Yanni's Blog

In my next two blog posts I will be commenting on a passage from my favorite spirit being, White Eagle. White Eagle is a wonderful soul who was channeled by Grace Cook. There is a wealth of published material available if you want to explore his teachings. For more information go to http://www.whiteagle.org

White Eagle was known as the Gentle Brother because of the tender, loving, yet very powerful spirit that his words and presence embodied. He cut to the chase in all that he said, speaking with a simplicity, yet with a directness and a power that cut through all illusions. His goal was to awaken us from the sloth of our ego and help us instead to take flight with the wings of our Soul.

I would like to begin by commenting on the following passage:

In the world there is too much haste; there is no calm, no period of retirement from the battle of life. Some of you are so eager to get on with a particular plan that you feel yourself frustrated by any halt. You become filled with a kind of fever; and maybe when you are told to be patient you say to yourself, ‘But the people in spirit don’t understand the needs of the flesh and the demands of the earthly life.’

My brother, my sister, we in spirit understand only too well the claims of the physical life, for we have, stored up in our souls, experiences such as you are even now undergoing. So when you are told to make time to withdraw from feverish activity, remember that those who proffer this advice have learned the need for this withdrawal; for surely, surely only in the secret places will man make contact with the Source of his being; only in the secret places can he truly pray.

We are all more often than not in a hurry. We are even in a hurry to find time to relax or meditate or pray. How insane! We find ourselves on a treadmill of “doing” one thing after the other. Do, do, do, do, do--all day long! We keep doing “doo” “dooing” all over ourselves.

We somehow think that it is best for us to ignore our innate desire to find calm, comfort and solace in the “still, quiet place within.” Therefore, we never really get in touch with the essence of who we really are and with what really matters in our lives. “Doing” replaces “Being” and we become human “doings” rather than the human “beings” that we are really meant to be.

We are not on this planet solely for the purpose of feverishly running around trying to get an endless, unrelenting series of unforgiving chores done. We are here to deepen our connection with our Source and to learn how to feel embraced by the Love of God/Goddess and to share that embrace with others. We have eternal life and we are meant to deepen our connection to this eternal part of ourselves and not solely identify with the transient, ephemeral, “doing,” present personality part of ourselves.

Life is an opportunity to learn how to deepen and broaden our ability to give and receive Love. What we accomplish or do externally is only meant to be the backdrop for this schooling in learning how to Love. What we “do” is not meant to be our raison d’etre (our reason for being). Our raison d’etre is about coming to truly know and embody the Love that is at the Source of our Being.

By running around and getting caught up in a series of endless “things to do” we avoid our true purpose and live in denial of our true Selves.

This is Part I of a two part Blog.