​The Tao is elusive and intangible.
Although formless and intangible,
it gives rise to form.
Although vague and elusive,
it gives rise to shapes....
Although dark and obscure,
it is the spirit, the essence,
the life breath of all things.
Throughout the ages, its name has been preserved
in order to recall the beginning of all things.
How do I know the ways of all things at the beginning?
I look inside myself and see what is within me.
- Lao-Tzu
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Painting by Katsushika Hokusai

​"The words you speak become the house you live in.”-Hafiz
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Sunset over the River. Painted by Albert Bierstadt

​"I hope I have made it clear that the Spiritual Warrior never tries to control the guilt, the separation, and the rest.
We observe them.
Observation is a state of detachment, which lifts us into a greater awareness. We become more and more free."
- John-Roger
Observation, the key to letting go.
Go the way of the Master and observe, go to the stillness and watch. May the love come flooding in and fill you.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art by Maximilian Lenz “La Primavera" The Spring 1904

​"You can have habitual patterns, where you focus on the negative, you get involved in the negative, and you get fascinated by it. That's one of the elements that negativity has on our consciousness - fascination. It has an attraction, a glamour, and it holds our attention. It's allowed to do that, that has energy that our consciousness responds to, but we are larger than whatever the negativity is. So we have the ability to transcend it. Always, that ability is there. The more you know that ability and direct it to overcome, the less the negativity impacts on you. You may find that you're simply directing your energy into what serves you, into who you are." -John-Roger
May you step into the high road and glide into the joy, the expansion, the abundance, the loving.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Ferdinand Knab (1834–1902): Temple by a Mountain Lake, 1876

​"Go within and practice being attuned to your inner worlds. Practice letting go of your focus on this world and all its glamour and illusion. Look beyond your physical senses to more subtle levels of perception. Follow your breath to a presence deep within you. You are present. And at the same time, you are traveling in your inner awareness. With your purpose at hand, keep choosing the loving, the adventure, the expansion."
- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
Keep choosing the loving, the adventure, the expansion...as you go within.
We perceive our world from the inside. We translate what it means based upon the filters and our beliefs and misbeliefs, our karma.
I look at the color green and feel healing and warmth because I associate it with Kentucky grass and wilderness, adventures and fun as a kid. You can look at the same shade of green and recoil because it was the color of the wall paper in the room that you got very ill and had to recover for a month. It's all happening on the inside.
If you go past the filters to the true inner core of who you are there is a divine spark, a connection to the living water, the kingdom of heaven that is within us all. Go there and open to the true blessings of your life.
Peace inside of me and peace in the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art by John Thomas Baines, The Eastern Cataracts of the Victoria Falls, 1869

​"At the root of our emotional addictions is our belief structure, which continually undermines us by telling us two things; 1) That we will be alone or abandoned, 2) That we will lose control of reality.
The fear of losing control is the strongest human motivator. Control is the master addiction. It is not lack of courage that keeps us from moving forward, as most people think, it is the fear of losing control. We want to control, and when we feel we can't, we freeze, we stop. The person who fears loss of control is like a deer caught in the headlights: instead of running off the highway to safety, it stops in its tracks.
What you are really saying in this struggle for control is, "I'm fearful that I won't succeed." In a very subtle way, that fear is a form of atheism because it tells you, "There is no God to help you." You move into doubt and you freeze again.
Spiritual Warriors turn doubt into a tool. They don't attempt to control it, but they refuse to let it control them. They use it the same way as you use a guard rail when you are on a highway running along side a steep cliff: To mark the boundary between the road and the void. As soon as you feel the doubt, move back in until you find yourself once more on firm ground."
-John-Roger
May Grace pick you up and may the blessings manifest in full form all around you.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Arthur Parton (1842 - 1914) Moonlit Landscape

​"An attitude of gratitude is another key to being in harmony with the formlessness of infinite supply.
When you can honestly and truly thank God for what you have, for all your experiences, for all the people in your life, and for all your expressions, the sense of gratitude goes very deep. In that depth, you are open to infinite supply."
-John-Roger
I am grateful for it all.
Peace inside of me and peace in the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Porch of a Church in a Lunar Landscape by Franz Ludwig Catel

​“As Spiritual Warriors, we do not judge the meditation. We do not judge the mind or the emotions.
We observe them, and the observing itself dissolves our negative emotions. You may ask, what will be left when they are dissolved? If you ask, you are losing.
But if we can observe what is happening and record it accurately, and then place the love in it, that love will move the disturbance. That is how we get free; that is how we dissolve negative karma.”
- John-Roger
“Look within, with pure eyes and simple trust, and you shall find the Deity mirrored in your own soul.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Observation, the key to freedom. The key to letting go.
May your freedom bring you great peace.
Peace inside of me and peace in the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - “The evening bowl – A tub full of stars”, by Tim Storrier

​"The immediate result of Soul Transcendence is to rise above situations and see them in perspective. At that point, you don't have to solve anything. Your attitude shifts as you attune yourself to the Spirit within, and the "problem" dissolves. It's called releasing karma, and it is also called living free.
As you rise up in your consciousness, the actions of this person and that person in the world have less and less consequence in your life, and it becomes easier to let them go, to forgive them, to walk away from them -- because you are walking towards the Light and towards Spirit.
You are experiencing and living Soul Transcendence, and the fullness and the joy of that will overshadow all the things of this world."
- John-Roger
May we all be able to rise up high enough to see the perfection of our lives.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
www.Essence-into-form.com
Heal.me/richardpowell
Art by Raqib Shaw, 1974