Blog Archives - Dorothea Mills

"Abiding in the Unknowing" < "Dancing with The Tao" Sunrise/Noon March 31, 2014

3/31/2014

"Dancing with The Tao"
Ancient/Embryonic Recognition

When I am off-balance
I react with fear, anger, and confusion.
When I am more balanced
I react with awareness and effectiveness.
When I am completely balanced in my soul,
I am not aware of acting at all.
I am dancing with the Tao.

The Sage's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for the Second Half of Life
by
William Martin

It is all a question of story.

We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good one.

Thomas Berry
(see Read More below)

"Out In The Wild" Sunrise March 30, 2014

3/30/2014

I walked the Path of the Idiot to get here,
Burning scriptures for warmth, along the way.
How sweet to find you in this Vastness.
Are you mad, as well?
Chuck Surface

I thought I was alone out here,
Out in the Wild.

How sweet to find you in this Vastness.
Are you mad, as well?

If not, you will be.
Free at last from “sanity”.

So few leave the village of the Great Teachings,
And wander Here, Alone.

The few I've met have been driven by Life,
To push open the village gates, and abandon all knowledge.

What drove you to such desperation,
Taking those fearful steps into the Inconceivable?

There are no concepts here for one seeking knowledge.
Your teacher, The Unknowable, will remove all certitude.

And don't worry about arrogance,
That's not possible here, in the face of… This.

You will never understand this Vastness,
Write a book, and offer guided tours.

Such a din in the spiritual marketplace.
While here, butterfly wings are raucous within the Silence.

I walked the Path of the Idiot to get here,
Burning scriptures for warmth, along the way.

Now I have become…
Wildness.

The Timeless Eternality,
The Spaceless Infinitude,
The Objectless Wholeness,

The Fullness and Completion,
Existence, Consciousness, Bliss.

Chuck Surface
www.gardenofthebeloved.com

Alone Out Here
by
Chuck Surface

I thought I was alone out here,
Out in the Wild.

How sweet to find you in this Vastness.
Are you mad, as well?

If not, you will be.
Free at last from “sanity”.

So few leave the village of the Great Teachings,
And wander Here, Alone.

The few I've met have been driven by Life,
To push open the village gates, and abandon all knowledge.

What drove you to such desperation,
Taking those fearful steps into the Inconceivable?

There are no concepts here for one seeking knowledge.
Your teacher, The Unknowable, will remove all certitude.

And don't worry about arrogance,
That's not possible here, in the face of… This.

You will never understand this Vastness,
Write a book, and offer guided tours.

Such a din in the spiritual marketplace.
While here, butterfly wings are raucous within the Silence.

I walked the Path of the Idiot to get here,
Burning scriptures for warmth, along the way.

Now I have become…
Wildness.

The Timeless Eternality,
The Spaceless Infinitude,
The Objectless Wholeness,
The Fullness and Completion,
Existence, Consciousness, Bliss.

www.gardenofthebeloved.com

"Be Love" Sunrise/Noon March 29, 2014

3/29/2014

It is not what you do or do not do,
But the Quality of your Love,
That brings the Rains of Heaven.
Chuck Surface

The only thing you have to do is "be love" -- in the most pure and authentic way
that "being love" is for you in any given moment.
Sometimes love's expression is inward, and sometimes it is outward
(yet, paradoxically, it is always both).
It matters not what it is, except that it be true love....
Allison
http://goddesspower.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/note-to-self.html

BELIEVE < BELOVE
ew

The Rains of Heaven
by
Chuck Surface

When I wandered in search of Heaven,
I encountered villages along the way,
And inquired of each, the path to follow.

In each, a different way was pointed,
And the “correct” manner in which to walk.
And in each, a different description of Heaven.

Each description was of… something else,
Something other than my Heart's Desire,
An Ancient Memory of a Love forgotten.

When I spoke of this Love's guiding Mercy,
Surely bringing me one day to its Fulfillment,
They mocked my naivete, saying…

Not until…

Not until I stopped doing this, and began doing that.
Not until I renounced, and led a chaste life.
Not until I purified my impure nature.

Not until I meditated perfectly.
Not until I accrued sufficient merit.
Not until I transcended.

Not until…

Not until I saw as they saw,
Not until I understood as they understood,
Not until I experienced as they experienced.

