​"In every situation, we have only one option: to embrace it anyway. Sit down when things are going badly, even when all hell is breaking loose, and say, "I love me anyway."
Saying it one time is not enough. You may still be as vulnerable as you were before. So once you start, just keep moving forward without looking back."
- John-Roger
"Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent."~ Rumi
The formless brought out with the form of Rumi's poetry and J-R's words.
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Richard Powell
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Art by Guy Rose - Notre Dame de Grace, Honfleur - 1910

​“To be happy with yourself in the present moment while maintaining a dream of your future is a grand recipe for manifestation. When you feel so whole that you no longer care whether “it” will happen, that’s when amazing things materialize before your eyes. I’ve learned that being whole is the perfect state of creation. I’ve seen this time and time again in witnessing true healings in people all over the world. They feel so complete that they no longer want, no longer feel lack, and no longer try to do it themselves. They let go, and to their amazement, something greater than they are responds—and they laugh at the simplicity of the process.” - Joe Dispenza
Acceptance - the first law of Spirit.
The importance of finding tools and techniques that pull you up to the vibration that you want to bring forward in your life and manifesting from there rather than being blown around by your fears, sense of lack and feelings of unworthiness are vital. It's not that you don't ever feel those things. It's that you become conscious and aware of them and reframe them and refocus on what you want to bring forward in the moment. This is simple but not necessarily easy. it requires vigilance and dedication to shift old unconscious patterns, but it can be done.
May you focus on your health, wealth, happiness, abundance, prosperity and riches and step fully into that vibration.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Art by Julius Köhnholz 1839-1925

​"When we center ourselves in silence, we make the choice to become open and willing to live life fully. Regardless of what comes to us, we become willing to expand instead of pulling back -- contracting -- when we don't like what's happening.
Expansion is the key."
- John-Roger
Expansion in the midst of contraction is going into new territory, it's laying new ground, it's co creating with the Source what you want rather than being moved by the winds of the unconscious.
It may seem unfamiliar and awkward when you do it but it is moving mountains of karma and rewiring you for the new.
This rewiring is not only with your beliefs but it actually rewires the body, the neurons, the cells, and even the DNA. It moves who you are at the core.
Peace be still.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Art -La mente y el rio van by Tomás Sánchez - 2011

​“Attitudes strung together become beliefs, and related beliefs strung together become perceptions. Over time, this redundancy creates a view of the world and of yourself that’s largely subconscious.”
“So if you want to change a belief or perception, you have to first change your state of being. And changing your state of being means changing your energy, because in order for you to affect matter, you have to become more energy and less matter, more wave and less particle. That requires you to combine a clear intention and an elevated emotion—those are the two ingredients.”
― Joe Dispenza
I find that not only is my view of the world subconscious but it is also habitual and ingrained in my body and emotions. This is why it can be hard to overcome my own negativity. Much of it is habitual.
To overcome this I do my best to keep in my mind the vision of what I want and when I do add the positive emotion of having the success, the win, the peace, the joy. Have the positive emotions and gratitude fuel the vision in order to shift the old subconscious world view and beliefs about myself.
ALWAYS win in your fantasies.
You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought.
Use forgiveness, reframing, deflecting the negative and continually go back to the positive focus.
Eternal vigilance.
Peace be still.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Hermann Eschke: Lighthouse on a Cliff by Moonlight, 1879

​"I was learning to let go of the ego, to seek inner riches rather than the riches of the world. I was seeking inner strength rather than ego strength in the world. I knew that the inner strength and wisdom would, through a natural process of evolvement and awakening, move out into the world in its own timing.
Intuitively, I knew that as I gave my strength back into myself, to my Soul, I came closer to God and to the peacefulness that is of God. I knew this was the path home to God."
- John-Roger
May your path be filled with countless blessings and grace.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Art by Frantisek Kupka -The Way of Silence 1863

​"How, then, do we live in this world? How can we gain? What can our goal be?
For God's sake, don't have a goal in this world. It's going to beat you bloody.
Where is the goal? The goal is inside. When you turn back inside, you have your goal, you have your completeness, you have your fullness and you walk through the world, having all else added unto you."
- John-Roger
I have found it's inside out not outside in.
Fill yourself with the essence of what you want to bring forward.
I have said "I want that" thinking if I "had that" it would fill me. That's from a place of lack.
When you co-create from a place of completeness, then it's already done.
Peace be still.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Painting of Artemis - 1910 by Max Nonnenbruch
Artemis, in Greek religion, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and of chastity and childbirth; she was identified by the Romans with Diana. Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo.

