I couldn't help thinking of the song, "I Hope You Dance" as I read this. Thanks for the beautifully penned reminder--and the invitation--to dance, Sean. I hope we all . . . dance.
Thanks for reminding me of that song, Dan! That song came out a year or so after my first daughter was born, and it always makes me think of her. And yes, that song is actually a beautiful reminder to risk relationship - to get out on the floor and just . . . dance.
Seeing the altar of God in everyone... Forgiveness as judgment.... these were mind-blowing to me. But mostly the object vs. process-oriented spirituality. Clears up so many things for me. Thank you once again for this wonderful reflection and the story. Just stunning.
Sean what a story! And you describe the holy encounter with that woman so vividly. I am sure this was for both of you and that you are connected via this for ever even though you are 'apart'. Friends can last a life time or change us by being there just a few transformational seconds (and anything in between). It, every time, amazes me how we can be there for one another and your story is such a wonderful example of that! Love, Valentine
Thank you Valentine. I am very grateful for those moments as well when for whatever reason we see the altar in the other - I suspect because they see it in us. In my experience, holiness nearly always begins with the other seeing in me what I cannot yet perceive alone. So I'm very grateful for those who share the way. We are lights for each other, walking each other home. Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
I don't know what to say after reading this article, I have tears of joy streaming down my face and my heart is wide open with love in knowing everything is perfect just as it IS. Your writings leave me with a feeling that I just received a huge gift of love that is opening me to possibilities beyond my limited thinking. Thank you. 🙏
I'm glad it was helpful, Glenda. It's always nice to be reminded that we're okay, that everything is okay. I forget it all the time myself. Thank you for being here and sharing this path. I'm very grateful.
You are a gifted storyteller, Sean. Without thinking about it, I could see the woman in the violet skirt, the look on your face as you turned, hear her shout “Dance.”
And I could FEEL the moment of that smile, how it cut through personality and illuminated the shared Self. Each of us here has had those moments, I am certain — transcendent yet grounding and infinitely memorable. . .The holy instant that both reminds us of and calls us to the Truth that we are, indeed, all walking each other Home. Thank you 🙏
Thanks, Cheryl. It was truly a beautiful moment, the more so because I don't think either one of us had done any serious work yet on spirituality. I think of it as a wonderful reminder that God does the work and we do not - we just have to show up with an open mind and heart.
Thanks for being here, Cheryl. Hope all is well on your end.
Reading another writer, checked notifications and came upon these comments, and thought about what you said about not yet having done serious spiritual work before that shared holy moment. And it brought to mind similar moments I shared with another person or in nature before I thought to put it in a spiritual framework. And since we are and have been embodied spirits since birth, we naturally have the experiences before we have a specific spiritual discipline or context — A Course in Miracles, Zen Buddhism, Kundalini yoga, & c (if you will :) ) — with which to label them. But our God spark recognizes what the mind doesn’t understand and those moments — those beautiful, beyond words instances of simple and pure connection — reside in our hearts as never forgotten reminders of Love without condition . . .aka Truth.
Anyway, Sean, as you have said to me so many times. . .I know you know this (better than most anyone I know), but it asked to be shared.
And, we are doing well. I struggle with what is happening here politically, of course, but I’m working on it.
I hope all is well with you . . .Been a long walk home. ❤️
Thank you for sharing, Cheryl. This feels important to me too - understanding that the experience of connecting, relating, sharing precedes whatever social construct or spiritual language is applied to it. More and more I find myself drawn to the light in which language appears, social constructs appear, connections and relationships occur. This light is closer to awareness or understanding if I am being cautious. It is Love when I am brave and clear, and am willing to remember myself. And you are right! It does need to be categorized or labeled or even named - it lives in us as a blaze of light forever reminding us of what we are in truth.
Thank you Cheryl. Whatever happens next we are here to be part of the solution, and we will not have to do the work alone. I take a lot of comoft in that.
Yes, I get that “You think too much” to, hard not to when there is always so much to think and be inspired by.
This life is a dance, this relationship we have with each other is a dance
You teach me and I learn, I teach you and you learn, in different ways of course, but always on a mind level. It is this teaching and the learning that is at the deepest level, it a softening of our minds as we allow each other to join as Minds. To dance the dance of Love together without the form of bodies.
It is a gift that I cherish Sean.
I have often wanted to sit and have a coffee with you, but then again somehow I don’t, because I love the connection of the higher Mind, free from our bodies and free from the people we play in this crazy dream. I feel a sort of connection with everyone that writes on your page, a connection that is absolutely nothing to do with them as the actors on the stage, but simply an expressing of a Love that is real.
