Heart's Symphony

When I am with you…what I really enjoy is not you; it’s something that’s greater than both you and me.  It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn’t stop.  When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful.  And, when I’m alone, it continues to play.  There’s a great repertoire and it never ceases to play.

–      “Awareness” by Anthony DeMello

There have been many gifts of insight while travelling and moving from place and meeting old friends again, or meeting new ones.  I have begun to realize this Heart symphony that Anthony DeMello is speaking about here.  He has such a beautiful way of putting it. 

This subtle “Heart Symphony” isn’t really a sound at all, is it?  It’s no sound, yet it feels full and complete, with a sense of all is well just as it is.   In a good symphony, the collective sounds do seem to come together in harmony and in unison as one sound, don’t they?

Where are we coming from while relationship happens?  Telling the truth about it …   Am I in and as That Which is Seeing what is being experienced while I’m in relationship?  Or, am I getting caught up in the experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant; either shutting down or trying to direct it in some way?  This can show up in many ways.

Relationship seems to be where “the rubber meets the road” and shows us exactly where we are.  Do we just have an intellectual understanding about Truth and how it all works?  Or, are we applying what we have come to understand? 

Anthony continues to say …

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements.  They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.” … But, these are the easiest things in the world if you haven’t identified with the “me.”

This “me” tends to get caught up and involved in what is coming and going in our life … wanting it to be this way and not wanting it to be that way.  Or, just excludes the person all together through a sense of wrong or even hate by disliking somebody or something intensely, ourselves included. 

So, Anthony’s “difficult things” can be areas of transformation in our lives as we shift out of the “me” through opening to our Heart’s Symphony.  Then, this transformation comes natural … returning love for hate … including the excluded … admitting that I am wrong.

It all comes down to one thing…are we honoring and living from this Truth?

We are the giver of existence to the whole world.

- Bhagavan Ramana

Living this truth, there is only one here and we are that.  Now, we can just be the Seeing and simply enjoy the Heart’s Symphony … a perfect melody from here.

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