You need to read this poem by Matt Kahn…a prolific spiritual teacher. Please read, feel this in your heart, and…
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Oh sweet soul, who’s learned so much, Your triggers ignited through the words you clutch. Rehearsals are done, your performance is set, To overemphasize what you’re meant to forget.
How much you’ve survived, you’ve come so far,
But correcting others is not who you are.
You’re desperate to feed a world with no bowl,
Please open your eyes – oh sweet soul.
Oh sweet soul, who can’t see past,
Each aha moment that cannot last
You’re not in charge of what needs to be known,
But here to inspire through actions shown.
Insight was gathered, you’ve become well-equipped,
To notice new patterns, while control still gripped.
You’ll encounter so many throughout fate’s play,
And fight for the chance to have your say.
Is projecting your ideas a part of the goal?
Please think again – oh sweet soul.
Oh sweet soul, why do you suggest,
Your concepts to those who act as your test.
You’ve looked within and found the Divine,
Clarity kindled, but you’re calling it “Mine.”
And now you debate to correct who you see,
Not seeing your shadow – a spiritual “me.”
It’s not liberation till you’re free of the thought,
That forces you to speak just to see where you’re caught.
You say that all is one like a truth that no one knew,
And if there’s only one – who are you speaking to?
Intentions are so pure, while blinded by a role,
Correcting all your critics – oh sweet soul.
Oh sweet soul, it’s time to open up,
And bring forth the love that overflows your cup.
There’s much to consider and many to embrace,
But no one to correct – no matter who you face.
I welcome every judgment, regardless how unclear,
To see the one I’m facing and know that God is here.
Silence makes one humble and humble helps you see,
Since there’s only one, we’re free to disagree.
I welcome each projection, as if you know my path,
You need it more than I do to validate your wrath.
You’re free to misperceive me and have the final word,
I thank you for the practice to let your voice be heard.
Why hide from your freedom, just let it takes its toll,
And break apart your certainty – oh sweet soul.
Oh sweet soul, may you come to realize,
You need not affirm what another one denies.
In a world of so much wisdom, there’s no end to what is true,
You’re free to do your dance and watch what captures you.
Repeating every concept, as if it meant a thing,
Performance never-ending for those who pull your string.
And even as I say this, you’ll turn it back on me,
As if the truth is hidden and only you can see.
I love the light within you, thank God it can’t prevent,
A chance to love you deeper despite the package sent.
Point out every fragment and misperceive the whole,
Your innocence respected – oh sweet soul.
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This is an interesting blog speaking of love… and our reaction to love! Those of us who are NOT immersed in self-love (need to be there folks!), must learn to surrender to love. Sounds scary until you really investigate the meaning of the word…surrender. This post explores the meaning of this word which brings comfort to the idea of…surrendering to love.
Hey, great idea that is completed by replaying the video of Matt Kahn, a very good spiritual teacher, explaining and exploring the concept of surrendering to love! Please read the article here followed by another posting of Matt Kahn’s thought. Please read, watch and …
I’ve been feeling lately that there is still something in me that is not on board with all this love stuff. Like, maybe I really don’t know how it feels to love. Or I don’t do it unconditionally. Or there’s something holding me back from living this intention of meeting all of life with love.
Part of me is still judging myself as not being deserving enough to receive it or worthy enough to give it to someone else.
Part of me still judges others actions and words so I feel like I can never even get to the loving part because of the unpleasant thoughts going through my head. I have often said, good thing there aren?t thought bubbles appearing over my head because no one would like me! This, of course, reflects my inability to love myself unreservedly, as underneath those judgments of others, resides the very same judgments towards myself.
This week I asked myself and others, what do I need to do to get to this place of living as a loving being, fully capable of expressing that love? I want to feel immersed in this place of unconditional love. How do I do that? Yes, I recognize that I am in that space more often than I am not, but there are times when I feel a distinct lack. Those moments are when I feel as though I am unable to be loving towards myself or someone else.
Surrender was the one word answer I got. Not only did I hear that word once, I heard it and ran across it multiple times, from many different sources, until I knew I was meant to listen to this message. This is important despite, or perhaps because of, my resistance. Immediately, into my head popped the image of the witch skywriting in the Wizard of Oz, Surrender Dorothy.
Now, what does surrender actually mean? I didn’t know what it meant in this context. I know what the word means to me and it brings up negative connotations. So I looked it up from dictionary.com
1. toyield(something)tothe possessionorpowerofanother;deliveruppossessionofondemand or duress.
That word has not held good connotations for me. I’ve heard of the surrendered wife and it gave me the creeps when I listened to religious people speak of that particular concept. That felt like handing over your own power to another person, a man, so they can make decisions for you because they know better than you do about what is best for you. I disagreed totally with that philosophy. It makes the you can?t tell me what to do woman in me fold her arms and dig in her heels and glare.
Surrender to me has meant giving up and quitting. Im not a quitter, as evidenced by my long term, unfulfilling marriage and jobs I hung onto for too long. Surrender has never felt right to me.
As I pondered this word for the past week, I have watched it continually pop up in my awareness. Surrender. If you notice, in the Oz movie there is no comma between the words Surrender and Dorothy. The witch is telling the residents of Emerald City to give Dorothy to her. Its not saying for Dorothy to give herself over to the witch. I never even realized that the comma wasn’t there until I ran across a discussion about it when researching the word surrender. This began another train of thought that pulled me even further into this pondering.
