Guidance from Eileen Caddy
- By Eileen Caddy
- Published 08/26/2010
Eileen Caddy
One of the co-founders of the Findhorn Community, Eileen Caddy, received guidance from the "still voice within" and shared it with others in the community for more than 40 years. Today we continue this tradition by printing her guidance in the community's weekly newsletter and by sharing it with the wider world through this mailing list.
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Feel Exhilarated and Uplifted
Let there be balance in everything. Work hard, but also learn to play hard, to enjoy life and do the things you really love doing whatever they may be. It matters not if your pleasures are simple or extravagant as long as you find a real joy and pleasure in them. When you are doing something you really enjoy it matters not how strenuous it may be. You will not feel exhausted but will feel exhilarated and uplifted. Work should never be drudgery and it never will be when your attitude towards it is right and you enjoy what you are doing.
One Step at a Time
Never try to look too far ahead; that in itself can cause great strain and stress. You can only take that one step at a time and the next will follow at exactly the right time. Let things unfold and do not try to manipulate them. Do not get annoyed and impatient when things do not work out quite as you had expected and hoped; but instead look for and see the purpose and plan running through all that is taking place and realise that all is for the very best.
Demonstrate What Faith Means to You
It is quite useless to talk about faith or read about it if you do not live by it - and you cannot live by it unless you try it and put it into practice. It means you have to step off the deep end and swim, not just paddle around in the shallows with your foot on the bottom pretending to yourselves that you can swim. You have to demonstrate what faith means to you, and expect the seemingly impossible to become possible. It does not matter how many times you fall; simply pick yourselves up and try again and again.
Never be Afraid of Change
Learn to let go and move forward in absolute freedom, and once you have let go never look backward, but ever forward. Once you have set the ball rolling and have accepted a completely new life, have no regrets but accept it all with real joy and thanksgiving. Regrets can hold you back and can prevent the most wonderful things taking place in your lives. Keep open so that anything can happen. Never be afraid of change, of the New.
Go Ahead in Faith
Fear nothing: there is nothing to fear when you are at one with all life. That is why I constantly remind you to be ever aware of Me and of My divine presence. When your whole being is filled with Light and Love - there is no room for any negativity, for light and darkness cannot abide together any more than love and fear. Whatever you undertake, no matter how seemingly impossible or heavy the task may be, do it fearlessly with the knowledge that you are not doing it on your own, but that I AM with you always. Go ahead in faith and do what you know has to be done and see perfect results.
The First Move Is Always Yours
Where is that spirit of adventure within you that enables you to step out fearlessly and with a feeling of real excitement and expectation into the unknown? As you are willing to do this you will grow in stature and in strength. Simply going along in the same old way day in and day out will get you nowhere and you cannot hope to grow and expand spiritually. You have to want to move forward, you have to want to pioneer a new and exciting way of life. I cannot help you to move into the New unless you are willing to do so. The first move is always yours.
Be A Perfectionist In Everything You Undertake
Learn to do what you know you can do perfectly. Let your standards be of the very highest and if you feel you are not giving of your very best in what you are doing, be willing to change in mid-stream and find out what your capabilities are. I ask you not to be a dabbler in many things but a perfectionist in everything you undertake. If necessary be willing to be instructed until you have really mastered what you are doing. Be willing to learn and never feel that you know all the answers, there is always something new to learn.
Take Nothing for Granted
Do you know that the best things are free? They are there for all to enjoy and to glory in it. Do you appreciate them to the full and give eternal thanks for all these wonderful things, or do you take everything for granted and in doing so miss the joy and wonder of it all? To take anything or anyone for granted takes all the sparkle out of life.
Be Like a Mighty Tree
Take time to be still and know Me and know without a shadow of doubt that I dwell within you, that I AM you, that there is no separation. Be like a mighty tree whose roots sink deep into the earth, whose trunk is firm and solid with the life force flowing strongly through it forming its branches and leaves. I AM the life force that flows within each one of you, without that life force you would be nothing. Be ever aware of this and give eternal thanks that you are conscious of this life force and are strong and unshakable in the midst of a world of chaos and confusion. Be strong and of good courage.
