Temples of Light

The Many Healing Temples Of Light

Some spiritual pilgrimages take us far out into the world and away from what we call home. A soul-seeking journey begins with an honest, earnest seeking, knowing that the answers will be given in even the subtlest clues, guided by Spirit along the way to discovering what it is we wish to know. We may travel to the other side of the world, pilgrimage to sacred sites and great temples, seek out a cabin in the woods, or venture into the jungle to connect, but always, when we are searching for the answers to life’s biggest questions, we are ultimately, always journeying into the temple within.

In truth, no matter where we are in the physical, our light shines forth from the temple within and our connection to Source, Mother/Father God, Creator, the Divine. The light that shines through everyone’s eyes comes from deep within and beyond… from that sacred site located somewhere within the spheres, between our own two temples sits another great temple of light. Connecting to it is perhaps life’s greatest pilgrimage. Ultimately, it is connection to this divine light we seek.

We can travel half way around the world, learning much about ourselves along the way, to sit at the feet of a Guru and more often than not, be told that what we are seeking is home. Gurus and great, wise teachers can point us in the right direction along our journey and where they point is to the heart. Like the t-shirt says, “there’s no place like OM”.

We may travel the world only to find that it is the journey that reflects who we are back to us - there is no destination “out there” that will hold the answer, for in truth, the journey really is the destination and each step a part of infinite awakening. We may travel the whole world only to discover that we “simply” needed to find our way the twelve inches from our heads into the temple of our hearts.

It sounds like a simple journey from the outside, but it can take lifetimes and several trips around the world to find the path that is you. It might mean “losing everything” and, it will mean surrendering your ego and its incessant search for external validation.

The same way one has to let go of expectations in order to have a good trip, for no journey goes as planned, the soul quest journey, when sincere in effort and intent, will see each and every one eventually having to let go of who we thought we were. The ego has to let go, the knowing it all, the explainable gives way to the unexplainable and the arrogance of knowing gives way to the innocence of wisdom and “i don’t know” as we humbly find ourselves finally willing to receive the light.

“If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.” - Ram Dass

CREATING TEMPLES OF LIGHT

Shivalik Himalayas Ganga Ma tributary

However when it is toward this light of enlightenment that we journey… the knowing of who we are, why we are here and how we serve, the self-realization, and in that realization to awaken to the infinite possibilities of what it truly means to be here now… the more aware of the cosmic dance we become and our powerful, co-creative and divine role in it. When there is self-awareness, consciousness expands and we come to embody our light.

The ability to accept, surrender and reclaim the Divine in ALL means doing the shadow work needed to release the Divide within and between us. Spiritually it is the dark night of the soul that re-awakens the truth within - an eternal and inevitable right of passage for souls incarnate as human that burns away the false self in order to rebirth as the true Self of Soul.

The dark night experiences are often what set us on the soul-seeking path of finding true self and divine purpose in being here now. The dark night of the soul is a death of the ego’s false identity that releases attachments and energetic patterns from our lives which no longer serve us and reawakens the soul’s light within us. It can be painful and takes courage and therefore, is greatly supported by spiritual guidance and a more holistic, cosmic perspective on who we really are.

In order to be able to move through the dark night and receive the lessons, incredible growth and the healing it brings, we must be willing to let go of the past - of who we thought we were as ego - including old beliefs - and be present with what we are being and choosing in the now. What was once unconscious and hidden from us is now conscious and we know we have great power in how we choose to live our lives.

As we let go of “old ways” and as our consciousness and sense of Self expands into greater and greater concepts of truth, we grow into new understandings and perceptions of reality and quite often, our “old lives” simply fall away. The resonance that once tied us to people, places, jobs and things are there no longer.

BEING TEMPLES OF LIGHT

So often in our soul searching we believe we must go elsewhere to find peace. We may want to “escape the matrix” and rejuvenate somewhere far away, but who we are looking for is always within us ~ no matter where or how far we go, the greatest Sages of our times would say there is nothing “out there” that answers the questions from within one’s soul, but, of course, you may find clues along the way…

“Where ever you go, there you are.” ~ Lao-Tzu

Though there is nothing “wrong” with travelling the world and it is an amazing experience to journey the beauty and the majesty of this Earth. Along every journey there are clues and synchronicities, challenges and opportunities, new reflections and perspectives but, it is not always possible or even necessary for what one seeks on the spiritual quest of self-realization is the temple within. Wherever we are in the world we have the power to find some stillness, some space and awareness to cultivate a practice of going within, contemplating, meditating and being.

The soul does not stop calling and, unlike the ego, it is never in a rush, for from the soul’s cosmic, akashic perspective, each and every lifetime, even if 100years or longer in linear time, is but a blink. It is only the ego that is impatient and confused. The soul knows exactly why it came and rests as the wise sage, on the lotus of becoming within the temple of the heart.

Blessings on your journey.. wherever it may take you.. may you find peace, sacredness and reverence for the process.

OM shanti shanti shanti hari OM tat sat