ABSOLUTELY!

Ernest Holmes says that we can “…live in the Absolute in as much as we can withdraw from the relative.” How boundless I am when I live in the Absolute where there is only unlimited intelligence. And still I fall out of alignment and into the relative. Today I live in the Absolute. That is my priority. I combined this thought with the reading from ministerial class in “Leading Consciously,” The chapter was about Nature’s innate manuscript of leadership. And so, I went on my morning run.

I would enjoy Nature’s manuscript by running a path I knew would keep me out of traffic’s way (so I wouldn’t have to bog my mind down with that) and in the most quiet section of my neighborhood where nature was most present.

Once I was in the runner’s zone, which happens for me after about 2 miles, I decided to experience nature through my five senses, one by one.

I started with the sense of sight. At first I just enjoyed the beauty of the physical around me; then, something deeper surfaced. I saw the boundlessness of nature. I saw how the trees and the grass didn’t know a beginning and end, they just grew. I saw how we had bounded them by what we called symmetry, putting three bushes here and two there, cutting them, pruning them. It was almost comical. Boundlessness vs. constriction. I am as boundless as a tree. Where was I constricting my life?

Hearing was the hardest sense to experience, because I felt like I had to block out the jet roaring above me and the constant underlying roar of LA traffic far in the background. But, what was I hearing beneath all that. The birds came clearest to my ears. Again, I heard the individual sounds calling out. The jay, the dove, the mockingbird and many I couldn’t name. Then, I heard the symphony, the harmony of it all including the roar of the jet and traffic. Sound knows no boundary. It just is. The bird doesn’t say I am singing now. It just sings! Being is boundless!

The best of the senses was touch, although I didn’t touch one thing. Yet, I felt all the textures of nature from the thorns to the solidness of the ground. At first, the thorns said stay away from me I am a thorn and the ground felt solid beneath my feet. Then, I experienced the understanding even where it seemed there was solid ground, the root pressed into the earth, the water permeated what appeared to be solid blades of grass. Again, oneness! No separation. No bounds.

At first I tried to smell this and that. It didn’t work. I relaxed,and all I could smell was earth. It is unity of all life. It is the scent that flows through all of us. Each scent: the lemon, the bird in its nest, the rose…all called out earth…unity.

I totally could not remember the fifth sense until I got home, so I skipped the scent of taste. That’s comical being that I love to taste things. I’ll have to do that tomorrow.

I moved onto the sixth sense, which I felt would bring it all together for me. What was nature telling me about the boundless Absolute and how did I fit into the patternless pattern?

Just then a jet roared by. I saw in that jet how we had taken nature’s pattern and worked within the context that we understood nature to create that jet. It was all about boundaries. Just like when we thought the world was flat, we were thinking and creating from where we were at, within our boundaries of thought.

Nature knows no boundaries. We create boundaries. I finished my run with a treatment and suddenly, I was struck by the power of my word. Although nothing has a name, a bird doesn’t know it is a bird, it just is. We call a tree a tree and grass…grass. We call God, God or Buddha or Allah, but really it has no name but the name we give it.

There is a creative energy that has no name. It flows through everything from the acorn that holds all it needs to be an oak tree to every star in the sky. The power of our Word gives us dominion over our own life. God is the word and the word is God. My word is the Absolute Power for me. We name it. IT HAS NO NAME. Let me Name it Unlimited in my life. Let me live in the Absolute.