Find Your Own Centre
Be not affected by outer conditions and circumstances, be not swayed by the moods or the state of mind of those around you. Be not like a piece of mercury, up one moment and down the next, dependent entirely upon what is going on around you. Find your own centre deep within you. Know the I AM, the centre of your very being and nothing and no one can affect it, ruffle it or destroy it in any way. Your foundations must be rock like and unshakable at this time and each individual must find that depth and stability within themselves. No one can find it for you.
You Can Do It and You Are Doing It
There is no stress or strain in nature: a seed goes through its full cycle, it does not have to do anything, it just allows it all to happen. When a snake changes its skin, it slowly wiggles out of its old one. A bird cracks open its shell and emerges completely transformed, it grows wings and can fly - it is free, free, free! That is what is waiting to happen to you. A new freedom, a new joy, a whole new world is waiting to open for you when you are willing to move out of those restrictive ways, thoughts and ideas and be transformed. You can do it and you are doing it. It is all beginning to take place.
Be Willing
Keep your hearts open to one another. Look for the highest good in each other and work from that higher level of consciousness. Encourage each other in every way possible; every soul needs encouragement. You will find as you help others that you help yourselves to grow at the same time. It is a two-way thing. The more you give the more you will receive, so give and give and count not the cost. Be willing to give all and hold nothing back. Be willing to lose everything to gain the things that really matter in life, the things of the spirit which are from everlasting to everlasting. A whole new world is unfolding; remember to give constant thanks for everything.
Change That And You Will Change Everything
Let all you do be done with joy, then it can never be a burden, nor can you bowed down by it nor exhausted by it. Your right attitude to everything is vitally important. You all know this in theory, but what do you do about it in practice? That is what matters. Life is what you make it. What are you doing with your life? Are you bowed down by the weight of it? Do you feel you have too much to do, that there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done? Why not stop and take time to search your hearts and see exactly what your attitude is towards life? Change that and you will change everything, it's simply up to you.
Let there be balance in everything. Work hard, but also learn to play hard, to enjoy life and do the things you really love doing whatever they may be. It matters not if your pleasures are simple or extravagant as long as you find a real joy and pleasure in them. When you are doing something you really enjoy it matters not how strenuous it may be. You will not feel exhausted but will feel exhilarated and uplifted. Work should never be drudgery and it never will be when your attitude towards it is right and you enjoy what you are doing.
One Step at a Time
Never try to look too far ahead; that in itself can cause great strain and stress. You can only take that one step at a time and the next will follow at exactly the right time. Let things unfold and do not try to manipulate them. Do not get annoyed and impatient when things do not work out quite as you had expected and hoped; but instead look for and see the purpose and plan running through all that is taking place and realise that all is for the very best.
Demonstrate What Faith Means to You
It is quite useless to talk about faith or read about it if you do not live by it - and you cannot live by it unless you try it and put it into practice. It means you have to step off the deep end and swim, not just paddle around in the shallows with your foot on the bottom pretending to yourselves that you can swim. You have to demonstrate what faith means to you, and expect the seemingly impossible to become possible. It does not matter how many times you fall; simply pick yourselves up and try again and again.
Never be Afraid of Change
Learn to let go and move forward in absolute freedom, and once you have let go never look backward, but ever forward. Once you have set the ball rolling and have accepted a completely new life, have no regrets but accept it all with real joy and thanksgiving. Regrets can hold you back and can prevent the most wonderful things taking place in your lives. Keep open so that anything can happen. Never be afraid of change, of the New.
