Wisdom From Atlantis : The Use of Symbolism

The Use of Symbolism :


We find mortals who have taken up the advanced form of thought, (wondering and inquiring of every one whom they feel might give any enlightenment on the subject,) the meaning of symbols and asking : "Why did I have a dream that seemed to be so symbolical? Why is it that so many things come to me in waking hours that seem to be symbols of something, and I cannot find it, cannot grasp it?" We hear this question all about, and many try to find out the meaning of symbols, or that which they take to be symbols.

In our opinion, a symbol is a picture : You attempt to teach your small child a great lesson from its blocks, from pictures, from birds, trying to impress upon his mind the lesson that he can always seek, that he can always bring back to himself when he sees this particular picture; and so it is that some individuals do not seem to grasp the meaning of your own language, that which should be the medium of expression between you. Many individuals are unable, are incapable of reasoning, of concentrating, of knowing the meaning behind the words. Therefore, it is often necessary to give to them a picture that will impress upon their minds the lesson that lies behind it.


We find among you mortals a tendency to speak your English language, or whatever language comes easiest to you. You speak it fluently, you discuss your world topics, the topics of the day, you think you understand one another because you understand the words to a degree that another speaks. You say you can speak such and such a language or perhaps many, and yet we find so few of you who actually know the meaning of the words that you utter, the true meaning that lies behind the simple words, such as the word remembering. When we speak the word remembering to you, it has its full meaning. To many of you, it is going back over some particular incident in your lives, or trying to find out what you thought or did --- that to you would be remembering. But to us it is becoming a member again, re-membering. The word atonement, as you call it, or at-onement, becoming one again. You have always been one and yet in your minds you have separated yourselves until now you must come back and at-one yourselves with the great Universal Spirit, not in reality, but in your consciousness.


Many words that you speak you do not use in their true sense. You do not give them their full power. You use them lightly and that is why in the form of speaking slang as you term it, you use many utterances as the savage would use a grunt. It means something that everyone soon forms the idea of its general meaning, and perhaps the word itself does not mean that at all. You do not use your language to become understood among yourselves. Yet you do not speak a language that you understand between yourselves. We find therefore that it is necessary to give to some of you who have lived so lightly and tried to assimilate in a somewhat meager way with language, an understanding in pictures, in symbols, because we find that you will concentrate upon a picture and that you will do little about it if it is written in your own language.

We cannot hope to express the great understanding that would come to you if you could understand one another's thoughts.Your English Language is not adequate, it is not sufficient, it has not a range of words, and yet it is being used over your country as the preferred language. For that very reason it is almost like your shorthand, and yet very few of you understand, only those of you who have studied it can use it to advantage. So, your symbols.


Do not give so much importance to dream symbols because you receive them; try to receive a lesson from them but remember that they are as blocks to you, they are given to you to help you to understand, to help you to understand your consciousness, because you will work harder if you can hold in your mind a picture.Then as you see a certain number of words on paper, it means a soulless something to you, that unless you receive it with the spirit behind it is nothing and that is why many individuals will read again and again and receive a different meaning each time, because they did not concentrate in the first place, did not look behind it, search for its complete meaning. Therefore it took many readings, many months, perhaps years, to find the understanding, or even a partial understanding of that which has been written in plain English.


You should seek from within out, rather than from without in. Many feel that wisdom is like seeking a gold mine ; it is something to be sought in secret places, unusual places. It is difficult to find it is true, but it is not beyond, it is within the grasp of every individual who will open his own consciousness. It is around him, within him, about him. He need not go out to receive it, it is within. He need not seek in far away hidden places, it is close at hand. For that reason he does not seek, it is so close, and yet mortals will spend months, years, lifetimes, seeking that which is so unimportant, and not realising that they hold in the hollow of their hands the all-important truth. To learn to know yourself. If you know yourself, you will know all men, for while they are different outwardly, materially, individually, yet when you find in another something that rings true to you, you find it within yourself ; it is within you or you could not recognize it in another. Remember, you cannot transcend your ideals or your understanding, and it is only that which is familiar to you that you could hope to understand in another, that which is unfamiliar, you do not understand. It baffles you, you are lost, you cannot see why in another there is something that you have never experienced yourself, something that does not dwell within you, as outward attributes, but the great fundamental truth is One and you will find even your smaller attributes of expression are very like many individuals the world over, when you can know them well enough to know they exist. When you can know another individual a little you will see the traits like your own, you will find a boy in China or any place in your universe is one and the same generally, individually it is different. It is true the nationality brings them up under different rule, but fundamentally you can see the great similarity. Therefore think of it! How much alike all mortals are and how you cannot separate yourself form another in truth, for all are part of the great universal God-head, but like a drop of ocean water helps to make up the ocean, so do you help to form the great Universal Spirit.

