Welcome to Love Movements, where the love that you are is honored, so that a new way of being can arise – a way in harmony with the earth, with our selves, and with all of life.
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Below is the hub of Love Movements, where you can discover movements of love in action, as well as guidance to support you in your own love realisation.
Imagine sitting on the bus on your way to work and finding an anonymous love letter written especially for you. Imagine reading the lovingly crafted words and knowing that a stranger intended them to touch your heart.
Now watch the video below to hear Miguel’s story . . .
Inspired? Now it’s a movement that YOU can be a part of!
It’s easy.
Simply hand write an anonymous love letter addressed “For you”, and signed “I love you”.
Leave your letter in a public place, and then let synchronicity take care of the rest!!
Here’s what one lady wrote on the Testimonials page:
“I read somewhere that a smile doesn’t cost you a thing, and that you never know whose life you could be saving by offering up this simple kind gesture to a stranger . . .
Well, writing an anonymous love letter and delivering it with no expectations or attachments but just for the sheer joy of it, and because you care deeply about your fellow man/woman, just bumps the whole thing up to another level. I’m making it a part of my spiritual practice.
Oh and by the way, it does come back to you in the most utterly perfect of ways, try it and see.”
See it in action:
“This is the language of love in full flow. Think of the ripple of unconditional giving we can all create. This is about a simple intention to spread more love across the globe collectively.”
Join the movement and write your anonymous love letter to a stranger today! Click here to find out how and to share your experiences.
This is a very simple yet beautiful idea. I’ve already written mine and all I need to do now is post it! I’ll be sharing my letter and my experience in a couple of weeks, so please let me now if you do the same in the comments section below . . .
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“Your own self-realisation is the greatest
service you can render the world.”
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
When you liberate your heart, you literally change the world
When you open your heart, true service is born
This is the union between inner peace and world peace
Dive beyond all knowing and free-fall into love
Start with your own healing and then let your actions flow from this
There’s nothing self-centred about starting with yourself
The suffering you see out there is simply a reflection of a deeper misunderstanding in here
Go straight for the root – go for gold
When you realise that you have no problems and that suffering is simply a case of mistaken identity
You’ll cease to project your darkness onto others
You’ll expose confusion, rather than weave its web
And you’ll unveil illusion, rather than perpetrate its lie
Your conscious presence is the balm that heals, the love that binds, and the peace that passeth understanding . . .
“It is in the stillness that we save and transform the world” ~ Eckhart Tolle
Please share your heart and insights in the comments section below . . .
I have lived a brutal life, not attentive to my own well-being. Growing up I felt everything I did was wrong; so why bother changing? For too long, I repressed the pain and wrongful events of my past, didn’t want to own up to it.
You asked why I turned to crime at a young age. Well, it was always because I felt forced by my folks to do what they expected was good for me. It was never about what interests I had as a kid, or what I wanted to do growing up. On top of that came repeated beatings by my pops, which were ruthless. I reached that point I had enough of my parents forcing their ideology on me, how my life should be.
I’d rebel big time on purpose, started drinking and using drugs. I ended up stealing minor things at first—food, then clothes. I moved on to burglarizing houses nearby, later graduated to sticking up people on the street and stores. Nobody forced me to do any of that breaking the law, I acted on my own because I gained a deep thrill from not being told by anyone what to do. I ran the street: sold drugs, robbed, stole cars, took to strip selling the parts, I just didn’t care, thought I was on top of the world. Ended up in juvenile hall, then camp, county jail, and finally prison.
Criminals are the “other,” somebody else’s problem. We judge and marginalize them so we won’t have to face our own fears about being unlovable and imperfect. We are so afraid of our own shadow—the natural parts of being human that we repress in order to fit in—that we slumber in addiction to beliefs about our unworthiness, dulling our lives to what’s acceptable. Rather than opening to the Mystery of Divine Love, we create monolithic barriers called prison where we banish people we don’t know, and are afraid of, to make ourselves feel safe and right. We dare not look in the mirror to face that we, too, are capable of anything that anyone else is capable of. We avoid discovering the “other” as ourselves: In our fear of being real and whole, we create our own inner prison.
But this is not about crime and punishment; this is about love. As Hafiz wrote: “How did the rose ever open up its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against its being.” My loved one’s story is this unfolding, an example of how even a violent felon can utterly transform his inner life even while in “the hellhole”—17 years of the social and sensory deprivations and psychological torture that constitute indefinite, unconstitutional, barbarous solitary confinement.
