Category: Clarity

ALL REVEALS "...a cosmic transfiguration..." May 16, 2020 "...some secrets are hidden from health."

5/16/2020

12/27/17

NOTHING TO DEPEND UPON
IN CONSCIOUSNESS
EXCEPT STILLNESS<GREAT SILENCE
OF EACH MOMENT…
…FROM THAT CENTERPOINT OF PURE PEACE
ALL REVEALS
ALL IS WELL
THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE PREVAILS
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5:23 AM-5/16/20

12/27/17

This unexpected time is the dawning.
This is the beginning of a great dismantling.
Obsolete consciousness is being dissolved.
Duality is deliberately cancelling itself out.
All of creation is being cleared to create a new vessel.
The new world template is now being envisioned in spirit.
This is a cosmic transfiguration process.
All will experience this time in various stages.
Aluna Joy Yaxkin
May 4, 2020
See Read More Below Afternoon Photos
for Full Sharing

12/27/17

In the Garden of The Beloved
May 3 at 5:34 PM

WITH WHOM... I DO NOT KNOW
However saddened I may become,
At the suffering inherent in this life,
The joy, inherent, is there, as well,
For both exist At Once in this Madness,
Known to those who Love.

And Something Else is there, as well,
Whether we sob, collapsed in sorrow,
Or laugh, dancing in the arms of joy,
Something that is back, behind, before,
The dualities of joy and sorrow.

Something untouched and unmoved,
By the ever-vacillating experience,
Of polarities, and all that lies between,
Something that does not end them,
But strangely, Accompanies them.

It is an Ecstasy, if I must use a word,
But an Ecstasy without opposite,
That Shines at the Heart of Being,
Even as within the peripheral sky,
Opposites come, go, ebb, and flow.

What is this Rapturous Radiance?
Is it the Soul, as some would assert,
Or the Presence of God, within us,
Or any number of things declared,
By the many faiths as “Truth”?

I write of “She”, “The Beautiful One”,
But know that those are only the words,
Of a Foolish old man, struggling to say,
As Attar said much better , long ago,
“I am in Love, but with Whom...
I do not know.”
Chuck Surface

www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
www.facebook.com/InTheGardenOfTheBeloved
https://gardenofthebeloved.com/

All Photos for today from: May 16, 2018 Unless Otherwise Noted
THE SILENCE BEFORE SOUND ‘become’ healing presence… "...primal act of divine instinct." May 16, 2018CtrlClick above link (or below) to open above OceanSpeak
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/the-silence-before-sound-become-healing-presence-primal-act-of-divine-instinct-may-16-2018

AFTERNOON

Message from Fever

I have brought back a good message from the land of 102 degrees:
God exists.
I had seriously doubted it before;
but the bedposts spoke of it with utmost confidence,
the threads in my blanket took it for granted,
the tree outside the window dismissed all complaints,
and I have not slept so justly for years.

It is hard, now, to convey
how emblematically appearances sat
upon the membranes of my consciousness;
but it is truth long known
that some secrets are hidden from health.
John Updike
Fever
From Collected Poems 1953-1993
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-message-from-fever.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29

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Entire Aluna Joy Yaxkin Sharing

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GLIDING.."...unconstrained by form." "...Flew off on bright wings." "...scathingly true..." April 15, 2020

4/15/2020

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GLIDING ON INVISIBLE AIR CURRENTS
IN REALMS BEYOND HUMAN DESTRUCTION
=
A CESSATION OF THOUGHTS & WORDS
<
A WANING OF ALL MAN-MADE REALITIES
SWEETLY INCREASES
=
THE SILENT BREATH OF ORIGIN SUFFICETH*
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6:20 AM-4/15/20
*See Read More
including a tombstone
below Afternoon Photos

All Photos (unless otherwise noted) from
Harbour Island, Bahamas
BEING’S BEINGLESSNESS "Whatever he does, He does nothing." "Just this breath,..." April 15, 2019
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how to become

To be empty, to feel empty,
is to live in the wasteland near the gates of death.
This is intolerable to the soul.

We were not meant to live such shallow lives.
Our heritage and our psychic makeup
are designed for an elaborate richness
of imagination and creativity that allows us
to feel intimately connected to the ongoing creation.

We were meant to drop below the surface of things
and to experience the depths of life
in the same ways that our deep-time ancestors did.

Their lives were filled with story, ritual,
and circles of sharing.
Their lives were not shamefully hidden away
but known-
losses, defeats, grief, pains,
joys, births, deaths, dreams, sorrows;
the communal draw of life
was open and acknowledged.

This is what the soul expected,
what it is we need today.
~Francis Weller
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/04/15/32144/

AFTERNOON

Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars

Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck them from the quenching dark
Til they are all, all inside me,
Pepper hot and sharp.

Sometimes, instead, I stir myself
Into a universe still young,
Still warm as blood:
No outer space, just space,
The light of all the not yet stars
Drifting like a bright mist,
And all of us, and everything
Already there
But unconstrained by form.

And sometime it’s enough
To lie down here on earth
Beside our long ancestral bones:
To walk across the cobble fields
Of our discarded skulls,

Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis,
Thinking: whatever left these husks
Flew off on bright wings.
~Rebecca Elson
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/04/13/when-the-skies-are-bright/

We spend so much time
anticipating what will happen next that we miss
the whisper of Heaven that unfolds wherever we are.

Though I have known and survived
many forms of pain,
fear is the troll in my mind
that anticipates more.

And just as a loud noise prevents us
from finding the peace in the center of silence,
fear prevents us from finding
the inch of Heaven in the center
of whatever moment we are in.

Yet, no matter how much I’ve been through
and how much I’ve learned,
I can’t stop the wave of anticipation.
No one can.

It is part of being human.

~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/04/13/when-the-skies-are-bright/

Walk Totally Alone

We must always keep a distance
or some doubt regarding our belief systems,
and even all our divine experiences.

We do this by remaining absolutely true,
scathingly true,
to what we honestly know and experience ourselves.

We have to walk totally alone
and follow only the inner guide,
which guide is akin to common sense.
My own mother felt that common sense
was man's most divine faculty.

he temptation is to see our experiences
in the light of those who have gone before
– those on top of the pile, of course –
but in this way the same errors
are just passed down from
one generation to another.

Bernadette Roberts
Personal Letter/Copyright 1987

GLIDING ON INVISIBLE AIR CURRENTS
IN REALMS BEYOND HUMAN DESTRUCTION
=
A CESSATION OF THOUGHTS & WORDS
<
A WANING OF ALL MAN-MADE REALITIES
SWEETLY INCREASES
=
THE SILENT BREATH OF ORIGIN SUFFICETH*
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6:20 AM-4/15/20
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for notes/photos re: this morning's Whisper above

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SILENCE POSSESSION "...we are alone;..." April 13, 2020 "... prehistoric harmony,..." "...a fortunate mimicry..."

4/13/2020

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AS PRIOR ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
“SOMETIMES QUICKLY-SOMETIMES SLOWLY”
WITHER AWAY
I BECOME THE ARROW IN
CREATOR’S/CREATION'S DRAWN BOW....
A RELENTLESS IMPECCABLE FOCUS
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THEN LOSS OF ALL CONSCIOUS AWARENESS
MELTED IN/OF/AS CREATOR
AS ARROW IS LOOSED
FLYING TO
(& SIMULTANEOUSLY AM)
CENTER OF TARGET
=
∞
∞AN UNINTERRUPTED WAY OF LIFE∞
∞ORIGINAL SILENCE POSSESSION∞
∞ TAO CORE∞
∞WU-WEI∞
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∞
∞6:25 AM-4/13/20∞
∞
(See Read More Below Afternoon Photos for
More re: the above state of consciousness)

All Photos (unless otherwise noted) from
Harbour Island, Bahamas
NO CHOICE
TRANSPARENT SILENCE OF ORIGIN
April 13, 2019
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/no-choice-transparent-silence-of-origin-free-of-all-desires-being-in-the-void-april-13-2019

We are solitary.
We can delude ourselves about this
and act as if it were not true.
That is all.
But how much better it is to recognize
that we are alone;
yes, even to begin from this realization.
Rainer Maria Rilke

We have been put into life
as into the element we most accord with,
and we have, moreover, through thousands of years of adaptation, come to resemble this life so greatly
that when we hold still,
through a fortunate mimicry
we can hardly be differentiated
from everything around us.

We have no reason to harbour
any mistrust against our world,
for it is not against us.
If it has terrors, they are our terrors;
if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us;
if there are dangers, we must try to love them.

And if only we arrange our life in accordance
with the principle which tells us
that we must always trust in the difficult,
then what now appears to us as the most alien
will become
our most intimate and trusted experience.

How could we forget those ancient myths
that stand at the beginning of all races,
the myths about dragons that at the last moment
are transformed into princesses?
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses
who are only waiting to see us act,
just once,
with beauty and courage …

Rainer Maria Rilke

Paris, on the second day of Christmas 1908
It must be immense, this silence,
in which sounds and movements have room,
and if one thinks that along with all this
the presence of the distant sea also resounds,
perhaps as the innermost note in this prehistoric harmony,
then one can only wish
that you are trustingly and patiently
letting the magnificent solitude work upon you,
this solitude which can no longer
be erased from your life;
which, in everything that is in store
for you to experience and to do,
will act an anonymous influence,
continuously and gently decisive,
rather as the blood of our ancestors
incessantly moves in us and combines
with our own to form the unique,
unrepeatable being
that we are at every turning of our life.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Furuborg, Jonsered, Sweden, 4th November 1904
… just the wish that you may find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith; that you may gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. And as for the rest, let life happen to you.
Believe me:
life is in the right, always.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

All Quotes above in this font from Rilke are from this article:
https://www.theculturium.com/rainer-maria-rilke-on-solitude/
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AFTERNOON

A man went for a walk one day.
As he walked,
he became aware that he was feeling lost and alone.

Rather than push the feelings away,
he allowed them to be present with him.
"I'm lost. I am all alone,"
he cried to himself.

A deep sadness arose within him.

Suddenly a voice arose from a deeper level.
"If you are lost, then where are you?"

It was the voice of his Being.
It was the voice of truth.

The man paused to consider the question.
"If I am lost, then where am I?" he asked aloud.
He sat down and as much as possible,
he became present with his feelings.

"I am lost. I am all alone!" he repeated several times.

Once again the voice of his Being gently challenged him.
"You say you are lost.
Then where are you?"

The man tried to see where he was.
Suddenly, it became clear to him.

"I am lost in my mind!" he cried.

It was so simple.
He was lost in his mind.
He was lost somewhere in his remembered past.
Or somewhere in his imagined future.

One thing was clear.
He was not here now.

He closed his eyes and became very still.
He became very aware of his body and his breath.
He became very aware of the sounds around him.
He could feel the soft caress
of the breeze upon his face.

He became silent.

He began to feel very present.

The feeling of being lost and alone disappeared.
He paused for a few moments in silent gratitude.
He opened his eyes
and his heart exploded with joy
as a bird soared into the sky.