You could not be separated from it, you could not be released from it, you could not live without it. It is life. It exists, it has ever been and will continue on into eternity. Because of the laws of the universe, it is, and because it is , you are, and because the same law makes every individual born into the world alike, under the same laws governing the same act of correlation. It is true all over the universe you cannot be separated, you all are governed alike, you all live and breathe and have your being fundamentally the same. Without air, without food, without water, without certain elements upon your universe, upon your earth, you could not exist in the form that you now take, which has been created in thought. Therefore, remember that while you are in this body, you are functioning in one way. When you leave it, you function in another, and yet your consciousness always remains yours until you reach the place that you merge and become one with the great All-cosmic consciousness. It is when you begin to understand the symbols of life, which are only pictures that you see that there is no difference in individuals, underneath it all, fundamentally, in truth there is no difference, there is no separation.


To teach mortals that they stand out as individuals and yet when they learn themselves, they know all men, seems to be a paradox. It is not, it is a truth. You are functioning in these bodies to give to you certain expression for your soul's on-going. When you have completed it, or when your body ceases to be of use, you leave it, you lay it down and it goes back into its own individual form, fundamental qualities which indeed are a part of the same great cosmic force that you are. It has a consciousness, it is made of millions of entities over which your great consciousness ruled during the time that you possessed it.Remember that your consciousnesses has been made of myriads of consciousnesses down through the ages and you have attained the position that you now hold and that the only difference between the least consciousness that you are capable of, and the great Arch-angel is the degree of consciousness. That is the only difference; it is in the degree that you possess, that you bring forth, that you manifest. Therefore, when you are conscious of all about you, you are conscious of yourself and you are unconscious so long as everything about you is a mystery, so long as others are a mystery, so long as you do not know yourself you do not know another. Therefore, you know by that very symbol just how much you know yourself for just so can you gauge it. If you do not know another, if you criticize another, if he does not meet that which you think to be righte of, and the great Arch-angel is the degree of consciousness. That is the only difference; it is in the degree that you possess, that you bring forth, that you manifest. Therefore, when you are conscious of all about you, you are conscious of yourself and you are unconscious so long as everything about you is a mystery, so long as others are a mystery, so long as you do not know yourself you do not know another. Therefore, you know by that very symbol just how much you know yourself for just so can you gauge it. If you do not know another, if you criticize another, if he does not meet that which you think to be right, then you do not know yourself, and why do you not know yourself? Because you never know when you will meet it yourself in your life, the same thing that another has done for which you have criticized him. That is why you do not know yourself. If you knew yourself you could not criticize another for you would be honest with yourself and say, "I too am that one, or have been or will be perhaps. No doubt of it." We say perhaps because many of you are not conscious of that which you have done in earlier years, in this life. How could you know then of that which has transpired in another body many long ages ago, and yet the consciousness, that part of you which goes into eternity, carries with it its remembering, carries with it all its experience, its wisdom --- there is none lost.

So when you see another one doing that which you disapprove of, which you would change, which you would teach him to be different in, you are seeing in that other one, yourself in a lesser degree or a greater degree, yet yourself. Remember, rather than criticize the other one, go back within yourself, say to yourself, "That is part of me, if I would change it in another one, I must begin now and change it within myself, for here is where the trouble lies. If I can see it in another one to criticize in another, here is where the seat of it is. If it is something that I dislike in another, here is my work --- not to change the other one, that work is his, inherited by him, and inherited by me is my own work to do. If we all would do our work to the best of our abilities, the world would grow better fast."

As it is, every one is reaching out of himself to criticize, to change, and very little is done at home, because of it, time apparently is wasted, and yet we see mortals feeling that you are justified, feeling that you are capable, feeling that you attained to the position in life where you are judges of humanity. It is not a position that anyone should assume because when you judge humanity, you admit literally that when you have done little in yourself, that all of this you would change in another, lies unchanged in yourself, lies there awaiting the time when you will return and change it, and when you reach the place that you are working on it, you are then too busy, too well occupied, to reach out into the world and train another. You are willing then to leave his duty to him, when the time comes that he will see it ; for others have left you to do yours, until the time came when you changed it, for after all, you are the one who breathes for this body, you are the one who lives in this body, and by the same token you are the one to change all, for it lies within your own soul and is yours for you to remodel.


