The Noble Edge

 The Noble Edge

Upon the Noble Edge we meet
And never are apart
Upon the razor's edge we dance
To experience the heart.
The heart of understanding
The heart of letting go
The heart of being all we are in the ever changing flow.

FREE at last if I-dentity
We serve, love and allow
Living Holy Spirit
Sharing forever NOW.

So gaze at every rainbow
And wipe away the fear
Always dancing in I AM
Upon the Noble Edge
That mirrors.

There is no separation
I love the me I see
I AM the me I see
I love the all we be
I AM the all we be

I AM

There is no limitiation
I love the mirror I see
I am the mirror I see
I love the all we be

I AM

Holy Spirit
Conscious I AM
Always NOW
We transcend
The separation of duality
To shroud no more
Our unity

Same in you
Same in me
We are I AM

You are with me wherever I go
I am with you always
ONE breath
ONE life
One co-creator
Thy will is one
Thy will be done.  

Individuality

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'amen' to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."  Robert Louis Stevenson

How Many?

How many people who believe they never dream are sleepwalking in their marriage, in their job, in their church, blindly adhering to ideas they never question, with no heart in what they are doing?"  Marion Woodman

"If you see yourself
as no one worth looking at;
if you believe you are
not worth listening to,
if they told you,
"That's not what you saw,
not what you heard,
not what you think
you cannot trust yourself"
You are lost.

Don't look to others to find you,
to love and take care of you now.
You'll suck them dry.

No one out there
is responsible.
Go back and find
your soul.
Be mother and father
to yourself,
Until the divine parents
arrive.

Christina Baldwin

What Is

"The ego neuroses that once preoccupied me haven't all gone away.  What is gone is my identification with them.  Now they are merely quaint and fascinating...a passing show...More and more I am just awareness.  Life lives itself.   I am involved with it all, yet I cling to none of it.   It is what is.  No big deal."  Ram Das

Travel

"No matter where you travel, or how you travel or how exotic your gurus,or how exotic the geography that might be presented to you for potential travel, if you're not looking after the identity of the traveler, the tickets and the destinations make no difference whatsoever".  John O' Donahue

Awakening

"When your soul awakens,you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk and weary voices and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. The normal way never leads home.

Once you start to awaken, no one can ever claim you again for old patterns. Now you realize how precious your time here is. You are no longer willing to squander your essence on undertakings that do not nourish your true self; your patience grows thin with tired talk and dead language. You see through the roster of expectation which promises safety and the confirmation of outer identity. Now you are impatient for growth, willing to put yourself in the way of change. You want your work to become an expression of your gift. You want your relationship to voyage beyond the pallid frontiers to where the danger of transformation dwells. You want your God to be wild and to call you to where your destiny awaits. When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. When your inner senses are blurred, you can see nothing in or of yourself; you become a respectable prisoner of received images. On this journey, you begin to see how the sides of your heart that seemed awkward, contradictory and uneven are the places where your treasure lies hidden. You begin to become truer to yourself. The journey shows you that from this inner dedication you can reconstruct your own values and action. You develop from your own self-compassion a great compassion for others. You are no longer caught in the false game of judgment , comparison and assumption. More naked now than ever , you begin to feel truly alive. You begin to trust the music of your own soul; you have inherited treasure that no one will ever be able to take from you. At the deepest level, this adventure of growth is in fact a trans-figurative conversation with your own death. And when the time comes for you to leave, the view from your death bed will show a life of growth that gladdens the heart and takes away all fear."

Image of God

"It has been so false to imagine that God could condemn us or make us suffer or eventually put us into eternal places of torment.  Any God or Divine Presence that could wait for millions of years to dream up your identity, your spirit and your soul could never nurture you and then prepare destruction for you.  The mercy and forgiveness and the lovely lyrical gentleness of the Divine Presence is around every person.   And you should never allow anyone to break your trust in the tenderness and gentleness of God because that is closer to you than the words of any other human or the stipulations or regulations of any institution."   John O' Donahue

Ethics and Identity

"As subjects of our own desires, we develop our potentials and grow in our capacity to lead an ethical life.   What we once accepted as the dictates of an external authority we now think out for ourselves, and we are required to articulate and identity over time that places us constantly and squarely at the center of our own contradictory feelings and motives."  Polly Young-Eisendarth

Darkness

"Every person has certain qualities or presences in their heart that are awkward, disturbing and negative.  One of your sacred duties is to exercise kindness toward them.   In a sense, you are called to be a loving parent to your delinquent qualities.   Your kindness will slowly poultice their negativity, alleviate their fear, and help them to see that your soul is a home where there is no judgment or febrile hunger for a fixed or limited identity."  John O' Donahue

Change

"It is startling that we desperately hold on to what makes us miserable.   Our own woundedness becomes a source of perverse pleasure and fixes our identity.   We do not want to be cured, for that would mean moving into the unknown.  It seems we are destructively addicted to the negative."   John O' Donahue

Identity

"Your identity is not equivalent to your biography.   There is a place in you where you have never been wounded.  Where there is still a sureness in you and a confidence and tranquility in you.   And the intention of prayer and spirituality and love is to visit that place."   John O' Donahue

Ideas

"Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixed in shallow, dead water."   John O' Donahue