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A dear friend
and I were joking the other day about Phoenix. She called it the Valley of
the Unknown. “Ahh,” says I, “The Bermuda
Triangle of the desert, a place that sucks in the unwary, the innocent and
weary travelers and will not let them leave!” We laughed about trying to find
the right “vehicle,” one with magic enough to carry us out of the Valley. I found myself thinking. She and
I both have experienced some, shall we say, interesting challenges while
living here. Levels of hardship that one naturally wants to displace
responsibility for onto a place or a person rather than accept the
consequences that have grown from our own thoughts, behavior and habit
patterns, from our own chemistry, genetics and programming. |
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In truth, the
real Valley of the Unknown is the one that lies in our own head and in our
own heart from which spring all the elements that create our experiences and
influence our sense of well-being. Here lies the territory un-tread: the
inner landscape that hides and covers our core. |
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We look into the
mirror and say, “I am this thought,” or “I am this emotion,” or “I am this
role.” We look down upon ourselves and say, “Perhaps I am this body,” or look
up into the heavens and say “I am this soul.”
Yet, are we not all this and more? Yes! So much more. The master
smiles gently and says, “I am one and you are one and we are all one
together.” (Or was that the Beatles?) Closer! Can you feel it? I look into the
mirror of your eyes and find radiating there the window to your soul and the
reflection of my own. In you I see myself and in seeing celebrate our life.
Celebrate the glory of being fully alive! It lies there shinning between us.
Reach out to me and grasp it; I’ll reach out to you and find it there. I’ll
embrace the golden, glorious explosion of joy that bursts out from the heart
and cries, “I am alive and I am not alone – not even when I feel that I am.”
For within my cells swirl all that is, within my body lays the universe.
Within my heart I find you, and you, and you and everyone. Within my soul I
see divinity. |
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Within your cells swirl all this and more.
Within you I find myself, even if, in the moment, I cannot see your truth
around the caverns of conflicts that separate us or the underwhelming
sameness that dulls us or the beauty and bliss that lulls us. I am not my genetics. I am not
my chemistry, nor my programming. I am not merely my roles, thoughts or
emotions. I am more than my behavior, more than my habits, more than my
awareness. Nor are you your genetics, chemistry, habits or programming. We
are so much more. We are not bounded; we are not limited by these things, the
dark parts that form the landscape of our inner Valley of the Unknown. Or should we say that the limits we unknowingly accept, although they lie
in the darkness of our inner valley need not remain unknown, need not remain
limits! |
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The magic
vehicle that will carry us from the unknown to the known, from the
meaningless to the meaningful, from limits and fears to love and limitless,
unbounded potential rests in the carport of our awareness and gives new
meaning to the idea of “joy riding.” |
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Our thoughts
create our feelings: our feelings are the pebble parts that we cast into the
pond of manifestation from which our experiences ripple to the shore of
creation and trickle down to the physical plane. So, for today, I will climb into
the vehicle of my own inner awareness. I will embrace the part of me that is
the witness, the part of me that stands back to monitor my inner landscape
and shine its light into the Valley of the Unknown. I will gently guide my
thoughts and thus my feelings into the path of the light wherein lies peace
and from which flows life! I will open myself to authentically experience the
golden, limitless beauty that is you. I will celebrate you and I will accept
you as you are; I will love you as best I know how. I will celebrate me. I
will accept me as I am now. I will love me as best I know how. Aloha, Peace and Wellness, Holman |
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Aloha and Good
Morning, My friends please forgive my
long absence from the “Morning Moment.” I could flippantly claim, “I slept
in, and the moment passed.” Or I could say, “Hey, I’ve been busy, what do you
want?” More truthfully, however, I reacted less favorably to life’s challenges
than I prefer and withdrew awhile to focus on making it from one day to the
next. It’s been a long time since I created the space to write. As always, in taking up the pen once again, I hope to share something
that will strike a cord, inspire a flow of knowingness within you, spark
awareness or see insight blossom, so that together we can all learn to do
things differently and better. |
