6:24 AM FIRST PHOTO THIS MORNING
BREATH ALONE
BREATH ALONE
BREATH ALONE
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ETERNAL MOMENT RAINS
&
REIGNS
PLEASE BE STILL
ALL IS WELL
∞
BREATH ALONE
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2:01 AM-2/20/20
6:49 AM SINGLE SET OF FOOTPRINTS POOFING ALL ASPECTS OF BEING IN THE LIGHT
What we speak
becomes the house
we live in.
Who will want
to sleep in your bed
if the roof leaks
right above it?
Fear is the
cheapest room
in the house,
I would like
to see you living
in better conditions.
becomes the house
we live in.
Who will want
to sleep in your bed
if the roof leaks
right above it?
Fear is the
cheapest room
in the house,
I would like
to see you living
in better conditions.
There is only one reason
we have followed God
into this world:
to encourage laughter,
freedom,
dance and love ....
God and I are rushing
from every corner of
existence,
needing to say
we are yours.
we have followed God
into this world:
to encourage laughter,
freedom,
dance and love ....
God and I are rushing
from every corner of
existence,
needing to say
we are yours.
The sun never says
to the earth,
even after all this time
“you owe me”.
I once asked a bird
how is it that you
fly in this gravity
of darkness?
she responded,
love lifts me.
to the earth,
even after all this time
“you owe me”.
I once asked a bird
how is it that you
fly in this gravity
of darkness?
she responded,
love lifts me.
I should not make
any promises right now
but I know if you pray
somewhere in this world
something good
will happen.
—Hafiz
Daniel Ladinsky and
Robert Bly translations
any promises right now
but I know if you pray
somewhere in this world
something good
will happen.
—Hafiz
Daniel Ladinsky and
Robert Bly translations
The spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness
there he met the wild beast.
Angels ministered to him. ~ St. Mark
All the great religions, at least at the mature level, recognize that we need a different set of eyes to read, to understand spiritual realities…If we approach spiritual realities with the same Mexican jumping bean mind that we approach our everyday life, we are not going very far or seeing very much.
there he met the wild beast.
Angels ministered to him. ~ St. Mark
All the great religions, at least at the mature level, recognize that we need a different set of eyes to read, to understand spiritual realities…If we approach spiritual realities with the same Mexican jumping bean mind that we approach our everyday life, we are not going very far or seeing very much.
“This verse portrays the entire journey of prayer,” says Fr. Rohr. “Jesus had to be driven into the wilderness, as do we all.”
Few of us willingly want to sit in silence and face our compulsive, trivial and negative mind.
“If you really sit in the silence and refuse to feed your compulsive…. style of thinking, what comes up are… unhealed hurts, past unresolved relationships…all the things you don’t want to see about yourself.”
Few of us willingly want to sit in silence and face our compulsive, trivial and negative mind.
“If you really sit in the silence and refuse to feed your compulsive…. style of thinking, what comes up are… unhealed hurts, past unresolved relationships…all the things you don’t want to see about yourself.”
The medieval Franciscans taught, “the human mind can only do two things, endlessly reprocess the past and endlessly worry about the future… the mind can’t be present in the now because you can’t think in the now…”
Rohr, a Franciscan himself, says you need a completely different set of tools to work with the present moment…
“the Now usually feels boring, lonely, inadequate…
it’s not enough.”
Rohr equates these feelings with the Franciscan ideal
of being “poor in spirit.”
“God refuses to be known by the intellect.
God only allows himself to be loved by the heart.”
Saint John of the Cross:
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/richard-rohr-becoming-stillness/?utm_source=Stillness+Speaks+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2b1d911515-NL_2-19_2020_LfNDP-ALL-p-WS-Subs&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f5958d3327-2b1d911515-19977997&ct=t(TRK-NL_2-19_2020_LfNDP-ALL-p-WS-Subs)
“the Now usually feels boring, lonely, inadequate…
it’s not enough.”
Rohr equates these feelings with the Franciscan ideal
of being “poor in spirit.”
“God refuses to be known by the intellect.
God only allows himself to be loved by the heart.”
Saint John of the Cross:
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/richard-rohr-becoming-stillness/?utm_source=Stillness+Speaks+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2b1d911515-NL_2-19_2020_LfNDP-ALL-p-WS-Subs&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f5958d3327-2b1d911515-19977997&ct=t(TRK-NL_2-19_2020_LfNDP-ALL-p-WS-Subs)
With advancing age my ideals,
which I usually deny possessing,
have definitely altered.
My ideal is to be free of ideals,
free of principles,
free of isms and ideologies.
I want to take to the ocean of life
like a fish takes to the sea…
Henry Miller
MUCH MORE HERE:
https://mailchi.mp/brainpickings/henry-miller-80?e=bc3afd75c6
which I usually deny possessing,
have definitely altered.
My ideal is to be free of ideals,
free of principles,
free of isms and ideologies.
I want to take to the ocean of life
like a fish takes to the sea…
Henry Miller
MUCH MORE HERE:
https://mailchi.mp/brainpickings/henry-miller-80?e=bc3afd75c6
AFTERNOON
Truth Does Not Come and Go
In similar fashion,
I learned this was also true of my experiences.
I discovered that as soon as I invested any value,
meaning, or purpose in them,
I was losing the pearl of great price
by giving them a premature closure.
It was only by investing
no value in an experience
that I was able to find out
its truth or falsity.
In similar fashion,
I learned this was also true of my experiences.
I discovered that as soon as I invested any value,
meaning, or purpose in them,
I was losing the pearl of great price
by giving them a premature closure.
It was only by investing
no value in an experience
that I was able to find out
its truth or falsity.
What is false never lasts,
it falls away of its own accord;
while what is true remains,
because truth does not come and go--
it is always there.
it falls away of its own accord;
while what is true remains,
because truth does not come and go--
it is always there.
So as long as
our experiences come and go
and we are investing
in them our own values,
thoughts, and emotions,
we'll never find out
if there is any truth in them,
for truth is what remains
when there are no experiences left.
Bernadette Roberts
Experience of No Self
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/02/truth-does-not-come-and-go.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29
our experiences come and go
and we are investing
in them our own values,
thoughts, and emotions,
we'll never find out
if there is any truth in them,
for truth is what remains
when there are no experiences left.
Bernadette Roberts
Experience of No Self
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/02/truth-does-not-come-and-go.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29
Your heart will fix itself.
It’s your mind you need to worry about.
Your mind where you locked the memories,
your mind where you have kept pieces
of the ones that hurt you,
that still cut through you
like shards of glass.
Your mind will keep you up at night,
make you cry,
destroy you over and over again.
You need to convince your mind
that it has to let go…
because your heart
already knows how to heal.
― Nikita Gill
It’s your mind you need to worry about.
Your mind where you locked the memories,
your mind where you have kept pieces
of the ones that hurt you,
that still cut through you
like shards of glass.
Your mind will keep you up at night,
make you cry,
destroy you over and over again.
You need to convince your mind
that it has to let go…
because your heart
already knows how to heal.
― Nikita Gill
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