A HIGHER VIBRATION OR STILLNESS

A warm fresh breeze; the crisp rays of sunlight shining through the clouds on an early evening after a cloudy day; a fresh scent of clean air; the quiet place inside yourself above your minds thoughts; the feelings that bubble up inside your heart ❤️  when you are overcome with deep emotions of love and gratitude. Think about all the wonders surrounding you in life. There is an endless list of gratitude that can take place. From the moment of waking up to a new day; to the suns' rays  shining over the glistening fresh new leaves on the treetops after a fresh rain, creating sparkles of diamonds for you to enjoy. This planet, your body, the gifts poured on you, your breathe.

Higher vibration or stillness, or both all at once. So many choices to choose  from to be still in a higher vibration of glorious beauty and life.

There is turbulence and chaos. A lower energy that wants to fight and swallow  everything and anything in its way. We have a choice. Let random the lesser vibes affect us, or allow our higher intelligence to guide us into a stillness amongst the madness,  creating a sublime higher vibration that transform even what is happening outside around us. It becomes a better habit after a while to choose this special place of healthy healing through the higher vibrations and simple stillness.

It moves from simple to dynamic. It is who we all really are striving to be in. We all are already in it. It's time to catch up and embrace it fully and never look back to that dull dreary world around.

See yourself, feel yourself, feel that vibration inside you as it carries you through your life. Dive into the stillness and fly like a bird to the highest heights.

Higher vibration or stillness. It is both all at once and then some.

❤️ 

All Things Lanes and the journey into becoming : "Once upon a LANES Gallery"

"The name Lane has no direct biblical meaning as a given name, but its biblical significance comes from its use as a word for a narrow path or alley, famously appearing in the parable of the great banquet in Luke 14:21, where Jesus tells his followers to go out into the "streets and lanes of the city". 

Symbolically, "lane" represents the journey of life or a spiritual path, often contrasted with the "broad road" to destruction, highlighting the narrow, difficult but righteous path of godly living."

"The Lanes are a collection of narrow lanes in the city of Brighton and Hove, famous for their small shops (including several antique shops) and narrow alleyways."

As my Maiden Name is Lanes I started researching it's meaning and came upon the two above references. I find both to be very telling for me.

I have always loved antiques, and flea markets, walking through alleys and lanes at sales, along with a very strong empathic calling towards a spiritual longing and understanding of why I am here.

In addition, after my parents moved on, I began the process of paying

more attention to a few items left to me. Once I began this observation

I saw a pattern that my parents had many pieces of artwork that where

of roads, alleys, pathways, streets, ocean lanes, garden paths. In

other words all "LANES". Was this intentional or coincidence?

Knowing my parents as little as I did, I can only guess it was coincidence, but I

want to believe it might have been intentional.

It may seem superficial to be writing about a meaning to a last name,

however in the spiritual sense of things it is an honor to their memory.

I feel the presence of my family name. I look inward to answers daily

as I remember who I am as that which was before choosing the

family and the name; coming into this world.

Being born into a human form is not easy, but with patience, care and 

love; along with these gentle reminders that come to us in our own

unique personal terms, it can be easy and allow a rest into our

spirit of recognition and reasons as to why we are here.

I love being LANES even though I am known as Reverend Dove.

I have become Officially: Cathryn Ariel Lanes Mary Dove, or

CALMD the initials of the birth and spiritual names combined.

I am truly Calmed and I love the visuals around me in artwork and in

nature of all the Lanes I travel and move through to receive insight,

love and awareness especially that surprise me and keep me

feeling grateful and appreciative of this very fleeting life on its' journey

through the Lanes.

Looking forward to establishing "ONCE UPON A LANES GALLERY"  an homage to my heritage and upbringing.

~*~

Biding My Time

Every day there is a staggering array of special little gifts that are brought to my attention through the simplicity of the wildlife that surrounds my humble abode.

I feed the birds, then sit back to watch them. So many come in so many sizes and colors. Even the hummingbird feeder recently put out has attracted a little one. I hadn't seen it, till I turned the corner from inside and there it was flitting in mid air outside the glass door.

It made me think of Dad, who used to sit outside his place and watch the birds, squirrels, dogs, kids coming home from school, and waiting for me to get off of work and sit with him. 

He was a man of few words, but words of wisdom and humor a plenty when he did speak. Leaving this earth at 91 with all his kids around only 4 months ago now, seems so long ago. 

Since then he has come to me in dreams. The sweetness shared causes me to wake with a heart that feels like it's being ripped apart. Growing up Love pains.

I see beautiful sunrises, sunsets, rain showers, rainbows, beauty is everywhere, but I know it is here to comfort me in this little while here on Earth.  I long for my true home, the place whose beauty knows no bounds and has freedom from physical ailments, aches and pains and dying doesn't exist. 

