Sunday, August 9, 2009

The Land of the Forever Young

In one of my favorite books, "Ananam cara - Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World" John O'Donohue writes,

"The eternal is not elsewhere; it is not distant. There is nothing as near as the eternal. This is captured in the lovely Celtic phras: Ta tir na-og ar chul an ti - tir a lainn tnna che ile, i.e. the land of eternal youth is behine the house, a beautiful land fluent within itself."


The land of eternal youth is not the land or place where you live as a body that lives forever. It is a state of consiousness that gives access to direct knowing of ones eternal Self. It is the awareness that beyond the life of the body, that which animates the body - consiousness - is forever.


Forever doesn`t mean something that lasts a long time. It means that it is timeless, i.e. it is beyond the limitation of time and space but is known within the dimension of time and space.


The Land of the Forver Young, Tir na Nog is your birthright. Forever Young transforms the fear of death. One knows one lives in more than one dimension. One knows that there are many mansions to existance.


The Land of Forever young isn`t some quaint little Celtic myth. It isn`t a fairy story. It is the invitation to soul friendship which is the knowing of yourself beyond form but experiencing this direct knowing within a body living within time and space.


This is real hospitality. Why not accept the invitation to learn more and radiate your light so that others can radiate theirs and glorify Love that is the dimension of the Land of the Forever Young. This is your true homeplace and a real joyous homecoming

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