I am an expression of Source.  In me is present every aspect of Source.  I am the full expression of Source.  Only my lack of awareness prevents me from seeing and experiencing the fullness of Source that I am.

As the expression of Source, I create all my experiences.  Today, here and now, and in every moment henceforth, I create the experiences that reflect the nature of Source to me.

Today, here and now, and in every moment henceforth, I create the experience of wealth beyond measure, for Source is infinitely abundant.

Today, here and now, and in every moment henceforth, I create the experience of health beyond limitation, for Source is limitlessly healthful.

Today, here and now, and in every moment henceforth, I create the experience of alchemical mate-ship, for Source is ultimately whole and integrated.

Today, here and now, and in every moment henceforth, I create the experience of togetherness with all my family, friends and all of life, for Source is indivisibly One.

Today, here and now, and in every moment henceforth, I create the experience of creative and loving service, for Source is continuously self-nurturing.

I am an expression of Source.  I allow myself the full experience and expression of Source, without limit.

I am!


Lucy Lopez

Awakening to our Greatness!

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Have you ever looked softly, yet deeply into the eyes of another person? And have you ever done it while holding yourself in a state of peace, joy and openness, which is really the state of love?

‘Peace Gazing’ is something that I invite people to engage in during certain meditation practices. For one minute, people sit in pairs, facing each other, gazing softly and deeply into each others’ eyes. Prior to this, I would have guided us into a more peaceful and open space, so that it is from this space that we engage in the Peace Gaze.

Sometimes, the Peace Gaze can be far from a peaceful experience. After all, most of us live in societies where prolonged eye contact is discouraged and considered threatening.

Have you noticed how we tend to avoid eye contact with strangers as well as friends and loved ones? We even act as if someone we are passing on the street or in a shopping mall or on our way to the living room or kitchen is not there.

Yes, we do acknowledge the physical presence of the person by either giving them space to move or allowing them to pass first but we don’t really acknowledge their spiritual presence in which the eyes play a significant role.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect
G K Chesterton at thinkexist.com

It is not that we must make eye contact to be spiritually attuned with another. Not at all. In fact, the sense of connection and oneness is often most strongly felt when we close our eyes and allow our thoughts to settle.

However, in our waking and walking moments, our eyes offer us the means to experience the deep and profound spiritual communion we have with another. That contact, held in a soft, open gaze penetrates effortlessly, the layers of conditioning that our individualized personalities are built on, taking us directly and instantly to the seat of our very being – that open, expansive, lush, vibrant field of foreverness, of eternity, of endless lifetimes. That field, which Rumi says, is ‘beyond the concepts of rightfulness and wrongfulness’! In fact, let me give you the full quote:

Beyond the concepts of rightfulness and wrongfulness, there is a field. I will meet you there!
Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

When we gaze into the eyes of another, the ‘windows of the soul’, as the eyes are sometimes described, we gift ourselves and another, the wondrous experience of a few moments in eternity, in bliss, in the truth of who we are.

I have noticed on many, many occasions that by softly gazing into the eyes of another, agitated, fearful, nervous, defensive or even hostile behavior or words instantly cease. It is as if we are meeting for the first time in that place beyond judgment, beyond duality, beyond separation. We meet in the truth of who we are – One!

If you have never done it before, or never done it with certain (types of) people, do try it. It doesn’t even have to be a minute long. Neither do you have to be seated opposite the person. Instead, you might try it with your neighbor, your spouse or your child or the person at the check-out counter, the last of whom was one of the people I exchanged a gaze with yesterday!

For about three seconds, we gazed softly and deeply into each other’s eyes even as he was handing me my receipt. What a beautiful experience that was for me and I sensed it was for the young man too!

Meeting you, Lucy

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What allows me to enjoy your being?
Or do I believe that I cannot afford such luxury?
Or that there are others more deserving of my time and attention?
Or that I cannot possibly enjoy your being when it is so different to my being, my beliefs and my values?

What encourages me to wish only good things for you?
Or do I believe that you can jolly well wish good things for yourself?

What persuades me to cease passing judgment on you?
Or do I believe that it is my business to?
And that, if I didn’t, why, you would spiral into moral decline or take advantage of me or act in ways that I do not approve of and ultimately, give me less and less reason to feel righteous about myself?

What compels me to listen to you with a wide open heart, with a mind willing to be changed, with a spirit basking in the wonder of your being?
Or am I too caught up in composing my response, or recalling my old arguments, or marshalling my defenses and launching my attack, ultimately seeking to prove you wrong or less or worse and me right and more and better?

What, in other words, my human being, convinces me that you and I are One?
Unmistakeably, unenhanceably, incorruptibly One?
Built of the same atoms and molecules as we are?
Spawned of the same cosmic dust?
Birthed by the One consciousness?

What?

One, Lucy

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