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| You're just like the sweet apple reddening at the highest branch and missed by the apple pickers - No, They did not miss you! They just couldn't reach so high. - Sappho, Sweet Apple (Translated by George Theodoridis) |
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| "The kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21) |
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| Welcome to "Kingdom Within." If you have come here, it was not by accident, *knowing smiles* Also, it was not by accident that I should be drawn to apple blossoms. "The Apple/Apple blossom is a flower symbolizing love. Delicate, faintly seductive, it is more of an Invitation than a Proposition. Apple blossoms are also a sign used for peace, general content- ment, and success." http://enjoya.com/pooka/Magical%20Herbs.htmrbs.htm In all the magical beauty of symbolism, could there have been any better choice than apple blossoms as the archetype of Spirit? This is the legacy I'd like to leave with my children/grandchildren, and all Children of the Universe who happen to visit this page. |
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| There are probably hundreds of thousands of treatises and ponderous volumes dedicated to spirituality/religion that encompasses every culture and sect of peoples. Religion binds people to that which is outside themselves, thus weakening the individual. Spirituality, however, is intended to mean that personal relationship each individual reveals within themselves, that perfect part of Spirit; that Higher Christ Self; the true I Am of each of us, that empowers us to live our lives; the White Light that dwells in the Kingdom Within. Truly many of you have heard these things many times, to the point of boredom. Instead, hopefully the time you spend here will provide you with fresh ideas and inspiration needed to create a renewal with your own Spirit. My prayer is that together we might find balance in our spirits. Together we might find the courage to lighten up and return to the innocence of our childlike playfulness, and our song of joy will return. Please join me in a glimpse into my soul, a peak at my Spiritual Adventures. May we all, like Pilgrim, discover that all our dreams of God lie inside our heart of hearts, the Kingdom Within. |
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| How does the soul grow? Not all in a minute! Now it may lose ground, and now it may win it; Now it resolves, and again the will faileth; Now it rejoiceth, and now it bewaileth; Now its hopes fructify, then they are blighted; Now it walks sullenly, now gropes benighted; Fed by discouragements, taught by disaster, So it goes forward, now slower, now faster, Till all the pain is past, and failure made whole, It is full-grown, and the Lord rules the soul. Susan Coolidge |
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| . . .and, so goes our lives as we bring the personality to the perfection of our Inner Light. As with relationships, you will have your ins and outs, overs and unders, ups and downs. The more you acknowledge the magnificence of your Inner Beauty, the more Beauty will manifest itself in your daily life. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth [personality], where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." All the magic and wonder of the Universe, all the mystery of the Spirit, all harmony, all healing, all peace, all your most valuable Treasures reside in the Kingdom Within. For what will your life count if you do not brave this Adventure? Won't you please embark down this Path with me, and seek your own Inner Wisdom? |
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| "Apple trees, on the other hand, grow old without reproach. Let them live as long as they may, and contort themselves into whatever perversity of shape they please, and deck their withered limbs with a springtime gaudiness of pink blossoms, still they are respectable, even if they afford us only an apple or two in a season. Those few apples—or, at all events, the remembrance of apples in bygone years—are the atonement which utilitarianism inexorably demands for the privilege of lengthened life. Human flower shrubs, if they will grow old on earth, should, besides their lovely blossoms, bear some kind of fruit that will satisfy earthly appetites, else neither man nor the decorum of nature will deem it fit that the moss should gather on them." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Buds and Bird-voices |
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