A Gift: Spiritual Journey on Love

By Grace B. Eleazar

This book of poetry says it all. A Gift is divided into four sections, and each section has poems that fit the flavor of that section. The gift comes in the insight that accompanies each poem. There is nothing preachy herejust a deep reflective sharing.

In Natures Ways, the first section, you can feel her love for nature. It is this love of the environment that is one of our key resonances. She shares her life lessons interwoven with the tapestry of nature.

Part two is Love Principles. I am an incurable romantic. My heart soars when someone receives so deeply and gives so profoundly. She is nuanced in her relationships and has a quite profound affinity for cosmic forces.

Part three is The Past. In this section one has a sense of her soul traveling through life, her aspirations, and her relationships. One feels the intensity in which she lives life, the depths of her giving, and her capacity for love.

Part four, Life Principles, is exactly that. One can feel the prisms in which she captures life. Nuanced in and out, this section offers the wisdom of perception and reflection.

Old Soul. Grace Eleazar is an old soul, as is evident in her reflections on life and her longings. One senses the maturity of a well-traveled soul that has learned to take life without pettiness or bitterness but goes deep despite whatever pain its lessons offer.

The Gift. This is such an appropriate title for a book wherein the author bestows gifts for life itself. On every page and in every line, she gives of herself in the honesty of her sharing.

One can live life and then go on, or one can live life and make that life a gift. This is in essence what The Gift is about.

It is my honor to be the authors friend.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504927123

Grace B. Eleazar

Graciela Bañas Eleazar is the President of Phoenix Sun International Corporation. She graduated at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. She has been in real estate business for the last twenty five years. Her support for complimentary medicine coupled with her passion for environmental concerns influenced her to practice her wholistic philosophy in community development.

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A GIFT

SPIRITUAL JOURNEY ON LOVE

Table Of Contents

Nature’s Ways

I

Message From The Sky

Changing Seasons

Light Of Dawn

Setting Sun

Sun And Rain

El Pueblo Tree

Star

Nature’s Symphony

Diamonds

Birthday Place

True Art

Chilly Wind

Expressions

Nature’s Senses

Creative Fire

Rain’s Symphony

Dawn

To You Who I Admire

Love Principles

II

Love’s Rite Of Passage

Love

Forgetting

Essence Of Our Being

You

A Shell

The Ocean

The Sound

A Beautiful Morning

On My Way To Your Heart

The Parting

Real Love

Soul Love

Love’s Reward

Nature’s Love

The Past

III

A Thousand Faces

A Half Forgotten Dream

Questions

Love From Time Past

Corridors Of Time

Love Pact

Love’s Creation

On Her 60Th Birthday

What Can I Give You?

Life Principles

IV

Chrysalis Of Your Butterfly Self

Here... Here I Am

Patience

Meditation

Shaping Our Souls

A New Tapestry

Chime Bells

This Moment

Keep Walking

(Borrowed Slogan)

Humble Pie

Healthy Body

Works Of Men

Landscape Of Time

One Soul... One Sky

Chariots Of Fire

(Borrowed Title Of A Song)

Push And Pull

Mirrors Of Our Soul

Farewell

How Can I Forget?

Does Love Fade Away?

Where Is The Man

That My Soul Loveth?

The Vow

Coda

You Say, I Say

V

To all the souls who bestowed on me

the gifts of experience because of my encounters

( even if brief ) with them I offer my heartfelt gratitude.

Foreword

Man through the passage of time has been given countless chances to experience life. It is rare for man to grab each and every opportunity and venture fearlessly and courageously into the waters of existence. We as humans have been blest by the gods for we were given an aspectin consciousness called emotion which distinguishes us from the animal kingdom.

We emote…

We feel…

We experience….

We are humans becoming… experiencing the unfolding of life. We are not called Human Be… an indication that the creative process is complete… we are aptly called Human Being… an entity that is forever in the process of ‘unfolding‘ and becoming"… a divinecreation endowed with the sacred presence that expresses life.

Life to be life always has to live… and living means expressing. I, for one have gone through a gamut of multitudinous emotions… from jealousy to hate… to envy and anger… through fear and worry… right compassion and generosity, patience and understanding… loving and wanting… and letting go… and the sublime act of giving… without any expectation of anything… not even a preconditioned response.

It is not very often that one is blest with all the forms of love… love for parents, siblings… motherly love, love for a marriage partner… love for a lover… love for a friend, love for business associates, love for a teacher who held your hand and guided you through life… love for a kindred spirit that goes beyond the physical… love from a past life that brings you to different worlds of dimensions… levels of realities that are not bounded by time.

This vignette of poems is the result of those dreamful levels that collapsed into one particular moment… like a star going into a black hole… forever engulfed… no time… no space… just the Now Moment

The sharing of these poems whoever lays eyes on them is meant to help the human psyche cope with the shift in love’s paradigm in the world view… Man, the most wonderful creation of the Divine… removes the shackles that has forever bound him… the handcuffs that he has created in his own mind and soul because of the dogmas, doctrines, traditions and man made belief systems claimed to be initiated by external gods or a god of our own creation... These poems were originally inspired by our romantic notions on love but as I was adding more poems and insights, the manuscript went into a process of metamorphosis into a different level of interaction principles that can help us cope with our other cooperative relationships

The challenges and disappointments that we encounter in our lives act as catalysts to awaken us to our true nature and purpose of our existence which is to align our physical self to our inner self. However, the recognition of our two selves is an illusory process which naturally evolves into a deep realization that there were never two aspects of our nature… for they are one and the same.

Our transformative experiences will ultimately bring us to the ultimate goal of life… the recognition that the life force that is within us is no other but Our Divine Self.

For we all come from the spirit of the Divine.

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Nature’s Ways

I

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A silhouette of a bird… in flight… from a distance

Against the backdrop of Infinite sea and sky

Flying… flying towards my direction… seeking my presence

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Hovering… Calling forth my name

A message from heaven is what it intends to bring

Flying still… allowing its image to be claimed

Gentle wind sustaining its wings

I paused... in silence while I watched the endless sea and sky

Waiting for the thoughts the Infinite wants to

communicate with me

Birds… a symbol bestowed upon me by a sage

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