Welcome to the Poetic Resurrection podcast where we explore perceptions.
How self-reflecting questions can give you a better understanding of self.
I'm your host,
Sonia Iris Lozada.
Stay tuned.
This week I watched an entire season of Ram Dass teachings and all the quotes this week are his.
The teachings had everything in it from his dislike of people to his sexuality to his questioning enlightenment.
But what I noticed throughout the entire season,
It was about being.
He was just being.
How difficult it is for most of us to just be.
Just sit still to quiet the mind and just be.
So much of what we learn is to be a doer or a thinker or a seeker.
The thinking mind is what is busy.
You have to stay in your heart.
You have to be in your heart.
Be in your heart.
The rest is up here in the head where you are doing,
Doing,
Doing.
The idea of being is just being.
We have the answers in our lives,
But we don't sit quietly to hear what they are saying.
There is more to us than this three dimensional physical plane.
We see this in our dreams,
Meditations,
And sometimes we get that aha moment when we talk to somebody or watch a TV show or overhear someone speaking.
It's amazing to me when you get those little nudges and I don't know where they come from.
Is it our intuition?
Is it our higher self?
Our angels?
Spirit guides?
In the past,
When I have fought these nudges,
I would fall flat on my face.
So follow that intuition,
Spirit guides,
Higher self,
Etc.
Because it's usually right.
Remember we are all affecting the world every moment,
Whether we mean to or not.
Our actions and states of mind matter because we're so deeply interconnected with one another,
Working on our own consciousness.
It is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment and being loved is a supreme creative act.
These nudges told me to write and publish my poetry.
I was scared to do that because yes,
I was exposing who I was.
I was afraid I would not be accepted.
The opposite happened.
I was accepted.
This same little nudge came to me constantly for two years to start up the Poetic Resurrection podcast.
I didn't know what the podcast should be about.
I knew it would not be about acting.
Then during the pandemic,
I saw people marching and helping at food banks and I thought,
How wonderful would life be if we had self-love and self-acceptance.
With these acceptances,
It would be easy to accept and love others.
There would be no fear of loss.
Whichever direction these nudges are directing you,
They need to be of a kind heart.
Unconditional love really exists in each of us.
It is part of our deep inner being.
It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being.
It's not I love you for this or that reason.
It's not I love you if you love me.
It's love for no reason.
Love without an object.
The poem for this week is Continuum from Inspire Me Perception.
Spring florets glimmer in the afternoon light,
Scent of fresh tulips,
Myths of existence,
Fables.
Trembling in 90 degrees,
Veneer of tears,
Illusions of turmoil created by self.
Head spins,
Pandora's box.
Seven sins tap across the stage of a cardinal songbird as the earth fall cleanses itself.
Hope gathers flowers for a rainbow bridge.
Oya counters and flees,
Storm.
Yemaya,
Mother disapproves.
Amazon and Niger rivers dominate femininity protected.
Travels,
Antipodes,
Indian ocean with full moonlight glistens as the waves erupt.
Hera's vengeful heart aches from illegitimate family.
Crumbled mirror of water.
This cascade past seven years.
Moisture blooms lilies of death.
Phoenix ashes resurrected in endless evolution.
Thank you for listening to the Poetic Resurrection podcast.
