{"id":635,"date":"2014-03-10T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theprinciplesofspiritualliving\/?p=635"},"modified":"2014-03-10T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T18:10:53","slug":"look-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theprinciplesofspiritualliving\/2014\/03\/look-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Look to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For the last 10 days now the world\u2019s eyes have been on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

And in the eye of that storm has been a spiritual community with a special heart that is gifting the world with a new vision.<\/p>\n

Barbara Leger leads the Temenos Center for Self-Realization, and during this tense period this Centre for Spiritual Living community has been sharing its message that even this time is perfect.<\/p>\n

Barbara holds that there is a \u201cConscious Knowing\u201d that is available to all of us. This phrase enables her community\u2019s words to pass through all borders and access those who live their lives with a diversity of philosophical thought.<\/p>\n

In the last few days she\u2019s shared some powerful words with those of us who are supporting her in her mission.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s reminding us that love is a more powerful vibration than fear, control and anger, and challenges each of us to open ourselves up to peace and love, even when every fibre of our being is telling us it is time to fight.<\/p>\n

She tells us that 10 years ago when she started her mission, she saw Ukraine as the midwife to peace. Now that birth is occurring \u2013 and it may not look like anything that anyone is imagining. She and her community are leaving themselves open and paving the way for new possibilities.<\/p>\n

Their rallying cry is to \u201cseize the moment\u201d and to make that moment one that is filled with a grander picture than what has gone before, or what may lie in the future if the world continues to walk the well-worn path of conflict.<\/p>\n

As part of her message, Barbara has been sharing photos of those who attend her centre. They\u2019re the young ones \u2013 the ones who are relatively untouched by the hardships of previous generations. They\u2019re the ones who can embrace in the streets with abandon, and they are living demonstrations that Conscious Knowing is ever present if we have the awareness ourselves to see it.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In that awareness, Barbara says no one is oppressing those who live in Crimea, and her community knows \u00a0that what is right is stronger than what may appear to be true for any \u00a0one country.<\/p>\n

My deepest knowing at this time is that Barbara\u2019s words, and those of her community, are heard loud and clear around the world. This is a time when we are at choice \u2013 when we can express the courage of what we know to be true. That peace is here right now, and that there is a path and a way that works for everyone.<\/p>\n

This is true for the situation in Crimea, and it is true for every situation that appears to be conflict \u2013 whether \u00a0in our homes, in our workplaces, in our neighborhoods, in our countries.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll close with these words from Barbara, completely aware that her presence at this time is \u00a0a gift to us all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are knowing that peace and love are stronger than fear, worry, blame and that when we stay in peace and love, the situation is diffused until wisdom can prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so it is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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