Blog Archives - Dorothea Mills

REAL LIFE OF TAO "...Wayfarer becomes timeless..." Sunrise/Afternoon June 25, 2017

6/25/2017

IF ONE IS NOT WHAT ONE IS
ALL DOING IS EMPTY SURPLUS…
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A WETIKO VIRUS* DREAM
EVENTUALLY POSSESSING…
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CHOKING THE REAL LIFE OF TAO
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3:15 AM-6/25/17
*Paul Levy
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/dispelling-wetiko/

The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.

It is hidden but always present.
I don't know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God.
Tao Te Ching #4
Stephen Mitchell translation
http://www.taoteching.org.uk/index.php?c=4&a=Stephen+Mitchell

"The Conference of the Birds"
Farid ud-Din Attar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_of_the_Birds

....that all the birds, be they thirty or forty or more,
are but the shadows cast by that unveiling.
What shadow is ever separated from its maker?
Do you see?
The shadow and its maker are one and the same,
so get over surfaces and delve into mysteries. [3]
Attar

The seven valleys the birds cross are as follows:

1. Valley of the Quest,
where the Wayfarer begins by casting aside all dogma,
belief, and unbelief.

2. Valley of Love,
where reason is abandoned for the sake of love.

3. Valley of Knowledge,
where worldly knowledge becomes utterly useless.

4. Valley of Detachment, where all desires and attachments to the world are given up.
Here, what is assumed to be “reality” vanishes.

5. Valley of Unity,
where the Wayfarer realizes that everything is connected and that the Beloved is beyond everything, including harmony, multiplicity, and eternity.

6. Valley of Wonderment,
where, entranced by the beauty of the Beloved,
the Wayfarer becomes perplexed and, steeped in awe,
finds that he or she
has never known or understood anything.

7. Valley of Poverty and Annihilation, where the self disappears into the universe and the Wayfarer becomes timeless, existing in both the past and the future.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_of_the_Birds#cite_note-4

AFTERNOON

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BREATH OF CREATOR’S GRACE OF TAO "...easy on the eyes." Sunrise/Afternoon June 24, 2017

6/24/2017

AWARENESSS THAT IS
BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHTS
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A QUANTUM DIMENSIONAL REALITY
THAT KNOWS NO HARM
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THE BREATH OF CREATOR’S GRACE OF TAO
IN/OF/AS
ALL THAT IS…AH!
ATIAH!
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5:02 AM-6/24/17

O GREAT BREATHER!
As you Quicken my Heart in Love
Grace is Birthed
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Random Pick from
GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory

Things were made to be used, and people, to be loved.
But the misunderstanding is so deeply ingrained that
people are being used and things are being loved.
You have seen people divorcing their wives or husbands.
How many people do you see divorcing their money?
We are using people and loving things.
Sadhguru
Excellent Full Article here:
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/lifestyle/relationships/what-judging-others-says-about-you/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dmq-blog

58
Tao Te Ching
June 24

Trying to make others behave is futile.
It only breeds resentment and resistance.
From Tao Te Ching, # 58
Bill Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

AFTERNOON SAMPLES BELOW
ALL AFTERNOON EXTRAORDINARY PHOTOS AT END
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58
Tao Te Ching
If a country is governed with tolerance,
the people are comfortable and honest.
If a country is governed with repression,
the people are depressed and crafty.

When the will to power is in charge,
the higher the ideals, the lower the results.
Try to make people happy,
and you lay the groundwork for misery.
Try to make people moral,
and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Thus the Master is content
to serve as an example
and not to impose her will.
She is pointed, but doesn't pierce.
Straightforward, but supple.
Radiant, but easy on the eyes.
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell Translation
http://www.taoteching.org.uk/index.php?c=58&a=Stephen+Mitchell

All Afternoon Photos
in order photographed
are below in Read More

PRIMORDIAL CLARITY "Awareness is primordial;"..... Sunrise/Afternoon June 23, 2017

6/23/2017

5:54 AM

QUIVERS AND DESPAIR
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LANCING BOILS OF AKASHIC
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PRIMORDIAL CLARITY
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4:22 AM-6/23/17

Awareness is primordial;
it is the original state, beginning-less, endless,
uncaused, unsupported, without parts,
without change.

Consciousness is on contact,
a reflection against a surface,
a state of duality.

There can be no consciousness without awareness,
but there can be awareness without consciousness,
as in deep sleep.

Awareness is absolute,
consciousness is relative to its content....
Nisargadatta Maharaj
I AM THAT p. 29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisargadatta_Maharaj

We do not have to visit a madhouse
to find disordered minds;
our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
Then you read a book… or you take a trip…
and you discover that you are not living,
that you are hibernating.

The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness.
The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure.
That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness.
Monotony, boredom, death.
Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it.
They work in offices.
They drive a car.
They picnic with their families.
They raise children.

And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.
Some never awaken.
― Anaïs Nin

The truth is always an abyss.
One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive
from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience
and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again
— laughing and fighting for breath --
to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
― Franz Kafka

All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.
― Friedrich Nietzsche

The real hopeless victims of mental illness
are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.
Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted
to our mode of existence,
because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives,
that they do not even struggle or suffer
or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.

They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word;
they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society
is a measure of their mental sickness.
These millions of abnormally normal people,
living without fuss in a society to which,
if they were fully human beings,
they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Aldous Huxley

It is our suffering that brings us together.
It is not love.
Love does not obey the mind,
and turns to hate when forced.

The bond that binds us is beyond choice.
We are brothers.
We are brothers in what we share.
In pain, which each of us must suffer alone,
in hunger, in poverty, in hope,
we know our brotherhood.

We know it, because we have had to learn it.
We know that there is no help for us but from one another,
that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand.
And the hand that you reach out is empty,
as mine is.

You have nothing.
You possess nothing.
You own nothing.
You are free.
All you have is what you are,
and what you give.
― Ursula K. Le Guin

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
― Lao Tzu

All quotes above in this green font are from the below link...
....many more here:
http://www.creativitypost.com/arts/25_profound_quotes_that_will_make_you_question_everything

ALL Afternoon and Sunrise Photos
in
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INNER JOY-TRANSPARENT CONDUIT Sunrise/Afternoon 6/22/17 SAVOURING SACRED SUCCULENCE

6/22/2017

TAO PEACE
DIVINE GRACE
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AN INNER JOY
ELIMINATES ALL THAT WOULD DESTROY THE
CLEAR BEING OF A TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
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3:27 AM-6/22/17

THIS PHOTOGRAPH 2016.2.6 "NAKED TRUTH CREDO SUNRISE" OCEANSPEAK AND ALSO FROM SAME MINUTES THE PHOTO FOR NEW GODSEED BK WAS TAKEN

Inside the heart,
you will see that the lost ones
do not need to be transformed.
They do not need to be shifted.
They do not even need to be healed.
Only held.
Go slowly.
One second at a time, then rest.
They are not in a hurry.
They have been looking for you since beginningless time,
and will never give up.
Matt Licata
Full article here:
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/06/held-not-healed.html
Also on Read More
below Afternoon Photos

