On LOVE from the book The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them.

And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. 

Our Deepest Fear - We are powerful beyond measure

One of my favourite inspirational poems:

Our Deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be?
You are a child of gOd.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people
won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine as children do.
We were born to make manifest
the glory of gOd that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And when we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

Oh Great Spirit: Sioux Prayer

Oh Great Spirit
Whose voice I hear in the wind
Whose breath gives life to all the world.
Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty,
and my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Help me remain calm and strong in the face of all
that comes toward me.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
Help me seek pure thoughts and act
with the intention of helping others.
Help me find compassion
without empathy overwhelming me.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy, myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.

(Translated by Chief Yellow Lark, Lakota Sioux)

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The Second Coming

A little while back I was chatting to a Christian friend of mine and explaining that I feel the second coming of the Christ will not be one figure arriving to fanfare, clouds etc. but many people on Earth together raising their consciousness to become a communal "Christ" on Earth.
And this global Christ consciousness will take us to heavenly state on Earth, Jesus himself said "The Kingdom of heaven is inside you" or the "Kingdom of heaven is among you" in Luke 17:21 This to me is the Second Coming, right here on Earth.

So it was interesting to discover this quote this evening where Thich Nhat Hanh is saying the same thing about the next Buddha:

The next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha 
will take the form of a community; a community practicing understanding 
and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be 
the most important thing we can do for the survival of the Earth. 
—Thich Nhat Hanh

Its for us to pursue a change on the Earth from a state of complete fear (hell, the lowest negative vibration/freguency) to a state of complete love (heaven, the highest most positive vibration/frequency). Everything is vibration, we don't have to go anywhere to experience a higher vibration, we just have to raise it.

I wrote this previous blog post about the future and survival of the Earth

Visions of Joy and of the Future of Our Planet

Journey and Visions by Rowan van Tonder

This piece was written after visions and prophetic revelations that were shown to me in a near death type experience in which I journeyed to the spiritual dimension. This was only a part of what I was shown, much of the visions were for me personally for my life but I am sharing the part here that I think everyone should know.

28 January 2011

I had an amazing and very deep experience with many visions which I was honoured to be shown and would love to share with everyone.

As is my usual experience on such a journey I found myself submersed/immersed in a deep gOd space something like in a microcosmic/macrocosmic space. Although this time I had very little resistance have glanced upon a message that beckoned me to completely surrender to my journey the day before.

In this deep gOd-space I felt a feeling of overwhelming love and affection and in this loving safe space I asked many questions and was shown many, many answers and visions on the future of the earth, our role here, my role here, etc. by the sacred voice. I heard my soul speak in voice that is silence to our conscious world but pure voice with pure intention in a gOd-soul space.

Many visions I didn’t share here were very similar and comparable to Enoch’s visions in the book of Enoch which is not in the Old Testament anymore but can be found online.

I want to share the visions of our role here and the future of the earth:

The future of our planet:

I was shown that we are all one entity, completely connected so everyone and everything influences everything else. Us and all beings are endless, infinite connections between all beings and things.

I was shown the Earth as a spherical living organic being both huge and minute all at once…moving along its life-cycle forward slow spinning in infinity over and over with waves of light/energy particles rising and breaking, splashing in cyclic wavelike spray pattern representing all of us and every living thing on earth and our cyclic lives…as Paulo Coelho mentions on his blog in his story about the wave crashing that realised it is not just a wave, it is the ocean. Here is the link: http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2011/03/29/30-sec-read-you-are-not-a-wave/

I was shown that we find ourselves in a time zone where the earth is at a stage where there are vast negative forces (or negativity) amassing on our planet. The earth stays in tact because of the balance of positive (light) and negative (shadow) forces. Light is overwhelmingly more powerful than shadow but the negative (spiritual) forces are amassing to a point where there is critical mass. If we don’t act to keep the light in balance I was shown that the earth will self-destruct or disintegrate.

I was shown that the big predicted good vs. evil (Armageddon) struggle will not necessarily be a war on earth or physical war the way we have been led to believe but will be a spiritual encounter, a fight for the survival of the planet between forces of light and dark.

