Sheer Natural Beauty

orchid sheer

The beauty of these small pink orchids fascinate me and stir my imagination.

They’re about 2-3 inches across, and most of their petals are very sheer, while the center is bright yellow with tiny fuzzy looking growth. They have an aura of gentle eloquence and refinement. Yet, in their gentleness they also have a very strong presence. Unique and beautiful.

A friend had these orchids in a pot at her house in Thailand on the deck. She said that any orchids she tries to keep outside get eaten by the squirrels! Yes, squirrels any where in the world can be aggravating when they eat our stuff! I suppose that’s an analogy that it’s not our stuff – but Mother Nature’s! 

In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB

 

Green Art

Maybry Mills, VA refined

Green Art

Memories lost but residue still ripples life’s pond

Mind’s walls separate, while Love’s bridges tie together

Natural forces take us home to calm and peace, to the present untethered.

 

This scene is so beautiful I thought I would share it with You. I took this photo in Virginia on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It’s now a historic site called Mabry Mills, but they used to grind corn on a stone mill inside powered by a stream turning the water wheel.

This setting is a popular subject for artists and You are welcomed to use it for creative art too.

In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB

 

You are the only one …

No one can

We reveal the beauty of our soul when we are sincere and open ourselves to the tenderness of our heart and love. When we see the good and beauty in others and think well of them, even when we see the negative too. When give of ourselves in service for our partners, our children, our parents, our friends and others. When we do acts of kindness. When we create works of encouragement and caring through our words, our actions and our constructions. When are truly grateful. When we are at peace. When we are present and are just being. 

We reveal the beauty of our soul unconsciously in every part of us, every minute cell of us. Yet, we normally are not conscious of that beauty, of love. We fear it, thinking it a weakness rather than strength. Yet…

The more you become conscious of your intent to be sincere, tender and loving, and practice that intent, the more you reveal your True Strength and Power. And, in that beauty comes your happiness and freedom.

No one else can do it for You.

In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB


“Your human intelligence is that within you which must learn the lesson of love. You are saturated with Love, made up and sustained by It; Love is the Foundation on which you are based. But you must realize this, perceive it to be so, and by thought and action build up a superstructure of Love and Harmony on the very Foundation of Love which Nature gave you at birth.” 

Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, page 394.

Reflective Canvases for 2015

Thank You 

It has been an enlightening year for me and I hope it has for You too. 

 I am grateful for all of the help and inspirations I have received from many sources, including You, and for the support of the One Source.

With the help of the Great Law we will continue on our spiritual journey, in pursuit of revealing a bit more Light of our Soul everyday. 

I appreciate all the comments that You have made this year and hope You make more in the upcoming posts! It helps us all. 

In the hope You find Love close at hand this very moment and every moment,
Portia SLB    and    The Lightbearer Center


Reflective Canvases for 2015

newborn 1

FreeDigitalPhotos.net, patrisyu

Life is license for transformation!


Soul and Mind

FreeDigitalPhotos.net, Clare Bloomfield

Being self-conscious of unconditional Love and compassion is allowing an Enlightened Mind.


Newborns are very sincere. They are expressing their Soul.
Newborns are very sincere. They are expressing their Soul.
FreeDigtalPhotos.net,  David Castillo Dominici
“Truth never destroys anything. It is fundamentally a creative Power.
Today is Truth. Tomorrow is a belief in something. ”

aura of love

FreeDigitalPhotos.net, David Castillo Dominici

We spend most of our life unconscious of the best part of our self …


FourSquare_Pyramid

“We have that longing and yearning within us to go back to the Father, to the Absolute, and whenever we find a channel through which we can achieve that return to Him, a channel opened by Love, we are only too glad to use it, because it is the inmost desire of our heart, it is the love of our Soul.” 

Ascend egotistic status quo

release all thought

obtuse  space  time

breath                                      

                                                   effervescent illumination

allow Inward Soul                                     

                                   to be in control

Empyrean


Nature's Sunflowers

We live in constructed civilization, yet we are still surrounded by nature’s bounty …


A Dream

A Dream

Stone on my heart, heavy


A State of Mind

Even a novice photographer can capture the scenic beauty and power of Alaska on an iPad. And, there is more to it than meets the eye!

Alaska Reflection


Glacier Melt

The different states of water can be used to symbolize the different states of mind.


