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MOSTLY UNKNOWN "...raw and open to what arises..." "...the potion of deathless life..." May 21, 2020

5/21/2020

ALL THAT IS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN
NOW MOSTLY UNKNOWN*
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IT IS WHAT IT IS
NO ‘I’ OR ‘GOD’ REMAINS TO BE BELIEVED OR WORDED

A FREEDOM BEYOND WORDS & BELIEF
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5:03 AM-5/21/20

*”the "silencing" or negation of everything that is not God.”
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gallacher-cloud-of-unknowing-introduction
*See Bernadette Roberts + Cloud of Unknowing – Categories on OceanSpeak
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/category/bernadette-roberts-no-self
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/category/clloud-of-unknowing
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/undiluted-creation-generous-sea-sends-me-home-january-9-2019

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor:
hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
Ever since happiness heard your name,
it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness,
the astonishing light of your own being.

There are different wells within your heart.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far too deep for that

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Hafez

"There are no shortcuts to what lies beyond."

"There is poetry in emotion that needs to be expressed -
allowing yourself to be raw and open to what arises..."

"letting life take care of itself,
being open to where life goes..."
MM
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/05/found-notes-mm.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

All Photos from: May 21, 2019 Unless Otherwise Noted
OCEAN ROARS "...as fish out of water hear the waves,.." May 21, 2019
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AFTERNOON

A child should know the moral of give and take;
it must know that it should give to others what it wishes to receive from them.
The great fault of humanity today
is that everyone seeks to get the better of others,
by which one is often caught in one's own net.

from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/III/III_I_5.htm

To create a work of art is to create the world.
—Vassily Kandinsky

… [T]he waters of the fountains of inspiration dispensed to artists by the Muses,
the liquor in the little pails of the guides and guardians of the mysteries,
the drink of the gods, and the distillate of love are the same,
in various strengths, to wit, ambrosia (Sanskrit, ‘amrta,’ 'immortality’),
the potion of deathless life experienced here and now.

It is milk, it is wine, it is tea, it is coffee,
it is anything you like, when drunk with a certain insight--
life itself, when experienced from a certain depth and height.

—Joseph Campbell,
Creative Mythology (Vol. IV of The Masks of God), p. 8
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/05/to-create-work-of-art-is-to-create.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

The soul should always stand ajar.
. —Emily Dickinson
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Friday I tasted life.
It was a vast morsel.
A Circus passed the house —-
still I feel the red in my mind though the drums are out.

The Lawn is full of south and the odors tangle,
and I hear to-day for the first time
the river in the tree
—Emily Dickinson

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-soul-should-always-stand-ajar-emily.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Thomas Merton wrote,
“there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life,
making itsy-bitsy statues.”

There is always an enormous temptation in all of life
to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys
for itsy-bitsy years on end.

It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral,
simply to step aside from the gaps
where the creeks and winds pour down, saying,
I never merited this grace, quite rightly,
and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage.

I won’t have it.
The world is wilder than that in all directions,
more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright.
We are making hay when we should be making whoopee;
we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

Go up into the gaps.
If you can find them; they shift and vanish too.
Stalk the gaps.

Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple- a universe.

This is how you spend this afternoon,
and tomorrow morning,
and tomorrow afternoon.

Spend the afternoon.
You can’t take it with you.

—Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-soul-should-always-stand-ajar-emily.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

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DEATH DOULA "Life and Death in One Breath" April 21, 2020

4/21/2020

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All Photos (unless otherwise noted) from
Harbour Island, Bahamas
SILENCE BEFORE SOUND "A quiet mind...." "...dead to its own." "The most powerful prayer,...." April 21, 2019
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AH!
CLARITY’S RELIEF OCCURING*
I AM THE DYING ONE
& ALSO
THE DEATH DOULA
SOURCED IN/OF/AS CORE OF CREATION
BEYOND ALL WORDING/THINKING
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4:24 AM-4/21/20

*With the kind of population that we have become and the level of empowerment we have reached, if we do not turn inward now, we are going to be the biggest disaster that humanity has ever seen.
The Only Problem
There is only one problem in the world – human beings.
And the only problem with the human being is
that he is unconscious and compulsive.
Whether this unconsciousness and compulsiveness
manifests itself in the form of war or a domestic situation,
it does not matter.
Sadhguru
https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/wisdom/article/death-book-raw-shocking

Life and Death in One Breath

Whatever you wish to do,
you must bring yourself to a moment
of joy and clarity within yourself.
Why I am saying joy is because
when you are happy you are not compulsive.

When you are very happy and clear,
at that time if you look at things and see that
“Yes, this is what is more sensible for me”
– just do that.

It does not matter if it feels like hell;
it does not matter if you go through hell for ten years,
you just do that,
because that is where your wellbeing is.

Whenever your emotions go up and down,
your mind says many things
– that is not important.

It says one thing in the morning,
one thing in the evening;
it says one thing today and another thing tomorrow,
that is of no consequence.

When you are in different states of compulsiveness,
if you make decisions as to which way to turn,
you will be endlessly lost.

― Sadhguru, Life and Death in One Breath

AFTERNOON

When dew falls as tears from the morning sky,
When riverside trees sparkle in sunlight,
So close in my heart their shadows fall,
Then I know
The Universe is a floating lotus
In the holy lake of my mind.
Then I know:
I am the voice within the Voice,
The song within the Song,
The life within the Life,
The light breaking through the heart of Darkness."

From "A Flight of Swans", translated by Aurobindo Bose
thanks to Carol Grayson
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2020/04/rabindranath-tagore-song-within-song.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

Life and Death in One Breath
This song of mine will wind
its music around you, my child,
like the fond arms of love.

This song of mine will touch
your forehead like a kiss of blessing.

When you are alone it will sit
by your side and whisper in your ear.
When you are in the crowd
it will fence you about with aloofness.

My song will be like
a pair of wings to your dreams.
It will transport your heart
to the verge of the unknown.

It will be like the faithful star overhead
when dark night is over your road.

My song will sit in the pupils of your eyes,
and will carry your sight to the heart of things.

And when my voice is silent in death,
my song will speak to your living heart.

from "Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore "
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2020/04/rabindranath-tagore-song-within-song.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

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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
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A CESSATION OF THOUGHTS & WORDS
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A WANING OF ALL MAN-MADE REALITIES
SWEETLY INCREASES
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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
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A CESSATION OF THOUGHTS & WORDS
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A WANING OF ALL MAN-MADE REALITIES
SWEETLY INCREASES
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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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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
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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..
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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

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"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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ONLY LISTENS...ONLY JUST IS... "There is only before: ..." "...feel the future dissolve..." "...only kindness..." February 14, 2020

2/14/2020

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If you read nothing else on today's Sharing/Offering....
PLEASE do Saturate with what is in Read More Below Afternoon Photos
or this direct link:

Waking Up to Bliss...

(this just read by dmm/ew..Pre-Sunrise 6:01 AM 2/14/20)

ORIGIN’S SILENCE…
(IN A REALIZED NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE FORM)
…ONLY LISTENS…ONLY JUST IS…
FUELING & MANIFESTING ONE’S STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
∞
SILENT CONSCIOUSNESS OF TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
MERGED WITH CREATOR
ERASES ALL EGOIC POSSESSIONS/ADDICTIONS
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THE IMPERSONAL LIFE*
JUST IS
3:58 AM-2/14/20
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(Note Phallic Symbol)

*THE IMPERSONAL LIFE – Joseph Benner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sieber_Benner
*Wu Hsin quotes below in this color font
A Random Pick…Synchronistically read in the book
already marked/highlighted by ew/dmm
AFTER the above Whisper Writes

There is no beyond to be taken to
There is only before:
before beliefs,
before ideas and concepts,
before stories and histories,
before imaginations,
before words,
before language,
before projections,
before emotions,
before sensations,
before feelings,
before love and hate,
before good and evil,
before every this and every that.

