Blog Archives - Dorothea Mills

"Sacred Nakedness" & "The Greater Sea" Sunrise/Afternoon August 31, 2014

8/31/2014

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed
with love for the sun,
and I wanted my masks no more.
And as if in a trance I cried, “Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.”

Thus I became a madman.

Khalil Gibran
excerpt from
How I Became a Madman
see Read More for full essay

The Greater Sea
My soul and I went down to the great sea to bathe. And when we reached the shore,
we went about looking for a hidden and lonely place.
(continued below)

“Let us go hence,” she said,
“For there is no lonely, hidden place where we can bathe.
I would not have this wind lift my golden hair, or bare my white bosom in this air,
or let the light disclose my scared nakedness.”

Then we left that sea to seek the Greater Sea.

Khalil Gibran
excerpt from
The Madman
see Read More for full writing

Steadfast in Core Sunrise/Afternoon August 30, 2014

8/30/2014

Steadfast in Core
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The Presence of Peace comes from the Undisturbed Peace of your Being
Deepak Chopra

This is love:
to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet
. ~ Rumi

To be the silence is to be that which does not pass away.
Jack Haas

http://www.spiritandflesh.com/581_notes.htm

You get caught by disliking, just as easily as by liking.
Neither reject nor desire.
Cleanly release all energy bonds.
Be free.
Jack Haas

http://www.spiritandflesh.com/528_Timeless_radiant_stillness_parables.htm

"Radiant Stillness" Sunrise/Afternoon August 29, 2014

8/29/2014

Be radiant stillness amongst them.
Jack Hass

Taste the filtered light.
When a baby is taken from the wet nurse,
it easily forgets her and starts eating solid food.

Seeds feed awhile on ground,
then lift up into the sun
.
So you should taste the filtered light
and work your way toward wisdom
with no personal covering.

That's how you came here,
like a star without a name.

Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

–Rumi
Coleman Barks version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/08/like-star-without-name.html

Original Being Sunrise/Afternoon August 28, 2014

8/28/2014

Stand in your original state of wholeness,
the state before you were born
when there was no knowledge "I am"
and therefore no need or want of any kind.

All suffering will end
as soon as you
stand in pure Awareness.

- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"A Net of Jewels"

Original Wisdom Ones cannot be tamed.

Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
by Robert Wolff and Thom Hartmann

(See Look Inside on amazon.com for Infusing Appetizer)

Fear no more,
says the heart,
committing its burden to some sea,
which sighs collectively for all sorrows,
and renews,
begins,
collects,
lets fall.

—Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
http://deathdeconstructed.blogspot.com/search/label/Virginia%20Woolf

"Just remember........................"

8/27/2014

Just remember,
You are the only faithful student you have.

All the others leave eventually.

Have you been making yourself shallow
with making others eminent?

Just remember, when you're in union,
you don't have to fear
that you'll be drained.

The command comes to speak,
and you feel the ocean
moving through you.

Then comes, Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.
–Rumi

How I pray is breathe.
–Thomas Merton

DEAD
DIED
GONE
TO ALL THAT WAS/IS NOT

THE NOW HERE OF NO WHERE
THE NO WHERE OF NOW HERE
SIMPLY NOWHERE

GONE IS ABILITY TO
SUFFER, LAMENT, OR INJOY.

A PEACE AND BEING
BEYOND THE BEYOND.

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Silent's Songs
v. VIII

“Thinking

Thinking is passing from the false to the true
and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.
When the idea enters the mind,
it is a reminiscence of a former state,
and passes on to interpretation.

. . . He who sees by illumination
discerns God first in everything.
But he who sees by logic only,
and seeks to prove the necessary,
is bewildered and sometimes travels
backward in a circle, or is imprisoned
in a chain of proofs.
Fool! He seeks the dazzling sun
by the dim light of a candle in the desert.”
― Mahmud Shabistari

“The tavern haunter wanders lonely in a desert
And sees the whole world as a mirage.
The desert is limitless and endless --
No one has seen its beginning or its end,
And even if you wandered in it a hundred years
You would not find yourself, or anyone else.
Those who live there have no feet or heads,
Are neither "believers" nor "unbelievers."
Drunk on the wine of selflessness,
They have given up good and evil alike.
Drunk, without lips or mouth, on Truth
They have thrown away all thoughts of name and fame,
All talk of wonders, visions, spiritual states,
Dreams, secret rooms, lights, miracles.”
― Mahmud Shabistari

The Great Nothing's Pause Sunrise/Afternoon August 26, 2014

8/26/2014

The Great Nothing's Pause
<
A Deep All-Prevading Connection to Soul
that
Manifests in Outer World.
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6/28/14

I believe in the world
As I believe in a daisy
Because I see it.
But I do not think about it
Because to think is to not-understand.

