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Inspirasjon
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kommet ut av øyeblikk på livsveien. Øyeblikk
av inspirasjon, innsikt eller undring. Øyeblikk
av smerte og transformasjon. Kanskje de kan inspirere...
Help from nature
WATER
When you find yourself all dried up, feeling that your
well is empty from overuse, go and sit by the river
or a quiet lake. Listen to the water. See how it nourishes
the plants and all it comes into contact with. Makes
everything grow and open up to its potential. Water
is so compassionate in that way, like tears opening
up the heart, relaxing everything. Water always flows
down. So when you are nourished enough, bring that water
to the thirsty ones.
MOUNTAIN
But when you find yourself too wet, when you are drowning
in melancholy and sorrows and have turned into a swamp
yourself, with mold of old things growing on you, go
to the mountain top. Expand your view, get a new vision
for your life, listen to the teacher within and without,
the voice of something greater. Then, when you have
heard it and lived it, bring that vision down to those
who live in narrow places.
WIND
When you find yourself getting stuck, and your body
has aches and pains, go into the wind. Let your hair
lose and your old concepts and ideas fly away. Feel
how the air and space penetrate everywhere and how the
blueness of the sky dissolves everything. You can trust
it. Look how the birds let that empty space carry them
along.
EARTH:
Yet when you find yourself lost in ideas like a feather
in the wind, blowing here and there like a space cadet
that gets nothing done, go and sit on a rock. Listen
to its stability, become solid like that and build yourself
a project on the ground. Plant those ideas as seeds
and see them grow into real plants. Then you can invite
some guests who need that kind of food in barren times.
FIRE:
When you find yourself too firm, and you are stubborn
like a rock, go and light a fire. Look how the flames
transform everything into ashes, and let them burn your
hardened places just like that. Give that offering.
Look what is left. And then become the strength of that
fire, and use it to cook a warm meal to all those who
are hungry for spiritual nourishment and need the fire
of initiation.
WATER:
Yet when you find yourself too hot, when passions run
rampant and love burns you up, go and stand in the rain.
Let the water cool you off. Taste the soothing nectar
of pure love that doesn’t cling, and give that
to those who feel unloved and lonely, and do something
good on a difficult day.
MOON AND STARS AND CLOUDS:
When you find that all days are gloomy, and depression
holds you in its grip, know that you can always lift
your eyes and look into the horizon. And even if it
has been a long night, and all is dark, the moon will
shine, and the stars will remind you of all the souls
who are like you. And even if all you see are clouds,
know that one day these clouds will fall as rain, and
everything will grow from that. Be certain that even
the darkest of nights are followed by sunrise.
SUN:
And if you find yourself constantly in the limelight,
and people look up to you as if you were a god, take
a walk together with them with your much too cool sunglasses
off, so they will know you are like them, behind the
gloss, and there is hope for all. Shine that true glory
out as compassionate action for all.
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