Leonard Jacobson - The Walkhttps://www.leonardjacobson.com/
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2020/04/leonard-jacobson-walk.html

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THE NOTHING OF ONENESS "A fertile solitude..." "...wildness...desperate vitality..." "It's all Here within..." 2/21/20

2/21/2020

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PEOPLE PLEASING
=
THE EGOIC MANNER OF DEADLY POSSESSION
...A SUBTLE BUILD-UP OF LIES TO SOUL TRUTH…
UNTIL ONE CHOKES/SPUTTERS/DIES YET AGAIN
INTO
THE NOTHING OF ONENESS
WITH ALL OF CREATION..
=
A NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE ONE’S
WAY OF LIFE IN FORM...
...UNTIL IT NO LONGER OCCURS
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AH! + (Baubo's) HA!
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AHA!
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5:18 AM-2/21/20

The saints differ from us in their exuberance,
the excess of our human talents.
Moderation is not their secret.
It is in the wildness of their dreams,
the desperate vitality of their ambitions
that they stand apart
from ordinary people of good will.
Phyllis McGinley
How Saints Differ

A fertile solitude
is a benign forgetting of the body that takes care of itself… A productive solitude,
the solitude in which
what could never have been anticipated appears,
is linked with a quality of attention.
Adam Phillips

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/18/adam-phillips-on-risk-and-solitude/?mc_cid=169e3b9e56&mc_eid=bc3afd75c6

Eternity is not a long time;
rather, it is another dimension.
It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us.
And so there never was a creation.
Rather, there is a continuous creating going on.
energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now,
board and brick of the buildings we sit in,
every grain of sand and wisp of wind.

—Joseph Campbell
Myths of Light

You would measure time
the measureless and the immeasurable.
You would adjust your conduct
and even direct the course of your spirit
according to hours and seasons.

Of time you would make a stream
upon whose bank you would sit
and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you
is aware of life’s timelessness,
And knows that yesterday
is but today’s memory
and tomorrow is today’s dream.

And that that which sings
and contemplates in you is still dwelling
within the bounds of that first moment
which scattered the stars into space.

—Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

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
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/02/telling-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

By the time you are
by the time you come to be
by the time you read this
by the time you are written
by the time you forget
by the time you are water through fingers
by the time you are taken for granted
by the time it hurts
by the time it goes on hurting
by the time there are no words for you
by the time you remember
but without names
by the time you are in the papers
and on the telephone
passing unnoticed there too

who is it
to whom you come
before whose very eyes
you are disappearing
without making yourself known

—W. S. Merwin
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/02/to-present-tense.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Mystical Spirituality...
Being an unapologetic "mystic" at Heart, since childhood,
means for me experiencing the Living Presence of Life
that animates all life.
Some call that God, The Divine, The Beloved, The Ineffable,
"The Mystery", Consciousness, Infinite Being, Spirit, Brahman,
The Tao, etc., etc., etc.

It has many names and forms.
It means being able to see and experience "The Mystery"
in the every-day-ness of life;
something I'm still "working" on -
being more aware of the Sacred in a chaotic world,
in the mundane personal affairs of living;
the requirements of daily life:
in the must do's and the have-to's
that always find their way to the top of my list,
and seem to drive
life...

A "mystical spirituality" pertains to direct experience
with Ultimate Reality/The Divine/"The Mystery"...
Some may assume that a
"mystic" doesn't experience the darker feelings
and frustrations with living the Cosmic Dance of life.

That has not been my experience.
A "mystic" just experiences them
within context of the Greater Reality
- and learns to embrace them
as part of the totality of experience.
Some feel that a "mystic" has special insights, or powers, or visions,
or is only interested in seeking "mystical experiences."

For me it is not about seeking experiences,

but being open to the
movement of "The Mystery",
the movement of Consciousness
through its many expressions,
and at times experiencing
an intimate encounter
with what I know to be "The Divine"

like my Epiphany in Nov. 2013,
or Waking Up To Bliss like I did recently, or "meditative
writings" many years ago,
and poetry that sometimes just spills
out onto the page.

Mystical Spirituality acknowledges the universality
of what most have come to call "God,"
"The Divine", or Buddha Nature (Dharmakaya),
not associated with any particular faith, religion, or practice,
but a transcendent truth -
realizing that humans, at the very core of their
being are both "Divine" and human;
formlessness and form, spirit
in matter, Timelessness in time...

This "union" takes place within ourselves
with the realization that we are not a separate entity from
our Divinity, from Consciousness ItSelf,
needing to grovel our way back -
but that "comm-union" is always happening.
There is always
only the movement of "Divinity" through life,
through us.
There is no other "Higher" Self to search for.
It's all Here within us...

Wayne Teasdale, a 20th Century Christian Mystic, and author of
A Mystic Heart, says:
"Mystical Spirituality draws us into the depths
of our Being, where we come face to face with ourselves,
our weakness AND with the Ultimate Mystery.
Spirituality is not external religiosity,
not confined to ritual and liturgy.
It is a way of life that affects and
includes every moment of existence.
It is a disposition to a life of depth."

He goes on -
"How we make the journey is what spirituality is really
about - finding our own path.
This means finding a way to/awareness
of the vast unlimited Consciousness of The Divine,
The Mystery within.

We are created for this 'spiritual journey' -
the direct and immediate experience of Ultimate Reality,
which knows everything as ItSelf.
Being infinitely aware,
it knows in a unitive and universal
fashion through awareness
of no distance between ourselves and
the Ultimate Mystery...
The spiritual journey is essentially one of
discovering the roots of our true identity.
It is a process of the totality
of Consciousness,
from which we arise.

He further says -
"Everything is part of an undivided wholeness where
each being reflects this totality.
Non-duality means
'not two, and yet, not one.'
[I know this is not the traditional Advaita/Non-dual
definition, but it is my experience as well.]
That is, the relationship
between Divine Reality and human being
is a subtle distinction,
but not a separation.
And so the relationship is said to be non-dual.
Human beings are essentially Divine."
[or Pure Consciousness, etc.]

Wayne Teasdale
20th Century Christian Mystic
from - A Mystic Heart

~

"We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others.
[We must] take back our own listening,
use our own voice,
see our own Light."

Hildegard of Bingen
12th Century Christian Mystic

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/02/mystical-spirituality.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

AFTERNOON

Too Rainy for Afternoon Beach Today
All photos below from February 21, 2018
SILENCE BIRTHS... ALL THAT IS
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/silencebirths-all-that-is-unfettered-being-true-wild-nature-february-21-2018

Two Difficulties on the Path of Meditation – Osho
MEDITATION = WITNESSING
BY OSHO

Good or evil, beautiful or ugly, you are separate.
You are the witness, you are just a mirror.
Anything that passes by does not affect the mirror at all. Something good – the mirror reflects.
Something bad – the mirror reflects.
When they have gone,
the mirror is as empty as ever.

Your consciousness is a mirror,
and your consciousness is neither good nor bad.
Your consciousness may have lived thousands of years,
but not even a scratch is possible on your consciousness.
It only reflects; its function is reflection.
That’s why I say the divine between you and me is the same – there is no difference at all.

I just have recognized
that the witnessing is a pure mirror,
eternally pure –
and you get identified,
you forget. […]

Once you get the knack of witnessing without judgment
you will be surprised:
the moment you are utterly a witness
all the thoughts disappear.
There is simply a plain white screen and no thoughts.

This is the first experience,
that you have come to the door of meditation.
Just go on looking at the white screen.
Don’t do anything.
Consciousness has a nature –
if it cannot find any object which prevents it,
then it goes round and comes back to you.

EXCERPT from Full Article here:
https://o-meditation.com/2020/02/21/two-difficulties-on-the-path-of-meditation-osho/
Two Difficulties on the Path of Meditation – Osho

The Mid-Afternoon SUN is shining Brightly NOW
All Photos Below from:
Today - February 21, 2020
Beginning 1:52 PM

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SURVIVING PURE EVIL’S AGENDA "...center of nowhere..." "...a flash of sanity..." "..once you mess with Exorcism..." "... mordant traits of nightmare..." February 19, 2020

2/19/2020

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STATE OF UNWAVERING PURE GRACE
(BEYOND ALL HUMAN ABILITIES
OF CONSCIOUSNESS)
THE ONLY MANNER OF SURVIVING
PURE EVIL’S AGENDA
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3:42 AM-2/19/20

In Haiti
we know good and evil are one
but we never confuse the two.
Serpent & The Rainbow
- Wade Davis

You have been lucky.
Do not wait for a time
when you'll see things
that you should not see.
Serpent & The Rainbow
- Wade Davis
(See Amazon's "Look Inside")
https://www.amazon.com/Serpent-Rainbow-Scientists-Astonishing-Societies/dp/0684839296/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=serpent+and+the+rainbow&qid=1582096723&s=books&sr=1-1

There are only some of the dangers and traps that face every exorcist. His pain is physical, emotional, mental.
He has to deal with what is eerie but not enthralling;
with something askew, but intelligently so;
with a quality that is upside down and inside out,
but significantly so.
The mordant traits of nightmare are there in full regalia,
but this is no dream and permits him no thankful remission.

Hostage to the Devil -Martin Malachi

See Read More below Afternoon Photos
For extensive and deeper Understanding of
Aftermath of Exorcisms for the Exorcist

At least a flash of sanity:
the momentary realization that there is no need
to come to certain conclusions about
persons, events, conflicts, trends,
even trends toward evil and disaster,
as if from day to day and even from moment to moment
I had to know and declare (at least to myself):
This is so and so, this is good, this is bad;
we are heading for a "new era"
or we are heading for destruction.

What do such judgments mean?
Little or nothing.
Things are as they are,
in an immense whole of which I am a part,
and which I cannot pretend to grasp.
To say I grasp it is immediately
to put myself in a false position,
as if I were "outside" it.

Whereas to be in it
is to seek truth in my own life and action,
by moving where movement is possible
and keeping still when movement is unnecessary,
realizing that things will continue to define themselves -
and will be more clear to me
if I am silent and attentive,
rather than constantly formulating statements
in this age which is smothered in language,
in meaningless and inconclusive debate,
and in which, in the last analysis,
nobody listens to anything except
what agrees with his own prejudices.

—Thomas Merton
the hammock papers...

There is no where in you a paradise that is no place and there
You do not enter except without a story.
To enter there is to become unnameable.
Whoever is there is homeless for he has no door and
no identity with which to go out and to come in.

Whoever is nowhere is nobody, and therefore cannot
exist except as unborn:
No disguise will avail him anything
Such a one is neither lost nor found.
But he who has an address is lost.
They fall,
they fall into apartments
and are securely established!

They find themselves in streets.
They are licensed
To proceed from place to place
They now know their own names
They can name several friends and know
Their own telephones must some time ring.

If all telephones ring at once, if all names are shouted
at once and all cars crash at one crossing:
If all cities explode and fly away in dust
Yet identities refuse to be lost.
There is a name and number for everyone.

There is a definite place for bodies,
there are pigeon holes for ashes:
Such security can business buy!

Who would dare to go nameless in so secure a universe?
Yet, to tell the truth, only the nameless are at home in it.
They bear with them in the
center of nowhere the unborn flower of nothing:
This is the paradise tree.
It must remain unseen
until words end and arguments are silent.

—Thomas Merton
The Fall

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whiskeyriver
camels on a beach
Todd Kennedy drone pic
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/02/he-who-has-address-is-lost.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

The states of darkness and illumination
coexist over a long period,
alternating sharply and rapidly.
Many seers and artists pay in this way,
agonizing periods of impotence and depression,
for each violent outburst of creative energy.

Evelyn Underhill
http://makeheaven.com/mysticism.html
http://makeheaven.com/articles.html

AFTERNOON

Desire refers not only to desiring some object,
but even to the desire for enlightenment.
The need to know,
to have the knowledge of one’s true nature,
even that is a desire,
and that desire is by the “me”.

