Center for Spiritual Living Huntsville

The universe is everything and everywhere and is always available to us. It is up to us to call it inside ourselves and experience the One. 

Grace is the unmerited givingness of the Universe to all of us.  As we change our point of view, we shift from suffering to grace.  With faith there is no fear, and without faith, fear.

Embracing life requires that we adapt to change.  When we meet our resistance and our expectations with a smile and deep acceptance, we can let go again into the next inevitable moment.

“I will set You on my breath so You will become my life.” -- Rumi.  Conscious breathing takes us into the observer self where we lose our mind to gain our soul.  We then see from the awakened heart.

As our country celebrates Independence Day, we take in the freedom we have within. We are free from our thoughts as we choose our thoughts. In this way, we find the road home. 

When we stop chasing after the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, we begin to experience the aliveness of the journey.  The focus then shifts from the imagined future scene in the movie of our life to the present scene, here and now.  Every step reminds us how to live.  The walk is everything.

Could experience be for humans what erosion is for elements?  Is the purpose of experience, over a lifetime, to carry us to what matters and then wear us away till we become part of the sweet water the next generation drinks?  If this is so, then what is the work of being human?

Is it possible that with each inhalation we take in the world, we also awaken our soul?  And with each exhalation, do we free ourselves of the world which inevitably entangles us?  Is this how we fill up and empty a hundred times a day, seeking the gift of the two breaths?  Perhaps this is the work of being.

Rabindranath Tagore wrote, “Where the mind is without fear, the head is held high: where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward effortlessness, where the clear stream of life has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Into the heaven of freedom, let us awaken.”

The Dalai Llama has said that “My religion is kindness.” Kindness is the antidote to everything. It is the kindness and wisdom we encounter beyond our fears that brings us Alive.