THIS PHOTOGRAPH POSTED ON MATT'S BLOG... WITH THE MATT LICATA QUOTE ABOVE

When my fear occupies itself in the endless rehearsal
of what to say or not,
of how to respond or not,
it prevents me from showing up with who I am.
I’m learning to trust that I can meet these situations simply with my being,
my self, my soul.
I may not be articulate.
It might be awkward.
But I’m learning to trust that if I’m integral,
the encounter will be authentic.
~Mark Nepo
Excerpt from full post here:
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2017/06/22/23845/

AFTERNOON
SAVOURING SACRED SUCCULENCE

You are one thing only.
You are a Divine Being.
An all-powerful Creator.
You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt,
and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages
and the sacred creative force of All that is,
will be and ever was.
― Anthon St. Maarten

True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the body, just as life
springs from the kernel of a stone and
gives colour and scent to a flower.
Jalaluddin Rumi

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"FROM WHENCE COMETH HELP" "....being simply what one is." Summer Solstice Sunrise/Afternoon June 21, 2017

6/20/2017

6:30 AM

∞
“FROM WHENCE COMETH HELP”
∞
CLARITY IN/OF/AS
ALONE WITH THE ALONE
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“OLDER THAN GOD”*
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TAO
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2:08 AM-6/21/17
*TAO Te Ching #4
Stephen Mitchell Trans

You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka

The Self is to be realised not by doing something
but by refraining from doing something,
that is, by remaining still and being simply what one is.
-Ramana Maharshi

The fish trap exists because of the fish.
Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.
The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit.
Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare.
Words exist because of their meaning.
Once you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
-Chuang Tzu
all above quotes in red font from:
http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/index.html

AFTERNOON.................

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
― Deepak Chopra

The silence in you is the truth of you.
Listen.
umair haque

From EXCELLENT short article here:
https://umairhaque.com/the-silence-in-you-is-the-truth-of-you-listen-f4bc20e6756e
https://umairhaque.com/

See Read More Below for
Afternoon Photo including Whooshing Yoga
in the noontime SOLSTICE SUN

INNER SMILE BREATHING.... "....your heart is good and pure!” Sunrise/Afternoon June 20, 2017

6/20/2017

INNER SMILE
BREATHING IN TAO CORE
WAFTS IN/OF/AS
ALL OF LIFE
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4:09 AM-6/20/17

From William Martin
June 20

Stop trying to be good and holy,
and find that your heart is pure.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 57

“Be good!” has echoed
down the corridors of my mind
as long as I can remember.
It was the imperative of imperatives;
the sine qua non of all commands -
as if the basic quality of my being
were a matter of my moral choice.

“Be holy” adds yet another layer of suffering.
Now it is some god out there
whose expectations I must meet
in order to be acceptable.
To know that my heart is naturally pure -
whole, clear, genuine, and real -
that is happiness.

The problem lies in the slippery usage of the words.
The admonition to “be good,” implies a degree of forced morality,
either by an external or an internal judge.
If it were phrased as, “learn to act with compassion,”
I could understand it as a sage and helpful guideline.
Guidelines are helpful in steering our inherent goodness
along wise and mindful pathways.
Assuming that I am basically, “good,”
allows me to learn and mature in my choices
without the pressure of being either bad or good.
But believing that goodness is some sort of moral achievement
puts me always at the mercy of the voices,
internal and external,
that want me to behave a certain way for their own ends.

Perhaps a gentle admonition might be best stated,
“Continue to grow in wisdom and compassion
because your heart is good and pure!”
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

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for remaining Afternoon Photos
Most are RareFiring/Rarefying Times for Quantumming Real Life INNER SMILE BREATHING in Human Form
& More:

INNER SMILE
BREATHING IN TAO CORE
WAFTS IN/OF/AS
ALL OF LIFE
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4:09 AM-6/20/17

AH WILE-INNER TAO CORE NECTAR "..naturally be joyful." Sunrise/Afternoon June 19, 2017

6/19/2017

AH WILE

HUMMINGBIRD SIPPING OF INNER TAO CORE NECTAR
NULLIFIES ALL PERPETRATORS,
OUTER WILES, FEINTS & DECEPTIONS
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5:05 AM-6/19/17

When you get up in the morning, the first thing you should do is smile.
At whom?
No one.
Because just the fact that you woke up is not a small thing.
So many millions of people who slept last night did not wake up today,
but you and me woke up.
Isn’t it great that you woke up?
So smile because you woke up.
Then look around and if there is someone, smile at them.
For so many people, someone dear to them did not wake up today morning. Everyone who is dear to you woke up – Wow!
It’s a great day, isn’t it?
Then go out and take a look at the trees.
They didn’t die last night either.
Sadhguru

Joy is not to be sought outside – it is intrinsic.
If you do not mess up your mind, you will naturally be joyfuL.
Sadhguru

When you are fundamentally joyous,
when you do not have to do anything to be happy,
then every dimension of your life
– the way you perceive and express yourself and the world –
will change.
You will no longer have vested interests
because whether you do something or you do not do something,
whether you get something or do not get something,
whether something happens or does not happen,
you will be joyous by your nature.
When you are joyous by your nature,
your actions will rise to a completely different level.
From:
TEN TIPS - HOW TO BE JOYFUL
Sadhguru:
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/masters-words/how-to-be-happy-in-life-10-tips-to-move-towards-joy/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dmq-blog

A few from AFTERNOON.................
ALL Afternoon Photos are in Read More Section at end

Dunes Path to The Beach

From William Martin
June 18

Stop trying to improve yourself
and find that you naturally improve.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 57

Self-improvement is an oxymoron
designed to keep an illusion alive
by insisting that it keep improving.
Who is this “self”
and why does it need “improving?”
I’d like to keep learning and discovering
new wonders in the corners of my life.

I’d like to see more clearly
into the reality of existence.
But I think for this to happen
I’ll have to stop tending to this self
and its demands for improvement.

Of course I enjoy learning, growing, and discovering
new depths of myself and of the cosmos in which I live.
To use the concept of improvement to characterize this enjoyment is,
at least within my culture, unhelpful.

Improvement tends to imply a standard
by which to measure myself,
an “ideal me” for which to strive.
Innovation is simply thinking of something new
and giving it a try.

Creativity is the helpful use of imagination.
Exploration is the willingness to venture into new territory,
relationships, and world views.
These things can flow naturally within my life
without being contaminated
by the conditioned desire to, “improve.”
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Where the lips are silent
the heart has a thousand tongues.
Rumi

See in Read More below
All Afternoon Photos
"Extraordinary" and "Whooshing Yoga"
&
More
(in order phtographed)

AMNESIAC MOMENTS Sunrise/Afternoon June 18, 2017

6/18/2017

DYING AWAKE
AH!

PARALYZATION RESULTS FROM NEVERBORN
BEING OTHER THAN NEVERBORN….
(being in an amnesiac moment)

THERE IS NO SUCH REALITY AS A VEIL
IN PURE NEVERBORN CONSCIOUSNESS…

IE NO POSSIBILITY OF PARALYZATION
REGARDLESS OF THE APPARENT SOURCING OF
NECESSITY OF VEIL.
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6/21/05
H.I.
Pocket Pearls Series
Random Pick from files early this morning
(See Read More at end for entire bklet)

DIVINE GRACE
ELIMINATES
ALL
AMNESIAC MOMENTS
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EXPUNGES ALL CONCEPTS
OF
MODERN MEDICINE'S ALTZHEIMER'S DISEASE
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4:12 AM-6/18/17
(this occurred yesterday at top of sand dunes path
returning from sunrise stroll
∞
(above DYING AWAKE AH! is the Random Pick
earlier this morning from old files)

AFTERNOON..................

