Walk Softly Live Gently

Human Evolution and Play

ronrusso — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:20:25 +0000

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

ronrusso — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:00:49 +0000

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….

ronrusso — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:48:51 +0000

One more time. My impression of the impressionist.

On Energy….2 quotes

ronrusso — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:23:17 +0000

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?

ronrusso — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:16:36 +0000

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

ronrusso — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:12:04 +0000

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

ronrusso — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:50:52 +0000

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

ronrusso — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:24:34 +0000

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

ronrusso — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:38:31 +0000

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

– Neale Donald Walsch

Silence

ronrusso — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:22:50 +0000

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