{"id":2413,"date":"2023-02-06T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brianvanleeuwen.com\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:56:09","slug":"in-de-bus-richting-jeruzalem-de-heilige-stad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianvanleeuwen.com\/en\/in-de-bus-richting-jeruzalem-de-heilige-stad\/","title":{"rendered":"On the bus to Jerusalem, the holy city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right now I am on the bus heading to Jerusalem, the Holy City.<\/strong><\/span> And the word holy has been popping up more often in recent days. Because what is holy anyway? In Nazareth we walked into a church and there was a sign saying: silence please, this is a holy place. I understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course I am silent out of respect and I also enjoy the "holy silence" that is present there. The silence makes the energy much purer to experience, but still I ask myself the question why here and not in other places?<\/span><\/p>\n

Isn't holiness something that is found in everything around us? Isn't life itself holy?\"in<\/span><\/p>\n

For me, life is sacred everywhere, life is Divine. Not only in a church, a temple or a monastery. Of course, it may be that those places have a more \u201cspecial energy\u201d that can be experienced, but I don\u2019t think it is \u201cholier\u201d, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

As with everything, \u201choliness\u201d is something we experience within.<\/strong> As within, so without. And that same \u201choliness\u201d is in everything we experience. In the trees and in the leaves of the trees. And it is also in those same leaves that fall from the tree during the fall and reunite with the ground of the earth. Holiness is also in eating a croissant and drinking your daily cup of coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n

And perhaps even more difficult to understand, for the head and not for the heart, is the holiness that lies in anger, in rage, in sorrow. Life itself is sacred and perfectly organized.<\/strong> Even the unholy is holy, because there is no such thing as unholy. It is only the duality of man that can label something as \u201choly\u201d and \u201cunholy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When we can experience the holiness and therefore also the beauty in the less pleasant emotions, without judging them, then suffering disappears more and more.<\/em> Suffering is created by the stamps we put on experiences, but honestly\u2026 It\u2019s just an experience. And that experience happens in the field that connects everything. Call it God, call it Spirit, call it Universe. And that field is love, eternal expansion, sacred.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we start to remember that on deeper levels, we can get more into flow with life. And let life happen for us, as it should happen. Not that we can't be in flow, but we can experience it more deeply.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just look around you now and set the intention to experience the sacredness in everything, feel what is happening in you and if you are already able to enter the serenity. It is possible. It is simply a shift of consciousness and focus. Change from within how you look at life and life changes with it. Not that it really changes, life is still life, but I said it already\u2026 Your shift in experiencing consciousness.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So we can choose to see certain parts as holy or unholy. We can choose to experience anger, sadness and joy and then put a label on it \u201cnice\u201d or \u201cnot nice\u201d. Or like in church \u201csilence please, this is a holy place\u201d. But we can also choose to leave the label in the cupboard and just experience life as it is, holy. Not only in church, in a temple or in a monastery, but everywhere you are.<\/span><\/p>\n

And from there\u2026 calmer waters emerge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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