From Bill Martin
June 17

Weapons destroy life.
Rules constrict life.
Cunning plots complicate life.
Striving weakens life.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 57

All the strategies I’ve been taught
to make my life safe and happy
have turned out to be
misguided illusions.
Weapons have never kept us safe;
Rules have failed to make us happy;
Plots boomerang on us every time;
and all our effort gains us nothing.

Why do we keep believing lies?
Why do we increase our speed
when heading for a cliff?
Why do we follow voices
whose intent is to crush our spirit
and control our every action?

Lao-Tzu continues to amaze me with advice
that is completely counter to my conditioned mind.
Someone inside me still believes that weapons can keep me safe;
that I must follow other people’s rules in order to survive;
and that I must try harder and harder to achieve
whatever in the hell it is we’re all striving for.

This cultural conditioning is more than just a little voice inside my own head.
It is the driving energy of the deep currents of violence,
misery, and chaos that my world faces today.
We can do our part to balance this energy by ceasing to believe this voice.
It’s always lied to us and its lies are destroying us.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Sunday, June 18, 2017

You have a tree in your garden:
you can pass it several times a day without paying it any attention,
as if it were a piece of stage set made from plaster or cardboard.
But you can also be conscious that it is a living being,
and you can even approach it, greet it, talk to it, and absorb what it represents.
You may say, ‘Greet a tree, talk to it, what good can that do?’
Of course, physically and materially, this changes nothing.
But, on the subtle planes, the tree is enriched by your presence and, at the same time,
you are enriched by it.
It is you, in fact, who gains the most: you enter into communication with the life that circulates from the roots all the way to the tips of its branches,
and you also become acquainted with the invisible creatures
who live in it and look after it.
Yes, for there are beings who work to maintain life everywhere in nature.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/trees-consider-them-as-living-beings_2017-06-18
(above webpage has excellent MORE subjects for "daily thoughts")

So many theologians have distorted the image of the Creator and Master of the universe by making the devil into God's implacable enemy!
An entity that is so well able to stand up to God has to be as powerful as he is,
if not more powerful.
You will say they never thought such a thing...
But they did, and the proof is that, in Christendom,
throughout the Middle Ages and well beyond,
men and women who displayed gifts that were a little exceptional
were accused of having received these gifts from the devil,
of having made a pact with him.
And, unfortunately, the Church itself contributed to the spreading of this belief.

Yes, if the devil has held such an important position among Christians,
it is the Church itself that is responsible.
If anyone prophesied, healed the sick or received messages from heaven - oh no, it wasn't heaven inspiring them but the devil.
So, we should not be surprised if some people really did want to make a pact with him.
Why, they asked themselves, should we go and serve a powerless God, since all the knowledge and gifts come from his opponent, the devil?
Their thinking was right, in a way.
So, that is the kind of nonsense religion can lead to
when it does not possess true initiatic knowledge concerning good and evil.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/devil-implacable-opponent-of-god-consequences-of-mistakenly-seeing-him-as-such_2010-10-11?bc=search

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Whooshings and Amnesiac Moments

...(THE) UNREAL PARALYZES TRUE LIFE Sunrise/Afternoon June 17, 2017

6/17/2017

TAO’S BREATH SILENCES
ALL EXCESS & EXPLANATIONS
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ELIMINATES ALL MISSIONARY-MINDING-MINDS
WITHIN & WITHOUT
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3:41 AM-6/17/17
(Warrior’s Way-below
&
Read More at end)

THOUGHTS ARE ALWAYS
OF PAST OR FUTURE
AND THEREFORE UNREAL.

THAT WHICH IS UNREAL
PARALYZES TRUE LIFE….

…CAUSES STILLBIRTH’S
DEATH OF REALITY
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2:34AM-9/5/06
Ocala, Fl
Word Docx:-DAILY Sept 06
Searched for WHOREMOANS AT MIDLIFE in Documents

I had learned a great truth, however.
One tries to teach others at one’s peril.
It is better to leave one’s fellow men to sleep in peace
than to disturb their slumbers.
Robert S. de Ropp
Warrior’s Way
See Read More at end for full quote

....awareness makes no effort at all…
it just sees the false as the false.
Tara Singh
See Read More for more by Tara Singh

From Sadhguru

A third eye does not mean a crack in the forehead.
It simply means that his perception has reached its ultimate possibility.
The third eye is the eye of vision.
The two physical eyes are just sensory organs.
They feed the mind with all kinds of nonsense
because what you see is not the truth.

You see this person or that person and you think something about him,
but you are not able to see the Shiva in him.
So, another eye,
an eye of deeper penetration,
has to be opened up.

Any amount of thinking and philosophizing
will never bring clarity into your mind.
Anyone can distort the logical clarity that you create;
difficult situations can completely put it into turmoil.

Only when vision opens up,
only when you have an inner vision,
will there be perfect clarity.
Sadhguru
Full Article here:
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/yoga-meditation/history-of-yoga/forms-of-shiva/?utm_source=shiva-follower-list&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=shiva-followers-15June2017

See READ MORE below
for full Warrior's Way and Tara Singh quotes
AND A FEW AFTERNOON PHOTOS BEFORE THE RAINS CAME..

LIGHTNING'S LIGHTENING OF DIVINE GRACE Sunrise/Afternoon June 16, 2017

6/16/2017

Once again...all photos are on "auto" camera setting...
.....Mother Nature's colors this morning Paused the Breath in The Silence of Wonder & Awe...

A TRANSPARENT CONDUIT OF DIVINE GRACE
IS AS THE LIGHTNING THAT CLEARS ATMOSPHERES
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A LIGHTENING THAT PREPARES FOR BIRTHING
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4:53 AM-6/16/17

Adopt the pace of nature.
Her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from this
excellent Huffington Post article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/natural-habitat-adventures/a-dose-of-nature-the-secr_b_8179624.html

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness.
- Samuel Johnson
"NATURE-DEFICIT DISORDER"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/natural-habitat-adventures/a-dose-of-nature-the-secr_b_8179624.html

If you transcend the mind, you transcend everything in one stroke.
(of Divine Grace/Lightning-Lightening-ew)

As long as you are in the mind, you are ruled by the past,
because mind is just an accumulation of the past.
If you are looking at life only through the mind,
then you will make your future just like the past,
nothing more, nothing less.
Sadhguru
Excerpt from full article here:

http://isha.sadhguru.org/yoga/yoga_articles_mind_stress/yoga-and-the-mind/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dmq-blog

TO BE CONTINUED THIS AFTERNOON.....................................

From Bill Martin
June 16

People use plans in an attempt
to gain their objectives.
But true success arises
from letting go of plans.
Life lives itself.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 57

Life lives itself through me -
neither haphazardly
nor according to my plans -
but by the eternal creative
flow of Tao.
The same Life that carves canyons
and fills up oceans,
sustains me without effort,
and I live according to my nature
the way the bear who lives unseen
on the hill behind my home
lives according to his nature.

