An Anam cara who guides your spiritual direction can be your undoing.  They invite you out of constant need to be doing your life situation that leads you into the prison of never enough. Spiritual direction is not about telling you more about something.  Most of us already know more than enough.  Except that the Anam cara will tell you that knowing about something is not real knowledge.  

Nor is spiritual direction about telling you what to do.  It is an invitation from someone inspired (meaning in spirit) who already knows the beauty within themselves and thus can invite it to blossom within you.  The Anam cara trusts and lives this beauty within themselves.  They invite you to trust it and more to the point to live it.

In your day-to-day life situation you can learn to enhance your skill base in many ways.  This assists you in practical ways to achieve your goals.  However, in following any spiritual direction you are invited to learn that less is more.  Your spiritual director or Anam cara knows you are already magnificent beyond anything you can think about yourself.  They know that you are inspiration in form.  They know you are more than enough.  The work of one who offers you spiritual direction is to remind you of this. 

They do not remind you because they believe this is simply a nice idea.  They remind you by their presence.  The work of the spiritual guide is to invite you to allow this beauty within you to flower rather than continue along the same old known way of doing that only gets you deeper in the do-do.

 Spiritual direction points you toward allowing.  This is often experienced as frustrating for anyone intent on getting somewhere.  The A+ personality type, which most of us subscribe to, wants to have the answer right now.  Only spiritual guidance is not something you achieve by doing.  It is realised by seeing in ways that you did not see before.   Spiritual direction comes from one who does not lead you up a blind ally but gets you to connect to vision.

 The spiritual guide watches you without judgement.  They watch as you metaphorically pull up the young seedling of your unique creative potential by the roots.  They watch as you criticise it for not growing or getting somewhere fast enough.  They watch as you criticise it for not being beautiful enough, for not being the right shape.  They watch as you plant it in places where the sun never shines.  They watch as you neglect it in all sorts of ways while you compare it with how others are doing.  Then you wonder where the wonderful flowering of your creative potential has gone.

 An Anam cara who is a spiritual guide invites you to leave the seeding alone.

 They give you directions on how to tend it and how to care for it.  Then they invite you to get out of the way and allow the unique expression within the seedling to flower within you.  They suggest that you don’t compare your flowering with any other bloom.  They suggest you ground yourself and stay in the light.  How each person does this is unique.

 The Anam cara who is a friend of your soul invites you to learn another language.  This language is not the language of go getting.  It is not the language that will make you more successful.  It is not the language of sound bites masking as communication.  The Anam cara teaches you the language of the soul.  This is the language of the

 

Source

Of

Unlimited

Love.

 

Unlimited here also means unconditional.  This soul language is not the language of self-improvement but the language of opposites and the language of parable, paradox and of fairytales.  It is also the language that invites real communion.

 An Anam cara invites you into the Anam cara Experience.  This is were you become able to source your own spiritual direction.  This is where you are able to access intelligence that is beyond the intellect and the rational.  This is where you learn to tend to the seed potential only you can grow to its full majesty.  You learn to be come the King/Queen of your own magical Kingdom.  Then you begin to flower in ways unimagined and you too become an invitation to beauty.

 At the Anamcara Experience we invite you to tend the flowering that is always being expressed within you.  This flowering never stops because it is essentially who you are.  It is that you have forgotten how to source this beauty within.  At the Anam cara Experience we invite you to tune into this unending Source Of Unlimited Love.  We invite you into soul friendship.

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In this weeks Deep Hearts Core podcast you are invited to discover a lost art. This is the lost art of loving. Most people hunger for Love. Most people think that love is simply an emotion that you feel for some people and not others.

On this spiritual journey to the Deep Hearts Core you discover that Love is not just an emotion. You are invited into the vast realization that Love is not only a state of being it is who you are at your Deep Hearts Core.

This is the only real spiritual direction worth going in. It is a living and lovely paradox. The more you learn this art of Loving which is more an unlearning. The more you discover that you are not the more Love is. This is the task of becoming a real artist – on who is a servant to Love. Then you live the art of love as your life’s expression.

An Anam cara offers you true spiritual guidance and true spiritual direction. It is the guidance in trusting the hearts little intelligence at your deep hearts core. They hold the knowing of this inner telling sense until you love yourself enough to allow yourself to receive the beauty you are. They simply assist in authorizing the real story of you as an individual glory of Love you already are.