Solving Yourself: Yuben de Wu Hsin
March 19

Whatever is conceivable lies latent in the Potentiality.
Whatever the Absolute conceptualizes, appears.
This is the mechanism of manifestation,
the expressions of the Absolute.

Consciousness is the screen
on which the stream of images appear.
It is the light that illuminates the images
and it is the content of the stream.
It is the observing of the rise and fall of all things.
It is invulnerable.
What damages can the reflections cause
to a reflective surface?
Solving Yourself: Yuben de Wu Hsin
March 20

AFTERNOON

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.

What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.

How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.
~Naomi Shihab Nye
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/02/13/31706/

See Read More Below for
Waking Up to Bliss...

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TRANSLATED "...the way of nature." "...changed to eternal." "...even your bathtub." "...sourceless incandescence..." 2/7/20

2/7/2020

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AS QUESTIONER & QUESTIONS CEASE
ONE BECOMES THE QUIET ANSWER*
SOURCED IN ORIGIN’S
PRIMAL REPOSE*
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TRANSLATED BEYOND THE PRISON & FOLLY
OF EXPLAINING
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THE LISTENER*
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ONLY SMILED*
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4:18 AM-2/7/20

*See Read More Below Afternoon Photos

I was dead. I came alive.
I was tears, I became laughter.
All because of Love,
my temporal life,
from then on changed to eternal.
– Rumi

Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind rest at peace.
The ten thousand things rise and fall
while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness,
which is the way of nature.
Lao Tzu

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
There is no need to go to India
or anywhere else to find peace.

You will find that deep place of silence
right in your room,
your garden
or
even your bathtub.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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

In the attitude of silence
the soul finds the path in a clearer light,
and what is elusive and deceptive
resolves itself into crystal clearness.
Ghandi

At the still point of the turning world.
Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards;
at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
And do not all it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered.
Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline.
Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance,
and there is only the dance.
T.S. Eliot

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done
in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.
When mind is still,
then truth gets her chance to be heard
in the purity of the silence.
Sri Aurobindo

Under all speech that is good for anything
there lies a silence that is better.
Silence is deep as Eternity;
speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle

AFTERNOON

Sagittarius – Thursday, February 6, 2020

Getting a good plan off the ground is getting complicated due to a number of hard to control issues.
To get what you need,
it is necessary to simplify and prioritize
all the options at your disposal.
There is a foolproof way to successfully
pull yourself out of the stress zone.
Stop the chatter in your brain.

Listen to your breath for short spells.

And you will find all the answers you seek plus more
from an unconscious source.
https://boothstars.com/2020/02/06/sagittarius-thursday-february-6-2020/

Change the Lighting
If you can’t change yourself, after all
the efforts, change the light
by which you read your story.

Exchange overhead for something softer –
a lamp, a candle, a vine of shining
holiday lights – and feel yourself
become hugged by the fabric of shadows.

You see the darkness here has wisdom too.
You see these objects around become related
by the pregnant emptiness that holds them,
and you.

Let this light reveal the rapture
of being just this. Then, further still, try
moonlight, or no light, until, at last,
this open, sourceless incandescence
which you are
no matter who you think you are
will follow you from the inside
wherever you may go, however
you may change, or not.

