Experience: What is your Desire?

HeartVirtue™:”I am committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation”

What is the experience we desire from war? Is it Freedom? Peace? Joy? Happiness? Security/Safety? How does war/violence committed against anyone, be they armed combatants, their children, their surrogates or their political leaders, result in the opposite experience? If someone attacks you, physically, verbally or in print, is your natural reaction to embrace their point of view, their philosophy, their way of life? Or, is it to react either in kind or in fearful submission?

What seems so obvious to me does not apparently make sense to others who see military action and coercion as the way to achieve their goals of security and prosperity. The real question I ask is: how do I(or we)persuade people who practice violence as a strategy to achieve their purposes that there are more effective means to the end of security and prosperity? By listening to another’s deepest desire, I may learn more about her/him and what motivates them. There is a great deal of information, and there are experiential tools to create the experience of understanding and transformation. One may choose another way when one reaches the conclusion that what they have been doing is not producing the experience they say they desire.

It is an Inside-Out process; not Outside-In. Explore the heart before concluding that change is possible from the Outside-In.

LifeCamp: A HEROES Journey with Greg Mooers

Today is Monday, February 18th, 2008. My return from LifeCamp is a Wonder to Behold. This life, known as John Phillips, has changed forever, and that is the Good News! My Heart Virtue: I AM Committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation. I am in awe of who I am; that leads me to be in awe of my newly encountered Brothers and Sisters of the Heart, even those whom I knew before this weekend. The Magnificence of who and what we are as Human Beings, or actually Spiritual Beings having a Human Experience, is truly AWE-Inspiring. Given that "my Gift" is that of an Acronym Master, I share a couple of new ones: AWE=Alive With Experience; and, HEROES=Heart Exposes Reality Of Extraordinary Skills. When our Hearts open into Trust, we have access to the Extraordinary Skills that our Brain/Minds provides us when we Trust Our Hearts and Train Our Brains.

There is much more to follow, and now I desire to share this immediate realization.
Blessings to All,
PEACE

HARMONY - An Acronym

Happiness Awakens Radiant Miracles Only Nature Yields: so, how does this acronym apply to the "Real World"? That is always my question, as these words come to me. The process of "defining" the word is a most interesting phenomenon to me. I hear the word and somehow am "told" that there is an acronym here. Usually, within seconds or minutes, the defining words come to me and I write them down. They also do not stay static, but move around. For instance, the words for GOD are numerous: Giver of Dharma; Grantor Of Divinity; Ghost Of Death(that just came to me as I was writing these); Great Opulent Diva(another new one); Grace Opens Doors, etc. This is just a glimpse of the process, as I prepare to follow the thread of HARMONY.

I wrote in the Magdalena Weekly Message #35, "HARMONY is a state of consciousness in which the Miracle of Happiness reclines in quiet repose. It is our Natural state of being as we yield to our Awakened Radiance."

Harmony, of course, is much more than that. Happiness is that sense of well-being, peace of mind, in which all is well, no matter what chaos may be surrounding me. That is the Miracle of which I speak. It is the awakened state that I yearn to experience, without interruption. And, it is that yearning that separates me from that state of being. Once again, the paradox of human existence is exposed. Earthly Life is a Koan, a riddle which may not be solved with the mind that examines it. Reclining both in quiet repose and yet actively radiant. I perceive radiance as a shimmering light, moving, vibrating and ever-expanding. Being in Harmony means being in balance and feeling all aspects of one's being. Embracing ALL THAT IS, without exception.

I close this entry with Gratitude for being "the one I have been waiting for." An interesting phrase, which apparently Barack Obama spoke in one of his recent speeches. The political pundits were all agog with this phrase. How many times have we heard this spoken? It has finally reached into the "mainstream" of political speech. That is a "good thing", for which I am most thankful.

I leave you in PEACE,

John