Foggy Alaska

We are capable of being Wise and Loving beyond measure, yet …


Cherry blossom cloud

In the Japanese tradition and art the cherry tree is symbolic of …


always been

Heart and Mind   reaches   for  ALL   that   Is


savage dog

Arrows Fly→→→


humanity and suffering

So Good at Heart, but Why Do We Suffer?

Recognizing the Driving Force and Root of Suffering

Negating Seeds of Suffering

Empowering Ourselves

Simple Mindful Methods to Alleviate What Pains Us

Freedom from Subconscious Enslavement


Drifting Desires

New desires drift in, some repeating.


Buttercup Gold

The kid inside
welcomes the bright
golden gift of love
and pure joy.


Reflections on Thai River

The calmer and more serene we are mentally and emotionally the better we are able to realize …


Enjoy the Moment

Pink
Gentle rose
Your beauty frees . . .


Shiny Bee

White flowers, bees wings, buzz does day glorify.


image

You are beautiful, kind smile, wise eyes that see the depth of here,


seashells with butt

All experiences, even ‘bad and ugly’ experiences have value.


Purple and White are Our Colors not our Heart

As beautiful as the pansies are the question remains, ‘What’s love got to do with it?


 

Dark, dark hole

It’s a dark, dark hole;
The center of our life
At one time


 

Joy's Flower

The important fact is…


 

dew grass refined

Harsh control of childhood-will,

Result – …


 

Discrimination

 Discrimination is considered a bad thing. But, is that true?


Spiderwisp

Karmic Effect becomes a cause for another cycle → Thought → …


Pink flower with dew refined 2

Source deep inside, drowns the heart, surfaces to windows of discerning


 

no evil 2

The ego likes to think we cannot see Light without darkness.


 

cafe 4

drinking sweet chai tea and waiting for You
I think of the lyrics and what they mean


 

Enjoy the Moment

Living a Conscious Heart


radiant heart 6

Consider consciously participating in the liberation of yourself with this powerful exercise.


 

clouds and horizon refined

Brave heart, inspiration, life’s quest for the soul does entreat.


 

helps the rest of us


St Petersburg, Russia mosaic

And in our heart we regret them and hope that harmony returns.


 

cat tail on lake refined

Nature’s sweet music not for ears, heralds Spirits of Light that interweave


silent cry 2

Silent cry, …


Between souls


what 6

We’ve all been there. Some people just have a knack for pissing us off!


conflict

do we purposefully create conflict in our life?


I am One

The origin from which we come


The Hots

It doesn’t really want to know why it’s that way.


Sunrise Bridge

Our behaviors dominated by feelings of love not only transforms us, but because of  …


 

Jungle Trail2

Their cry deepens then overwhelms


Power to create


terror

Terrorists use religious and self-righteous claims as a means to unconsciously …


Don't blame me!

the butterfly wings beats definitely cause a real effect. The same is true of …

Fractal Nature of our World


beautiful lake with fence

“The seasons of our life are different units of life, and each …


Complain2

If you are unconscious of emotional contagion …


emotions jump

Have you ever gotten drawn in to an emotional argument because you were the nearest one around? 


A walk in the park, Helsinki

We can live our life sleep walking not knowing how powerful a force we are in the world.


To Love 2


 

bee and butterfly

Where is our happiness?


 

rain3 animated

It’s a pattern with most of us. We see someone’s faults…


 

December Rose in repose


busy bees smooth

Okay, you may not like this entry, or at least the ego may not. It can sting.


 

Until the New Year’s entry consider this quote to reflect upon:

“Sincerity, which is a form of Truth, is a rare thing on Earth. It is Truth passing through the Door of Love.”

Eugene Fersen, Aphorisms of The Lightbearer, page 145.

 

 

This May Sting!

busy bees smooth

Okay, you may not like this entry, or at least the ego may not. It can sting.

Most of us are dissatisfied with who we are or the way we are. We don’t trust ourselves, and even think we’re a terrible person at times. We’re also impatient in our dissatisfaction, but we’ve got our pride. We cannot change into something different, transcend this unwanted personality  until we get a good look at it. 

The personality is primarily created by the subconscious ego. We allow ourselves to be dominated by the ego which is self-serving, fearful and dualistic. We create a troubled reality because of it.

To regain control over our lives, our personality and create a more positive reality, we must be mindful and conscious in the moment – in a state of consciousness that we take responsibility for. But, the ego doesn’t want us to be conscious, mindful, or listen to our intuition and discriminate – it’s self-centered like that! We battle our conscience. It’s a vicious cycle. 

How Did We Get Here?