Brooke McNamara
~~~

Poem by Brooke McNamara
(excerpt from her book ‘Feed your Vow’)
See 1st Link below for Brooke McNamara's Outstanding Website
https://www.brookemcnamara.com

https://thedawnwithin.com/2020/02/07/change-the-lighting/

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UNFATHOMABLE NOW "Life is neither born nor dies." "...unassailable being,..." February 3, 2020

2/3/2020

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THE UNFATHOMABLE NOW..
…THIS ORIGINAL-CORE MOMENT…
IS ALL THAT IS
∞
POOFED INTO
(& IN/OF/AS)
THE BREATH & NON-BREATH
OF
THE NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE ONE
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4:53 AM-2/3/20

Death, a Blessing in Disguise – Osho

Whether you run or you stay
it doesn't matter
death comes.

Death has started coming closer to you
from the very moment you were born.
In what form it comes does not matter.

Bertrand Russell has said
that if there were no death in the world,
there would have been no religion.
He has some great insight there:
without death,
who was going to bother about meditation?

Without death,
who was going to bother to know
about the secret mysteries of life?
One would have remained always concerned
with the mundane and the worldly.
Who would have turned inwards?
There would have been no Gautam Buddha.
So death is not just a calamity,
it is a blessing in disguise.

If you can understand,
if you have this much intelligence
— that after birth, death is approaching every moment closer --
you will not lose your time in trivia.

Your priority will be to know what this life is before it ends:
Who is living in me?
What force?
For every intelligent man and woman
this is the priority.
Everything else is secondary to knowing oneself.
Once you know yourself, there is no death.

Death was only in your ignorance.
In your meditative consciousness,
death disappears just as darkness disappears
when there is light brought in.

Meditation brings the light in,
and death is found to be the greatest fiction.
It appears only from the outside that somebody is dying.
From the inside nobody has ever died,
and that is where your life source is.

Chintan is taking his death very joyously,
very peacefully.
He will die consciously.
He is giving every indication
that death cannot make him unconscious,
cannot knock him unconscious.

He will retain his consciousness,
and he will have a laugh as he will be dying,
because the whole world is living in an illusion.

Life is neither born nor dies.
It has been before birth; it will be after death.
Birth and death both are small episodes
in the eternal stream of consciousness and light.
Excerpt from:
https://o-meditation.com/2020/01/31/death-a-blessing-in-disguise-osho/

I am dead already
Physical death will
make no difference in my case.

I am timeless being.
I am free of desire or fear,
because I do not remember the past
or imagine the future.

Where there are no names and shapes,
how can there be desire and fear?
With desirelessness comes timelessness.

I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is.

You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger.
Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable
and needs protection.
But not you.

Once you realize your own unassailable being,
you will be at peace.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

AFTERNOON

citizen of dark times

Learn tropism toward the difficult.
We have not arrived to explain, but to sing.

Young idealism ripens into an ethical life.
Prune back regret to let faith grow.

When you hit rock bottom,
dig farther down.

Grief is the seed of singing,
shame the seed of song.

Keep seeing what you are not saying.
Plunder your reticence.

Songbird guards a twig,
its only weapon a song.
~Kim Stafford

https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/02/03/31632/

Stay light-footed and keep moving

Do you hear what
the violin
says about longing?

The same as the stick, "I was once
a green branch in the wind."

We are all far from home.
Language is our caravan bell.
Don't stop anywhere.
The moment you're attracted to a place,
you grow bored with it.

Think of the big moves you've already made,
from a single cell to a human being!

Stay light-footed, and keep moving.
Turkish, Arabic, Greek, any tongue
is a wind that was formerly water.

As a breeze carries the ocean inside it,
so underneath every sentence is,
"Come back to the source."
Rumi

version from a
John Moyne translation
Coleman Barks

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ALL IS WELL "...my life without God-" "The longing is eternal." "...haunting and wild,..." January 29, 2020

1/29/2020

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ALL IS WELL, UNLESS PERCEIVED OTHERWISE
ew
2:09 AM-1/29/20

We travel, some of us forever,
to seek other states,
other lives,
other souls.
~Anais Nin
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/28/31588/

Coming to Terms with Nothingness
What we call emptiness and nothingness
is merely a relative notion or experience,
like moving from the positive to the negative
before both eventually fall away
and all that remains is what Is.

Nevertheless,
if there is any aspect of this journey
I would stress or emphasize,
it is the evident necessity of finally coming to terms
with the nothingness and emptiness of existence,
which, for me,
seemed to be the equivalent
of living out my life without God –
or any such substitute.

Only when this came about,
only when the acclimation
to a life without an ultimate reality
was complete,
when there was no hope,
no trust remaining,
only when I have finally to accept what is,
did I suddenly realize that what is,
is Truth itself and all that Is.

I had to discover
it was only when every single,
subtle, experience and idea
– conscious and unconscious –
has come to an end, a complete end,
that it is possible for the
Truth to reveal Itself.

Bernadette Roberts
The Experience of No-Self
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/01/coming-to-terms-with-nothingness.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29

MID-MORNING SESSION - OCEAN "OFFICE" SPACE

AFTERNOON

The restlessness in the human heart
will never be finally stilled
by any person, project, or place.

The longing is eternal.
This is what constantly qualifies and enlarges
our circles of belonging.
There is a constant and vital tension
between longing and belonging.

Without the shelter of belonging,
our longings would lack direction, focus, and context;
they would be aimless and haunted,
constantly tugging the heart
in a myriad of opposing directions.

Without belonging,
our longing would be demented.

As memory gathers and anchors time,
so does belonging shelter longing.
Belonging without longing
would be empty and dead,
a cold frame around emptiness.

John O'Donohue
Excerpt from this EXCELLENT writing:
http://www.passionart.guide/project/john-o-donohue-celtic-reflections-on-our-yearning-to-belong/

A long dark curve is the poem in your body
is the river
is the loon's throat.
Have you ever asked yourself how
the loon's voice
opens?

You know it first as change in the body.
Even if the blue place you are dreaming
is no longer there
you must begin.
Something that desires to lift
these heavy bones
something simple
and beautiful
miraculous as a feather
forms along the blade
of each wing.

Poised, no longer
settled
you wait as every part of you sheds
what once was,
and is no longer
necessary.

Close to shore you prepare.
And what will it cost you?

And what is this
haunting and wild, now
still in your throat, now
trembling
Set it free
whatever it may cost you
set it free.
~Cheryl Hellner
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/28/31588/

Herein lies the secret way:
move with reckless abandon!
Rumi

Last photo above is from five years ago....January 29, 2015
See More Here:
Womb Wisdom - Primordial Silence
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/3-womb-wisdom-primordial-silence-sunriseafternoon-january-29-2015

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BEYOND ALL TELLING "...-without knowing it-..." Jan. 6, 2020 "...vanishing from view..."

1/6/2020

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NO MARGIN FOR SLIPPING
INTO PAST OR FUTURE
=
NAKED IN GRACE
ALONE WITH THE ALONE
BEYOND ALL TELLING
<
STATE OF BEING ‘JUST THIS’
IS THE ONLY COMFORT*
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5:26 AM-1/6/20
* "i want to surrender to your silence which peels me."
“I have nothing to offer you,
but this touch,
where I Disappear.”
Arif K
https://www.poetseers.org/submissions/2006-2/arif-k/index.html

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/a-peeling-be-totally-mad-this-neglected-exiled-animal-
run-naked-notes-to-the-beloved-january-6-2019

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/grace-births-a-soul-winter-solstice-sunriseafternoon-december-21-2014

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/fertile-invisible-compost-the-long-light-after-time-your-flesh-shall-be-a-great-poem-january-19-2019

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/beyond-belief-invisibility-sunriseafternoon-january-19-2017

See Arif Category on OceanSpeak Column to right of page

here i came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed through weather and the sea,
and the moon swam back,
its rays all silvered,
