This morning’s author will be speaking in my local community and working with us in the formation of CommUNITY. The following is reposted from his website.
Robert Rabbin
Good morning to all of you who are as close to me as my own self. You are my own self, as I am yours. Maybe not on the surface, but in the depths we are one and the same. We come from the same place. The one creator makes us. The same force sustains us. We return home together, to the same home. We are all one and the same within the heart of true knowledge. And that heart belongs to each of us, for we are born from that heart and we live as that heart. I welcome you all with love and respect, in the name of that one heart of true knowledge.
Today’s sermon is simple. You will not have to remember anything. You will hardly have to listen. Just sit there and lean back. Relax. Smile. You will like this. I promise.
Just this. I want you to know—each and every one of you—that I love you. I don’t care who you are or what you’ve done. I love you. If you’ve never been loved, I love you. If you’ve been loved, but not enough, I love you. If you have drowned in love, then I will give you new life so that I can drown you again in my love. If you don’t know what love is, I love you. There is nothing else. Just this. If my soul is ever to find peace in this world, then I must admit that this love is true, that it is real, that it alone can bring peace to my soul. It is the only way. I love you. I love you. Please accept this, please let me love you, please help me to love you.
From this moment on, know that someone loves you. Someone worships you. Someone adores you. Someone loves you, worships you, and adores you—without expectation, without compensation, without regard for anything. I am compelled to love you like this because it is the truth. It is not my truth. It is not the truth because some tradition says it is. It is not the truth because some scripture says it is. It is not a fantasy. It is not some whimsical statement made by yet another crackpot waving and shouting from a pulpit. This is the truth of the boundless force and power we call God who has brought this extravagant and endless unbelievable awesome cosmos into being. How do I know?
Because I have experienced it for myself. I have felt the marrow of my bones melt into a slow-moving lava flow full of heat and feeling and wonder. What words can I use? My very body was taken by something that made me shake. Tears came to my eyes. I couldn’t speak. I was submerged in some thickness of energy, some unwet water that held me like a fetus in the womb. My mind stopped. No, that’s not true. There was no mind. There was only feeling of being surrounded and permeated by something whose warmth washed over and over this body, wave after wave, seeping into every single cell, entering everywhere, silencing all, filling the lungs and eyes and brain. It wouldn’t stop; the waves kept washing over my body and seeping through some channel in my bones that were melting.
Someone said, “I feel an ocean of love for you.” Pulled by this tide, helplessly, drifting farther and farther into this feeling. It is love. It is life. It is the soul of all things. It is fullness and fulfillment, beyond wholeness, the very center of silence.
This is the absolute. This is the unchanging. This is the truth. This is it. This love. That is why I say I love you. You are love. I am love. This building is love. Everything is love. I am not speaking of sentiment or infatuation or emotion. I am speaking of death and rebirth, death and resurrection. I am speaking of what you know, of who you are.
There is no other truth, no other attainment, no other sermon to give. Just this. I love you. Please know that you are love, right now, in this moment. You are the very embodiment of love. You are the boundless creation. You are the mighty force and joy of all that exists, and beyond.
Be the love that you are. And know that I love you. You are loved. You are deeply and dearly loved. I don’t know if this makes sense, it my words are reasonable and rationale. Does it matter? Can we not just give ourselves to this true passion, this pulse of creation moving freely within us? Can we not let go of everything else, for just this moment? Just one moment of immersion in this love, this silence, this unending depth and stillness, that is all I ask of you. That is all I ask of myself. Just one moment, one true moment, and all will be well.
Blessings and peace to all!
© 2002/Robert Rabbin/All rights reserved
Robert Rabbin is a writer, speaker, and “solution architect” whose passion for radically engaged spiritual wisdom is expressed in his lectures, workshops, and column of social commentary. MORE
Robert Rabbin will be speaking in Monterey, California to the local IONS group on July 19th at 7:00 PM. His talk is open to the public.
IONS-Insight into Action: Merging Spirit with Political Activism
Monday July 19, 2004
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Event Location: Monterey Beach Resort , Pts. Cabrillo Room, 4th Floor
Street: Hwy 1at (218) Seaside/Del Rey Oaks Exit – on the Beach
City, State, Zip: Monterey, CA 93940
Phone: Anne Auburn 831-659-1424
Notes: Robert Rabbin, writer, speaker, and spiritual activist (http://www.robrabbin.com) will lead our first in-depth theme program on Spiritual Activism. This theme of expanding our spiritual lives to include personal responsibility for the state of the world will be developed over the next three months of meetings, all of which Robert will facilitate. This new format will include active participation by all attendees in dialogue, reflection, and the creation of specific projects we’ll initiate by way of turning “insight into action.” Suggested donation $5.00 and bring a friend.