What to do when you find paradise?

Two people are lost in the desert. They are dying from hunger and thirst. Finally, they come to a high wall. On the other side they can hear the sound of a waterfall and birds singing.

Above, they can see the branches of a lush tree extending over the top of the wall. Its fruit look delicious. They can almost taste it. The multisensual experience of paradise alters them.

One of them manages to climb over the wall and disappears down the other side. The other, instead, returns to the desert to help other lost travelers find their way to the oasis.

What is your own dream of paradise? How does finding it or realizing it affect you? Which qualities stand out in yourself?

Comments

[Max Hristov]

Perfect example of true compassion.

[Davina]

Hi Liara. My own dream of paradise is for everyone to be happy (I know it sounds simple, but that is it). I've been living in that space for about a week now and I can tell you that it is spectacular! I am more playful than ever in my life -- have rediscovered a part of myself that had been buried for years and it is overflowing. I'm connecting with strangers... making conversation with them. I feel that in some way I'm reaching out to touch them without actually touching them. And it's highly electrifying :-)

[Liara Covert]

Max, compassion presents lessons in infinite packages. You may appreciate Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior books.

[Liara Covert]

Davina, in truth, every soul is perpetually happy and loving. In fact, this is the core reality that people selectively forget. When you choose to experience anything other than unconditional love and complete acceptance, for yourself and all others, then you choose to block out the truth as part of a soul-level, learning curve. As you identify and learn the lessons, illusions fall away. In essence, you reinstate a timeless, lightness of being and train the mind to experience this more consistently.

[Miruh]

I love this story. However, wouldn't the one who turned back to tell the others about the oasis, have been better off to nurture himself first, so that he has more energy to go back to help more people?

[Mike]

It's the thirst, hunger and sun that get you in the desert so maybe it's important to get fed and watered upon each visit to the oasis. Overtime, ones forays into the desert to look for lost travelers can be extended.

I am close to a certain sense of personal paradise but there is some unexpected weirdness. Then again, I've always enjoyed having my curiosity tickled. I really enjoy your writing for similar reasons (in a good way).

[Liara Covert]

Miruh, the story merely presents two perspectives and they may be viewed as extremes. Infinite possibilities exist. One could imagine additional options in the range of complete selfishness and absolute altruism. Choices are only ever limited by you. They can also be expanded.

[Sandra]

Liara,
Great post! However, the one who goes back hasn't experienced the euphoria of paradise yet. Should he go over, taste the experience, and then go back to share with the others. I think that is what I would do. That is the beauty of choice and freedom of the soul. Peace :-)

[Robin Easton]

Dear Liara,

I'm chuckling because I read this little story and my love of adventure made me feel all excited, curious to see where it would go. Then at the end I thought, "Oh which would I do? This is hard because I want to do it ALL!! LOL!. :) So I would do both and many things in between. I love stories like this. And I guess my thought reflects how my life has been. Both extremes and everything in between. It is just all an adventure. Magical post; it tugs on our curiosity. Even children would love this.

For me just being alive and living Life as a journey and not a destination is infinite Paradise for me. I can't imagine any Paradise great. Thank you dear Liara,

Much love,
Robin

[Liara Covert]

Sandra, another option is to learn how to deliberately split soul consciousness, send one part of yourself over the wall to paradise, and another part of you out into the desert to share the experience as you are having it. One is only limited by self-created limits. None truly exist...

[Liara Covert]

Robyn, as you imply, multiple realities exist simultaneously. This grows apparent as you tap into deeper energy vibration. There is no need to choose here if you sense you already do it all in your own mind. To raise awareness about what you do and when is another story. That is another level of consciousness, in fact, it concerns many. ONe might even say the whole process takes the concept of multi-tasking to a whole new sphere.

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. that was an eye opener .. I just thought about paradise, but it wouldn't last long .. it's just I need a day or two in 'paradise' now for refreshment of mind, body and soul .. well a month would do! I'd do some long awaited chores too .. but I think I'd pop over and then reflect and go back .. we'd need some stores to keep going as Miruh suggests .. then you comment to Sandra about splitting ourselves - having two spiritual parts one to be refreshed and kept topped up and the other to help others ..

Interesting - thanks Hilary Melton-Butcher
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[Bern]

Paradise, Heaven, Freedom, Liberty, exists indeed with each Moment if we surrender our thoughts and attachments based out of the past and the future, allowing us to feel fully in the Now. Life is lived with each breath and with each step we take in relationship to the energy or stimulus received within the environments we engage ourselves in. We can focus with free will upon any focal point upon an infinite spectrum and interact with seen or unseen frequencies or vibrations or spirits that create unique feelings for us to digest. We can fully feel alive in a state of bliss attracting to us upon our path whatever sensations we would like to momentarily marry ourselves with. The moment fully processed, we can unattach ourselves to become nothing in a matrix of everything. We are in Paradise when we allow ourselves to experience that which presents its self before us which is in accordance to that which we attract with our thoughts and intentions. Heaven on earth is easily achieved when we process our undigested feelings and issues stemming from past issues and events. Forgive what was, Let all of life and energy just be, Allow the future to unfold into the present, and invite those spirits or frequencies into your Self that you would like to make love with.

[Liara Covert]

Hilary, as you initially sense one or a few spiritual parts, this actually expands into far more. Paradise implies appreciating where you are and how you think and feel in the moment. You are always expanding and learning.

[Liara Covert]

Bern, that is a beautiful contribution. You remind every being that energy is in perpetual motion. As every human is made of energy, this empowers each person to awaken to the miracles going on every moment in seen and unseen ways. Attune to energy on different levels and amaze the self in ways that transcend everything you have ever thought and felt. Paradise is wherever you are. Heaven is within. Your essence is a profound teacher.

[Megan "JoyGirl!" Bord]

My version of paradise (today) involves awakening more to who or what I really am. Glimpsing the eternal within me. I've had fleeting glimpses, and in those moments, I want for nothing. Nothing for myself, and nothing for others, because I recognize perfection. Not only that, but I feel it in every fiber of my being/non-being.

Ask me tomorrow and my answer may change!

I loved this story, and the comments that followed. Really neat stuff.

[Liara Covert]

Megan, stories awaken the hidden energy within that is connected to universal consciousness. Bit-by-bit, every soul is awakening to reconnect to a web of light that interconnects everything. Every emotion you generate, deny or respond to in other ways, is inviting you to expand on what you consciously experience. Who you are today or at any other moment never changes. How you choose to perceive and accept things, does.

[Liara Covert]

Mike, although you are not always able to describe an invisible energy vibration or why something has appeal, you just know when things resonate and go with it. This defies words, explanation. human perception. Come what may, stillness speaks. Paradise is never lost, only found. Simply choose to sense love has never left you.

[SnaggleTooth]

I believe Paradise is only a temporary time and place because conditions, seasons, people, ect, are all in flux, all change.
The soul who went to help others becomes fulfiled that way, and does not feel guilty. Each has a different way to define contentment, or a place of paradise.
Some like nature, others posh hotels, or towns. It rings true paradise is indeed a place within, not an external location-

[Liara Covert]

SnaggleTooth, to sense paradise is only temporary draws your attention to why you assume human-perceved time has any influence over this experience.

Some people also contend paradise is timeless, constant and accessible to anyone who chooses to connect with the higher mind. Paradise assumes form or formless states based on your current belief system. Your view of paradise reveals ingrained values, priorities and emotions inviting attention. You experience what you think you deserve.