When conceptualizing ceases,
the outward false-seeing stops,
and what remains is in-seeing,
not seeing inside
but seeing from within
the source of all seeing

February 19
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

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People of The Lie - Scott Peck
Awakened by Darkness - Paul Levy
HOSTAGE TO THE DEVIL - Malachi Martin

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TOUCHSTONE OF ORIGIN "...more abiding sources.." "...stillness of Being,..." February 17, 2020

2/17/2020

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PANIC POSSESSION ATTEMPTS
ARE
NOTHING MORE OR LESS
THAN EGOIC ASPECTS’ DEATH GASPS
&
ATTEMPTS TO STAY IN CHARGE
VIA DEEP INNER LEVELS

ONLY ORIGIN’S DEPTHS OF INNER SILENT TAO CORE
CAN SUPERCEDE
SUCH POSSESSION
=
THE TOUCHSTONE OF ORIGIN PREVAILS
ew
3:25 AM-2/17/2020

Spirit and Mind - Etty Hillesum

Spirit and mind should feed each other.
What you must not do is rely on some external certainty,
and that means being secure in yourself
and at peace with yourself,
but also that your mind is allowed
to explore what makes life hang together,
not because you want to achieve something
or you want to succeed at something that interests you,
but because you happen to have been created
with a passionate and honest concern
for what goes on in the world,
and above all
for what goes on in your inner world.

You shouldn't live on your brains alone
but on deeper,
more abiding sources...

You should gratefully accept your brains
as a precious tool for delving into
what problems your soul brings forth...
And have ever greater trust in intuition...

Etty Hillesum
from: Etty Hillesum - Essential Writings

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/02/spirit-and-mind-etty-hillesum.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

You would have no desire if you understood
that you have what you are.
Sadhguru

AFTERNOON

Walk the Earth in Silence,
in the stillness of Being,
communing, listening,
hearing, sensing, feeling.

Walk the Earth in Silence
of unassuming, open,
receptive, awareness;
leaving only a trace
of a footstep here and there.

Walk the Earth in Silence
from the stillness of the Heart;
standing at the still-point,
in the hush of the Mystery...

Speak the language of Silence,
Heart to Heart,
whispered wordlessly
in the silent Rhythm...

December 2010

on each page of
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O fool, right action does not lie
in observing fasts and ceremonial rites.
O fool, right action does not lie
in providing for bodily comfort and ease.
In contemplation of the Self alone
is right action and right counsel for you.”
~ Lal Ded (14th Century)
https://thedawnwithin.com/karma-or-the-monastic-life/

In the gap between thoughts
nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.
~ Milarepa

If one stays too long with friends
They will soon tire of him;
Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate.
It is but human to expect and demand too much
When one dwells too long in companionship.
~ Milarepa

Mental activity in the daytime
creates a latent form of habitual thought
which again transforms itself at night
into various delusory visions
sensed by the semi-consciousness.
This is called the deceptive
and
magic-like Bardo of Dream.
~ Milarepa

Toss to the winds your concern for this life,
and impress on your mind
the unknown time of your death.
Remembering the pain of samsara,
why long for the unnecessary?
Milarepa

Note face/head in middle of photo

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REMEMBER "..a crack in the delusion..." "...golden eternity." "...inside the illusion..." February 13, 2020

2/13/2020

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THE VERY MOMENT YOU CANNOT REMEMBER
DISAPPEAR FROM ALL MENTAL SENSE
OF
‘YOU’, 'I' AND ‘THOU’…
=
MENTALLY DROP DOWN TO THE VERY DEPTHS
LIFT UP TO THE VERY HEIGHTS
RETURN TO THE VERY DEPTHS
AND
BE STILL

REMEMBER REMEMBER REMEMBER
HOW IT IS FOR THE DEPTHS TO BE & SPEAK YOU
AS TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
AND SO IT IS
ew
3:05 AM-2/13/20

Jeff Foster - The gateway of not knowing

When you Don't Know,
there is a crack in the delusion of mind.
And you can be penetrated
by an entire Universe.

Not Knowing is not ignorance.
Nor is it stupidity.
It is Curiosity. It is Wonder.
It is the relaxation of the separate 'I',
and the presence of great Compassion.

When you Don't Know you can be entered
by a tired sun exploding into reds and oranges,
by a yellow moon and a trillion distant stars,
so far yet so close,
so distant yet so Here.

Knowledge will not bring you to it.
The 'I' cannot understand it.
Not Knowing is its gateway.

Surrender to the moon.
Jeff Foster
http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/
facebook
Shared here:
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AFTERNOON

The Silence Inside the Illusion -
Jack Kerouac

Everything is ecstasy, inside.
We just don't know it
because of our thinking-minds.
But in our true blissful
essence of mind it is to know
that everything is alright
forever and forever and forever.

Close your eyes,
let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for 3 seconds,
listen to the silence
inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot,
which was taught in immense milky ways
of cloudy innumerable worlds
long ago and not even at all.

It is all one vast awakened thing.
I call it the golden eternity.
It is perfect.

We were never really born,
we will never really die.
It has nothing to do with
the imaginary idea of a personal self,
other selves,
many selves everywhere,
or one universal self.

Self is only an idea, a mortal idea.
That which
passes through everything,
is one thing.
It's a dream already ended.

There's nothing to be
afraid of and nothing to be glad about.

Do you think the emptiness of space
will ever crumble away?
Mountains will crumble,
but the emptiness of space,
which is the
one universal essence of mind,
the one vast awakenerhood,
empty and awake,
will never crumble away
because it
was never born...

Jack Kerouac

Thanks to
The Beauty We Love

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TRUE WHORES/PREGNANT VIRGINS February 6, 2020 "Until at Death,..." "...completely soaked in God’s qualities." Milestone

2/6/2020

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∞
LIVED BY
(AND IN/OF/AS)
– AN ORCHESTRATOR
BEYOND HUMAN WORDS…
∞
CREATOR’S/CREATION’S
TRUE WHORES/PREGNANT VIRGINS
DO NOT TRY TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING
THEY ONLY ARE:
(Is what S/He Is)
PERFECTLY IMPERSONAL
∞
ew
5:20 AM-2/6/20

A First for OceanSpeaks (since 2012)
See Read More Below Afternoon Photos
for
Extensive Morning notes re: the Morning Whisper above

If the only prayer you ever say
in your entire life is thank you,
it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart

No one looks for stars when the sun’s out.
A person blended into God does not disappear.
He, or she,
is just completely soaked in God’s qualities.
Rumi

The more a comet burns away,
the brighter it gets.
As it enters the atmosphere,
more and more of it flakes off and burns up.
Until there is only light.
This is our journey as a spirit
in a body over a lifetime.

As the years wear us down and burn us up,
we grow brighter.

Until at death,
we are all light.
~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/02/05/31647/

AFTERNOON

The Challenge of Illness - John O'Donohue

We never value or even see some things in our lives
until we are just about to lose them.
This is particularly true of health.

When we are in good health,
we are so busy in the world
that we never even notice how well we are.

Illness comes and challenges everything about us.
It unmasks all pretense.
When you are really ill, you cannot mask it.

Illness also tests the inner fiber
and luminosity of the soul.
It is very difficult to take illness well.
Yet it seems that if
we treat illness as something external
that has singled us out,
and we battle and resist it,
the illness will refuse to leave.

On the other hand,
we must not identify ourselves
with our illness.
.....very ill people are often more alive
to life's possibilities
than the medical verdict
would ever allow or
imagine.

When we learn to see our illness
as a companion or friend,
it really does change the way the illness is present.
The illness changes from a horrible intruder
to a companion
who has something to teach us.

...Sometimes, when you see a thing as the enemy,
you only reinforce its presence
and power over you...

Held openly, as a friend,
this bit of unknown aliveness
may take you on an amazing journey
to places you may
never have anticipated.

Such attention enriches and
deepens genuineness and presence.

Illness also focuses us onto our "inner landscape",
into resting deeply in
the inner silence of the "Soul."

It is a remedial silence that allows us to endure,
to move through,
but not necessarily getting rid of the illness.
We can't have an agenda
- only deep acceptance of the companion -
and learn to navigate it.

John O'Donohue
From Eternal Echoes
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-challenge-of-illness-john-odonohue.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

"Be quiet in your mind,
quiet in your senses,
and also quiet in your body.
Then, when all these are quiet,
don't do anything.

In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
It will appear in front of you and ask,
" what do you want?"
Kabir

http://www.puresilence.org/a_tradition_of_silence.htm

If the only prayer you ever say
in your entire life is thank you,
it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart

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ORIGINAL ESSENCE "i was dead" "..a time before..." "...what we Are, before we are." January 24, 2020

1/24/2020

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Above Photo from Five Years Ago
January 24, 2015

ONLY THE NOURISHMENT
OF ORIGINAL ESSENCE SUFFICETH
ew
3:01 AM-1/24/20

i was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter
all because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal

love said to me
you are not
crazy enough
you don’t
fit this house

i went and
became crazy
crazy enough
to be in chains

love said
you are not
intoxicated enough
you don’t
fit the group

i went and
got drunk
drunk enough
to overflow
with light-headedness

love said
you are still
too clever
filled with
imagination and skepticism

i went and
became gullible
and in fright
pulled away
from it all

love said
you are a candle
attracting everyone
gathering every one
around you

i am no more
a candle spreading light
i gather no more crowds
and like smoke
i am all scattered now

love said
you are a teacher
you are a head
and for everyone
you are a leader

i am no more
not a teacher
not a leader
just a servant
to your wishes

love said
you already have
your own wings
i will not give you
more feathers

and then my heart
pulled itself apart
and filled to the brim
with a new light
overflowed with fresh life

now even the heavens
are thankful that
because of love
i have become
the giver of light
― Rumi
https://allpoetry.com/I-Was-Dead

AFTERNOON

In the Garden of The Beloved
November 27, 2019 ·

It occurred to me…
There was a time when my Soul Shone, unobscured,
By all that would accrue upon my Naked Innocence,
When the Ecstasy of Being was unalloyed by selfhood,
And I existed as my Essence.

There was a time, before I learned a language,
Before the inner voice began its endless dialog,
Before I came to feel my self as the thinker,
When I was simply Perception.

There was a time before all that is experienced,
Was wrapped in words, concepts, and images,
Overlaying every perception with the already known,
A time when I was simply Immediacy.

There was a time, before the felt sense of my self,
Qualified and conditioned in countless ways,
Came to feel dense, isolated, and alone,
A time when I was simply Experience.

There was a time, before boy-girl; fat-thin, gifted-dim;
Smart-dull; attractive-unattractive; admired-disdained,
A time before qualifications and attributions,
When I simply Was.

And I wondered if, before these Veils enshrouded me,
The Ecstasy of Being I sought so desperately,
Might simply be the Nature of what I Am, Before.

And so I Journeyed within, back, behind, before,
All that had accrued “upon” my naked Innocence,
Until only Perception Remained.

Past the felt sense of myself as a person,
Qualified and judged by myself and others,
Until only Experience Remained.

Past the attributes that had defined the person,
Birthing a relentless concern for stature,
In the eyes of others, and in my own.

Past the words, concepts, and images that cloaked,
And dulled every perception with the already known,
Until only Immediacy Remained.
Within, past all that was not my Essence I Journeyed,
Until I, and all that existed, Vanished utterly,
And somehow, impossibly…

I Remained, not as “I”, but Existence Itself.

