Magic Carpet Cleaner
What does it feel like to be a loser? Stop what you are doing and really get into the feeling of being a loser. What is it like? Do you label and judge this feeling to be bad? Is it a horrible feeling? What, exactly, does it feel like? What emotions are at the core of this “feeling of losing?”
Losing means that you are at one end of a polarity spectrum. The opposite end is winning. What does it feel like to win? Is it a glorious feeling? What prize does winning bring to you? Does it make everything right? And what does “right” feel like to you? How does it feel to be right and to win? What kind of energy are you fed by this energy dynamic?
How much are the two polarities dependent on one another? Can we truly know and appreciate winning without also experiencing losing? Can we truly know and appreciate losing without having experienced winning? Can either winning or losing ever be complete without the other? After all, we cannot win unless “someone else” loses, just like we cannot lose unless “someone else” wins.
This is one way we play with each other in this dimension. We pair up to dance the various polarities. It takes two to tango and it takes two to engage a polarity and play out all the parts. That has been our modus operandi for thousands of years and, thankfully, it has allowed us to proceed with our evolution. It has allowed us to navigate this dimension and garner from it what we will need to know in order to move on into the next dimensional frequency.
What keeps us from moving on from our polarity dance into the dance of one-ness that will shift our frequency? It is the sticky stuff: judgment, guilt, resentment, anger, fear and habit. Our sticky stuff adheres us to the polarities we have been playing out. It is easy to get stuck and hard to get out of. It is because of that sticky gooey stuff.
If I were a carpet salesman and I told you I had an incredible breakthrough product to get sticky gooey stuff out of your carpet, would you be interested in trying it? Would you listen to my sales pitch or would you blow me off and continue to walk on your soiled carpets like you had been doing? Would you at least be curious as to what that miracle product is?
What if I spritz a little of the miracle product on a certain stain in your carpet? Lo and behold, within seconds the stain completely vanishes before your eyes. You do not have to wipe or anything; just spritz the stuff. Would you want to know what this product is and what it is made of? Would you want to buy a whole case of the stuff?
What if I told you that the miracle product was absolutely free; that you do not have to buy anything? Would that get you further excited or would it make you suspicious? Remember, you do not have to scrub or wipe or get any gunk on your hands. You do not have to do anything but spritz. And the stuff is perfectly safe and is not detrimental to the environment. Indeed, the opposite is true. It actually enhances the environment! Indeed, it connects you to the environment in a very intense way.
Are you at all interested? If you are, I can tell you that this miracle product works on all manner of surfaces, not just carpet. You can spritz your furniture, your car, your kitchen surfaces, your bathroom, your bedding, your pets, and even your children. You can even spritz your plants with it, your food, and yourself. It enhances everything it touches.
How much would you pay for two 16 ounce bottles of this wonderful stuff? If you guessed $179.99 you are wrong. As I said before, this stuff is absolutely, completely, and totally free. No credit card information is necessary. There are no forms to fill out. No money is necessary and you never have to wait in line. All you have to do is surrender to it. All you have to do is see it right there before your eyes. All you have to do is feel it.
What is this miracle product? It is beauty.
In beauty there are no winners nor are there any losers. In beauty there is no right nor wrong; there is no good or bad, left or right, higher or lower, black or white, rich or poor, victim or perpetrator, new or old, best or worst, and no cause or effect. There is no “us and them.” In beauty there is no separation, no polarization. Beauty is a one-ness principle that has the power to take us right out of polarization. It can suck us right into one-ness, dissipating all those stains of judgment, guilt, resentment, anger, fear, habit, or whatever we have spilled in our experience of polarizing duality. When we allow ourselves to fully surrender to beauty our vibratory frequency shifts to one of unconditional joy. Beauty is a tool that can cut right through all our layers and go directly to our hearts. It can turn on full blast that switch called, “Life.”
And it is completely free and it is everywhere you look. Use it, embrace it, and surrender to it and all goo will dissolve before your eyes. It really is a miracle just like we all are.
Losing means that you are at one end of a polarity spectrum. The opposite end is winning. What does it feel like to win? Is it a glorious feeling? What prize does winning bring to you? Does it make everything right? And what does “right” feel like to you? How does it feel to be right and to win? What kind of energy are you fed by this energy dynamic?