A house might benefit from a plan,
at least one that exists in the mind of the builder.
But the most beautiful and functional homes arise
from flexible and open-ended plans,
and are created by builders who let the form emerge
from a blend of materials and imagination.

A house should be built according to its own nature.
Any creative form should be built according to its own nature.
Look around and notice a human society consisting primarily
of forms and products built according to someone’s “plan.”

Then look at the mountains, forests, and lakes that exist,
not according to plan, but according to their own nature.
As a forest has its own nature,
so does our individual life.
Don’t spoil it with a plan.
William Martin
June 16
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 57
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

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TAO PEACE ERASES PERSONAL LIFE Sunrise/Afternoon June 15, 2017

6/15/2017

TAO PEACE ERASES A PERSONAL LIFE
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MINDING-MIND DISAPPEARS
AS
ALL FORMER ADVERSITY
TRANSFORMS…
FUELING THIS CORE PEACE
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MELTED INTO THE GREAT BREATHER’S BREATH
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A time of self-enlightenment for all…William Rand's (Reiki.org) Holy Fire II Reiki is more about getting the practitioner out of the way of the healing process than any other healing modality of which I am aware… to quote him,
"...in Holy Fire Reiki, an important concept is that the more the practitioner stays out of the process, the more powerful it becomes..."

I agree and I feel as though we are beyond the time when anyone can "do it for us". I also believe in self-enlightenment, which means exactly what it says:
we can have a teacher, we can have a mentor, we can have a guide…
And we still have to do all the real work ourselves.

Now is the time when those of us
who are in a more enlightened & higher energy place
can only hold the space of love and intent
for those who are attempting to do their own work…
Creating the space and the empowerment
as well as holding the energy for them to be able to do what they need to do
for their own growth and enlightenment.
Linda Carol Adrienne, PhD, CHt
http://thecausticmystic.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-time-of-self-enlightenment-for-all.html

http://www.perspectivesholistic.com/
Linda Carol Adrienne, PhD, CHt. Kimberly Smith, HTCP, RMT
http://www.perspectivesholistic.com/about.html

From Bill Martin:
June 15

The life our heart desires
is undisturbed by thoughts
of success or failure,
and simply takes its place
as part of All That Is.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 56

The two-sided coin called “success or failure”
has been minted by our collective mind
and put in circulation by our fears and desires.
It is “phony money”
that we now believe has actual worth.
It substitutes for the rewards we truly want:
doing the work that is ours to do;
seeing the world in simple splendor;
loving and being loved
without conditions;
and never doubting
that we belong.

A voice inside my head asserts that everyone wants to be successful;
that it is a natural human quality and leads
to advancement of the economy and improvement of the quality of life.
But we have so twisted the word that exactly the opposite results now ensue.

In the Tao, success is a community experience
that arises when people pursue simplicity, service, and compassion.
All enjoy success together, and all suffer hardship together.
When it becomes an individual pursuit the Tao is lost,
community is lost,
and happiness is lost.
To find our way back home
it will be essential that we each patiently redefine the term, “success,”
as we consider our own lives and the lives of others.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

AFTERNOON..............

TAO TE CHING
#56
Those who know don't talk.
Those who talk don't know.

Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.

Be like the Tao.
It can't be approached or withdrawn from,
benefited or harmed,
honored or brought into disgrace.
It gives itself up continually.
That is why it endures.
TAO #56 -
Stephen Mitchel Translation
http://www.taoteching.org.uk/chapter56.html

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SOOTHING REALITY OF TAO "Stay silent." Sunrise/Afternoon June 14, 2017

6/14/2017

6:42 AM

SOOTHING REALITY OF TAO
IS ALL
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From Bill Martin
June 13

Stay silent.
Stop listening to trivia.
Stop taking offense.
Stop over-thinking.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 56

Silence is an inside job.
The stillest morning in the forest
is filled with rustles, chirps, and whispers.
The refrigerator drones in the quiet.
The fabric in my pants swishes against itself
as I walk up the hallway.
Life is not a quiet experience,
but the mind can be the still point
about which it all turns.
This still point cannot be found
through words, thoughts, or information.
It waits for all of these to fade away.

I had a tooth pulled yesterday
and spent the afternoon in considerable discomfort.
The dentist supplied me with a few codeine-laced pills that I decided to use.
They indeed helped ease the pain,
but the pain relief is not what makes them dangerously addictive.
My racing thoughts settled down and my mind became sweetly quiet,
like a still pond on a breezeless day.

We accuse addicts of looking for a “high,”
but it is the stillness that would hook me.
The engine of my culture depends on the fuel of noisy minds.
That is the reason trivia, fear, and conflict fill every media source from entertainment to sports to politics.
I can’t depend on little white pills
so Lao-Tzu’s advice in chapter 56
becomes a foundation stone for my practice.

William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com
http://mailchi.mp/af5242a8c3d4/day-by-day-with-the-tao-1262353?e=e7166a2503

 AFTERNOON ........

A Devastating Ally on the Path
Matt Licata

The next time you feel abandoned, feel it fully.
Let it all the way in this time.
Not the story of abandonment,
but the raw sensations
that have been longing for your holding.

Embrace the shakiness, the brokenness, and the raw life
that is moving through you.
Don’t turn away, not this time.
For you need yourself now more than ever.

There is a portal inside the abandoned one,
buried in her heart, her body,
and in the core of the emptiness.
There is gold there,
but it is hidden and requires new perception to unearth.

In the willingness to bring breath
and to flood the feelings with the warmth of your presence,
you will discover that which has never been abandoned.
Take this one as your lover.

In the commitment to never turn from him or her again,
everything will break open,
revealing the erupting,
tender aliveness at the core.

Even abandonment, when met, allowed, contained, and held,
will reveal its purity,
and clarify its role as a sacred,
though devastating ally on the path.
Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-devastating-ally-on-path.html

...FROM BEYOND ALL VEILS Sunrise/Afternoon June 13, 2017

6/13/2017

ENSOULED HEART IN EVERY ASPECT
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TRANSPARENT CONDUIT OF DIVINE GRACE
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A FRAGRANCE CREATING/WAFTING FROM
BEYOND ALL VEILS
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3:27 AM-6/13/17

If you can’t smell the fragrance
don’t come into the garden of Love.
If you’re unwilling to undress
don’t enter into the stream of Truth.
Stay where you are.
Don’t come our way.
Rumi

Be motivated like the falcon,
hunt gloriously.
Be magnificent as the leopard,
fight to win.
Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks.
One is all talk,
the other only color
Rumi

By speech,
by silence,
and by fragrance,
catch the scent of the Beloved everywhere.
Rumi

Forgiveness is the fragrance
that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Peace is not something that you create;
peace is not something that happens.
Peace is something that always is.
What happens on the surface is disturbance.

This is just like the ocean.

On the surface of the ocean you will see waves,
tremendous turbulence and turmoil going on.
But if you go deep down, it is perfectly peaceful.
The fundamental quality of existence
is always peace.
Sadhguru
Full Article here;
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/masters-words/sadhguru-on-peace/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dmq-blog

AFTERNOON PHOTOS BELOW.....

