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There are tender Kisses among the Trees
that start the gentle Breezes
ringing the Bells that move the Winter
to call the Snow to fall.
My world is One.
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Author Archives: Arlene
The Only One
There pours out from me a Silent River, so deep, and so full with Love. It is the Light
from which all lights shine and every star twinkles. It is the Source of all and It holds
all expressions of Itself in the tenderest care; in the most cherishing arms.
None will fall. None will bring forth what It is not. It is the very Breath that is breathed
in all of expressive form.
It is the Beginning that had no start and will not ever end.
It is the Strength that hums with softness.
It is the Stillness that is full of song.
It is the One; the Only One.
It is This that Is, and now I know, who I am.
You Are Not The World That Whirls About You
Beloved—
You come to Me in halting steps. You think of Me as you do another being in your world, arms crossed and at odds with you. You are prepared to receive a blow to your heart. But it is otherwise with Me. I am the Gentle One. I am the One you know best of all but are not sure about anymore.
I am your True Nature. In spite of all the things you feel about yourself and the world that whirls about you, at the deepest center of your being is peace. It is a peace not known in the world that whirls about you. In fact, the world that whirls about you is in your mind, is but an illusion about yourself.
You want to come to Me and wrap yourself in love and absolute acceptance. You can do this if you look within. Trust in your ability to imagine. Trust the subtle thoughts of your mind. Trust what takes place in yourself and need no consensus. Trust. Trust. Trust Me. Trust yourself as Me. We are one and we can be in peaceful harmony even while there whirls a world of fantasy and seeming turmoil about you.
You wonder how to come to Me and bask in the radiant warmth of My Life as all about you others cry out in pain. It is to their pain that the love you share with Me brings answers, but not as you know answers in the world that whirls about you. Answers from Me abound in you. You are afraid of this dialogue. Come to it nevertheless…it will expand in your heart until the time when all resistance is gone from you. You will hear this quiet knowing, you will know this quiet voice, you will remember who you are and all harm you have feared will be declared null and void, for it never happened. Never.
I am you in the best of yourself. You are Me and all that I am. Be assured, Beloved, there is nothing separating us. Trust the quiet Quiet that your mind can imagine. Trust your imagination. It will make Me real to you.
Be That!
What do you want? asked the bird on the tree above my head. It sang its words and I heard that a lovely day was in store for me.
What do I want? I asked myself.
I want to know what the wind is saying. I want to know the secret the bells are holding in their chime. I want to know how the sun makes its rounds in the world when its origin is the center of my heart. I want to know many, many wonderful things of life. But what I truly want, is to freely be myself in a world that feels like a magnetic pull outward to obey and never contradict it.
Oh Yes! said the bird. Be that.
And The Gentle One Said…
Dearest One–
Come with me to the magic garden in your mind. In your quiet mind you will find peace and all things worthy of contemplating. I am the One you seek and I whisper tender Words that are more than words. I whisper life itself, and it will fill you and expand you to vastnesses of beauty and joy that you can dream of and delight in and never lose.
Beloved one, in each moment, in each breath, I am with you. I never look away. My light never dims. I am always at hand, supporting, under-girding, guiding, showing the clarity of the path ahead that you travel to discover ever more of who and what you are. Your life is a precious self-discovery, one created to have you know Me and find fulfillment in simply being.
Yes, your life is a constant self-discovery. Constant is the flow from within to fill your outer world with the song and dance of your uniqueness in Me. Each moment, each moment, each moment, I am here. There is nothing else but my Presence. Feel it in yourself as you softly quiver to the Smile that I make within you to tell you of the joy I have in you being one who reveals I am here.
Believe only this, Beloved.