How much are the two polarities dependent on one another? Can we truly know and appreciate winning without also experiencing losing? Can we truly know and appreciate losing without having experienced winning? Can either winning or losing ever be complete without the other? After all, we cannot win unless “someone else” loses, just like we cannot lose unless “someone else” wins.
This is one way we play with each other in this dimension. We pair up to dance the various polarities. It takes two to tango and it takes two to engage a polarity and play out all the parts. That has been our modus operandi for thousands of years and, thankfully, it has allowed us to proceed with our evolution. It has allowed us to navigate this dimension and garner from it what we will need to know in order to move on into the next dimensional frequency.
What keeps us from moving on from our polarity dance into the dance of one-ness that will shift our frequency? It is the sticky stuff: judgment, guilt, resentment, anger, fear and habit. Our sticky stuff adheres us to the polarities we have been playing out. It is easy to get stuck and hard to get out of. It is because of that sticky gooey stuff.
If I were a carpet salesman and I told you I had an incredible breakthrough product to get sticky gooey stuff out of your carpet, would you be interested in trying it? Would you listen to my sales pitch or would you blow me off and continue to walk on your soiled carpets like you had been doing? Would you at least be curious as to what that miracle product is?
What if I spritz a little of the miracle product on a certain stain in your carpet? Lo and behold, within seconds the stain completely vanishes before your eyes. You do not have to wipe or anything; just spritz the stuff. Would you want to know what this product is and what it is made of? Would you want to buy a whole case of the stuff?
What if I told you that the miracle product was absolutely free; that you do not have to buy anything? Would that get you further excited or would it make you suspicious? Remember, you do not have to scrub or wipe or get any gunk on your hands. You do not have to do anything but spritz. And the stuff is perfectly safe and is not detrimental to the environment. Indeed, the opposite is true. It actually enhances the environment! Indeed, it connects you to the environment in a very intense way.
Are you at all interested? If you are, I can tell you that this miracle product works on all manner of surfaces, not just carpet. You can spritz your furniture, your car, your kitchen surfaces, your bathroom, your bedding, your pets, and even your children. You can even spritz your plants with it, your food, and yourself. It enhances everything it touches.
How much would you pay for two 16 ounce bottles of this wonderful stuff? If you guessed $179.99 you are wrong. As I said before, this stuff is absolutely, completely, and totally free. No credit card information is necessary. There are no forms to fill out. No money is necessary and you never have to wait in line. All you have to do is surrender to it. All you have to do is see it right there before your eyes. All you have to do is feel it.
What is this miracle product? It is beauty.
In beauty there are no winners nor are there any losers. In beauty there is no right nor wrong; there is no good or bad, left or right, higher or lower, black or white, rich or poor, victim or perpetrator, new or old, best or worst, and no cause or effect. There is no “us and them.” In beauty there is no separation, no polarization. Beauty is a one-ness principle that has the power to take us right out of polarization. It can suck us right into one-ness, dissipating all those stains of judgment, guilt, resentment, anger, fear, habit, or whatever we have spilled in our experience of polarizing duality. When we allow ourselves to fully surrender to beauty our vibratory frequency shifts to one of unconditional joy. Beauty is a tool that can cut right through all our layers and go directly to our hearts. It can turn on full blast that switch called, “Life.”
And it is completely free and it is everywhere you look. Use it, embrace it, and surrender to it and all goo will dissolve before your eyes. It really is a miracle just like we all are.
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Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.
Dog Turd
If someone had an awakened sense of beauty then if they were walking down the sidewalk and suddenly came upon a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk they would be able to see the beauty in that dog turd.
Is that too radical? How can there possibly be beauty in a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk? Have you ever stopped to contemplate a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk? When you see one do you immediately keep walking on, putting it out of your mind? Or have you ever stopped to search for the beauty in it?
Beauty in a dog turd? Why not? There is love, joy, and beauty in all life! (And therefore also in death.) Every single solitary part of reality is a divine creation. Every part of reality is in a different stage in its ongoing birth/death cycle. That turd was once food and its nature was changed by a dog and its gastrointestinal system. As it decays and ferments on the sidewalk it once again changes back into food that will be used by plants in order to grow. The plant is eventually eaten by an animal which is subsequently harvested to make food. One minute it is food, the next minute it is a turd, and then it is food again. With time it will once again be a turd.