And Returning, I saw that it had been as I’d thought,
For the Ecstasy of Being is simply the Nature,
Of what we Are, before we are.
In the Garden of The Beloved
November 27, 2019

www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
www.facebook.com/InTheGardenOfTheBeloved

The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into
that has no agenda.
Adyashanti
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/183733-emptiness-dancing
https://zenmoments.org/wp-content/uploads/Adyashanti-Ebook-Emptiness-Dancing-Complete.pdf

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EMBODIED SOUL "...genuinely present..." January 22, 2020 "...falling into what I already am." Milestone

1/22/2020

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Too windy, rainy & COLD this morning for sunrise beach time.....
only 63 degrees!!!
Yes, that's sixty-three degrees temperature
that can feel like freezing weather...
All Sunrise photos below from five years ago...
January 22, 2015
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/only-smiled-sunriseafternoon-january-22-2015

THE SNAKE WAS ONLY A STICK!
EGOIC MIND DOES NOT DIE
IT ONLY SHAPE SHIFTS
∞…TRANSFORMS INTO SERVANT OF SOUL…∞
JUST AS
SOULFULLY CHEWED & SWALLOWED FOOD ASSIMILATES…
..SHAPE SHIFTS IN ORDER TO FUEL PHYSICAL BODY
ALIGNING/MERGING BODY WITH SOUL…
=
ENTIRE CONSCIOUSNESS AN UNFETTERED EMBODIED SOUL
ew
5:33 AM-1/22/20

"Shadow Love..."

Don't try to cover things over with a pretense of love...
a shadow love.
Just let things be as they are.
Your responsibility is to be real, authentic -
maintaining integrity.
There is great healing in this.
Maintain your integrity through authenticity.

Go beyond the shadow of love...

Don't allow love to be a pawn, manipulated by the
fingers of delusion,
misdirected energies and perceptions.

Don't aspire to love - but aspire to be real.
Be clear and transparent.

When love is just a covering,
an egoic pretense, it dissipates.
Let love dissipate to reveal what's beyond
love's shadow...

Don't be fooled by the magician's love.

There is something beyond "love"
as we define love.
It is Presence.
Being genuinely present from the place
of authenticity...

Love is that Presence living us...

Mystic Meandering
Meditative Writings
2004
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/01/shadow-love.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

AFTERNOON

Love Says…by Alain Joly

The mind is busy, talkative, restless.
Love is vast, silent, unconcerned.
I share here an imagined dialogue between love and the mind,
written by Tiger Singleton…
~

Love seems to hurt, because love is incredibly honest.
The mind screams… “I want your love.”

Love says… “I’m sorry, but you can’t,
because in order to want me,
you think I’m not already here.
So you deny yourself,
by looking for me where I am not.

Demanding, I show up in ways
that say you are more important
than everything else I touch.

The mind cries, and says…
“But don’t you love me?”

Love whispers back…
“No, It’s not like that,
my love isn’t personal,
my Love IS.

You want to be special,
rather than being what is,
which is where I Am.”

The mind… “I don’t understand.”

Love… “You never will.
To think you understand me,
is to define me,
which is to restrict my flow,
saying some are worthy and some are not
and you desperately want to be the worthy one.

You want me to come to you,
rather than you,
falling into what I already am.”

The mind… “How can I surrender into you?”
Love… “You can’t,
because I’ve already surrendered, everything,
including you.
You are free, it’s already done.”

The mind… “What should I do?”
Love… “It doesn’t matter,
I love you regardless,
I support you regardless,
I am always with the present moment,
so rest here.
Feel me.
And then see what happens.

In this space,
you simply cannot go wrong.”

The mind… 🙏🏽

See this link for more re: above Offering:
https://thedawnwithin.com/2020/01/22/love-says/

Love Says…by Alain Joly

Each person deserves a day in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Each of us needs to
withdraw from the cares
which will not withdraw from us.
~Maya Angelou
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/22/31539/

"While alive,
be dead to yourself,
be totally dead.
Then act as you will
and your action
will be right."

Anthony de Mello, SJ
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/each-instant-of-life

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Butterfly Wings Shells

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WORDLESS MUTUALITY "...inhabit your aloneness,..." "...bring your mind home." "... broken aliveness..." January 19, 2020

1/19/2020

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ALL OF CREATION THAT KNOWS BEYOND UNKNOWING …RECOGNIZES
A WORDLESS MUTUALITY
WITHOUT ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN…
<
UNCLUTTERED
NO DISTORTIONS
WITHIN OR WITHOUT
∞
ROOTED IN FERTILE COW DUNG
CAN A SEED EXPLAIN IN WORDS
ITS BLOSSOM
TO A PILE OF DUNG, BIRD, COW OR HUMAN?
5:16 AM-1/19/20
(as the above Whisper Wrote,
there was NO conscious memory
of the first four quotes (green font below)
that were saved during the last two days...
for today's Offering)

Each one of us is alone in the world.
It takes great courage to meet
the full force of your aloneness.
Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed
to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you.

The mystic Thomas Kempis said
that when you go out into the world,
you return having lost some of yourself.

Until you learn to inhabit your aloneness,
the lonely distraction and noise of society will seduce
you into false belonging,
with which you will only become empty and weary.

When you face your aloneness,
something begins to happen.
Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes
into a sense of true belonging.

This is a slow and open-ended transition
but it is utterly vital
in order to come into rhythm
with your own individuality.

In a sense this is the endless task
of finding your true home within your life.

It is not narcissistic,
for as soon as you rest
in the house of your own heart,
doors and windows begin to open
outwards to the world.

No longer on the run from your aloneness,
your connections with others
become real and creative.

You no longer need to covertly
scrape affirmation from others
or from projects outside yourself.

This is slow work;
it takes years to bring your mind home.
~John O'Donohue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/18/31510/

I have never seen a wildflower
in all its beauty
be ashamed of
where it grows.
~Michael Xavier
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/18/31510/

(REMAINING 'GREEN FONT' quotes below in AFTERNOON section)

AFTERNOON

The sick part of living in a capitalistic world
is that it feels like
we always have a carrot in front of us.
– Rodney Yee

Take No Notice

We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted
that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

“Patience is the highest asceticism.”

This is a quote attributed to the Buddha,
from the 184th verse of the Dhammapada.
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/01/take-no-notice.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29
Mahatma Gandhi

A parting of the veil
If we remain too identified with “falling apart,”
we lose contact with that which was never unhealed,
untransformed, and was never “together” to begin with.

That innate radiance, the holiness of the breath,
and the miracle of having an open sensitive nervous system.
We disconnect with the magic of embodied presence,
the wisdom of the mud and the earth,
and the unshakable confidence in our true nature.

But if we remain too identified with “holding it all together,”
we split off from our organic spontaneity,
imaginative vulnerability, and the truth
that love will take whatever form it must
to reveal its qualities within us.

Raw, achy, illuminating
heartbreak may approach at any time,
requesting safe passage inside.
But it is through this broken aliveness
that the poetry of our lives will flow.

Right in the middle of
“falling apart” and “holding it together”
is the secret place.
Go there.

It is here where light and dark are at play.
For just a moment the veil parts.
We peer behind the curtain and are astonished.
Jeff Foster
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-parting-of-veil.html

When you find that your long cherished beliefs
do not agree with your direct experience,
trust your experience.
Prefer the truth of your
experience to your dearest delusions...

Mystic Meandering
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-different-world-harlan-hubbard.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

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ORIGIN’S BREATH "..the divine breath,..." "...the simple smile..." "Doing nothing will bring you life." January 17, 2020

1/17/2020

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ORIGIN’S BREATH
FUELS AND ELIMINATES
ALL THAT IS REQUIRED
ew
4:48 AM-1/17/20

All is contained in the divine breath,
like the day in the morning dawn.
Muhyi-din Ibn 'Arabi

Ancient Wisdom
It might be
The final test of man, the narrow way
Proving him worthy of immortal life
That he should face this darkness and this death
Worthily, and renounce all easy hope,
All consolation, all but the simple smile
Upon the face of Truth…
(From the Book of Earth, an ancient Egyptian funerary text.)
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-final-test.html

For silence is not God,
nor is speaking;
fasting is not God,
nor is eating;
aloneness is not God,
nor is company;
nor yet or all of such opposites.

He is hid between them,
and may not be found
by any work of your soul,
but only by love of your heart."

Discretion of Stirrings, 17th century
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/01/hid-between-them.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29

As a pearl is formed and its layers grow,
a rich iridescence begins to glow.
The oyster has taken what was at first an irritation
and intrusion and uses it to enrich its value.
How can you coat or frame
the changes in your life to harvest beauty,
brilliance, and wisdom?
– Susan C. Young

Take the Pearl and leave the shell behind.
Rumi

A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean.
Be a pearl without a shell.
A mindful flooding.
A spark turned to flame.
Bird settling nest.
Love lived.
― Rumi

AFTERNOON
(Strong Gusting Winds & Intermittent Rain this afteroon..
...all photos below from 1-17-2015)
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/the-art-of-nothing-realized-original-grace-impersonal-life-sunriseafternoon-january-17-2015

Silence of the mind which is the result of
deep understanding,
that meditation is a natural,
spontaneous meditation
which just happens....

....When you truly realize that
this lie and living is an absurdity,
then you join in the dance.

You take part in this absurdity.
The body-mind organism continues to live in the world,
but without any sense of personal doership.
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
January 16

Problems need to be dissolved, not solved,
because there is no solution.
The only way the problems get dissolved is,
as soon as they arise,
they are merely witnessed. ...

... When Truth is realized, there is neither
bondage nor liberation.

Both the worlds we dream of when asleep
and this world we dream while awake
will have disappeared into the cosmic dissolution,
which is the equivalent of
the state of deep sleep.
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
January 17

To be free of the obsession
With the future,
With the preoccupation of
What to do next, is
Most well regarded by those that
Others label as lazy.
Even if it were so,
It would be
The highest form of laziness.

In every moment
Wu Hsin is doing
Exactly what he is supposed to be
Doing.
He knows this because
He knows that
He is not
Doing anything.

Wu Hsin cannot guarantee that
Meditating will bring peace.
However, Wu Hsin can guarantee that
Doing nothing will bring you life.
Wu Hsin

All Wu Hsin quotes above from:
THE LOST WRITINGS OF WU HSIN
Translated by Roy Melvyn

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for
Additional Photos from January 17 2015
+
HOW CAN I DROWN IN WHAT I AM?
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Pocket Pearls of Great Price
Unpublished Archives
from 2002 & 2003
Youthanasia Barnlot
(Indiana Family Farm)
Also shared on yesterday's OceanSpeak
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/immortalitys-core-inner-smile-wafting-the-crack-between-the-worlds-january-16-2020

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A FLATLINE... "What’s it like to be a human..." January 8, 2020

1/8/2020

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WORDLESS WORDS & SPEECHLESS SPEECH
SUFFICE
THE GLORY OF PEACE & REALITY OF SOUL
A FLATLINE OF ALL
HERETOFORE DISTURBANCES*
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3:38 AM-1/8/20
*See Read More below
Afternoon Photos for More
in Honour of Yesterday Afternoon's
Peak Experience(s)

What’s it like to be a human
the bird asked

I myself don’t know
it’s being held prisoner by your skin
while reaching infinity

being a captive of your scrap of time
while touching eternity

being hopelessly uncertain
and helplessly hopeful

being a needle of frost
and a handful of heat

breathing in the air
and choking wordlessly

it’s being on fire
with a nest made of ashes

eating bread
while filling up on hunger

it’s dying without love
it’s loving through death

That’s funny said the bird
and flew effortlessly up into the air

—Anna Kamienska
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/01/funny.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

I believe there is a spirit, a power, a grace in my life that is greater than I am and greater than my mind.
It is greater, I believe, than the human experience.
This power is running the show, determining my reality.
Call it God, call it spirit, call it intuition,
call it grace or evolution, call it the great reality,
or call it nothing.

