by: William Samuel

The question was asked, "how shall I reach the throne?" This man who had been long confused because there had been so many teachers saying so many things...Having been counseled  by an entire series of so-called enlightened ones, each proclaiming his way is the only way, a seeker of old threw up his arms in despair and asked, how do I know whom to listen to or whom to follow?  Which is the way to go?  Which way is the way to walk?  One says this, another that, than a third and a fourth and a fifth that are disputing among themselves, pointing out their own inaccuracy.  Well, whom must I follow now, Father?  Tell me directly, tell me here in my heart so I will understand.

Well, the heart of us, the heart of us--not the intellect, but the heart of us, to distinguish the wheat from the whey, the heart recognizes honesty and sincerity.  The heart of us knows those things that the intellect can never comprehend or understand.  Now,that's a big mouthful.  Make me prove it.  It's so simple, make me prove that, for instance.  I've been challenged on that so many times, the University of Tennessee, for one.  How?  Well, how simple, how simple...how many times have we seen an errant son who is the veritable scourge of the neighborhood and yet how his mother's love wavers not, how the intellect and reason would say, how in the world can a mother continue to love a son like that.  Why, now, he's a hardened criminal, he's done this, he's done that.  How in the world the mother's love doesn't waver?  Love loves beyond reason and beyond logic, quite beyond the intellect. How may times have we seen a woman marry perhaps a slob-excuse me, but he's full of beer all the time and he's lazy and indolent and he does nothing.  Reason and logic would say, 'how in the world can a woman love a man like that? and yet she loves him.  Love, the heart of us, knows all there is to know about the intellect, its reason and its logic and it knows more.  Now, we know this is so, we've seen it so.

As to whether or not we have a heart, in the bible there is a statement: "I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts".  Those of us who listen to the heart, and we all do because we can't ignore it, will learn the truth directly for the heart shall hear a word behind thee saying "this is the way, walk ye in it, when you turn to the right hand, when you turn to the left."  And the heart understands what is meant by the statement "Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers and shut the doors above thee.  Hide thyself, as it were, for a moment, until the indignation, the trial, the tribulation be overturned.

A Soldier's Prayer 

Anonymous

I asked for strength that I might achieve

I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey 

I asked for health that I might do great things

I was given infirmity that I might do better things

I asked for riches that I may be happy

I was given poverty that I might be wise

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life

I got nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for.

Despite myself, my prayers were answered

I am amongst all persons most richly blessed

Welcome New Viewers

To get a better understanding 
of what my blog is about 
I would suggest that you go to archives
 and start your viewing backwards 
beginning with the very first post
 titled "About Me". 

 Thank you for visiting my blog. 
 It is really intended for neophytes 
of William Samuel's message 
about discovering your own Child Heart, 
identifying with It 
and living by your own wisdom hidden therein. 
 More specifically, it is addressed 
to those who did not have the ideal childhood
 and to encourage you to read William Samuel's books available at Amazon and also from:

http://williamsamuel.woodsongjournals.com/

http://woodsongjournalnotes.blogspot.ca/

 Sandy Jones Woodsong Journals

Blessings and Love,

Rose

Language of the Heart

 Language of the Heart

Many have voiced their frustration with not succeeding in 'listening to their Heart'.  I wonder if they are perhaps expecting to hear a voice uttering words in their ear!

My personal experience was that glimpses and glimmers were so refreshing, they were and are food for the soul.  I dearly wanted to share but I was also given the good sense to know who I could trust with my precious pearls.  I would struggle for days searching for words that never completely filled the bill.  I did the best I could and would then share with Sandy.  Sandy was such a Sweet Heart, she was the best coach one could possibly ever find.  She cheered me on.  She encouraged me.  She expanded my vision, she supported me in every way.  She soon became my very best friend.

 The  Child Heart is God's Child, we all know this.  What I want to say is that we do not hear the Heart's message in Greek or Latin or French or English or Yiddish.  Love is the language of the Heart and It speaks a language of Love, Truth and Light.  It speaks of beauty, of simplicity, of synchronicity, of the extraordinary found in the ordinary...pure, simple, honest and true!

