in action in the same moment<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Be still and Know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mmmmmmmmmmmhhhh. . . I am completely open to direct guidance I let go of any illusion of me as a lone individual and I\u2019m aware of the many spirits who are connected to me and I have open, direct communication with them I welcome spiritual guides as part of my awareness it feels like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bliss","category-messages-from-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messagesfromspirit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}