There is something going on here
with which I am partnered.
That’s the good news—I’m not alone.
Excerpt from:
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/08/31437/

AFTERNOON

Silence is as deep as eternity,
speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle

Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.

Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts,
Not that only, but the co-existence,
Or say that the end precedes the beginning,
And the end and the beginning were always there
Before the beginning and after the end.

And all is always now. Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still. Shrieking voices
Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering,
Always assail them. The Word in the desert
Is most attacked by voices of temptation,
The crying shadow in the funeral dance,
The loud lament of the disconsolate chimera.

The detail of the pattern is movement,
As in the figure of the ten stairs.

Desire itself is movement
Not in itself desirable;
Love is itself unmoving,
Only the cause and end of movement,
Timeless, and undesiring
Except in the aspect of time
Caught in the form of limitation
Between un-being and being.

Sudden in a shaft of sunlight
Even while the dust moves
There rises the hidden laughter
Of children in the foliage
Quick now, here, now, always--
Ridiculous the waste sad time
Stretching before and after.

—T. S. Eliot
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/01/desire-itself-is-movement.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Each tree grows in two directions at once,
into the darkness and out to the light
with as many branches and roots
as it needs to embody its wild desires.
—John O’Donohue
Anam Cara
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/01/desire-itself-is-movement.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

There is a God of solitude.
He covers me closely, like the air.
I study Him blindly, by touch.
Only His body is everywhere,
elusive,
impalpable.
Anna Kamienska

It’s a great art: to love and keep still.
Anna Kamienska

(See Read More below
for More
in Honour of Yesterday Afternoon's
Peak Experience(s)
re:
Hospice Sanctarii

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ORIGINAL HUMAN PORTAL + THE REALIZED LIFE Jan 1, 2020 "...the genuine in yourself." "Truth is not an answer."

1/1/2020

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REMEMBRANCE ROCK - ENTRANCE PORTAL

(…the only thing brand new in this lifetime is…:)

ORIGINAL HUMAN PORTAL
+
BEING ALL THAT THE REALIZED LIFE IS
dmm/ew
5:44 AM-1/1/20

REMEMBRANCE ROCK

There is something in every one of you
that waits and listens for
the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the only true guide you will ever have.
And if you cannot hear it,
you will all of your life
spend your days
on the ends of strings
that somebody else pulls.

Howard Thurman
The Code of Authentic Living - Joan C. King

...from
The Code of Authentic Living - Joan C. King

Physics teaches us that, at its essence,
everything is energy.
We are beings of energy.
A mysterious life force,
made up of
the Source Energy that reverberates
within each molecule
is
in every cell of the body.

Source Energy animates every living being
and [is] eternally creative,
ever seeking new dimensions,
relentlessly pursuing
new expressions...

Source Energy is our link
to the creative energies of the Universe.

We thrive when our actions and interactions
are aligned with the energy
that animates and sustains our cells.

Out of the Source Energy of the Void,
the energy that powers all creation,
the energy that resonates within our cells,
something new is being born
at every transition in life...

A new reality is unfolding
from the field of possibility.

At moments of transition,
the vortex of creative energy
that is our life force is activated.
Its waves carry the blueprint
that informs every new aspect
of our lives.

If we surrender to the vortex of energy
Cellular Wisdom will direct us on a path
that leads to emerging new dimensions
of our lives...

We cannot find this energy in our minds,
because our thoughts
are not our actual experience.

Any journey within leads, paradoxically,
to heightened awareness
of the expansive energy
which permeates all life.

The energy
that we encounter when we look inside ourselves
is the same energy
that guides the movement
of the heavenly spheres - the
stars, galaxies, universes.

Each living being has a characteristic
profile of energy frequencies
expressed within his or her body,
but our spirits are
not confined by physical limits.

Our individual energies pulse in and out of the sea of all energy...

When we tap
into that confluence of energy we arise renewed,
knowing that the energies in our bodies
are moving within the harmonies of
vast cosmic music.

There's nothing that you have to do to earn
the presence of Cellular Wisdom
[i.e. Source Energy],
for it is nothing less
than the essence of who you are.

Joan C. King
From - The Code of Authentic Living
The Code of Authentic Living - Joan C. King
More here:
https://www.intuitivesoul.com/dr-joan-king-140411-author-of-code-of-authentic-living-cellular-wisdom

What really matters is your
capacity to turn towards the
tenderness of your heart in
the midst of that which
offends you.

Amoda Maa
The Paradox of Freedom - Amoda Maa

The closer we come to truth
(and the closer we come to living the truth),
everything becomes paradoxical.
Yes, everything.

It's this and that.
It's human and divine.
It's messy and it's perfect.
It's time-bound and it's timeless.
It's relative and it's absolute.
It's form and formless.
Everything becomes paradoxical.

(.....continuing this afternoon)

AFTERNOON

(...continuing the quote from this morning...)

We start to live as this paradox, because truth is not an end point.
Truth is not an answer.
Truth is not a belief system.
Truth is an open ended-ness within us.
And this is where freedom begins.

It's not a freedom that negates our human experience,
with all its changes, with all its ups and downs,
with all its losses and heart-breaks.

It's a freedom
that allows us to live at peace with all of it,
even when it's not peaceful.

It's a deep acceptance of what is.

-It's a freedom that wipes away all the cover-ups,
everything we tell ourselves
in order to protect ourselves,
to pretend that we're safe,
to imagine a perfect destination.

It's a freedom that wipes away
the layers of defended-ness,
all the strategies that we create
- mental strategies, emotional strategies, energetic strategies -
to get what we think we want from life
in order to feel comfortable,
in order to feel special,
in order to feel loved.

But these cover-ups end up
being our prison.
And there is no fulfillment
in this self-created prison.

Fulfillment only comes when there are no cover-ups.
It's the fulfillment of internal freedom,
and has nothing to do with the external.

You could be in a jail cell,
and still this freedom is available.

Amoda Maa

The Paradox of Freedom - Amoda Maa

The universe is uncaused,
like a net of jewels in which each
is only the reflection of all the others
in a fantastic interrelated harmony
without end.

******************

Self-Realization is effortless.
What you are trying to find is what you already are.

Ramesh S. Balsekar
A Net of Jewels

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STELLAR ORIGINAL... "...You simply know..." December 28, 2019

12/28/2019

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As body Melts away…
...as much else Disappears via the mind’s lifetime way of coping/dancing with all...…
the return to newborn and prior is Happening.
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A STELLAR CONSCIOUSNESS POSSESSES
ELIMINATING ALL EXCESS SHROUDS
SURROUNDING THE SOUL
THAT ARE NO LONGER NECESSARY
=
MIND MELTED INTO SOUL
NEEDS NOR HAS NO
WAGGING-TONGUE THOUGHTS OR WORDS
STELLAR ORIGINAL SILENCE PRESIDES*
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5:03 AM-12/28/19

* When this final Understanding regarding
The true nature of all things is finally unveiled,
It is realized instinctively, in the same way as when
You turned toward your own mother
The moment you were born.
The Final Understanding bypasses the mind.
***
Transcendence is not something that will occur in
The future as a result of one’s efforts.
Rather, it is a present, ongoing activity
Obscured by self reference.
On this self’s dissolution,
Clarity rushes in to fill the vacuum.
Wu Hsin

conclusion of:
MINDLESS UNDERSTANDING
The Illumination of Wu Hsin Vol 2
Trans by Roy Melvyn

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books
that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

Do not now seek the answers,
which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it,
live along some distant day
into the answer.
― Rainer Maria Rilke
https://thedawnwithin.com/be-still-and-know/

AFTERNOON

Just as I succeeded in finding all the answers,
all the questions changed.
We are always concerned with finding answers.

We feel that answers are important
to understand what life means.

It is more important to live fully,
and allow time to reveal to us
the secrets of our existence

If we are too concerned with making sense of life,
we prevent nature from acting,
and we become unable
to read God’s signs.
https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2019/12/25/dont-try-to-make-sense-2/

Below quotes in this font from OSHO:
https://o-meditation.com/2019/12/27/underlying-great-doubt-there-is-great-satori-osho/

....if you know,
then the moment you have dropped all belief,
including disbelief;
when your doubt is total,
suddenly there is an explosion,
as if the fire of your being,
which was hidden,
has come to its fully-fledged form.
Its flames are even reaching out of you.
You are on fire!

In this case there is no question of doubt
and there is no question of belief.
You simply know....

Once a Western journalist asked Shri Aurobindo,
“Do you believe in God?”
It is a very common question.
Shri Aurobindo said, “No.”

The man was very much puzzled.
He had come to see him from far away
just because he had heard that he was a man of God.
So the journalist was not going
to just leave Shri Aurobindo at that.

He asked,
“What do you mean by saying no?”
Aurobindo said,
“When you know something, you do not believe.
Do you believe in the sun?
Do you believe in the starry night?
Do you believe in the roses?
You see they are there:
there is no question of belief.”

Belief arises only in darkness,
when you don’t know.
And belief keeps you in darkness –
because of belief
you never try to discover on your own
what is the truth.

As a Zen poet has said,
“Clouds come and go and the sky remains.”
It never goes anywhere,
it never comes from anywhere.

You are the sky.
Anything that happens in this sky is just a traffic –
no need to be concerned about it,
no need to be identified with it.

Above quotes in this font from OSHO:
https://o-meditation.com/2019/12/27/underlying-great-doubt-there-is-great-satori-osho/

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RELENTLESS RECALIBRATIONS December 24-26, 2019 Milestone

12/25/2019

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RELENTLESS RECALIBRATIONS
(12/23/2019 thru 12/26/2019)
DEMANDING RELEASE OF PRIOR WAYS/MEANS
SURVIVING<THRIVING
WHILE REMAINING WITH EXACTING
(BARE MINIMUM)
EARTH-LIFE REQUIREMENTS
=
A BEYOND WORDS
WAY OF LIFE
=
MORE EFFORTLESS EASE
THAN HERETOFORE EVEN IMAGINED….
YET ALWAYS KNOWN…
SINCE BEFORE FOREVER
AH!
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3:36 PM-12/26/19
Note:
WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND INTERNET
BEGINNING EVENING OF 12/23/19 THRU NOON 12/26/10
VASCILLATING
FROM COLD/WET/WINDY WEATHER
TO
WARMING SUNSHINE, CLEAR SKIES & LIGHT BREEZES
See Nassau Newpaper Article at end of this post

All photos above/below
are from beach times that were possible
12/24 thru 12/26 2019

In a vision I heard this clearly whispered:
Study those who sing the most,
but are free of criticism and praise.

