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Sunday, June 12, 2005
Quado’s Message: Today, I would speak to you about emotion. Today, I would guide you to live your life in a different way, led by peace and truth, rather than emotion.
If you think back, you will come up with many times when you were very excited about something new, a new love, a new job, a new project. It seemed to be the perfect answer for all your hopes and dreams. You plunged in with enthusiasm and high emotion, very excited that at last your dreams were coming true. And yet, it did not turn out as you had thought, and in fact, did not turn out well at all. And you looked back in confusion, wondering how it could be that something that seemed so promising and exciting, something you had given your all to, could have turned out so badly.
And then, looking back, you may remember other times. Times when you just followed a little feeling, a whisper of a voice inside, a time you did something with no expectation whatsoever, when you just did it, with a very objective, calm feeling in your center. There wasn’t any great depth of knowing here, just a feeling, a small feeling, that this was the thing to do. In fact, you have even have done it in that state of almost sleepwalking, when you are just doing what comes to you without any reason, any expectation, for no reason other than it occurred to you and you feel, for some unknown reason, you should do it.
And you can recall some times like this in which little miracles occurred, in which a chance meeting, walking through the right door at the right time, suddenly opened up a whole world. And yet you were not excited about it ahead of time. You were just there, doing it.
The first cycle, of excitement and planning, is one in which you are in the state of "if only." You are looking to be saved from your current circumstances and you are pinning your hopes on something to save you. If only you had a great boss, a great job, more money. If only you had a new man who truly loved you and respected you. If only you could succeed in your field and get some recognition, which then might lead you to more money and that new man. If only, if only, then you would be happy. Finally. At last.
But life does not work this way. And if you are in that state of heightened emotion, because you are pinning your hopes on some particular outcome, then several things will happen. First, you may be so tense, with so many expectations laid on yourself and other people, that you do not perform at your best. Secondly, your expectations and emotional level are so high, that you are bound to crash when challenges arise, and melt into a puddle of disappointment. Again, you did not succeed. Another failed job, another bad relationship, another thing which did not turn out well. Poor me. When will it end?
It ends when you release yourself from this cycle of seeking thrills and emotional highs. It ends when you just live out each day as it is, doing things as they come to you, with a quiet whisper and an objective calm. When you do this, when you follow what seems to be the right thing to do, without undue emotion, just doing it, you will find that you are able to respond to the little signs and signals which are there. After all, why not? You do not have any particular expectations. So if it suddenly seems that it is better to turn right than to go straight, why not?
Do not think that your truth and your path will necessarily be writ large, in blazing colors across the sky or even in a deep feeling inside. Do not look for emotional highs when you seek truth. Look for a feeling of objectivity, of clearness, of lack of emotion.
Yes, this is a new way to approach things. Everything in your training tells you to seek emotional highs. But again, look back at your life. Where did this lead you?
Instead, look for a quiet lack of emotion. Moments of peace, yes. Moments of gratitude, yes. But when you are making a choice, look just for quiet and calm. Listen carefully. Is there a little idea that is trying to make itself heard? A word that just popped into your mind? Is there just a feeling that you should do something even though it makes no rational sense? Pay attention. Learn to seek these little voices and feelings more than emotional highs. And learn to calm down your emotions, get in a quiet enough state that you can see, hear, sense and feel the other signs which are there for you.
It is your choice to ride the emotional highs and the inevitable lows which follow. For yes, that emotional high, rather than being a sign that you have found the right thing (Finally! At last!), is a sign that you are overly attached to the outcome. It is a sign that you are heading for a fall, that you cannot help but become disappointed in the end, for you have built up expectations around an external event, and external events can never deliver.
Allow me to say this again. External events and external people can never deliver what you expect from them. It is impossible, because what you are truly seeking is an internal event. You are truly seeking, in your heart, a deep connection with your own soul self, a connection of peace, with the oneness that is all. You are seeking the great love of the universe, the unending love which is all around you, ever and always. You are seeking it and it is there, but you are displacing your hopes and dreams and putting them upon external events which are both outside your control and which cannot bring you what you seek.
What you seek is already yours. You already have everything you need. You have the deep love of an embracing universe. You are surrounded by help. Help which may be obscured by high emotion, by fear and by doubt, but is there nonetheless, if you will set all aside and let it be. You are aided and sustained. And you are actively directed and guided at all times. Open to it.
Set aside those hopes and plans. Set aside that emotional high you are seeking. Set aside those fears, those doubts which you are running from. Open to connection, peace and universal love. Open to the energy which flows around you and is full of benevolent guidance. And then, just be.
Just take the step in front of you, even though you do not know where it leads. Just follow that inclination, even though it is not clear why you should do so. Just do the loving thing, the caring thing that you are inclined to do, even though it would seem to take you off the path toward your plan, your project, your dream.
And if, on one day, you feel strongly led, then follow. But if on other days there is just a quiet feeling and no strong inclination one way or another, then just be at peace and enjoy the day.
Do not be desperate about your life. Do not seek the drugs of emotional highs and you will not suffer the inevitable lows when the drug wears off. Seek the peace and love which are in your center, which are part of your connection, and which carry truth in quiet whispers.
The smallest detail , the tiniest focus, can contain the entire universe. Give this moment your focus, your attention, your complete devotion. Small and perfect, this moment contains everything within it. So small, so fleeting, that its perfection contains all that is. The drop of water that contains the ocean, that is this moment. The lightly caressing breeze that contains all the sky, that is this moment. And you, the greatest perfection of all, embracing it all and expressing it all, in a deep peace and connection, that is this moment.
*** A Word from Carrie:
The meditation melds the fertile, creative energy from the earth with the higher energies of your own soul self, to leave you grounded in this life, but full of your higher intentions and energies. We then reach out and connect across the earth to each other, circling the earth with our glowing and peaceful energies.
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"I felt the energy physically and it was beautiful to be so golden and glowing. Overwhelming!" Simona
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