I read this today and I thought how apt this was to your post. Not only that, but it was the first lesson to be written completely in iambic pentameter. As I read it it was if it was a rhythm to a dance, as dance with words or a dance with Love perhaps. As I read the lesson I felt I was dancing the block with you.
Lesson 78 - 8.3
Let me behold my saviour in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join him there (8.3)
Thank you, Suzy. This is really clear and beautiful (as always). I sometimes perceive my practice as acquiescing to melting - a lot of stuck points dissolve, a lot of personal investment dissolves, and what remains is more and more "an expressing of a Love that is real." I'm really grateful.
Talking over coffee is one of my favorite activities! Maybe before we shuffle off the mortal coil, it'll happen. But in the interim, yes. This learning and teaching is a beautiful gift. Thank you.
My Daughter often kicks me. Not physically, but with a comment, a word, a look. She calls me out with what is beyond the moment. She peels back the nonsense I project and pokes me in the wound. My Reiki healing friend and mentor does the same. It feels both ecstatically liberating and very scary at the same time.
Kick as blessing, kick as the gateway to holy relationship and the refactoring of suffering and happiness . . . thank you, Martin . . . this is beautiful 🙏🙏
Thank you for sharing that beautiful experience. “Truth can only be experienced.” T.8.VI.9-8. Experiences point to the good, the beautiful and the holy. This was a beautiful story that joins us together. Dance in joy❣️. Thank you Sean
You're welcome, Janice. Thank you for being here. I'm very grateful for the experience and for the chance to share it - we are in this together, friends and strangers alike!
Yes! The cosmic dance of our spirit! To which we are all invited and eventually say yes . . . thank you Gail. I'm glad you're here. 🙏🙏
~ Sean
I couldn't help thinking of the song, "I Hope You Dance" as I read this. Thanks for the beautifully penned reminder--and the invitation--to dance, Sean. I hope we all . . . dance.
Thanks for reminding me of that song, Dan! That song came out a year or so after my first daughter was born, and it always makes me think of her. And yes, that song is actually a beautiful reminder to risk relationship - to get out on the floor and just . . . dance.
Thanks for being here, Dan.
~ Sean
Seeing the altar of God in everyone... Forgiveness as judgment.... these were mind-blowing to me. But mostly the object vs. process-oriented spirituality. Clears up so many things for me. Thank you once again for this wonderful reflection and the story. Just stunning.
You're welcome, Heidi. Thank you for reading and sharing - I'm glad that you're here.
~ Sean
Sean what a story! And you describe the holy encounter with that woman so vividly. I am sure this was for both of you and that you are connected via this for ever even though you are 'apart'. Friends can last a life time or change us by being there just a few transformational seconds (and anything in between). It, every time, amazes me how we can be there for one another and your story is such a wonderful example of that! Love, Valentine
Thank you Valentine. I am very grateful for those moments as well when for whatever reason we see the altar in the other - I suspect because they see it in us. In my experience, holiness nearly always begins with the other seeing in me what I cannot yet perceive alone. So I'm very grateful for those who share the way. We are lights for each other, walking each other home. Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
~ Sean
AMEN to that dear Sean, I fully agree that the other plays a very important role in us seeing our own holiness. Thanks for you light🥰
Wow! I’ll share what I just typed to some friends:
“Oh my! Have you seen Sean Reagan’s latest?? Gorgeous.”
Thank you Margaret - I appreciate that. I hope all is well. Thank you for being here.
~ Sean
I don't know what to say after reading this article, I have tears of joy streaming down my face and my heart is wide open with love in knowing everything is perfect just as it IS. Your writings leave me with a feeling that I just received a huge gift of love that is opening me to possibilities beyond my limited thinking. Thank you. 🙏
I'm glad it was helpful, Glenda. It's always nice to be reminded that we're okay, that everything is okay. I forget it all the time myself. Thank you for being here and sharing this path. I'm very grateful.
~ Sean
One of your best pieces! Thank you! #FarrahNaykaAshline
Thank you Farrah - I'm grateful to share this path with you.
~ Sean
A lovely organisation of thoughts and clarity. Thank you. I get it. <3
You're welcome Kellie! Thank you for sharing and being here. I'm so grateful to be able to connect 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Good morning!
You are a gifted storyteller, Sean. Without thinking about it, I could see the woman in the violet skirt, the look on your face as you turned, hear her shout “Dance.”
And I could FEEL the moment of that smile, how it cut through personality and illuminated the shared Self. Each of us here has had those moments, I am certain — transcendent yet grounding and infinitely memorable. . .The holy instant that both reminds us of and calls us to the Truth that we are, indeed, all walking each other Home. Thank you 🙏
Thanks, Cheryl. It was truly a beautiful moment, the more so because I don't think either one of us had done any serious work yet on spirituality. I think of it as a wonderful reminder that God does the work and we do not - we just have to show up with an open mind and heart.
