Dear Sharon
Thank you for being a beautiful Space for me last night to express some of what had not yet been expressed. It opened the way to a beautiful session with my therapist today.
Thank you for being the radiant, loving, joyful, healing Presence you are. It’s such a profound gift to the world.
Dear Graeme,
Thank you for your truly beautiful acknowledgements. I am grateful to be, by Grace, the Presence I am... as I, by Grace, go deeper.
You are a dear man, and it was a joy and an honour to be with you last night. I love to hear how the wonder of life continued to unfold for you today.
Go well, with love of the mystery of it all, Sharon
Dear Graeme,
You are such a beautiful being, and I truly love how given to God, by Grace, thou art. I trust all is continuing to go well. I am with a deep sense of thee these last couple of days. It is a deeply bright and indescribably beautiful place.
We were talking about yoga briefly the other evening. This is the yoga school at Pymble that I mentioned, that my darling Mum, Margaret North, began many years ago. She teaches the Wednesday and Friday morning classes, and encourages people to work slowly, consciously, and with joy and lightness. The other teachers are all wonderful too. I would recommend the style of hatha yoga they all teach, which always includes relaxation or meditation at the end of the class. You'll really notice the effects at every level, find it deeply grounding, and I'm sure you'll love it.
http://www.kuringgaiyoga.com.au/
In love and presence, Sharon
Dear Sharon
Thank you so much for the yoga details. The body, yearning as it does to stretch, so appreciates it :)
It is indeed a profoundly beautiful time for me. There is a sense that the brain is receiving something profound and there is some writing going on now and then. Every so often the brain feels compelled to jump in and churn with what is there, but there's a realisation that any mental effort leaves muddy footprints on something that feels pure. The space of time will tell whether its meant for a wider audience.
There is lots of spaciousness and peace in the body and contraction at times too. The contraction provides a beautiful invitation to loosen around it by being a space for it. Something which, I sense deeply, is part of the process of this form becoming the instrument that the Soul within so yearns to be.
All is Well. What an adventure this experience of Life is!
G
29 Sep 2015
Happy Birthday Dear Graeme,
What a beautiful day it is, and what a beautiful man you are.
I loved being with you and the other dear beings on Sunday... great to see the photos, too!
See you tonight.
Lovingly, Sharon
10 Feb 2016
Hi there Sharon
It was so lovely to speak about the wonder and beauty of nature last night.
I feel inspired to share some of the animal and bird photos I took in the Kruger National Park, including the breathtaking leopard I spoke about. African wildlife is so close to my heart.
No rush, only if you find some time.
May you have a beautiful week,
G
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Hi Graeme
Yes, it was so lovely to speak about the wonder and beauty of nature the other night. What a blessed life on earth this is, with the reflection of my true nature all around me...
Thank you so much for sending me your stunning photos. What beautiful moments you have captured. Your leopard is a wondrous creature, and you have captured his essence so beautifully. All those gorgeous animals, and birds, and the light.... what a clear eye you have, with such natural attention to detail, harmony, balance, shape, form and the formless.
I trust I may go again to Africa some day. It is my intention, and for much longer next time!
Enjoy all that you are doing and being.
Sharon
21 Feb 2016
Hi Graeme,
I'm sure you and Mack are enjoying a beautiful time together again now. He is blessed to be adored by you and Lisa, and I know it is beyond description all that he gives you, in being his beautiful, innocent, dear presence.
Thank you for sending your writing from 2004, expressing such devotion to and love of the Mystery, beauty and truth I (the one I in the universe) am. There are deep levels of Me, aren't there, that are always in love and union with God. It seems to take the surface levels 'time' for it to filter through consciously so that I am more and more in the profundity of the depths of the vertical dimension I am, now. I glow in knowing that you are finding now, all that you long for.
I had a lovely time at the Baha'i Temple. There were about twenty people, and it was so beautiful to walk around the gardens, and then sit within the beautiful, Persian-inspired, white, light-filled, silent temple and be. I was in a deep place, and really had the sense of being within the temple at every level - within my body temple, the temple building, the temple of the earth, of the universe, the temple of my being, all so sacred. Have you been there? The temple is open for anyone to come and partake of. Perhaps you may enjoy coming with me there one day?
I have added an attachment of a note from Eckhart to the retreat participants in Qld, Nov 2014 (I think written by someone else, as I've seen his writing elsewhere, and it's much more flowing). So true.
Enjoy the beautiful evening, Graeme.
Sharon
To Sharon
Thanks so much, Sharon.
I was going through some old writing and it made me realise how long my soul has longed for this, even way before I had a true sense of it. We are so blessed, by Grace.
