Your Daily Life is your Temple

Your daily life is your temple
and your religion.
Keep your heart in wonder
at the daily miracles of your life.

Kahlil Gibran




I live a miraculous life. I get up in the morning and I can worship all day. My temple is my blank page, my garden, this cottage and my beloved and my Beloved. All of these are reasons to be grateful.


Keeping your heart in wonder means entering the woundedness of the heart. It means having the courage (meaning to enter the heart) to live the uniqueness of the beauty in form that you are. You are inspired. Meaning you are in spirit. You are a spiritual being having an adventure in the world of time and space.


Wonder means being focused on the simple things of your life and really seeing with the eyes of the mystic within you. You might say you are not mystic but that potential resides in the heart of each and everyone of us. Your Work is to claim your birthright into this mystery called Life.


The mystic deals in wonder. They spend their daily life saying thank you and wondering how best they can serve and how to introduce others to this experience called Life. Except that in the wondrous words of Spock from the Star Trek series, "Its life Jim but not as we know it."


The life that this Irish mystic invites is the Life that is beyond the sense of ego separateness. Ego separateness is what the Master Jesus called "the dead." When he said. "Let the dead bury their dead," he was talking about you and me.

Not terribly flattering is it? Is it any wonder that he got himself cruxified. There is the Master telling the biggest egos in the land who know their law and their scripture that what they are living is dead and you wonder that he got hung out to dry. This is the risk that lovers and mystics take. As Rumi says, "Risk all for Love."


It is a truly wonderful Life but the wonderful life is beyond any sense of separateness you feel living in a body in time and space. When you awake to Life as is you still live in a body in time and space but you are alive to your eternal nature and death no longer becomes you.


This is the invitation from all mystics and lovers of wonder. Why not join them.

The above picture is "Voyage of Youth" by Cole Thomas

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