To listen to the full podcast The Art of Loving simply click on the button below.

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Have started a podcast called the Deep Hearts Core. This will be a weekly podcast including heart stories, heart song and mystical poetry

The first podcast is called Stairway to Heaven and looks at the word you need to ensure that you get what you came here in this world to be.

In the second podcast you are told the wondertale about the Tuatha de Danaan – the beautiful people who were driven under ground.  This is a metaphor for many of us who live our lives judging our success or failure.

Have a listen.  You will need broadband to download these files.  Simply click on the podcast button below to immediately here this invitation to buying a stairway that takes you to that place of unimagined beauty and creativity – your deep hearts core.

 

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Give bread. Give wine

Feast on your life…

Derek Walcott, Love After Love

You are invited to live.  You will say that you are already alive. Wisdom teachers will tell you that you are the dead following the dead.  They get into trouble for this. The ego is not flattered but offended. This storyteller is not flattered.

How do you feast on your life?   You give it away with passion.  You cannot give it away without passion.  You cannot turn up at the banquet with a lukewarm attitude.  To feast on your life requires that you engage with consummation rather than consumption.

When you spend your time in consumption you tend to get burnt out rather than burned up.  There is a difference.  The fire that will allow you to feast on your life is the fire of passion allied to service.  This is service in and for the sake of Love.

It is more than the law of attraction it is attraction itself.  It is not the law of attraction in service of ‘little me’ who come to it with a shopping list filled with things to get.  It is the experience, to quote St. John of the Cross, of “the living flame of Love.”  It is the experience of being burned alive by Love.

This sounds horrid!  It is to the ego. The ego wants to serve itself.  It does not want to be consumed by Love and so it creates for you a banquet where all the hungry ghosts of a life not aflame with passion appear.  What then happens is not consummation but consumption.  Ghosts of passions unlived literarily eat you up from the inside.

The story of the talents in the Bible is the story of passion. The Master who is creation gets angry when the talent is buried.  This anger is the fire of passion.   It is not destructive. It is telling us something is out of kilter.  It is compassion inviting you to wake up and expand into fulfilment.

Creation is not lukewarm.  It created you because it is passionate about creation and you are its child.  This passion does not cease.  This passion is not born and thus never dies.  It only changed form.  It knows what it intended you to be, do and have.  It is intelligent beyond your limited sense of intellectual knowing.  It can in one moment change your whole outlook on the world.  It can raise you from the dead and a life of lukewarm existence.

Creation gives. It is always giving.  We resist this giving because it does not quite fit.  We are created to be a yoga teacher and we become an accountant. This was this storyteller’s experience earlier in his lifetime.  We are created for the purpose of giving away who we are created to be.  This is expensive and it goes on forever.  You think you don’t last but you simply change form.  Passion breaks boundaries to take you into the boundless.

There is an unattributed story that circulates.

” A man visits heaven and hell.  In each place there is a table filled with the most beautiful food.  Hell looks like heaven and heaven looks exactly like hell.  Only in hell everyone is starving while in heaven everyone looks happy and contented with a full belly.  When the man asks God why everything in heaven and hell appear the same yet different God ‘answers.’ In heaven everyone is feeding while in hell they are all feeding themselves.”

Here you have a wisdom story. The difference between the two is consumption and consummation. Consummation involves passion for life.  It involves anger used in the service of creation rather than destruction.

In The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide the wonderful Rick Jarrow asks people what they are passionate bout.  If they don’t know what that is he then asks them what makes them angry.  What are you angry about?

Or do you avoid such questions?

Life will ask such questions of you.  This is not a punishment.  It is an invitation to the feast.  If you resist it you will feel uneasy.  If you put away this unease then it will come again.  Only now there is deeper resistance.  This resistance is mirrored in the body.  The body never lies.  You, in your resistance put on psychosomatic armour. Nothing gets in or out.

In 7 Ways to a Wonderful Life this is why we emphasise passion.  The lukewarm life is not for passion but for comfort.  It is a life of self-interest rather than the expansive invitation of interest (turning to Love) in Self (yes, with a capital S.)

Ask yourself this question:

What am I passionate about?

When you ask this be aware of how you feel.  Do you feel alive with passion that wants to give itself away through you? Do not feel guilty if you don’t.  You came into this world of form as an expression of the passion of the Divine for its ability to create.  Very soon you learned that being passionate was not terribly popular.  It still is not.  It goes against the norm.  The norm is lukewarm at best.

