5.2.25 - Aquarius

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Skelling Michael



Through our Imagination we can achieve the perspective of the eagle and then we will gaze on our own life as if we were viewing someone else’s life. We become lovingly objective and compassionate. This reminds us that spiritual beings accompanying us every step of the way. If we don’t do this we are born of flesh. Flesh becomes the reality as it disguises the spirit. We forget that we are beings of spirit and soul – our flesh is simply our cloak.

When we step into the living Imagination that reveals to us that we are beings of soul and spirit we enter into a new reality. We value every person me meet. We stop looking at their physical appearance, their clothes and their physical expressions – which is simply the cloak of their karma, and we begin to see their spirit. When we see a person’s spirit they are changed. They feel recognised for who they truly are. We could even say that unless we see the spirit, it remains hidden. Seeing the spirit in each other means that we are devoted to humanity in all it’s potential.

- from the Second Contemplation: Kristina Kaine

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When the struggle becomes too much, leave the struggle.

Just take a beat and soar.

See others how they may be seen. When we see a person's spirit, they are changed. They feel recognised for who they truly are. We could even say that unless we see the spirit, it remains hidden. Seeing the spirit in each other means that we are devoted to humanity in all it's potential.

Also do not wait for others to do this favour for you because life is unfair. I have enough now that I am able to say, I can do this for those who are around me. Those who are most immediate to me. That had got to be enough to recognise the humanity in each other.

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