Poor villagers,
Huddled behind the walls of the known,
Fearing the Wilderness more than hell itself.

I did naught of what I was told I must,
And reveled in those things I was told I must not,
Stoned along the way by the righteous.

My Heart, Surrendered, a Captive of Love,
My Mind, a Dreamer of Unimaginable Grace,
My Spirit, a Sobbing Lover in Exile.

Wherever I found myself,
However “sinful” my thoughts, speech, and actions,
I felt always and everywhere… Unbearable Longing.

In each step, each breath, every heartbeat,
I walked, always, with a Heart in tears,
For Love as yet unknown, but Known.

And living thus, a Wilderness Wanderer,
With Longing, alone, the substance of my sadhana,
“i” found Her… at last… and died in Her arms.

It is not what you do, or do not do,
But the Quality of your Love,
That brings the Rains of Heaven.

Drenched, Soaking, Enraptured… I swear it.

I swear it.

www.gardenofthebeloved.com

Be Love

You long to Love,
And to be Loved?

Become Love.

And this Longing will vanish,
In its Own Fulfillment.

Chuck Surface
****see below at end

Can you allow situations to change with grace?
Almine

When we hold onto the situations of our life,
not allowing them to transform with grace,
we invite drastic change thru death.
Almine

****"Be Love" by Chuck Surface
was first read and then added to this already-titled "Be Love" post
early a.m. March 30th 2014...

Swollen Ouroboros - Serpent of Fire Sunrise/Noon March 28, 2014

3/28/2014

THE PEACE OF GOD
IS ALL THAT IS NOW
AND
FOREVER MORE.

THE LOVE OF GOD EXUDES SILENTLY
FROM THIS SOUL.
THAT IS ALL.

NOTHING CAN IMPEDE
THE OUTPOURING
OF
SUCH LOVE.

NOTHING CAN IMPEDE
THE OUTPICTURING
OF
WHAT IS.

ew
from
The Galactic Teachings, v.II
Rapturous Knowings
1998

Quanfirmation Sunrise Sunrise/Afternoon March 27, 2014

3/28/2014

Life spins on a dime, and if we enter the next moment without expectation,
the ability to salvage the day may yet present itself.
Almine

'Almine discusses the stages of enlightenment and why it’s dangerous to stay in either the emptiness or the bliss. She explains why withdrawing from life is not the answer
and how eventually we must learn that ‘the play has a purpose’.

http://youtu.be/vRHyUnjXBu0

WHEN YOU ARE CREATION YOU NO LONGER CREATE.

ALL SIMPLY IS.

THE WORLD SEES MANIFESTATION.

I AM RADIANT DIVINE LOVE WHICH NOTHING DISTURBS.

I AM LIVING SILENCE WHICH EXPRESSES THE ONLY POWER THERE IS.

DIVINE LOVE
IS
MORE SILENT THAN BREATH.

MORE SILENT THAN BREATH
IS
THE ENSOULED INFINITE.

ASK THE QUESTION OF LORD GOD WITHIN
AND
THE QUIET ANSWER
EMERGES
INSTANTLY.

TO TALK IT OUT LOUD
KEEPS ONE FROM HEARING THE INNER WISDOM.

TO TALK OUT LOUD
ONLY BRINGS ON
OTHERS’ PROJECTIONS FROM REALMS/SPHERES NOT OF THE I AM.

ew
excerpt from
The Galactic Teachings, v.I
1998

"From The Peace of Oneness....." Sunrise March 26, 2014

3/26/2014

FROM THE PEACE OF ONENESS ....

WHEN
AN OTHER SPITS ACCUSATIONS
AND
DARKNESS UPON YOU.....

BE STILL AND KNOW.

THIS IS A TRAPPED SOUL
TELLING YOU SPECIFICALLY
WHAT IS TRAPPING IT
IN THE
PARTICULAR BEING

NOT IN YOU

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FIX AN OTHER
OR
EXPLAIN....

