40 Days of Peace Day Twenty One
Seeing with the Heart
To view the world through the eyes of the heart, cultivates an empathetic heart. This heart can stand in a room of a million brothers and sisters and radiate from a place compassion and understanding and acceptance. There is no you and me, but we.
The heart that lets love rule their kingdom, opens a gateway for the Divine to flow freely in and through them. This kind of love has the power to transform conflict and chaos into compassion and peace. This kind of love radiates Divine love in the world from wherever they are planted.
5 o’clock traffic, doctors office, grocery store, your local pub… it doesn’t matter where you are, when you let your heart lead the way, the ego steps aside and the Divine flows freely. We radiate powerfully in this space of the heart.
Perhaps we run into someone who has experienced one of the hardest days of their lives… we have the ability to share the medicine of our heart and bring comfort, peace, compassion..
“We spill over into the world and the world spills over into us.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer
“The earth, the first among good mothers, gives us the gift that we cannot provide ourselves. I hadn’t realized that I had come to the lake and said feed me, but my empty heart was fed. I have a good mother. She gives what we need without being asked. I wonder if she gets tired, old Mother Earth. Or if she too is fed by the giving.”
We all know the feeling of receiving gifts from Nature. Picture a time that you felt heartbroken, lost, fearful, alone… and you went into the woods, or to the beach or the river, and you just sat quietly with Her. It didn’t take long, it never does. You began breathing, in and out, with a little more peace. You started to feel that weight you were carrying lift a bit. You inhaled the medicine that Mother Nature provides us, no matter where we are.
The more you sit with Her, the more peace fills the heart. The more peaceful the heart, the more light we shine.
We have the power to radiate Divine love and peace EVERY DAY as we “spill over into the world.” We can spew hate, gossip, negativity, fear…
OR we can radiate compassion, positivity, compassion and hope as we cultivate true peace in the world.
“Love grows by giving.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
The only way to retain love is to give it away.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Every single day, we are showered with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back” -Robin Wall Kimmerer
Energy flows in a sacred circle. We must equally give and receive our gifts in a loving prayer of mutual reciprocity. Whether the gift of kindness, time or money… share your gifts in a good way and trust in Great Spirit to breath life into this sacred flow.
Be aware of how you are flowing and know that you have the power to shine so bright it blinds the world… from wherever you are.
Shams of Tabriz’s 40 Rules of Love