Following this advice,
things turned out just as I suspected:
I started spending more time with birds.
― Daniel Ladinsky
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3879693.Daniel_Ladinsky

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NESTLED SAFELY... "...a dream already ended." Dec. 20, 2019 "...absolute, total silence;"

12/20/2019

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Due to windy/rainy weather all day.....Unless otherwise stated..
ALL photos below from five years ago..
December 20, 2014 - "When I Cast All Dreams Away"

See More Here:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/when-i-cast-all-dreams-away-sunriseafternoon-december-20-2014

Entire Month of December 2014:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/archives/12-2014

December 20, 2014 - View from Top of Sand Dunes Path -

NESTLED SAFELY IN TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
NO AWARENESS OF SELF OR GOD*

DOES THE PHYSICAL EYE SEE ITSELF?...
...THINK RE: ITS REALITY?
NO!
IT JUST IS
…..FUNCTIONING AS ORIGINAL CREATION’S DESIGN
=
FADN
“THE FINE ART OF DOING NOTHING”**

ew
7:00 AM-12/20/19
*Bernadette Roberts
The Experience of No-Self
pp. 177-181
See Read More below Afternoon photos
for extensive summary via Bernadette Roberts

**A personal in-flesh-form Friend who is the soul of Yogananda
coined this phrase..
...lives FADN as a Way of Life

The truest communication with God
is absolute, total silence;
there is not a single word in existence
that can convey this communication.
Bernadette Roberts
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8712-bernadette-roberts

Ultimately, then, union with God is not really complete until there is nothing left to be united:
between self (the still center on the affective continuum)
and God (the still-point)
there is no gap remaining.
What is left is what Is, all that Is
and Its identity
is unmistabkable.
Bernadette Roberts
The Experience of No-Self
page 180

A friend recently told me
that the falling way of the affective system
was invariably a psychotic symptom.
While I had never heard this before and cannot verify it,
my present perspective is quite the opposite.
As I see it,
the affective system is not only
the cause of every psychological illness,
it is the cause of all man's suffering.
Bernadette Roberts
The Experience of No-Self
page 180

AFTERNOON

I have lots of things to teach you now,
in case we ever meet,
concerning the message
that was transmitted to me
under a pine tree in North Carolina
on a cold winter moonlit night.

It said that Nothing Ever Happened,
so don’t worry.
Everything is ecstasy,
inside.
We just don’t know it
because of our thinking-minds.

But in our true blissful essence of mind
it is known that everything
is alright forever and forever and forever.

Close your eyes,
let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for 3 seconds,
listen to the silence inside
the illusion of the world,
and you will remember
the lesson you forgot,
which was taught in immense milky ways
of cloudy innumerable worlds long ago
and not even at all.

It is all one vast awakened thing.
I call it the golden eternity.
It is perfect.

We were never really born,
we will never really die.
It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea
of a personal self, other selves,
many selves everywhere,
or one universal self.

Self is only an idea,
a mortal idea.
That which passes through everything,
is one thing.
It’s a dream already ended.

There’s nothing to be afraid of
and nothing to be glad about.

I know this from staring at mountains months on end.
They never show any expression,
they are like empty space.

Do you think the emptiness of space
will ever crumble away?

Mountains will crumble,
but the emptiness of space,
which is the one universal essence of mind,
the one vast awakenerhood,
empty and awake,
will never crumble away
because it was never born.
—Jack Kerouac
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/10/information-for-matt.html.

Remembrance Rock

You are born with the soul,
but you are absolutely unaware of it –
because of the mind.

The mind never allows you to be in the present.
That’s the reason my insistence on meditation is so strong –
because meditation simply means a method to get rid of the mind.
The moment the mind is not there, suddenly you are in a new space:
so fresh, so beautiful, so blissful.

That is your soul; that is your no-mind.

And once you have entered that space,
that space starts growing around you
and creates a certain energy field.
That becomes your presence of being.
-Osho
Excerpt from:

Sat Chit Anand, Chapter 19
Full article here:
NO MIND & Being Present...
https://o-meditation.com/2019/12/20/no-mind-and-being-present-osho/

Read More Below for MORE
Bernadette Roberts - The Experience of No-Self

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WITHOUT BELIEVE... "when you see my corpse..." 12/19/19

12/19/2019

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Due to windy/rainy weather all day.....Unless otherwise stated..
ALL photos below from five years ago..
December 19, 2014 - RADIANCE OF PURE BEING
See More Here:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/radiance-of-pure-being-sunriseafternoon-december-19-2014

Entire Month of December 2014:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/archives/12-2014

ALL IS AS IT IS
<
WITHOUT BELIEVE = PERCEIVE*
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4:47 AM-12/19/19
*ORIGIN’S PERCEIVE

ᖇᑌᗰƗ ♥ ’s Wedding Night – Dec. 17, 1273

When I die
when my coffin
is being taken out
you must never think
i am missing this world

don’t shed any tears
don’t lament or
feel sorry
i’m not falling
into a monster’s abyss

when you see
my corpse is being carried
don’t cry for my leaving
i’m not leaving
i’m arriving at eternal love

when you leave me
in the grave
don’t say goodbye
remember a grave is
only a curtain
for the paradise behind

you’ll only see me
descending into a grave
now watch me rise
how can there be an end
when the sun sets or
the moon goes down

it looks like the end
it seems like a sunset
but in reality it is a dawn
when the grave locks you up
that is when your soul is freed

have you ever seen
a seed fallen to earth
not rise with a new life
why should you doubt the rise
of a seed named human

have you ever seen
a bucket lowered into a well
coming back empty
why lament for a soul
when it can come back
like Joseph from the well

when for the last time
you close your mouth
your words and soul
will belong to the world of
no place no time.
Rumi

Shared Here:
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/12/s-wedding-night-dec.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

–Robert Lynd
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2014/12/listen_6.html

ABOVE QUOTE
From Sunrise December 7, 2014
- more amazing photos on this link:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/the-sound-of-no-shore

AFTERNOON

Seeking begins with the individual and ends when the individual seeker realizes that all this time what he has been seeking is what he actually is, that the seeker is the sought, that there never has been an individual seeking....

....Thoughts are bound to arise.
The trick is not to get involved
but to simply ignore them altogether.
December 19
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

Tranquility comes only in the utter absence of resistance
to the experience of the present moment....

....and therefore has nothing to do with
idealistic intellectual commitments
to either action or non-action
or to any other conceivable
aspect of idealized behavior.
****

It is intellectual conceptualization that
raises various unnecessary issues,
gets the individual trapped in its net,
and makes him forget the fundamental question
as to who and what
the questioner himself really is.

December 17, 2019
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

BE YOUR TRUE RADIANCE OF BEING
UNTIL ALL AWARENESS
THAT SAYS OTHERWISE
NO LONGER EXISTS
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7:30 a.m.
12.19.14
from:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/radiance-of-pure-being-sunriseafternoon-december-19-2014

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∞NOW∞ "...you are there, before “you” are,..." MILESTONE "Death of the False Idol" December 18, 2019

12/18/2019

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∞NOW∞

ONLY ORIGINAL SILENCE TRULY “IS”
ONLY ORIGINAL SILENCE CREATES TRUE REALITY

ALL DISTURBANCES…ALL
SEEMING WARNINGS OF DISASTER
=
TENACIOUS EGOIC REMNANTS THAT ARE DISAPPEARING
BUT MAKING EFFORT TO STAY IN CONTROL

∞NOW∞
UNFETTERED, UNTETHERED
THE NAKED SOUL PRESIDES
∞NOW∞
∞
ew
4:40 AM-12/18/19*

*NOW remembering the ego’s acute/paralyzing distress just before we went to
Delphi University-https://delphiu.com
for first time 1986…felt like horrible fear and warning NOT to go…
I was totally in all aspects… shaky and fearful in my very soul depths…
…that was the experience taking over my life in those moments…
then Quieted to Listen and WHAP,
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Understood in the Instant that the seemingly fearful/warning “meltdown” was ONLY the “ego” trying to convince me NOT to go,
as ego would have to “die” if I went….
....or at least the manner in which
it had been presiding over this life….
would die.
ew
4:52 AM-12/18/19

During the “Death of the False Idol”,
there is a very clear wiping away of toxic bonds,
whether with those whose conditioning
plays out along a victimhood/narcissistic spectrum,
as well as those who drain your energy
by identifying with their shadow
while unknowingly acting as energetic vampires.
Matt Kahn
(this e-mail article read just AFTER
the above morning Whisper Wrote)
See Read More Below Afternoon Section for
Full Sharing by Matt Kahn

In the Garden of The Beloved

WHEN THE PAINTER SIGHS, “BE”

Upon the canvas of Awareness,
The senses paint the picture of life,
In perceptions and sensations,
Which mind then varnishes in knowing.

The gist of this affair, as I see it,
Is not to live transcendent as canvas,
Or lose one’s self in paint and varnish,
But to live where paint meets canvas.

In the Ecstasy of Existence’s Birth,
Where canvas, paint, and varnish,
As mere ideas in the mind of God,
First move from formlessness to form.

There, where we Are, but not yet are,
Where “Am” exists before “I”,
Where Song exists before sound,
Dance as Delight, not yet a dancer.

For you are there, before “you” are,
In that Water before the river of you,
In that Sky before the cloud you seem,
In that Timeless, Spaceless Instant…
When The Painter sighs, “Be.”

Chuck Surface
December 12 at 12:39 PM
www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
www.facebook.com/InTheGardenOfTheBeloved

AFTERNOON

Read More Below for
Full Sharing by Matt Kahn

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SURREAL FULLNESS "...refuge in the simplicity..." 12/16/19 "...untethered and unencumbered..." "..the peace of wild things."

12/16/2019

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art Hege Elisabeth Haugen - shared via Mystic Meandering blog link below Mind Games

https://hegeelisabethhaugen.wordpress.com/author/hegeelisabethhaugen/

A SURREAL FULLNESS OF
INNER EMPTINESS POSSESSES CONSCIOUSNESS
<
A RELIEF BEYOND BELIEF & EMOTION*
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4:14 AM-12/16/19

*”He came to set the captives free.”
Isaiah 61:1

HE CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE
– Rebecca Brown, MD
https://kupdf.net/download/he-came-to-set-the-captives-free_59f54536e2b6f5c812148bfd_pdf

On wings of living light,
At earliest dawn of day,
Came down the angel bright;
And rolled the stone away.
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/o/w/i/owingsll.htm

I have abandon all that I think I am,
all that I hope to be,
that I believe I possess.
I let go of the past,
I withdraw my grasping hand from the future,
and in the great silence of this moment,
I alertly rest my soul.
Howard Thurman
Deep is The Hunger

Mind Games...

Tired of noisy words,
the "spiritual abstractions"
cleverly strung together
by word-crafters espousing
their mind games - not
from the simplicity of their Heart,
but the complexities of their minds;
having been absorbed by too many
conceptual ideas: "there is only here
and Now"; "there is no other"; "there
is no me"; "'i' does not exist -
creating a phantom reality from those concepts
and ideas on which to hang your mind;
plying their paradoxes into 'non-dual' jargon.

Once a player in "The Mind Games",
I now seek refuge in the simplicity of the Heart,
and a more "direct experience" of what cannot be
defined by words and abstractions; not philosophical,
existential conundrums that boggle and confuse, but
a simple truth,
untethered and unencumbered...

I'd rather step into the unknown
and be free, than be tethered to the
certainties of noisy words and abstract
mind games that parade as truth.

Without those, I am free to BE - who I am,
as I am;
a unique expression of "The Ineffable Mystery" of Life
that animates my being -
living from the simplicity of the Heart...

_/\_
Namaste
Mystic Meandering
Dec. 14, 2019
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/12/mystic-meandering-mind-games.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

The dissolution itself is initiation
as it offers vision not available
in the scramble to put things back together.

An old part of ourselves that has accompanied us for so long,
a fellow traveler is no longer permitted
to continue the journey by our side.
The crumbling of an old dream –
my life and the way I was so sure
it was going to turn out.
Matt Licata
Initiation
also see Read More below afternoon photos for full sharing

We practice letting go of judgments.
As a beginning meditator,
I certainly had a tendency to judge
the way I was performing this new task:

My breath isn't good enough, deep enough,
broad enough, subtle enough, clear enough.
I found that I loaded on to the simple act of breathing
all sorts of pronouncements and projections
about what kind of person I was.

Returning to the breath,
letting go of these judgments,
birth to compassion to myself.

