​"Let's look at ruthlessness again. Spiritual Warriors are utterly ruthless about what they bring into their consciousness. They take the Sword of Truth, cut swiftly and cleanly though all that is extraneous, all the superficialities, the mindsets and addictions that hold them back. This is the Sword of the Heart, the spiritual heart, the heart of our wisdom. As you cut through the waste matter of your life, you may feel resistant and uncomfortable; you may be spacey, sleepy, antsy or distracted. Never fear. Someone once said, "If you don't feel awkward doing something new, you are not doing something new." John-Roger, DSS
"Observe yourself, identify all that is not part of you. Then be ruthless in letting those things go, simply by no longer participating in them. Release and disperse them. What is left? The Soul. You." John-Roger, DSS
"Many people talk about going to God, but few people are doing it because it's a very demanding path which takes a great deal of ruthlessness and impeccability with how you use your energy. You don't waste your energy doing this and doing that and fantasizing. Instead, you are ruthless with yourself and say, "Get this energy back to me so I can get me going." John-Roger, DSS
Ruthless...
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Painting by Nicholas Roerich

​#elpasostrong
"When I talk about peace, I may be using a different concept than what you are accustomed to. I don’t believe you can fight for peace. Nor can you defend yourself for peace. Nor can peace be purchased, owned or used for any purpose
.Peace, according to my concept, is the natural state of humankind; we are children of a benevolent Creator. Peace is our eternal home. Peace is God, Spirit, the One, whatever word you choose to call it. It is bigger than our minds can grasp. It just is." John-Roger, DSS
I am grieving the violence and loss of life in my hometown of El Paso.
The community there as I know it taught me kindness, acceptance, joy and Corazon.
Words have power. I try and be mindful of the words I put into the world.
Today my words are-
Peace be still.
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Richard Powell
#elpasostrong
Painting by Ivan Avazonski

​"Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it."
​-Ekhart Tolle
Observation, the key to letting go. I have been using this technique that I first learned from J-R more and more over the last few years. Tolle's description of it is perfect. I find that when the fear, or any other emotion, sadness, doubt, anger, come up that it has a tendency to feed the mind and then that feeds the emotion, which feeds the mind....etc, etc.
To go in and maybe locate the place in the body where the emotion resides, in the stomach, solar plexus, neck...and just watch it. I find that it usually starts to dissipate. I have heard that it actually begins to dissolve the karma.
I go one step further, I imagine a white Light filling the space, maybe fill the space with love or gratitude.
Again, the hardest part of this process is to actually do it. I find that we can want to go into the negativity, it has a magnetic pull to us.
Go the way of the Master and observe, go to the stillness and watch. May the love come flooding in and fill you.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Art by Stephan DaLuz

​“The guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.
The blue sky opens out farther and farther,
the daily sense of failure goes away,
the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.
I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken,
inside "love" there is more joy than we know of,
rain pours down, although the sky is clear of clouds,
there are whole rivers of light.
The universe is shot through in all parts by a single sort of love.
How hard it is to feel that joy in all our four bodies!
Those who hope to be reasonable about it fail.
The arrogance of reason has separated us from that love.
With the word "reason" you already feel miles away.” --Kabir
Kabir was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint, whose writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Painting by Albert Bierstadt

​"If we, indeed, pay attention, even for one day out of our lifetime, and we are, indeed, thoughtful and intuitive, and we are watching very carefully where we are putting our mind and our emotions and our body, we might not get much done that day in the physical, emotional, mental world, but would deliver ourselves from eons of karma." - John-Roger
Put my attention on the here and now for that is where the infinite is. The more I can expand into the awareness of the infinite the illusion of the lower worlds and all it's angst falls away to reveal the wonder.
May you pay attention to the Soul today.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Art by Dale Terbush

​"You are not a beggar unless you choose to express that consciousness. You have free choices. However you will it, you will have it."--John-Roger
"What you behold you can become." -John-Roger
May you step into your Healing, Abundance, Grace and joy!
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
The Golden Temple (The Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, Punjab, India is plated in gold.

​"If your mind plays questions, you can, if you wish, use the spiritual law of assumption: to assume right now you are in Soul consciousness. In this place of the Soul, you experience unconditional loving for yourself and everything around you. Any disturbances are dissolved instantaneously in this awareness all becomes energy that's added for your strength and your purpose".--John-Roger
"...in this awareness all becomes energy that's added for your strength and your purpose."
Coming Aug 10th, a new 6 week program ESSENCE INTO FORM - THE MAGIC AND POWER OF THE TRIANGLE OF MANIFESTATION. Reach out for more information or click on this link
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
artist unknown

​"Observing our beingness is the process that releases
us and opens us and expands us to let the Spirit flow
through us. Yes, it is a miracle, but if we try to
partake of it through our egos, we block it. And so
we have to maintain our openness. We have to say
simply, "Lord, I receive, and I am grateful."
It doesn't matter what religion you practice; we
must all surrender to the highest source we can. All
of us must ask for protection, for that is what
surrender really is -- placing ourselves into the
protecting hands of God."
- John-Roger
"Focus in the positive keep on moving toward your goal. And do your spiritual exercises, repeat affirmations that work for you and use the other tools you've learned about. These things can help you move forward into Spirit--the goal for us all".--John-Roger
One of the most challenging things to do is to expand your focus into the positive when you feel like collapsing into the negative.
To move toward expansion is the Master's path.
The key is to do it.
May grace fill your world and may you rise above the illusion and know the truth.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Photo by Wally Pacholka

​"If you give up your awareness of now, if you act without having a match in your thoughts, emotions, and your physical actions, you can throw yourself into great disturbance. If you tell off another person when you could have been quiet and held a Light Consciousness for them, you bring disturbance to yourself. When you do not maintain your awareness of and your responsibility to the now, the present moment, you separate yourself from your reality. And in that separation, you create your own hell. Then you only know your own Soul by the reflection of those who know the Soul, rather than your own direct experience of Soul." --John-Roger
Last year I had an old friend pass. I had sadness come up and I found myself trying to ignore it, Trying to push it away, trying to distract myself from the grief coming up inside me.
I recognized what I was doing and caught myself.
I then allowed the feelings to come up.
I noticed how they began to flow instead of holding on and trying to damn them up, hold them back, control them.
I realized it was more painful to try and stop them.
The grief came on and I allowed it, observed it.
I let the bittersweet river flow.
It was real and it was alive.
All the rivers eventually flow to love and forgiveness if we allow it.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Photograph by Hubble

"The longer, the more intently you can hold your focus on a point, the sooner you can precipitate that point into greater manifestation for yourself. If you want love, be love."
John-Roger
As we move closer to our vision the petty tyrants, the subconscious fear and misbeliefs of unworthiness can bubble up. They may look like they are there to stop you, but in truth they are brought up to heal and to bring forward the authentic truth of who you are.
"That that can be shook, will be shook." For me what is left after all is shaken off is the core of you, your Soul, your divine self.
If you feel like contracting....expand into the healing and the truth.
The Angel at the Gate is guarding it from the misbeliefs and only letting the purity of who you are through.
May you have true seeing today.
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Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Unknown artist
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