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What Is Spiritual Love?
By: Lanu Pitan
Tags: Spiritual Saturdays, Spirituality, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Spiritual Secrets

Spiritual love is the bridge between you and everything else

Image from Ylanite www.pexels.com @Nietjuh from Pixabay

Spiritual Saturdays

Right inside the soul a feeling deep

A yearning that cannot be ignored

The craving that makes me weep

The feeling drawing me ever closer

Right inside the soul a feeling incomparable

A love affair with our very own being

The love that comes from within us

The love that is often ignored for other interest

We wrestle to have the earthly pleasures

Wanting to fill our lot with earthly leisures

Ignoring His guidance to Eternal treasures

And we battle on and on with life adventures

But nothing gets down in the way of Spiritual love

Whose purpose is to enrich our earthly experiences

And nurture us until we become the best version

Of what we are meant to be even on this earthly journey

Each and every one of us is spiritually connected

What makes the connection powerful is spiritual love

Humanity is complete in itself but lay dormant

Until connected to that which awakens the Love in him.

Oh Love Divine, how do I ever know the goodies you have in store

The Love that exposes humanity dark hidden and fractured part

The Love that unfolds humanity towards greater self-realisation

That Spiritual Love and ego are incompatible and irreconcilable.

Thank you, Darshak Rana, for the Prompt, LOVE, with Spiritual Connotation, and inviting me to participate. Blessings.
Enjoy Your Trip to… Earth
By: Alan Lew
Tags: Life, Consciousness, Earth, Reality, Spiritual Secrets

Meanwhile:

Your partner (husband or wife — gender distinctions are more blurred in this dimension) thinks you are crazy to want to go to such a chaotic and challenging place like Earth. “Why would anyone want to experiences the pain and suffering that is common for so many on Earth?” She prefers to just stay home and look after the house while you are away.

Because time is more flexible in your home dimension, you will only be gone for about a week to experience your lifetime on Earth.

You brother and his wife do not like the extremes of Earth and usually pick places to visit that are more like your home dimension. They have been talking about going to a planet in the Sirius star system, although they have yet to decide when that might happen.

Your son has been to Earth before and enjoyed it. Because he cannot get away so easily from his work, he booked a shorter trip that will overlap yours so you can spend some time together there.

And your youngest daughter, the wild one in the family, wants to go to college on a planet in the Orion system that offers even more extreme polarities and challenges than on Earth — which just sound so exciting to her.

You are all looking forward to sharing your experiences, and photos, when you return.
Your Thoughts Create Your World
By: Lanu Pitan
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Prose, Spiritual Secrets

Our thoughts create our circumstances, so we experience what we think

Photo by Matteo Di Iorio on Unsplash

Poetry Saturday (The Prose)

It is the desire of all to live a happy blissful life

That desire can only be achieved first by looking inward

‘Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom’, said Aristotle

Create a more positive outlook about your life, to begin with

How you see yourself is what will manifest in your life

Because it will alter your thinking pattern about yourself

Which in turn, as an assumption will show up in your life

And causes you to put in less effort and the energy to improve

Once you nurture a believe (positively or negatively) about yourself

You start looking for something to reinforce that belief in yourself

And also discounts what does not support that belief in yourself

And so your belief stunts your growth and limits your performance.

Creating a more positive outlook about your entire life

Helps in accessing all that is required to bring it to fruition

Hence just by positively alter your perception about yourself

Will nullify self-limiting beliefs that bring success to your life

‘’The biggest concentration camp is your own mind and the key is in your pocket’’ Dr Edith Eger

Thank you, Darshak Rana, for today’s Poetry Saturday Prompt, ‘’CREATE’’, and inviting me to participate. Blessings.
Connecting With the Divine Self
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Soul, Poetry, Weekly Prompts, Spiritual Secrets

If you are angry with your life

If you can’t find a way out

Get out in the open,

And feel the gentle touch of the air,

It’s tickling your dead porous skin.

Let the warmth of the mighty sun

Melt your inner hatred for life

The water flowing through the creeks

Is screaming and teaching life lessons

Embrace its coolness

and soak the wisdom within.

Let the bird’s chirpings please you.

Let the wet grass of the ground snuggle you.

The giant oak tree aged over a thousand years.

Has a lot to offer than just a canopy,

Listen to its stories of rain and thunder.

And drench your soul with power.

Nothing remains afar from us.

If we look around and not make a fuss

God, through these creations, loves us

Rekindling the magic of our authentic self, and thus

From the negativity, it saves

I am never gonna sit, sulk and cry

But I’d listen to God’s melodious lullaby

That does not induce sleep

But wakes me from the ignorance deep

This is how you can start to connect

with nature and your real self.
The Rainbow Bridge
By: Beth Stormont
Tags: Co Creating, Readiness, Poetic Form Article, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Secrets

The wonderful mystical bridge that connects Heaven and

Earth— the Rainbow Bridge — is available for us to traverse

at will when we are ready for the awareness of it in our lives.