We become aware of a calm, stable center
that can steady us even when our lives are in upheaval.
The better you get at concentrating your attention
on the chosen object, the breath,
the deeper the stillness and calm you feel.

As your mind withdraws from obsessive thinking,
fruitless worry, and self-recrimination,
you feel a sense of refuge.
You have a safe place to go,
and it's within.
~Sharon Salzberg
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/15/31251/

AFTERNOON

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives
with forethought of grief.

See This OceanSpeak for over 40 photos of Mating Gulls....in the Read More Section...
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/primordials-liminal-silence-lila-leela-divine-creative-play-speak-what-cannot-be-spoken-august-25-2016

More Backyard Pet Photos on this OceanSpeak link:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/7-its-better-just-to-leave-things-alone-sunriseafternoon-june-26-2015

I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.

See this OceanSpeak Link for more CLEAR WATERS
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/pure-transparency-as-breather-and-mind-sunriseafternoon-july-2-2016

For a time
I rest in the grace of the world,
and am free.
~Wendell Berry
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/16/31258/

Nature is such a source of solace for many of us.
Imagine a place right now where
you have gone to rest in the grace of the world
and experienced freedom and
the peace of wild things.

Breathe in the beauty of this memory.
Consider that Creation
is the original icon
revealing the face of the Holy.

Nature is a holy text for me, an icon,
a window to the divine presence
at work in the world.

Just as we spend time gazing
upon an icon or our beloved,
we can also allow our gaze to be drawn to nature,
this most holy and splendid of sights.

I can spend hours meditating
with ocean waves lapping the shore,
contemplating the ancient witness
of grand red cedar trees,
delighting in geese flying in patterns of support.

Gazing is an act of loving reverence,
a perspective that opens me up to transformation.
Icon spaces invite me to linger, to relish, to admire.

I imagine those ancient poets
who wrote the psalms of creation,
celebrating God's grandeur and mystery.
Nature is an icon
that slowly shifts beneath my gaze,
revealing a God who is constantly creating.

From this viewpoint,
I become aware of a holy presence,
the Great Artist, at work in the world around me,
and I begin to connect deeply
to the divine slowly at work within me,
crafting and shaping my life,
inviting me here this day
to sit in stillness
and witness
to the beauty of the world.
~Christine Valters Paintner
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/16/31258/

....and again and again....(ew/dmm):

I abandon all that I think I am, all that I hope to be,
that I believe I possess.
I let go of the past,
I withdraw my grasping hand from the future,
and in the great silence of this moment,
I alertly rest my soul.
— Howard Thurman
Deep Is The Hunger

Read More Below
Full Sharing of
Initiation
Matt Licata

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ALL ENCOMPASSING RELIEF! "...ascend from silence..." "...say something without saying." December 14, 2019

12/14/2019

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∞ THE GREAT ORIGINAL SILENCE ∞
...WHAT A RELIEF THAT IS...
THE ONLY WAY THRU TO OUT…

....THE ALL ENCOMPASSING ABSOLUTION!
=
ORIGINAL BEING’S SILENCE POSSESSES THE LIFE
AS
THE ONLY REMAINING WAY OF BEING IN FORM
=
INTEGRITY OF SOUL...
…ALL SOULS IN ALL FORMS AS ONE
IN
∞ ORIGINAL PRISTINE AUTHENTICITY ∞
ew
5:10 AM-12/14/19

May this be a morning of innocent beginning,
When the gift within you slips clear
Of the sticky web of the personal
With its hurt and hauntings,
And fixed fortress corners,

A morning when you become a pure vessel
For what wants to ascend from silence, ...

... May your imagination know
The grace of perfect danger,
To reach beyond imitation,
And the wheel of repetition,
Deep into the call of all
The unfinished and unsolved...

... Until the veil of the unknown yields
And something original begins
To stir toward your senses
And grow stronger in your heart.
~John O'Donohue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/14/31240/

AFTERNOON

In ( the world of ) existence
myriads of seas and fishes
prostrate themselves in adoration
before that munificence and bounty.

How many rain of largess
hath rained, so that the sea
was made thereby to scatter pearls!

How many of generosity
hath shone, so that cloud and sea
.... learned to be bountiful!
~Rumi
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/13/beliefs-or-something-else/

Awakening isn't about
becoming extraordinary.
If anything, it's about
becoming ordinary.
It's about becoming
who we really, really, are.
~Adyshanti

https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/13/beliefs-or-something-else/

He who keeps no secret has no depth;
his heart is like a vessel turned upside down.

from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/say/gayan_boulas.htm

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:
The secret of all attainment is centered in reserve.
Spiritual or material,
when a person has told his plans to others,
he has let out the energy that he should have kept
as a reservoir of power for the accomplishment of his object.

... The teaching, 'Be wise as a serpent,' may be interpreted,
'Be quiet as a serpent.'
It is quietude that gives wisdom and power.
The thought held in mind speaks to the mind of another,
but the thought spoken out most often
only reaches the ears of a person.
Every plan has a period of development;
and if man has power over his impulse,
by retaining the thought silently in mind,
he allows the plan to develop
and to take all necessary changes
that it may take for its culmination.

But when the impulse expresses the thought,
it so to speak 'puts out the flame,'
thus hindering the development of the plan.
The wise speak with their mind many times
before they speak about it to anybody.

~~~ "Githa I, Sadhana 7, The Path of Attainnment"
by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)

I say,
"Without the control over your  lips
you will not be able to develop inspiration."

As a poet has said,
"When the shell closes its lips, then the pearl develops in it."
... the more you are able to keep your secret in your heart,
greater you become.
You have more weight,
your personality becomes more reliable,
more dependable.
As it is said in Vadan that
it is best to
say something without saying.

   ~~~ "Sangatha II, Secrecy on the Path of Truth", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)

As soon as a person thinks, 'I am more,'
the doors of knowledge are closed.
He will no more be able to widen his knowledge
because automatically,
the doors of his heart are closed
the moment he says,
'I know.'

Spiritual knowledge, the knowledge of life,
is so intoxicating, so exalting,
it gives such a great joy,
that one begins to pour out one's knowledge
before anyone who comes along
as soon as this knowledge springs up.

But if at that time the disciple could realize
that he should conserve that kindling of the light,
reserve it, keep it within himself and let it deepen,
then his words would not be necessary
and his presence would enlighten people.

As soon as the spring rises and he pours forth
what comes out of that spring in words,
although on the one side his vanity will be satisfied,
on the other side his energy will be exhausted.

The little spring that had risen,
he has poured out before others
and he remains without power.
This is why reserve is taught to the true disciple,
the conserving of inspiration and power.

The one who speaks is not always wise;
it is the one who listens who is wise.

from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/X/X_2_8.htm

The more one knows the secret of the world
the more one feels inclined to keep it secret.
And the more one keeps secret what one knows
the more life unfolds its secrets to one.
...  it must be remembered that the power of the body is nothing in comparison with the power of the mind.
And the power of the one who keeps a secret
is greater than the power of the giant
who lifts a mountain.
All that one holds is preserved,
all that one lets go is dispersed.

