COSMIC GRACE
PRIMAL REPOSE
“OLDER THAN GOD”
A STATE OF BEING THAT CANNOT BE DISTURBED
PERFECT POSSESSION IS REQUIRED BEYOND WORDS AND THOUGHTS
RETURN TO SIMPLY BE ORIGINAL TRUTH OF BEING
A HOMECOMING THAT NEVER WENT ANYWHERE
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4:34 AM - 6/7/15
Before this longing,
I lived serene as a fish
At one with the plants in the pond,
The mare's tail, the floating frogbite,
Among my eight-legged friends,
Open like a pool, a lesser parsnip,
Like a leech, looping myself along,
A bug-eyed edible one,
A mouth like a stickleback,-
A thing quiescent!
But now-
The wild stream, the sea itself cannot contain me:
I dive with the black hag, the cormorant,
Or walk the pebbly shore with the humpbacked heron,
Shaking out my catch in the morning sunlight,
Or rise with the gar-eagle, the great-winged condor,
Floating over the mountains,
Pitting my breast against the rushing air,
A phoenix, sure of my body,
Perpetually rising out of myself,
My wings hovering over the shorebirds,
Or beating against the black clouds of the storm,
Protecting the sea-cliffs.
–Theodore Roethke
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/2015/06/her-longing.html
Images of Cormorant below from google
a buzzing/roaring/mating hummingbird couple
was suddenly swooping up and down around my head!
We walked on to find Mr. Guru Rooster and his Golden Hen
in the old garden/sheeplot.
and does not wear the shirt of love,
such an existence is a deep disgrace.
Be foolishly in love,
because love is all there is.
There is no way into presence
except through a love exchange.
If someone asks, But what is love?
answer, Dissolving the will.
who have escaped the questions
of freewill and fate.
Love is an emperor.
The two worlds play across him.
He barely notices their tumbling game.
Love and lover live in eternity.Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being
. How long do you lay embracing a corpse?
Love rather the soul, which cannot be held.
but love is not seasonal.
With wine pressed from grapes,
expect a hangover.
But this love path has no expectations.
Dismount. Travel lighter.
Wings will be given.
Be clear like a mirror
reflecting nothing.
Be clean of pictures and the worry
that comes with images.
Gaze into what is not ashamed
or afraid of any truth.
Contain all human faces in your own
without any judgment of them.
What is inside that? you ask.
Silence is all I can say.
Lovers have some secrets
That they keep.
~ Rumi
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2014/12/be-foolishly-in-love.html
and does not wear the shirt of love,
such an existence is a deep disgrace.
Be foolishly in love,
because love is all there is.
There is no way into presence
except through a love exchange.
If someone asks, But what is love?
answer, Dissolving the will.
True freedom comes to those
who have escaped the questions
of freewill and fate.
Love is an emperor.
The two worlds play across him.
He barely notices their tumbling game.
Love and lover live in eternity.
Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being
. How long do you lay embracing a corpse?
Love rather the soul, which cannot be held.
Anything born in spring dies in the fall,
but love is not seasonal.
With wine pressed from grapes,
expect a hangover.
But this love path has no expectations.
You are uneasy riding the body?
Dismount. Travel lighter.
Wings will be given.
Be clear like a mirror
reflecting nothing.
Be clean of pictures and the worry
that comes with images.
Gaze into what is not ashamed
or afraid of any truth.
Contain all human faces in your own
without any judgment of them.
Be pure emptiness.
What is inside that? you ask.
Silence is all I can say.
Lovers have some secrets
That they keep.
~ Rumi
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2014/12/be-foolishly-in-love.html