 I guess an example of this might be a day many moons ago when I was driving through Stanley Park.  (I live in Vancouver, B.C. in Canada and Stanley Park is one of the major attractions here.  And I can tell you that it is a real sanctuary for me.  It is one of my favorite places to feel wrapped up in God's arms and to feel the Presence so intensely, so peaceful and at the same time alive, vibrant and electrifying.)  What I started to say was that I drove through Stanley Park and always have enjoyed it but one day when I was driving through a short one lane portion that is hugged  on both sides by  beautiful tall  huge old trees, I experienced...well here goes the search for words again!...I could say that was when I realized the sanctity of it, it became Paradise lost and found for me!  


The frisky little squirrels  have been so well treated, they are so tame, they climb into your hand for treats.  You can hear the birds sing even though the city noises are very near.  It hugs the Pacific Ocean and it is so scenic that one never tires of it.  It is very well kept and so scenic that I feel lucky to live here right beside it.  One always finds a new treasure with every visit.

I cannot fathom that anyone could walk or drive or bike or roller blade through that beautiful beautiful park and not feel heavenly  peace, calmness, harmony.  To me, that is the language of the Heart.  It is God's very DNA stamped on every living thing!

If you simply be still and open your Heart it will speak to you, show itself to you,it will reveal Its secrets to you.  You will hear it, see it, taste it and feel and know IT!  And writing will certainly preserve and enrich the experience.

  "Little Love Light"

Some time ago I wanted to do a dvd of an exercise that I did with my grandkids to introduce them to The Child when they were about five or six and 7.  It was the youngest one that really got into it. I was not able to do a DVD at that time and that is why I did it in book form as best I could. It is not nearly as effective but better than nothing.  It is called "The Little Love Light".  I had forgotten about it but recently a lovely lady named Elizabeth Lavine got in touch with me.  She told me that that little booklet was how she could feel her Child Heart. Elizabeth is at:  

  http://www.ejlavine.com/  

If you're interested in "The Little Love Light" the little booklet can be found at blurb.com .

Love to all,

Rose

Coming out of the Closet

Coming out of the Closet

Someone wrote me that they too want to 'come out of the closet' but they know now how to do it.

We have all heard that we are God’s Child; we all bear a divine imprint or DNA in our Heart. That that Child is our Heart and Soul, that that intangible aspect of God lives in tangible form in the Heart of each one of us.   That one way to get to know our Child Heart is to remember our happy childhood days .  But some of us did not experience a particularly happy childhood, so where does that leave us?

Of late, I have been led to tell my story that others of like experience might know that they too can uncover the secrets, the wisdom and truth of Light and Beauty and sweetness, absolute tenderness and Love that is hidden in their Heart.  And that is why I “came out of the closet”, so to speak.  I certainly did not mean to imply that everyone should jump up and do the same.  Each of us must follow their own Heart and find their own way.  So, if you are led to ‘come out of the closet’ then  of course, be brave and DO it!  

If you read my previous post about point, line plane and sphere and William Samuel’s article about the Glass Pyramid, you can see that it is pointless to try to ‘convert’ anyone to your way of thinking.  That’s not what I want to do.  And on my previous post about dot, line, plane, sphere, you can see that if you are at the dot level you are not going to understand anything that is said at the line level et al.   By doing the blog, it isn't in everyone's face, all can  choose to read it or not and take from it what they like or reject it and that is fine with me.  And that is why I chose to 'come out of the closet'.  It is like oh, who was it ???  Abraham??? who was asked to put and offer his son on the alter. (that is from the bible, don't know if you're into that but...) I had to trust and be brave and do the 'sacrifice' at all cost.  It is what is demanded of you.  Like in a marriage, there is no 'cheating' allowed!

Yes, we are asked to share our glimpses and glimmers but we do not give our pearls to the swine.  So, if your Heart tells you to 'come out of the closet', then I say Yes Yes Yes...of course you do it but PLEASE do not do it because I did it! 

More About Me

More About Me 

I have always held privacy clutched close to my heart and very much respected that of others.  Without privacy how can anything be sacred? Opening my Heart now and exposing  myself online is tantamount to a gay person coming out of the closet. 