As co-creators of a New Earth, we can create and travel between

the heavens and planet Earth only when in human physical form

. . . thereby serving as both anchor and portal between the lower

3rd dimension and the higher realms of existence yet unknown

to the masses of Humanity.
A Gate Opens
By: Lanu Pitan
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Poetry Sunday, Spiritual Secrets

A gate suddenly open, which until now has remained closed

Photo by Gabriel McCallin on Unsplash

Poetry Sunday

Life is a pathway to experiencing

That leads mankind to his learning

Until he learns his life lessons

The gate remains closed, and he does not know

Life is a pathway to experiencing

That connects mankind to his yearning

Until he learns his life purpose

The gate remains closed, and he does not know

Life is a pathway to experiencing

That connects mankind to his effect on others

Until he learns to treat others as himself

The gate remains closed, and he does not know

Life is a pathway to experiencing

That connects mankind to the grand machine of enlightenment

He enters the emerging brighter path out of the oppressing errors

Then the gate that remains closed suddenly opens to joyous longing.
To Be Spiritual or Not to Be
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Blue Insights, Spirituality, Poetry, Acrostic, Spiritual Secrets

Sin is all we find here

Peace and happiness we all desire

I don’t know about others but

Renewing the soul power by connecting to the Almighty

Is the only way out I know

To experience tranquility and eternal bliss, That

Unburdens us of our vicious acts

And liberate us all from this hell

Loving us without any expectations

Ignoring our weaknesses and heinous deeds

To ascend towards our divine home.

You have the right to choose your way if you have one!
You Must Keep Moving
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Self-awareness, Spiritual Tree, Illumination, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

I know it seems long

But you must remain strong

And keep moving

Things go wrong

It is part of the journey

It is part of the plan

And you must keep moving

Each step you take pushes you closer

So, keep moving

Sometimes you cry

And at times you wonder why

Trust and know through it all you must keep moving

Others won’t understand

They can’t see the plan

And that’s okay

No matter what they say

You keep moving

Keep moving and it won’t be long

Keep moving and you will remain strong

Keep moving and you will see

You will end up exactly where you’re supposed to be

So, keep moving
I Once Called It Home
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Awareness, Spiritual Tree, Illumination, Darshan Raval, Spiritual Secrets

I called it home

A place where I was safe and warm

I knew the rooms well

The kitchen held the recipes for life

The dining room the place filled with tastes of life

The living room where time was spent

The bedroom my resting place

The bathroom my emptying space

Now all that’s left is this void

I no longer know what holds the house together

I am no longer safe or warm

I no longer know what life holds

I no longer see a place to spend time

I no longer have a resting place

There is no more emptying space

The frame is barely standing

The foundation I knew is collapsing around me

I’m empty

The void is my mind
The Answer is Love
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Spirituality, Illumination, Poetry, Love, Spiritual Secrets

We are created to be expressions of love walking this earth

We are here to care for one another

We are to give of ourselves over and over again

The more love is expressed the more it grows

We can never diminish our capacity to grow in love

Love is perfect in every way

Love awakens the senses

Love reaches to the depths of the soul

Love’s effects can be experienced throughout the entire body

Love is entire — wanting nothing

Love expressed is revealing

Love is real and giving

Mutual respect blends love’s formation and energizes

I want more love

I want to give more love

Love is the key

Once you have it you are free

Living

Openly

Venturing

Expectantly
Love
By: Amy Jasek
Tags: Spiritual Saturdays, Spirituality, Poetry, Love, Spiritual Secrets

Poetry

Love

Austin, TX | 35mm film (photo by author)

Love, the door opener

the bridge builder

the listening ear

and also the fence

that makes a good neighbor

Love, the forgiver

the second-chancer

the helping hand

and also the consequences

that make a good teacher

Love, the shelterer

the save havener

the place of rest

and also the nudge out the door

that encourages growth

Love, the giver

the caretaker

the fixer upper

and also the quiet hope

that you will pass it on

Love, the provider

Love, the sustainer

Love, the greatest

of the things that remain

Love, gazing eye to eye

when we stand tall

and see it face to face
You Can’t Run Out of Patience
By: Judy J Lutz
Tags: Self Improvement, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Personal Growth, Spiritual Secrets

What’s the key to happiness? Becoming aware of your own self-worth, effectiveness and value in this world. Find Your True Self: The Art of Flowing Joy
The Moon Within
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Writing, Moon, Muse, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

The Moon Within

Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash

staying away is easy, walking back is tough.

there’s always a page waiting to be picked,

the plants in my garden they keep shedding flowers.