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities;
do the best you can where you are.
Open your petals of power and beauty
and fling out the fragrance of your life
in the place that has been assigned to you.
Orison Swett Marden

"...BECOME THE FRAGRANCE." "....a wild sort of kindness." Sunrise/Afternoon June 12, 2017

6/12/2017

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*Sadhguru

If you only know the beauty of the fragrance, you become a romantic.
If you know the chemistry of the fragrance, you become a scientist.
If you know the ecstasy of the fragrance, you could become a mystic.
If you become the fragrance,
you will become the very source of creation.
Sadhguru
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/pure-perception-no-judgement/

"If you dismantle the structures of who you are
and you are completely absorbed into something,
if that something is powerful enough,
it will just imprint upon you."
Sadhguru
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/that-quality-will-become-you/

Devotion is that kind of thing.
If you dismantle the structures of who you
are and you are completely absorbed into something,
if that something is powerful enough,
it will just imprint upon you.
That is the idea of devotion, that you become that.
It is not about being devoted to somebody or something;
it is just that it is the highest level of perception.
You can imprint yourself with what you are seeking
because you opened yourself up completely.
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/that-quality-will-become-you/

You can’t take this life anywhere.
You have to allow it to go into its full blossom
now, here, not somewhere else.

Do not try to save the fragrance of life.
Those who save will stink.
Those who throw it out,
you will see them as fragrant beings.
Sadhguru
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/that-quality-will-become-you/

(can google for more: Sadhguru Become The Fragrance)

AFTERNOON.......

With your heart open,
look carefully at the ways you habitually place others’ needs over your own…
not out of genuine compassion for them,
but as a re-enactment of an early environment
of shame and unworthiness.

Just one moment of clear seeing.
Pure curiosity.
No judgment, no self-attack, no more violence.
End the war.
Now.

It is in this seeing that seeds are planted for a new way,
one encoded with wisdom,
attunement, and
a wild sort of kindness.
This encoding is not passive,
but one that shatters the status quo
as a forerunner of revolution.

Out of these qualities,
which are not added to you,
but revealed to be the always already
substance of your very cell tissue,
the seemingly solid distinction between self and other
will reveal itself to be quite translucent.

Like a rainbow.

Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/06/like-rainbow.html

All Afternoon Photos in Read More Below
in order photographed..

Great Breather's Peace Sunrise/Afternoon June 11, 2017

6/11/2017

DIVINE GRACE USURPS MINDING-MIND
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A BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHTS
GREAT BREATHER’S PEACE
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From Bill Martin
June 11

In harmony with the Tao, we resist nothing,
therefore conquer everything.
Tao Te Ching #55

If I don’t resist, won’t I be a victim
of every plot and scheme?
Shouldn’t I be always on my guard
lest corrupt and evil people
take advantage of me?

Or shall I stay balanced
and let the energy that would be used against me,
flow around me and expend itself?
Then, when the time is right,
let action flow from the center of my being
sweeping away the obstacles.
and restoring balance and peace.

At the moment I am feeling a bit under the weather,
a slight headache and some stuffy sinuses.
Shall I resist the symptoms, not let illness have the upper hand,
soldier on through?
Or shall I accept the rhythms of my body
and cooperate with its healing work?
I decided to take a nap.
This is, of course, a somewhat trivial example of non-resistance,
but it is illustrative of the main point

Taking a nap was not a capitulation to infectious forces in my body.
It was a considered strategy of balance and cooperation
with the healing nature of life.
Everything that happens is part of a infinitely complex interaction of energies. Non-resistance means accepting this interaction
and seeking to find the center point in the midst of it all
from which to take the most effective action.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

AFTERNOON PHOTOS....

Excerpts below in this color font from
Power Animal Blog
Snake Spirit Animal Totem: Transmutation
http://otteronarock.com/snake-spirit-animal-totem-transmutation/

If a dynamic has truly reached an impasse and it is time to move on,
snake teaches also that the process of healing all pain,
including a broken heart,
is undulating in nature.
Sadness and grief will grip us, hold us tight in it’s agony,
and then let us go,
only to grip us again moments later.

We must flow with this painful wave of energy,
and allow ourselves to be consumed by the grip
until eventually the tide lowers and the pain fades.

To deny this process, to numb it with drugs
or avoid it with social distractions
will only delay its ultimate return.
The grief will coil and wait for you, snake-like,
in the base of your spine only to unwind
when you seek the next adventure.

Shake out your shoes before you put them on.
Find the snakes in the grass before they find you.
Learn to move through the pain as snake moves through her skin.
When in the full grips of healing the only thing there is to do
is be with the undulating tides of your inner life.

All other plans and activities must be postponed.

Lie in bed, in the grass, the sand, the mud, and do no more things.
When healing, the phrase
“Don’t just stand there! Do something!”
must change to,
“Don’t just do ‘something‘… stand there.”
http://otteronarock.com/snake-spirit-animal-totem-transmutation/

“The most powerful way to resist evil is to sit with good friends who have turned their faces to God.”
– Rumi

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SINGLE MOMENT OF DOUBLE OUROBOROS GRACE Sunrise/Afternoon June 10, 2017

6/10/2017

SINGLE MOMENT OF GRACE
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SINGLE MOMENT OF DOUBLE OUROBOROS GRACE
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A double ouroboros (two creatures swallowing one another) in alchemy signifies volatility.
Spiritually, it signifies the balance of the upper and lower natures.
double Ouroboros = As noted by Carl Jung, this might be an instance of cryptomnesia.

From Bill Martin:
June 10
In harmony with the Tao, we are like an infant
who has not yet stiffened against life;
whose body is soft but whose spirit is powerful.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 55

The infant has not yet learned
to feel separate and afraid.
Hunger and discomfort may arise,
but fear has not yet entered
to constrict the muscles
and infect the mind.

The sage is like an infant.
Illness and death may come,
but the spirit is soft
and the mind is supple
and free of fear.

Qigong and stretching exercises help me stay reasonably soft in my body, despite the inevitable stiffening of age.
It is my spirit that truly needs to find the “sage inside.”
A brittle fearful mind
is the where the real ravages of age
manifest themselves.

An infant has no capacity
to control the environment and insure safety and nurture.
It is completely dependent on the parent
and therefore does not waste energy
stiffening against life.
The sage must have some of the same quality.

Age dispels the life-long illusion of control and returns us
to the knowledge that we are completely dependent
on the Tao,
therefore we are invited not to waste energy
in mental and physical constrictions.