and time and again the darkness would be broken
by the crash of a wave,
and every day on the balcony of the sea,
wings open, fire is born,
and everything is blue again like morning.
—Pablo Neruda
https://www.davidsanger.com
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/01/why.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

What began in those early days
was the seed of today's grace,
and it must continue to grow,
but without being in any way spectacular
or drawing attention to itself
(Fenelon:
"Beware the humility that can speak its own name").

In my younger days
there was a great deal of wanting to be noticed
for my weariness of the world,
love of silence
and the urge to solitude.

True as all that may have been true then,
it was too self-conscious to be very deep.
God made up for my limitations,
as God does for each of us.

Now I live,
not as someone who has cut herself off from the world, found the solitude, and wants the world to know it,
but as a person who hopes to serve
- without knowing it -
God's plan to be revealed in the world
and to the world.
This, then, makes clearer to me what it means to be - "Hidden with Christ in God".
Patricia Masters
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/01/looking-back.html?showComment=1578227578832#c8649671643949505354

AFTERNOON

I have been thinking of the difference between
water and the waves on it.
Rising, water's still water, falling back, it is water.
Will you give me a hint how to tell them apart?
Because someone has made up the word "wave,"
do I have to distinguish it from water?
There is a Secret One inside us; the planets in all the galaxies pass through his hands like beads.
That is a string of beads one should look at
with luminous eyes.
—Kabir
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/01/there-is-secret-one.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

WORDS ARE SYMBOLS
AS IS ALL ELSE
IN MANIFESTED FORM
INCLUDING THOUGHTS

WITHOUT THOUGHTS
OR WORDS
YOU ARE THE MORE
CLEAR SYMBOL.

ATIAH ALONE*
UTTERS
MANIFESTS

IT IS ALL THE SAME
AND YET NOT THE SAME
IT IS MORE THAN
THIS

PEACE BE STILL
O GLAD BREATHER
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Tuesday, April 01, 2003
6:24AM

*ATIAH
=
All That Is AH!
(Above is a Random Pick Whisper from
ew
Booklet Series Unpublished Archives)

The source of Consciousness is Consciousness.
Consciousness is all there is.
*****
The universe goes on its merry, mystical, magical way
until you start observing it
and you, by observing it,
create problems.
The working of the universe
has no problems.

January 6
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

We feel that we can exercise our volition,
yet deep down we know
that there is an order infinitely more powerful
which seems to dictate our life.
****

The man of wisdom is devoid of ego
even though he may appear to use it.
His vacant or fasting mind
is neither doing anything nor not doing anything.
He is outside of volition, neither this nor that.
He is everything and nothing.
January 7
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

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for Full Circle
Ouroborus Center Point-Zero Point
+
Repeat of Random PIck Whisper

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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/

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Bernadette Roberts - The Experience of No-Self

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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
***********
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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

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Morning Random Whisper
Additional photos

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SILENCE BEYOND BREATH "...the life in your years." " Hold me, and I am visibly clear." August 8, 2019

8/8/2019

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8/3/18 SILENCE BEFORE SOUND

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/silence-before-sound-dropped-into-the-mystery-all-of-it-occurs-spontaneously-soul-making-8318

POSSESSED BY SILENT CORE
THE SOURCE OF ALL
THE VAST SILENCE BEYOND BREATH*

FUEL/ORCHESTRATION FOR ALL DOING
IS WITHIN THIS SILENCE
A CONDITON
WHERE MINDING MIND DOES NOT EXIST
NO THOUGHTS OF DOING OR NOT DOING…
ALL JUST IS
THE LIGHTNESS & TRANSPARENCY
OF
NO EGOIC-AWARE-BEING
=
EFFORTLESS EASE JOY**
ew
4:36 AM-8/8/19
*Yesterday afternoon's beach experience
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/eternal-now-nothings-orgasmic-way-august-7-2019-named-was-born-from-the-unnamed-the-great-orgasm-beyond-milestone
**See this OceanSpeak for more
"Instructions" for such EFFORTLESS EASE JOY
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/no-personal-volition-you-will-be-taught-to-fly-you-strip-naked-july-8-2019

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

AFTERNOON

I AM
By HK Rolle
(Inspired by God)

I am my very own thoughts and emotions.
As deep as the Ever Flowing ocean.
Colorful to the plain eyes I appear.
Hold me, and I am visibly clear.

HK Rolle - Inspired by God
Always-Youthing-in-Divine-Grace...Harbour Island Native Woman/Friend

Whenever the insistence is on the point
that God answers prayer,
we are off the track.
The meaning of prayer
is that we get hold of God,
not of the answer.
Oswald Chambers

Obedience to the call of Christ
nearly always costs everything to two people-
the one who is called,
and the one who loves that one.
Oswald Chambers

He who wherever he goes is attached
to no person and to no place by ties of flesh;
who accepts good and evil alike,
neither welcoming the one
nor shrinking from the other --
take it that such a one
has attained Perfection.

"Bhagavad-Gita"

What we call suffering, and experience as suffering,
isn't actually suffering.
It is confusion, illusion, misperception.

Suchness is the only thing we ever really experience.
Reality is not, as we imagine it to be,
difficult and painful.
It is always only just as it is suchness.

Mind is like this.
It is deep, pure, and silent.
But when the winds of delusion blow,
its surface stirs and what we call suffering results.

But the waves of my suffering
are nothing more or less than mind.
And even as I rage, the depths below remain quiet.

Life is the wind.
Life is the water.
As long as life appears as phenomena
there will be the stirrings of delusion.

Delusion is in fact the movement,
the stirring,
of awakening.

My ocean mind is inherently pure and serene,
always.
When I know this,
I can navigate the waves with grace.
~Norman Fischer
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/08/08/30179/

See More on this OceanSpeak Link
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/life-is-unavoidable-sunriseafternoon-may-27-2015
ALSO Click May 2015 in right-hand column ARCHIVES...
for all of May 2015 OceanSpeaks....and many breakers photos

Why a 'Dark Night'?
Ron Rolheiser

“…a deeper presence of God, a presence that,
precisely because it goes beyond feeling and Imagination
can only be felt as an emptiness, a nothingness, and absence,
a non-existence.”

"Mother Teresa underwent a Dark Night of the Soul. This is what Jesus suffered on the cross when he cried out, ‘My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?’ When he uttered those words, he meant them. At that moment, he felt exactly what Mother Teresa felt so acutely for more than 50 years – namely, the sense that God is absent, that God is dead, that there isn't any God. But this isn't the absence of faith or the absence of God; rather, it is a deeper presence of God, a presence that, precisely because it goes beyond feeling and Imagination, can only be felt as an emptiness, a nothingness, and absence, a non-existence.

Wrestling with God
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2019/08/why-dark-night.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29

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GRACED NAKED EXORCISED OF...... PROJECTIONS & BELIEFS May 24, 2019

5/24/2019

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We begin today's photos with the Experiences...or some of them...with Friend Chef Sue Neff yesterday 5/23/19
....her 81st Birthday Celebration Breakfast....

NAKED IN DIVINE GRACE
NAKED GRACE
GRACED NAKED
<
IMMORTAL CORE POSSESSES
=
ALL IS ALWAYS WELL
WHEN
EXORCISED
OF MAN-MADE PROJECTIONS & BELIEFS
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3:15 AM-5/24/19

God doesn't have anything to do with it
if you don't believe.
Chef Neff
5/23/19
Valentine's Resort
Chef's 81st birthday breakfast celebration

divine magnetism

There is something in personal love, caresses,
and the magnetic flood of sympathy
and friendship,
that does, in its way,
more good than all the medicine in the world.
—Walt Whitman

The Self is like a powerful magnet within us.
It draws us gradually to itself,
though we imagine we are going to It of our own accord:
when we are near enough,
It puts an end to our activities, makes us still,
and then swallows up our personal current,
thus killing our wrong personality.
It overwhelms the intellect and over floods the whole being.

We think we are meditating upon It and developing towards It,
whereas the truth is that we are iron filings
and It is the Atman-magnet that is pulling us towards Itself.
Thus the process of finding the Self is a form of Divine magnetism.