If mortals could but know that much time is wasted and the greatest sin that one can perform is to bring judgement down on another when he has not worked it out within himself. Think of your own lives. Some of you say, "Where shall I begin?" We have just told you, begin on that which you see and dislike so much in another. It lies right at hand. When you reach the place where you feel there is no power, that it has no power over you, that it ceases to exist in your consciousness, that you cease to see it, you have no doubt overcome it, but when you yet can criticize it, you have not overcome because you can still see it and recognize it in another. It is still distasteful to you in another, therefore it is still within you and you are not conscious of the fact that it lies there within yourselves. Why? Because most of you have not lived lives to perfect it. If you know that you do not approve of it, then strengthen yourselves before the battle, not attempt to do it when the battle is on. Most of you mortals wait until the great test comes upon you before you seek to strengthen yourselves. But the time to do that is to prepare for it and to so train yourselves that it has no power over you. Then when it comes you are strong. It is not a test to you, you stand above it, you have overcome in  the fact that you have faced it and you have permitted it to loose its power before the test comes, but it will come to prove to you whether you have overcome it or whether you just think you have overcome.


Remember that as long as you can say you have overcome, you feel sure, you think about it, talk about it --- you have not overcome. When you reach the place that when you meet it, you could give it a glance of recognition but pass it on, place it out of your mind, know that it has no power by the very fact that it does not remain within, that it ceases to exist for you, then you have finished, but not until then because the denial of a thing is in fact the recognition of the existence of the thing. So when you deny it, you admit it, you hold it within yourself.


If all your lives could be utilized as a symbol you would waste no time by seeking to reach and to know the understanding that is yours, that you are seeking, that you came here to find. Hunt for it right within yourself and whenever others disqualify, do not reach your standard, so to speak, see to it that your own standard is a standard and not an assumed one, not a pretense, not an out-pouring of that which is for the world to see only, see that you live it, for when others seek to investigate they find as a rule a structure behind very much like your moving pictures --- a beautiful front yet no backing. It is deplorable indeed that mortals can waste so many moments in building structures in their lives that are only so much waste material, that have cost so much pain, in sorrow, in trouble, even as your beautiful pictures are so expensive to produce and after all, none of them can be utilized for anything but for the purpose it is built, and that is to be seen from the front only, and when that is torn down by storm, then do you stand naked in your lack of wisdom, your lack of understanding, in all that is worth while in life. Many of you have frittered away your time and begin to change only when the time comes that you feel that you are leaving your bodies, and see a panorama of your lives and recognise your lost moments and see that which you might have done but did not do, and all that you did do and how little it has availed.


It now is the time when you are in your zenith when you have all opportunity ahead of you, now is your opportunity to begin, now always will be the time when you do begin, so why not this moment as well as another moment? Why can you not see the interest on your investment now and this moment instead of a moment when it is too late to do that which you craved to do?


Symbols of  life! Most of them only symbols, only sign-posts and many of you wrap yourselves around them and can go no further. Tear yourselves loose and go out into the universe, living your lives and being that which is your ideal, that which is yours to attain that which you see within yourselves, not that which you see in another or that which another may see for you, but that which you see for yourself. --- The Great Cosmic Pictures can never be complete until each mortal goes back and lives his life, not as others picture it, but as he sees it, as he pictures it, as it is a truth to him from within himself, not from the brain, for it is, "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not as he thinketh in his brain, that is of little power and a know-ledge passes into nothingness because the brain is continually filled with something different out of which the soul can make all that it can sift through of the wheat from the chaff.


Source :  "Wisdom From Atlantis" by Ruth B. Drown. Pg 137-150.
Note from the Author :  "Wisdom From Atlantis" was received through the inspirational Pathway from the Etheric records. While the words are English, the style is Atlantian and the wisdom is eternal.

Earth Is Going Home

Earth Is Going Home

By Sandy Stevenson

In the past 20 plus years that I have spoken of the Ascension of Earth, I have never once mentioned a possible time for this. Nor has a time ever been given to me by the Ascended Realms. I’ve always said the Earth Mother would decide her destiny and the ‘when’ of it. It is, after all, her ascension. I now have very clear indications that she has decided her final course, has made alterations in the ‘how’ and decided the ‘when’. I have verified this with every universal source I have access to and am satisfied for myself that I understand what is to be. Now each person must stand in their own mastery to seek their inner and heavenly guidance to find their own truth. 

