Distractions?

So many ancient mystical schools label the material world as a "distraction", guiding the student not engage and be detached from it.  

Well, the 'material world' is only a distraction until you see it as a divine expression! 

In fact, it probably never was a distraction, it was the means to your awakening for life is the divine being unfolding and evolving through all! 

La ilāha Illa la Hu! There is no reality and nothing exists but God!

Prayer & Praise

Prayer is calling the divine for help and blessings,

Praise is thanking her for it!

Prayer does give guidance and open doors: 

But you must Listen and Watch 

for the Guidance, and 

Walk through the doors!

You are the Answer

Have you ever stopped to think 

that maybe 

you are the answer to your prayers!

Another form of Joy

The spirit of true service is Joy!

It is not satisfaction, it is not pain, it is not suffering. 

To find the joy in service you must serve how YOU are meant to serve:

Not how someone else serves, nor how someone else expects you to serve.

To find your way of serving 

ask your heart!

Joy in Service

In the end, after you have awakened to the inherent unity of creation,

Seeing others as yourself, and yourself in others,

You will find there is nothing left you want to do but be of Service.

What a joy to awaken each day and breathe to yourself the words: 

"Show me how I may be of service today."

Get Exhausted!

Your seeking will eventually exhaust itself and surrender.

In surrender, personal will fails and

The heart becomes an open door to an empty house

Wherein the beloved, finding her lost lover,

immediately enters - filling it with love.

In these moments when seeker falls absent to seeking,

That which was sought

finds thee who was seeking,

as Love, Lover and Beloved become one.