Does Our Thinking Create?
My bluebird's back.
It must be April.
We have bluebirds all winter, but this one is different.
This bluebird comes to visit every year.
He moves between my windows and my glass door, hitting his beak on the glass.
Bump, bump, and tap, tap.
He is a beautiful, if noisy, reminder that spring has arrived in all its beauty, to remind us that all things rejuvenate.
Sometimes we forget what has to happen to get the full benefits of rejuvenation.
One day in late fall I acted brutally.
At least it looked as if I was acting brutally as I chopped the stems of plants left in the garden down to the ground.
If you were there with me, you would have heard me saying something like, "I'm sorry for doing this, but really I am doing you a favor.
I am making it possible for you to stop trying to take care of greenery that will be dying soon anyway.
This way you can put all your energy into going deep within and preparing for your finest display ever next spring.
" Now my bluebird is tapping on the window saying, "Come out and see the results of letting go, so growth can happen with more abundance.
" Those plants I chopped down to the ground are already green and growing.
Yellow, white, orange daffodils bob in the breeze, as the tips of ferns, peonies, and hostas break ground.
It happens fast.
One day everything is brown.
The next day there are buds on trees, and green tips peeking up everywhere.
If we lived in a Disney film, I can imagine that bluebird flying through all our houses and lives, pointing out what is no longer necessary, what takes up space, what takes up time, what takes up energy so that we can eliminate them, making room for growth.
In the spring, we call in spring-cleaning.
We get the urge to wash the windows, shake out the rugs, and clean out our closets.
In the garden, we rake out leaves left from the winter, and add fertilizer and mulch to help the new growth.
All of this is beautifully symbolic, because a lasting and impactful spring-cleaning begins with a mental belief cleaning.
What beliefs can we eliminate that no longer serve us knowing that what we believe (perceive) is what we see, and experience? What beliefs can we polish so that more light shines through? What ideas could be fertilized with an influx of attention, and nurtured with a higher understanding of what is True? Because here is the part that is important to remember in order to really let go-what we are looking at is a front for what lies within.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Living With A Wild God said, "I was just staring at the woods...
[when] something happened.
It's like a layer peeled off the world, the layer that contains all the meanings, the words, the language, the associations we have.
Yeah, I was looking at trees, but I no longer could say I knew exactly what a tree was, with all the knowledge and experience that goes into our notion of a tree.
" It is not our thoughts that create or govern the universe.
It is not our thoughts that make things happen for the good, nor is it our thoughts that cause evil.
Our thoughts, and beliefs, do only one thing, they filter.
As we accept that there is much more to everything than what meets the eyes, or is reported by our senses, the filter becomes more open, and we begin to see beyond the symbol and into the essence of Life.
Sometimes that awareness pops into a day when we least expect it.
In the middle of mulching the garden, I paused and looked at the daffodil that was inches from my nose as I remembered what Barbara Ehrenreich said, and experienced the daffodil completely differently, along with everything else for a moment.
Just a moment, but a moment is enough to prove to ourselves that it is a divine Intelligence that is doing the thinking, and what It thinks is Life itself.
It is the force, and the substance that is behind all that we experience.
It creates, runs, designs, and develops all that exists.
And if what we experience doesn't appear to be good, it is not the thought of divine Intelligence, but a filter, a belief that is hiding from us what is really going on.
Perhaps this year, I won't need the bluebird pecking at my window every day to remind me that spring-cleaning is really belief cleaning, and with the peeling away of beliefs we can get a glimpse of the Life that is present behind the stage set.
It must be April.
We have bluebirds all winter, but this one is different.
This bluebird comes to visit every year.
He moves between my windows and my glass door, hitting his beak on the glass.
Bump, bump, and tap, tap.
He is a beautiful, if noisy, reminder that spring has arrived in all its beauty, to remind us that all things rejuvenate.
Sometimes we forget what has to happen to get the full benefits of rejuvenation.
One day in late fall I acted brutally.
At least it looked as if I was acting brutally as I chopped the stems of plants left in the garden down to the ground.
If you were there with me, you would have heard me saying something like, "I'm sorry for doing this, but really I am doing you a favor.
I am making it possible for you to stop trying to take care of greenery that will be dying soon anyway.
This way you can put all your energy into going deep within and preparing for your finest display ever next spring.
" Now my bluebird is tapping on the window saying, "Come out and see the results of letting go, so growth can happen with more abundance.
" Those plants I chopped down to the ground are already green and growing.
Yellow, white, orange daffodils bob in the breeze, as the tips of ferns, peonies, and hostas break ground.
It happens fast.
One day everything is brown.
The next day there are buds on trees, and green tips peeking up everywhere.
If we lived in a Disney film, I can imagine that bluebird flying through all our houses and lives, pointing out what is no longer necessary, what takes up space, what takes up time, what takes up energy so that we can eliminate them, making room for growth.
In the spring, we call in spring-cleaning.
We get the urge to wash the windows, shake out the rugs, and clean out our closets.
In the garden, we rake out leaves left from the winter, and add fertilizer and mulch to help the new growth.
All of this is beautifully symbolic, because a lasting and impactful spring-cleaning begins with a mental belief cleaning.
What beliefs can we eliminate that no longer serve us knowing that what we believe (perceive) is what we see, and experience? What beliefs can we polish so that more light shines through? What ideas could be fertilized with an influx of attention, and nurtured with a higher understanding of what is True? Because here is the part that is important to remember in order to really let go-what we are looking at is a front for what lies within.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Living With A Wild God said, "I was just staring at the woods...
[when] something happened.
It's like a layer peeled off the world, the layer that contains all the meanings, the words, the language, the associations we have.
Yeah, I was looking at trees, but I no longer could say I knew exactly what a tree was, with all the knowledge and experience that goes into our notion of a tree.
" It is not our thoughts that create or govern the universe.
It is not our thoughts that make things happen for the good, nor is it our thoughts that cause evil.
Our thoughts, and beliefs, do only one thing, they filter.
As we accept that there is much more to everything than what meets the eyes, or is reported by our senses, the filter becomes more open, and we begin to see beyond the symbol and into the essence of Life.
Sometimes that awareness pops into a day when we least expect it.
In the middle of mulching the garden, I paused and looked at the daffodil that was inches from my nose as I remembered what Barbara Ehrenreich said, and experienced the daffodil completely differently, along with everything else for a moment.
Just a moment, but a moment is enough to prove to ourselves that it is a divine Intelligence that is doing the thinking, and what It thinks is Life itself.
It is the force, and the substance that is behind all that we experience.
It creates, runs, designs, and develops all that exists.
And if what we experience doesn't appear to be good, it is not the thought of divine Intelligence, but a filter, a belief that is hiding from us what is really going on.
Perhaps this year, I won't need the bluebird pecking at my window every day to remind me that spring-cleaning is really belief cleaning, and with the peeling away of beliefs we can get a glimpse of the Life that is present behind the stage set.
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