I was very aware of what the consequences might be yet my Heart was relentless.  There was no hesitation or second thoughts.  The Child held my hand gently yet firmly. (Yes, it WAS so...gently, yet firmly! This  beautiful loving Heart of mine, is not only sweet and gentle, tender and delicate and kind but It swept me off my feet.  It came to me as fearless, valiant and brave, chivalrous and strong, as intrepid, gallant and lionhearted! I had to do it. 

The day I started this blog I was the adult Child innocently walking bare naked into a crowd of strangers. 

In the shadow's realm it is exposing myself to family and friends who do not know me, those who  see only my shadow!  I live between two worlds.  I am somewhat like the President or Prime Minister of a country who uses look-alike's when s/he does not feel safe to make a personal appearance.  Friends and family and strangers who do not see The Child in me are embarrassed, perplexed and perhaps somewhat intimidated - some are angry and throw rocks, some think I'm nuts and walk away depending on where they are located in the Great Glass Pyramid. (previous post) I can  bet that some of them are praying that I might one day "see the light"! 

When I saw a link from William Samuel's website to mine I learned about humility.  (The Child is humbled, the shadow is humiliated). I was deeply humbled.  I felt so blessed, so honoured and not in the least  "puffed up". I also understood - I 'got it' that this is the innocent, immaculate and pure, unconditioned, unencumbered Child's joyful response.  There is no agenda, just a sense of purity and honest pride, a sense of freedom from the troubles of the world.

Now and then there is a difficult test as one cannot simply utter words; one must meet each challenge and learn from it.  Not that I don't know about this road block.  I have fallen into the trap at this juncture before. I am conscious of my attachment to the stigma of poverty.  When one of my wealthy friends rings the knock-knock bell, I still cringe and hope they are not reading the message right below the call button.  I's a dead give-away, giving info of where to apply for subsidized housing.

An annual review of one's financial situation is fair enough but the standard gets more rigid every year and carried on with less and less dignity,  void of good manners and good common sense. You are treated like pigs at the trough. Unlike the legal system where one is innocent until proven guilty, you apparently are less than trustworthy since they already have the information that you have to triple prove. Because I have a little insurance policy and nothing else with one of the banks, I had to appear there in the flesh (walker and all) to get a summary of activity.  Bank statements were provided as required but I have to prove that I do not have an account at the unmentioned institutions.  The bank clerk was puzzled. She couldn't find the policy so I now have an appointment with the insurance department -
more wasted time and another taxi ride to confirm the info that is already before their eyes on the bank statement .  The premiums are deducted monthly from my bank account.   (Exhibit #75!)

I came home feeling angry, disgusted, disgruntled, degraded, humiliated. I had been struggling and ranting and boiling,  having thoughts of 'going public' with this, getting those in similar position to react and rebel and all sorts of revenge and get even and sock it to them ideas!  I finally  quieted down I gave my head a shake and realized that humiliation is the shadow's game. 

All things being said and done it was all nothing but a tempest in a teapot. I am my own Judas.  I betray my Self. It only takes that recognition and the Child comes running back.  Unfortunately, I am very much aware of my obsession with this stigma. I am shackled to/by my pride so I pray for a miracle, that I can let it go and be true to my Self.


                      
 
So, I am now out of the closet and let the chips fall where they may.  Love will prevail.  Of that I am certain.

I bare my heart and soul to you not to show you how to do it.  I am pointing to the moon; you have to find it for yourself.  And I want the world to know that the Child Heart is reachable, available, waiting for recognition no matter what your circumstances may be.

"I stand at the door and knock." (the Bible)

I love you. 

The Great Glass Pyramid

 

The Great Glass Pyramid

(Excerpt from "The Child Within Us Lives"

by: William Samuel

 Years ago someone wrote that all the people on earth, if assembled in one place, standing side by side, would occupy a square mile of land.  They would certainly cover more land than that today, but let us use that square mile for the sake of an illustration that will make a point.  Imagine that all humanity is brought together into a great glass pyramid whose four corners cover a square mile of earth.  The people are standing jammed together like young people at a rock concert inside the great crystal pyramid, all facing the center.

Well now, how would each person describe what he sees as he looks up?  Each one would see the four quadrants of glass coming together at the top.  Let us suppose they can see the stars beyond, including Polaris, the North Star, whose position remains constant, and are asked to give a description of the North Star’s location.  The people along the south wall of the pyramid make different measurements to plot Polaris than do those in the west.  As a matter of fact every man, woman and child would have a slightly different version of the North Star’s location relative to the great glass panels that come to a point above.  Each person represents a unique point of view.

