Category: Transcendental Love

It’s Self-Love and Worth that Points the Way to Enduring Love.

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I am placing this blog under Transcendental Love because – Living in Gratitude for the distance we have travelled reveals – Love alone is the sole path we are to be upon.

Our quest for Love may not lead us to the reality of love if we have not found self-love and worth within ourselves. Our decisions to find love can be rooted in the fear of being alone and the untrue stories we hold unto. Our intimate relationships reflect where we are in our understanding of this quest. It is only when we realize it is the overflow of our own self-regard and value that love genuinely points the way to enduring relationships.

My sole purpose has not been in the roles I have played, as son, brother, uncle, worker in multi-jobs, and my key life calling, ministry, but the love I have brought through those roles. My identity is not in any one of those experiences, but the realization, my purpose is loving. In that awareness there is also the pain of releasing, forgiving, opening to new understanding and perspectives of my being,

I have shared, I went into ministry as a calling for all the wrong reasons. – seeking approval and validation for doing good. The root of that was the intense self-hatred and loathing I held inside of me because of the complexity of my sexuality and believing the world considered me something abhorrent.

I have triumphed over that view and am profoundly grateful I have lived through the dark nights of my soul to awaken to the light and blessing I am. I have also realized it is as the dark and light are intertwining that brings the authenticity I bring to life. My acceptance of it all is key to personal illumination that I am not my roles, I am what I have brought to them. This is not easy to remember.

Living from that core of love requires I do deeper inner work and free the unforgiveness and pain that I’ve stored within my body* I want to assure that when I share stories they are not about repetition of darkness and pain or carrying forward the experience of being a victim but rising to the empowerment of being the Victor.

I have created angels around me through this life journey. I no longer need to prove my worth. My purpose on the planet is to evidence self-love and love for others – and that is what I want to carry forward into eternity. That’s my soul role and my purpose of Being.

Quote from Angel Howard’s new book available on Amazon – “Issues in Your Tissues.” 

“No one can be stagnant for long; your body replicates new cells every day. Within seven years, all the cells in your body are completely replaced, making you an entirely “new person.”  Your blood moves constantly. Your heart beats on. Your lungs breathe. In and out. In and out. All of it without you even making an effort. So, you can’t be stagnant even if you try – your body moves and so do your thoughts. The best you can do is be intentional about it. No one is ever too young or old to act with intention, to change their lives, to begin feeling the way they want to feel!”

Do the work – emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually – evidence the immensity of the power of your identity as being LOVE!

Monthly Theme and Weekly Speakers.

Every month, we take the Key Principles of MYOB and put them into practice in our lives. Looking at the deeper call before us — What are we each to “Be” to bring about societal change through our soul evolution in ways that establish justice, love, and care for all – without exception. Please join us weekly on Thursdays at 7 p.m. EDT for our virtual program.

The Seeds of Transcendent Love

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There is nothing more precious than the birth of a child. That original innocence is sacred to behold. No one is “born into sin.” We are here for good purpose for the blessing of all humanity through how we have lived together. The seeds of Transcendent Love are within every new birth.

Heaven and Hell

The word heaven is from the Greek word – Ouranos – and references expansion. It references looking to the sky. Open minds enable us to see things from a higher view – “look to the sky.”

One of the root words of Hell – “Helan” – refers to covering up – and being unable to see light or Truth. We’ve done an impressive job of hell on earth with our beliefs in separation through race, cultures, governments, and religions that keep us apart and warring. What a revelation if we did realize we are all One from the same star stuff. How might that expand our views? We can come to treasure diversity as Mother Nature reveals to us the wonder of it.

We have seen evidence of heaven on earth through what we can achieve as we honor the inherent gifts of art, writing, creativity, and the multi-talents that dwell within us. The Mystics have shared what we can achieve in realizing compassion, love, and regard for one another.

Humanity (to this point) has loved to segregate, disenfranchise, label, and condemn those who aren’t “normal” as to how various views of how God created us to be. I don’t believe God created me to be “normal.”

A Personal Reflection of God

My belief of God: The originating Principle of Life. The galaxies evidence that it contains energy; intelligence, is life producing and ongoing creativity. It is also clear that our thoughts have power. They are a part of that creative impulse. The energy around thoughts of love and hate are tangible and impact all life. We do create heaven or hell on earth and understanding that Truth we can realize – only all of us together can see a new expanding vision of our world where we do treasure every sacred newborn for good purpose and planting seeds for Transcendent Love for all of us.

I choose to keep expanding my vision of the wonder of life and the potential within all to awaken to the joy of their own being. What a world we can create for future generations to awaken to. The only thing love is meant to be about is compassion, enlightenment, and transformation as we are all free to explore our uniqueness and the gift, we are here to bring to one another. The seeds of Transcendent Love exist in every new birth – and how we nurture that new being is a sacred charge as parents and as a society.

Monthly Theme and Weekly Speakers.

Every month, we take the Key Principles of MYOB and put them into practice in our lives. Looking at the deeper call before us — What are we each to “Be” to bring about societal change through our soul evolution in ways that establish justice, love, and care for all – without exception. Please join us weekly on Thursdays at 7 p.m. EDT for our virtual program.

Moments

Transcendental Moments create the Remembrance within us that we are One. There is something universal that when felt and sensed impacts our lives in ways that move us to a higher awareness and value of ourselves and all around us. I share a writing of a reflection on “Moments” that I realize held within them, the opportunity of Transcendence. I honor all who have touched me with those sacred “Moments” that are in my heart and soul.

“Moments”

There are those Moments when I know I have experienced LOVE — the LOVE that will sustain me and carry me through a dark night, and the LOVE that magnifies my times of JOY.