SIMPLY
TAKE THE DEEP BREATH
THAT HOLDS YOU IN THE PERFECTION
OF
DIVINE LOVE

BOTH SOULS UNDERSTANDING TRUTH
IN SPITE OF
EGO’S TENACIOUS HOLD

ew
from
Disappearance - Speechless Words
1992

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Crescent Moon meets Venus
For the next few days the waning crescent Moon and the diamond light of Venus
will be pairing up to create a lovely and inspiring spectacle in the predawn sky.
The Moon will rise first followed by Venus. This is a highly auspicious once-a month pairing.
Their union is a positive and encouraging energy whether you can see it or not.
If you sleep through it, that’s fine.
You’re sure to have a lovely dream that will inspire with hope and optimism.

http://boothstars.com/

FROM THE PEACE OF ONENESS

WHEN
AN OTHER SPITS ACCUSATIONS
AND
DARKNESS UPON YOU.....

BE STILL AND KNOW

THIS IS A TRAPPED SOUL
TELLING YOU SPECIFICALLY
WHAT IS TRAPPING IT
IN THE
PARTICULAR BEING

NOT IN YOU

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FIX AN OTHER
OR
EXPLAIN

SIMPLY
TAKE THE DEEP BREATH
THAT HOLDS YOU IN THE PERFECTION
OF
DIVINE LOVE

BOTH SOULS UNDERSTANDING TRUTH
IN SPITE OF
EGO’S TENACIOUS HOLD

ew
from
Disappearance - Speechless Words
1992

"To be responsible only for one’s self is the core of an attitude
that refuses to save those who manipulate through ineptness."
Almine

http://www.alminediary.com/taking-responsibility-for-your-life/

Paused/Nourished via The Divine Void Sunrise March 25, 2014

3/25/2014

DIVINE LOVE BIRTHS

A PERFECT DEATH

OF THAT WHICH IS

ALREADY DEAD

ew
from
Yes! If He's a Holy Man
1988

"You Take Me Where I Am Not" < The Divine Void Sunrise/Noon March 24, 2014

3/24/2014

YOU TAKE ME WHERE I AM NOT
YOU BRING ME TO WHERE I AM
AND THEN
FAR BEYOND THE AM AND AM NOT....

ONE FLOWS INTO THE OTHER

THE GREAT BREATHER’S
INHALING…..EXHALING

AND

THE PAUSES IN BETWEEN.

(above photos are a ship on predawn horizon)

AS THE PAUSES INCREASE

I AM NEITHER THIS OR THAT.

I AM-YOU ARE
NEITHER
THIS OR THAT

ew
March 21, 2004

To stand alone in true solitude
is to stand in the recognition
of the absolute completeness and unity
of all manner of existence.

And from that common ground,
where nothing and no one is foreign to you,
your love extends across the magnitude of time
and embraces the greatest and smallest of things.
Adyashanti
http://www.adyashanti.org/index.php?file=writings_inner&writingid=52

“Do not seek the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.”
Hsin-Hsin Ming

http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Hsin-Hsin-Ming.pdf

WALK QUIETLY

CONTAINED ONLY IN THE
INVISIBLE WORLD OF DIVINE VOID

WHICH IS BEYOND
THOUGHTS AND AWARENESS

ew
Excerpt from
Transcending Possession
1992

YOU TAKE ME WHERE I AM NOT
YOU BRING ME TO WHERE I AM
AND THEN
FAR BEYOND THE AM AND AM NOT.

ONE FLOWS INTO THE OTHER

THE GREAT BREATHER’S
INHALING…..EXHALING

AND

THE PAUSES IN BETWEEN.

AS THE PAUSES INCREASE

I AM NEITHER THIS OR THAT.

I AM-YOU ARE NEITHER

THIS OR THAT

ew
March 21, 2004

"Any More Than a Duck" < Yielding into Greater Than God Sunrise/Noon March 23, 2014

3/23/2014

Rising Phoenix from Eternal Fire.....
Wings of Rarefied Living Light

Immediately after Hearing
"Yielding into 'Greater than God'"
we were Turned to see the above Yin/Yang of the sun

Yielding into Single Vision

Above Phrase Inner-Heard on Sunrise Beach 2/27/14
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/1/post/2014/02/god-is-greater-noon-february-27-2014.html

ANY MORE THAN A DUCK

Release and let flow through you anything you feel has become yours.
It may be a thought, a stance, or something more material, a house, a table, a horse.
Isn't it clear that existence comes from nonexistence?
We so deeply know that without understanding it.

Delivery arrives from the invisible.
In that moment there is no room for why or how.
What we can do though, is see.

We admire the growing garden, the fading sky; we taste the blossoming conversation.