Next, suppose that certain creeds and dogmas about the star’s location developed through the centuries. before worldwide communication linked us all together?  The East-side view of things would certainly differ from the West-side view— similar to the differing religious views in the world today.  Further, most people are too busy with family and other affairs to look up and measure for themselves, so they have grown to accept whatever idea is popular in their own locales.  Can’t we see from this illustration how religious ideas, all pertaining to the same God but seen through the eyes of differing cultures have developed during the centuries before worldwide communication linked us all together.  Man’s personal views of his relationship to Godhead are not unlike the pyramid-people’s views of their relation to the North Star.  Religious ideas generally refer to the Same One, but have their own sets of proofs for validity.  And, in truth, every statement is valid sofar as its measure goes.  Isn’t it strange that some of the world’s religions can perceive this difference and allow for it, while others stand like staunch old pines in the wind, refusing to give any other views an inch, claiming their own perspective is the only valid perspective of the Ineffable?

Can the reader see that all eyes pointing toward the top represent individual “points of view” and “lines of thought”?  If so, let me show in a simple way how powerful subjectivism is—and, remember, subjective thinking is the new wave of things to come for mankind. 

One person, having learned the top-down method of thinking and comprehending—the very basis for subjectivism—is like a person who has broken away from the masses and climbed to the top of the pyramid.  His view is like a great Eye at the top of the pyramid looking down at everyone looking up.  The top-down view includes all the bottom-up views within itself almost simultaneously.  The top-down view if quantum, whereas the bottom-up view is individual.  Such is the advantage of subjectivism and its comprehension that the world exists within Awareness. Subjectivism is to human thought what quantum mechanics has become to physics.  (Today we see the leading edge of science on the brink of discovering the “subjective idea”.  They have found the experiment tied to the awareness observing the experiment.  It is a start!  Science will discover the power of subjectivism before religions does, it appears—and even the metaphysicians who claim to know it already, but don’t know what to do with it.  We guess the scientist will know because his arithmetic will suggest, insist and cause him to “prove”.

Does the Eye at the top quarrel with the opposing views at the bottom?  No.  It understands the basis for the differences of opinion—and understands the holistic reasons for mankind’s behavior.  Oh, but the top-down view would certainly object if one of the groups along the eastern or western wall went to war against its opposite members, in the name of creed, dogma and holy book.

We discover the Child within.  The Child takes us (more or less) quickly to the top of the pyramid to the View that includes all views within Itself.  Down on the sandy floor of the pyramid extremism, on the defense (or promulgation) of anyone’s holy book and/or bottom-up view of the Ineffable, causes men in black to make strange utterances in the name of localized views of God and to call for holy wars that could destroy civilization.  On the floor, one hopes that won’t happen.  From the top, one sees that something must happen among the warring, unloving throngs to call attention to the Child’s too-down View that understands and forgives.  The prophets have all said to look up willingly--or be forced to look up in an awful Armageddon.

Two thousand years ago, Christianity came along to say, “Let that mind be in us which is also in Christ…” (the subjective view of things) but see how Christianity’s dogmatic creeds are warring among themselves.  Whatever happened to the Child’s View that Jesus and others gave their lives to tell about?

We get the top-down view and live it on the sandy floor of life, right here in the objective view of thing.  How?  We find the Child within ourselves and run with it.  We publish peace (our own knowledge of this Child within) as we have been admonished to.  We finally understand the exclusivity and arrogance of unyielding creeds and dogmas that discourage the individual’s climb to the top of the pyramid.  We see why the objective views have labeled subjectivism “silly solipsism.”  And subjectively, from the top;, we see that “ONE WITH God is a majority.”  The world unfolds within the subjective conciousness.

 http://williamsamuel.woodsongjournals.com/

 
Merry Christmas

From William Samuel:"It is an enormous res-

ponsibility, this book we write--like walking a tightrope between two buildings--a single mis-

statement would plunge us straight to the pavement below.  I have been led down too many primrose pathways to want to do it to others.  "How to's" can become TOO specific, causing people to try to do things exactly the same way which can be self-defeating.  Once I was determined to levitate because St. Catherine levitated when she prayed."