Dying doesn't exist here either, just a falling off of this shell.

I continue to enjoy it, the shell, knowing it has a date with home at some point. I don't fantasize about meeting anyone in particular, not even Dad, as much as I miss him. Just the understanding that all this here is helping me to the next chapter in the bigger picture.

Love knows no bounds. Love takes care of everything. Love in her grace and mercy allows me to feel exactly what I need to feel, understand and receive so I can function in this earthly plane. 

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Awareness beyond the mind is Freedom

 My experience of years of meditation have shown me very clearly that whatever I think has nothing to do with meditation. 

The mind has a job and a purpose but it is the one thing that is in the way of moving into this sublime, beautiful, open space of clarity, wisdom and true awareness.

The process for me was in learning how to be understanding and very compassionate toward the the way the mind would react when it began to feel less needed. But it was in this understanding and loving it and allowing it to have its place, that it eased up and allowed me, who am, even connected to the mind, yet, separate from it, to move into the other realm more freely. 

By trusting me to not throw it away, but to let it do it’s job and in so doing this, I experienced a real sight into my consciousness and soul plane where I became acutely aware of the very distinct places of the two. I was able to give my mind a real rest, while my heart and soul were rejuvenated in this other place.

The two places are very, undoubtably completely and absolutely two different places. And neither one can be there together.

It’s the most profoundly, beautiful and real experience that I continue to engage in and it continues to reveal insights and awarenesses to my soul that even my little mind now can appreciate on some level, even if it really can’t fathom the entirety of it, or even really be in the same place. There is a connection that has surpassed the two realms, where the greater awareness covers the mind Iike a blanket and keeps it safe in its capacity of understanding.

So, the heart and soul know so much and a daily practice of simple breathing, a quiet meditation, a moment to give yourself, love, quietness of the mind, a little qWella Reiki energy, an open space to just be will bring results for the whole body, mind and soul. And through practice, patience, love and grace you too can find the distinction between true awareness and the daily job that the mind has.

The awareness place is the one that is working over time, without any tiredness or eating up on you.

I wish I had better words and all to share this, but for now this will have to do.

May this New Year 2021 bring higher vibrations happening within all of us so we can all experience a freedom within our own bodies before we have to let this shell go.

May all Souls Wake and Arise

There is an essential unity in all religions; that there is no difference in the truths inculcated by the various faiths;  there is but one method by which the world, both external and internal, has evolved; and there is but one Goal admitted by all scriptures. But this basic truth is one that is not easily comprehended.

The discord existing between the different religions, and the ignorance of men, make it almost impossible to lift the veil and have a look at this grand verify.

The creeds foster a spirit of hostility and dissection; ignorance widens the gulf that separates one creed from another. 

Only a few specially gifted persons can rise superior to the influence of their professed creeds and find absolute unanimity in the truths propagated by all great faiths.

* May all souls wake up*

May all injustices be righted by the higher forces that guide everything

A Valentine Divine for You Love

A Sacred Divine Silence of the Heart

Valentine's Day:  

Where the heart and soul long to merge in blissful connection. 

Where lovers embrace with sweet intentions and deeply moving kisses.

Where a sense of a profound gratitude and awe overwhelms the senses in a manner such as that of a young child.

I've read St. Valentine was wrongfully imprisoned. While captive in the tower a young woman, who was pure of heart would come to visit him.

It was in these moments they would sit together and meditate. He revealed secret ancient rituals to connect to the third eye and dive and dissolve  into the realms of the souls' vast chambers.

The gift of love that unfolded and developed proved stronger and more valuable to the young woman than anything else that existed on this planet.

After Valentine was hung he appeared to the young woman in a vision as clear day. It was this moment and the culmination of all their moments shared together in truth, beauty and divine love that has spurred the recognition and remembrance of what St. Valentine stands for.

Today as we acknowledge the love we feel for all those in our lives; may we reflect on the profound ways love touches all of us so deeply.  Always  ready to embrace us and fill our hearts with the purest most fulfilling sacred divine profound silence that radiates joy and love maxamillion.

The joy of these days; to walk on this planet in a state of awe for its beauty and to feel loves embrace all the days of my life leaves me no choice, but to share the magic and give thanks to all that I Love.

Happy Valentine's Day today and always my Love!!🎼🎵🎶💝🌠🌟✨💥💫

Rumi

I have no more words but let the soul speak with the silent articulation of a face......Rumi

And the face is cold without life or breathe but it looks so peaceful and young and no longer suffering from the bodies frailties.

My Mother is the High Priestess and she left in her usual way of style and grace. The angels of Mercy beckoned to her and she had already had her little bits in order for her girls to discover.