Still and all it is a great question and a great invitation.  Ask it everyday with the intention that you use it to feed the hungry in whatever way that speaks to you and you have the ticket to the banquet where you give wine and give bread and you feast on your life.

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Your ‘mo anam cara’ (my soul friend) is more than simply your latest romantic flame. They are more on fire and they will set you afire with passion and guide you toward compassion.

 

A mo anam cara invites you to realise your deepest inspiration.  Your anam cara is a friend of your spirit, your creative sense of self.  They are committed to realising the potential that resides within you.

 

So, how do your recognise a mo anam cara?

 

You sense yourself coming alive when you are around them.  You sense that when they are talking to you that something new is being born within you. You feel valued for who you are and not simply for the role you are playing – be that the role of husband, wife, partner, mother, teacher or any other role that you may play in that person’s life.

 

A mo anam cara is interested in flowering one thing in your life that is your birthright.  This is your direct knowing of the timeless dimension within you.  They invite you to the Source of unlimited creative potential within you.

 

It is likely that your personal mo anam cara is an older person, although I have met with mo anam cara younger than myself.  The Christian tradition of appointing a godparent is really the appointment of a mo anam cara for a child at the time of the baptismal rite.

 

While the rite of christening is done with water, the mo anam cara invites you to be Christed through fire. This is the fire in what Christians term the Holy Spirit. The mo anam cara invites the flame of Love to burn within your heart. For example in myth of Avalon, the wizard Merlin is King Arthur’s mo anam cara.

 

Many people sentimentalise the concept of mo anam cara. They confuse it with a deep attachment to a romantic partner that is commonly called a ‘soul mate’.  This is not to say that there cannot be a romantic attachment that also leads to soul friendship, but that may be rare.  If the mo anam cara is to run its full course the anam cara will send you on your own way.  They will cut ties to you so that you can journey to the Source alone. In the film ET, the Extra Terrestrial leaves the earthling family after sharing a mo anam cara experience with the children.

 

In movies such as Star Wars, Yoda is Luke Skywalker’s mo anam cara.  Gandalf is Frodo’s mo anam cara in The Lord of the Rings. This meeting with a soul friend is well illustrated in the story “Return to Tir na Nog” as detailed in The Anamcara Experience – Ready to Radiate eCourse.

 

Your mo anam cara will appear often in a crisis and not before.  You have to be a little humbled before you will open your heart and mind to the new.  This is illustrated in the story of the student who goes to the Zen master and tells the master about all they know.

 

Your mo anam cara is a heart friend.  Sometimes there will be a kind of recognition but you will not know where it comes from.  I have had this experience only once.  It was with a young Dutchman called Fredo who I met when travelling in India.  We met only briefly but he is still a very fond remembrance. We each felt that we had known each other forever. There was a deep bond felt between us that was out of time.

 

Mo anam cara translates as “my soul friend.” It does not translate as my best friend or my soul mate. Most people confuse the two and then do not do the work that is required for the mo anam cara relationship to be birthed within them and between another.

 

The word ‘soul’ is the key word within this phrase mo anam cara. Your soul is not a thing. It is a way. It is your unique way of being in the world that was and is intended for you by Creation.  This way of being in the world is not your way of doing.  It is not your job or your career.  It is what the Buddha meant when he said, “your work is to find your work and do it with all your heart.”

 

Your Work (with a capital W) is a treasure unique to you. It is what the wonderful teacher Joseph Campbell refers to when he invites you to “follow your bliss.”

 

What Joseph Campbell goes on to tell you about being a soul friend is that following your unique way is often anything but blissful.  In fact, it sometimes appears and feels like all hell breaking loose.  Sometimes this is only a minor crisis of confidence and other times it is a form of soul initiation. 

 

You are being invited to become an initiate in the way that life wants to express uniquely through you. Of course, your family, community, your peer group, your religious affiliates and national group may all tell you that such direction indicates that you may be coming apart at the seams and that maybe you ought to reconsider this direction.  Sometimes this is subtle, but it can be done as a threat.

 

Your mo anam cara is versed in the stages of growth in human form.  They may not have experienced all these stages in their completeness but they have been graced the knowing of such stages.  Each stage has its joys and challenges.  The joys of one stage become the challenges of the next stage.  The mo anam cara is there at these various junctures or crossroads or what in mythology is referred to as ‘threshold places.’