I need to clear the sky and awaken the moon within

just a rambling which I had to ink.
Reverence for the Divine Feminine
By: Krunal Dangar
Tags: Feminism, Spirituality, Spirituality And Women, Divine Feminine, Spiritual Secrets

Reverence for the Divine Feminine

Rite de passage by Emmy Lim Hon.

Within all of us, resides two sacred energies — the divine feminine and the divine masculine. The feminine expresses herself in creation, intuition, empathy, and sensuality while action, power, logic, and focus are the expressions of the masculine. When in harmony with each other, they create a numinous state of being that is ethereal.

The ancients understood this. The sacred energies held an equal place in their societies, functioning in blissful harmony. Somewhere along the way in our human story, we unsettled this divine balance. The values of the masculine became more prominent and the only ones worth adopting. They presented themselves as the only gods to be worshipped, dominant, and imposing over anything that did not resemble themselves.

We began to devalue the divine feminine and her tender gifts. We devised social constructs that repressed her and her conscious development and called it ‘culture’. We subjected her to fear, shame, disgrace, and restrain. We inflicted wounds upon her she never deserved. We severed our relationship with the goddess.

In her absence, our images of life became filled with power, greed, selfishness, advancement, and ego. We built ourselves a cruel phallic world with a very shallow emotional depth. Our mode of being polluted by materialistic pursuits and meaninglessness that numbs and desecrates our soul. We have left yearning for vulnerability, beauty, care, love, and compassion. We have left yearning for our connection with the goddess.

We need to heal her wounds and treat her with the kindness she treats us. We need to recognize her presence within ourselves and within each other. We need to reinstate her to the place she deserves in our society. Just as important is the need for reawakening the divine masculine to its true essence and glory, one that uses its strength to protect and lead rather than oppress.

Reviving our reverence for the goddess is an antidote to the problems of this world, a step towards re-establishing the harmony between the feminine and the masculine for a more just and equitable society. This is the cure to heal and transform our inner world and collectively, our society.

We need a Goddess Society.
Immaculate
By: Bernadette Decarlo
Tags: Saturday Prompt, Incarnation, Love, Haiku, Spiritual Secrets

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The Great Lakes Sutra
By: Michelle Berry Lane
Tags: Freshwater, Balance, Great Lakes, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

The Great Lakes Sutra

Photo by Michelle Berry Lane, 2018, Lake Huron

You are one small creature in this vastness,

part of a dynamic whole.

Like a butterfly at the shore,

find balance in the wind,

at the foci between

direction and spontaneity,

focus and flexibility,

purpose and receptivity.

Let the breath you hear in the waves fill you.

Transformation is found in the liminal place

where water meets sand,

at the threshold of covering, uncovering . . .

Dip yourself in the life

of clear waters.

Be movable.

Rest your eyes on the limitless.
Love to Each Other
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Love, Haiku, Spiritual Secrets

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Catching Leaves
By: Bernadette Decarlo
Tags: Cats, Present Moment Living, Spirituality, Life Lessons, Spiritual Secrets

Catching Leaves

Photo by Josh Couch on Unsplash

She watches the leaves from a closed window, seeking to catch them. It is impossible. She tries every morning and never gives up watching them in wonder. Her eyes glowed in beauteous shades of blue. Frequently, they turn colors like the leaves that are performing in front of her. The sunlight flickers in them, reflecting her presence.

I am in awe of her.

After many days she purrs with admiration and enjoys their beauty and doesn’t have to capture the leaves anymore. It is enough to watch.

She is like a toddler exploring the marvel of dancing leaves in the breeze and mesmerized by their beauty.

She is the present moment. God in action beholding time.

When she naps, she naps. Nothing else matters. When she eats, she eats. She is present when she wakes me in the birth of morning and looks into my eyes and purrs with harmony. She owns herself one hundred percent in everything she does.

It may appear to humans she has a limited life. But I don’t know of anyone who can be present all the time.
Who I Am in Reality
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Self-awareness, Illumination, Spiritual Tree Prompt, Inspirational, Spiritual Secrets

Who I present may not be who I be

I reserve the real me for times when I feel free

I am free in Your presence

When I come before You I can be who I am

The one You created me to be

I bow and surrender before You

I give praise and adore You

I am who I am because of You

And the love between us is forged through

Any pain, shame, or fear

In Your presence, all doth disappear

Pursuing truth is what I find in You

Time after time I come to the looking glass

And I see who I am

I have full proof of my identity
Comfort Zone
By: Pretheesh Presannan
Tags: Humor, Poetry, Confrontation, Comfort Zone, Spiritual Secrets

comfort zone — if any — is within us

not anywhere outside

it is neither in mom’s basement

nor in a faraway forest or mountain top

it is easy

to change external location

and pat one’s own back

for that is comfortable

but this is always within

it is always an ‘inner’ confrontation

wherever we go

there it is

— the comfort zone :)
Who I Am
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Self-awareness, Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

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The Tale Of Sky
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Writing, Spiritual Secrets, Muse, Poetry, Nature

The Tale Of Sky

Photo by Altınay Dinç on Unsplash

you can’t be superior

just because you belong

to a specific part of the world.

you see the same moon

which lights up my sky.

how can your sun be

brighter than mine?
Mind Awareness
By: Judy J Lutz
Tags: Spirituality, Intelligence, Mindset, Wisdom, Spiritual Secrets

Just because you’re smart, doesn’t mean you’re right.