The negative shadow aspect of humanity is strong and leaves our planet in peril. The earth is reacting as a living being or as a connected entity. The negativity or shadow is illusory, but if it is given voice it indeed becomes influential in the future and current state of our planet.

Our Role on our planet:

I was shown that we (with our free will) influence the outcome and future of our planet completely. There are no fixed outcomes. It is up to us to steer our own planet’s future with our collective consciousness.

Our role here, our main purpose above all, is to live our lives as much as we can in pure joy. This is especially requested of us who do our best to live in positive vibration and light. We who are awakening, we need to live our lives in pure joy. Our doing this will raise the positive vibration of the earth, and the more of us do this, the more we will balance the negative forces at hand and also dispel the negative/shadow forces.

It is also our role and purpose to show others to do this and also how to do this, to find their inner joy and to do whatever we all do with joy and love.

Its as simple as that, if we do this our planet will survive.

It is of vital importance and critical that as many of us as possible follow this path of joy in our lives. Our hearts need to be open to the joy and gratitude of all we have and do.

We need to help ourselves to help others, our planet. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself…Serve and thou shall be served.

A few quotes from the movie The Bucket List:

Have you found joy in your life? Has your life brought joy to others?

There’s no way I can repay you for all you’ve done for me, so rather than try, I’m just going to ask you to do something else for me — find the joy in your life.

Find the joy in your life!

The Cosmic dance:

I was shown the all beings enraptured in a great cosmic dance, all except much of humanity which has lost touch with the universe, with spirit and forgotten the dance of joy. All things subsist in a great big joyous cosmic dance, all things are in this celebratory dance, celebrating life and light in reverence of the universal source/mind/consciousness.

Everything I saw was/is involved in this side-to-side rhythmic dance. I saw a great sacred dancing feminine figure leading this cosmic dance procession, all the great teachers and avatars walking in the procession. With joy, celebration and utter surrender and humility all things dance this dance. It is our purpose to get into this dance, to flow as much as we can in this rhythm of the cosmos. If many of us do this we will help the planet continue on its rolling cycle through space. We are here and alive at a very important time.

Anyone not attempting to live positively and in high energy vibration, in a state of positive thought, talk, action and living with their joy inside them is contributing to the rise of negative forces. By living in lower energy vibration and in a negative state of being they are giving voice and life to illusory shadow. Dr Wayne Dyer mentions 87% of humans living in lower energy vibrations.

Eternal Souls:

We need to recognise our souls once again, that we are merely inhabiting temporary bodies, like wearing a garment. I was shown our eternity; we are eternal beings, immortal souls. We are all part of an interconnected cosmic light web/matrix/network light. We are inseparable from this. We are all part of it. We rise and fall as different characters as we take on lifetimes and come and go here on earth learning as we go.

Joseph Campbell: Eternity is not the hereafter…this is it.

If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere.

We need to be alchemists of light. We all have lead and gold in us, light and dark. We need to keep the light bright and shining and turn dark into light by keeping our joy alive and our energy vibration high. Turn the shadow lead into the golden light. We  need to be the gold and transform all we come into contact with into ‘gold’ which in a way is symbolic for light.

To quote Deepak Chopra in The Way of the Wizard: Alchemy is about turning things into gold, that perfect, incorruptible substance. In human terms gold is a symbol for pure spirit…there is a timeless aspect of life that everyone dreams of – pure love, pure joy, pure fulfilment in spirit.

Be a source of joy. And let the critics and haters complain about the world.(Paulo Coelho ~ Aleph)

My concluding question:

If we knew that we are our own ancestors would we carry on the way we do and would we not make an extreme effort to follow the above vision requests?

To elaborate: if we all knew and believed that whatever we are doing now influences our own future lifetimes would we not try our best to do all we can to treat this planet and all things on it with utmost respect so that when we return again we can reap the benefits of a healthy planet? Would we not take more care and realise that everything we harm or damage or kill by thought or deed is only harming our own selves.

So let us go forth and find our joy, our true happiness within and show others theirs.

Rowan van Tonder

(Eagle Spirit Guardian)

This article was originally posted on http://spaceoflove.co.za/visions-of-joy/

Everything in our reality is a mirror from inside us

"The world around you is a reflection of you inside the universe inside yourself" ~Rowan