—Sri Ramana Maharshi

.. everything can have an effect on us.
And all things affect us from a distance,
the near as well as the remote things,
nothing touches us;
everything reaches us across divisions.

And just as the most remote stars cannot enter us,
the ring on my hand cannot do so either:
everything that reaches us can do so
only the way a magnet summons and aligns the forces
in some susceptible object;
in this way, all things can effect a new alignment within us.
And in view of this insight,
do proximity and distance not simply vanish?

—Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters on Life

The chooser's happiness lies in his congruence with the chosen,
The peace of iron filings, obedient to the forces of the magnetic field.
Calm is the soul that is emptied of all self,
In the eternal moment of co-inherence.
A happiness within you - but not yours.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

divine magnetism
.https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/divine-magnetism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Grasshoppers....more today than anytime this week....finding the only spot of shrub that material-man-progress has left on Dunes Path to beach.

AFTERNOON

The Daily Lesson – May 24, 2019

If there is a person left in this enlightened age
who is still engaging in malpractice

—trying to destroy the life which is God,
or trying to prove that there is a power
other than God-power--

it is an object lesson to watch what happens to him
when his malpractice hits up against a person
who has perceived the truth that God is individual life.

If we believe that there is an evil power
from which our understanding of God will protect us
or if we believe that we have an ‘in’ with God
that will save us from some evil, we are lost:
we have accepted two powers,
and according to our belief so is it unto us.
~Joel S Goldsmith
A PARENTHESIS IN ETERNITY
Chapter 11

II Corinthians 4:6,7
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Proverbs 19:5 (KJV)
5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Bearing false witness is accepting a sense of separation from God.
Living in that state of understanding we are subject to the consequences of that lie.
~Al Denninger
www.iwso.org/thedailylesson.htm

People discuss dogmas, beliefs, and moral principles,
as they know them.
But there comes a time in a man's life
when he has touched truth of which he cannot speak in words;
and at that time
all dispute, discussion, argument ends.

from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IV/IV_34.htm

The intellect is the wrong tool for relating to What-Is
in the same what that a net is the wrong tool for gathering water.

Unattached to body, unattached to mind,
allowing everything just as it is.

What could be the problem?
Wu Hsin

As soon as the Truth is realized,
the process of self-destruction
which is personal existence
is transformed into immortality.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
May 22

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CREATION’S GREAT BREATH "...silent self within us..." "...intimacy of the most unspeakable kind." January 13, 2019

1/13/2019

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BE THE PEACE THAT PASSETH EARTHLY UNDERSTANDING
ORIGIN'S AKASHA TAO CORE
PARTING ALL RED SEAS OF LIES & DESTRUCTION
<
INHALED/EXHALED SYNCHRONOUS
IN/OF/AS
CREATION’S GREAT BREATH
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1:30 AM-1/13/19

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.

I don't need to 'know' anything in this place...
And here,
I notice a deep and profound acceptance
of any wave of frustration or sadness
that appears in the ocean of experience.

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"

It is not cold detachment and neo-Advaita
world-rejection,
but the
intimacy of the most unspeakable kind.

Jeff Foster
Excerpt from The Beauty We Love
Also here:
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/01/profound-not-knowing-jeff-foster.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

AFTERNOON

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.

We just float along in the general noise.
Resigned and indifferent,
we share semi-consciously
in the mindless mind of Muzak and radio commercials
which pass for "reality".

- Thomas Merton
from Love & Living
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-silent-self.html

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ALL THAT IS......AH! August 27, 2018

8/27/2018

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NOTHING MORE
NOTHING LESS
THAN THE ONE
AWARE ETERNAL MOMENT
AN ATTENTION TO WHAT CANNOT CHANGE*
AH FOR
ALL THAT IS..AH!
ATIAH!
ew
4:21 AM-8/27/18
*Rather than focus on what needs changing,
TURN THE ATTENTION TO WHAT CANNOT CHANGE.
Wu Hsin

This Dance of Bliss - Goethe

What is this dance of bliss
Cascading through my senses?
I feel new life, holy rapture
Burning through my nerves and veins.
Was it a god who shaped these symbols
Summoning this inner ecstasy,
Filling my impoverished heart with joy,
And revealing, through some mysterious impulse,
Nature's secret sinews surrounding me?

Am I a god? I am filled with such light!
In this pure array of emblems I see
Nature's workings laid bare before me.
Only now do I comprehend the sage's wise words:
It is your mind that is closed, your heart that is lifeless!
....rise without fright,
and bathe your earthly breast
in the rosy dawn's light!

As all things, one in one, are woven,
Each in the other works and lives and is whole!
While heavenly beings climb and descend
Passing down their golden pails,
And with their incense-pinioned wings
All heaven and earth are blessed;
They sing in symphony
through all things!

Goethe

This poem is from a newly published, inspiring collection
of poetry by classical mystics, seers and saints from all
traditions, called This Dance of Bliss, compiled and edited by
Ivan Granger of Poetry Chaikhana. He also offers his
reflections and commentaries on the poems...
For a closer look at what's inside,
and pre-order discount click here

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2018/08/this-dance-of-bliss-goethe.html

The Daily Lesson – August 27, 2018

“Only my body is visible, but not I:
‘I and my Father are one,’ and we are invisible; we live in each other--
the Father in me, and I in the Father, inseparable and indivisible.”
~Joel S Goldsmith

John 14:8-11 (to :) (KJV)
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me:
John 10:30 (KJV)

30 I and my Father are one.

Un-illumined reasoning thought [i-Philip]
only sees the body and wants to somehow witness God in the same way.
If that were possible,
that would make two separate beings – a man and a God.
“I” [The infinite invisible Father Within]
only Sees Itself,
Ever-Present,
Ever-One,
All-Knowing
and
All-Doing.
~Al Denninger

AFTERNOON

Souls REMEMBERING through their own sacred-heart-connections,
feeling the immensity of LOVE that transcends all things of the old.....

everything we "need to know",
we already know....
deeeeeeeeeep within.
Excerpt from:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=3070d6b250&view=lg&msg=1657926710be9082

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SINCE BEFORE TIME "...eternal innocence..." Milestone August 18, 2018

8/18/2018

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ONLY THIS MOMENT
IS WHICH CONTAINS ALL
THAT IS AKASHA-TAO-CORE-MEANT-TO-BE
IF
WITHOUT
“I” DO’S ADO
<
TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
SINCE BEFORE TIME
ew
4:24 AM-8/18/18

DURING SUNRISE

ABSOLUTELY NO NEED
NO INCLINATION
FOR
DIVISIVE MINDING-MIND OR CLEAR MIND
TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND ANYTHING/ANYONE
<
EACH MOMENT NAKED GRACE AWARENESS
SUFFICETH
<
THE ONE ETERNAL MOMENT
THE WAY OF IMMORTALS’ LIFE
SINCE
BEFORE, DURING & BEYOND
ALL
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During Sunrise
8/18/18

AFTERNOON

As we prepared for afternoon section of this OeanSpeak,
the Sunrise Whisper had been Nudging that something was still missing...
a Something More i had experienced in the Vast Scope of that sunrise experience......
but what words could/would say that?

No words Surfaced from Core...as we Stilled in Silence & Waited for them..
...then knew without thinking or searching find eyes looking at a blog
.... and INSTANTLY this poem appeared...

innocence
which IS saying so beautifully, or much closer,
to the experience this morning.

Both the edited Whisper and innocence
are below
(PS...this is an example of the Increase of Synchronicities..
....that continues to More Totally Glide this life

BLUE FONT IS THE ADDITION

DURING SUNRISE

ABSOLUTELY NO NEED
NO INCLINATION
FOR
DIVISIVE MINDING-MIND, CLEAR MIND
OR ANY TYPE OF MIND
TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND
ANYTHING/ANYONE
<
EACH MOMENT NAKED GRACE AWARENESS
SUFFICETH
<
THE ONE ETERNAL MOMENT
THE WAY OF IMMORTALS’ LIFE
SINCE
BEFORE, DURING & BEYOND
ALL
ew
During Sunrise
8/18/18
+
12:29 p.m.-8/18/18
for above Enhanced Version

innocence
My gaze is clear as a sunflower.
My way is to walk the roads
Looking right and left
And sometimes looking behind me...
What I see at each moment
Is that which I never
Caught sight of before.

I have the knack of full awareness
The knack of essential astonishment
That an infant might experience
If at birth he were aware