Footprints
Through the loving ways that people connect;
laughter between friends, a couple holding hands,
the generosity of a stranger, the smile of a child.
Through the gift of knowing I am enough, no matter what.
Through my highest thoughts, my truest words, my kindest deeds.
Through the wonders of sunsets and mountains, ocean waves, dolphins and daffodils.
Through the uplifting beauty of music, art and poetry.
Through the infiniteness of time and space and the intricacies of atoms and less.
Through the mighty power of silence and the peace that stillness brings.
Through these things,
I see the footprints of a benevolent Mystery unfolding
and I look out into the vast night sky
and I smile at the stars and the moon
content in the knowing
that the universe smiles back.
Written: 2004
I hope you had a wonderful day at the Ashram. I did some writing and work, and just been out for a lovely walk. Now I'm waiting, with a longing in my heart again, for little Mack to arrive home so we can enjoy a mutual cuddle.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday,
G
Hi Graeme,
It is so truly lovely to hear all that you are experiencing in your great love of God. You are finding what you seek, and what is seeking you is finding you! You are now a finder, as Eckhart would say, Graced with constant unfolding and deepening of all you find! Rumi, Barry, Eckhart, Yogananda, all the other real beings, and Sharon (whatever she is), rejoice with you!
Thank you for sharing your recent experience, which resonates with me very much. It is lovely to read your clear description, and I am blessed and grateful to know what you mean. Thank you for your helpful reminder to do it more consciously. I am quite often in that place you describe, deeply knowing and living 'I have no head', observing movement on the 'edge' of me, and the stillness-depthlessness behind/within my back and all around me. At times I am as deep, wide and spacious as the universe, and drop or disappear in there ~ never to return one day I trust, by Grace.
It is so beautiful that your love and truth are so freely flowing into your writing currently. Enjoy it, enjoy it, enjoy it. Life is good! It is so right that you go with it and use this special time in every way possible.
Botanica sounds and looks wonderful (I found some photos online - they may need your beautiful eye to improve some of the pics!). It reminds me of various wonderful cafes in Northern NSW I love and know well. How fortunate you are to have it so close.
Enjoy it all, and thank you for being the dear being that you are.
Sharon
Hi Sharon
That is such a wonderful quote. Thanks so much for sharing it. It so encapsulates what I am feeling.
I'm feeling so beautifully connected at the moment, with immense feelings of love. My mind feels so clear and inspiration is flowing through. I've been writing a lot, and it feels peaceful and effortless. I feel so grateful that at times I feel like my heart will burst with it.
I'd love to share one of the things that has flowed through, inspired by an experience I had recently (also included) and see if it resonates at all with you, if you try it. I'd love to share mutual practices with you like this. Deepening presence is such a heart felt intention for me right now.
I hope you don't mind, but I sense a deep will to continue writing tomorrow while I'm in this state. Next week brings many things I need to do work-wise, so the opportunity will wane. Unless it doesn't of course. Life has such a beautiful will.
I'm off to The Botanica now for some renewal. It's the most spiritual oasis of a cafe you can imagine. I'd to share a meal with you there sometime.
Wishing you a beautiful day too, and a very special time tomorrow
G
Good morning Graeme,
How lovely it was to be with Jilly, and the lovely group of beings around her, including you, yesterday. So much love and consciousness within and without.
I thought you'd enjoy the excerpt from BL below.... As this delights and fulfils you, it slowly brings you back to life.
The BL Foundation send out weekly excerpts from his many books to people registered, if you'd enjoy that.
Have you been able to find my email (on Thursday I think?) re the Baha'i Temple event tomorrow afternoon?
Enjoy the beautiful day, Sharon
Wow, I absolutely love what you said about sensing yourself within the temple at every level from body to Being. That is so utterly beautiful.
We mentioned we both loved the ocean and watching the waves. Have you heard the exquisite song by Miten/ Deva Premal about the magnificence of of the ocean and waves coming in? It's exquisite. On my Spotify playlist that I've called "sublime."
Hope to see you tomorrow,
G
to Sharon
PS Here's the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYfvTgWDYkY
to me
Thank you, Graeme, truly.
I love this exquisite song, and didn't know it. I've watched-listened to it a few times today, dissolving, with tears at times, into the beauty and truth of all that is conveyed.
There is so much magnificence... the waves are coming in.... I am part of the Ocean of Love... My love and light dissolve the darkness..... I am so in love with Life, my fear and pain are dying, by Grace. Oh, the absolute wonder and majesty and indescribable reality of it All...
Sharon
to Sharon
It so wonderful that you loved the song. I too have cried many times at the pure beauty of it.
