{"id":10,"date":"2007-07-14T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/07\/take-you-higher.html"},"modified":"2007-07-14T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T05:01:00","slug":"take-you-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/07\/take-you-higher.html","title":{"rendered":"Take You Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This weblog creates, for us all, a chance to meet at the interaction of Life and the New Spirituality. It is written by the author of <\/em>Conversations with God, the worldwide best-selling series of books. The \u201cNew Spirituality\u201d is defined by the author as \u201ca new way to experience our natural impulse toward the Divine, which does not make others wrong for the way in which they are doing it.\u201d)<\/em>
\nSaturday is Prose & Poetry Day <\/strong>here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of m. Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Come As You Are.<\/em>
\nThis week’s prose…an excerpt from Communion with God<\/em>…<\/strong><\/p>\n

After one experience of Meeting the Creator Within you will remember The Message of the Creator, because it is the message of your own heart.
\nIt is no different from the message that your heart sings every time you look into the eyes of another with love. It is no different from the message that your heart cries out when you see suffering anywhere.
\nThis is the message that you bring to the world, and that you would leave with the world, when you are your True Self.<\/p>\n


\nIt is the message that I leave now with you, that you may remember it once again, and share it with all those whose lives you touch.
\nBe kind to each other, and good.
\nBe kind to yourself, and good, as well.
\nUnderstand that these two do not have to be mutually exclusive.
\nBe generous with each other, and share.
\nBe generous with yourself, as well.
\nKnow that only as you share with yourself can you share with another. For you cannot give to another what you do not have.
\nBe gentle with each other, and true.
\nBe gentle with yourself, and true, as well.
\nTo thine own self be true, and it follows as the day the night, thou canst not then be false to any man.
\nRemember always that betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the highest betrayal.
\nRemember always that love is freedom. You need no other word to define it. You need no other thought to comprehend it. You need no other action to express it.
\nYour search for the true definition of love is over. Now the only question will be whether you can give this gift of love, to yourself and to another, even as I have given it to you.
\nAll systems, agreements, decisions and choices that express freedom express God. For God is freedom, and freedom is love, expressed.
\nRemember always that yours is a world of Illusion, that nothing you see is real, and that you may use The Illusion to bring you a grand experience of the Ultimate Reality. Indeed, that is what you have come here to do.
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\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/em>
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\nEach question that you asked me –
\nI pretended
\nto know the answer.
\nI was truthful
\nbut I was
\nblinded
\nby the expanding sky
\nbehind you
\nand its colors on your skin
\ndistracted
\nby the shift of
\none knee over the other
\nyour hands draped
\nlike contented lovers
\nand how you
\ngave every light in the room
\nyour eyes.
\nI was present
\nbut I was
\ntaken
\nby the honey in your voice
\nby the nectar in your words
\npreoccupied
\nwith petty desires
\nthat pulsed in me
\ndaring me
\nto cross the room
\nand open your dream
\nand take you
\nHigher.
\n(Take You Higher – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more of the work of this new American poet, go to www.mclairepoet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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