by Shift Shaper | | Poetry
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken – BY ROBERT FROST
“ Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
by Shift Shaper | | Quotes
“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.” ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
by Shift Shaper | | Quotes
“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression, stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!”
~Abhinavagupta
by Shift Shaper | | Uncategorized
“Like they say in Zen, when you attain Satori, nothing is left for you in that moment than to have a good laugh.” –Alan Watts
by Shift Shaper | | Uncategorized
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
by Shift Shaper | | Spiritual
Any template creating polarization and other, no matter the dressing we cover it with, is supporting the matrix of control. Supporting the continuance of separation of self.
Escape the matrix of control! For its control is so insidious that to partake is to perpetuate it!
When in the now, all that is, just is. All those so called relationship problems, the division, the other, they disappear. They all are gone!
We need to boldly stand outside the matrix by releasing that which binds us – releasing beliefs one and all. They bind us, and we, beings if light, we need to be feather light with our beliefs. How many or what do we really need, to be? Here, now, I AM. All beliefs at their root are weeds in the spiritual garden, good to hang your coat on, to frolic in the splendour of your creation, but any belief, at the end of the day is removal from self, removal from and abstraction of the I AM, the Absolute, the real you. All beliefs are in some sense a trap. Discernment of what you need and recognition that you hold a certain belief is a great starting point on the road to lightness.
What we need to do is to let go and be transformed, to be in the world but not of it, to be, just to be, and in that moment, the only moment, we are transcendent, transformed and everything around us is transformed to the reflection of our grandeur.
So in every moment be grateful. Be grateful for what is before you, for you have brought it to you, the good and the bad. But even the aversion holds it in place. Now, let go! Let go of your beliefs about what is before you, Let go about all your preconceptions. Let go of your strong held hold of reality. Let go, for in that moment, you find, something always there. Eternal never-ending Freedom – always available. Freedom in the eternal peace of who you are.
I AM.
Namaste May all beings be blessed
by Shift Shaper | | Spiritual
Self love, is service to the self. It is not how much we can love ourselves and pander to the egos wants. It is not putting oneself before another, or other games that the ego plays, like saying I’m so important, I must come first, my needs and wants are greater than another’s’. Self love is at its essence service rendered to others. It is self sacrificing in that it is an acknowledgment that the self appears in all others and not just within me.
It can be difficult to grasp the distinctions between being selfish and being selfless. Many seem confused as they go through life without care or responsibility for thoughts or actions taken. Service is the highest path. Service and surrender go hand in hand. Being in the moment and in service perhaps is the most beautiful of human expressions. Far to many are out of center, out of now, in time, in a fake delusional expression of self, thinking about the past or future, talking about their so called surrender rather than doing it, being it, living it.
The ego will tell you what you want to hear. The self, no whisper even, calls you with an irresistible tugging. A pulling on the heart that leads you home. It is the real you. It is the knowledge and acknowledgment of self that calls. You only need to surrender to its call to know it again, for you never left but fell into duality, polarity, ego. The construct you created to protect yourself because you thought you need protection from others and that you needed to navigate in time. When you drop – other, you have remaining, – only you.
Polarity, comparing, opposites, difference, illusion. Balance in all things means a balance in the polarity of being which most fall into. The ego goes, you are like that, or it says, you said that, or that person is acting such a way and sometimes it is said very softly, very subtly. How do you trick yourself into judgment, into justifying polarity?
There is a necessity to balance the energy, all of it, each and every polarity we create. We need to balance it by letting go on both sides of the coin, on both sides of the energy equation so we might allow this energy to move. We do not want to be held in place by resistance. Resistance can be when we want something or when we don’t want something, both sides of the same energy. Release on the duality and find the moments of now expand, into the expansiveness of your being found in the now.
Service is surrender to the highest good in the moment of now as one cares deeper for another, putting them first, before oneself, before the ego. Knowing as we are caring for our self in a selfless manner surrendering to what is right in front of us, right now, we are receiving.
How can you give service to your self, now, right now?
Just do it and remain as you truly are.
Namaste
May all beings be blessed
by Shift Shaper | | Spiritual
All around me I hear and read stories, stories of this and that and that is why I am who and what I am. I am looking for this or that kind or this or that experience. I wonder how many identify with the story they tell themselves about themselves, their lives or about what they are searching for?
Everyone no matter who you are is really searching for at their essence for who they are already, without the stories, they wish to be that. You can buy into your own story of I am searching for this kind of person or that kind of person but really you are deluding yourself. You are telling a story. When you identify with any story, no matter what it is, you are in the past or projecting into the future.
You truly want to be in the now, experiencing, in the heart mind. There is no thought in the now, only experiencing.
So can you let go and find the now? This is where you will find peace and where the reality of your life will unfold without the need to control it. Without the need to seek that which is already here and which is already promised. Everything you seek is right here, right now, right in front of you.
Open up your heart and feel the truth of your being and allow that which is to be your life, your unique expression in this realm, to just be.
Be at peace
Namaste.
May all beings be blessed
by Shift Shaper | | Memorial
For my friend Mellory, Happy Birthday
you’re gone, but not forgotten,
frames of movies past,
just memories remain
sands of time ran out,
musical refrain
danced our youth away
school days and beaches,
follies of our youth
time skipped, slipped, night and day
yesterday, playing at teenagers
now you have youth eternal
while I watch the clock wind down, all around ages
youth fades away, once fresh faces
lines remain, etched stories of different places
Once upon time, we were both young but that was yesterday
by Shift Shaper | | Spiritual
The chains that bind us,
light spider webs or chain links of heavy lead.
Bind us tight in both respites, their weights draining
hear all complaining, heavy is their toll.
Words whispered in the crib, sharper than the quills nib,
etched in deep upon the soul, nursed from generation to generation.
As you sat on granddaddy knee, you learnt his energy and his limitation.
Your mommy taught you one plus one and daddy showed how it was done.
For every past, you were one, a son, a daughter, a carrier,
of records.
Those beliefs you took them well, you made them yours as you dwell
fitting in, putting on the clothes of common convenience.
One day it came to pass that this was a hollow glass,
devoid of substance and meaning.
Then it began, that letting go, you began to glow
those beliefs, those memes of common jailer, tethers to an insane asylum, unraveled.
Freedom breathed light and full,
dawning,
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