Sunflowers – Spirituality

Sunflowers Turn To The Light and So Do Warriors – The sunflower represents our spirituality – a reaching out for connection with something some insist they can’t feel. Some people are born color blind – others are tone deaf – so it’s perfectly possible. But some of us – the lucky warrior few – know that there is a universal resource to be tapped into when we get ourselves on the “right wavelength.”

What Spiritual Resources? Hundreds of years ago philosopher Blaise Pascal argued that we have so much to gain if God is real, and nothing to gain if God isn’t, so the calculus is in fact simple. When you act as if the universe was richly designed by a Carer who promotes Goodness and rewards Love, you create the ideal conditions for human flourishing, whereas, research clearly shows, pessimism about outcomes dramatically lowers future benefits. Even given the fact that human communication is fraught with mistake and misapprehension, that’s an argument for increased effort and insight and not a quitter’s mandate.

Warriors Follow The Sunflower Path – What is our mandate? Focus on increasing your ability to tell health from sickness. This will help you find the right path and the right people. Goodness does not seek your diminishment and constriction – the ruthless pursuit of human power does. Test all wavelengths for generosity, repose and liveliness and contemplate what is beneficial in the universe. Bask in the flow of reassurance, resilience and recovery intense spirituality provides.

Warrior Challenge – Fully explore your fears with a view to answering Immanuel Kant’s timeless question, “What can we hope?” Jesus focused his ministry on healing and met virulent rule-focused pushback. He found himself in a frenzy of status-seeking coupled with denigration. His life as well as his words teach us that the “Letter” kills, but the “spirit” gives Life. It is up to us to find and nourish that spirit. Once you feel the angels around you – (I picture them as nosing deer!) your fear subsides.

Warriors Learn to Scent Danger – No journey can be free of risk. Trust requires us to follow where we cannot see the path, and so sometimes we lose the path. Sometimes we realize our guide looks to capture & constrain, not enhance & liberate. We must maintain our ability and reserve our right to recognize this so that we can reverse course before the cliff edge, telling malignant spirits “You no longer represent me” and to seek out a healthier program of progress.

Warriors Enhance Opportunity for Everyone – We are never alone. All around us are pilgrims struggling with the same things we’re struggling with. Sharing and caring knits us together. The American two party political system benefits from stirring up hatreds to protect themselves from change. Don’t accept it. We are not each other’s enemies. The possibilities for friendship and connection are huge, but hatred and anger lead in only one direction.

Models – “The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper”- W.B. Yeats

“You need not work to become spiritual – you are spiritual. You need only to recognize that fact” – Julia Cameron

“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love”

– Marianne Williamson

“Happy people build their inner world – unhappy people blame their outer world” – Dalai Lama

“The power of God is with you at all times, through the activities of mind, sense, breathing, the emotions , doing all the work, using you as mere instrument” – Bhagavad Gita

#Haiku: Hegira

Flee
Quest outward
Anywhere but
Here,
Re-feather
Spirit’s
Aching wings