The world was not made
For us to think about it
(To think is to have sick vision)
But for us to look at it and assent.

I have no philosophy:
I have senses .
..If I talk of nature, that is not because
I know what nature is
But because I love it, and love is for this only:

For he who loves never knows what he loves
Or why he loves, or what love is.

Loving is eternal innocence
And the only innocence is not-thinking.

~ Fernando Pessoafrom
The Keeper of the Flocks
translated by Thomas Merton

for full sharing of the above and more
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/search/label/Fernando%20Pessoa

New Moon Seeding - Pearls of Great Price Sunrise/Afternoon August 25, 2014

8/25/2014

THERE IS NO DISTANCE
IN LOVE’S JOURNEY
OR EXISTENCE.

LOVE SIMPLY IS.

THE LIGHT OUTPOURING
IS DESTINY.

JUST AS WATER FLOWS TO THE SEA
BY WAY OF A RIVER,
LIGHT IS THE HOLY--INSTANT
RIVER WATER.

RIVERS FILLED
WITH IMPEDIMENTS TAKE LONG.

LOVE’S INTENSE DESIRE
TO JOIN PURELY
IS THE
SEED OF CREATION

CHAOS WITHOUT
TRANSLATES INTO PEACE
JUST AS
SUN MELTS SHADOWS
OR
FLOWERS PERFUME

ALL IS WELL
IN SILENCE OF BEING.

NO NEED
TO CHATTER AWAY
THE LOVE
BETWEEN SOULS.

LOVE’S SILENCE
JOINS
CREATOR AND CREATION

HOLD BY BEING HELD
IN
DEEP SILENCE OF BEING.

LOVE’S SILENCE
TRANSLATES
CREATION INTO CREATOR

THE CREATED AND CREATOR
ARE
EXTENSIONS OF NOTHING

ALL IS AS IT IS
WITH NO NEED
TO
EXPLAIN OR WONDER

MAY THE FULLNESS
OF PURE DIVINITY’
EXPRESS THRU ME
FROM THIS MOMENT ON

WORDS AND THOUGHTS
VEIL
THE SOUL’S EVERSHINING

ALL IS REVEALED
IN
LIVING SILENCE

THERE IS NO NEED
FOR THOUGHTS
AS YOU CATAPULT
INTO PURE PEACE

THE SLEEPINESS
IS NOT SLEEPINESS.
IT IS THE RELAXATION
OF
CELESTIAL HOMECOMING

HOLD IN QUIET LOVE

IN THIS STATE
YOU ARE LIVED
MOVED
BREATHED
WITHOUT THOUGHT OR EFFORT

ONLY ANOTHER QUIET SOUL
TRULY RECOGNIZES.

TO DISSECT THE EXPERIENCE
WITH WORDS
OR THOUGHTS
CAN KILL NEW LIFE
AND
THE HOMECOMING PROCESS

I AM THE PRESENCE
WHICH HARMONIZES
ALL DISTURBANCE

THE “I AM” SUFFICES
WITHOUT
HUMAN ORCHESTRATION.

I REMAIN
FOREVERMORE
IN
GOD ALONE
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see Read More for entire Wording

"When I Gazed at myself......." < Uncontaminated Grace Sunrise/Afternoon August 24, 2014

8/24/2014

When I gazed at myself I saw myself no more.
Rumi

If I was a Perfected Being,
This Grace would make sense
To those who say it arises
From virtue and merit...
"Because of".

Even my Beloved Baba
Said it was due to past lives
Lived in renunciation
And spiritual disciplines,
Hearing which...

I cried.

For it would not then be Grace,
Would it,
But merely a worthless trinket,
Born of conditionality,
"Because of".

That being so...
It would not be possible,
Even to discard it in a sewer,
For the sewer, feeling itself defiled,
Would hurl it back.
Chuck Surface
https://www.facebook.com/pages/In-the-Garden-of-The-Beloved/291596150965852

UNCONTAMINATED GRACE

LIFE BEGINS
ENDS
AND
NEVER DIES
IN THE SACRED DEPTHS WITH ME

ew
Whispers from The Holy Spirit
Speechless Words - Disappearance
Harbour Island
1992

The Winged Glide of "Wise Ignorance" Sunrise/Afternoon August 23, 2014

8/23/2014

When the soul has entered into the vast solitude of the Godhead,
it happily loseth itself.
Enlightened by the splendour of this bright cloud,
in its excess of knowledge it becometh without knowledge,
and is established in what may be called a kind of wise ignorance.