A video from Matt Kahn with Surrender in the title then caught my attention. A perfect place for me to land. I should be more loving, says self-judgment. I’m not loving enough, says self-hatred. It’s amazing when you can see it from a fresh pair of eyes. While we try to love someone to prove that we’re good enough, its coming from the identification with believing that we’re not good enough yet. How can love flow through that place in its purity? How do we expect to squeeze love through the facade of self-judgment? The love that is already within you already knows how to love and embrace everything. Our personal will can’t do it. The only power your personal will has is to surrender to the Divine.
I give permission for the Divine to shine through me and do it on my behalf.
I could type out the entire session here because it all fits so perfectly my quest of late. So many ahas came from it that I have viewed it several times.
I have been filtering love through the veil of my ego-self instead of my heart. Filtering love through the veil of self-judgment. It doesnt work that way.
To Surrender Dorothy means to surrender living and loving through the personal will of my human brain and ego and self-judgments- the Dorothy-me- and just let the love flow through the clear channel of Divine Will, which is truly the only will. Everything is Divine Will. There is nothing else. Divine Will created us, all the forms and all the spaces in between. So what else can I do and be but Love That’s truly the only thing that exists.
I have talked in the recent past of changing my name. I now see Surrender Dorothy not so much as surrendering my name, rather as surrendering the attachments to what the name has meant to me. I see it as surrendering the egoic-Dorothy over to the heart-Dorothy.
Surrendering means to see that All is Love, no matter how it looks to the human self.
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Ok, here my daily “dose” of Matt Kahn. In today’s short video he gets pretty deep pretty fast! He speaks of ultimate surrender. What’s “ultimate surrender”? Absolving yourself of ANY wrongdoing. Can I really do that…what if I’ve lied, or stolen…aren’t they “wrong”?
By societal standards… you have broken man-made laws. By religious standards…you have sinned and “fallen short” of the glory of god as perceived by human religious folk. But wait, you are God dressed in a human suit! If you need convincing, didn’t Christ tell us we are ALL the son’s and daughter’s of God? That means everything we do is God’s plan for us, because…we are all a portion of God!
In the divine plan, God knows all and IS all. Wait….how does he/she/it do or know all? Because God is actually us…each one of us ALL the time! He/she/it/God knows our pain or pleasure because we are God! For me, raised as a staunch Southern Baptist, this IS a tremendous understanding, or “belief system”, releasing me from guilt and fear because I haven’t been “perfect”! Hey wait…if I’m not in fear and longer, I can be in LOVE!
That’s what it’s all bout folks, finding and holding LOVE in your life for yourself, for me, and for ALL others, because we are all part of God playing the roles we are assigned! Don’t get me wrong…we ALL have free will to choose whatever and however we want to be, it’s simply that there are NO WRONG CHOICES! This is amazing and liberating for me and adds a new level of understanding behind the themes of spirituality I’ve read about “forgiving” yourself!
Let me get off my soapbox and have you listen to Matt who explains this concept far better than I. As always, watch, digest, and …
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I LOVE this guy! Matt Kahn speaks with absolute conviction and gentle authority about how including LOVE into every process of life we encounter heightens our spiritual authority while playing the human role on this planet. Wow…great sentence…sometimes I amaze myself! LOL.
Seriously though, please take the time to watch this video. It is part 2 on the LOVE Revolution that you’ll be glad you watched as…it is NOT time wasted! So watch, digest, and …
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Found a great video today from a spiritual teacher I really enjoyed listening to and thinking about. I’d like for you to enjoy Matt Kahn as well. His message focuses on YOU and how YOU can feel better about yourself. The neat thing is how feeling better about yourself is that this leads to a deeper spirituality, which leads to a higher vibration, which leads to a better life on this earth…right now! This better life you find not only is for you…but for ALL (of which you are a part). Here are Matt’s words:
“Perhaps the ongoing rhythm of life’s unpredictable nature has led you into a spiritual journey, and you don’t even know where to go from here. Maybe you find yourself confused and dissatisfied, despite having exhausted nearly every spiritual concept and practice imaginable. No matter where you find yourself, a deeper invitation is always being offered to satisfy the curiosity and interest in exploring the endless grace of life’s eternal truth. It is an invitation found in awakening the silence of your divine heart space. Such an awakening is a doorway into true spiritual maturity, where the struggles and pitfalls of any path transforms into an endless love affair with everyday life.
Whether it is an interest in improving your relationships, opening up to your absolute potential, learning how to live in harmony with the Universe, or simply a desire to relinquish the past and know how deeply you’re loved, these teachings are intuitively offered to satisfy any desire to explore the most essential truth – beyond all space and time.
True Divine Nature Buddha
When an interest in Truth exceeds any interest in blame, expectation, or any form of comparison, it is an indication that life has successfully prepared you for the soul’s true journey. We meet you during this exciting moment of recognition, as loving guides for the journey ahead. It is a journey leading you nowhere else, but into the infinite depths of your true eternal Self. From here, an endless celebration of effortless freedom honors your sincere willingness to completely let go and surrender to love.
Welcome home, beautiful One. Welcome home.”
I hope you are intrigued as this guy has it “right on”! So…watch here, listen, digest and…
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