Music for me is a key that opens up my heart for love to pour through. Some of my most beautiful spiritual moments of grace have happened during or after listening to music.
Here are some words from others that sum of what music means to me ...
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Delius
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. Henry David Thoreau
For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy
to me
Yes, music allows me to reach heights and depths that no words can... such beautiful places within me. I love music too.
Thank you for the lovely quotes.
Do you have Eckhart's 'Music to Quiet the Mind' CD? There are some exquisitely beautiful pieces on it. I can bring it for you tomorrow night if you may enjoy to listen to it? He has written a beautiful piece about the truth and wonder of music in the accompanying little booklet.
I saw the beautiful moon as I was walking my dear client out a little while ago.... indescribably mystical, in the vast, vast night.
We live in paradise, don't we? Everything I am and need is provided in abundance, and shines with Godly light and sound. All I need to do is be present and alive to it now!
Sharon
to Sharon
My turn to say a big thank you. I didn't know about Eckhart's CD. I did a search on Spotify and found his playlist containing not only the songs on the CD but also about 100 other songs he listens to. What a treasure trove!! I listened to it before bed, so beautiful, and then slept like a baby.
See you tonight,
G
25 Feb 2016
Hi Sharon
I'm really looking forward to a lovely walk on Sunday.
It looks like life has a cooler day in store, which will be a wonderful relief. Poor Mack has spent the last two days, hogging the fan, panting like a steam train with his tongue hanging out. I have too. Ha ha!
There are two walks I'd love to do and I'm having trouble deciding between them:
1. Walk around Waverton and Wollstonecraft including Balls Head and Berry Island with beautiful views of the city. We could pop off at The Botanica for a bite and even drop in on your dad if you want :)
2. Manly Scenic Walk - a 9 km walk from Spit Bridge to Manly with great swim spots along the way. Stop off in Manly for a bite and swim and then get bus back to Spit Bridge. A fantastic walk.
I'll have Mackie on Sunday so he'll enjoy the walk too. He's done both and loves them equally. I asked him which one he preferred to do Sunday but his answer was lost in translation.
Shout if you have any preferences. Or if other walks you'd like to do, maybe closer to where you live. Otherwise I'll toss a coin and let life decide.
Hope your week is going beautifully,
G
Hi Graeme,
What a sweet email. I enjoy the way you write, and your sense of humour.
I'd love to walk around Waverton, Wollstonecraft and those other lovely areas, if you and Mack would? Perhaps do the Manly Scenic Walk, which is a fantastic walk, another time? It would be nice to visit Botanica, and we certainly could drop in on Dad, yet perhaps another time too : )
I'm having a beautiful week. I'm perceiving a glowing light within all I see - especially the nature around me - it's very bright and real.
A lovely quote from BL I have on my desk currently: I am forever. I am all things and all things are in me. What is there to question? What is there to fear?
I am forever. So much tension and fear falls away with this knowledge.
How is your writing going this week, Graeme? I trust it's still flowing for you?
Sharon
Hi Sharon
Great stuff! The walking in this area is beautiful and nice and flat! I'm very happy to drop in on your dad. Dads are a precious commodity to be hugged at any opportunity!
That's wonderful that you're in such a lovely state and perceiving a glowing light in all. So beautiful. I experienced that so, so strongly a few months ago. I remember in particular going into Thomas Dux and being absolutely mesmerised by the glowing, shimmering fruit and vegetables that seemed to have had their vibrancy super charged. There was such an immense sense of aliveness and such a joy in it all. Such a special experience.
My intense connection of the last couple weeks has subsided, but the awareness is still constantly there. I'm still writing quite a bit, when I get the chance, and Yogi has joined me in a fun venture to write a short book. We meet almost daily at The Botanica to share ideas and we're also using all the latest internet programs to collaborate. Such a fun exercise, whether it ever gets read by anyone or not.
I'm really looking forward to Sunday. Any time is good with me. How about 10 am? It feels like a respectable hour for a Sunday :)
My address is 43B King Street, Waverton.
See you soon,
G
Hi Graeme,
I'm really looking forward to tomorrow too. I'm sure we'll have a lovely day, and it will be so nice to wander around your beautiful area, with Mack, seeing where life takes us. 10am is perfect. I see you're just across from that glorious park - how wonderful for you!
I'm glad you are still writing when you can, and it's so good to hear that you and Yogi are meeting and doing those fun things together, with a very worthy book likely to result. I'll read it! And I'm sure many others.