It is exciting and wonderful to finally see all we have worked towards since Atlantis come into being. We had a goal to take Earth to her new place of evolution and to enlighten as many as possible along the way. Billions of people have gained sufficient enlightenment to progress their own evolution through the work we have done. In addition, many new blueprints have been created, including one that allows the raising of frequency of the human physical body into Light instead of going through physical death. 

The Earth is now partially already ascended into the 5th dimension. She is currently bridging between two dimensions - the 3rd and the 5th. It is likely you are in that same wonderful position. Many people are now experiencing being partially in both those worlds. If you feel you are ‘not quite here’ then you probably aren’t! This is a very good indicator that you are indeed already partly in the 5th dimension. However, to make sure if this is the case, you need to be grounded. People who aren’t grounded often feel they are not quite ‘here’. Once you’re sure this is what is happening to you, then just relax, go with the flow and make sure you stay there. Being positive keeps you there. Being partly in the 5th actually helps you to be more positive. You will notice you are less negative and can spot more easily when your thoughts are negative.   

What occurs is that as we move more and more into the 5th, that reality becomes stronger and stronger and our current 3rd dimensional life becomes less real and less important. This also helps us release fears of the unknown and what lies ahead.  

If you don’t feel yet that you are bridging the two dimensions, then focus more on being positive, loving, non judgmental and keep releasing every belief pattern and dense emotion and thought that shows itself. If you really do this, at some point you will notice that feeling of being someplace else as well.   

It takes time to adjust to moving to a new dimension, so it is beneficial to begin now.  

For those people who are choosing not to ascend at this time but wish to stay in a third dimension, this will be undertaken on either this or another planet. Releasing any dense energy patterns within is always of benefit, even if you are staying. 

 

There have been recent changes to the plan for Earth and these involve that the Earth now ascends with her subtle bodies, but without her physical body. She had hoped that all the cleansing could be done via the use of Light, but in reassessment Earth sees that that other forms of cleansing will also need to occur. That has begun. Even though the earth is now leaving behind her physical body, it still needs to be cleansed. This will ensure it has a fresh start as it too one day will ascend.   

With changes to the Plan for Earth, some of us have changed our plans as well. In the original plan, most Lightworkers were going home as Earth ascended and some were going to stay on the 5D planet to help. Humanity was always duly making its choices of whether to stay in 3D or raise vibration and ascend into 5D. The extended choices have been presented to all of us during our sleep time. Those choices are: 1. ascending and returning home; 2. ascending but then remaining in the 5th dimension to assist there or 3. remaining partly in both dimensions helping in both. 4. There is also the possibility of remaining solely in the 3rd dimension but this would generally only apply to those who have difficulty raising their vibration sufficiently to reach the 5th. None of these choices are ‘better’ than the other. Each person chooses what suits their own advancement and evolution. Continue to trust that everything is perfect. It’s not always easy to do when we can’t see that higher picture, but it is still always true.   

Signs now point us to the Mayan calendar. That doesn’t mean everything will change at midnight on 31st December 2011 . It seems more likely there will be a steady progression and cleansing and the final Earth Ascension will be in the latter half of 2012/early 2013. While this may seem a way off, it isn’t really long. It takes time for us (and her) to adjust to a new dimension.   

If you wish to be part of the current cycle of ascension, it is truly time now to leave any self doubt behind. A lack of confidence or concern that you may get it wrong and hurt someone can no longer be a reason not to do what you came here to do. Lack of faith in yourself leads to inaction. It leads to lack of self cleansing. It can affect our ability to discern who and what we are connected to. When we don’t trust ourselves, sometimes we hand our power to others who we ‘hope’ have got it right. When you are truly in your own power, there is less ‘need’ to be led by others.  

Recognise who is around you and who you wish to align with. Gone are the days of connecting your energy to ‘whomever’ and just hoping its OK. Know what energy stands in front of you at any given moment and act accordingly – so if it’s not energy you prefer, remain in a loving space and walk the other way. If it is energy you prefer, then align to it with cords of light.   

It is time to ensure your own evolutionary position now. Pick up your mastery. If you need help from the Higher Realms, then ask for it. But please ask in the manner of a master, not as a pleading, begging victim – or you may not be heard. Demanding (with love) can work also as this can also be done in mastery.   