If the conditioned fears of life can be released as we age
we may find we are entering a period
of immense spiritual power,
manifested through a flexible and sensitive spirit.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

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for all 77 Sunrise Photos displayed in order taken this morning

Quotes below in this color font are
Whispers from the Holy Spirit
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1992

HOLD WITH ME
DEAR HEART
WHERE THE CRUCIFYING
WORLD CANNOT SEE
WHAT WE ARE
AS ONE

THERE IS ONE
& ONLY ONE PURPOSE
WHICH HAS BEEN SINCE FOREVER….
…& THAT IS
THE INCARNATION OF
NEW LIFE
LEAVING THE FORM TO ME
∞
SIMPLY BE AS IF IT IS SO
BECAUSE
IT IS SO

TALKING ABOUT DIVINE
POWER OR THE PROCESS
OF PURELY BECOMING IT
DRAINS IT IMMEDIATELY
FROM YOU
&
PROVIDES AN
INSTANT VIBRATION FOR
CRUCIFIXION
&
PROJECTIONS
∞

TO HOLD
IN CONSCIOUSNESS
ALL THAT HAS BEEN
DIVINELY GIVEN
AS YOUR UNIQUE TRUTH
WILL ENABLE PERFECTION
TO OUTPICURE IN FORM
MORE QUICKLY
∞
STOP!
CEASE!
ALLOW ALL TO MELT INTO PURE DIVINE
& PERFECTED LOVE
&
ONLY THEN CAN FLESH BECOME WORD

SAVOUR THE SACRED
WITHOUT WORDS OR
EXPLANATIONS
&
ONLY RADIANCE OF
THE LIGHT CAN EXUDE

IF THOUGHTS
CAN BE MELTED
IN SACRED DEPTHS
YOU WILL NOT
HAVE TO CONFRONT
THAT SAME THOUGHT
IN
PHYSICAL FORM

REMAIN IN HOLY QUIET
IN AN EVER-EFFORTLESS CLARITY
THAT DEFINES OTHERS’
PROJECTIONS

∞

THE QUIET DEPTHS
MUST BE
THE ONLY REALITY
AS THE INNER LIGHT
&
NEW LIFE TAKE OVER…
BLINDING YOU TO OTHERS' POSSESSIONS

IF THERE ARE NO VEILS
OR SEPARATION
THERE IS NOTHING FOR
THE WORLD TO ATTACK

ONLY WITH MORE
TOTAL
SURRENDER
WILL TRUTH BE ABLE
TO LIVE YOU

∞

COME GENTLY INTO THIS
OPEN HEART & THERE
YOU WILL FIND
SANCTUARY IN GOD’S ABYSS…
SO INVISIBLY
YOU HARDLY KNOW IT
HAS HAPPENED

AS YOU ARE FINALLY
& TOTALLY
POSSESSED BY ME…
THAT GRACE IS
SUFFICIENT
&
BIRTHS YOUR SOUL

∞

GRACE BIRTHS A SOUL
CO-CREATING THE INCARNATION OF NEW LIFE
Pocket Pearls
Whispers from The Holy Spirit
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1992

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TAO CORE'S FLOW Sunrise/Afternoon June 9, 2017

6/8/2017

Lilah Molly Mae Culberson June 2017 TN Mountain Lake

Whoever is planted in the Tao
will not be rooted up.
Whoever embraces the Tao
will not slip away.
Her name will be held in honor
from generation to generation.
Tao Te Ching # 54
Stephen Mitchell Trans.

TAO CORE’S FLOW
ELIMINATES ALL DECAYING EXCESS
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2:07 AM-6/9/17

Let the Tao be present in your life
and you will become genuine.
Let it be present in your family
and your family will flourish.
Let it be present in your country
and your country will be an example
to all countries in the world.
Let it be present in the universe
and the universe will sing.

How do I know this is true?
By looking inside myself.
TAO #54
Stephen Mitchell Trans
www.taoistliving.com

(Some) “People can’t stand to be alone with themselves,
so they bother me when I’m trying to be alone with myself.”
James Jean-Pierre

7/28/2015

The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus

8/25/2016 #174

ENSOULED HEART EVERSHINES Sunrise/Afternoon June 8, 2017

6/8/2017

WORDLESS SPEECH & SPEECHLESS WORDS
SUFFICING
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ENSOULED HEART EVERSHINES IN/OF/AS ALL
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GREAT BREATHER’S BREATH WELLSPRINGS
INFINITE EXPRESSION
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3:50 AM-6/8/17

To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be enlightened
by the ten thousand things.
~ Eihei Dogen, 1200-1253

If you want to do a certain thing,
you first have to be a certain person.
Once you become that certain person,
you will not care anymore
about doing that certain thing.
~ Eihei Dogen, 1200-1253

AFTERNOON..................

from Bill Martin:

June 8

When we see a person,
the Tao is that person.
When we see a mountain,
the Tao is that mountain.
Whatever we see,
the Tao is that.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 54

I can believe the Tao is my spouse,
or the magnificent mountain
rising to the sky just east of here.
I can believe the Tao is beautiful.
It’s harder to believe
that the Tao is Donald Trump,
or a meadow strewn with rusted cars
and cast-off refrigerators.
The practice asked of me
is to pay close attention,
look carefully and patiently,
and see the Tao in people
that I do not like,
and in places I would rather
never go.

I don’t have to like everything I see or approve of every happening.
I am free to oppose that which seems unjust
and to support what seems to me to be helpful and compassionate.
It all remains the Tao.

Nothing stands outside the Tao, therefore nothing can oppose it.
This gives me a strange sense of peace.

I could, if certain circumstances arose,
die fighting against oppression and still understand
that both the oppression and my opposition of it are the infinite,
ever-changing, dance that is the Tao.
I am free to support or to oppose.
I am not free, however, to stand outside the Tao to do it.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Thursday, June 8, 2017

« What is harmful for some can be harmless or even beneficial for others.
Some creatures are so familiar with fire that they are not burned.
Snake venom is deadly for human beings,
while on certain animals it has no effect.
Put still more simply, some people cannot tolerate the air (they catch cold)
or the light (it irritates their eyes),
and yet there is nothing better than air and light.

It can be said, then,
that anything human beings consider to be evil is not necessarily so.
It may be disturbing and threatening to them for the time being,
because they are still weak or ill.
What they express about it thus reflects
only their personal views and their resilience;
it is a very relative judgement.
But ask the initiates and their response will surprise you:
because they have learned to make use of evil,
it has become an asset for them.
And how?
They transform it. »

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/evil-the-perception-we-have-of-it-is-very-relative_2017-06-08

Backyard Pet 11/23/14

Logic can take you through the mundane.
But if you want to know the magic of life,
you need to transcend logic.
Sadhguru
excerpt from:
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/passion-for-everything/?utm_source=sadhguru_spot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_spot_mailer

(total offering on above link may make you laugh out loud!)

TAO'D ONENESS TRANSFORMS.... Sunrise/Afternoon June 7, 2017 "......become one with the first Cause."

6/7/2017

TAO’D ONENESS
TRANSFORMS ALL IRRITATIONS & POTENTIAL HELLS
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IMPERSONAL LOVE’S
QUANTUM DIMENSIONAL COMPOST PILE
INCREASINGLY FERTILE
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4:16 AM-6/7/17

from Bill Martin:

June 7

What is true, is true
and cannot be made false,
however hard we try.
What we learn of the Tao,
can never be taken from us.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 54

The truth of who and what I am
has been with me since the beginning.
I sometimes glimpse its existence,
and quickly forget what I saw.
I catch hints of it, waiting
beside me with patient humor.

I feel it within me in moments
of silent peace and also
in the welling up of sobs
at unexpected times and places.
It comes in songs and dances,
visions and sensations,
and declares “True.”

While taking Songing Bird photos, it's "Breakfast Time" where i'm standing.