The essence is the same and the inherent beauty remains. It is only our perception that changes. We perceive it in its different cycles and we judge it according to what cycle it is in. Cycles of life are judged "good" and cycles of death are judged "bad." But they are cycles of the same thing! And that same thing has beauty. If it did not, it would not exist!
There is outrageous beauty in its very existence!
So the challenge is to find and see that beauty despite what cyclic stage it is in and what solidified judgments we have on those cyclic stages. A sense of "awakened beauty" allows us to see through those judgments of certain stages and see the beauty in all things!
In my opinion, an awakened sense of beauty is critically important in enabling us to evolve our consciousness beyond where it is now. It is the magic key that will unlock the door to the reality we know we have waiting for us. It is the secret of ascending out of the sticky gooey morass of judgments we are mired in.
One day, years ago, when my dog Shawnee was taking me for a walk we happened to come across a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk. I actually stopped to, ever so briefly, take notice of it. It was exquisitely formed (all in one piece). The colors were artistically swirled with black and brown and a wee bit of orange. (I wondered if the dog's owner had fed it carrots.) Its consistency looked fairly solid. Surprisingly, I could detect no odor although it looked rather fresh. Watching my step, I put it out of my mind and kept walking. Shawnee, of course, had to sniff the damn thing. Little did I know that it would become a metaphor for my subsequent rambling.
But there really is beauty in a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk if we can get beyond our judgments about it. Once the rains come that turd will be washing away from the sidewalk into the neighboring dirt and it will help fertilize some flower or weed that is pushing up from the earth to grow and flower. I know that in my back yard the grass was a lot greener in the corner where Shawnee did her business. Can you imagine what this world would be like without any poop? The trees and grass and flowers would not grow nor would anything else. Poop is a necessary and powerful part of the cycle of life on this planet. Without it we would have one seriously messed up constipated reality and growth would be severely stunted. Beauty would be stifled.
But why can't we see the beauty in that? Why can't we see the beauty in death as well as the beauty in life? After all, they are both dependent on one another. Beauty is ALWAYS there! It is only our perspectives that can prevent us from seeing it. And through a lifetime of conditioning, our perspectives are shaped and controlled by our judgments.
The more judgments we drop, the wider our perception of the picture becomes. There is beauty in all things and it is our choice whether we see it or not. There is joy in all things and it is our choice whether we feel it or not. There is love in all things and it is our choice whether or not we recognize it. If we can rise to the challenge of seeing beauty in all things then we can start understanding what life is all about. "Life is Beautiful," to quote a certain movie title. It all depends on how you look at it.
Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.
Is that too radical? How can there possibly be beauty in a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk? Have you ever stopped to contemplate a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk? When you see one do you immediately keep walking on, putting it out of your mind? Or have you ever stopped to search for the beauty in it?
Beauty in a dog turd? Why not? There is love, joy, and beauty in all life! (And therefore also in death.) Every single solitary part of reality is a divine creation. Every part of reality is in a different stage in its ongoing birth/death cycle. That turd was once food and its nature was changed by a dog and its gastrointestinal system. As it decays and ferments on the sidewalk it once again changes back into food that will be used by plants in order to grow. The plant is eventually eaten by an animal which is subsequently harvested to make food. One minute it is food, the next minute it is a turd, and then it is food again. With time it will once again be a turd.
The essence is the same and the inherent beauty remains. It is only our perception that changes. We perceive it in its different cycles and we judge it according to what cycle it is in. Cycles of life are judged "good" and cycles of death are judged "bad." But they are cycles of the same thing! And that same thing has beauty. If it did not, it would not exist!
There is outrageous beauty in its very existence!
So the challenge is to find and see that beauty despite what cyclic stage it is in and what solidified judgments we have on those cyclic stages. A sense of "awakened beauty" allows us to see through those judgments of certain stages and see the beauty in all things!
In my opinion, an awakened sense of beauty is critically important in enabling us to evolve our consciousness beyond where it is now. It is the magic key that will unlock the door to the reality we know we have waiting for us. It is the secret of ascending out of the sticky gooey morass of judgments we are mired in.