​The Grand Illusion
"No one can create an illusion for you but you, and no one can free you from an illusion but you." John-Roger, DSS
When I was on a trip to the USSR back in 1988 with J-R our group went to a Russian "Circus". I was anticipating lions and trapeze and tight rope walkers. What we saw there was much different than that, we saw a hypnotist. It was a huge arena that was filled to the gills and our group had our earphones in listening to the show through our group translator. As the "mesmerizer" hypnotized the entire hall he called out people to come down to the stage. Some in our group went down. Zombies alive!! I believe the translator was hypnotized as well.
It was wild.
I thought of this today thinking how we are in a world of illusion. The world that we "see" seems solid and firm but is made up of mostly space and vibration. We have hypnotized ourselves into believing we are victims or we are helpless, or we are stuck or fearful.
It's like a strongman believing he is weak. Superman has touched Kryptonite. The kryptonite is our misbeliefs. We believe we are in a limited world and we are the victims of that world.
In truth, we are part of God. We create our reality. We are powerful.
You create, promote, or allow everything in your life.
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep!”
-Rumi
Wake up to the wonder.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Thomas Seddon - The Pyramids at Gizeh (c. 1885)

​"Grace is not hard. If it is starting to be hard, you are under the law.
So you even have to give up the struggle of going for grace, which might be the thing that releases you so you can experience it. Grace is not something you go after as much as it is something you allow. You just let it become. You may want it to come like thunder, lightning, or a big train so you know it is there -- you know, with lots of noise and drama. It comes in naturally, however, like breathing, and you may not even know it is happening."
- John-Roger
Receiving Grace.
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Richard Powell
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Northern Lights - 1901
Artist: Anna Boberg

​"It seems that in the negative experiences of our physical existence, most of us lose our sense of connection to Soul or to Spirit; we lose our sense of being an intimate part of God. In the midst of feeling hurt and angry and upset, it is easy to forget. When we are struggling to get through each day, to compete in the world, to achieve some level of success, to protect and take care of ourselves and our families, it is so easy to forget that we are of God and loved by God." John-Roger, DSS
Expand in the midst of contraction.
Basically, what I have come to realize for myself, is this bottom line.
Get up one more time than I fall.
When I stretch into moving through the fear, doubt, the worry, then something meets me there and I see the next step.
Sometimes I take that step with just the faith that I will be met, sometimes I feel myself being carried. Either way, the movement, the expansion is what opens me up to the awareness of my connection with Soul or Spirit, or whatever you want to call it.
Expand into the truth.
Expand into the joy.
Expand into the abundance.
Expand in the midst of contraction.
This is a constant exercise in Mastery.
Peace be still.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Capri at moonlight - 1902 Artist: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

​"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and. you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again; you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How you relate to the issue is the issue."-University of Santa Monica 101.
As with most great truths it is simple but not always easy. I can judge that I have failed because of my upset, fear, doubt knowing that I "should" be at peace with my issues and already have my issues healed and my upset should be peace. Then I have another "issue" that I am upset over, which is that I should already know, be healed and be enlightened.
To be able to see the upset as another opportunity to truly let go and let the healing come forth is challenging but can be a great blessing.
When the upset comes, when the challenge comes, know that is present so you can "overcome the world", so you can find the peace in the situation. It is an opportunity for enlightenment every single time.
May you relate to the issues through the eyes of Grace and Love.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
The art is by Gurercino, Atlas holding up the Celestial Globe