I would like to emphatically join William Samuel with this admonition.  The purpose and intent of my postings was and will always be to highlight the fact that if your childhood was not all that it could have been you are not excluded from the joy of Self-discovery.  I would hope to be given words that will be understood by neophytes, and by those who may be looking for the simple, non-erudite experience.
I simply wish to share my experience, not to tell anyone else HOW to do it for themselves.  

My computer died a couple of weeks ago.  It  took me a while to catch up so I wish you all a very joyful and wondrous Christmas and holiday season.  William Samuel and Sandy’s Christmas pages are so very Childlike and oh so meaningful, particularly so with the Christmas pages.  Do enjoy...and the very best to all to everyone!

Love, Peace and Joy,

Rose

email at: dozenrosesca@yahoo.ca

Vignette on Trusting the Child Heart

 

Vignette on Trusting the Child Heart

It’s a bright and hot sunny day and I’ve been out for an afternoon of bridge.  I walked along the beach with a friend and stopped to pick up a few groceries.  We then went our separate ways.  The trek home from here is uphill all the way and there are three quite steep hills to climb.  The groceries get heavier and heavier and I’m getting warmer and warmer and quite uncomfortable.  There are benches interspersed along the way so I plan to stop at the next opportunity to rearrange my baggage.  The nearest rest area is one that is frequented by street people.  I make my stop there, reorganize my packages and drape a bag over my shoulder and I’m off again.  I’m making good time…one…two…but the steepest hill is still to come.  Determined, I just keep going and I’m on top of the third hill.  I run my hand under the strap on my shoulder and … oh oh! that is NOT my purse strap, it is the bag strap…I must have left my purse on the bench when I stopped!  My first thought is about the ‘vagrants’ that hang out there and what are the chances my purse is still there!  But I remind myself that God is All and nothing can alter … nothing can enter that maketh a lie!

I am standing in front of an apartment building.  A young girl is sitting on the lawn reading a book.  I tell her of my dilemma and ask her if I can leave my bag with her while I go and look for my purse.  She responds yes but then suggests that it might be quicker for her to go and look for the purse and I would wait there to which I happily agree,  She leaves and for what seems a very long time, there is no sign of her return.  For a minute or two, my head intervenes with thoughts of “what were you thinking…telling a stranger that you lost your purse and telling her exactly where the purse was!” but that was just a momentary temptation.  I promptly returned to trusting the Child and sure enough I saw her coming back but I knew she was empty-handed just from her demeanor.

So, I thank her for her kindness and that is when I truly realized my dilemma.  I had no I.D. , no money, no keys!  I was a street person!  I had just been to the bank and had cash in my purse.  Oh, but I was a street person with a bag of groceries! 

I went into a grocery store and asked where the nearest police station was.  It was too far to walk…I couldn’t take a bus…I truly was a street person.  And the Child would never leave me so I had nothing to worry about.

I started thinking of what it might be like…this would be a new adventure…I’ve never been a street person before…I would share my food with them and I would learn something about their lifestyle…Oh, but I bought a huge chocolate bar and I didn’t want to share it so I took it out and started to eat it!  (Well, yes, isn’t that what the child would do?)  Ha!

 Eventually, I thought, well I can’t just stand on the street and fill my face with chocolate, I should go somewhere…but where will I go?  Well, dahhhhhhhh!  I could go home…I could try to get in…so I tuck my chocolate back into the bag and head for home.  Sure, one of the neighbors let me in the building and the Manager opened my apartment door.

Oh now…the big hullabalu…where do I start!  I will have to report all the credit cards and this and that and….I pick up the phone to call my son.  There is a voice mail.  A lady’s voice says: “My name is Mary Kay, I found your purse!”  It was right there on the bench where I left it!

I was amazed when I look back at this event.  Without the Child I would have been in total panic.  It is such a sweet and tender and oh so dear feeling that Love is all there Is.  That like the lily in the field I need not spin or toil.   That I can never be separated from my Good.  That the Child never lets go of my hand.  All is well when you just wrap up in God’s arms.

