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What Is Spiritual Growth?

Thru John L. Payne (copyright)

It is time to stop focusing on the external. Stop blaming others, the politicians, the power hungry, the young or uneducated. Remember, when we point at another, one finger is pointing outward and three others are pointing back at us. When we are caught up in the drama, we avoid the light of the soul, that quiet place within which shows us love. Perhaps we are afraid to look at love because love does not involve drama. It takes more courage to love than it takes to fear.

If you are telling yourself that “I am not loved or worthy” and “I am powerless” you perpetuate the untruth. When we are, ready to say “my greatest desire is to love” and then act upon that love, we become the true essence of who we are. Our world, both internally and externally, will evolve to its’ highest level with love as the guiding light.

Where do we stand on our path? Which of us is ready to say, “I and the Father are one”? Or will we deny the God/Goddess (love) within us?

Our quest to express love must come from a place of authenticity, from the soul that connects us with the All-That-Is. Whether people are spiritual or non-spiritual, wealthy or in poverty, healthy or in dis-ease, there is no difference. We are a part of every element because our Source is all the same.

When we, as individuals, are ready to embrace our greater truth (love), humanity will change. Love will spread upon the face of the Earth and a new dawn will begin.

As we open to our greater selves, we open to the source of all knowing, and it is there that all our solutions will be found. Review your life and beliefs. Become aware of that inner world of love and spirit. Know that total acceptance of who you are (love), will set you free to view the world through the eyes of love…where there is no judgment, or fear. From this place, we can create real change for it is the birthplace of miracles. So, allow the light, the essence, the love to shine forth and radiate a new vibration that can be felt by those around us. As we do this, they too begin to resonate with us, some immediately, and some in time. This is our greatest service to humanity.

The only measure of spiritual growth, is our capacity to love, and that starts with you and I. We can only give to others what we ourselves posses and we can only receive from others that which we are prepared to give unto ourselves. We are the center, we are the world, we are the creator!

We must teach through example. Love ourselves, and show others in confident ways how a new relationship can be formed with the planet, her peoples and with all her creatures and with the creative force of the Universe. It is us, the seekers and askers of such questions that are the healers and leaders of this era. We must cease being angry at the world, cease bemoaning that we are still here, cease slipping and sliding into spiritual arrogance and own our deepest desire. Own our will to love, breathe it, feel it, walk it, be it! There is much love for us here, and it is within us, literally all the time, for it is in our heart and the very essence of our soul. Stand tall and know you are loved, you are LOVE!