Glory Unto Thee
It seems odd to use glory as a word which describes the pilgrimage experience. One’s shoes are dusty from the road and painful from the stones upon it; one has hardships, thirsts, hungers and [yet one still] seeks. How can this be glorious? Yet, if you will open the heart and request a sense of praise, thanksgiving, worship and adoration of the one infinite Creator, suddenly glory will be understood by you, the glory of all that there is, the glory of the journey, the glory of its beginning, its ending, and its infinite progression.
You are taught to feel unglorious; you are taught to doubt the self, to esteem the self most lowly and to act defensively. The greatest blockage to an awareness and a feeling of intensity, passion, thankfulness, and glory is the focus one has on one’s distortions of behavior which does not forgive the faculty of free will for blindsiding you with a variety of feelings and states of mind. You are not intended to be perfect people. You are intended to be pilgrims. For you are the active principle of the infinite One. You are the crossroads of eternity and time, of reality and illusion. And in any illusion there is the moment when that illusion is shattered and the wonder comes upon one.
When one becomes still enough to cease the speaking one rapidly becomes aware of the astonishing and miraculous wonder and the beauty of the creation. All of this beauty is within you, all of the Creator is within you, all of the creation is within you. So, when you give glory to the Creator, you give glory to the deepest part of yourself and affirm your ultimate and far-off nature, affirm that you are a prodigal moving through strange lands, faring variously and aiming at last for home.
– Q’uo, December 3, 1989