Suzanne Giesemann's Blog, page 14

Dropping the Defenses

Why do you become defensive?  For you believe there is something to protect.  This implies a separation between a perceived individual self and another.  When you can shed all thoughts and belief systems of the ego, which knows only separation, then there is nothing to defend, no reason to become defensive.  There is only peace.  Judgment disappears, along with anger, fear, and all of the other less than optimal results of feeling separated and alone. 

There is nothing to battle, nothing to fight, and no need to feel defensive.  There is nothing to win and nothing to lose from the perspective of the soul, where all is one.  If you disagree with this, then you are thinking like a human, which is quite understandable for those who have not truly made a re-acquaintance with the soul.  Set that re-acquaintance as an intention, why don’t you, if you are tired of defending an illusion.

In Service

Imagine a world with no competition, only cooperation.  It is an impossible vision for most, but there are worlds where only cooperation exists, where it makes no sense to compete against another.  This would be tantamount to cutting off one’s own hand.  It is unthinkable … laughable.  In those realities where there is no competition, all innately know that there is only one Spirit and that they are part of That.  All thoughts are directed toward serving and adding to the One.

Do the cells of your body compete against each other?  Only when there is a cancer, an imbalance.  So at one level of your existence, this kind of cooperation exists.  You can bring this spirit of being to your external world, even if those around you remain unaware of such a reality.  Try it.  No competition, only cooperation in service to the One.  It will change your life.

Still in Session

Battles have been fought over trivial issues.  Man has not yet learned that he owns nothing.  Power and greed have led to much bloodshed.  These are the natural outcomes of having free will.  Do you not see what great learning tools these are—these attributes of the ego?  Without them, school would be unnecessary. 

You will remain students until the majority remember who you are behind the masks.  You are not there yet, and so, school is still in session.  In the meantime, be aware of your own battles and address them.  Head vs. heart.  Heart will always win.  Why?  Because you cannot die.  With this remembrance comes true power—not the kind that must win and pound the chest, but the kind that wields only love—thus raising the consciousness of mankind, however slowly, until school is no longer necessary.

Tireless

Do you tire of our talk of love?  What else is there?  It is your reason for being.  We are not speaking now of the human version with its ups and downs and conditions.  That kind can be quite tiresome.  We speak of the love that fuels your universe … that births mountains, streams, and stars … and you.  This kind of love has no ups and downs, no birth and death, no beginning, and most certainly no end.  It is not possible to tire of this kind of love, for it is all that exists.  The soul knows it intimately and is ever urging you to discover it within yourself.

It is ego which knows only of that tiresome game of opposites which keeps you from knowing true spiritual love.  No wonder you may tire of this topic if ego rules your being.  The more the soul comes to the forefront, the less you tire, for then you are living a purposeful life, and there is no longer any need to work at fulfilling your purpose.  Repeat after us:  I AM free.  I AM Love.

How it Works

You never act alone.  Ever.  There is a greater part of you doing the driving.  It is only when you forget this that you can easily veer off course.  You grab the wheel and think you must do everything yourself.  It does not work that way.  If spirit were not the driving Force in your life, you would not even move, so give credit where it is due. 

Are you feeling proud of yourself for your accomplishments?  Puffed up?  A more balanced attitude would be one of gratitude.  Pride is of the ego.  Gratitude is of the soul.  Yes, you may rightfully be proud of your successes and achievements, but always give credit to the Source of those successes, the Source of all that is.

You are loved beyond words.  Have you forgotten that?  What need is there for success and achievement when this one fact never changes?  Now you can relax and just go out there and spread that love around liberally.  Success and achievement will result naturally.  Do you see how it works?

Rest

When you are tired, you may do or say things you regret.  It is not a time for making decisions or promises.  It is a time for rest.  Inform those around you of your condition in a gentle way.  Tell them that you will be there for them after you get some rest, and then get some rest.  Seek balance.  Listen to the body.  Treat it with love and gratitude.  Honor the self.  If you play hard or serve greatly, seek balance so as not to undo the good things you have enjoyed.  Yes, such simple and obvious advice, but advice that often goes unheeded.

With Wonder

May each day be like Christmas morning to a child who celebrates this holiday.  May you awaken with a sense of excited anticipation and think, “Today’s the day!  It will be filled with gifts and wonder!  I am so grateful.”  How your days would change if you changed your thoughts to such an attitude. 

Now, we are aware that many are undergoing challenges.  We are aware that there is pain.  Gifts come in many forms, but they remain unnoticed by those who have lost the anticipation of wonder and who no longer experience gratitude.  They have lost the connection with the Source of the gifts.  Getting it back is a matter of being as a child.  That child is rebirthed each morning as you open your eyes and make a choice as to how you will view the day ahead. 
You create the day you have with your consciousness, with those thoughts of which you are aware and unaware.  Give yourself a gift today and take control of your thoughts.  May wonder never cease.

Illumined

You have no idea how beautiful you are … how magnificent, how luminous.  If you knew your full potential and turned up your inner light in accordance with that potential you would burn so brightly that others would at first turn toward you in a shock of surprise and then shield the eyes.  This would not be pride that you were radiating, but love so full of light that it could melt a mountain, burn through defenses, and ignite a firestorm of love across nations. 

One being burning so brightly has the power to do this, but few achieve such a level of love-intensity.  Imagine if all beings achieved this luminosity of love.  Your world would ignite in a ball of light that would consume all in such ecstasy that all hate and judgment would instantly dissolve.  Until such a time, it is up to you to turn up this light that burns inside you now.  To turn it up your heart knows how.  Go there with your full conscious will and be the light that shines on all around you.  The fire and the fuel are the same, as is the kindling … only love.  That is all you need and all that you are.

When Thine Eye is Single

“I just can’t understand him!” you cry, and that is because you have chosen to remain fixed in your viewpoint behind your physical eyes.  When you remain stuck in your perspective, the view rarely changes.  Did you know you have another eye?  It is the eye of the soul, and it becomes known and useable to you at will … your will.  Will you put it to use?  Doing so is as easy as flipping a switch … changing your focus with intent.

Now, with just one very moveable, unfixed eye you are free to move about, to move behind the two eyes of the one you had convinced yourself you could not understand.  From there, suddenly you can understand with an entirely new perspective.  You may not agree with it, but for once and at once you can understand it. 

Now move with that moveable eye up, up, up above both of your human bodies and gaze down upon them from your bodiless viewpoint as a soul.  What do you see?  Both perspectives, and in fact, all perspectives.  You see that there are any of infinite perspectives from which to choose when you return behind your two physical eyes.  Most importantly, from this higher perspective, you not only see, but you feel and KNOW that there is only one choice you care to make … the only choice that leads to peace, and that is love.

The Story of Life

There is no death.  It is the most basic and yet the most important of messages.  How your interactions with each other would change if all understood this … if all knew that there is a greater aspect of the self than the physical body that is eternal.  If you were to relate soul to soul instead of ego to ego, there would be no power struggles, no judgment, no cruelty.  But you have these bodies for a reason:  to temporarily mask the soul so that you learn and grow from your human interactions.

Will you be surprised when the truths of the spirit are revealed at the end of the chapter, or well satisfied at having known how it will end?  Death is merely the end of yet another volume in the ongoing--the eternal--Story of Life.