All songs and motions have purposes we cannot say, any more than a duck,
with its joyful body floating in the love of a river, can explain its happiness.

Be absorbed in being, in this sweet weather, pleasures coming and remembered.
Fully here, you may get to look over into the other and feel its wholeness filling you.

from:
The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi
Coleman Barks

What we call our actions are in fact involuntary,
and our supposed personal free-will is nothing
but an ineffectual and temporary obstruction to the natural,
involuntary workings of the universe.

But even our false assumption of volition
is as involuntary as everything else
and can only fall off
when we have involuntarily seen it as false.
The Net of Jewels
March 23
Ramesh Balsekar

Graced Superfluity of Wholeheartedness Sunrise/Afternoon March 22, 2014

3/22/2014

Making positive effort to stop thinking as a spiritual practice is an exercise in futility,
and so is any other kind of effort.

The only effective effort is instant apperception of truth,
which is in fact effortless.

The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNDPJ9o_ts
Mastery and Bliss
"In this video Almine uproots the simplistic definition of mastery that much of spirituality owes its life to.
The common conception of mastery is here scrutinized as an overpolarization into the Known,
which is blissed-out and discernible, safe and holy.

Besides the serious challenge of addiction (to bliss) that such a life faces, there is very little growth. Therefore, mastery, as defined by Almine, is not about wearing robes and going into seclusion.
Rather, it is about being able to function from the silence of the mind
when re-entering the human experience.

Evolving beyond the stagnant pool of the Known means going into the trenches of the Unknown,
and getting - so to speak - our hands dirty."

****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snJiU6Du9FI
Reading Signs in our Environment

"The Sound of One Hand Clapping" Sunrise/Noon March 21, 2014

3/21/2014

Unbidden Inner Awareness at Sunrise

Has this life become
so "alone with the Alone"
it is ONLY
The Sound of One Hand Clapping?

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
<
**** "What is the sound of one person loving?"

Life Force as The Clapper in Bell
Bell as Divinity's Consciousness or Formlessnes in Form
<
State of Grace Clapper is Moved by Divinity as Rumi's ****"Drowning Man"

This is the Life Force Evershining thru All That Is in the Formlessness in Form.
Clapper tones are Shared and Adjusted by Divnity's ItSelf.

**** What is the sound of one person loving?"
http://www.huna.org/html/onehand.html

BIO of the man who wrote the above article:
http://www.sergeking.com/skbio.html

Rumi's DROWNING MAN
see Read More
below right

Equinox < Ensoulment < Embodiment Sunrise/Noon March 20, 2014

3/20/2014

Fine Tuning of Sensitivities Noon March 19, 2014

3/19/2014

Never panic.
For every ebb there is a flow that will follow - unquestionably.
So when the tide is out - worry not.
Collect shells.
http://www.pointsofpower.com.au/cards.asp

True Sensitivity Sunrise March 19, 2014

3/19/2014

Totally hopeless situations
are the preludes to miracles.

http://www.pointsofpower.com.au/cards.asp

Why fill the heart with hopes?
Leave it empty for God.
Robert Mertens

For More re: Sensitivities
and the illusion of "HOPE"
see Read More below right

Subtleties of Invisible Ones' Love (when Required) Sunrise March 18, 2014

3/18/2014

Yield not to death but master life and change then your form like the clouds in the sky
In the dance of the rain or the river’s flow, let the dance of life through you unfold.
Almine

In not learning the lessons petty tyrants come to impart,
you keep them on their treadmill of being unpleasant perception givers
Almine

To live asleep is to think that life is duty.
To awaken is to find that life is beauty
Almine

These wild people call the Masters, “The Men from the Sun,” and when the Masters go among them for the prisoners they do not resist. We were also told that the masters had made a number of attempts to reach these wild people but these attempts had come to naught because of the fear in which the people held them.

It is said that if the Masters do go among them, the snow men will not eat or sleep, but stay in the open night and day, so great is their fear. These people have lost all contact with civilization, even forgetting that they had ever contacted other races or that they are the descendants from them, so far have they separated themselves from others.

We were able to get Emil and Jast to say but little about this strange wild tribe, nor could we influence them to take us to them. When we questioned, the only comment was, “They are God’s children, the same as we are, only they have lived so long in hatred and fear of their fellow-men and they have so developed the hatred and fear faculty that they have isolated themselves from their fellow men to such an extent that they have completely forgotten they are descendants of the human family, and think themselves the wild creatures they appear to be.”