There is nothing to be achieved now from any other position now than one of mastery. You are capable of completely changing your life and your destiny right now. If you are choosing ascension, allow yourself this brief time ahead to move into the vibration required to be a part of the beautiful ascending Earth.  

Every day take time for some deep breaths and get into stillness. Move into that space you were in long ago before you entered this world. Let go of everything you can possibly let go of. That means everything that is not the truth of who you are. Move into KNOWING instead of believing. Get rid of any deeply held rigid or critical stuff - of yourself/ everyone/  organisations/ systems/ authority/ education/ religions/ big business/ the world. Don’t pass on news in such a way as to depress others (remember there is a higher and lighter picture to all events). Stop blaming others for events in your life. All these energy patterns contain too dense a vibration to allow you to ascend. Stop deciding who it’s alright to love and instead use all your inherent instant mastery in this moment to love the whole world and everyone and everything in it. Be grateful for every spark of life you have. Thank God for your gifts of intelligence and intuition that allow you to know what you need to know when you need to know it. Mend the rifts around you (yes, including family!). Clear your aura – use Light/Violet Flame and essences such as Bach Flowers. Eat right. Use other Kingdoms on Earth – Angelic, Devic, Mineral, and Elemental (Fire, Earth Air Water). They CAN all help. For example, while you are taking a shower you can ask the Water Undines to bring you healing and grounding and this can be set up as a permanent thing. Get yourself into a harmonious space and then check out your fellow travellers and give them a helping hand to move into their own power and a space of love.   

Keep around you only strength, focus, pure intent, faith and trust, love of all, a desire to evolve and to be the best you can be. Be watchful of your words; create only positive harmony, uplifting all. Keep your lines clear of karma; keep your space and intent pure and perfect. Now that you are in your space of mastery, stay there.

 

With love and intent for your Highest Good.  

Sandy Stevenson     12th April 2011

 

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Ophiuchus' Notes : 

This article is reprinted here with the permission of the writer.

For those who knows Sandy, she's always highlighting the importance and need for Discernment with information that's but before us.

In her words :

The following articles are offered in the hope they may assist Lightworkers in areas of self mastery, integrity, trust, highest truth, faith, discernment and love.

One of the wonderful gifts of Spirit we each possess is our ability to discern differing energies and levels of truth. A resonance of harmony occurs deep within when we are comfortable with concepts that feels true for us.

Equally, we may feel ourselves rejecting things that do not resonate with us. To establish either, we need only to listen to our inner voice.

Discernment has a vital role on Earth at this time. The vastness of its far reaching effects, both in its application or lack of it, are beyond imagination and comprehension. If we truly commit to the practise of discernment, the resulting outpouring of Light will transform the Earth in a moment.

From this space of clarity and without confusion, our lives and our service to Earth at this time of her Ascension is greatly enhanced.                    

Please apply your inherent gift of discernment to the information given here. 

 

Humanity Must Return To Love!~ A Message from the Children of Now

This is my very first entry on my very own blog! For a start - thought I'll begin by sharing some enlightening messages from the book "Conversation With The Children of Now" by Dr Meg Blackburn Losey, where she interviewed, the Indigos, Crystal and Star Kids who are amongst us now.

Many of these special and beautiful children shared with us the wisdom of the Universe. Here's an extract of what one of the kids, Weston Schmier have to say to these questions :

Q : "What is the greatest message you have for the people of our world?"

Weston :

Humanity must return to love. The world is filled with drama, fear, anger and conflict. Change is necessary for the greater good of humanity. Change is resisted because human beings do not remember beyond their current lives, which are filled with massive information input and justification of practically everything they do. Humanity must remember beyond the illusion, that the vitality of life is not what it seems. They must let go of fear because the truth is far simpler. That fear leads to the lack of change. The unknown is beyond the known, and the fear of the unknown is beyond reason.

The lands of the Earth display the inner existence of humanity with all of the colours of joy and the unfettered spirit, and the desolation of a defeated heart. As the rivers flow, so does life. Then there is non-movement, such as boulders on a mountain. Many people do not move in their lives. Lack of movement in life is sadness. Life is to be embraced and exchanged with all other life forms. The colours of life are not to be tempered by perceptions, only expanded in their resonance by exhilaration of spirit.

Compare yourselves to the animals, to those that scavenge, yet are their true selves. They have no fear, only the will to survive. They have the freedom of their basic natures, innocence by virtue of existence.