 

The poet Christopher Logue wrote this in homage to Guillaume Apollinaire and it beautifully illustrates the work of your mo anam cara.

 

“Come to the edge,” he said
“We are afraid,” they said
“Come to the edge,” he said
And they came to the edge.
And he pushed them
And they flew

 

The mo anam cara is not interested in pushing you.  They are not out to improve you.  They are there to guide you and invite you.  You are under no obligation to them and are under no obligation to take their advice.

 

It is their very presence that will invite you to go to the edge. What they are the knowing of and living of  (which is their own unique way) you want to know.  This is the invitation to fly into the timeless dimension that is true security and from which you can share a sense of the limitlessness of love.

 

The mo anam cara is a sort of midwife to the soul. The soul is a timeless birthing of the forever new. It is the birth of love in action. Like birth into physical form there is resistance and pain.  Your mo anam cara assists you t breath into this new potential that longs to come through and live through you.

 

This is more than romantic.  This is a Love that shares itself beyond the confines of two egos living as separate senses of themselves drawn together by a bond of love and friendship.  Without the soul element you have not yet claimed your birthright of living in the Land of the Forever Young.

 

Do feel ready to claim your right to wear the circle of gold called the mo anam cara ring? This ring represents a commitment to yourself, to the forever creative within you.  It is a commitment to wed your own heart’s longing to express Love in action.

 

 

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In the Celtic tradition there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul love; the old Gaelic term for this is Anam Cara.

- John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom of the Celtic World
In the work of The Anamcara Experience there is a beautiful understanding. This is the understanding of soul love or sole love – love of the One by the One to the One for the One.

The word understanding here does not mean a more intellectual understanding but means seeing. It means insight. This is an understanding that is holistic, whole and holy. This understanding is not something you get; it is given. To be given such understanding is a great grace and a great responsibility.

To be given this understanding is to walk in beauty. This means a personal commitment to be faithful to that understanding that has come through you. It is always looking for you. The Beloved in you is looking to unite with you – is longing for you to come in sight and to see each other.

This is a quiet beauty but is nonetheless powerful for all that. It does not have a political agenda. It is not out to save the world. It is, however, out to empower creativity innate in all form. It is out to express the beauty in form that friendship with the soul gives. The world is not saved but the world is known in a way that empowers justice to be in the world

John O’Donohue says in Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom of the Celtic World, that we are here on this planet to be creators with the divine. We are not here to be dominators as is demonstrated by our present relationship with Mother Earth.

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There is only one journey-

Going into yourself.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

If one were a detached observer of our world you might conclude that there is only one journey – the journey to the shopping mall.  This writer thinks that this, together with sport, have become the new temples of meaning.  We have replaced Descartes, “I think, therefore I am,” with “I am, therefore I shop.” Or perhaps, “I am, therefore I spectate.”

Many stories of old, which are referred to as wonder tales within many cultures, contain stories about mirrors.  Mirrors are a device used to signify a threshold place. It is said that the mirror does not lie.  It is simply a reflector of what is.

What is within you is reflected out into the world.  The way each of us sees the world is a reflection of our inner state. The journey within yourself is an endless journey. One simply goes deeper and deeper. It is a journey into a void. Only this void is not empty. It is filled with creative potential waiting to be given birth.

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Any morning

Just lying on the couch being happy

Only humming a little

The quiet sound in the head

Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment

It has so much to do in the world

People who might judge are mostly asleep

They can’t monitor you all the time

And sometimes they forget

When dawn flows over the hedge

You can get up and act busy

Little corners like this

Pieces of heaven left lying around

Can be picked up and saved

People won’t even see that you have them

They are so light and easy to hide

Later in the day you can act like others

You can sake your head

And you can frown.

 

William Stafford

This poem is a blessing.  It contains some very wonderful lines.  One of my favourites is “when dawn flows over the hedge.”  It reminds me of how dawn flows over Cuilcuih Mountain here in Dowra.  It reminds me how light flows out of darkness.

 

Remember any morning lying on the couch you can be happy. Take time to come to slowly and deliberately. Make it a practice to enter the day slowly and surely.   Happy is something to be and not something to do. You are born in the image of the Divine.  You are Divine.  You are not to be added to or taken away from.  It’s all right now.  

