| Each gesture that we make with our physical bodies | | | | consider what effect we wish to have on life, for |
| has an effect that is much more far reaching than | | | | this contributes not only to the well-being of others, |
| would appear. | | | | but also to the effect that life will have upon us, for |
| Everything carries vibration, and the vibration of a | | | | what we give, we shall receive. The effect that we |
| simple handshake or of a smile carries a spiritual | | | | choose will color our lives far more than any |
| energy that ripples out into the universe to bless it | | | | seemingly random event that appears to occur by |
| and to add to its positive feeling and content. By | | | | chance. Our interaction with life, consciously chosen, |
| contrast, when we withhold gestures of friendship, | | | | will create a lens through which all of life is viewed, |
| we express an energy of contraction and separation | | | | including all events which might enter our life that |
| that has a similar rippling effect. | | | | appear to be accidental or serendipitous. |
| In this sense, each of us is totally transparent to the | | | | When we choose to create a positive effect in life, |
| life of the spiritual world and much more powerful in | | | | to let every gesture be an expression of love and of |
| creating effects than we believe ourselves to be. For | | | | a desire to participate in a sacred world, we |
| it is not only the more noticeable actions that we | | | | ourselves are uplifted by this intention and can know |
| might take that achieve success in the world. It is | | | | beyond the shadow of a doubt that the world is also |
| also the small, unseen gestures of hand, heart, and | | | | uplifted by our intention. The fact that this intention is |
| body that affect the vast spiritual network in which | | | | invisible is only true at the level of the physical. In |
| we live, creating a successful outcome when they | | | | terms of spiritual energy, our intentions are very |
| help uplift the world and contribute to its healing. | | | | visible to those who can see or feel spiritual energy, |
| The consciousness of oneself as a spiritual being | | | | and we live constantly in a matrix of such energetic |
| grows within heart and mind in progressive stages of | | | | interactions. |
| self-revelation. At one stage, it may be related to | | | | Think of the ordinary gestures of the most ordinary |
| knowledge of oneself as having a relationship with | | | | of days - washing, cleaning, driving, walking, carrying, |
| the spiritual world, with God, or with the divine | | | | holding, listening, writing... |
| Presence within the world in which we live. At | | | | Now imagine that while engaged in any of these, that |
| another, it may be experienced as an awareness of | | | | a subtle spiritual energy is emanating from you to the |
| ourselves as souls and of others as souls, joined in a | | | | rest of the universe, proceeding outward in waves |
| sacred dance of life. Yet both kinds of awareness | | | | from the physical body that is the point of |
| can become more detailed and more embodied. They | | | | emanation, and the heart that is the point of feeling. |
| can become an expression of our own, intimate | | | | See what quality of consciousness you can bring to |
| clairvoyance which allows us to see and to know the | | | | these simple things - to the very ordinary things of |
| energetic effect of whatever we do. | | | | life, for in this decision lies a world of meaning and a |
| The important principle here is that everything carries | | | | world of accomplishment - the accomplishment of |
| energy. Everything has a vibration of a spiritual | | | | having determined to live a life that is sacred and |
| nature. We are never invisible, and we are never | | | | that upholds the intimate connection that it has with |
| disengaged from making an impact on the rest of life. | | | | the rest of Life. |
| Since this is true, it becomes imperative that we | | | | |