“Somehow, by some outrageous grace, a new day has been given. There is no greater miracle than this. Allow yourself to receive the benediction of pure presence, for it is your birthright. It is wired inside you and yearning to erupt from your totally untamed wildness. For when it does, an avalanche of clear beauty is unleashed, sending love stories, wild music, and sweet poetry into the stars and supernovas, seeding the galaxies with your unique light.”
-Matt Licata
Those words are so stunningly beautiful. I too want to “erupt into untamed wildness, and unleash an avalanche of clear beauty” just as Matt Licata writes. May you too feel the avalanche of “love stories, wild music, and sweet poetry” moving “into the stars and supernovas, seeding the galaxies with your unique light.”
Oh my goodness yes, I wish this for you, for me, for all our relations!
don Miguel Ruiz’s four agreements provide a path for deepening into the simple life that is clear, uncluttered and transformational. On the road of life’s journey these are simple tenants of being in the world that can be life changing and enhancing when expressed in each moment. There is ease and comfort here. Remembering.
Ruiz creates an invitation of exploration. What could living this life road look like? Feel like? Although simple, these four agreements require a constancy and attention. Truth in action. Awareness.
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
Simple.
Life changing.
I believe the first tenant, “be impeccable with your word”, means not just spoken words but thoughts too… keeping it true and right in thought and word – impeccable. A tenant to aspire to.
Ruiz’s little book, The Four Agreements, explains the tenants further, but each person can evaluate the truths hidden within each one for themselves. There’s a tiny pocket version too – perfect to slip in your purse or backpack.
I love that this Ancient Toltec wisdom is still with us in 2014 and can be slipped into a backpack in tiny book form….. continuing to help us become wise, wild and free!
“Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”
“Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.”
“Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next.”
“To be Toltec is a way of life. It is a way of life where there are no leaders and no followers, where you have your own truth and live your own truth. A Toltec becomes wise, becomes wild, and becomes free again.”
Is there anything more peaceful and powerful to the soul’s experience than the rhythm and power of surging, moving water? Torrents of water are falling from the sides of mountains everywhere now. Where the water narrows into smaller and smaller spaces the intensity builds to a crescendo of power and music.
Negatively charged ions are showering us when near this powerful movement of water. This is a good thing!!
From the article “Ions and Consciousness” in the magazine “Whole Self”:
Technically speaking: “Ions are charged particles in the air that are formed in nature when enough energy acts upon a molecule such as carbon dioxide, oxygen, water, or nitrogen to eject an electron from the molecule leaving a positively charged Ion. The displaced electron attaches itself to a nearby molecule, which then becomes a negatively charged Ion. It is the negative ion of oxygen that affects us the most.”
I also read from Comtech Research: “the normal ion count in fresh country air is 2,000 to 4,000 negative Ions per cubic centimeter (about the size of a sugar cube). At Yosemite Falls, you’ll experience over 100,000 negative Ions per cubic centimeter. On the other hand, the level is far below 100 per cubic centimeter on the Los Angeles freeways during rush hour.”
So, get out to the rushing, moving water! Feel the positive energy all ’round and Breathe!
“As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.”
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Searching, absorbing teachings, reading the masters, sitting in meditation, being with nature… all in the quest for “enlightenment”.
The seeking for the deepest truths is a lifelong quest, but the journey to enlightenment finds us right where we started… in this very moment, being truly and uniquely who we are. Knowing the creative potential in the moment, with focused, savoring, attention on the be-ing-ness of living, takes me as close as I think I’m going to get to enlightenment – and it is enough.
As the quote goes:
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
“As I begin to love myself, I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egotism. Today I know it is love of oneself.”
-April 16, 1959, Charlie Chaplin, (on his 70th birthday)
“Something inside you emerges….an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Today I surround myself with Good things. Nature, my dog, nurturing food, lovely wine, home, books to grow from, flowers, big green trees, quiet, earth magic.
Deepening into a simple life can help expand the complexity of the inner world exponentially. Creative juices flow freely. Self dialogue is more limited and the experience of life’s energy more pronounced. Frequency and vibration are elevated. A quiet, calm, attentive, absorptive state of being prevails.
Peaceful. Connected.
Take a moment, a long sweet breathing moment, and feel the energy moving and becoming, spreading beyond all boundaries. Feel the interplay. Divine!
“Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
-Sister Corita Kent
“And what is man without energy? Nothing – nothing at all.”
-Mark Twain
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
On this day that we celebrate Fathers (and those that Father the land, the four legged, all children and adults who need it), we acknowledge that to do this well, renewal of the awe and wonder of each experience, as if seen for the first time, helps immeasurably in the communion and understanding of the little ones.
Seven days with a one and a half year old renews and teaches again this moment to moment seeing with eyes that see wonder! This is a joyful, revelation inducing, wisdom centered existence of be-ing in this world. May we all remember to see through the eyes of a child…
“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.”
don Miguel Ruiz’s four agreements provide a path for deepening into the simple life that is clear, uncluttered and transformational. On the road of life’s journey these are simple tenants of being in the world that can be life changing and enhancing when expressed in each moment. There is ease and comfort here. Remembering.
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
r; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
