Friday, October 21, 2011

Our Divine nature



"How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred." ~David Simon

“… your essential nature is pure consciousness. Beyond the disguises of ego-mind and the physical body, you are pure awareness, pure joy and pure potentiality.” – Deepak Chopra



When we drop away the ego and the physical, we realize that our essence—all of us—is a Divine nature, and the Divine doesn’t have a physical body. We inhabit our physical vessel for such a brief period of time and yet, some people spend far too much time noting the differences between our bodies instead of the sameness of our souls.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
~ C. S. Lewis

We are not our bodies. When our mortal vessels can no longer live and we are released from our body, we will no longer have gender. We will no longer have skin color. We will no longer have sexual differences. We will no longer have handicaps or illnesses.

All these require a physical body and without a body, we then fully and completely realize Truth: in our essence, we are the same.

4 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Another profound post, Rose!

Darla said...

Lovely. We do tend to obsess about "bodies" don't we? Ours, someone else's. And yet, how can we not do it to some extent when we are living a physical life. I find the balancing to be the sublime journey...not without its lessons, of course...

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Laura said...

we are so much more than what can be held, it's true. your photos are exquisite Rose and your words resonate deeply with the Divine spark in me.