Drink the wine that moves you.
Rumi
(Coleman Barks)

I can’t explain the goings and the comings.
You enter suddenly and I am nowhere again inside the majesty.
Rumi
(Coleman Barks)​

When laughter and tears combine into exquisite joy
 we may be having a mystical experience.
(I am not sure if I said this
 or read it somewhere.)

The dynamic connection of the soul through the image manifests this energy.
(The Divine)​

​You are more than you think you are and something in you knows it.
Jean Houston

For laughing and passion – beauty and joy – is our hearts truth.
All else is labour and foreign to the soul.
Hafiz
(Daniel Ladinsky)

​​I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness,
the incredible light of your own being.
Hafiz
(Daniel Ladinsky)

Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver

The one who lacks peace, with all his possessions,
the property of this earth or quality of mind,
is poor even with both.
He has not got that wealth which may be called divine
and without which man's life is useless.
For true life is in peace,
​a life which will not be robbed by death. ​

The secret of mysticism, the mystery of philosophy,
all is to be attained after the attainment of peace.
You cannot refuse to recognize the divine in a person who is a person of peace.
It is not the talkative, it is not the argumentative one, who proves to be wise.
He may have intellect, worldly wisdom,
and yet may not have pure intelligence, which is real wisdom.
True wisdom is to be found in the peaceful,
for peacefulness is the sign of wisdom.​

It is​ the peaceful one who is observant.
It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly.
It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive,
for peace helps him to conceive.
It is the peaceful who can contemplate;
one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly.
Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.​

Profound Not-Knowing - Jeff Foster
One of my favorite things to do is to sit with my elderly father 
who has Alzheimers.  It's a beautiful thing to just sit in a place
of profound not-knowing with him, a place where I do not
know what to say or do.​

 I sit, without expectation,
without trying to 'fix' him,
or manipulate his experience in any way.​

I just listen,
without trying to make things better in the moment,
without playing the role of  'the one who knows'.
I am simply available to him.​

And this seems to be
what true relationship is at its very core -
meeting, really meeting in the moment,
without hope, without
a future, without expectation, without a story. 
Coming face to face with - yourself. ​

​​Nisargadatta Maharaj says:
"What remains is the great sadness of compassion"

the silent self
There is a silent self within us
whose presence is disturbing precisely because it is so silent:
it can't be spoken.
It has to remain silent.
To articulate it, to verbalize it,
is to tamper with it, and in some way to destroy it. ​

Now let us frankly face the fact
that our culture is one which is geared in many ways
to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self.​

We live in a state of constant semi attention
to the sound of voices, music, traffic,
or the generalized noise of what goes on around us all the time.​

This keeps us immersed in a flood of racket and words,
a diffuse medium in which our consciousness is half diluted:
we are not quite "thinking",
not entirely responding,
but we are more or less there.  ​

We are not fully present and not entirely absent,
not fully withdrawn,
yet not completely available. ​

It cannot be said that we are really participating in anything
and we may in fact, be half conscious of our alienation and resentment.
Yet we derive a certain comfort from the vague sense
that we are "part of something"
-- although we are not quite able to define what that something is --
and probably wouldn't want to define it even if we could. ​

I abandon all that I think I am,
all that I hope to be,
all 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  

~ from DEEP IS THE HUNGER     

Who you chose to spend time with speaks everything about your love.
Thorn thicket people.
Glass bottle people.
Fashion magazine people.
The people called Encouragers of Waste …
and…..
​
Self Protective Imaginings.​

​An ant crawled along the edge of creation and void and dropped a telegram from deep earth. It said:

"Listening is fruitless unless it becomes a fire.
Silence and Love become a furnace burning away the dross;
sunlight is all that is left.
If you want to know what fire is then go and speak to Layla ."
​ - The telegram was signed, Gold.

