http://www.awakeninthenow.com/aitn/2009/05/my-will-or-my-hearts-will/ Reflections from the warrior path... Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:37:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.awakeninthenow.com/aitn/2009/05/my-will-or-my-hearts-will/comment-page-1/#comment-16 bodhidude Fri, 15 May 2009 22:07:36 +0000 http://bodhidude.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-16 I would say both voices that you are picking up in your comment need to be honored. We may need to drop the old ways of looking at God or the heart, blind faith in some greater power out there isn't the answer in my view. I think that is a fairytale and an illusion so your skepticism is warranted. However what I'm pointing to here is something that can indeed be proven but only by you to yourself in your own experience. It can be proven by having a direct experience of it. All that is required for that direct experience is surrender and stillness. Temporarily stepping out of the mind and thought in order to allow a deeper presence or awareness to emerge. The question is, what happens when the mind is quiet and you are fully present right here right now, just allowing your experience to be however it is? I think it is really just getting into relationship with our deeper self and allowing that part of us to offer guidance, we don't even need to give it a label. I would say both voices that you are picking up in your comment need to be honored. We may need to drop the old ways of looking at God or the heart, blind faith in some greater power out there isn’t the answer in my view. I think that is a fairytale and an illusion so your skepticism is warranted.
However what I’m pointing to here is something that can indeed be proven but only by you to yourself in your own experience. It can be proven by having a direct experience of it. All that is required for that direct experience is surrender and stillness. Temporarily stepping out of the mind and thought in order to allow a deeper presence or awareness to emerge. The question is, what happens when the mind is quiet and you are fully present right here right now, just allowing your experience to be however it is? I think it is really just getting into relationship with our deeper self and allowing that part of us to offer guidance, we don’t even need to give it a label.

]]> http://www.awakeninthenow.com/aitn/2009/05/my-will-or-my-hearts-will/comment-page-1/#comment-15 veronika Fri, 15 May 2009 18:40:15 +0000 http://bodhidude.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-15 so, then to give yourself over to the heart, to god's will, it all comes back to faith again? on one level i want to be cynical , "oh, now we are back to trusting in god again"? blindly believing in something that cannot be proven or disproven? what if this also is only a fairytale? something to subdue the masses? to give false hope and the illusion of security? on the other hand i want to believe. contemplating it gives me almost a sense of serenity. trust the love? be open to it? let it guide you where it will? follow your heart? it sounds so easy, why is it so hard? so, then to give yourself over to the heart, to god’s will, it all comes back to faith again?
on one level i want to be cynical , “oh, now we are back to trusting in god again”? blindly believing in something that cannot be proven or disproven? what if this also is only a fairytale? something to subdue the masses? to give false hope and the illusion of security?
on the other hand i want to believe. contemplating it gives me almost a sense of serenity.
trust the love? be open to it? let it guide you where it will? follow your heart? it sounds so easy, why is it so hard?

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