Those animals that are spoiled of their true nature don't remember their wildness except in their dreams. They fear many things because they have no experience.People are like that. Wanting to be spoiled,becoming too comfortable in their safe places, having, owning things, but not having knowledge about life in general. They have forgotten their wildness, their innocence.

Innocence is found in the light of love, of grace. Human become lost within and have embarrassment to display their grace as they would be embarrassed by the response of others. The truth is that others would respond in like manner, and their love, their grace, would shine even more brightly.

Diligence is the key. To always be aware of how you feel, what you are really experiencing, not the illusion. For the most part humanity has become so caught up in the illusion that they don't remember their true selves. Stop listening to what others say. Listen within. The answers are there. Being human is temporary, so all of those everyday worries don't mean anything in the overall picture of things. The spirit is forever.And that's what really matters. Find your spirit. Ask yourself what is important, really. Be that.

There is much hope but little faith in this world on Earth. Faith and hope are two completely different energies of feeling and thinking. Hope implies failure. Faith exemplifies the expectation of success. More, faith is what creates life when there is little hope of it.

Humanity has too many boundaries, particularly of needing to feel aside, alone in the journey, special or important. The truth is everyone is perfect. There is Joy in Oneness, to the joy of being whole. No one thing can exist without the other. p228-229.

Q: Who is God? Is God a person or something more? What is our relation to God? Is that relationship the same as religion or something more?

Weston :

God isn't religion. God isn't a stern figure who punishes us for doing something bad. We punished ourselves enough without having to have God do it . People become afraid when they have had experiences that weren't good, or they don't let themselves have experiences just in case they screw up. Using the concept of an Almighty God just gives people an excuse not to be free inside or to accept that they have choices other then what they can see or experience.

Because we are perfection, we are God. "God" is a word that tries to define our source. That is impossible because our Source is an infinite field of energy that manifests as light. That light is inside of us, in every cell in our bodies, and we can draw from that.

When we pray, we are really calling to the light to tell it what we want or need. The light responds and reality changes. We have that light within us. It acts in response to everything that we do. It changes our reality based upon everything that we believe.

People personified God in order to have a deity that they could understand in human terms, but it is much greater than that. The most wonderful things is that all of reality is enfolded within us. We are encoded with every imaginable possibility. All we have to do is imagine it and it becomes true. That is, if we believe it.

So the bottom line is that everything is a choice. Life, love, happiness, all of it. In order to address the God within us, the God that we are, we have to let go of our fears, breathe, and realise that those fears are unfounded - that we are of perfection and, therefore, we are perfection. p154-155.

Q: These days, people feel empty inside as if something is missing. How can they get back in touch with that part of themselves that really hasn't gone anywhere?

Weston :

People think they are empty because they have not remembered that they are already perfect and already have everything that they need. Values have changed, and what people think is important is all part of the illusion.

The illusion is that achievements are important. That individuals are important. That there is nothing greater then self-fulfilment, which leads to emptiness, because it isn't true. The truth is that everything everyone is looking for is already inside of them. The truth is that there is no emptiness. Emptiness is just a perception. When people look outside of themselves for what they want, they are only getting the opinions of other people.

Those people have made decisions based on their experiences, and they might not have made very good ones. But whatever they did was their truth at the time. Even if they succeeded at whatever they decided, it doesn't mean someone else will because maybe it isn't the decision their life is meant to go. Or maybe they are just doing it because someone else did.When people do that it gets them into trouble.

The best way to stay on track is to live the truth. Not everyone else's, just yours! p144-145.

Q : What is dying? Where do we go?

Weston :

In order to die, first you must live. Humanity is so afraid of dying that often it sits paralysed, unable to put one foot in front of the other in order to participate in the very journey for which they came.

Every aspect of life serves a purpose. Even the most minor things in life are of vital importance. Take bamboo for instance. It is both fragile and strong. The water nurtures the bamboo, and at the same time cleanses its environment and brings elements of peace. The richness , the tannin from the bamboo, contributes to the richness of the water so that it can continue to contribute to the nurturing of all that surrounds it. Even the insects are symbiotic with the plant's health and growth as they live in harmony with the plants, and the bamboo contributes to the well-being of the bugs by providing food and shelter.

But in all of that, the cycles continue and ultimately each has its death, and with that death the decaying remnants of what was feeds the very environment that brought it life, sustained that life. This has always been so. There needs to be no fear of death. It is a fact of living. In fact, death is part of the illusion. You don't die. You just continue to be part of an infinite cycle. In all of that, remember to live! p165.