Life is a continual series of experiences,
one leading to the other,
​until the soul arrives at its destination.
                        Bowl of Saki, August 5, by Hazrat Inayat Khan ​

The senses and the heart can open
in a sweet and delicate way,
and a powerful contentment can arise.​

If you work with a different rhythm,
you will come easily and naturally home to yourself.
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny.​

Love is the conversation between possible,
searing disappointment
and a profoundly imagined sense
of arrival and fulfillment;
how we shape that conversation is the touchstone
of our ability to love in the real inhabited world.
​

WHEN WE ARE IN FULL BLOWN GRACEOPATHY…FINALLY!!!!
ALL HORRORS HERE ARE THE REMINDER:
<
ALLOW TRUTH OF BEING AKASHA TAO CORE SILENCE
TO USURP/REPLACE
TALKING TRUTH OF BEING
< 
NO WILD ITCH TO TALK TRUTH
WHEN ONE IS*
WITHOUT WAVER
AH! for this
BALM OF GILEAD**
ew/dmm
3:45 AM-7/20/18
* (UNSULLIED ORIGINAL CORE - -SILENT TRUTH OF BEING)
**  https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/there-is-a-balm-in-gilead-heal-the-world

What then is the difference between
an ordinary person and a liberated person? 
The difference is a matter of freedom. 
An "enlightened" person has the ability
to experience self and world as a Source wave.
And when they are not experiencing things that way,
they understand why that is the case.
It is just because they are not paying close
attention...

Shinzen Young - The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works
via Markings

​All wordings below in this color font are from:
THE SECOND BOOK OF TAO #15
Stephen Mitchell
 

​
​The ancient Masters
slept without dreaming
and woke up without concerns.
Their food was spare and simple.
Their breath went deep.

​AFTERNOON...

There was no limit to their freedom. 

 They always had enough time
 to do what wanted to be done.
  They moved through each day as alert and unhurried
 as animals in the wild.

Tao Te Ching #6

The Tao is called the Great Mother:
empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.

It is always present within you.
You can use it any way you want.
Stephen Mitchell Translation
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#6

Leading and ruling are easy to confuse.
The leader who needs obedience
is a ruler, a monarch,
who imposes laws and regulations.
This regulation creates a sense of safety
in the minds of the ruled,
so they willingly abandon
their own wild and authentic nature.
A ruler’s motives might be good,
but the spirit of the ruled
can’t help but be diminished.
A leader kindles the people’s spirits
and helps them express and fulfill
their own destiny.​

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

To funnel your expression of life through the narrowness
of another’s anticipated response
is the beginning of death. 
You do so at the cost of your vitality. 
​ There is another way.
​. p.72

and to squeeze love
up the stalky center toward the
sky with only dreams of color
is to pray.... 

Everything that you think is past,
everything that you think will be future
is right here.
If you see everything the way it is,
if the whole creation reflects within you,
if you can contain creation the way it is within you,
you become the very source of creation.
That is the way to be,
​ inside and outside.
Sadhguru
excerpt from
​THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS LIFE IS TO FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/lifestyle/most-important-things-in-life/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dmq-blog

​Wisdom does not inspect, but behold.
We must look a long time before we can see.”
— Henry David Thoreau

​The Master views the parts with compassion,
because he understands the whole.
His constant practice is humility.
He doesn't glitter like a jewel
but lets himself be shaped by the Tao,
as rugged and common as stone.
Translation by Stephen Mitchell.
http://dailytao.org/
Friday, 27 January, 2017 :# 39

​on turning seventy three
​
Seventy three missions
around the sun and not
one thing of worldly value
to show for it.

Just as the latticework of galactic love,
which holds the cluster of stars suspended,
is mirrored above in the vibrational circuitry of this solar system,
and then mirrored once again
in the awakening circuitry of planetary intelligence,
on a smaller scale this same basic design pattern
—of eternal love--
is mirrored in human biology,
thus providing us with universally compatible systems for the habitation, enjoyment, and continuing creation of these phenomenal realms.

THE ETHERIC ANTENNA
Ken Carey
The Third Millennium
excerpts from
pp. 92-94 ​

​You are God’s consciousness,
God’s means of perception in these realms.
  Inside the being of God,
you are the way eternity feels this world.
  It takes no effort to remember. 
What you need to retain
​ you could no more forget than your name---
the nature that fills you with
the same breath that breathes these worlds.