In California, citizens are more outraged by the crowding of chickens than of human beings. Most don’t even realize that the thousands of prisoners warehoused in 8×10-foot windowless concrete cells for decades—at great taxpayer expense—are denied due process, adequate food and medical care, sunshine, rehabilitative programming, phone calls, or a way to return to the general prison population unless they self-incriminate, snitch on other prisoners, or die. They are spit on, yelled at, cavity-searched, cells trashed, mail read by guards who do not follow the rule of law but fabricate personal policies on a whim.
Over six weeks in 2011, thousands of inmates labeled “the worst of the worst” by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation unified across racial and geographic barriers for a nonviolent hunger strike to protest decades of abuse and indifference by CDCR, to raise awareness that they are human beings who deserve to not be treated like animals, even while incarcerated.
My beloved is one of these “worst.” Our relationship began with my guiding him in transpersonal psychology; today he is my teacher of compassion, respect, unconditional love, faith, and fearless courage. He has taught me what it means to be a human being, shadow and light as one, without judgment. Despite twenty-plus years of hard time, he awakened during the hunger strike to the light in all beings, including those guards whose hearts are armored against kindness.
In his own words:
Critics say that prisoners in solitary are animals, beyond rehabilitation. That inmates shouldn’t complain how staff treat them, accept it, serve our sentence. I think of this a lot and wonder if these same critics would surrender to abuse by the hands of co-workers or family members? Yes, we’re in prison because we violated the law, made some bad decisions, but we’re also human beings, worthy just as everyone out in society who has freedom. When a person makes mistakes in life, it doesn’t mean he or she is stupid or a disgrace to society. There’s so much healing, growth, and awareness in mistakes, which can make one a better person.
How can the human spirit survive and flourish in solitary while your human existence is desensitized and debased around the clock? How does one practice patience in a world of broken lives, hurt, pain, misery, aggression, mistrust, egos clashing constantly, hell itself where lives die slowly and spirits languish after a while, nothing to live for?
My reply from personal experience is this: to know that good exists in you and use the situation to create a new you, one that is responsible and has emerged out to the other side stronger and conscious for the first time, making you new and worthy and compassionate. Not does this only benefit you, but you’ll be able to help others find their way through adversity, to be a source of empowerment to everyone by your positive actions, which creates an atmosphere of faith, hope, acceptance, humility, and a life of quality based on human respect.
Encountering our own dark side is always scary and painful, but a necessary part of real growth.
When we stop being unkind to ourselves by not living our own lives, only then will we live consciously, free from the demons of our own prison within. All inmates can find out who they are and bring the light into their lives, deal with reality, begin a new chapter. It’s just the same out in society, lots of people not being truthful with themselves, running from life not living it. As long as we’re running from realness and change, the demons rule our lives, keeping us off kilter. I was one of those inmates, a lost soul untrue to myself, miserable, and I lied and hurt people, family and friends.
The greatest fear of prisoners is acceptance, and forgiveness. It doesn’t matter what difficulties we’ve experienced or how hardened our hearts have become through suffering and frustration. Love and wisdom from others transform us in ways never expected, and change our whole being, bringing one to a comfort zone in life and peaceful bliss. I know now that every human being has a sacred life journey that we must find and connect with, despite setbacks and imperfection.
You remove fear and barriers by knowing your personal self-worth, living by your own principles, believing in your potential and purpose in life. The sacred divine in us is what enables the human in us to stand the truth of who we are. The life challenge for everyone is to be free, accepted, and treated well and equally by others. And to also build bridges of understanding and compassion with everyone, and not judge because of race or differences of beliefs. Our true strength as humans lies in our ability to love unconditionally and stand up for what we believe in.
A person doesn’t have to be locked up physically to know what it’s like, incarceration. My character today is one of dignity and order, love, goodness, happiness, and awakening. I am committed to my growth and making a difference in my life and the life of others too. I’ve never felt this massive new energy of self-worth and self-respect, realness with myself and others, or this profound love and happiness for life and every person, till now. I love where I’ve arrived today, in a happy state, a form of realness and comfort that was elusive to me in the past.
I’m grateful to the Divine Mother I made it out safely. And what a feeling, let me say, to be in this new state.
and you?
Have you dared to look into the dark side of your human nature? Have you ever found yourself judging others, whilst ignoring your own potential for harmful behaviour? In the moment we dismiss another human being as unworthy, we perpetuate the very behaviour we lock people away for. Only through deep acknowledgement and a willingness to rehabilitate can things start to change. Please share your heart and insights. Let’s start a dialogue in the comments section below…
about the author:
BETH WITROGEN is a writer and speaker on spiritual transformation and sacred activism. As a journalist and author, she has earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations for groundbreaking work in family caregiving, including Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal (Wiley, 2000).
She is currently a human rights proponent writing and speaking about the torture of solitary confinement, spiritual transformation behind bars, and moral conscience.
For more info and to contact Beth, please visit her site.
