I AM FREE…
For I’ve finally learned to surrender the living of this Life to Whatever It may be that Caused
Me into Being…
To the Great Mystery ItSelf…
I now understand what the Prophets and Wisewo/men of Old were trying to teach us…
But instead of understanding…
And learning how to Be…as They Were…
We instead made Gods of them…
I NOW understand…
And am finally FREE…
Without having had to throw off this “mortal coil” to so Be…
FREE…
At last…
Toni Roberts
It is through PAIN…
Our own psychic…emotional PAIN and the PAIN of others that we are touched…and moved to right action…
Do not fear…and hide…from the pain of those deep wounds you mask with false laughter…and a painted smile upon your lips…
Feel your PAIN…
GO THERE…
For your PAIN is your only Path to Healing…
Your Wholeness of Being lies behind the PAIN from which you so carefully hide…
It is also there…within those Inner Spaces you dare not tread…that the Ancestors wait to guide you…right there…just behind the Doorway to your PAIN…
Yes…the Journey through your PAIN is indeed…sweaty…snotty…teary…and emotionally exhausting…
GO THERE ANYWAY…
For the rewards are beyond your present ability to perceive…and thereby conceive…
JUST GO THERE…
And simply BREATHE through it all…
Toni Roberts
(I Am Mother…Earth…Giver of Life…I Am Goddess – Collage/Pencil Drawing/Photograph by Toni Roberts)
The Truth is…
My beloveds…
Your illnesses…
Diseases…
All that causes you suffering and deeply-rooted emotional discomfort…
Are but symptoms of your alienation from That Which Caused You Into Being…
Your negative behaviors…and painful outcomes…
Are merely symptoms of your separation from That Which Gives you Life…and Breath…and keeps your Heart beating…
It is Time that you stop playing the deadly games of the Ego…
Of the human personality…
And of the left-brain-rational- mind…
It is Time to consciously connect with the Source of All There Is… with the Source of Life ItSelf…
It is Time to follow Its Vision of Eternity…
And to cease following the lead of your human blindness…and your inability to see what lies ahead…
It is Time to begin walking with Trust and Faith in that which you cannot see…touch…taste…smell…or hear…
But which you can know intimately…in the Silence of your Being…
So…be still…and listen to the beating of your Heart…
For therein lay all the Wisdom…Knowledge…and Understanding…
That you will ever need…
Toni Roberts
(Winter Wonderland II – 2021 – Photography by Toni Roberts)
It’s Time to stop feeling sorry for yourselves…
For Life is not doing anything TO you…
Your Life is merely reflecting back to you…
Exactly what you are putting out…
It’s Time to stop those tears of self-pity…
And begin to SELF-EXAMINE…
For that which is blocking and thwarting your every move in the outer world…
Has its beginning…
Within…
Heal thyself…
And your world then becomes whole…
For your outer world and your inner world are
One and the same…
One…a mere reflection of the other…
Toni Roberts
(Winter Wonderland 2021 – Photography by Toni Roberts)
It is not until the earning of one’s living is no longer the goal…
And riches and fame mean nothing…
That the mystery of one’s purpose in being…
Begins to magically…unfold…
From within…
Out…
Toni Roberts
http://toniroberts.imagekind.com
(Night Prayers II – Altar Arrangement/Photography by Toni Roberts)
By healing one’s Self…
One heals the world…
One person at a time…
Start your Journey to Wholeness with these two questions:
Toni Roberts
(Dawning of the Light – Photo Two – Photography by Toni Roberts)
Despite what human culture has led us to believe…
Life…outer life in this material world…
Both individual and collective…
Is formed by what is occurring in the internal world…
For this third dimension…this physical reality…is first created within the invisible…or Spiritual World…
The Building Blocks of human experience are…our thoughts…our feelings…our beliefs…emotions and imagination…
Nothing happens that doesn’t first occur in the imagination…
Everything in this third dimension…begins as an idea…
In the Inner Realm of IDEA…
Therefore…in order for us to create a way out of this HELL we have made of planet Earth…
Both our individual…and collective HELLS…
We must turn our attention INWARD…
Toward the Intelligence of the HEART…
Where the so-called “solid” world is first created…
Let us start slowly…with the long-term goal of an hour a day…
Spent in the Silence…in a state of…open…accepting…expectant receptivity…
It will take some time to see the Magic work…
However…you will not be disappointed…
I promise…
(More not so simple advice…from a simple WiseWoman Elder…who practices what she preaches…)
Toni Roberts
(Sitting At The Portal – Photograph by Toni Roberts)
By shifting the focus of your attention…
It’s difficult…
Indeed…
But not impossible…
Just a bit of not so simple advice…
From a simple WiseWoman…
Who speaks from experience…
Toni Roberts
As the Light dawns…
One begins to understand…that the yearning within one’s heart has nothing to do with needing better housing…more money in the bank…or that designer bag seen online…
Nor will the inner emptiness be filled by the acquisition of the latest IPhone…or promised job promotion…or even the SUV test-driven last Saturday…
This emptiness…this vacant space where the heart should be…is not even about the plight of one’s people…as devastating as that might be…
No…
None of that seems to matter…as the Light Dawns in the darkness of Consciousness…
One now begins to see a faint glimmer of Purpose…
Purpose beyond everyday strivings…
One catches the glimpse of an invitation in the Light…
One is being asked to serve this Life-Giving-Light…as a channel…a vehicle of resurrection…an “undoer” of the devastation wrought by the ruling patriarchy…
One then feels an inner urge…a pull in body…mind…and soul…towards this Goddess Mother of Light…
Desire rises…and one consents…to being used as an instrument through which Light may enter this dimension…
For the Holy Purpose of Resurrection…
One is transformed from being merely human…into being a divine channel of the rebirthing…
Through one’s humanness… the Creatress of all Life…Light ItSelf…may now enter into the hearts…minds…and souls of others…
One is reborn…an instrument…a vehicle…an agent…of the LIGHT…
Ase and Goddess bless…
Toni Roberts
(Photography – http://toniroberts.imagekind.com)
Resculpted…
When humanity finally realizes…that we are the clay…
And not the Sculptors…
What a beautiful world it will be…
I hereby surrender this body…mind…soul…life…
This lump of clay that I am…
To the IDEA of me held in the Mind of the Creator…
I surrender all suppositions…ideas…and imaginings…
Of what I believe…
I am…
All human goals…dreams…desires…
I now turn over to the Master Planner…and am hereby re-done…
Restored…
Renovated…
Remade…
According to the Image held in the Mind of the Master Sculptor…
I can now rest in faith-filled Peace…
As the errors of my frightened Ego…
Are herewith corrected…
Toni Roberts
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