Here’s a quote that passed through my email today that I couldn’t ignore.
“Don’t honor death with grief.”
Hmmm…certainly lifts thought to a scientific perspective…and shakes thought free of sense bondage too…
Life is eternal.
Dominion over death and grief
July 8, 2011 | 7 comments
Hi Evan,
Thank you for your words as always. I like that quote. But how do you do that? Especially when the person is someone very close to you. When you can see and touch, speak to them and they can speak to you and then they are gone. How do you not mourn that personal relationship.
In that context words seem empty.
To above,
By seeing that person as spiritual. That’s the only way. They always were spiritual and still are. So are you! This is the demand, to go higher in your thinking about their true identity. The more you understand the real substance of their being, the closer you will feel to them. Death does not separate us from the spiritual substance of our dear ones. In fact, seeing through the illusion of death brings us closer to them.
Hi Anonymous. This topic I found to be extremely sensitive even after being demonstrated. The “entertained angels unawares” seem to be the farthest thing from thought. “The passing of the seagulls” is a good read. God is here, is a good thought. Since there is a God, and since He/She does LOVE us, and because that LOVE is unconditional, then the angels that we are to entertain, are the angels of thought. Whose thought? Remorse, regret, anger, loneliness? These are not our thoughts. These are the temptations that say; “If you will bow down to me, I will give you the kingdom”. Who wants that kind of kingdom? There is really only one kingdom. The kingdom of love. And if we love, there is no room for those tempting thoughts of loss…..
Loving mankind unconditionally is how we too can “Entertain angels unawares”. Oh! Honey, it’s not the personal relationship that we morn, it’s the lack of what that relationship has graced us with in our experience here on earth. If you want to keep feeling that representation of love, then give it to someone else, then it is not lost, but found entertaining GODS’ angels everywhere we are. That’s how instead of it being a seeming burden, it becomes a blessing to ourselves and others. Words are empty in any context. It’s action that wins the day. We are in action right here, right now. What action are we performing? LOVE. Just LOVE.
I have had trouble all my life of seeing the negative and fighting my way to the positive. Recently, I lost my dog Budchen, a beautiful 12 year old Red Heeler female, a rescue dog, who was my closet support while I was losing my legs; my first wife was bothered more about my loss than I. Budchen died in my arms, while I stroked and talked to her. My immediate thoughts were,
“Woe is me, what will I do without my dear Budchen.” Then a thought came to me (God, my Angels) that I would not think of her life in the negative; I will only think of her grand life with me, and think only of her good. From that point on, my persona has changed; I see all things in a positive manner, the negative being far away.
Thank you Evan and Anonymous for answering my question. It’s something I need to work on.
Thanks!
Evan, I have tried twice to send this, I am having computer problems. I met you when you were giving lectures in Ne and Iowa. My wife had just past. I want to do how to see her as spiritual. I know that is what is real, but the memories and what seems important all seems to be material. I want to feel, think, know, and understand the spiritual. How do I do this. Thanks!
Hi Leon,
I remember meeting you! Nice to hear from you. Your wife is as close to you today as ever. We all, eventually, have to learn to see our loved ones from a totally spiritual point of view. This is your opportunity to do so with your wife. And you can!
You do justice to her when you see her for who she is, as the woman who expresses love, care, tenderness, understanding, patience, etc. These qualities are all still with you. They go with you wherever you go. Your wife’s “presence” is still just as real and tangible now as before.
Make a list of your wife’s qualities and hold to these qualities and attributes during the day. Make them your companion now. They identify her and speak of her presence still in your life. They are real and concrete.
There is no separation in divine Love! And that’s where you and your wife met and remain–in divine Love.
Hope that helps.