The subconscious is our storage box of memories, thoughts, desires, and habitual emotional traits like fear, doubt, worry, loneliness, shame, and resentment. We’ve been conditioned to follow its dictates. It is a major factor in shaping our personality, or parts thereof, that we are dissatisfied with. We identify ourselves with subconscious traits and emotionally empower them as behaviors! “I’m mad, I’m lonely, I’m ashamed.” 

The ego lacks discrimination and supports ignorance. After centuries of history repeating itself we should be able to see the truth in that. We don’t know ourselves. But, we must know ourselves in order to free ourselves of those parts that cause us pain and suffering.

Our personality, our reality, is something we created and agreed to. Fortunately, even from the darkness of the subconscious ego, it is our destiny to evolve and harmonize ourselves and become fully empowered. 

Conscious Intent in Action!

It is our deepest desire and hope to align our personality with our soul. As we courageously make a conscious intent and live the qualities of love like consideration, kindness and caring we bit by bit gain control of our life, transforming our personality. As we consciously release negative egotistic traits we integrate personality and soul, becoming beings of Light here on earth. We transform our reality. 

We may still experience pain, because we all suffer, but our inner happiness, peace and joy are not dependent on it. 

The ego dislikes such information, but I hope you got a smile out of it!  

In Light and with Love, Portia SLB


 “… Lucifer typifies the human mind with all its errors and limitation. This name has been ground in the mire and dirt for centuries but only through the regeneration of mind can improvement come.”

Account of Lecture by Eugene Fersen, The Teacher, Volume 1, page 106.


Comments are welcomed! And, remember Your Higher Self never hesitates!

December Rose

December Rose in repose

It’s incredible! You wouldn’t expect a rose to bloom in the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere, but it can! This rose is in the front of my abode and continues to bloom, even with the weather turning colder as the season progresses. 

The beauty of a rose or anything in nature touches something inside us emotionally. That is because we feel the vibrational attraction of love. The energy of the earth has the essence of beauty and love. And, expresses the nature and attraction of love in uncountable ways.  

And, we are attracted to it. It can melt our cold heart.

As our heart melts, our consciousness rises. Love can do that, bring out the tenderness of our heart and we become conscious of love.

It’s indicative of finding Love close at hand when we allow ourselves to experience beauty. And beauty is evident in a rose! 

In the hope You find Love close at hand, Portia SLB


“Accept Love as something normal.”

Eugene Fersen, Aphorisms of The Lightbearer, page 69.

Where is Our Happiness?

bee and butterfly

It is only in the present moment that we experience anything!

And, experiencing the moment is our life – in it we create our reality.

If we spend this moment thinking about what to do next, hurry up and finish this or what happened yesterday we are squandering our life. If we spend it trapped in subconscious traits of worry, anger, loneliness, and fear we are squandering now. We are creating a reality to sleepwalk in. 

Our happiness is in this moment. Even if we remember happy moments in the past or possible ones in the future we are squandering now. Our obsession with time is a tool of the subconscious ego that feeds itself.

Connecting with Nature and enjoying the beauty of Mother Nature helps us remember our own inner beauty and helps us connect with Now. Any beauty, does when we recognize it and emotionally connect through love (beauty is a quality of love). 

Thus, the mind being dominated by love helps us consciously reconnect with our Superconsciousness, our intuition and inner wisdom, which opens us to a vast expanding universal consciousness of which is Love. 

In the hope You find beauty close at hand, Portia SLB


“It is Mind which, when misused debases Life, and it is the problem of mind to regenerate Life, through the proper use of Knowledge.”

Eugene Fersen, Science of Being, page 247.

The Seasons of Our Life

 

beautiful lake with fence

“The seasons of our life are different units of life, and each opportunity carries with itself the different seasons, they are indissolubly connected one with another. 
In the Summer there is opportunity to increase the creation; in the Fall there is opportunity to gather the creation, and in the Winter is the opportunity to spend properly that, which as be gathered. 
Now this is Life and how lovely and how interesting it is according to the Four Seasons.”    Eugene Fersen


I’ve been meditating a bit about life and death and am grateful that I have made it thus far in my life, age wise and experience wise, etc. I’m now more conscious of the seasons of my life having gained some perspective and insights. I am coming to the peace of feeling that death will be another step in life and a joyous time, with the help of the Great Principle.  

In the hope You find Love close at hand in every season of your life, Portia SLB

 

Your insights and comments are always welcome too!