Thanks for being here, Cheryl. Hope all is well on your end.
~ Sean
Reading another writer, checked notifications and came upon these comments, and thought about what you said about not yet having done serious spiritual work before that shared holy moment. And it brought to mind similar moments I shared with another person or in nature before I thought to put it in a spiritual framework. And since we are and have been embodied spirits since birth, we naturally have the experiences before we have a specific spiritual discipline or context — A Course in Miracles, Zen Buddhism, Kundalini yoga, & c (if you will :) ) — with which to label them. But our God spark recognizes what the mind doesn’t understand and those moments — those beautiful, beyond words instances of simple and pure connection — reside in our hearts as never forgotten reminders of Love without condition . . .aka Truth.
Anyway, Sean, as you have said to me so many times. . .I know you know this (better than most anyone I know), but it asked to be shared.
And, we are doing well. I struggle with what is happening here politically, of course, but I’m working on it.
I hope all is well with you . . .Been a long walk home. ❤️
Thank you for sharing, Cheryl. This feels important to me too - understanding that the experience of connecting, relating, sharing precedes whatever social construct or spiritual language is applied to it. More and more I find myself drawn to the light in which language appears, social constructs appear, connections and relationships occur. This light is closer to awareness or understanding if I am being cautious. It is Love when I am brave and clear, and am willing to remember myself. And you are right! It does need to be categorized or labeled or even named - it lives in us as a blaze of light forever reminding us of what we are in truth.
Thank you Cheryl. Whatever happens next we are here to be part of the solution, and we will not have to do the work alone. I take a lot of comoft in that.
~ Sean
A truly inspiring piece today Sean thank you.
Yes, I get that “You think too much” to, hard not to when there is always so much to think and be inspired by.
This life is a dance, this relationship we have with each other is a dance
You teach me and I learn, I teach you and you learn, in different ways of course, but always on a mind level. It is this teaching and the learning that is at the deepest level, it a softening of our minds as we allow each other to join as Minds. To dance the dance of Love together without the form of bodies.
It is a gift that I cherish Sean.
I have often wanted to sit and have a coffee with you, but then again somehow I don’t, because I love the connection of the higher Mind, free from our bodies and free from the people we play in this crazy dream. I feel a sort of connection with everyone that writes on your page, a connection that is absolutely nothing to do with them as the actors on the stage, but simply an expressing of a Love that is real.
I read this today and I thought how apt this was to your post. Not only that, but it was the first lesson to be written completely in iambic pentameter. As I read it it was if it was a rhythm to a dance, as dance with words or a dance with Love perhaps. As I read the lesson I felt I was dancing the block with you.
Lesson 78 - 8.3
Let me behold my saviour in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join him there (8.3)
Much Love as Always, Suzy xx
Thank you, Suzy. This is really clear and beautiful (as always). I sometimes perceive my practice as acquiescing to melting - a lot of stuck points dissolve, a lot of personal investment dissolves, and what remains is more and more "an expressing of a Love that is real." I'm really grateful.
Talking over coffee is one of my favorite activities! Maybe before we shuffle off the mortal coil, it'll happen. But in the interim, yes. This learning and teaching is a beautiful gift. Thank you.
Love,
Sean
Thank you Sean for sharing and connecting in beautiful and very helpful ways, for bringing clarity and the light to my seemingly darkened mind 🙏🙏
You're welcome Aysin - thank you for sharing the light with me in turn. I'm very grateful.
~ Sean
My Daughter often kicks me. Not physically, but with a comment, a word, a look. She calls me out with what is beyond the moment. She peels back the nonsense I project and pokes me in the wound. My Reiki healing friend and mentor does the same. It feels both ecstatically liberating and very scary at the same time.
Kick as blessing, kick as the gateway to holy relationship and the refactoring of suffering and happiness . . . thank you, Martin . . . this is beautiful 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Simply
Deeply
Beautiful
🙏🙏
Such a strange encounter and beautiful story. I have no doubt she remembers it, too, Sean. Thank you.
Thank you, Margaret. I hope she does - it was a indeed a strange and beautiful moment. So much happens in our lives!
I hope all is well - -thank you for being here.
~ Sean
Thank you for sharing that beautiful experience. “Truth can only be experienced.” T.8.VI.9-8. Experiences point to the good, the beautiful and the holy. This was a beautiful story that joins us together. Dance in joy❣️. Thank you Sean
You're welcome, Janice. Thank you for being here. I'm very grateful for the experience and for the chance to share it - we are in this together, friends and strangers alike!
~ Sean
Good stuff! Thanks you Sean for sharing
You're welcome, Mike - thank you for being here!
Sean