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Mother Teresa said a couple of things which are relevant and appropriate during this advent season of preparation for the remembering of the divine. "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Let your love be unaddressed. Love the whole of existence; it is one reality. The trees and the mountains and the people are not really different. We all participate together, we exist in a deep harmony. We go on breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide. Trees go on breathing in carbon dioxide and breathing out oxygen. Now, without trees we will not be able to exist. We are joined together, we interpenetrate. And that’s how the whole of existence is interlinked. So let your love be unaddressed – the trees, the stars, the mountains, the people, the animals. The point is not to whom you are loving, the point is that you are loving.
Osho. Last in the Evening: 365 Relaxing Moments to Enter the Night Consciously, Osho Media International. p.4-5
A wise person said one time that the definition of a mature person was the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts in the mind at the same time. To what extent do you appreciate paradox, the ying and yang of life? As the bumper sticker says, "To dichotomize is either good or bad."
The Roman Centurion said to Jesus, "Jesus, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed." Matthew 8:8
During this advent season can we develop a similar attitude of setting aside our personal drama and delusions and make room for the divine light being born into the world?
Today is the first Sunday of Advent. We are getting ready for Christmas Day. How are you preparing? There is the decorating, the buying and wrapping of gifts, the planning for get togethers. It is a busy time of the year.
But the deeper question is how are you spiritually preparing? Are you finding quiet time to clear away the clutter that blocks your awareness to Love's presence in your life? Are you sitting still to listen, to tune into the frequency on the divine channel of Love, Peace, and Abiding Joy? Are you doing other things to help people listen with you to the Peace and Joy we once again intentionally and deliberately focus on and re-member?
As it says in the Desiderata:
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.