You
have struggled and toiled for a very long time now, and for many of you, not
only your patience but the very fabric of your being seems to be stretched to
the very limit.
You
have surrendered yourself to this process wholeheartedly, and you have
surrendered to the light, both on the inside and on the outside of yourself.
Still,
you seem to see darkness lurking in every corner as you gaze about you with a
heavy heart and a fatigued body.
Where
is the light, you wonder, where is the bliss, the wonders, everything I have
hoped for… for such a long time?
It IS there… and your battle weary
heart will have a hard time acknowledging it.
For you are all bruised and sore
from this long journey… and the solace you so crave may seem indistinguishable
from all of the background noises you still pick up.
Connect to yourself… and see if… in
a moment of stillness can hear that reassuring voice from within saying, ”I am
here, and I have been here for a very long time already.
I am here, for I am YOU, the one
you have been looking for, forever it seems”.
This quiet little voice of
reassurance, this gem of light that is already growing and pulsing within is
not all fanfare and fireworks.
It is more like a deep, flowing
river, a river that is forever moving forwards, but it is also a river that
does not announce itself in the same enthusiastic manner as so many other
things in your life.
You see, the inner core of you is
so solid and affirming, it is not like those fleeting moments of ecstasy that
you will also perceive at times.
For even if what we are talking
about is the very essence of joy, it is the kind of joy that just IS, not the
one that likes to announce its presence by jumping up and down in glee.
This kind of joy is also a part of
the package of being human, but the inner joy is more like the very essence of
it.
A flavor… a sense of BEing that is
like this subtle vibration that simply colors everything you do in a much
richer hue than when you are without it.
For it is there within you all, it
is not always easy to decipher its message underneath all of the hurly-burly of
signals being projected at you from all sides.
Make sure to give yourself the
opportunity to sit down and to cancel everything else that is fighting for your
attention… and then, we venture to say that you will all feel how this deep,
wide river of joy runs somewhere inside of you.
This river is a source of
sustenance that will never run dry, and if you fail to connect with it, it is
not because it is not there. It is simply a case of finding the space where it
runs.
It can be well hidden… and the
brush and thorns obscuring it from view may seem impenetrable to some of you,
so the best way to find it is to resist the urge to try to fight your way
through the thorny bushes and push ahead in the quest for discovering it.
That will only leave you feeling
even more tattered and torn.
The very best way to find it is as
always to lift youself upwards… and to connect with those higher aspects of
your soul, the ones that have an unobstructed view of it all.
Remember… now you have been given
the opportunity to ask for closer guidance from the free soaring parts of you
that are unhampered by the human body and the human parts of you.
So if you need assistance to locate
this inner river of joy, you will always find it by once again asking for help…
from yourself.
And you will be met with joy, for
you cannot ask for something that will be better received than the question.
“Please help me to find my joy. I
know it must be there somewhere, but despite all of my hard work, it still
seems to elude me.”
For joy is what you all deserve,
and the true answer to where it can be found, you can only find within. http://aishanorth.wordpress.com/
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