These brief experiences of Self-awareness
may pass quickly and be replaced
by the hundreds of conditioned ideas of who I am,
what I want, and how I feel.
The truth remains that I know these things
that have come to me in such transient seeming ways.
They can not be taken from me
no matter how vehemently my mind tries to deny them.
I am these things, these few unassailable things,
and I am not the myriad other things I think,
or thought,
I was.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Much has been said and written about initiations,
because at different times and in different places on earth
they have taken very different forms.

The fact is that all initiations,
past as well as present,
wherever they take place,
have only one goal: to unite spirit and matter.
Yes, one goal only:
the fusion of spirit and matter,
one could also say,
of human beings and their Creator.

You will ask,
‘But then, if it is only to achieve this single goal,
why are the explanations and methods for reaching it
so varied and numerous?’
It is because the knowledge necessary to realize this fusion
is infinite.

Human beings must place all their means and all the knowledge
they ceaselessly work to acquire, in the service of this one goal:
to unite with the Divinity,
to become one with the first Cause.

REMEMBRANCE ROCK

For as long as they seek something other than that,
they will simply wander along paths that lead them nowhere.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/initiations-their-goal-to-unite-spirit-and-matter_2017-06-07

TAO CORE'S BIRD SONGINGS..... "...become the fragrance..." Sunrise/Afternoon June 6, 2017

6/6/2017

TAO CORE’S BIRD SONGINGS
ERASE VIOLENT DRAMA
FROM
PERCEPTIONS’ POSSESSIONS
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4:29 AM-6/6/17

AFTERNOON.....................

70 yrs Youthing! Lena Proudlock...Harbour Waters, Harbour Island June 2017

If you become the fragrance,
you will become the very source of creation.
Sadhguru
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/pure-perception-no-judgement/

.....emotional pain is not pathology. Grief is not a condition to be diagnosed and treated. Feeling down and blue and a bit hopeless is not a disease which need be cured by consumption, whether that consumption is of material goods or new inner states.

A broken heart is pure and is complete on its own,
filled with intelligence, life, and seeds of creativity and expression.
It need not be mended or transformed into something else.
It is the vehicle by which the poetry of your life may flow
and your unique individuality may come alive here.

To stay embodied with waves of grief, confusion, rage, fear, despondency, exhaustion, hopelessness, and doubt …
to provide sanctuary and safe passage for the pieces of a broken world …
to dissolve once and for all the trance of self-abandonment …
this invitation is one that is radical and nonconventional by its nature,
appearing now for your consideration.

To infuse the entire spectrum with breath, with life, with awareness,
and with holding will liberate an eruption of skillful energy,
and help us to make meaning, to bear the unbearable,
and truly be there for others when they are suffering.
And to be warriors in the world
at those times we are needed most.
Matt Licata
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009213253461&fref=nf&pnref=story
or on Read More below

TAO FLUIDITY - "...effortless effort." Sunrise/Afternoon June 5, 2017

6/5/2017

TAO FLUIDITY ENSOULS ALL
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3:41 AM-6/5/17

From William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

June 5

Our hearts and minds have
a natural harmony with the Tao;
but distractions are everywhere,
pushing, pulling, shoving,
clamoring for attention.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 53

Not one more thing to add
to an overcrowded mind;
not another rung
on the ladder of achievement;
not something else affixed
to the spiritual aura;
not a conquest,
not a victory,
not a mastery.
The Tao is what is there
when these things
have lost their luster.

The paradox I have faced throughout my life
is the effortless effort necessary for a life of natural joy.
Spiritual practices abound.
Many lifetimes can be spent
on so-called mastery of a practice or a path.

It’s seems foolish to believe that the Taoist path is easy, but it is.
Yet the paradox arises when I realize just how enormous
is the accumulation of crap in the synapses of my brain,
and how much willingness is required to patiently release,
one by one,
the stories, desires, and fears.

I begin to see the courage required for me to spend a day,
and hour, or even a minute without a conditioned thought
to distract me from my natural, easy, joyous path.
A paradox indeed.
A wu-wei path;
a path of effortless effort.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Receiving peer approval helps us continue on.
Appearing cool and in control stifles our joy and growth.
We are born naturally creative,
it is our inner healer..."creativity unused becomes fungi".
I experienced my first nail fungus last year.
It takes most people 6 to 8 months to heal a nail fungus and some never do.

Practice playing with passion and freedom
until it is the new normal.

You have always been enough: good enough, kind enough,
smart enough, well enough, pretty enough,
caring enough, generous enough.
Share any shame that you hold to reclaim the energy it is stealing.
7/4/17

From the Desk of Jacqueline Lunger
Psychic Medium, Healer, Spiritual Counselor, Author
www.psychicauthor.com

BEING TRUTH IN GRACED SILENCE IS FREEDOM Sunrise/Afternoon June 4, 2017

6/4/2017

All photos today taken with "auto" camera setting...NO "vivid" enhancements...
...the colors were Breath Pausing at sunrise!!

TALKING TRUTH CAN RESULT IN MURDER
BEING TRUTH IN GRACED SILENCE IS FREEDOM
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4:02 AM-6/4/17
∞
“In Haiti good and evil are one,,,
and we never confuse the two.”
∞
“In Haiti nothing is ever as it appears to be.”
Serpent and the Rainbow
∞
(first read just prior to H.I. arrival 1988 for fulltime
a Friend INSISTED I read this book)

On Good and Evil
Kahlil Gibran

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts
it drinks even of dead waters.

You are good when you are one with yourself.
Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.
And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles
yet sink not to the bottom.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself.
For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth
and sucks at her breast.
Surely the fruit cannot say to the root,
"Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance."
For to the fruit giving is a need,
as receiving is a need to the root.

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech,
Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose.
And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
Even those who limp go not backward.
But you who are strong and swift,
see that you do not limp before the lame,
deeming it kindness.

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good,
You are only loitering and sluggard.
Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles.

AFTERNOON

In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness:
and that longing is in all of you.
But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea,
carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest.
And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself
in angles and bends
and lingers before it reaches the shore.

But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little,
"Wherefore are you slow and halting?"
For the truly good ask not the naked,
"Where is your garment?"
nor the houseless,
"What has befallen your house?"
K. Gibran
The Prophet
http://www.katsandogz.com/ongood.html

"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life
else it could not have been so universal and so potent,
but the majesty and beauty of the language
with which he clothed it were all his own."
-- Claude Bragdon

Regarding Kahlil Gibran
http://www.katsandogz.com/gibran.html

WHAT NEWNESS CAN WE DISCOVER WITHIN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES...
Miriam Kerrigan
(Harmony)

A NEVERBORN NEVERBORES...... "..arise...from the ashes of...grace" Sunrise/Afternoon June 3, 2017

6/3/2017

A NEVERBORN NEVERBORES IN DRAMA…..
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.

PURE LIGHT OF ZERO POINT
CANNOT BE CONTAMINATED.

IT HAS NO REALITY, NO VIBRATION
TO CONSIDER ANYTHING OF LESS VIBRATION THAN IT IS
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7/3/2005
Harbour Island
(Random Pick from old files:
Booklets Series: Milestone Bklets: July 05 Zero Point Milestone Wallet cb)

AFTERNOON.....................