I’ve always admired people with a fast and sharp intellect.

This could be a natural gift, but I think it has more to do with your environment.

My slower brain belongs in the South, for sure.

There’s a difference between how quickly you can process thought and what you’re actually aware of.

Wisdom is a character strength, it comes from having experience, knowledge, and good judgment.

Awareness is so much more powerful than regurgitating facts.

Don’t you think?

Namaste
Connecting with the Divine Self (Weekly Prompt)
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Spiritual Tree, Darshak Rana, Illumination, Inspirational, Spiritual Secrets

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Being Content (Weekly Prompt)
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Spiritual Growth, Illumination, Spiritual Tree Prompt, Inspirational, Spiritual Secrets

I have learned to be content with much, and I have learned to be content with little

The joy of my soul lies in knowing that all things work together and are for my good

In that, my actions are equal to my thoughts I am in sync and of the same mind
Connect — That Link!
By: Lanu Pitan
Tags: Spiritual Saturdays, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

Establish that positive, healthy and meaningful relationship with your Creator

Photo by Tim Johnson on Unsplash

SPIRITUAL SATURDAY

Join the link, fasten it together

You are not meant to be without help

The link ensures that you receive help

You're not joining it leaves you with raw weather

Join the link, fasten it together

Never joke with the power that keeps you alive

How do you not know you are floating aimlessly,

In the ocean of unbecoming, pain and sorrow?

Join the link, fasten it together

Enjoy the blessings bestowed upon mankind

Draw from God’s infinite wisdom

Immeasurable is the happiness unfold

Thank you, Darshak Rana, for tagging me on Spiritual Saturday Prompt, ‘’CONNECT’’. Blessings.
Sacred Life
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Self Improvement, Spirituality, Life Lessons, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

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Walk With Me
By: Rhonda Skinner
Tags: Divine, Connection, Poetry, A Few Words, Spiritual Secrets

Walk With Me

Digital Collage by Author, Copyright All Rights Reserved

You walk with me in a time never to be seen

On the cliffs of evermore

Time reaches out to cut me on the throat

I squirm at the thought

I release nevermore to be seen

Can you catch a sparrow’s wing

Can you sit by the fire of an ancient

Connect me to all that is

Connect me to the divine

For I walk beyond time and space

ever echoed but not chased

Stand in your beauty

Stand in all that is

For I am forever by your side
A New Morn Begins With Death
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Life, Consciousness, Spirituality, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

A true-life has come to an end.

Death has marked the end of his part.

Though he died, he is still alive.

With this belief, I will indeed survive.

In my heart, a flame of memory will keep burning.

Because he has never died, he just transferred to a different morning.

Let’s not mourn his death, for he’s left for a blessed morn.

With his purest deeds and virtues, somewhere a new child will be born.

Settling his Karmic debts here, he flew for his abode.

Our grief and sorrow would darken his road.

Let the angel fly with his light and might.

He is dispersing the sorrows of the world as he spreads delight.
All Souls
By: Amy Jasek
Tags: Día De Los Muertos, Spirituality, Poetry, All Souls Day, Spiritual Secrets

Suntonu Bhadra put forward an excellent challenge recently, to make “5 (five) poetries in 5 (five) days, each in precisely 25 (twenty-five) words (spaces not counted).” This poem is the fifth and final of my responses to it, especially for November 2nd, which is All Souls Day. Thanks Suntonu for this great idea! If you’re reading this, thank you, and please join in!
At the End of the Rainbow
By: Beth Stormont
Tags: Life Insights, Inspirational, Brief Article, Perceptions And Reality, Spiritual Secrets

Why are we always searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

Do we really believe there is such a thing?

Well, if it isn’t the pot of gold we’re searching for, we’re certainly trying

to find something that will magically transport us from where we are

in life to where our dreams will take us.

If only we had enough money — provided by the legendary ‘pot of gold’,

of course — we would be able to live out our dream life!

But what is a ‘dream life’ — and do we really want it that badly? Is it just

a figment of our imagination that has no basis in reality? Or could it be

a potential reality whose time has not yet come, but that could become

a reality if we believe or work hard enough to make it happen?!

Have we ever thought for a moment that the reality of our dream life

could actually reside inside us? . . . that if we go within, perhaps we

will find the pot of gold just waiting to be discovered while we we’ve

been so busy looking for it outside ourselves?

