Welcome to the 7 Wonders Retreat Series.
My name is Tina Bruce.
We begin by retreating inwards.
Feel your body breathing.
Sense the current of grace running through your heart and let's wander towards your soul.
You open your eyes,
Waking from the most vivid dream to discover that you are lying down.
The scent of incense awakens your senses and a soothing mantra echoes around this holy space.
You're not sure if you're still sleeping as you drift between conscious states.
The veils between worlds are very thin and you feel the vibration around you,
Filled with prayer,
Ancient stories,
Mysticism and stillness.
As your eyes adjust and you drink in the sacredness of this temple,
It is with great reverence and wonder that you realise the Taj Mahal has been waiting for you.
Traditional deities decorate every surface and supreme design surrounds you,
Which can only be described as otherworldly.
Exquisite detail shines with hidden jewels and sparkling gemstones embedded throughout the walls.
It's like there are secrets contained inside,
Little treasures and drops of beauty from the universe.
How can human beings create with such majesty and divine perfection?
Surely we are guided by another force,
A power,
An intelligence weaved through our own minds.
Does it instruct us on how to build,
How to grow and how to make something out of nothing?
That is the real miracle.
First begins emptiness,
A blank page,
A white marble slab and then the grace of an idea lands in somebody.
Inspiration needs physical form to experience creation.
We are the divines hands and feet in the world,
Devoting our own will over to the great mystery.
Where do our ideas end and our soul's ideas begin?
It would be a great relief to release our personal agendas and our ego's desire to control creation.
Our frightened minds will try to cling to a goal,
A plan or an outcome.
It always ends in suffering when we block the truth of what our soul wants for us.
Choking off the flow of life is how our own stubbornness and pride gets in the way.
To surrender control and relax into the cosmic plan is always the most loving plan.
The ancestors of this sacred site speak to you now.
Come to this sacred site,
My love,
When you need to hand over your fear of failing,
Your plans and your agendas.
Every choice you make is sacred and can either come from your head or come from your heart.
Trust that in divine timing the path will reveal itself and you probably won't see it coming.
Patience and compassion soften the grip you white-knuckle life with.
There is an ordered contract for every soul incarnated on this earth.
Even when it seems unfair,
Unjust and cruel at times,
Divine will operates under mystical laws,
Not logic or reason.
All is in perfect order and unfolding according to the patterns and cycles of your evolution.
Thy will be done.
Om Ma Jai Ma Jai Ma Om Jai Ma
