Our Inner Peace Meditation Journey for Sunday February 23 2025

Early this morning, while I was still asleep, one of the wonderful people in my advanced meditation class sent the following message to everyone in the class.  This quote is the first text I read and it shaped my perception for the whole day, in a wonderful way!

 

This quote is from the book My Grandfather's Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen.

 

"Days pass and the years vanish, and we walk sightless among miracles.  Lord, fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing.  Let there be moments when your presence like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk.  Help us to see wherever we gaze that the bush burns unconsumed.  And we, clay touched by God, will reach out for holiness and exclaim in wonder "how filled with awe is this place and we did not know it."

 

Quote from Willaim Shatner about his journey into Space when he was 90 years old

 

“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.

"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."

-- William Shatner, actor

 

I was deeply moved by both of these quotes and they re-enforced my gratitude for my life on Earth. This is such an amazing place.  Earth is a great place to learn about Creation, to learn about how everything works! Something like photosynthesis is absolutely amazing!  We can learn so much and have so many amazing experiences.  Even something as simple as watching the Sunrise while we are sitting on a beach!  Or, the feeling we have when we hold a baby kitten or a newborn baby girl or boy!

 

This fall I was meditating in an Old Growth Forest. I had a wonderful, relaxing, regenerating meditation resting against a very conscious Tree.  When I finished my meditation, I opened my eyes and saw bright orange leaves on bushes all around me.  They were illumined by the setting Sun coming through the trees.  They had the most amazing red/orange color, like I had never seen.  I sat there, probably with my mouth open, absolutely blown away.  Then I started taking photos before the Sun went down.  If I had opened my eyes even 5 minutes earlier or later, I would not have seen those colors or those specific leaves all lit up!

 

In Nature, we are surrounded by light and color and amazing creatures, beauty that we can hardly describe.  All too often we miss it, but we can learn to look deeper into Nature, deeper into the night sky.  We can learn to sit quietly in the forest, watching all sorts of birds land gracefully on limbs.  We can remember how to "tune in to Creation" while tuning into the very best part of ourselves.

 

Remember, we are the ones we have been waiting for ... we are the Creators we need right now.  We have the capacity to create a civilization that serves Everyone and restores the health of this Earth. Tag, we are It !!!

 

May our Journey to Inner Peace show us how to build, and how to heal, and how to restore.

 

Mary Christopher