Gérard de Nerval (1808-55),
French novelist, poet.
Flowers
have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.
They
are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty
of the character,
though
few can decypher even fragments of their meaning.
Lydia M. Child (1802-80), U.S. abolitionist,
writer, editor. Letter,
Sept.
1, 1842 (published in Letters from New York, vol. 1, Letter 26,
1843).
To
see a world in a grain of sand
And
a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold
infinity in the palm of your hand
And
eternity in an hour.
William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter,
engraver.
Auguries
of Innocence, in Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
If
the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy,
and
life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs,
is
more elastic, more starry, more immortal-that is your success.
All
nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily
to
bless yourself. - Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), U.S. philosopher,
author,
naturalist. Walden, "Higher Laws" (1854).
The principle of God being all there is,
is not fully comprehended until every last appearance to the
contrary is nothingized. Every time you nothingize an appearance
you see through it to yet another manifestation of God, complete
in itself, and in the most intimate resonance with the infinity
of God's manifestation. Multiplicity of appearances ultimately
nothingize to reveal infinity where multiplicity appeared.
We actually begin to see God manifesting
in our lives. All that is going on in the first place, of course,
is that God and God alone IS manifesting in our lives infinitely.
But as we apply that principle to nothingize the appearances,
those appearances dissolve to reveal the Truth they were a lie
about. Yes, it is the same truth we started off with, but there
is a deeper revelation of what consciousness experiences when
it knows it is the one and only infinitely manifesting God.
Each healing or miracle is a revelation of
God's manifestation. All that a miracle is, is a revelation of
another attribute of God's infinite manifestation, not only in
insight, but also in the elevation of the quality of the flow
of one's life as it moves more in alignment and harmony with
the attribute newly revealed. You're life feels like its becoming
symphonic. Extraordinary coincidences chime perfectly in place.
Every encounter is the perfect encounter and ripe with the most
extraordinary of all opportunities -- the opportunity to nothingize
yet another mass-consciousness belief contrary to the nature
of God and as a consequence REVEAL the manifestation of attributes
of God that were previously hidden. As you leave your wake of
miracles, you feel yourself BEING the manifestation of God, the
manifestation of Grace. As you flow into being one note in the
divine symphony you find yourself feeling a more intimate union
with the entire symphony. You have a glimmer already that if
you were to live totally by grace and inspiration alone, you
would feel the most intimate union with God and all God's manifestation.
In a way it surprises you. You still do what
you used to do. You might refine it a little, but basically you
still do what you were doing. The difference is that it is no
longer important. The only thing that is important to you now
is nothingizing appearances so that God can be more fully revealed.
You still talk about the latest movies or politics or cooking
or whatever, you still work and play, but now you're wide, wide
open to God manifesting. And almost to your surprise God does
manifest, right there in your life, in countless thousands of
subtle, exquisite, gracious and liberating ways. It wouldn't
matter to you whether you were a housekeeper or a movie star.
Your important business would be just the same -- to nothingize
appearances so that God can be more fully revealed. And you find
that you really like the work. You're delighted to discover that
it is incomparably better than any other job you've had before.
Inspiration begins to lead you to a continual discovery of your
part in the divine symphony. You feel completely at home. You
know your purpose and mission in life and are living it.
A resurrection takes place. You rise from
the tomb of the mass consciousness belief in duality, you rise
up out of the tomb of fear, worry, anxiety, peril, stress, lack,
weakness, grief, terror, pain, suffering, guilt, confusion, alienation,
loneliness, frustration, irritation, and all the other lies about
God's attributes and rise to live as the Son of God, One with
God, in a world consisting only of God manifesting limitlessly.
Your life becomes the great adventure of discovering the limitlessness
of God. It doesn't even matter to you anymore what appearances
present themselves to you for nothingization. Any appearance,
great or small, is another opportunity to discover yet even more
of God's limitlessness. And after a while, others will come to
you, offering you their appearances for you to nothingize. And
it's all fine by you. As far as you're concerned, there isn't
anything better to do than to reveal more of God's limitlessness.
You nothingize both the assumed and projected
aspects of the appearance as two sides of the same lie, and both
sides, both you and your world, dilate further into God's limitlessness.
Your whole life becomes a dilation, an opening up, a blossoming,
an unfolding.......a flower.