One day, years ago, when my dog Shawnee was taking me for a walk we happened to come across a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk. I actually stopped to, ever so briefly, take notice of it. It was exquisitely formed (all in one piece). The colors were artistically swirled with black and brown and a wee bit of orange. (I wondered if the dog's owner had fed it carrots.) Its consistency looked fairly solid. Surprisingly, I could detect no odor although it looked rather fresh. Watching my step, I put it out of my mind and kept walking. Shawnee, of course, had to sniff the damn thing. Little did I know that it would become a metaphor for my subsequent rambling.
But there really is beauty in a dog turd lying in the middle of the sidewalk if we can get beyond our judgments about it. Once the rains come that turd will be washing away from the sidewalk into the neighboring dirt and it will help fertilize some flower or weed that is pushing up from the earth to grow and flower. I know that in my back yard the grass was a lot greener in the corner where Shawnee did her business. Can you imagine what this world would be like without any poop? The trees and grass and flowers would not grow nor would anything else. Poop is a necessary and powerful part of the cycle of life on this planet. Without it we would have one seriously messed up constipated reality and growth would be severely stunted. Beauty would be stifled.
But why can't we see the beauty in that? Why can't we see the beauty in death as well as the beauty in life? After all, they are both dependent on one another. Beauty is ALWAYS there! It is only our perspectives that can prevent us from seeing it. And through a lifetime of conditioning, our perspectives are shaped and controlled by our judgments.
The more judgments we drop, the wider our perception of the picture becomes. There is beauty in all things and it is our choice whether we see it or not. There is joy in all things and it is our choice whether we feel it or not. There is love in all things and it is our choice whether or not we recognize it. If we can rise to the challenge of seeing beauty in all things then we can start understanding what life is all about. "Life is Beautiful," to quote a certain movie title. It all depends on how you look at it.
Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.
The Beholder
Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. It is the beholder who has all the power. We can be surrounded by intense beauty but that beauty does not come alive until we see it. The act of seeing beauty is a creative act. It actually changes reality. The act of seeing beauty is a lot like spritzing that magic carpet cleaner. It transforms the world around us.
Seeing and feeling beauty helps us to melt away the sticky goo of judgments, fears, guilts, resentments and a lifetime of mental conditioning.
Here is an exercise I encourage everyone to try. Consciously intend to see nothing but beauty in the next one hundred people you meet. As you try to see the beauty in them notice how your brain reacts. Notice how quickly judgments automatically come up about the people we are meeting. If they are people that we have met before then the automatic judgments that come up have usually solidified over time. Let the judgments arise but do not become attached to them. Let them float away. Do not give them any energy. Merely observe those judgments arise and then dissipate. Keep your attention on the beauty that surely is in that person as it is in all things.
The more you do this with more people, the less energy those automatic judgments have. Eventually, it gets easier to look at someone and immediately see the beauty in them. And that goes for anything in our environment. It usually takes time to break out of old conditioned patterns but once we have developed an appetite for beauty it gets easier. We see how unfulfilling the old patterns were and we realize how energizing and uplifting beauty is. Soon we begin seeing it everywhere and our whole world transforms. We will realize that we are living in a paradise. We just never saw it before.
Seeing and feeling beauty helps us to melt away the sticky goo of judgments, fears, guilts, resentments and a lifetime of mental conditioning.
Here is an exercise I encourage everyone to try. Consciously intend to see nothing but beauty in the next one hundred people you meet. As you try to see the beauty in them notice how your brain reacts. Notice how quickly judgments automatically come up about the people we are meeting. If they are people that we have met before then the automatic judgments that come up have usually solidified over time. Let the judgments arise but do not become attached to them. Let them float away. Do not give them any energy. Merely observe those judgments arise and then dissipate. Keep your attention on the beauty that surely is in that person as it is in all things.
The more you do this with more people, the less energy those automatic judgments have. Eventually, it gets easier to look at someone and immediately see the beauty in them. And that goes for anything in our environment. It usually takes time to break out of old conditioned patterns but once we have developed an appetite for beauty it gets easier. We see how unfulfilling the old patterns were and we realize how energizing and uplifting beauty is. Soon we begin seeing it everywhere and our whole world transforms. We will realize that we are living in a paradise. We just never saw it before.
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Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved. Thanks for reading.