Dot, Line, Plane, Sphere
I would like to begin by quoting from"The Child Within Us Lives" by William Samuel:
THE PROGRESSION OF AWAKENING
The progression goes a little like this. One searches and thinks he has found--and grows arrogant in the finding for a long time, thence to be humbled.
Then he finds again and really knows.
One lives the discovery and proves it.
One keeps going onward and finds the relationships between and the outside. Many people never reach this point because no one has told them or convinced them there is a relationship between the inside and the quantum outside or that these two are a single one.
One perceives the wholeness of inside because he has found it for himself.
One perceives the relationships between himself inside and the appearances outside,in their increasing detail. This has been called the web of interrelatedness. A leaf falls to the earth and the univ verse is shaken.
One comes slowly to know the marvel that will unfold outside from what has already unfolded within himself--and he lives in continuing expectancy of this unfolding in the world. One speaks
All along this progression, one is faithful to those who have been given to him. He tells them to go and do the same and instruct their given to do the same.
We and those who have been given to us become the New Community, the flower of the tree of life. The Community grows.
The progression happens in linear time "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little.
Much has been written about rediscovering the Child within
by remembering and reliving those wonderful days of happy, joyful, unfettered,
innocent childhood experiences.
However, mine were oftentimes lonely and worrisome because of my hip
problems and partly because I belonged to a staunch Roman Catholic family and
went to boarding school away from home.
Somehow, I always knew or expected that somehow I would find my
own Child Heart but I rarely thought about how it would come about.
My journey had started some years previous with very basic
stuff. I first made a study of emotions
since I didn’t have a clue about them.
Then I started thinking that it was mind that controlled the events of
my life. I tried visualization and deep
relaxation and a few forms of meditation but did not find what I was searching
for, namely peace of mind! Got into
mind control programs and all kinds of New Age techniques that involved
everything from hyperventilating on a bed while a ‘practitioner’ tried to gain
control of your mind to fire walking and what have you. You name it…I tried it! Some of it was more loving and less
controlling but not of it seemed very fruitful. Then I became a Joel Goldsmith groupie. We had long periods of what was to them meditation but nothing
happened for me and I know that lots of people slept through the whole thing.
The teachings were certainly a step above soaking in a locked up vault that you
didn’t have the key to but then one day one of the devotees passed me three
books of William Samuel’s to read. She
had attended a talk and didn’t get much out of it but passed them on for me to
read if I so chose.
My Heart was touched and I KNEW without a doubt that this
was for me! I was taking long walks in
a beautiful park hugging the ocean and felt such peace and tranquility. The trees, the flowers, the birds were
‘talking to me’. What I had been trying
to achieve through meditation was coming to me effortlessly in the light of day
with my eyes wide open!
I kept reading William’s books and putting it to the test
and I wondered about how I would find the Child Heart. One day I was in that same park watching
some really young children playing in the sand and water and oh, they were so
free and cheerful and happy and running and skipping and fetching water with a
pale and pouring it into a hole than never got full, of course. And I realized and I KNEW that this was the
Child Heart of Me, it was my very own Child Heart. I went home and wrote the following:
By the Seashore
I am the child who gleefully skips
and tumbles along the beach
Running in gladness, jumping in happiness,
sharing with friends,
tender, pure innocence
Now is the ever-present Allness
providing for every need:
sand to run through fingers and toes,
to mold into amazing shapes
sticks to toss into the water
that dogs may fetch
cool water to splash and use in infinite ways
Living in the joy of the moment
Nothing to be added
Nothing to be removed
I appearing as harmony and perfection,
the Symphony of Life
I felt You in the gentle ocean breeze
in the tide's rhythmic ebb and flow
That Child out there is my very own Being
the Invisible made visible
the Intangible made tangible:
children playing, parents caring,
ships sailing, birds flying
blue sky, warm sun
The place whereon I stand is holy ground
God being God
Aloneness
From that day on the Child has held my hand and has brought
me from glory to glory, to play and sing and dance and laugh and live with a
joy filled heart.
Love always finds a way! It rains equally on the just and the unjust.
The two previous William Samuel posts that I just put
up are two of my favorite articles that make it so plain upon the tables that
God’s Loving Light comes to us line upon line, precept upon precept, here a
little, there a little. We first "get" the dot, then line and plane and sphere. And, is as in the great glass pyramid, all its
rightful place. I can never be
separated from God and God’s Loving Light, I can never separated from my GOOD!
