Spiritual Integrity ~ Love's Child by Sundance and Katie

Spiritual Integrity is being true to the truth of Self, being who you are. Ultimately, being as Truth means telling the truth to yourself in the present moment. Initially, this means that we must admit that we do not know who or what we are. Admitting that we do not know is opening to truth. The ego self, the mind-identified person, believes in a concept of self, ranging from the very bad to the very good. As long as this believing persists, there is very little chance that such a mentality will desire more. If the truth of Self is to be realized we must be graced by a desire to look within our essence. However, looking to the mind, the giver of pat answers is just a beginning. Deeper than belief is feeling, the intuitive knowing that the mind's ideas of peace, love and joy aren't real. Going deeper within ourselves, we discover inconsistencies, contradictions and unconscious lies. Discovery of the latter, challenge the egoic self to its core and so it may be difficult for us to admit that we have witnessed a selfish motive in the center of our giving or fear in our attempts to express love to another being. Yet to realize the truth, we must be open to its revelation and accept the false as false when we become aware of it as such. Why?...because then we might stop being untrue and this stopping is the very action of Self being true. Sometimes by talking about love, by talking or thinking about enlightenment, we miss the presence of truth right up to the very instant that we intuit our mistake. The truth is within us and always available. By honoring our ability to feel the false and surrender it, we open. This opening cannot be labelled or controlled, as being truly open right now is being free. Simply Being is Absolutely True. Blessings, Sundance.

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Love's Child

Integrity is being true to who you really are at the core of your being; the open Heart of all Loving. Small children express their feelings openly and honestly. They are deeply empathetic with others. In fact, if two small children are playing together and one begins to cry, often the other child will also sense the sadness and cry as well. They feel the emotion as though it was their own and offer gentle comfort. Children move through their life complications quickly and readily regain their center of balance, without a thought of looking back. Then, we begin conditioning them into a separate sense of self that is identified primarily with their thoughts. In this transition, the way of the Heart becomes the life of the mind. As the concept of “me” grows stronger, they lose much of their sensitivity. Their innate compassion and kindness become the manipulation and control of the ego as anger, aggression, and sadness creep in. We have all been conditioned in the same manner and the world is the result of the conditioned child. Through still watching, we can awaken from the dream of the mind, its time, and its false ideas. My invitation is to come home to the Heart. Only This Love ~ Katie

Fearless Loving ~ Forgiveness by Sundance & Katie

That which we fear the most is the cracking open of the heart. Why, because all of us have vivid memories of suffering emotional pain and anguish at the hands of our fellow beings. Many of us have found our greatest betrayals to loving sourced in family experience. We fear love because what has passed for love in human life is not love at all. The selfishness of personal and collective egos is not love. Love is not greed, jealousy, lust, hate, arrogance, prejudice or any form of war, abuse and neglect. After thousands of years of mean-spirited human relations, most of our present population is psychically damaged and in need of healing compassion. This population doesn't have a high opinion of love or its power. We don't believe that love conquers all. In fact, we believe just the opposite, that love makes us vulnerable, weak and unable to protect ourselves. So, of course, we are wary of opening our hearts to life as it is. However, the truth is that we don't know what love is. We only know what it's not. Without this cracking open of the heart, real love cannot be directly experienced and thereby realized. Fearing your open heart simply keeps you from healing the past. Surrendering to fear sustains the dis-ease of all self-loathing and separation. Fear merely perpetuates this suffering endlessly. If you can recognize the role that fear is playing in your life, you just might decide to face this fear. This facing of fear is loving, but you cannot know this without your own encounter. So don't wait to be free from fear before giving your faith to this impulse to open. Allow all to be as it is, the presence of loving in the face of fear. This is fearless loving and as This, you are free.

Blessings,

Sundance

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Forgiveness

Love does not exist within the mind and its time. Trying to heal the past is a past fixation, so we are not present for the unconditional Love that we are. The mind-made self, the ego, has a lifetime of past experience. Those that are most troublesome seem to be the ones that we meet within our intimate relationships. All of the ego's rules, expectations, intentions, and lack of trust are based on past experience. The ego acquires knowledge from the past and applies the known to present experience. With each encounter, when others fall short of its expectations, it suffers and then closes down even more. After enough negative experiences, the ego may even generalize its experience with a few individuals to an entire class, such as "men." Now, it not only has a few individual enemies in the life experience, it also has an entire imaginary army, somewhere in the future that certainly will create more of the same. While fixated on the ego and its time, we seem to recreate the very thing that we want to escape. The ego projects into the future, its experience of the past, as present moment experience. Playing by the ego's rules of the game involves a never-ending loss of innocence. Of course, Innocence can never really be touched, since it is absolutely indestructible and perfectly within you right now. We just are not yet conscious of this Field, since the ego is mentally involved in the every day push and pull of the mind and its conditions for living each moment. True forgiveness has nothing to do with any other. One could say that you are the forgiveness for which the ego strives. When you of free of time, that is, free of the past, free of "me" and therefore free of some "other," truthfully when is forgiveness required? We are simply free in our refuge of timelessness. Other than perceived events that appear solely as mental images in the head on a chronological dateline, are you free right now? As Sundance mentioned above, are you truly available to offer True Compassion for all that appears, regardless of the face that it seems to be wearing? In our morning and nightly conversations on our lanai, Sundance has frequently asked, do we live in constant forgiveness for all that appears? Do people truly accept this moment just as it is? Let your heart crack open, face fear, and see if it is as the mind thinks. All Love ~ Katie