I'm sure the light and the intense connection will return for you, Graeme, and eventually be a constant and deepening inner and outer knowledge and experience. It's there all the time, as you know, yet does get covered over by the subtle/coarse mental, emotional etc layers of living past.... yet this is the rightness of the 'spiritual life' isn't it, facing all that is not conscious in me, as best I can, by Grace, and being the witness of this transmutation.
A true and beautiful quote that appeared in front of me today:
"Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one that you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."
--Joseph Campbell
Oh, the wonder of life, which I love so much.
Enjoy the beautiful day, Sharon
Dear Sharon
A beautiful quote!
I love Joseph Campbell. One of my favourite quotes is one of his ...
People say that what we are all seeking is meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. Joseph Campbell
Trying to determine one's meaning and purpose in life can become quite mind driven. But the experience of being fully alive. Ah, thats the domain of the heart and soul !!
See you tomorrow,
G
2 March 2016
Good morning Graeme,
Another glorious day on this beautiful, beautiful earth, loving the great Mystery within and without....
Last night, just after I got out of my car at home, and looked up at the night sky, a huge shooting star flashed right across the sky above me! What a wonder! It was a magical, mystical moment and symbol to me of the wonder of life and the brightness within and around me currently... I'm indescribably blessed.
Enjoy the day! Sharon
Hi Sharon
Wow, that's so beautiful to see a shooting star flashing across the sky. That's always a sight that fills me with such wonder. I'm just so totally in love with the night sky at the moment. I lie on my balcony chair each night before bed with beautiful music on my headphones and just stare out into its wondrous, immense vastness.
Thanks so much for sharing the video. Eckhart is always so wonderfully animated, and especially here. I just love him so, so much. I also really enjoyed the passion and humour of "The Dog Whisperer". Might get one of his books to better understand my beloved Mack.
"Awake" is available to download. Yay! So we can watch it any time we want. I'm very free at the moment time wise so pretty much any time, week evening or weekend - except 9 - 17 March. Oh, and except Tuesday nights :) I'm happy to come to you. I can always bring my large computer screen in the unlikely case we can't see it on your TV.
May the rest of your week continue to bring you unexpected joys,
G
Hi Graeme,
Yes, shooting stars are a wonder! I haven't seen such a huge one for a long time. I love being in natural places where there are billions of stars, and many shooting stars flashing in the heavens.... all that vast space, and wonder. It's like that up north when I go to the BL video events, with the ocean washing through me as well - heaven.
There's a deep nourishment and beauty within the night, isn't there? How lovely that you are with this so often. The vastness is such a deep reflection of being. What a glorious life it is for those of us who love it and do all we can to merge with it, are merging with it by Grace. I am touched that you love the vastness so much - you are a rare man, Graeme.
Yes, darling, darling Eckhart. He is such a sweet heart. And 'The Dog Whisperer' is so passionate and humorous, as you say. I'm sure he can help you with Mack. What delightful beings we have around us.
That's so good that 'Awake' is available to download. I'd love to see it soon! How about tomorrow late afternoon/night or Saturday late afternoon/night? Might it work for me to come to your place? (Tomorrow afternoon I'm going into the city to see my acupuncturist, so it could work well for me to come to your place). I'd love you to come here, I just don't wish to impact on Mum's cosy nights around her TV (you and Mum will love each other, I'm sure, she's a very loving, beautiful, darling woman) so we can be downstairs here in my lovely office-therapy room area, where I don't have a TV.... whatever feels good for you, is good with me.
A beautiful BL quote: Without thought or intention, pour out your being in gratitude, as the bird pours out its being in song.
In Gratitude, Sharon
Hi Sharon
What a beautiful quote from Barry. So much beauty and truth in his words. As Mooji often says "Intention brings tension." It's been such a freeing process for me, more and more, to let go of goals and intentions, and to allow life to unfold as it wills. And if intention arises, to let go of all attachments to it. I've discovered that Life so often delivers something so much more profound and wonderful than I could ever have envisioned with the mind.
I've been reading some of Barry's songs in the book you brought me and they are sublime.
Talking of shooting starts, three years ago, I lay under a vast night sky in South Africa, out in the country where I could see so many countless stars, it left me in deep awe. As I lay there, my thoughts turned to someone dear to me who I was concerned about. I wished them well with all my heart. As I did so, three (three!!!) shooting stars simultaneously shot across the sky. It left me in absolute wonder, and with a realisation that all was well (and so it turned out to be.) And also a realisation (deep knowing) that had been dawning for a while. That the benevolence of the universe was not wishful thinking. And far from conceptual. It was a startling reality.