Perhaps, in reality, our true inner life could be much more wonderful

than the dream life of our imagination — and the pot of gold at the

end of the rainbow was never meant to be found in our outer reality

in the first place . . .

it was just waiting to be found at the end of the rainbow that was deep

within us all along!
Spiritual Tree
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Simran Kankas Spiritual, Illumination, Spiritual Weekly Prompt, Inspirational, Spiritual Secrets

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It’s Time to Enlighten Your Soul
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Soul, Letters, Enlightenment, Spiritual Secrets

SPIRITUALITY | NEWSLETTER

It’s Time to Enlighten Your Soul

Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20 from Pixabay

Dear Spiritual Buddies,

I am back again to share and reveal some spiritual secrets with you. We have been discussing ways to embracing the change in our previous conversations, and the recent changes in Medium are just a testament to our spiritual ability.

As much as I appreciate the new change happening on this virtual platform, I am concerned about you — my spiritual family. Some of us are not technology savvy and face quite a few hardships in submitting stories to a publication. I want to tell you all that I am always ready to help you guys. So, if ever you face any trouble with submitting your work, please shoot me an email at spiritualsecretsrevealed@gmail.com. I would try to respond as promptly as I can.

Everything in this world is uncertain. We have bought uncertainty, now what can we do about it? Let’s face it! And to face it, we must accept and adapt to it.

When we reflect on our last week, there were a lot of mysterious spiritual secrets revealed. Patrick Paul Garlinger (Patrick Paul Garlinger)shared “7 Signs You Are Awakening Spiritually,” a life-changing secret.

Moreover, to disperse the myths regarding #spirituality, I also shared a small secret called “What Everybody Ought to Know About Spirituality” in addition to other stories like We have bought uncertainty, now what, and the corroded soul.

I want to applaud all the creative writers who participated in our last prompt of Spiritual Love.

Big fat hug and Kudos to Ruchi Thalwal for sharing Dissolved And Melted In Your Love, Ivette Cruz for True Love, Shirley Willett for Spiritual Love, the Greatest Love of All, Sharon Brandon (Readywriter59) for Spiritual Love — (Weekly Prompt), and Ana-Maria Schweitzer for I Wish Love were Enough.

This week Lanu Pitan is featuring on our homepage for her consistent performance. She amazed us with The Random Act Of Kindness.

I would also extend my heartfelt gratitude to our spiritual writers:

Varun Jain — The Secret Ingredient, Bingz Huang— You Used to Fly, Pretheesh Presannan — At Its Mercy, Afiyah The Poet — Runaway Train, Michelle Lane — Caught By Beauty, and Claire Elaine — Time and Patience.
This Is a Story About Sacred Energy
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Weekly Prompts, Sacred, Spiritual Secrets

Sacred energy guides me,

And empowers me to distance myself

From the matters and the materials

That no longer serves me

or lowers my vibrations.

Sacred energy loves me.

And elevates my inner self

above the negative vibrations

that had entangled me

and sucked my worth.

This Sacred energy sustains me

And helps me purify myself

from the vicious vices

That had ruled my actions for ages

and had degraded me.

Because of the sacred light,

I have begun to attract

And manifest a new reality

Where I’m free from the bondage

of time and space.
Time and Patience
By: Claire Elaine
Tags: Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Personal Growth, Channeling, Spiritual Secrets

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

You think you can know the ways of the world, the what’s, the wherefores’ and the how’s. Nothing cannot be not understood, it only takes time and patience.

Mm, but how much?

Can you leave well enough alone ’til the answers you seek, but cannot grasp, manifest within their own good time, or do you obsessively hammer away at your own intellect demanding it deliver the understanding you need?

If the hammering be the case do you find that the carefully constructed scaffold of thoughts that you have diligently created begins to shift and crack ’til all is a confusing mess half formed and incomplete? Does the shakiness of the scaffold lead you to believe your foundation of thought to be suspect also? Do you end with a mind hardly recognizable as your own?

This situation is not uncommon, and we wish you to know that no knowledge, no understanding, is denied to anyone through lack of personal merit, through lack of trying, nor is it given only to the spiritual elite. Knowledge is not metered out through cosmic judgement. Everyone on every level of spiritual knowledge will end their Earthly days with questions unanswered.

Everyone.

It can be disheartening to not know all that you wish. Unanswered questions, especially those of long standing, can sap the confidence of those who seek. The answers nipping away at the edges of consciousness, maddeningly near yet ungraspable — a glimpse, a reach, a miss, over and over.

This is not failure, for the miss is of no importance whatsoever. However, the glimpse and the reach are.

The glimpsing of and reaching for answers already shows the highest of intelligence, these acts resound with intelligence, and this should be enough proof of stability of mind and capability, but for those who seek accompanied by the hammering of their own intellect this resounding cannot be heard.