The Raw Materials of Resurrection
Matt Licata

There was an idea that as you healed, you would feel less. That as you awakened, the emotional spectrum would narrow, into some safe, consistent, happy, resolved calm.
But you are seeing that love continues
to ask you to feel more,
to hold and metabolize the full-spectrum
of a broken open world.

There was an old hope that as your heart opened,
the vulnerability would diminish,
the shakiness would fall away,
the tenderness would yield…
but you are more raw now than ever before.

There was an old belief that as you deepened
on the path that you'd be more detached, untouchable,
not care so much about others and the world,
resting as the great “witness” beyond it all,
in some safe, constructed place of observation.
But somehow,
everything and everyone matter now
more than ever,
in spontaneous, unexpected ways.

Something new is being born inside you,
but something else is dying.
Rather than prematurely forcing rebirth to emerge,
turn into the uncertainty, the contradictions,
and the purity of the death of an old dream.
For it is here that the womb of new life is to be found,
where the raw materials of resurrection
are woven into being
by the Great Weaver herself.

While this level of trust may be disorienting
to a mind longing for resolution,
the body knows…
the heart knows.
Trust in the fires of disintegration.
And the birth that can arise
only from the ashes of that level of grace.
Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-raw-materials-of-resurrection.html

Note child's face just to left of center.......heart below the face.

TAO PERCEPTION....... Sunrise/Afternoon June 2, 2017

6/2/2017

TAO PERCEPTION
HONOURS ALL
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CESSATION OF INNER KILLING FIELDS
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3:55 AM-6/2/17

Friday, June 2, 2017

« Do not be ambitious and subject yourself
to exhausting rivalries.
Choose an activity where you have plenty of space,
or are perhaps even alone,
for no one will be able to prevent you from growing.
If you go and plant yourself beside a great tree,
it will complain you are encroaching on its territory.

And what will happen if you venture
into the territory of a wild animal?
Be like a bird instead:
it has a tiny little body, fragile and light, with a tiny beak,
but it also has wings to fly freely in the air.

A bird has no ambition to impose itself on a wild animal;
the only thing it asks for from the Creator is its song, joy and freedom of movement.

True sons and daughters of God are like birds;
they do not want to clear a path through the jungle,
but fly every day in the sky to bring back peace,
light and joy,
which they then share
with all their brothers and sisters. »
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/birds-symbol-of-a-spiritual-person_2017-06-02

AFTERNOON............

June 2
If we recognize the Tao’s children,
we recognize her,
for She and her children
are one.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 52
Wordings that follow in this color font...
from William Martin

Seeking the Tao is unnecessary.
Whatever I see is Tao.
Whatever I touch is Tao.
All that is inside me is Tao.
All that is outside me is Tao.

The Andromeda galaxy is Tao
and the eye that views it in wonder
is Tao.
The light years between
that galaxy and me
are also Tao.
So separation is an illusion.

--
One of my favorite books for children is by Chara Curtis and is titled, All I See Is Part Of Me. That title can be used as a helpful mantra for those times when I feel lost and separated. It reminds me that anything and everything I perceive is a part of me and, conversely, I am a part of everything I perceive.

The illusion of separation remains a “real” illusion for me and I seldom feel,
really feel, myself as a part of All That Is.
No matter.
The inability of my conditioned mind to feel this truth does not alter its reality.
It is a truth that I must practice until it permeates
the quantum nature of my body
and the very neurons of my brain begin to reprogram my awareness
until I actually know that all I see is part of me,
and I am part of all I see.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

BEYOND NETHERWORLDS' UNDERSTANDING.... Sunrise/Afternoon June 1, 2017

6/1/2017

DISAPPEARING ALL INTO GREAT BREATHER’S BREATH
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TOTALITY OF
PEACE THAT PASSETH NETHERWORLDS’ UNDERSTANDING
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4:04 AM-6/1/17

Liberation is the aliveness and immediacy beyond belief.
Liberation is when all the answers,
explanations and positions disappear,
and what remains is
the open mind of not knowing.
~ Joan Tollifson

”There has never been a separate person to get enlightened.
And however many times the mirage of encapsulation appears,
it is always only a mirage.
And it isn’t “me” who wakes up from this mirage
because “me” is the mirage!
In fact, it isn’t “me” who does anything.”
~ Joan Tollifson
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/exploring-simplicity-what-is/?utm_source=Stillness+Speaks+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1bac725b4c-Newsletter_May_31st_ND_Tollifson_Lucille5_31_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f5958d3327-1bac725b4c-19981973

Thursday, June 1, 2017
The notion of royalty necessarily goes hand in hand with that of self-mastery.
A monarch who only seeks to impose on others
but has not learned to control themself
is not really a king or queen, but a slave.
A true monarch is someone
who first and foremost has become master of themself.

Only a person committed to the ideal of overcoming
the domination of their selfish tendencies
and to control and orientate their thoughts,
feelings and desires, is on the royal road.
They inspire respect from all those who come near them
because they have not only power but also authority.
And then, even the spirits of nature bow at their passing,
whispering among themselves,
‘Look, a king or queen will be passing by, let’s go and welcome them,’
and they celebrate.

The nature spirits crowd around them because
their whole being emanates a fluidic substance of great purity,
imbued with soothing and curative influences,
felt even by animals, plants and stones.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Therapeutic Companionship
Matt Licata

Beyond all the theories, conflicting approaches, interventions, and strategies,
for me therapeutic companionship is a process
of bearing witness to the life of another
as they come to befriend themselves
in a way that was not possible until now.
To excavate meaning where there was none,
to find purpose in the core of the purposelessness,
breath where there was no breath to be found.

This befriending is not ordinary or passive, not always flowing and peaceful.
It is fierce, on fire, and an act of revolution.
It is the light shining out of the core of the dark night,
the outrageousness of the human spirit,
and the basic goodness of the human heart.

To walk into the dark wood, into the disorienting and hopeless places,
without knowing where the journey will lead,
if we will make it out in one piece, or where new life will be found.
Making sense together of where they have been,
who they see themselves to be, and what they are longing to become.
To illuminate what matters most to them and cradle it in our shared heart.
To help them gather the pieces of the broken world.

To proclaim their experience as utterly valid,
their feelings as ragingly honorable and intelligent,
that they are worthy of love as they are.
That despite the pain of the present,
the traumas of the past,
and the fragmented dreams of the future
we will dare to reclaim the aspects, parts, and pieces
of the soul that have been turned from,
now longing to return home.

We will assert together that pain is not pathology,
that they need not be "cured" in order for us to stay near,
that their suffering is authentic,
that their hopelessness well-founded.
Even their doubt is holy when allowed into the inner sanctum.
What they are is not some project to be improved,
but a mystery to be lived.

And then, from that foundation of companionship
and bearing witness to the sacredness of what a human being truly is
—including the profound grief, despair, and moments of great joy--
we are able to turn together into the unknown
and bow before its immensity.

It is awesome,
in the truest sense of the word,
to bear witness in this way.
To fall to the ground in the beholding of God in action,
of the unstoppable wild bravery of the human spirit,
and the relentlessness and creativity of love
as it makes its way into form.
Matt Licata

http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/05/therapeutic-companionship.html

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