Path of the Adept

 Wisdom In Action

Wisdom in action is the path of the peaceful warrior. The warrior who seeks knowledge of self, and the mastery of his own mind, rather than dominance over another through force.





 Peace Within

Peace within is what we seek. For peace without is fleeting and unsure.





 Singleness Of Sight

The light of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light.





 Love Of Self

True love of self is loving yourself as a beautiful and blessed part of creation and not a vain glorious activity.





 Charity To All

Charity to all is a surrendering of the beliefs that we are better than one another, or that we are separate from one another. Recognizing and accepting our responsibilities to our brothers and sisters





 Perfect Acceptance

Perfect Acceptance is the child of the first five. For when they are combined we become the adept. We gain infinite strength to change that which must be changed. Sitting calmly meditating as the storm rages around us because we accept the things we cannot change.

And finally The Light that gives life to all other lights gives us true wisdom. And with true wisdom as our companion and guide we will know the truth of what can and cannot be changed. We will know the truth of what can and cannot be healed.

And with willingness, eagerness, and desire we walk the path to which we have been called. Amen.

It Is Time America

What do you know about suffering and pain
Lived your whole life in fortune and fame
Never had to fetch the scraps from under tables
Havent you ever noticed the rich dont wear labels

We struggle and fight just to be seen by a doc
The insurance company just put us on the block
The blade is sharp ready to swing at any moment
Our necks are bare as we wait for the blade to stroke it

Health care in America is a joke to the world
The richest nation ever but we cant save little girls
Little boys are just as bad they send them home to die
If you cant afford the meds the pharmacy dont even try

The politicians say no this would be a bad thing
Health care for everyone has a social ring
The rich shall live and the poor shall die
If it aint broke dont fix it the good old boy lie

They pretend that they care with their speaches on TV
Talking about no money in the budget for you and me
But they get the best of care come rain or shine
While the rest of America is hopelessly dying

Can we get some truth in office a politician who cares
About the common men and women who built this country fair
From the ground we built it and only asked for a piece
Of the American dream just a piece of the feast

A little land to call home without a bank on our backs
A reliable car so to our job we can make tracks
Some insurance for our babies so they can live long
Some money for school so our kids can read and sing songs

But most of all we just want to be treated equal
Of the past 200 years we dont want to see a sequal
So many have died and given limbs for us to be free
Yet the rich make moot their sacrifices constantly

We are patriots and we love the land we me made great
From coast to coast from the 1700's till to date
People from all over the world have made this their home
Have worked the very land and tilled this black loam

Stop the greed at it's source there's enough wealth for all
Or one day we'll quit and this great land will fall
There will be no factories, no farms, and no plants
No one to serve them when the rich want to dance

The Bible says a worker is worth being paid his or her wage
Our workers have dignity but we put them in a cage
The time has come for love to be revealed
And all of our old wounds to be forgotten and healed

Yo you did that kid wrong G
You gets no love with dirty green
Tried to tell you before mad scene
That God He see everything

You gonna pay for that matter of fact of force
When your hens come home to roost dont get hoarse
There'll be plenty of time for remorse of course
The circle of life always leads back to the source

I tried to tell you right dont deny
I tried to set you right there was no reply
Return to sender love dont live here no more
We aint family we aint friends now I know the score

We grew up together potential for more was there
Yet you be loving these streets and it aint fair
When the judgement arrives and you wanna lie dont dare
Accept responsibility for your life for your share

The chance to repent was there but you chose lies
No matter how hard you cross your t's or dot your i's
The truth will always reveal so check for size
You thought it was buried but the truth has 9 lives