In this state it learneth by experimental knowledge
that He infinitely surpasseth all things that can be known by the senses,
and whatever can be written, spoken or conceived by the mind of man.
Abbot Blosius

WINGS (of Living Light) is The Acronym
Wise Ignorance Natural Grace Splendour

at the 11th hour, finishing up this sunrise stroll....
feeling quite "Ignorant" and Clear...
the gulls appeared out of "nowhere".....
the gull in flight remained Still for the longest
on an invisible current of Creator's Creation...
LivingBeingSharingReminding
the "how to" of Silent's Wise Ignorance
ew/dmm

May Love's Peace
Hold You
Beyond Earthly Measure
ew
Godseed

"Set Adrift on the Infinite Ocean" Sunrise/Afternoon August 22, 2014

8/22/2014

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

God
pours light
into every cup,
quenching darkness.

The proudly pious
stuff their cups with parchment
and critique the taste of ink
while God pours light

and the trees lift their limbs
without worry of redemption,
every blossom a chalice.

Hafiz, seduce those withered souls
with words that wet their parched
lips

as light
pours like rain
into every empty cup
set adrift on the Infinite Ocean.

–Hafiz

BECOMING HUMAN

Once a man came to me
and spoke for hours about
“His great visions of God”
he felt he was having..
He asked me for confirmation, saying,
“Are these wondrous dreams true?”.

I replied, “How many goats do you have?”.
He looked surprised and said,“I am speaking of sublime visions
And you ask About goats!”.
And I spoke again saying,“Yes, brother – how many do you have?”.
“Well, Hafiz, I have sixty-two.”.
“And how many wives?”
Again he looked surprised, then said,“Four.”.
“How many rose bushes in your garden,
How many children,
Are your parents still alive,
Do you feed the birds in winter?”.
And to all he answered..

Then I said,
“You asked me if I thought your visions were true,
I would say that they were if they make you become
More human,.
More kind to every creature and plant
That you know.".

~ Hafiz(“The Gift”
– translated by Daniel Ladinsky)

ALLOW THE FORM AND DANCE
TO BE ORCHESTRATED BY LOVE
THAT IS LIMITLESS
AND WITHOUT
EXPECTATION

WHISPER PEARLS
from
Yes! If He’s A Holy Man
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Hafiz Wording from:
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/08/light-pours-like-rain.html
http://beautywelove.blogspot.ca/search/label/Hafiz

"Gentleness of Soul" Sunrise/Afternoon August 21, 2014

8/21/2014

The greatest kindness you can express is your being which radiates love in every situation...
Kindness expresses the gentleness of the soul.
Deepak Chopra

Soul Centered Relationships
Synergize only Love
ew
Godseed

"There is a way........" Sunrise/Afternoon August 20, 2014

8/20/2014

“There is a way
between voice and presence
where information flows.

In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.”
— Rumi

Source: etherealisings
http://thingsthatsing.tumblr.com/

Returning from sunrise stroll.....
...In morning sky above is a perpendicular slight cloud slanting to the left
This is actually a distinct rainbow to my physical-eyes' vision... ending downward over our island home..

Internet is back today with no explanation of where it's been.
It works when it wants to.
Maybe that's the lesson to us all.
Work when you feel like it.
Don't explain yourself to anyone.
Be awesome when you're at your best.

Miriam < Harmony

The Opening Sunrise / Early Evening August 19, 2014

8/19/2014

What you really are is the present opening
through which everything arises and falls
including thoughts, emotions, beliefs, experiences, and states.

The opening never changes.
It does not come and go.
It is stateless and experience-less.

In realizing that what you really are is this opening,
it is seen that every thought, emotion, belief, experience, and state that comes through
the opening is not in fact separate from the opening.

You are both the opening and that which comes through it.
The opening and that which is coming through the opening
constitute one present reality happening
Scott Kiloby

For the birds there is not a time that they tell,
but the point vierge between darkness and light,
between being and nonbeing.

You can tell yourself the time by their waking,
if you are experienced.
But that is your folly, not theirs.

–Thomas Merton
Confessions of a Guilty Bystander
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/08/time_19.html

above ocean scenes around 5 p.m.
just after a long rainstorm with extreme lightning and thunder....

"If you are silent...... Sunrise/Afternoon August 18, 2014

8/18/2014

If you are silent, be silent out of love.
If you speak, speak out of love.
Saint Augustine

When you find out your source,
the seed of your beingness,
you will know the seed of the entire universe.
August 18
Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

...if we could do nothing for once,
perhaps a great silence would interrupt this sadness,
this never understanding ourselves
and threatening ourselves with death,
perhaps the earth is teaching us
when everything seems to be dead
and then everything is alive.

(see Read More below for full writing and authour)

Sound from Beyond The Silence Sunrise/Afternoon August 17, 2014

8/17/2014

...the silent life in us sings with all its might.
K Gibran

The butterfly so Still...Beyond The Silence,
we thought she might be injured and/or even with dead form.
Then suddenly she flew away to freedom in Pure Nature.....
Fueled and Rested via The Sound from Beyond The Silence.
dmm

A Great Silence overcomes me,
and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.
Rumi

Allow the dead to bury the already dead... < RESURRECTION Sunrise/Afternoon August 16, 2014

8/16/2014

What in your life is calling you,
when all the noise is silenced,
the meetings adjourned,
the lists laid aside,
and the wild Iris blooms
by itself
in the dark forest,
what still pulls on your soul?

–Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/08/question.html

Continuing Incorporeality..... Sunrise August 15, 2014

8/16/2014

click on photos below to enlarge

see Read More re: this "heart" or letter Q

Incorporeality Sunrise August 14, 2014

8/14/2014

Primordial Peace < Living Silence Sunrise August 13, 2014

8/13/2014

Not very long ago in Hyderabad there was a mureed, rather an intellectual pupil,
and he liked to talk.
His teacher was interested in his intelligent inquires,
and so he encouraged him to talk,
whereas it is the custom in the East for the pupil to remain silent before his teacher.....

One day the teacher was in a condition of exaltation,
and his pupil as usual wanted to discuss and argue,
which was not agreeable to the teacher at the time.
He said in Persian, “khamush”, which means silence.
And the pupil remained silent.

No one heard him speak after that, no one in the house nor outside;
he never spoke anywhere.

Years passed by and the man still kept silent, but
there came a time when his silence began to speak aloud.
His silent thought would manifest;
his silent wish would become granted;
his silent glance would heal;
his silent look would inspire.

His silence became living.
It was the spoken words which had kept him dead all this time.
The moment his lips were closed the silence in him began to live.

His presence was living.
In Hyderabad people called him Shaikh Khamush,
the king of silence or the silent king.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

"The Perfection you seek......" Sunrise/Afternoon August 12, 2014

8/12/2014

The perfection you seek is found in Stillness

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/category/thoughts_for_day/

Your end which is endless is as a snowflake dissolving in pure air.”
― Bassui Takusho

...leap with hands high in the air into the tremendous abyss of fire confronting you -- .
into the ever-burning flame of your own .primordial nature

You will feel resurrected, all sickness having completely vanished,
and will experience genuine peace and joy.
.~ Bassui

See Read More
for
Full Bassui Wording

Another "only Smiled......" Sunrise/Afternoon August 11, 2014

8/11/2014

Again, we are in a condition of beyond words and thoughts....
"only Smiled"****
yet Aware of Wonder and Pure Source Cleansing and Renewal
that Happens during sunrise/Ocean Jacuzzi again this day...
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see yesterday's Read More
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/only-smiled-sunriseafternoon-august-10-2014
for another "only Smiled" story

She turned her head to face me.
Pristine clarity.
No vague hallucination.
She smiled sweetly, slowly nodded Her head downward,
then slowly back up, then turned back to center,
shimmering for awhile longer.
Slowly, the luminosity faded, and I found myself once again in a 3D room… the mind stopped, intoxicated in Wonder;
the whole of my Being bathed in Bliss.
Chuck Surface

(see Read More below
for full Sharing
of Chuck's "only Smiled" experience)

"only Smiled"........... Sunrise/Afternoon August 10, 2014

8/10/2014

".....when the people eagerly asked, 'what did you see there?'

He did not answer....
he only Smiled. "

for "The Rest of the (Smiled) Story"
and what the camera saw this morning & afternoon
please see
Read More
below right

Cessation of Intentions Sunrise/Afternoon August 9, 2014

8/9/2014

Anyone who has truly apprehended that it is impossible for him to live independently
according to his own "will power" would naturally
cease having any intentions.
When he is convinced that living is a sort of dreaming
in which he has no control over his actions,
all tension ceases and a sense of total freedom takes over.
August 9
A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Khalil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;
And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place,
let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.
Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart
as the taste of the wine is remembered
When the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more
.Khalil Gibran

Beyond Joy!
Beyond Breath!
O Silent Core of Life Sustains.....
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Godseed

Naked Messages Sunrise August 8, 2014

8/8/2014

When a message has no clothes on
How can it be spoken.
–Thomas Merton

Pardon all runners,
All speechless, alien winds,
All mad waters.

Pardon their impulses,
Their wild attitudes,
Their young flights, their reticence.

When a message has no clothes on
How can it be spoken.

–Thomas Merton
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-messenger-from-horizon-excerpt.html

Volition's Vacancy Sunrise August 7, 2014

8/8/2014

The sage lives in a sense of equanimity
so constant that he is impervious to pleasure or pain,
gain or loss, praise or criticism.
He is so vacant of volition that for him
there is nothing to be done or not to be done.
August 7
Net of Jewels
Ramesh S Balsekar

You should never be here too much, be so far away that even you cannot find yourself.

- J Krishnamurti
from: http://thisunlitlight.com/2014/04/04/keep-far-away-2/

See Read More for the Krishnamurti full quote