(This weblog creates, for us all, a chance to meet at the interaction of Life and the New Spirituality. It is written by the author of Conversations with God, the worldwide best-selling series of books. The “New Spirituality” is defined by the author as “a new way to experience our natural impulse toward the Divine, which does not make others wrong for the way in which they are doing it.”)
Saturday is Prose & Poetry Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of m. Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Come As You Are.
This week’s prose…an excerpt from Communion with God…

After one experience of Meeting the Creator Within you will remember The Message of the Creator, because it is the message of your own heart.
It is no different from the message that your heart sings every time you look into the eyes of another with love. It is no different from the message that your heart cries out when you see suffering anywhere.
This is the message that you bring to the world, and that you would leave with the world, when you are your True Self.

It is the message that I leave now with you, that you may remember it once again, and share it with all those whose lives you touch.
Be kind to each other, and good.
Be kind to yourself, and good, as well.
Understand that these two do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Be generous with each other, and share.
Be generous with yourself, as well.
Know that only as you share with yourself can you share with another. For you cannot give to another what you do not have.
Be gentle with each other, and true.
Be gentle with yourself, and true, as well.
To thine own self be true, and it follows as the day the night, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Remember always that betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the highest betrayal.
Remember always that love is freedom. You need no other word to define it. You need no other thought to comprehend it. You need no other action to express it.
Your search for the true definition of love is over. Now the only question will be whether you can give this gift of love, to yourself and to another, even as I have given it to you.
All systems, agreements, decisions and choices that express freedom express God. For God is freedom, and freedom is love, expressed.
Remember always that yours is a world of Illusion, that nothing you see is real, and that you may use The Illusion to bring you a grand experience of the Ultimate Reality. Indeed, that is what you have come here to do.
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This week’s gift of poetry
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Each question that you asked me –
I pretended
to know the answer.
I was truthful
but I was
blinded
by the expanding sky
behind you
and its colors on your skin
distracted
by the shift of
one knee over the other
your hands draped
like contented lovers
and how you
gave every light in the room
your eyes.
I was present
but I was
taken
by the honey in your voice
by the nectar in your words
preoccupied
with petty desires
that pulsed in me
daring me
to cross the room
and open your dream
and take you
Higher.
(Take You Higher – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved)

For more of the work of this new American poet, go to www.mclairepoet.com.