  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIII/XIII_20.htm

   ~~~ He who keeps no secrets
has no depth in his heart.

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SILENCE OF BREATH "...a bird that flies everywhere." "...find yourself nowhere..." December 13, 2019

12/13/2019

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SILENCE OF BREATH REVEALS ALL
ew
4:40 AM-12/13/19

STILL AS THE ANCIENT DEER IN A WOODS
WATCHING THE ARMED HUNTER
BUILD HIS TREE STAND,
MY SOUL IS CAMOUFLAGED
BY YOU, O BELOVED BREATHER
THAT BREATHES ME

THEY STEALTH AROUND
WITH THEIR BOWS/ARROWS AND
KILLING APPARATUS

ANY WORDS OR THOUGHTS
IN OR FROM ME
CAUSE THEM TO SEE
WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR

THEY SHOOT TO KILL…..FOR SPORT AND CONTROL

THEY BELIEVE A DEAD CARCASS HAD NO SOUL

THEY BELIEVE THEY KILL THE BREATHER

Feb 14, 2003
ew
YOUTHANASIA BARNLOT - INDIANA

Photos Above
Ocala, Fl-2006
First walk in Forest/Park near new Residence
Silver River State Park – Swamp Trail
Ocala, Florida
September 2006

Sunrise 7:01 AM Beach this morning 12/13/19

Don’t depend on others to give you
that which life is waiting to offer you.
Don’t look to others to affirm
that you’re beautiful and powerful and strong.

Instead, breathe in the beauty of the dawn,
find your strength by embracing new challenges
with courage and let your pleasant company
be found in the extraordinary
manifestations of nature.
The Seer Almine
https://www.alminediary.com/do-not-depend-on-others/

Below a Sampler of Photos
from
December 13, 2015

More Here:
"I am not I" "Primal Repose" The Language of Original Being

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/i-am-not-i-primal-repose-the-language-of-original-being-sunriseafternoon-december-13-2015

AFTERNOON

There is a very important moment when you listen inside,
when you listen to the listening itself.
When you are aware in listening, there is no listener
and nothing is listened to.

There is only Listening.

It is tremendous to discover oneself in listening.
But first there is Listening to an object,
then comes listening to ourself.

When listening is Silence,
our musical instrument, our body,
is completely penetrated by this objectless Listening.

Then there is something born
that is beyond the human being.

You are not body, senses and mind.
Really live in the absence of what you are not
and this reality will be the background of life.

Live in the absence of yourself.

In the absence of yourself there is presence.
We should take every opportunity
to listen to ourselves
without directing,
without changing,
or looking for something new.

When we listen to ourselves and sustain the listening,
there’s transformation,
there’s a kind of metamorphosis.

This directionless Listening
is fixed neither in the forehead,
nor in the heart,
nor in the abdominal region.
Listening is absolutely objectless.

It is really a bird that flies everywhere.
See when it lands.

The moment you become aware that you fix it,
in that awareness an emptiness will appear
and this becomes openness.
Don’t put the bird in a cage.
Open all the doors.

Abandon all residue in the forehead.
Only then can knowledge become being the knowing.
Knowledge takes place in the forehead,
in front of you.
Being knowing is localized nowhere.
But temporarily it is localized as if behind you.

This feeling of going behind is very important
because it takes you away from
the factory of thoughts in the forehead.

When you are localized behind you
at the base of the skull,
you cannot think.

Even the impulse to think dies down.
No formulation can occur when you are localized behind.

But eventually even this subtle localization dissolves
and you find yourself nowhere,
living in nowhere.
Keep the flavor of our meeting alive.

-Jean Klein
From The Book of Listening, pp. 321-323.
Above are Excerpts from this link online:
https://o-meditation.com/2019/12/13/the-approach-on-the-body-level-jean-klein/

ADDITIONAL LINKS FOR JEAN KLEIN/LISTENING

https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/jean_klein_book_of_listening/

PDF:
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/images/uploaded/file/The%20Book%20of%20Listening%20Sample.pdf

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SOULTIME - ORIGINAL SILENCE POSSESSION - MILESTONE December 12, 2019

12/12/2019

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SOURCED BEYOND TIME
=
NO TIME
<
IMPOSSIBLE TO BE RULED BY
MAN-MADE TIME & EDICTS
<
PEACE THAT PASSETH MAN’S UNDERSTANDING
DIRECTS & GUIDES…
FLOWERS THE ORIGINAL CORE…
SOULTIME IS ALL THAT IS
ALL “I DO’S” ADO = FERTILE COMPOST
∞
HOWEVER
THERE IS QUANTUM
“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING”
THE GREAT NOTHING OF CREATION’S TRUE SOURCE
=
“ALL IS WELL WITH MY SOUL”
ew
6:01 AM-12/12/19

That which we do not bring into consciousness
appears in our lives as fate.
~Carl Jung
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/11/31224/

John Prendergast - The Deep Heart

In the room of lovers
I can see with closed eyes
the beauty that dances.
RUMI

THERE IS A LIGHT in the core of our being that calls us home
— one that can only be seen with closed eyes.
We can feel it as a radiance in the center of our chest.
This light of loving awareness is always here,
regardless of our conditioning.

It does not matter how many dark paths we have traveled
or how many wounds we have inflicted or sustained
as we have unknowingly stumbled toward this inner radiance.
It does not matter how long we have sleepwalked,
seduced by our desires and fears.

This call persists until it is answered,
until we surrender to who we really are.
When we do, we feel ourselves at home wherever we are.
A hidden beauty reveals itself in our ordinary life.

As the true nature of our Deep Heart is unveiled,
we feel increasingly grateful for no reason
— grateful to simply be.

Rumi discovered this truth eight hundred years ago,
as have ordinary people like you and me.
It is the call from the depths of every human heart.
It is the call from your heart as you read these words and
something within you stirs in recognition.

Rightly understood, everything that happens invites us to
recognize this heart-oriented way of being, knowing, and feeling.

http://listeningfromsilence.com/
shared here:
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/12/john-prendergast-deep-heart.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

We have to treat ourselves with loving-kindness
and equanimity, gentleness, and dignity
before we can
accept, respect,
and care for others.
~Dr. Jean Watson
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/11/31224/

AFTERNOON

The density and solidity of the body
and the otherness of the world
are penetrated and suffused
with the light of pure knowing,
God’s infinite being,
and are gradually outshone by it.
The body becomes impersonal like the world,
and the world becomes intimate like the body.
~ Rupert Spira
https://thedawnwithin.com/2019/12/12/otherness/

When we truly begin to let go,
happiness will no longer just be our friend,
it will be our home.
– Yung Pueblo
https://upliftconnect.com/a-promise-to-my-body/?utm_source=UPLIFT&utm_campaign=bc6b1255ab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_10_11_52&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_19c1fc07c2-bc6b1255ab-116790253

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness
have that look of being alone in the universe.
The others have a certain stickiness,
they stick to the mass.
- D. H. Lawrence

….. sat for longest on Remembrance Rock
....after attempting to move mindless-body
with strong ocean wind & waves…
...and FINALLY into
STILLNESS-SILENCE and this (below) ARISES NOW
(as best we can Remember (in words)

What actually Happened,
and with GREAT RELIEF:

A Possession of Original Silence..

ORIGINAL SILENCE POSSESSION LEAVES
ONLY
THE PURE CORE TRUTH OF BEING
OVERFLOWING FROM/IN/OF/AS A TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
=
AN INSTANT CESSATION OF NEED OR ABILITY
TO OVERFLOW
(ABIDE-WITH, OR HIDE)
WITH WORDS OR THOUGHTS
AS THEY NO LONGER EXIST…

THIS CLARITY REACHES ALL ASPECTS OF CREATION
ONLY VIA ORIGIN’S CREATOR
IN THE EXACT DECIBLES
NEEDFUL…
….BUT NOT DETERMINED BY ANY
SO-CALLED HUMAN ASPECTS OF BEING

AH! FOR THE UNFETTERED SOUL
THAT NO LONGER SEEKS OR EXPRESSES
FROM ITS HERETOFORE CAGES OF REMEMBRANCE
THAT STIFLED, DISTORTED AND MURDERED
TRUTH OF BEING
ew/dmm

Afternoon Beach Experience
Worded just now…
2:25 PM-12/12/19

"You begin to recognize Love infuses everything. Your own heart is the wind,
it is the trees, it is the earth.
It is even in the conflicts which arise,
in the pain that comes up.

It is the storm, it is the open sky,
it is totality.

It excludes nothing and embraces everything.
And in this embrace there is but one taste
and that is the taste of Love."
-Devaji
https://www.devaji.org

Remembrance Rock

See Read More Below
for repeat of
Afternoon Whisper
+
More Devaji Sharings

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INVISIBLE ASHES ORIGINAL TRUTH LOVE'S BREATH "...coordinated as birdwings." December 8, 2019

12/8/2019

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WORD ARTIST WORDS
ARE EXPRESSION OF SOURCE

WORD ARTIST WORDS DO NOT
JAR OR REPLACE THE VAST SILENCE

LOVE BURNS WORD CHATTER
ON ALL LEVELS & DIMENSIONS
LEAVING ONLY INVISIBLE ASHES
BREATHED AND BLOWN AWAY
BY GRACED SILENCE

INVISIBLE ASHES OF LOVE’S BREATH
HAVE REPLACED “I AM”

WORLDINGS FEED ON EXPRESSIONS
RATHER THAN
STILLING IN EXPRESSIONS’ SOURCE

RAINBIRDS HAVE CARRIED ME HOME
MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT
TO BE ANYWHERE
I AM NOT
“rainbirds sing the sweetest...and fly the fastest”
- hb
***********
ew
4/8/04-5:29AM

A Random Pick Whisper
Thursday, April 08, 2004
5:29 AM
from
ew
2003 Series
LANGUAGE OF THE NEVERBORN
Oct 03-June04

rain +‎ bird,
from the sound of their call, a beautiful liquid gurgle rising and falling like water pouring from a bottle.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rainbird

Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here's the joyful face you've been waiting
to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched
open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every
small contracting and expanding.
The two as beautifully balanced and
coordinated as birdwings.
~Rumi
the ancient ways are not about seeking, but about revealing....
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/08/31203/

ORIGINAL TRUTH NEVER CHANGES*
ew
5:22AM-12/8/19
*And why are you anxious about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow:
they neither toil nor spin,
Matthew 6:28

When your body is tranquil,
you will know bliss.
Because you are blissful,
your mind will concentrate easily.
Being concentrated, you will see
things as they really are.
In no seeing, you will become aware
that life is a miracle.
~Buddha
Quote & BirdStone Photo from:
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/07/31195/

Meditation is to be aware
of every thought and of every feeling,
never to say it is right or wrong,
but just to watch it and move with it.
~Krishnamurti
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/07/31195/

AFTERNOON

Joy is the inevitable result of gentleness.
Gentleness means that fear is now impossible,
and what could come to interfere with joy?
The open hands of gentleness are always filled.
The gentle have no pain.
They cannot suffer.
Why would they not be joyous?
They are sure they are beloved and must be safe.
Joy goes with gentleness
as surely as grief attends attack.
Course in Miracles
https://www.jcim.net/acim_us/MNL-4.php
See JOY..verse 16 on above page

A mind that is awake,
intelligent, free,
why should it need,
why should it have,
any "experience" at all?
Light is light;
it does not ask for more Light.
~ J Krishnamurti
https://thisunlitlight.com/2019/12/07/so-what-is-it/?c=8185#comment-8185

Secret of Secrets

If you could get rid
of yourself just once,
the secret of secrets
would open to you.

The face of the unknown,
hidden beyond the universe
would appear
on the mirror of your perception.
Rumi

Read More Below
for
Morning Random Whisper
Additional photos

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O SO SIMPLE! "Closer Than Breath" "...die while on this earth..." December 5, 2019

12/5/2019

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AS LIFE CLEARS OF MATERIAL MAN EXCESS
IN ALL REALMS…
CLEAR SEEING HAPPENS
O SO SIMPLE!
ew
5:59 AM-12/5/19

Pir Elias Amidon -
So Close … Closer Than Breath

So Close
From the Tibetan Shangpa Kagyu tradition comes this exquisite riddle:

It’s so close you can’t see it.
It’s so profound you can’t fathom it.
It’s so simple you can’t believe it.
It’s so good you can’t accept it.

What is it?

Conclusion:
This that is so good pervades all being.
It is the pure love-generosity that is
so close,
so profound,
so simple
we can’t surround it
with our usual ways of knowing and feeling.

As Rumi advises,
“Close these eyes to open the other.
Let the center brighten your sight.”
see below link for More!:
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/12/pir-elias-amidon-so-close-closer-than.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

All Quotes below in this font by
Angelus Silesius
with more details found here:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angelus_Silesius

The rose is without 'why';
it blooms simply because it blooms.
It pays no attention to itself,
nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish,
You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.

How fleeting is this world
yet it survives.
It is ourselves that fade from it
and our ephemeral lives.

Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem
– but all in vain until He is born in me.

Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend?
It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee

The All proceedeth from the One,
And into One must All regress:
If otherwise, the All remains
Asunder-riven manyness.

God is an utter Nothingness,
Beyond the touch of Time and Place:
The more thou graspest after Him,
The more he fleeth thy embrace.

Naught ever can be known in God: One and Alone Is He.
To know Him, Knower must be one with Known.

The Wise Man is that which he hath.
The precious Pearl of Paradise Wouldst thou not lose,
then must thou be Thyself that Pearl of greatest price.

If thou dost love a Something, Man,
Thou lovest naught that doth abide.
God is not This nor That—do thou
Leave Somethings utterly aside

****************

Below from:
"Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius
By Frederick Franck"
found on this webpage:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angelus_Silesius

He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.

How short our span!
If you once realized how brief,
you would refrain
from causing any beast or man
the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

Christ was born a man for me,
for me he died -
Unless I become God
through Him,
His birth is mocked
His death denied

True prayer requires no word, no chant
no gesture, no sound.
It is communion, calm and still
with our own godly Ground

God far exceeds all words that we can here express

In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best

No thought for the hereafter have the wise,

for on this very earth they live in paradise

All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning.

You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning

Unless you find paradise at your own center,

there is not the smallest chance
That you may enter

Saints do not die. It is their lot,

To die while on this earth to all that God is not.

The vengeful God of wrath and punishment

is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me
That makes me fail.

Above in this font from
Translation in "Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius
By Frederick Franck"
found on this webpage:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angelus_Silesius

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for
Andrew Harvey's New book
re: Angelus Silesius

AFTERNOON

Note heart shape in "jungle" just to right of fencepost top.

From her new book
Death: The End of Self-Improvement
by Joan Tollifson

When the future disappears,
we are brought home to the immediacy
that we may have avoided all our lives--
the vibrant aliveness Here-Now,
the only place where we ever actually are.

Whether it is the personal death that awaits each of us,
or the inevitable planetary death
in which the earth itself will be no more,
or even the end of the entire known universe,
death is the single reality
that most clearly informs us that
the future is a fantasy
and that the person and the world
and everything
that we have been so concerned about
are all fleeting bubbles in a stream.

This book is not about getting control
and staying young forever,
nor is it about avoiding or denying
any of the messiness and painful loss that aging and dying and living inevitably involve.

This is not a self-help book that tells you how to stay active and feel perpetually young,
nor does it promise any kind of afterlife “for you”
through heaven or reincarnation.

Rather, this book is about fully embracing death,
and therefore life, wholeheartedly and relaxing
into the total disintegration and loss of control that growing old and falling apart
— and living and loving and being awake--
actually entails.
~ Joan Tollifson

Above from her new book
Death: The End of Self-Improvement
by Joan Tollifson
see this link for much more:
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/death-dissolving-joan-tollifson/?utm_source=Stillness+Speaks+Newsletter&utm_campaign=87b3bb5d45-NL_2019_12_04_D-D-EoSI-JT_ALL-S&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f5958d3327-87b3bb5d45-19977997

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re: Angelus Silesius

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