With Open Arms

In Prayer We Become Love

When we enter into prayer, we  wordlessly commune with our true nature, our Divine self.  This self is not a reward of any effort on our part, it is simply that which we are, eternally.  Ordinarily we live in a state of non prayer.  Ordinarily we work, talk, teach, live, love and exist within very human bounds of experience and expectation.  When we enter into prayer our ordinary relationship with ourselves ceases. We as personalities cease to exist.  We become the energy of the love that is the prayer.

Prayer is love's vehicle.   When we pray for another person, truly pray from within that which we are, we connect with that person's life force.  This connection, this gift and absolute empowerment of another is intimate, permanent and wordless by nature. Prayer connects us at that place where we are all selflessly one universal form and energy.   There is always a benefit to that person and to the universe as a whole.

In prayer we become love.

Sammy Sommers

I was very deeply moved by Sammy Sommer's passing.  I, and thousands of others, spent many hours praying for his well being and recovery.  Prayer is a remarkable vehicle.  I've come to know that prayer, true prayer, that connectivity within and as our true nature, establishes an unbreakable identification of one person's life force to another.  The communication is absolutely, wordlessly, complete, and selfless by nature.  It doesn't change this life's destiny, but that is not prayer's goal.  I am so glad to have had the opportunity in this life to fall in love with him.  Sammy's tragedy, the family's tragedy, being at the lowest most indescribably painful end of human existence, opened the hearts of so many to the opportunity to act, feel and be one current of Love.  To be Jews.  The pendulum swings so high to either side.

Hippocampus

Amma's Darshan

I dreamt that I received Darshan from the Beloved Mother Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi.  Amma wore her white sari, but it was just like a lamp shade.  Amma was pure warm inviting delicious white bright eternal light. And I very knowingly climbed within Amma's womb - just climbed right into and through her exterior body as though she was a ghost.  And I cried and curled up and rested so deeply that I knew that breath was being drawn for me.  And I was aware that I could stay for as long as was necessary.