Beloved children we ask that no matter what else you seek to know you fully understand and know this — no-one could obtain all knowledge at once, at will, it could not be tolerated, it would not serve well the individual or humanity if it could.

To not grasp all that you hope for immediately shows no fault in the workings of your mind, but rather that you have forgotten the need to take rest from those workings.

You have forgotten to hold patience and forgotten to release your restrictive, ego-led ideas of time.

Do not fret the misses beloved children, be peace, lay down your hammers and await the good time.

Namaste

Channelled Text 25/10/2020

Below are links to other channelings regarding the attainment of spiritual knowledge. Please read freely and thanks for coming by.

Claire
Spiritual Love — (Weekly Prompt). No greater love hath a man than this…
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Spiritual Tree, Spirituality, Illumination, Love, Spiritual Secrets

A friend finally answered a text I had sent him 10 days previous. He told me that a person died. He gave the name and I asked who she was. He told me she was “the soul that helped him raise his son — his ex”. I asked how he was holding up. He said, “Not too good”. He went on to tell me that they still loved one another, were still close, but couldn’t be together. I let him know that I would not pressure him and that if he wanted or needed to talk I was available. I told him he was a good man and that he had done what he could as far as the relationship. He said, “It wasn’t enough”. I reminded him that (1) they were still close; (2) they were still in love and (3) she transitioned in peace — that this meant it was.

The back-drop to this story is that she had health issues for a while and they still lived in the same house.

There is a scripture that says, “No greater love hath a man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend”.

Spiritual love can help us find meaning and purpose in our lives. Spiritual loves can serve different purposes: some are meant to walk with us through life, while others are meant to teach us lessons.

Spiritual love allows us to transform in ways that natural love does not. We go beyond our natural capacities and forge to a high level of self.

Imagine if we lived from this height always — where would this world be today?
Dissolved And Melted In Your Love
By: Ruchi Thalwal
Tags: Nonfiction, Spirituality, Poetry, Love, Spiritual Secrets

Spirituality-

it may have started with it

But somewhere down the road

It all faded

Immersed in your Love

Dissolved and melted

What remains is just you

Back to being a child

Naughty or cute

It is not to decide

Your Love blew away all the fallacy

Holding hands, looking in your eyes

Fulfilled enriching life

While being Enchanted within

You are my guide,

My lover, my child

All-encompassing in one

The more I love

The more it flows

This love, the infinite

In this lifetime

Your mere touch is divine

Your simple gaze is soul touching

I wonder Can I love you enough

Ans comes, No, never sufficient

My love,

I surrender at your feet

Love is all

I can feel
True Love
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Weekly Prompts, Love, Spiritual Secrets

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I Wish Love were Enough
By: Ana-Maria Schweitzer
Tags: Animals, Spiritual Secrets, Life And Death, Love, Prompt

I Wish Love were Enough

Photo by Emily Rudolph on Unsplash

these are the facts I share:

a little cat has died,

ripped apart by a dog.



it happens all the time,

the stronger and the wilder

puts down the fragile one.

just a few months ago

I sheltered the stray kitten,

and raised him unprepared.

he moved outside my home,

he couldn’t see the danger,

he died in agony.

my love was not enough,

just love is not enough,

I wish love were enough.
We Need to Develop Spiritual Love
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Weekly Prompts, Love, Spiritual Secrets

Blinded by our ignorance

of powers and positions

we fail to seek the truth

And forget that we are a soul

And not the body.

Accepting this reality,

We’ll be able to seek God

Not in the temples or churches

or the religious preachings

But in spiritual wisdom.

A pilgrimage is not a place

to visit and revisit

to experience the calm and the peace

But it’s a state of mind,

Where we can feel the Almighty.

To talk to him

We need purity

Not just in words and actions

But in our daily thoughts

and in the night’s dreams.

To be loved by him

We must love his creations

Without any inhibitions

Without any boundaries

Without any prejudices.

Om Shanti!

(I am a Peaceful Soul)
A Haven Is No Place To Seek
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Short Story, Spirituality, Devotion, Weekly Prompts, Spiritual Secrets

This poem was followed by a short spiritual story:

Summer was the time when the sun was shining very brightly as lava. A black-tailed, frightened young fine doe, who was about to give birth, was running hastily to find a place of shelter. The pain of labor added more woes to her situation.

Behind her, rose the flames of wildfire, that had entrapped the entire jungle. As her steps advanced against the wildfire, she finally reached the end of the jungle. But to multiply her affliction, a mighty river flowed ahead her.

Danger ahead and danger behind her.

Puzzled and terrified, she looked on her right. There stood a raging, large, furry, monstrous-looking lion, who seemed to have been hungry for weeks waiting to gulp the deer in one go.

Losing faith and confidence, she tried her way on the left. But, there stood a cunning, selfish hunter, aiming at her with an arrow.

She gave up on life and sat in complete devotion, where she stood.

