Hello, good morning.
I remember the day I was walking through the Clark Art Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts. I was in a small room and I turned around and saw the painting by John Singer Sargent of the woman in Morocco standing over a pot of burning incense.
This one.
I burst into tears. I had seen the painting in books and studied it intensely for reasons mysterious to me. When I encountered it in real life, large, at eye level, I was completely overwhelmed with something.
The same thing happened when I went to the Guggenheim to see the exhibit of Hilma af Klint paintings just after the new year in 2019. The Guggenheim is cool, but difficult to navigate, with the windy pathways and narrow spaces to view art. The rooms were completely packed with people on holiday, no doubt. Still, when I saw her magnificent, gigantic paintings I stood in awe, bawling my eyes out.
The Mystery at work.
Over the weekend I gave a couple of talks on what I would call stepping into your Truth.
This a large and pressing theme in my life right now.
Try this: see if you can explain who you are without naming any of your relationships, your vocation(s) or your hobbies and interests.
Stripped naked, bare and alone in an empty room with none of your usual associations, who are you?
Thought so.
Hard to do, isn’t it?
I believe this is the root cause of much of life’s suffering, that most people have no sense of who they are, at the core.
School doesn’t teach it, parents usually don’t touch on it and churches don’t teach it, either.
Here’s what you are: you are a child of Light, born of the same cosmic DNA as the Creator. You contain within you the same intelligence and potential as the Great Source that created you and every other part of creation.
I repeat: you contain within you.
It’s huge.
The task of a lifetime is to own this truth and to raise your energy signature to the very highest vibration you can go while you’re here so that you can accomplish as much as possible of what you came here to accomplish and improve the conditions of the world at the same time.
The language I use for myself to engage in this process is this:
On this new day I seek to align my vibration with the same vibration as the Cosmic Christ. I do this with the intention of living at the very highest level of Love possible and of positively impacting the world around me. I trust I am being supported and guided in this process. I remain open to whatever changes these intentions bring.
Let me make something abundantly clear: this is NOT a religious thing. I use the term Cosmic Christ because I like it, I like the sound of it and because I think that that dude was an awesome prophet.
Anyone who has been doing any kind of spiritual practice: meditation or yoga (as a spiritual practice, not a form of exercise), visualization, mantras, etc, over a long period of time is moving in this direction of understanding, no doubt. But that’s a handful of people and most of them tend to stay in their quiet corner of the universe, needing lots of solitude to stay on their path.
We don’t have a lot of leadership when it comes to spiritual work. We do have a lot of noise, a lot of people on the socials spewing bits and pieces of mental health advice, which isn’t terrible, but is most often motivated by greed and not a desire to raise the overall vibration of the human race.
Having a spiritual life is hard work. It’s not a floaty, crystals and feathers thing. Choosing to step into your spiritual truth is about taking the power away from anything and anyone you have allowed to keep you small and choosing to live in a new dynamic. Every single day.
Spirituality is about empowerment and most of the time empowerment is not nice. It’s not pretty. When you choose to wake up, to stop staying small, playing dumb, choosing unworthiness, remaining within the power constructs around you, you create a personal earthquake. People don’t like it because it challenges the status quo, it calls into question the unspoken agreements and arrangements we have all bought into. Growth is scary to most people. And so so much fun and totally awesome when you’re in it.
A lot of you know I began this new year with a clear intention: to live each day trusting in the power of my own thoughts to create my reality. In just three months it’s taken me to understandings I could never have foretold. But I will reiterate: this is a process, not a fad.
The path of least resistance reveals itself to all of us on a daily basis. The day you decide to step into your power and your truth is the day you choose to ignore that path for once and for all.
I think what I was touching on when I cried in response to those works of art was the Truth buried deep inside all the layers of crap that had piled up in my life.
Truth recognizes and resonates with Truth when encountered.
Buried deep within you, under the layers of daughter, brother, partner, cab driver, reader, runner, teacher, friend, chef, mom … is the truest essence of you. It is what will remain when you die and shed the body suit. You.
This You was born of cosmic greatness. For some reason this world doesn’t want you to trust this. The constructs of this place, including our own tendencies to mistrust and defeat ourselves, keep us small and in line in this life.
You’re tired of this, too, right?
I know it’s hard to believe that there is a Great Cosmic Force that cares about you or that knows what you need. But you don’t have to worry about that because you carry this same material within yourself. You don’t have to go to Nepal or pay anyone in the wellness realm to find yourself. You are already right where you are. And you are magnificent. And it’s time to step into this ancient truth, to own it and to live it.
This is the foundation of the classes I am holding. It is what I talk about on Sunday mornings and will talk about more and more as I move through this process and this world.
I’ll go deeper into this in my next post.
I love you all so much. xomo