It is the LOVE I feel as the rays of the sun burst through the clouds. It is LOVE that has come from brief exchanges, but when someone has gone out of their way to come through for me.

It is a friend’s gift of simply listening, and it is also LOVE that has enabled that friend to say what I most needed to hear, perhaps when I least wanted to hear it. It is the LOVE that I reflect upon over the years, and I realize how integral a part of my life someone has become, and how he or she has contributed to my most beautiful and profound memories.

There are those Moments when I realize this LOVE knows no time or absence and though life’s realities or events may have separated us, this person is as near as the beat of my heart, and when I bring them to mind, there is warmth and joy. It is in those Moments I acknowledge how LOVE sustains me be it family, friends, or simply a “Moment” with someone I may not meet again.

There are the Moments when I meet someone for the “first time” and deep within I know there is a reunion of a friendship of lifetimes ago. Through these “Moments” of Remembrance, I create a collage of LOVE of people, places, and events. I realize what a blessing it is to have lived the life I have, for through it I have deepened my understanding and compassion for myself and others. With grief and loss, joy, and triumph, I know LOVE is the origin of all and LOVE is my destination. However brief, however long, everyone and everything is a part of my heart’s collage,

Please take time to remember those “Moments” that can, in Truth, lift us to “Transcendence” – valuing this gift of Life.

Monthly Theme and Weekly Speakers.

Every month, we take the Key Principles of MYOB and put them into practice in our lives. Looking at the deeper call before us — What are we each to “Be” to bring about societal change through our soul evolution in ways that establish justice, love, and care for all – without exception. Please join us weekly on Thursdays at 7 p.m. EDT for our virtual program.

Grief Rooted in the Depth of Love

I want to share a personal reflection that has given me countless “moments” of recalling Transcendental Love.

The ongoing reality of our earth journey encompasses overwhelming grief and loss.

My 50+ years as a Minister in New Thought and founding in the late 80’s into the mid 90’s a non-profit HIV Support Group called “Together to Grow” (TTG) I have encompassed immense grief, personally and collectively.

I’m placing this sharing under “Transcendental Love” because at the root of our deepest grief is the reality of that love.

Deep grief never leaves us; however, it can be the way we move on to meaningful purpose to honor that love.

A TIMELESS MOMENT

I’ve had the JOY of being a founder of a spiritual retreat – now called the Big Sky Retreat in Montana, formerly Grand Teton Retreat – now in its 48th year.

During the late 80’s to mid-90’s of the AIDS epidemic, I was able to bring beloved friends from my TTG group to Wyoming and the Grand Tetons. It was miraculous that this was able to happen. We had rented a van, and we were driving through Yellowstone, laughing, and feeling the depth of our love being together. We were absorbing the wonder of the buffalo and the beauty around us. Suddenly, my soul brother and co-founder of TTG, David, began to weep uncontrollably. We were all silenced as he was in the front seat and those of us in the back put our hands upon his shoulders.

“David, what’s wrong, what’s going on?” as we sought to calm him. After he gained control he said simply, “We’re together and this is so beautiful, I’m so grateful.” I’ll never forget that moment. I said farewell to cherished friends through those years, including David. TTG dissolved after the depth of losses we experienced, and there was no way to continue.

My grief throughout that time was in seeing so many younger than myself leaving this plane and that I was still here! What I have come to know is that their love and that “Transcendental Moment” has been integral to what has carried me on throughout my life.

From Kahili Gibran on Joy and Sorrow

“Then a woman said, Speak to us of joy and sorrow.

And he answered:
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked,
And the self-same joy from which your laughter rises, was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper the sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

Our grief and loss do contain joy and sorrow – and the remembrance of love is what moves us on. Find good purpose in our own moving on!

Monthly Theme and Weekly Speakers.

Every month, we take the Key Principles of MYOB and put them into practice in our lives. Looking at the deeper call before us — What are we each to “Be” to bring about societal change through our soul evolution in ways that establish justice, love, and care for all – without exception. Please join us weekly on Thursdays at 7 p.m. EDT for our virtual program.

The Path to Transcendental Love in Our World.

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Transcendental “moments” are when we sense that there are no others – just all of us in this journey together and our connection to one another. Our lives are meant to be a sacred realization of Oneness and Unity.
Eckhart Tolle so beautifully states: “Without recognition of the formless within yourself, there can be no true transcendental love. If you cannot recognize the formless in yourself, you cannot recognize yourself in the other.”

OUR STORIES

So, then the inquiry – How can we have such beliefs of “others” of divisiveness and the depth of hatred and rage we see in our world? I believe because we continue to generationally pass on the same stories that perpetuate our wounds and unforgiveness. Yes, stories are important – for empowerment and how we claim new insight to pass on to future generations for healing, individually and collectively.

AWAKENING

Three keys to awakening to that formless essence of transcendental love:

  • Realizing the formless essence is my Origin and it opens the door to compassion for self and others.
  • Choosing to do the deeper soul work that clears the beliefs that have bound me to pain and unforgiveness of self and others.
  • Coming to a place where self-love and self-regard do matter as to how I see others.

There are innumerable paths, tools, and ways to do the deeper work for our body, mind, and spirit. No one path has all the solutions – but at the heart of any faith, or practice – does it encourage me to see that “formless essence” through which I realize there are no others – just all of us in practice of awakening to compassion for all – without exception.

Monthly Theme and Weekly Speakers.

Every month, we take the Key Principles of MYOB and put them into practice in our lives. Looking at the deeper call before us — What are we each to “Be” to bring about societal change through our soul evolution in ways that establish justice, love, and care for all – without exception. Please join us weekly on Thursdays at 7 p.m. EDT for our virtual program.