She looked at the vast blue free sky for final help, and prayed, “Dear Lord, I wish you had made me a bird, but I have no complaints, as I have lived my life happily. Please, welcome me in your arms”.

Consequently, the next moment, the dark clouds gathered around in the sky covering the entire sky.

As the hunter was about to release the arrow, a flash of a sudden lightning struck and blinded the hunter’s eyes. He missed his aim and the arrow landed into the lion’s paws, who was standing on the other side of the deer.

The lion got wounded and charged towards him.

The hunter thought, “An angry injured lion is more ferocious than a normal one”, ran as fast as he could to save his life.

As they both left the scene, a heavy downpour extinguished the wildfire. And the deer gave birth to three young and healthy beautiful looking fawns.
The Unseen World
By: Lanu Pitan
Tags: Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Life Lessons, Prose, Spiritual Secrets

Spirit beings, both good and bad exist in the unseen world

Photo credit by Kira Dawn

Sunday Prose

The understanding of our role in the victory of the unseen world is as real as exercising our faith in God. We can see the battle going on in the world, both in governments and in people between the good and the bad. In all affairs of men, the war ranges between the good and the evil.

It is important that we understand the nature of spiritual conflict. We too like all creations, in both the seen and the unseen world possess a will, moral responsibility, emotions, intellect, and self-consciousness.

The battle in the unseen world affects the physical world, and the people residing in it. And it is important to be aware of the continuous warfare each and every person is in. Most underestimate the danger. Few realize the sure victory that is available.

For every battle, problems, and temptations in life, there is always a route of escape to victory. Although, again the choice is ours to exercise our free will to do so, or just sink in, and allow the evils to have a field day. Your nature and propensity for spiritual things will determine HOW you will exercise that free will.

Man is created to overcome, equipped for every good deed, full of spiritual blessings. Let your thoughts and volition be for purity only. Live truthfully, righteously, and in faith with positivity. By this, we put on the armor of God which is a sure route to victory.

Be confident that He that is in you is greater than any problem you may encounter in your life’s journey. As there is a beginning, there will be an end to the spiritual conflict. Be confident that forever and ever, evil will rescind before Light.
Caught By Beauty
By: Michelle Berry Lane
Tags: Spirituality, Beauty, Silence, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

POETRY | SPIRITUALITY

Caught By Beauty

Photo taken by the author, October 18, 2020

I am

caught by beauty,

my morning heart ignited

by the gentle,

brilliant, growth of

clear dawn seen through

the green lace of tree branches

or standing at the sink,

washing the greens,

overtaken by gratitude

as I stop and hold

the wide leaf of chard

to the light above me,

its green green body

and delicate crimson veins

so tender

or walking with loved ones

within the warm colors of

October woods

noticing beside the path,

a patch of delicate

white fronds, ghost ferns,

their graceful mudras

gesturing in the air

near the ground

these moments

bring me into

my breath

and

a rich silence

that is

woven

here

Photo by author, Chard leaf

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My Frame of Peace. Living in peaceful waters
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Peace, Spiritual Tree, Illumination, Inspiration, Spiritual Secrets

Through the storms of life, we find peaceful waters

Where calm washes over us within each crashing wave

When the winds of adversity alert us that it is time to seek refuge

Peaceful waters flow in the midst

I have been hearing a lot lately about people who are going through something. Much is happening in the world today. We are finding people who are faced with situations that they have never dealt with before. People are troubled about the economy and how they are going to keep up with the basic necessities in life. People are losing loved ones at what seems to be an alarming rate.

Hearing these things from friends, associates and family caused me to even reflect on past situations. August 10–15th of 2008 was a devastating period in my own life. I lost my ex-husband (we were planning to reunite) and an aunt on the 10th; an uncle on the 12th and my mom passed after midnight on the 14th.

I have been thinking about how I felt during that time. It was like being in a whirlwind or a storm. Even though everything around me seemed to be crashing and after the initial shock, a flood of calm started to rise up within me. I had a knowing that I could not really explain. Things became quiet though the storm was still raging. I could hear what became the sweetest sound during times of uncertainty — I am with you; speak peace and you shall have peace.

If you are just coming into a storm or if you are presently in a storm, or if you have been through a storm and the uncertainties try to rush in like a flood — speak peace and you shall have peace.
Undressed
By: Ana-Maria Schweitzer
Tags: Human Interaction, Kindness, Spirituality, Hospitalization, Spiritual Secrets

Undressed

Photo by Lawrson Pinson on Unsplash

the doctor hunted down my symptoms,

but I was in his way,

as I changed into hospital clothes

he could ignore me better.

now I looked like all the other patients,

now he could relax,

now he could stare into my blood counts

and see me through the opaque x-ray glass

guessing my organs

and putting together

file after file

until he got a rough estimate

of a disease

without my name…
2 Powerful Techniques that Help When You’re Deeply Miserable
By: Roxana Anton
Tags: Prayer, Self Improvement, Poetry Writing, Miserable, Spiritual Secrets

#1 Get Down on Your Knees and Pray

When pain and suicidal thoughts cut me like a knife, I have no other “first aid” solution. I feel an urge to run to the Father of the Universe. The only Being who has the greatest love and power to make things right.