Go Ahead in Faith
Fear nothing: there is nothing to fear when you are at one with all life. That is why I constantly remind you to be ever aware of Me and of My divine presence. When your whole being is filled with Light and Love - there is no room for any negativity, for light and darkness cannot abide together any more than love and fear. Whatever you undertake, no matter how seemingly impossible or heavy the task may be, do it fearlessly with the knowledge that you are not doing it on your own, but that I AM with you always. Go ahead in faith and do what you know has to be done and see perfect results.
The First Move Is Always Yours
Where is that spirit of adventure within you that enables you to step out fearlessly and with a feeling of real excitement and expectation into the unknown? As you are willing to do this you will grow in stature and in strength. Simply going along in the same old way day in and day out will get you nowhere and you cannot hope to grow and expand spiritually. You have to want to move forward, you have to want to pioneer a new and exciting way of life. I cannot help you to move into the New unless you are willing to do so. The first move is always yours.
Be A Perfectionist In Everything You Undertake
Learn to do what you know you can do perfectly. Let your standards be of the very highest and if you feel you are not giving of your very best in what you are doing, be willing to change in mid-stream and find out what your capabilities are. I ask you not to be a dabbler in many things but a perfectionist in everything you undertake. If necessary be willing to be instructed until you have really mastered what you are doing. Be willing to learn and never feel that you know all the answers, there is always something new to learn.
Take Nothing for Granted
Do you know that the best things are free? They are there for all to enjoy and to glory in it. Do you appreciate them to the full and give eternal thanks for all these wonderful things, or do you take everything for granted and in doing so miss the joy and wonder of it all? To take anything or anyone for granted takes all the sparkle out of life.
Be Like a Mighty Tree
Take time to be still and know Me and know without a shadow of doubt that I dwell within you, that I AM you, that there is no separation. Be like a mighty tree whose roots sink deep into the earth, whose trunk is firm and solid with the life force flowing strongly through it forming its branches and leaves. I AM the life force that flows within each one of you, without that life force you would be nothing. Be ever aware of this and give eternal thanks that you are conscious of this life force and are strong and unshakable in the midst of a world of chaos and confusion. Be strong and of good courage.
Find Your Own Centre
Be not affected by outer conditions and circumstances, be not swayed by the moods or the state of mind of those around you. Be not like a piece of mercury, up one moment and down the next, dependent entirely upon what is going on around you. Find your own centre deep within you. Know the I AM, the centre of your very being and nothing and no one can affect it, ruffle it or destroy it in any way. Your foundations must be rock like and unshakable at this time and each individual must find that depth and stability within themselves. No one can find it for you.
You Can Do It and You Are Doing It
There is no stress or strain in nature: a seed goes through its full cycle, it does not have to do anything, it just allows it all to happen. When a snake changes its skin, it slowly wiggles out of its old one. A bird cracks open its shell and emerges completely transformed, it grows wings and can fly - it is free, free, free! That is what is waiting to happen to you. A new freedom, a new joy, a whole new world is waiting to open for you when you are willing to move out of those restrictive ways, thoughts and ideas and be transformed. You can do it and you are doing it. It is all beginning to take place.
Be Willing
Keep your hearts open to one another. Look for the highest good in each other and work from that higher level of consciousness. Encourage each other in every way possible; every soul needs encouragement. You will find as you help others that you help yourselves to grow at the same time. It is a two-way thing. The more you give the more you will receive, so give and give and count not the cost. Be willing to give all and hold nothing back. Be willing to lose everything to gain the things that really matter in life, the things of the spirit which are from everlasting to everlasting. A whole new world is unfolding; remember to give constant thanks for everything.
Change That And You Will Change Everything
Let all you do be done with joy, then it can never be a burden, nor can you bowed down by it nor exhausted by it. Your right attitude to everything is vitally important. You all know this in theory, but what do you do about it in practice? That is what matters. Life is what you make it. What are you doing with your life? Are you bowed down by the weight of it? Do you feel you have too much to do, that there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done? Why not stop and take time to search your hearts and see exactly what your attitude is towards life? Change that and you will change everything, it's simply up to you.