Family

Hello and good morning to all my dear and close friends and family who take the time out of their busy days and schedules to read my little blogs.
This one is entitled family simply family is like love. It's one of those words that has so many meanings to so many people. And unlike the dictionary it is not just some random occurence of genes and sequences that make us family.
There are people in my life like Sammy, Alex, Jennifer, Janice, Mike, Misty, Kellie, Adrian, Erik, Louise, etc. and the list could go on and on. None of the afore mentioned people do I share any DNA with but at one point and time they were and some still are my family.
Yes I know that some of you don't even speak to me any more, for whatever reason. Some we lost touch, others there was some type of nuclear meltdown and now we are on opposite sides of an ever widening chasm.
And some just plain want nothing to do with me any more. Again personal reasons accepted.
But this Thanksgiving I was contacted by someone who I thought was lost to me forever. How strange when things you thought were important turn out to be nothing more than petty grudges that we hold on to for the sake of maintaining some type of emotion where that person is concerned.
Me and my sister Donna have not always gotten along. For one thing we're both capricorns. So our personalities sometimes conflict because we're so much alike. But family issues, and a move or two, and various other events left me feeling that I wasn't loved by sister anymore.
No she never said those words, in fact after the family meltdown I never got to talk to her again but this is where that grudge thing I was talking about comes in.
I never did anything to my sister to warrant her cutting me out of her life so because I'm hurt I'm going to manufacture a reason to be angry with her.
Yet even after ten years of nursing this grudge, the minute I got contact from her it was as if I had never even been mad at her. And I guess the truth of the matter is that I wasnt mad, I was hurt. But you know humans. We dont like to be vulnerable and nothing seems to make us vulnerable quite like family.
Family has a way of hitting you below the belt. Kidney blows and head butts. Thumb jabs and eye gouges. Oh I dont mean literally but it may as well be because the pain is every bit as real as if they had done those things to you.
When my sister finally contacted me I felt all of that old anger. The grudge creeping up inside of me expecting to vented at any moment.
Nothing I can say would prepare you the conversations that ensued.
From the moment we started emailing back and forth it was like all was well in my world. Yup that's right no fighting, no venting, no rehasing old hurts or wrongs. I didnt even get into how her silence had hurt me.
No instead I dropped everything I was doing and loved her. This little journey that I've been on has changed me more than even I thought possible.
Not only was every perceived hurt forgotten but every real hurt was gone. As if they had never been there.
Who am I? What happened to that guy who would wait for just the most exquisite moment to shove the knife of revenge deep into the ribs of those who would hurt me?
I guess he grew up. Because when I heard from my big sister it was like no time had passed between us. It was like we had never been apart at all. Of course there are all of the getting up to speed emails; (how are the kids, how's the hubby, hows your health?)
But we connected as if we had never been disconnected.
I have learned a very important lesson about family. And about myself and my ability to forgive. There are no limits.
That's right, if we allow our selves to let the hurt dissipate, if we allow ourselves to see and remember the good instead of the bad. If we truly desire a world that we are proud to hand over to our children and our childrens children, then the hating and the fighting must stop somewhere.
Why not here? Why not now? Why not taking stock of your life and everyone in it. Why not every one out of it. Why not take the hurt, the pain, the suffering, the anger, the malice, the revenge, and the grudges towards every one whom you have ever had any sort of contact with what so ever and give it up.
That's right just give it up. Allow for the possibilities of what could be. When I realized what I was touching on I felt energized. This is real power. Not the kind of power the governments of the world think they have. Not the kind of power politicians the world over think they have. I mean the power that's infinite enough in it's ability to change our world.
The power to forgive and love our family. And if you havent realized by now that we're all family then nothing I've said has made any impact on you at all.
But that one person. That one seed that has been planted, or that one seed that has been nurtured, or that one seed that has been watered, or that one seed that has received the blessing of sunshine that it needed to grow has been touched.
Someone, some where is reading this blog and realizing that the Tree of Life is us. All of us. You and me. My family and your family. My state and your state. My country and your country. My continent and your continent. We are all family. All of our lives are tied together by the Tree of Life which has given us all life.
I realized that when I forgave my sister I was actually forgiving myself. I was taught as a child that love hides many a fault and as an adult I say that love hides all faults.
Through being allowed to have contact with my sister again my eyes have been opened to what was right in front of them the whole time.
You are all my sisters. You are all my brothers. From this same soil we all sprung into existence. We know life, and love, and pain, and suffering, and hatred, hurt because we are all tied into each other. We are family. The more I understand this and feel it in my heart the more I start seeing other members of our family. Member who until now I could not see. Member of our family who work behind the veil helping us, loving us, nurturing us. Planting seeds, nurturing seeds, watering seeds, and providing sunshine to those seeds. Behind the seens without us even knowing they were there. FAMILY.
As you read this and begin for the first time to awaken. Or as you read this and for for the first time accept. Or as you read this and for the first time see. We are just one small corner, of one small piece, of one small galaxy, of one small universe, within a multitude of universes of brothers and sisters who are all where we are at. Trying to see beyond the veil. Trying to see what lies beyond what we have allowed ourselves to believe of as true.
Our family is without number in it's infinity and in it's continuosity to grow and expand. Our family commands the stars, our family travels beyond the worlds we know of, our family shares in the light that encompasses and creates all other lights. We are the light.
So while I share my feelings of compassion and thanksgiving for the reconnection of the relationship between me and my biological sibling, the others have taken this opportunity to tell you that you are not alone either. They are there waiting for you to open your heart to them. To see that they are there waiting for you to connect with them. Waiting to open your eyes and share with you the wonders of the light that pierces into infinity. Waiting to share with you the light that has created and knows ever single light in every single part of It's creation. We are a family of light connected families of light, connected to other families of light, connected to other families of light reaching from here to where the light begins. At it's source. So I give thanksgiving for all of my family who have watched over me and shined light on me, and helped me grow. I can't see you yet but I feel you all around me, loving me, nurturing me, trying to help me remember that I am light because I came from light. And teaching me to love my family all because they too came from the light and need help remembering that they are light.
I love you, may you see the light for what it is and begin to know your family. Your brother, in light, Ollis.