That he was actually born!
I feel myself born at each moment
Into the everlasting newness
of the world.

I believe in the world
As I believe in a daisy
Because I see it.
But I do not think about it
Because to think is to not-understand.
The world was not made
For us to think about it
(To think is to have sick vision)
But for us to look at it and assent.

I have no philosophy: I have senses ...
If I talk of nature, that is not because
I know what nature is
But because I love it, and love is for this only:
For he who loves never knows what he loves
Or why he loves, or what love is.

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

Fernando Pessoa
from The Keeper of the Flocks
translated by Thomas Merton
http://beingsilentlydrawn.blogspot.com/2018/08/innocence.html

"...sounds like there is plenty drama
to be Blssfully Unaware of right now...."
from son Justin Culberson
sent the above Aug, 9, 2018
(SAME theme of expcerience
during this morning's sunrise
and poem innocence
+
Reckless Abandon Non-Thinking JOY
of
Afternoon Beach & Stroll to Abode

See Read More below for
innocence
+
Additional Photos

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IMMORTALITY IS ALL "...winds of homecoming." August 7, 2018 Milestone earthly husband..known in form for last 30 yrs Flights

8/7/2018

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...earthly husband..Known since before forever...
....Known in form for last 30 yrs takes his AMAZING Final Flight
5:32 AM this morning
8/7/18
See Read More at end of Afternoon Photos
for
AMAZING SYNCHRONICITY AT MOMENT OF HIS FLIGHT

BEFORE ORIGINAL SILENCE IS
IMMORTALITY IS ALL
&
NEVER CEASES
ew
12:46 AM-8/7/18

Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
the inner- what is it?
if not intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.
~Rilke
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/08/07/27843/

AFTERNOON

For what is it to die
but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is it to cease breathing
but to free the breath from its restless tides,
that it may rise and expand
and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence
shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountaintop,
then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs,
then shall you truly dance.
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Read More Below
for
AMAZING SYNCHRONICITY
AT MOMENT OF HIS FINAL FLIGHT

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SILENT GLORY OF BAUBO DOWN SYNDROME 8/5/18 "Only a burning..." "A cosmic sort of exhaustion.."

8/5/2018

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IT IS DONE!
FINISHED!
ONLY TRUTH OF BEING REMAINS
THAT CANNOT BE DILUTED
IN ANY MANNER.
SO BE IT!
4:53 AM-8/5/18

ALREADY HAPPENING…NOT TO BE CONCERNED AS
THE IMMORTAL TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
FLOWS THRU THE PARASITC SLIME
…SINCE BEFORE MAN-MADE REALITIES…
SETTING CAPTIVES FREE
ew
5:06 AM-8/5/18

SO BE IT!
ALREADY HAPPENING…NOT TO BE CONCERNED AS
TRANSPARENT CONDUIT IS FLOWING THRU THE PARASITC SLIME
…SINCE BEFORE/DURING/AFTER MAN-MADE REALITIES…
WHAT IS TO BE IS ALREADY HAPPENING
NO RUSH
AS THERE IS
NO MAN-MADE TIMING FOR THE PHYSICAL ACTION
ew
5:15 AM-8/5/18

AH!
THE SILENT GLORY OF BAUBO
5:18 AM-8/5/18

The vastness of the question
The contradictory feelings of hope and hopelessness,
meaning and flatness, anxiety and rest.
The shakiness and uncertainty in the belly.
The tightness in the throat.
The raw breaking inside the heart.
The joy that at times is there, but never can seem to be sustained.

All the techniques, the teachings, the things to manifest,
the new beliefs to take on, the worn-out ideas
about the true source of peace, aliveness, and flowing abundance.
Perhaps there were once answers to these questions,
but now there is no answer to be found.
Only a burning where the questions once existed.

This burning is the doorway,
the portal,
pure evidence of the connection.

A cosmic sort of exhaustion
can come at times,
where we find ourselves in the bardo
between one moment and the next.
We can’t quite go back to the way it was,
but the rebirth has yet to appear.
There is a creativity in the liminal
but it can seem out of reach.

We are asked to marinate in the womb of now,
tend to the groundlessness, and find refuge in the unknown:
to be midwife to the darkened illumination.
There are signs and symbols and guidance all around and inside us,
but their appearance is governed
by a timeline written somewhere else.

As we bear witness to a new day, in awe at the gift that has been given…
the breath is here.
The heart is quivering.
The birds have come.
Sounds from the other world,
another opportunity to hear,
to behold the miracle of the senses.

The sun has come up again.
The moon is hiding nearby waiting her turn.
For just one moment,
the veil parts and the perfection is there
awaiting our participation.

Your life is not an unending self-improvement project
and your heart is not a venture to be undertaken, mastered, and completed.
Perhaps today was never going to be the day
when you figured it all out,
got all your questions answered,
or resolved the contradictions.

It's just too wild for all that.
Just too creative.
Just too alive.

Today may not be the day for answers,
but to let your heart break open
to the vastness of the question.

To fall to the ground as a humble lover of the mystery.
And listen once again.
Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-vastness-of-question.html

AFTERNOON

Life is what it is, you cannot change it;
but you can always change yourself.
Bowl of Saki, August 4, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task.
When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,'
then we say,
'What does it matter?'
When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,'
we say,
'What does it matter, either this way or that way?
Every person is what he is;
you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.'

That is the crushing. ...
It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.

Every time that we notice its pinprick,
every time that its thorns appear before our eyes,
we should crush it and say,
'What are you?
Are you not thorns, are you not the cause of unhappiness
for others and myself as well?
I do not want to see my own being in such a form,
in the form of thorns!
I want my being to be turned into a rose,
that I may bring happiness, pleasure, and comfort to others.'

If there is anything needed in spiritual teaching,
in seeking truth, in self-realization,
it is the refinement of the ego.
For the same ego which begins by being our worst enemy,
will in the end,
if developed and cultivated and refined,
become our best friend.

from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_40.htm

Jamie K. Reaser - It Will Be in the Silence
Sometimes you come upon a place that
beckons you into silence: an old stone bench,
a lake shore, a certain time in your life. Nothing
small can reside there.
.

I’m looking for that place now, the kind of place
that puts clocks to rest because something must
come forth to reset everything. I don’t want to
follow these rules and constructs anymore -
written, not written, felt.
.
Something is asking me not to,
and it is wise.

Reason doesn’t have roots that run deep enough
to tap the place that I am longing for, that place
where obvious things cannot be explained. That
place that is called sacred even by those who
have never used the word before.
.
I want you to sit and wait with me,
away from the noise and the voices
of those who speak only
to rob you of your name.
What most needs to be heard
hasn’t yet been said.
.
(c) 2016/Jamie K. Reaser
From "Conversations with Mary"
http://talkingwaters-poetry.blogspot.com/
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2018/08/jamie-k-reaser-it-will-be-in-silence_4.html

The Daily Lesson – August 5, 2018
“If all our charity, benevolence, and philanthropy were done anonymously,
if any and every bit of good we do were done
without letting a single soul on earth know that we were the instruments for it,
our reward would be tremendous.
There is no God in heaven looking down, patting us on the back, and saying,
‘Oh, my dear son, that is so wonderful of you. I will reward you.’
No, nobody need know anything about what we have done:
the law itself,
the law that we have set in motion,
knows and will operate
to reward us openly.”
~Joel S Goldsmith
A Parenthesis in Eternity

Matt 6:3-5 (KJV)
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mark 4:22 (KJV)
22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
Rom 12:2 (KJV)
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

In the moment The Spirit Dwells in us we become His Instrument.
Our Love is no longer personal - but unconditional - and Present on earth
as it is in Heaven.
In that moment,
all that The Father hath is thine,
and all that thy hath is theirs….

And all that is left is a satisfied Smile.
Who are you going to tell?
~Al Denninger
http://www.iwso.org/thedailylesson.htm

See Read More Below
for More Re:
"...a satisfied Smile."
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And all Afternoon Photos
in order taken
What a time that was!!!
So maybe you can soak it up
via Gazing/Saturating
with all the photos

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SILENCE BEYOND BELIEF "..the circle is unbroken.." "...within the One from whom we come.". July 15, 2018