I've got a very full day of work tomorrow, and want to be fresh for the movie so Saturday would be best for me if it still suits you. Matt is away and I think Sharmista is too, so lets meet here if you're ok with that. There's some music I'd love to share with you on Matt's super duper speakers. Also, if you come latish afternoon, there's a wonderful spot close by for a bit of a picnic looking out onto the city. However, I'm totally easy if you decide you'd prefer to have it at yours. I can always bring my computer screen and portable speakers! Ha ha, I'm a bit of a gadget lover I must confess :)
I'm so looking forward to the movie and sharing the experience with you,
G
10 April 2016
Dear Graeme,
Thank you so much for inviting me to join your special, special blog. I've been so enjoying the little bits I've looked at just now, and will spend more time soon.
You are a dear man, and I enjoy getting to know you, and our friendship. I love your openness, profundity and joy, among so many other beautiful states and traits I observe and feel around you. I find with you an intense brightness and fineness that is rare. So thank you. Thank you for being you.
Life is good!
Sharon
Dear Sharon
Thank you for your beautiful, affirming words.
I've so enjoyed getting to know you too. The access you have to the light of your being and the way it radiates through you as joy, love, serenity, physical grace and healing attention is an enormous source of inspiration to me. Also the way you embrace life with such love and live it so deeply. You are beautiful in so many ways. I'm very grateful to Life for bringing you into my life and the lives of my dear, dear Eckhart friends. I know they feel the same way.
I read a couple of quotes the other day that made me think of you because you personify them ...
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. Hafiz of Shiraz
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. Henri J. M. Nouwen
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves. Ken Kesey
Words are so wonderful aren't they? The way they point to truth. And the way they create a platform into the chasm of the soul from where we can leap off into its depths where all words fall away.
Life is indeed good,
G
Dear Graeme,
Thank you, so much, for your deeply touching words, and beautiful quotes.
It is so beautiful to know what you perceive, as I can't really see how this unnameable reality I love and am reflects to others... I just am it, more and more. This is one of the true Graces of another who has the x-ray vision (as Barry sometimes described it) and the ability and will to communicate and reflect it back - helping it go even deeper. Thank you, thank you, thank you...
I am also so very grateful to Life for bringing you into my life, and the other dear Eckhart beings who are each so beautiful. I feel so blessed, and am loving this unfolding of love, wonder and sweetness that is occurring between and within each of us. All so indescribably beautiful! Oh God, this Life is so beautiful! It's sometimes hard to remain conscious within all the beauty... yet I do my best!
How beautifully you describe what occurs as words point to truth and then dissolve as I become that truth.
Yes, Life is so Good!!
19 April 2016
Hi Sharon
A belated thank you for a wonderful Sunday - for beautiful company, beautiful teachings, and a yummy lunch.
It was also wonderful to see your amazing home and soak in the beauty and serenity of the garden.
All in all, the perfect way to spend a rainy day - and the perfect diversion from laying floors!!
See you tonight,
G
PS ... Quote of the day
No word is it. Every word is appearing in it. Scott Kiloby
Hi Graeme,
Thank you. Yes, it was a perfect way to spend a rainy day, and so lovely to be in your wakeful, joyous company.
Quote of the Afternoon:
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much. Eckhart Tolle
This really makes me laugh!
Enjoy being, Sharon
29 April 2016
Hi Graeme
I heard the most excruciatingly tragic yet funny statement by Dr. Daniel Amen (US psychiatrist and brain scientist) during the week: 'The average attention span of a human is eight seconds. Of a goldfish: nine seconds'. ?! God help us.
Hi Sharon
Ha, ha, that's so funny!! Not sure it's totally true though. Those goldfish the other night, floating weightlessly, seemed pretty anchored in being :)
Human attentiveness on the other hand!! The craving for distraction so very intense. The i-phone and computer constantly whispering seductively "look at me!" And of course, compulsive thought - the greatest seductress of all.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. Blaise Pascal
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Jon Kabat- Zinn
Hi Graeme
Those quotes are so true.
Yes, glorious goldfish in being....our teachers.... those lovely ones we saw the other evening, so one with life...
I've been 'working' this morning (just being really), as I have a spike in clients and am trying to fit them all in!
Life is good!
Sharon
2 May 2016
Happy birthday, beautiful Sharon. Happy everyday! May your day be as radiant as you. And may your world be full of colour and your crayons never melt.
Life is about using the whole box of crayons. Ru Paul
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Don Miguel Ruiz
In the love of life,
G
Thank you, dear Graeme,
What a beautiful day it is ~ within and without! Another day to be happy and free!
Thank you for bringing life, light and so many vibrant colours and moments to my life.
Enjoy being,
Sharon
