Truly, the universe never lets us down. The signs are with us every step of the way. Yet until we have surrendered to universal guidance, the same stumbling blocks prevent us fulfilling our dreams over and over again. We were taught to rely on our own best judgment but that should not preclude us from allowing the universe its say.

It is precisely when our judgment is particularly off-course that the universe intercedes repeatedly in attempts to illuminate the way. We will only see this when we have accepted its validity, and have kept our minds quiet enough to perceive the signs all around us. The signs need not be spectacular events; they may be as simple as stubbing your toe every time you reach for something you shouldn’t.

I am no expert in reading signs, in fact it is usually the third attempt that reaches me. But thankfully the signs, when not recognized at first glance, do come in rapid succession. I surrender on three. :)

Diane

Moreover, Religion is the regulator for such path because nothing in this world has no map!

Let me present one example. I mentioned Michelangelo’s unfinished sculptures, ‘The Prisoners’ the other day. And it made me reflect on what is unfinished and imprisoned in myself.

Later that same day I was doing some spiritual reading from ‘The Life of St Hedwig’ going like this;
‘This servant of God was well aware that those living stones which were to be laid in the building of the heavenly Jerusalem had to be trimmed clean in this world by much hammering and chipping; she knew that many tribulations had to be endured if she was to cross over to the splendor of heaven, the homeland of glory…’… My reflections from earlier was so to speak comforted by these words. It’s ok, we are not to the goal of our dream yet, we are journeying on.

… Another example of a repetition, on a lighter side. Yesterday, I visited a client who had a huge Bob Marley poster on the wall…this morning Paulo is singing Bob Marley on his blog. No big revelation, but just sweet.

Perhaps, I have a bolt loose…

I’m a bit torn about how much attention to pay to these things. Sometimes I think it takes away from living life productively. Rather than doing practical good, I sit in dreamland wondering at the reasons for my signs.

Good story.

Kathleen xx

Think about the Japanese ideograms: several signs combined in a specific way become a word;

The language of signs connected with our attention and soul gives our strictly individual street.

:)

“…there are some who have dreams
of birds flying in the shapes
of letters; the sky’s
codes;
and dream also
the significance of numbers (count
petals of certain flowers)”

- Margaret Atwood

And so, after reading this, I wrote a poem about woman who could read this “language of signs” – the “sky’s codes” – but whose lover was blind to all but the mathematics and material “facts” of the world:

CAPTIVE BIRDS

The words are in the trees,
I tell you,
but you only look away,
refuse to see.

Sweetness is a small silk pouch
I keep tucked beneath my rib,
I tell you. Kiss, just here,
and the world will open for you.

But I do not speak loudly enough,
or the words are only in my mind,
or the words are outside your window
in the trees, or the words are birds
that flew away before you knew them.

The words are in the trees,
I tell you,
but you only stare at the numbered squares,
dates on the calendar above your desk.
You refuse to see.

- Savita Vega

In taking the very first basic lessons, one should pay attention creating that silence that allows the new first words and language’s rules becoming part of us.

The language of signs speaks to part of our soul. The impotant thing to keep in mind is that , apart the initial suggestions of wise people, we must learn what is a sign and what is an illusion …everybody becomes able to do it sooner or later but we must remember that any master or teacher but our soul and faith are there to teach us continuously how to go further.