Fractal Nature of our World

 

Ocean chaos 2    Ocean chaos

Ocean Chaos 3    Ocean Chaos 4

Chaotic water swills in the present, but what effect will it have?
How far will the effects reach?
How does it affect You now?


Sometimes our lives can be a bit chaotic! Maybe a bit more than we would like to admit. And, though we may not know the deep reason for the chaos, there is some rhyme and reason to it. 

Karma of the beating of a butterfly’s wings

Chaos is natural element in nature like air turbulence, the weather, and even our mental states. It’s like the beating of a butterfly’s wings.Don't blame me!

The butterfly wings beat the air and the effects may be felt as a hurricane later somewhere across the world. We don’t know if that’s true, but the butterfly wings beats definitely cause a real effect.

The same is true of every thought we have, every emotion, every behavior. We stir things up, creating chaos.

The nature of chaos is complex, yet through some understanding we can better prepare ourselves in the moment. Even though time appears to be linear, our life is nonlinear. The present moment is interconnected to the past and future. Still our body is only in the present moment, so synchronizing mind with body consciously sets us up for opportunities to create a harmonious and happy life. By being conscious in the moment we can avoid those elements that may be detrimental to our well-being and attract those that are beneficial. 

 It’s full of surprises and unexpected situations. 

The beauty of an unexpected life

Yet, the idea of the unexpected in our life can be beautiful and even help us organize our life. It can help simplify our life.

Knowing that life is fractal and can be chaotic gives us some insights, and opens a door to deeper understanding with compassion for ourselves. We may not consciously know the effects of what we are doing this very moment. Yet, when we do the right thing, that is we are living our authentic power with intelligence, truth and love, then we will draw a ‘like’ effect because of the Universal Law of Cause and Effect and Law of Attraction which are uncompromising. The effects can be much more far reaching than we may ever know.

Far reaching effects of pay it forward

What we may consider an inconsequential thought or behavior may lead to major effect. It’s a pay it forward type of thing. What we do now, this very moment, may have far reaching effects around the world sooner or later. We are all connected to each other and to the Universal Laws that work in-conjunction. What we think this very moment may nudge someone else to open their heart or mind, and it spreads to those around them, then to their community and eventually it may spread around the world. That’s power! 

So our opportunity as a soul is to BE. To BE and radiate in our thoughts, feelings and behaviors – enthusiasm, intelligence, truth and most of all Love. This is our authentic power as a soul and it is that much more powerful because of being one with All Spirit. 

We have the greatest asset we can ever have – the help of the Great Principle. We can Trust that when we do the right thing in this moment, the most wise and tender hearted, then the Universal Laws work out the effect harmoniously! 

Teachings of the fractal nature of our world

And if there is anything that chaos teaches us it is – to expect the unexpected! It teaches us to live in the moment fully and to be mindful. To be grateful for now. To be grateful that we don’t know what’s next, otherwise there would be nothing to look forward to! There would be no adventure.

Life is an adventure. Life is fractal. It’s simple! There is some rhyme and reason even in chaos.

In the hope You find Love close at hand, Portia SLB


Consider this quote to reflect upon:

“The Great Principle is the One Point. There is nothing more simple than a point. At the same time the Great Principle is a Sphere. There is nothing more perfect, complete, and at the same time more simple than a sphere. It is perfection in absolute simplicity.”

Eugene Fersen, Science of Being, page 22. 

 

The Power to Create – A Key to Happiness

 

Power to create

Russia can be considered a country of contrasts, or a least it is to me! There is the beauty of the people, their rich culture, past history accomplishments in art and its reconstruction after the terrible wars. Then there is the darkness, the suppression, the control and lost of freedom that they have suffered.

Yet, the greatest thing I have learned from the beautiful people there, and from people everywhere, is that creativity is a means to reconstruct happiness! Remember when you where a child and spent hours creating stories, crayon pictures, paintings, dirt roads for our matchbox cars, Lego buildings and even worlds! We were happy in our creativity!

In creativity  there is no contrast, rather blending of past and present, present and future, destruction and construction, even darkness and light. Because darkness though it may appear to be complete,  we see the Light when we turn towards it.

We turn towards Light and Love. The act of  being creative is beautiful because the mind of the creator is beautiful. And beauty is a quality of Love.

Mind and Love creates beautiful thoughts, ideas, emotions, behaviors and physical manifestations! And, through the Law of Attraction we create our reality – we create our happiness!

In the hope You find Love close at hand, Portia SLB