“They have gone on in this way until they have even lost the instinct of the wild creatures, for the wild creature knows by instinct when a human being loves it and it will respond to that love.”

“All we can say is that man brings forth that which he gazes upon and separates himself from God and man, and in this way he can go lower than the animal.”

“It would serve no purpose to take you among them. It would instead, harm those people. We are in hopes some day to find some one among them who will be receptive to our teaching and in this way reach them all.”

From

LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF THE MASTERS OF THE FAR EAST v.1

Baird T. Spalding

pp. 75-76

"It Is" Sunrise March 17, 2014

3/17/2014

It is OK
It is not OK
+....

....Quantum/Infinite more variations of "It Is...."
than there were/are/will-be lives in form (or not in form) to be/witness/describe.

whatever "It" Is.....
It Is.

Cored in Vast Silence of The Absolute
dmm/ew

a few days ago....
A Friend, an Ancient Sage who is also Pure Divine Child,
said with a Pausing Sigh and Voice trailing off into Vast Silence:
"It Is OK......."

...then a soft chuckle and Whispered:
"No...not that....only:
It Is."

Eternal Torus/Ouroboros via The Illuminated Heart Sunrise/Noon March 16, 2014

3/16/2014

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster,
and if you gaze into the abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you
.Friedrich Nietzsche

“If someone says to you,
‘In the fortified city of the imperishable, our body, there is a lotus arid in this lotus a tiny space. What does it contain that one should desire to know?’

You must reply,
‘As vast as the space without is,
the tiny space within your heart Heaven and Earth are found in it;
Fire arid Air, Sun and Moon, Lightning and the Constellations

Whatever belongs to you here below and all that doesn’t
all this is gathered
in that tiny space within your heart.’”
from
The Upanishads

This time the Abyss is an Abyss of Peace and Love.
This time the Abyss is God.
Thomas Merton

FOR UNLESS A MAN’S UNCONSCIOUS LIFE IS INVOLVED IN HIS REDEMPTION,
HOW LITTLE IN HIM WILL BE PERMANENTLY ALTERED.
HOW HEAVY WILL BE THE SHADOW THAT HE CASTS
AND
HOW OPAQUE HE WILL BE AS A WINDOW TO TRANSMIT GOD’S GRACE.”
Douglas Steere

for additional resources re: this Milestone/theme today.... that Synchronistically Appeared
see Read More
below right

Magnum Opus < Peniel Sunrise/Noon March 15, 2014

3/15/2014

ABIDING GRACE Sunrise March 13, 2014

3/13/2014

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves,
unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
-Herman Melville

The only way to make sense out of change
is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
-Alan Watts

Innocence of eye has a quality of it's own.
It means to see as a child sees,
with freshness and acknowledgment of wonder.
It also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle
and once again sees as a child, with freshness and
an even deeper sense of wonder.
-Minor White, photographer

all quotes and above Jerry Downs photo from
this wonderful photo-essay on page below:

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/What-It-s-Worth.html?soid=1102697469838&aid=oT3_ZzR0Fm8
Jerry's Website:
http://jerrydownsphoto.com/#home

Pausing with Nature's Recalibrating/Fueling Pauses Sunrise/Noon March 11, 2014

3/11/2014

****
RIGHT NOW, in this moment,
you are perfectly fine and all is well.
And right now is all that ever exists

****

****
Divination while creating this post from:
http://www.pointsofpower.com.au/cards.asp

(A Milestone-Extreme Solar RariFiring/Rarification
during LONG noon beach stroll
in burning sun.)

More Chicken Wisdom:
click Read More below right

"Infinity-Breath" Sunrise/Noon March 10, 2014

3/10/2014

On Mystical Poets
By Stephen Roberts

The mystical-poet is a strange mix of creature that can taste the mystery of tranquility found in a deep forest or a trickling stream. And with a trembling hand and a quill filled with tears for ink, writes love across an ocean of open hearts.

They write not to entertain, but to release. Nor to explain, but to deepen the mystery.

I believe they are somewhat recluse in thought, with a beautiful eccentricity that invites accusations of madness.

Maybe these comprehensive souls have learned to bleed publicly and are content to be damned as heretics, yet remain beloved of God.

