Working with addicts, controllers and contractors has taught me a lot about conflict. Manipulators cause problems, make life extremely hard and take a lot of time, energy and skill in order to get positive results. Many people lack communication skills, would rather play games, retaliate, blame and be victims than take responsibility for themselves. Fear, anger, greed, and envy create alienation, paranoia and separation. Conflict strengthens egos and desires. Conflict keeps people stuck and/ or chasing their tails. Peaceful communication solves problems, allows for win-wins for growth and evolution. Courageous people tell the Truth with compassion and empathy.
As a Spiritual Warrior, learning, growing and being my best are motivating. Speaking Truth to Power since uttering words has been part of my journey. Ask my mom. Screaming matches, silencing and distancing me was how she dealt with conflict. There were days, sometimes a week or more, of being ignored. Imagine being a child and banished by and from your mother. Forgiveness, she did the best she could…
With a lot of alone time, and gratitude to be an artist, my time was spent drawing, writing, building things and dreaming. Life felt like a movie to script and it put me on a path. Reflection and wisdom taught me that life with a Higher Power was the way. Relying on Self was essential…
At-One-Ment.
Know Thyself: Supreme Universal Self is Liberation: atman
Not raised with religion gave me freedom to explore many cultures and beliefs. Common themes emerged with all religious teachings: Do good, serve others, silence your inner demons. Wanting to Know Thyself required me to unlearn “rote” and follow my heart. Intuition and living beyond the five senses helped this nature loving Bohemian. Wandering the Country and the world on the road less traveled was my path to Self. The mountains, oceans, rivers and forests called…
A natural yearning to bring beauty and goodness to the world led me to many interesting people and opportunities. Owning a restoration business, dabbling in films, documentaries, and commercials made for some interesting experiences. The limelight is not authentic…nature is more enticing, enriching and fascinating to me.
An Authentic life called…
An odyssey to Self-Reliance aka Self Realization with Natural purity, goodness and essence without training is possible to Unify the Self. Total Self-acceptance is the mind and the heart of one’s true Nature.
Harmony within the heart allows one to let go and surrender to a Higher Power. People are fighting for their self-empowerment. Inner freedoms and societal agreements are in conflict. People yearn to fulfill their true potential. Unified, coherent, altruistic equals good consciousness. It is within each of us to rise to the Christ within us - that is our Nobility, and our birthright.
What helped me get to inner peace? You can do it, too. How, you ask?
Quiet your mind…
Acceptance. Faith. Surrender. Ask: Who Am I that I cannot let go…
Discernment...
Know your deep state: Harmony in my heart…No conflicts.
jkrishnamurti once said: “I don’t mind what happens”, which sums up different aspects being ‘put in their place’ so to speak. He states: 'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.'
Self Reflection…
We must Rise within our hearts and minds to reach our full potentiality and infinite beauty. Our fulfillment is through beauty, joy, and wisdom.
Creating beauty: Art, planting trees, creating pollinator gardens, growing food, caring for nature, animals and wildlife are my Bliss. Restoring a home and a farm…see the Canadian geese, big old trees in the photo…peace.
A moniker of Robin in God’s Garden was given to me by Marjiva Ma, and expansion with Shunyamurti’s great wisdoms, including, The War Within Is Over, and, A Kingdom of No Conflict is Heaven is shared at satyoga.
May the war within your inner wildlands be healed and may you reside in a world of no conflicts. May you do good, serve others and silence your inner demons. Peace begins with you.
May the deep state within you be loving, peaceful and harmonious.
Enjoy my essay Atman and Robin: Death of Ego and Desire, my art: In The Flow, and my poem, Wetiko Warrior. Please subscribe and share Wildlands.
Wetiko Warrior I Am a teller of the Truth, Sharing facts of abolished proof. Known by the Compassionate and Wise, The oppressed and repressed think Liberty are lies. Rulers, leaders, and exploiters avenge, Controllers and manipulators have many types of revenge. Overpowering your life for insatiable ill minds and profit- Awaken! Otherwise, with obeisance, you may have long ago lost it. Greed is a disease that is killing the planet, Addictions and afflictions are self-imprisonment. Generations are taught and misled, Self-Reliance must arise and be Divinely fed. Cease sacrificing yourself as part of the cost- Fear dooms children for additional lost! Words to make a right look wrong, And make a wrong look right! Conflict steals your mind and makes you prey- Taxing your work, while depriving you of Wisdom’s way. Question authority and all you have been taught, Harmony within saves you from being captured and bought. Agendas create problems-reactions-and prepare solutions- The cure is Love and Consciousness- your inner Revolution. Rebel against a sick society’s ways, Stop giving in to Wetiko’s malaise. There is no respect for you or your life, The plight is in all systems for submittal so rife. Diabolical data and consumption of your heart and soul- Mind viruses so nefarious- taking and repressing is their goal. Overwhelming your life for felonious programs and gain, Awaken to the Truth to Thrive and for Freedoms to remain. Poem inspired by Wetiko: Healing the Mind Virus by Paul Levy; and, Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack D. Forbes.