 

We find this idea hard to accept.  

 

This is because we think about our life most of the time.  We avoid feeling it as a moment-to-moment experience.  This feeling of deep connectedness with our lives is here any morning and any time.  Do you think that the Divine takes a lunch break or gets tired of pouring love into our being?  Does the dawn stop flowing over the hedge?  

 

Those little pieces of heaven are lying around waiting to be noticed.  You have to know how to look.  When you can see them you can pick them up if you wish.  You do not have to even do that.  There is no requirement that you save or own them.  The real delight is in sharing these pieces of heaven.  

 

To be able to see the beauty of heaven you need to be present.  It is not waiting in the future.  It cannot be accessed via the past.  It is in front of your eyes and flows through an allowing heart.  You have to be present at this banquet of “love is flowing eternally.”  You have to nourish your soul by allowing wonder and awe to touch you.

 

Do not save these pieces of heaven.  Let them go.  Clear yourself out forever-new delight.   Give them away to others.  Help them lie on the couch and be happy.  Become a happy couch potato.  Remind them too that the dawn always flows over the hedge.  Remind them that to be happy is to be present.  Let them learn to be present to this banquet of life.

 

Let trouble be busy elsewhere for a while.  

 

We give our attention to gladly to the trouble of others.  We close our hearts to their sorrow and seek further security in legislation and insurance.  We build higher and higher walls in order to keep the world out.  I doing this we lock ourselves into a tight little fearful experience that we then call life.

 

Hum a little.  

 

Sing your own song.  Songs are always coming into my head.  Mostly they are songs from the sixties.  They include “Its all to beautiful.”  They include “Maybe I’m Amazed”.  The poet suggests that you do only a little.  He knows how difficult it is to stay awake to your wonder.

 

You do not want to incur the wrath of your Trickster.  This is the guardian of your mind that watches what you think.  It  insures that your thinking is contained within the boundaries of the norm.  It insures that you do not step to far out of line.  Otherwise you might go off your head.

 

Learn to know “the quiet sound in the head.”  This is your head.  This is my head.  It runs off at tangents every which way.  We then wonder why we never get to experience peace of mind.  We rarely, if ever, take time to listen to this internal chatter we call thinking.  It runs away with us.  

 

We are off thinking about last nights pub quiz.  We are thinking about next years holiday or tonight’s dinner.  This is needed but to often we are not present to tonights dinner when the time comes to prepare and eat it.  We are running three steps in front and we never catch up with the fact that we are alive now.

 

You can always return to frowning later in the day.  

 

This is our usual way of relating to the world.  Why not step out of it in the early morning light of a new day. Know that the perfection of the day is an internal experience that you can choose to have.  This is to choose to allow it to be without resistance.  

 

Stop judging it better or worse or not acceptable.  Allow it to be before crushing it with negativity.  It is newly born for our appreciation.  We have been gifted this day without any requirement other than we enjoy it.  Even this is not required of us.

 

As Kabir said in another wonderful poem:

 

“If it rains

Let it rain.”

 

Here in Corrogue this is the best approach to adopt otherwise on many days I might “return to frowning”.

 

Know that you are always enough.  This will give you a perfect day.

 

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I have discovered a new poem via the Internet.

 

It is by a poet whose name I am unfamiliar with.  It has a wonderful title.  This is “Any Morning.”  It suggests that any morning is the time to be happy.  It is the time to know that you are forever enough.

 

Sure there are times when we forget this but forgetting is our normal state of mind.  We have forgotten the simplest of blessings.  We have forgotten the simplicity of thankfulness.  Every morning becomes a prison of things to do, places to go, people to see and things to achieve.  We measure your worth by what is done rather than by the beauty of who you are.

 

This poem serves to remind me of this precious ever-present moment.  This is the moment of non-doing.  It does not mean you do nothing.  It means that your actions are moved from love and not simply from a place of activity.  

 

Our activity has become a mask for the fact that many of us are “hollow men.”  We work and “do activity” so that we do not have to go home.  This for some is their physical home and for others it is their spiritual home.  

Let me share with you this delightful poem.