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I recently received a message from someone describing her frustration and confusion. It went something like this:
“I feel lost and confused, because although there are times when I’m at peace, it comes and goes. I feel like I’m stuck in this process and that I need to breakthrough. My mind knows that it needs to let go but I feel there’s something that needs to be done before all doubts dissolve and only love is left. Please help . . . “
This is what came . . .
The mind desires nothing more than to find peace, so it’s actually great news that your mind has become aware of its own suffering. However, the mind needs your help. It needs to be reminded of its true nature. It needs you to reassure it that it can rest. Resting may not necessarily mean that thought stops, because thought is not the issue. It’s the restlessness of thought which is disturbing. It sounds as if the mind is trying to stop itself. This is the essence of seeking and also resistance. Both seeking and resistance are suffering.
The mind has high ideals. It imagines a state of pure bliss and love that will remove it from suffering. But the only way to find peace is to be peace, and this means to be at peace with whatever is arising right now.
While the mind is projecting an ideal of enlightenment or “breakthrough”, it is not at peace.
While the mind is seeking for this, it is not at peace.
And while the mind has recognised all of the above and is trying to fix itself by trying to stop itself from doing it – it is not at peace!
This is where it gets really subtle, because the mind – due to its divine intelligence and its willingness to serve you – will observe itself doing all of these things and then set about trying to stop, change, fix or resolve them. This is simply another layer of resistance to what is arising.
You are that which sees ALL of this at play, and you are that which ALLOWS all of this to unfold. As love, you have no business manipulating thought because you are perfectly at peace. You are that which lets everything into the depth of your heart because you cannot be broken by it.
Just take some quiet time for yourself, breathe deeply, care for the body in whatever way it needs you to, and observe your thoughts and emotions.
The coming and going of peace that you speak of is the mind’s experience. Ask your mind – what do you need from me to be at peace? Caress and permeate the mind with your loving attention. Allow the depth of this longing for peace to be penetrated by love.
You can also try this with doubt. Ask doubt what it longs for, what it fears, and what it needs. Become the lover, mother, and friend of thought, doubt, pain, and whatever perturbs the system. You are the one that can bring it all to rest.
The mind is very smart, so it knows perfectly that it must “let go”, but it needs your loving presence to show it that deep rest is already here. While there’s identification with the mind, there’s an impulse to “breakthrough”, to stop the oscillation between peaceful mind and busy mind, to resist anything that doesn’t feel like love. But as awareness, which is love itself, there’s an exquisite embracing of everything – even busy mind and empty heart. When it’s seen that these movements are not you, there’s no need to fix or try to change them.
You are the love which holds everything in your heart, inviting everything to rest . . .
This is your true nature
This is meditation
The silence of the heart
now you can
Share your heart’s response to these words in the comments section below . . . I would love to hear from you!
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This video offers a glimpse into the beautiful community gathering known as MedMob that’s spreading quickly across the globe . . .
what’s a medmob anyway?
A “flash mob” is a large group of people meeting in a crowded public place for the purpose of engaging in a coordinated, unexpected, inspiring activity. MedMob says:
“Our intention is to create an environment for people from all religions, all world views, and all experience levels to join together in meditation. Our vision is to continue inspiring world-wide meditations until the entire world is invited to join – literally!”
I recently attended my first MedMob in my hometown and loved it! I’m officially addicted. What a beautiful way to unite heart-centred people with a shared goal and common interest. I felt a deep connection with everyone who was there and no longer felt like an isolated meditator who shares their passion with so few.
Not only does this kind of gathering reap the benefits of raising collective consciousness, but it also creates stronger bonds within the spiritual community. As we rest in our true nature together, all boundaries dissolve, and we know that we are one.
Apparently one passerby asked:
“What’s going on here?
“These people are meditating for world peace “
“And that works, does it?”
That made me chuckle 
join your nearest medmob!
To find your nearest MedMob use the map on their website: medmob.org. Just zoom into a location near you and click on the bubble to find the Facebook Page for your city.
start one in your city: email – Inquire@MedMob.org
take yourself on holiday: inquire within
The mind is always seeking for the peace it so desperately craves. It looks for holidays in the outside world to distract itself from its incessant thinking. Give it a break!
The greatest holiday is to rest in your true nature – which is prior to thought. This can be challenging if you’ve been avoiding any negative thoughts or painful emotions. During meditation they are likely to come up – to be seen and lovingly released.
But with practice, any restlessness you may experience will be met by a deep rest that offers the sweetest refuge you’ve ever known.
This is meditation
This is your true nature
The silence of the heart
and you?
Have you ever attended a group meditation? What do you feel the benefits are, and to what extent do you feel this plays a role in promoting world peace? Please share your experiences and insights below!
now you can
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