Human Evolution and Play

With penetrating Attention,

wide-eyed, inspects;

blend seeing, appetite, and memory–

frisky, frolicking in the pool:

One mind–

giving movements of a different mind

Vast distance? — no, …a wink!

So much fun.

by Rose

2007

September 1st, 2007

Our Life of Dreams

It’s not as if one day you’ll just look down, and discover that you’re on the yellow brick road, living the life of your dreams. But that one day you’ll look back and discover you always have been.

Another….

One more time. My impression of the impressionist.

On Energy….2 quotes

What’s draining your energy?

“Energy is equal to desire and purpose.”

– Sheryl Adams

“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”

– Wayne Dyer

Bubbles?

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream.
‘What are you?’ I cried to them as they drifted by.
‘I am a bubble, of course’ nearly a myriad bubbles answered,
and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed.
But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered,
‘We are this stream’,
and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices,
but just a quiet certitude. -

Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei

Differentiation and Integration

Do you recognize the timeless
One who is aware of all this?
If so please tell me

Who and what you are

When you are deeper than
within.

Clouds pass by.
Feelings pass by.
Thoughts pass by.

What in you does not pass by?
Do you see that One?

Can you say its Name?

RonRusso

EXPERIENCING THE HOLY

Mysticism begins when the totally transcendent image of God starts to recede; and there’s a deepening sense of God as immanent, present, here, now, within me. Augustine’s line was “God is more intimate to me than I am to myself” or “more me than I am myself.” St. Catherine of Genoa shouted it in the streets, “My deepest me is God!”

So you must overcome the gap to know—and then Someone Else is doing the knowing through you. God is no longer “out there.” At this point, it’s not like one has a new relationship with God; it’s like one has a whole new God! “God himself is my counselor, and at night my innermost being instructs me,” says the Psalmist (16:7).

The mystics are those who are let in on this secret mystery of God’s love affair with all souls, and recognize the simultaneous love affair with the individual soul—as if it were the only one God loves. It’s absolutely our unique affair, and that sets the whole thing on a different and deeper ground than mere organized religion can ever achieve by itself.

Richard Rohr

Angelus Silesius

God, whose love and joy
are present everywhere,
can’t come to visit you
unless you aren’t there.

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God is a pure no-thing,
concealed in now and here:
the less you reach for him,
the more he will appear.

Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)

Comfort Zone

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

– Neale Donald Walsch

Silence

The power of silence

“Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence.”

– Dr. Ira Progoff

“Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others… And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.”

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It’s the place of reflection and contemplation, and it’s the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.”

– Angeles Arrien

Reality

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Walt Whitman

Now is the Time

Now is the Time

Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God.

Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child’s training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
With veracity
And love.

Hafiz is a divine envoy
Whom the Beloved
Has written a holy message upon.

My dear, please tell me,
Why do you still
Throw sticks at your heart
And God?

What is it in that sweet voice inside
That incites you to fear?

Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.

This is the time for you to compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.

Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is sacred.

- Hafiz

paradox

“I have found the paradox,

that if you love until it hurts,

there can be no more hurt,

only more love.”

Mother Teresa

Heart Love

There is a difference between somone

who is in your thoughts

and when you feel someone

from the heart.

From the heart love blossoms,

in your thoughts it’s only an Idea!

From: zeerakkhan on Twitter

(slightly revised from the cropped Twitter version for clarity)

Desire

Dancing ecstatic
with awakened consciousness
cosmic fireworks

ronrusso

One Taste

Taste of Eternity

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.”

Nisargadatta

Amen.

i am so glad and very

i am so glad and very
merely my fourth will cure
the laziest self of weary
the hugest sea of shore

so far your nearness reaches
a lucky fifth of you
turns people into eachs
and cowards into grow

our can’ts were born to happen
our mosts have died in more
our twentieth will open
wide a wide open door

we are so both and oneful
night cannot be so sky
sky cannot be so sunful
i am through you so

e.e. cummings

ee cummings

Be Still….

None of us are completely present. So don’t feel guilty, but do know presence is still the great teacher, those enlightened moments that come now and then. When we are manipulating, changing, controlling, and fixing, we are not there yet. We cannot be present to something and trying to change it at the same time.
The calculating mind is the opposite of the contemplative mind. The first is taught by the systems of our world, the second by the Holy Spirit.We might consider this prayer to try to draw ourselves into a contemplative frame of mind:

Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be.

Richard Rohr

Seeing

 

 

Seeing

Look at the words on this page.

Observe your eyes picking up the light,

your mind making out the symbols and interpreting the words.

Observe your mind thinking about what these words mean.

Observe yourself thinking…

Understanding… 

Now step back from your mind

and observe the part of you that can observe your thoughts.

What is that that can observe thought

0

or no thought?

What is that? 

Take a moment and observe your consciousness.

You can’t see it physically, or feel it,

but you can be made aware of it.

You become aware of it

by observing it. 

As it is what you are

it behooves you to know it.

By realizing that which you are

you come to know why you were born.

There is a purpose to your existence, and it’s time to discover it.

Once you know the purpose for which you incarnated

you can begin fulfilling that purpose and you will be guided to.

Once you begin fulfilling your life purpose

your life will be more fulfilling,

more meaningful,

happier.

From the Heart, 
Steven S. Sadleir 

 

Joy

“The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.”

– Torkom Saraydarian

“Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.”

– Sathya Sai Baba