You know, I have a strong belief. The Trinity. The Mother of God. The Saints, the Angels. All the packages. I was born an Orthodox, in my culture the Church has a high impact, on those people who chose to follow traditions.

I’m one of those. I’m a traditionalist. Most of all, I believe in God as a living being. Not something abstract. He is not a concept.

He is the Creator of the Universe, my best friend, who always helps in most desperate times.

He will never leave me.

When I lay my heart in front of Him, He is always there, to comfort and help me. I am not alone. He is my strength when nothing else works, which is frequent.

When I get down on my knees and say a half an hour prayer, this has a great impact on me. On an everyday basis, it’s creating paradise inside of me.

It calms the hurricane from my heart. It makes me feel a good, loving energy inside. I am stronger. I am a better person. I can have a better impact on people.

When I pray from the heart, I understand and feel deeply that happiness does lie inside of me. It’s just there, to discover.

I have inside of me all that it takes to be well, and in the end, I don’t need to go search for it somewhere else.

You will not understand that, until you don’t get on your knees and pray, for half an hour, every day.

Practice everyday prayer, and your life will completely change.
True Bliss
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Nature Writing, Spirituality, Poetry, Nature, Spiritual Secrets

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Retreat
By: Michelle Berry Lane
Tags: Autumn, Spiritual Secrets, Change, Deepening, Nature

poem

photo by Michelle Lane, author

Traveling a morning road

in early autumn,

I see the maples

giving up their green.

The morphosis is visible

on their highest leaf tips

with burnished edges

of vermillion and

saffron yellow.

The cottonwoods reveal

their hint of gold.

Here, in this northern latitude,

this is evidence

of the necessity of retreat.

Not a leaving,

a deepening to the roots.

Part of a rhythm

of thriving.
I Just Want To See You Grow
By: 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊.
Tags: Energy, Short Story, Life Lessons, Inspiration, Spiritual Secrets

To whomever needs this message,

I have been feeling drawn to write these words for a while now. I don’t know why and I don’t even know whether it’s me who needs to read them or somebody else. I say we shouldn’t get too concerned with the “whys” but rather with how we can transmit the message to the world. In truth, it will always only reach those in need, whether they’re consciously aware of it or not.

Pain is the catalyst for growth. Despite our efforts to avoid it, numb it, or rush to overcome it without processing it first, pain will continuously follow us around, like a loyal friend. Take note, I said friend…Not enemy. Why is that?

An enemy doesn’t want to see you evolve and succeed. An enemy’s attention is directed towards failure and disappointment. It will use all the tools available to it to make you fall into temptations that are highly rewarding in the short term, but sabotaging and destructive in the long term.

Pain is on the opposite side of the coin. All its efforts are directed towards your journey of discovery and growth. It doesn’t have any needs, other than seeing you embrace it. It doesn’t want to watch you hurting and every time it senses that you’re struggling with resistance, it sends out signals which manifest in the energy field first, and then in the physical body. Sometimes these signals manifest as tiredness, as a result of energy leakage. Other times as illnesses. The seriousness of these manifestations is directly proportional to the amount of time and effort spent avoiding pain.

Yesterday I had my first panic attack in over two years. It was out of the blue like all panic attacks are. It was scary because I forgot how to deal with this situation. I struggled to breathe through the mask, which I believe made me feel even more nauseous. It lasted long enough to raise a red flag and make me reflect on the possible root cause.

A panic attack is mild compared to what other people may experience. However, it's not something that should get dismissed. I now know it was a signal that stems from unprocessed emotional hurts. I know it took a lot of avoidance to get to this point again. I know it’s serious and I am already shifting my focus internally and giving myself time to process and heal.

To heal. That’s all our lovely friend, pain, requires us to do. Of course, healing is an ongoing process, a journey rather than a destination. It’s not like you heal once and job is done. No, no. That’s too easy and comfortable. That’s more of an “enemy’s territory.”

With pain, things don’t necessarily go as smoothly as that. They are not comfortable, easy, and straightforward. They require a commitment to growth and resilience. As that saying goes “God never gives you more than you can handle.”

Well, pain never gives you more than you can handle either. Take this as a direct message from the Universe that you’re going to make it trough this cycle of struggles you’re experiencing. You are growing and evolving beautifully! You are.

Best regards,

Possibly the Universe
It is Not Easy
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, God, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

It is not easy

to overcome

difficulties

It is not easy

to let go

offenses

It is not easy

to find peace

in our soul

But with God

as our guidance

everything is

possible