They delight in the world of words. Playing with these grains of sand knowing full well the smallness of their perceptions, but write on they do – write on they must.

Their world is filled with nectar – thick with both joy and sorrow, of heartache, of longing, and of profound peace.

In this confusing miasma of conflicted waters there mingles an uncanny ability to see beyond. To glimpse like a seer into the vastness.

If they could write silent, wordless poetry, they would. The stillness demands it, but the immensity of love they feel in the pulse of creation invites a cry, muffled though it may be.

Thus, their words are filled with an infinity-breath as they sigh at each passing thought, knowing full well their poverty of language and the weakness of expression that so often beguiles them into lesser metaphors.

http://www.steverobertz.net/writings/on-mystical-poets/

"Simple Minded" Sunrise /Noon March 9, 2014

3/9/2014

You Go On Ahead
by
Chuck Surface

Forgive me if I stop here…
Here where I cannot find myself as an object, anywhere.
And have discovered, with a shock, that “I” do not exist.

Let me just rest here for awhile,
Reveling in this Unimaginable Freedom,
Before we go on to think “about” it all.

To come up with words like “Consciousness”
Or “Emptiness”,
Or… whatever.

Words to describe what remains,
Where I found myself not to be,
Where I find no thing, but only the Event of Existence.

Words to explain the unexplainable,
To speak of that which cannot be spoken of,
To describe this Great Mystery.

It's enough for me to simply sit here,
Knowing only that I do not exist,
And yet… Existence, Consciousness, Bliss Is.

On second thought…
You know what?
You go on ahead.

I'll catch up with you later,
And you can tell me all that you've come up with
As you've moved on, in thought, from this Simplicity.

Just please forgive me,
If I appear uninterested.
For in this Fullness and Completion,
I've become rather simple minded.

Chuck Surface
http://gardenofthebeloved.com/

You Go On Ahead
by
Chuck Surface

Forgive me if I stop here…
Here where I cannot find myself as an object, anywhere.
And have discovered, with a shock, that “I” do not exist.

Let me just rest here for awhile,
Reveling in this Unimaginable Freedom,
Before we go on to think “about” it all.

To come up with words like “Consciousness”
Or “Emptiness”,
Or… whatever.

Words to describe what remains,
Where I found myself not to be,
Where I find no thing, but only the Event of Existence.

Words to explain the unexplainable,
To speak of that which cannot be spoken of,
To describe this Great Mystery.

It's enough for me to simply sit here,
Knowing only that I do not exist,
And yet… Existence, Consciousness, Bliss Is.

On second thought…
You know what?
You go on ahead.

I'll catch up with you later,
And you can tell me all that you've come up with
As you've moved on, in thought, from this Simplicity.

Just please forgive me,
If I appear uninterested.
For in this Fullness and Completion,
I've become rather simple minded.

Chuck Surface
http://gardenofthebeloved.com/

"Silent Pulse" Sunrise March 8, 2014

3/8/2014

The mind freed of "me" and its desires
is free to move in boundless space
with the silent pulse of the universe.
Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

No mind to mind with....... < "Unchanging Nothingness" Sunrise March 7, 2014

3/7/2014

Life has an astonishing way of taking care of you
when you no longer mind what happens.
~ J. Krishnamurti

Recognize your own immortality
and be joyous with your mortality.

http://www.pointsofpower.com.au/cards.asp

The tree of love its roots hath spread
Deep in my heart, and rears its head;
Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense;
Transport the heart, and ravish sense.
In love's sweet swoon to thee I cleave,
Bless'd source of love . . .

- St. Francis of Asissi
Into Love's Furnace I am Cast

Being Breathed and Turned Sunrise/Early Evening March 6, 2014

3/6/2014

Rejoicing in nothing and knowing nothing are the true rejoicing and the true knowledge.
Lao-tzu

Rumi's Moment

Rumi turned spontaneously,
And followers formalized.

Turn thus,
Not thus.

However perfect the turning, thus done,
Rumi's moment is lost.

Beautiful,
The falling leaves.

Turn as they do, my dear
Without a thought.

Never saying,
"Thus, not thus."

Never turning at all…
But being turned.

Chuck Surface
www.chucksurface

"The small man builds cages for everyone he knows...
While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low,
keeps dropping keys all night long
for the beautiful rowdy prisoners."

Hafiz