7/15/2018

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HOLD IN/OF/AS TRANSPARENT
CONDUIT OF THE GREAT NOTHING
THAT IS ALL
∞
THE LIFE OF CHOICLESS CHOICE
A PRIMAL PRISTINE SILENCE BEYOND BELIEF
UNSULLIED BY DEATH & DESTRUCTION
ew
5:34 AM-7/15/18

Sweet vanishing into Godby newoma

This mystic cannot help her vanishing
into the living mystery of God…

it calls the soul beyond everything I have ever known
and then surprises by manifesting creatively…..
infinitely…….and intimately

in the feathering of divine essence
as such variation and beauty…
i experience a melting of all identity
in the softness of love
and the magnificence of light
in the gift of caressing waves of peace….

God is an artist of stroking color and vision…
a sculptor of glorious expression….
the sound and symphony
of the evolution of spinning stars…

a glowing luminous and embracing moonlight …
mountainous stairways to the sky…….
whispering tenderness….
an interior river of flowing peace…….
an eternal companion…….

magnifying and enlarging and deepening
the expanse and reach of divine love..
the sacred path
of the sweet revelation
of relationship
where everything is transformed into life itself..

i surrender into the sacred surroundings
of an absolutely enchanting Beloved..
this is the exquisite and elegant dwelling
within the One
from whom we come..

N.
https://newoma.wordpress.com/2018/07/14/sweet-vanishing-into-god/

AFTERNOON

The axis of love invites us from the confines
of the ego into the vastness of a love
that spins every atom.
It has never been easy to accept the invitation.

Ikkyu, the 15th century Zen poet,
chided the priests of his own time:**

"Every day, priests minutely examine the Law
And endlessly chant complicated sutras.
Before doing that, though, they should learn
How to read the love letters sent by the wind
And rain, the snow, and moon."

**See this link for wonderful story of Ikkyu
http://thetattooedbuddha.com/2015/05/31/ikkyu-a-renegade-zen-master/

The intimacy and tenderness of the Absolute
reveals Itself where It wants.
In one moment
it is the salt smell of the sea,
the sunlight in a field,
the clear chill of autumn,
the dewdrops on a spider's web.

Another moment it is in the heart,
an unbelievable sweetness,
the total belonging to an unnameable presence.

Along the axis of love, we know real belonging.
It works with the majesty of God
to draw us nearer and nearer,
ultimately in devotion and complete surrender,
until we realize that we are the oneness
that includes all of creation,
we are the love
alive in every cell.
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/07/13/27703/

there is no diminishing life force
....don't even worry about it.....
.
the circle is unbroken......no energy is ever lost......we can stop...
...we can simply live and be well.....
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/07/13/27703/

Every human being is born with some sort of gift,
an inclination or an instinct that can become a full-blown mystery.
We may not see our gift for what it is.
Each of us is a master at something,
and part of becoming fully alive is to discover and develop
our birthright competence.
Our tendency to identify ourselves
with our acquired skills rather than our natural gifts
is one of the less desirable habits of the ego.
It is the ego that decides what skills it prizes,
the ego that exerts the effort to develop those skills,
the ego that manipulates and markets
those skills once it acquires them.

So when we seek our own birthright gifts,
it is important not to equate them
with the techniques our society names as skills.
Our gifts may be as simple as a real interest in other people,
a quiet and caring manner,
an eye for beauty,
a love of rhythm and sound.
But in those simple personal gifts the seeds of vocation are often found,
if we are wiling to do the inner and outer work necessary
to cultivate our mastery.
~Parker J. Palmer
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/07/13/27703/

« Sometimes we say of particularly unpleasant people,
‘Oh, what poison!’
or
‘Here comes the plague!’
and we can’t wait to get away from them.
Whereas with others,
it is just the opposite:
as soon as we lay eyes on them, we breathe more freely,
and we never want to leave their side.
The truth is that by their emanations,
humans are veritable pharmaceutical laboratories,
and laboratories house toxic products as well as remedies.

The person you love, for example,
is for you a laboratory that contains
the most beneficial substances.
As soon as they appear, even if you are exhausted,
you get up, your eyes sparkling.
Similarly, by their presence alone,
some doctors have such a positive influence on their patients
that merely by taking their hand,
they practically restore them to health.
Healing particles actually emanate from them.

But don’t wait for science to speak out on this matter!
Strive to purify your emanations
with thoughts and feelings
full of light and love,
and
you will become doctors for one another. »
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/emanations-their-beneficial-or-harmful-power_2018-07-15

Lemon Sage Gift in Clear Glass Vase..
...one of the many Gifts from one of those "doctors" on this island......

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...IMMORTAL SILENCE KHAMOSH-SPEAKS... "...spoken words ... kept him dead." June 17, 2018

6/17/2018

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ORIGINAL ONES’ IMMORTAL SILENCE
KHAMOSH-SPEAKS
IN/OF/AS
BEYOND EARTHLY MEASURE
ew
3:03 AM-6/17/18
(see Read More at end of Afternoon Photos
for More re: IMMORTAL SILENCE KHAMOSH

A No-Me
Glides
as
Whatever Is<is = IS
ew
5:17 AM-6/17/2018

NOTE: NO TALK from/by "me" all day.
See more just before AFTERNOON photos below.

This listening is the art of meditation,
in the learning of which we come to a place of transition
where truth leaves the mind and enters the heart.
In other words,
there is no longer merely an intellectual knowledge about truth;
but truth becomes
a living thing within our being.
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Meditation

Immortality is attained in proportion
as personal sense is overcome,
whether here or hereafter.
As we put off the personal ego
and attain the consciousness of our real Self
– the Reality of us,
divine Consciousness –
we attain immortality.

And that can be achieved here and now.
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

The crucifixion of the self is accomplished
when there is nothing left
for which you wish to pray.
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

The very moment that any form becomes a necessity in our experience,
we are placing our dependence,
our happiness, and our joy in that,
instead of in the Infinite Invisible
which is the cause of the form,
and we are idolaters.
― Joel S. Goldsmith, Practicing the Presence

Be willing to be used by God;
be willing to be used by Truth.
Be willing to be an instrument through which Truth reveals Itself,
but do not attempt to use God.
Never try to use God, Truth.
If you understood the nature of God,
never would you pray to God for any thing.
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Spiritual Healing

ALL IS 'GREATER THAN GOD'*
∞ SAY YES TO ALL ∞
ew
9:27 AM-6/17/18
*TAO TE CHING #4
S. Mitchell Translation

NOTE: NO TALK from/by "me" all day......AMAZING difference.
...PeaceFULL, etc etc..
...minding-mind-thinking just Ceased on it's own....
Intend to Hold by Being Held in this Quality Silence
for at least 24 hours.
...began this 3 a.m. this morning
.dmm
4:54 p.m.
6/17/18

AFTERNOON.....

From
Joel Goldsmith
Deep Silence of My Peace
https://www.mysticsoftheworld.com/product/deep-silence-of-my-peace/

From the depth of this inner silence
come forth the healing waters.
These waters bring everlasting life.

Out of the depth of this silence comes the Spirit,
which appears as our cloud by day and our pillar of fire by night.

Out of the depth of this silence come the safety and the security which always follow the peace that God gives.

Many have turned to this talk
in times of sorrow or doubt
and have found healing and release.

“I do not ask you to believe the signs.
I do not ask you to believe,
even if you experience a healing;
I will only ask you to believe
if you feel the Touch within you,
the Presence,
the Light,
the Life.
Joel Goldsmith
https://www.mysticsoftheworld.com/product/deep-silence-of-my-peace/

Read More Below
for More re: immortal Silence & KHAMOSH
+
Additional Photos in order taken

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BEFORE SOUND OF SILENCE "...Happiness is contagious....." Sunrise/Afternoon May 8, 2018

5/8/2018

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Beginning 5/8/18 we add at the very end of each post...
...a Whisper from Morning Writngs in Ocala (February-April 2018)

ALL IS PRAYER & CELEBRATION
SINCE BEFORE SOUND OF SILENCE
&
TIME
<
WITHOUT ALPHA & OMEGA
ew
3:39 AM-5/8/18

Happiness is contagious like the flu.
Chef Sue Neff
5/7/18

Walk us back to our wildness, where we can become clear,
in our feral states,
about what we need to do and how we need to be.
Split us open at the beauty point.
Where our abilities meet the energy of our hearts.
Crack through us with your lightning bolts
and allow us to channel your divine electricity to all that we do.
Help us to be conductors.
Pixie Lighthorse
