Welcome
I would like to offer you a warm welcome and sincerely hope that you find something in my blog that is of value to you.
My primary purpose in this blog is to share my book, Messages From the Love Within. which is a collection of messages or poems offering insights and understanding on many different issues of everyday life with the spiritual journey.
And to add a dimension I couldn’t last year, I am including commentary on my poems written by AI, predominately Chat GPT. To do this, my question to AI was what do you think this poem is saying? I then posted one of my poems. I was so impressed with the responses I received I thought they were worth sharing with you.
When I read my poems, my understanding of what they are saying is influenced by my personal beliefs and life experiences, and I feel that limits any commentary I may offer. AI doesn’t do that, it reads each line objectively and comments accordingly, which I feel adds value to you the reader.
A Little About Automatic Writing
I wrote Messages From the Love Within via a process called ‘Automatic Writing’ over a two-year period in 1995 and 1996. For those not familiar with Automatic Writing it is a simple process where without really thinking you just write. It is as if the pen moves and talks to me through words. I have no idea of what is to be written next until I start to write and I keep going until something within me knows to stop. It is a natural effortless process. So effortless I had to reread what I had written as I couldn’t remember, I even found a poem some years later that I have no memory of writing but it was in my pad amongst others and in my writing, so I must have.
Ordinarily, I would not choose to write in the poetry style that these messages are written in, but with automatic writing, you don’t really have a choice, and on reflection, I can now see that the format has allowed them to be concise and concentrated. They demonstrate a powerful cut through nature – they get to the point – something that would have been very difficult to achieve using my normal writing style and being in this concentrated format I have found them to be a great complement to other spiritual and self-development books.
How I came to write ‘Messages From the Love Within’
Raised in a large Catholic family, I was in my early twenties when I decided I was more suited to the spiritual and meditation path more than a structured religious one. In the mid-1980s I embraced the ‘new age movement’ exploring different ideas and concepts, different religions, spiritual teachers, and teachings, and in the 1990s I traveled regularly to India. It was following one of those trips in 1995 that I started to write the poems in Messages From the Love Within
During that trip, following several days of feeling unusually sleepy and tired, I experienced a moment of intense clarity and understanding that changed the way I looked at life, particularly related to duality. That world where we try to be good not bad, strong not weak, right not wrong, superior not inferior, or win and not lose.
Another way to describe this world is the world as seen and experienced through the ego or that part of the mind that believes we are separate from each other. It is represented clearly by thoughts such as, I am not like that or I would never do that. It is the source of false confidence, the confidence that is there because of what we believe we have achieved. Confidence, that is easily damaged by a loss, a mistake, or a critical word from another.
Realizing the futility of trying to control or conquer this world, I made a very definite decision – I was going into the world of the-equals, not really having any idea at the time, what that meant or was. I then noticed the tiredness of the past few days had disappeared.
That night I had what for me was a life-changing spiritual experience and like many deeply moving experiences, it is very hard to properly convey in words. I would best describe it as having the love, purity, and wisdom that I believe is the source of who we are, becoming one with me and me becoming one with everything. If I grew up in an Eastern or Middle Eastern religion or even no religion, I may describe the experience in different words but I have no doubt the experience, regardless of my religious upbringing, would have been the same.
It was a taste of the world of the equals, a fearless world, full of love and acceptance. A world that is always there, just waiting for us, patiently waiting for each and every one of us to return, in our own way, in our own time. A world where love is the dominant feeling and freedom, truth, and love are one. Where fear is no longer needed, neither is judgment or competition. Some would describe that world as Heaven and I would agree with them.
Birth of ‘Messages From the Love Within’
About one month later, back at home in Australia, I had a dream showing me to write. During that dream, I felt a surge of energy move through the palms of my hands, I then saw myself collapse on the floor. Next, I remember seeing myself sitting at a desk, writing on a pad, and saying out loud – I understand, I now automatically write.
A few days later I thought I would see what would happen if I sat at a desk with pen and paper as I had seen myself in the dream. Almost immediately I started to write. Words flowed easily, effortlessly, and very quickly. They came in a poetry-style format covering many different topics and I found if I needed to think of what to write next it was time to stop, as the truth of the message may be distorted by my personal perception of what should be. This process continued for the next few months and then again in 1996. Of note is that prior to the dream, other than when required to at school I never wrote poetry and rarely read it. So writing in that format was very different for me.
That night in 1995 changed my life, but it was only a turning point, it was by no means the end of the journey. It is now 2023 and my journey is continuing but made so much easier by using these messages as a guide. They have helped me understand many situations that may have otherwise led to prolonged feelings of frustration, anger, and all the unwanted stress that is associated with holding on to those emotions.
Also, since then, I have found it very easy to feel the love within me, and at some point, along my journey, I realized it had become like a best friend. A friend who is always there, but I have also learned that when I allow fear and judgment to dominate my thinking I cannot feel it. It seems to just disappear, and then when I let the fear and judgment leave, magically it is back.
Final thoughts
Throughout the messages, the word love is used and as it can be a very confusing word I would like to clarify the love I am writing about. It is not necessarily about being in love or loving everyone or everything. It is about choosing to feel love in spite of what the world is doing or saying around you. This love is within us all, it is unconditional and unchanging so feeling it can never be dependent upon any life situation. It is free and equally available, even to those who feel the whole world is rejecting them and for me, that is true equality and true freedom.
If you choose to secure a complete copy of my book or choose to read the messages as they appear on this blog I hope you enjoy them and that they guide you as they have me, through what can be a wonderful but at the same time, very confusing journey of life.
One suggestion I offer is that when you read them pay attention to each line, even to the phrases in each line. The years have taught me that every word has a purpose with none wasted, although that purpose may not be seen until it is wanted or needed. In summary, as in all writings or teachings direct from the source of who we are, the words in these messages are supportive, accepting, inspirational, and for those who wish their lives to be dominated by feelings of love, happiness, contentment, extremely valuable.
Contact
If you would like to contact me please do so via my email address: messagesfromthelovewithin@gmail.com I will only use your contact details to respond to your email and they will be stored in that Gmail account’s inbox.
With Love Maureen
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