 

Any morning

Just lying on the couch being happy

Only humming a little

The quiet sound in the head

Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment

It has so much to do in the world

People who might judge are mostly asleep

They can’t monitor you all the time

And sometimes they forget

When dawn flows over the hedge

You can get up and act busy

Little corners like this

Pieces of heaven left lying around

Can be picked up and saved

People won’t even see that you have them

They are so light and easy to hide

Later in the day you can act like others

You can sake your head

And you can frown.

 

William Stafford

 

This poem is a blessing.  It contains some very wonderful lines.  One of my favourites is “when dawn flows over the hedge.”  It reminds me of how dawn flows over Cuilcuigh Mountain here in Dowra.  It reminds me how light flows out of darkness.

 

Remember any morning lying on the couch you can be happy. Take time to come to slowly and deliberately. Make it a practice to enter the day slowly and surely.   Happy is something to be and not something to do. You are born in the image of the Divine.  You are Divine.  You are not to be added to or taken away from.  It’s all right now.  

 

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The glory of God

Is the human person

Fully alive.

 

Irenaeus, Philosopher and Theologian

 

In Corrogue there are times when I miss the target.

 

This target is a target of invisibility.  It is the ability to walk in this world with a light footprint.  Not wanting too much other than to know what is beauty.

 

In this modern age what many of us desire is an idea of success or fame.  We do not focus on being fully alive.  As John O`Donoghue writes in his wonderful book Anamcara, “This is the greatest sin of all.”

 

In some ways this writer is a reactionary.  There are words that make me react like Pavlov’s dog to the ringing of a bell.  One such word that causes this belling ringing for me is the word “sin.”  It is a word that has wounded many hearts and caused deep separation from the beauty of life.  It is a word that has burdened the vulnerable with a deep sense of guilt.  It has been perverted in ways never intended by the Christ.

 

Having been raised in Northern Ireland this word has been one that I have heard shouted from pulpits, from school platforms, whispered threateningly by those I loved and perverted by those in charge of children.

 

Sin and sex went together.  The beauty of the body was denied by those who advocated that one was and a miserable sinner.  There was delight in the depth of misery that the ego could wallow in.  There was no delight in allowing this animal body to do what it loves.

 

We do not love the body.  Mostly we love the body image.  From an early age we are locked out of the beauty of the body.  As children we become separate from the flow of our divine energy.  Our work in this world is to return to this flow. This is the source of our joy.  To imagine that we are sinners, and that we are wrong in our being, is a prison house from which no one is saved.

 

Do you think you are required to plead for your life with the Beloved?  This is a foolish distortion of the word ’sin.’ This word simply means ‘to miss the target;’ in one sense we all miss the target.  Only you are not required to feel like a worm.  You are only required to wake up and see how beautiful you are.  You are only required to take another shot at being the beauty you are.  This is the target practice of awareness without attachment to results.

 

The great Jelaluddin Rumi invites us to come into the circle of love.  Do not beat yourself up with false illusion.  To think that you are wrong keeps you in the prison of the ego.  To think that you can do anything to enter heaven is a false hope.  You cannot enter heaven until you disappear.  Make your target practice a practice of disappearance into love.

 

Make this target practice a celebration.  Find your way to the centre.  Know that if you are made to feel wrong, then the teaching is wrong.  If you feel wrong then you are attached to the words and have not bathed in the perfume of self-knowledge that is beyond words.

 

At the heart of all religion is a paradox.  This is the paradox of forgiveness.  All religions teach forgiveness but the paradox is that there is no one to forgive.  When you know who you are then there is only what is in all its’ beauty and glory.

 

Religion that teaches guilt is not religious in the true sense.  If anyone suggests that you are a sinner with an implication that you should somehow feel wrong then kindly remove yourself to a place that teaches you love.  You are not born in sin.  You are born in the light of the Divine.  Your work is to come back to the centre.  Your work is to return to the source of your being.  Your work is to know that no only are you loved forever but you are love forever.

 

This does not mean one cannot feel wrong for an action one has done.  However, one cannot be wrong no matter what one has done.  The focus on sin is a magnification of the ego that thinks it can manipulate the Beloved by convincing It that such a wretched sinner deserves mercy.  

 

If you feel guilty about your life then you cannot live a full life.  Your life cannot manifest the glory of the Divine presence. Your focus on sin is an error.  It is negative.  It is illusory.  To get back on target, simply begin to see the beauty at the very centre of your being.  This will make you laught at the very idea that creation that created you in Love would ever judge such creation wrong.

 

 

 

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