Dot, Line, Plane, Sphere

Dot, Line, Plane, Sphere

I would like to begin by quoting from"The Child Within Us Lives" by William Samuel:

THE PROGRESSION OF AWAKENING

The progression goes a little like this.  One searches and thinks he has found--and grows arrogant in the finding for a long time, thence to be humbled.
Then he finds again and really knows.
One lives the discovery and proves it.
One keeps going onward and finds the relationships between and the outside. Many people never reach this point because no one has told them or convinced them there is a relationship  between the inside and the quantum outside or that these two are a single one.

One perceives the wholeness of inside because he has found it for himself.
One perceives the relationships between himself inside and the appearances outside,in their increasing detail.  This has been called the web of interrelatedness.  A leaf falls to the earth and the univ verse is shaken.

One comes slowly to know the marvel that will unfold outside from what has already unfolded within himself--and he lives in continuing expectancy of this unfolding in the world.  One speaks

All along this progression, one is faithful to those who have been given to him.  He tells them to go and do the same and instruct their given to do the same.

We  and those who have been given to us become the New Community, the flower of the tree of life.  The Community grows.

The progression happens in linear time "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little.

Much has been written about rediscovering the Child within by remembering and reliving those wonderful days of happy, joyful, unfettered, innocent childhood experiences.  However, mine were oftentimes lonely and worrisome because of my hip problems and partly because I belonged to a staunch Roman Catholic family and went to boarding school away from home.  Somehow, I always knew or expected that somehow I would find my own Child Heart but I rarely thought about how it would come about.

My journey had started some years previous with very basic stuff.  I first made a study of emotions since I didn’t have a clue about them.  Then I started thinking that it was mind that controlled the events of my life.  I tried visualization and deep relaxation and a few forms of meditation but did not find what I was searching for, namely peace of mind!  Got into mind control programs and all kinds of New Age techniques that involved everything from hyperventilating on a bed while a ‘practitioner’ tried to gain control of your mind to fire walking and what have you.  You name it…I tried it!  Some of it was more loving and less controlling but not of it seemed very fruitful.  Then I became a Joel Goldsmith groupie.  We had long periods of what was to them meditation but nothing happened for me and I know that lots of people slept through the whole thing. The teachings were certainly a step above soaking in a locked up vault that you didn’t have the key to but then one day one of the devotees passed me three books of William Samuel’s to read.  She had attended a talk and didn’t get much out of it but passed them on for me to read if I so chose. 

My Heart was touched and I KNEW without a doubt that this was for me!  I was taking long walks in a beautiful park hugging the ocean and felt such peace and tranquility.  The trees, the flowers, the birds were ‘talking to me’.  What I had been trying to achieve through meditation was coming to me effortlessly in the light of day with my eyes wide open! 

I kept reading William’s books and putting it to the test and I wondered about how I would find the Child Heart.  One day I was in that same park watching some really young children playing in the sand and water and oh, they were so free and cheerful and happy and running and skipping and fetching water with a pale and pouring it into a hole than never got full, of course.  And I realized and I KNEW that this was the Child Heart of Me, it was my very own Child Heart.  I went home and wrote the following:

By the Seashore

I am the child who gleefully skips
and tumbles along the beach
Running in gladness, jumping in happiness,
sharing with friends,
tender, pure innocence
Now is the ever-present Allness
providing for every need:
sand to run through fingers and toes,
to mold into amazing shapes
sticks to toss into the water
that dogs may fetch
cool water to splash and use in infinite ways
Living in the joy of the moment
Nothing to be added
Nothing to be removed
I appearing as harmony and perfection,
the Symphony of Life
I felt You in the gentle ocean breeze
in the tide's rhythmic ebb and flow
That Child out there is my very own Being
the Invisible made visible
the Intangible made tangible:
children playing, parents caring,
ships sailing, birds flying
blue sky, warm sun
The place whereon I stand is holy ground
God being God
Aloneness

From that day on the Child has held my hand and has brought me from glory to glory, to play and sing and dance and laugh and live with a joy filled heart.
 Love always finds a way!  It rains equally on the just and the unjust.

The two previous William Samuel posts that I just put up are two of my favorite articles that make it so plain upon the tables that God’s Loving Light comes to us line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little.  We first "get" the dot, then line  and plane and sphere.  And, is as in the great glass pyramid, all its rightful place.  I can never be separated from God and God’s Loving Light, I can never separated from my GOOD!