See Full Quote in Read More at end of Afternoon Photos on this OceanSpeak

In the deep glens where they lived
all things were older than man
and they hummed of mystery.
— Cormac McCarthy, “The Road”
The world hums.
It shivers endlessly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/12/08/scientists-are-slowly-unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-earths-mysterious-hum/?utm_term=.ba37622644f5

While there is a part of us that very genuinely wishes to heal, awaken, and transform, there is a lesser known part that has an unconscious investment in maintaining things the way they are. We wonder why after years and even decades of working on ourselves, meditating, praying, surrendering, doing yoga, and going to therapy it can seem like nothing is changing.

Learning to contact and provide safe passage for those parts that are terrified of healing is an act of profound kindness and mercy. In ways that are paradoxical and bewildering to the mind seeking control and the maintenance of the status quo,
this radical act of befriending all parts of ourselves
is what makes true healing possible.

Our avoidant strategies--
those historically configured ways of organizing our experience
and staying out of too much vulnerability
and the nakedness of unguarded immediacy--
arose to serve a very specific function,
to protect us from overwhelming anxiety
that threatened the survival
of a ripening little brain and nervous system.

While in a moment of activation it can seem so personal,
like we have failed, forgotten some sort of “secret,”
or that something is fundamentally wrong with us,
to remember the neurobiological realities
of a young, empathy-seeking infant
can wash away the shame of fantasized failure.
Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-contradiction-of-healing.html

Photo above from Matt Licata's Blog Page

AFTERNOON

Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Sometimes, you go climbing in the mountains.
You must have noticed that it is the rough edges of the rocks
that enable you to climb.
How could you do so if the rocks were smooth?

So, why is it that you fail to apply what you know about rock-climbing
to this great journey called life that is much more meaningful?

Why do you want your life to be smooth, and free of rough edges?
In such conditions, you will never reach the top,
and more importantly,
you will tumble on your way down!

Luckily for you, life is full of rough spots,
and it is thanks to them that you are still alive.
So, do not complain about obstacles, inconveniences, and enemies:
without them, you would have nothing to hold on to in order to climb.

People who want an easy, peaceful, opulent life,
do not realize that in reality, they are asking for their downfall.
Fortunately, heaven does not listen to them,
it knows what they need in order to progress.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/rough-spots-in-life-the-thanks-to-them-we-can-elevate-ourselves_2018-05-08

GREAT BREATH OF LIFE & DEATH
IS ONLY LIFE….
NOTHING MORE – NOTHING LESS
ew
3:50 AM-4/8/2018
(Ocala)

See Read More below for
additional afternoon photos
&
Full Sharing by
Pixie Lighthorse

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SOULUTION PRESENT AS PRESENCE MILESTONE "Love is only now." "...allow your heart to break." "...love obliterates..." Feb. 22, 2018

2/22/2018

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AWARENESS OF EACH MOMENT’S SOURCE/PRESENCE
=
TOTALITY OF SURRENDERED*
PRESENT AS PRESENCE
SOULUTION
ew
3:04 AM-2/22/18
*The overwhelming whirlings due to Quantum Awareness
HAVE to be at Oned with Source

NO CHOICE = CHOICELESS CHOICE
A Way beyond all gimmicks
<
AWAY BEYOND ALL GIMMICKS
DISAPPEARING ALL WORDS & THOUGHTS
IT is More than all of this, but cannot be worded….
only lived
dmm/ew
3:12 AM-2/22/18

WHISPERS ARE
A WAY OF LIFE
WHEN THE WHISPERER IS ALL
=
ORIGINAL AKASHA CORE
ew/dmm
3:17 AM-2/22/18

************************
IN/OF/AS AKASHA CORE
IT MATTERS NOT WHAT ANYONE SAYS OR DOES
AS THERE IS ONLY ‘ONE’ THAT DOES THE SAYING/DOING
ew
3:23:45 AM-2/22/18

(Experience right now a Lightness of Being…
all is a SOULUTION as all of life
is a gentle deja vue
the observer/commentator has Disappeared)
ew/dmm
3:26 AM-2/22/18

Below in this Font from
It's okay to be shaky
Matt Licata

It’s okay to be shaky,
to not know anymore,
and to allow your heart to break.
To fall to the ground and bear witness
to the reality that life was never going to turn out
the way you thought it would.
It’s just too wild, too creative,
and too devastatingly magic for all that.

Rather than spin from the death as if it were a defeat,
with your breath as your guide, travel inside.
There are jewels hidden there, filled with meaning,
with pure feeling, and with relentless
outrageousness of love
as it erupts into the world
of time and space.

You will never find your life’s purpose by way of a frantic,
urgent, exhausting search.
Your life’s purpose is to live.
Fully.
To participate, to take a risk,
to slow down and see the signs,
to commune with the colors,
the songs of the birds,
and to listen to
the intelligence of the stars.

The forms that love take
are by nature arising and dissolving
in each moment,
for this is the way of form.
But love itself is that which never comes and goes.
You never know what form love will choose to take in the future,
for there is no love in the future.

Love is only now.
You will never be able to resolve or pin down
the movement of love as it is infinitely creative
and at all times unfolding
into greater wholeness.

If you become too fused with a specific form
you believe you need love to take,
your heart will inevitably break
when love obliterates that form
for something new,
which it always will.

This shattering is the great gift of form.
This dissolving and reorganization
is a special kind of grace
that the mind cannot know.
But the heart knows.
The body knows.

Before you seek to “heal”
your heartbreak via spiritual process,
turn to your heart and ask
if it truly wishes to be mended.
For this breaking is sacred,
sent here so that new forms may emerge.

Be grateful for the forms of love while they appear,
but allow them their own journey
of death and rebirth.
Seek refuge not in love’s forms,
but in the field of love itself,
that which never comes and goes.
For this is what you are.

Today may not be the day where answers will come,
but to let your heart break open
to the vastness of the question.
Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2018/02/its-okay-to-be-shaky.html

AFTERNOON...

Heartbreak asks us not to look for an alternative path,
because there is no alternative path.
It is a deeper introduction to what we love and have loved,
an inescapable and often beautiful question,
something or someone who has been with us all along,
asking us to be ready for the last letting go.
~David Whyte
Excerpt from:
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/02/21/26960/

Authenticity, and thus beauty,
includes brokenness and darkness and death.
In moments of darkness and uncertainty,
we encounter the depths of our desire that life go on.
And paradoxically, it opens us up to gratitude for this moment-
our chance to breathe the air,
feel our heart beating,
look into the eyes of another being.

In times like that,
what’s trivial or tawdry gets stripped away.
And the stark grandeur appears.
A grandeur that reaches down into the hearts.
It’s not surprising that in every spiritual tradition
there is somewhere near the center of that practice,
that recollection that ah,
yes,
death is at my side and
death can give me back this moment.

The awareness of death is full of astonishing freshness.
Pristine clarity.
It strips way the trivial.
And it is a choice open to the rest of us.
An awareness of death offers a profound richness.
~Joanna Macy
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/02/21/26960/

See Read More Below
for many additional
afternoon photos

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THE LISTENER PURE CREATOR ENERGY Milestone "...the silence surged softly backward..." February 17, 2018

2/17/2018

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PURE CREATOR ENERGY
REMOVES ALL CONCEPTS/PRECEPTS OF DARKNESS OR DEVIL*
WITHIN THE ORIGNAL ONE/AKASHA CORE CONSCIOUSNESS/BEINGNESS
<
CREATOR ENERGY DETERMINES HOW MUCH LIGHT
EVERSHINES FROM AN ORIGINAL ONE
Original One = OO = ∞
<
THIS ELIMINATES ALL PERSONAL ‘MISSIONARY’
THOUGHTS AND/OR ACTIVITIES
<
RETURNED TO PERFECT POSSESSION OF CREATION’S GRACE
GRACEOPATHY
THE LISTENING COMMUNION**
OF PURE EXISTENCE-
THE AKASHA CORE-
SILENCE BEFORE SOUND-
=
THE LISTENER***
ew
3:25 AM-2/17/18
*”To Hell with Devils” (St. Tereasa d’Avila)
**OSHO
***Taylor Caldwell & Walter de La Mare
(see Read More
below Afternoon photos
for more details for all *’s above)

"I" had to experience what it feels like to believe in the power of the devil….
in order to have Impersonal Understanding of such beliefs as a way of life.

As she (St. Teresa d'Avila) began the great works
of the last twenty years of her life,
she proclaimed of the devils,
"I pay no more attention to them than to flies ...
A fig for all the devils, because they shall fear me ...
Without doubt,
I fear those who have such great fear of the devil
more than I do the devil himself ...
'The devil! The devil!' we say,
when we could be saying
'God! God!'
and make the devil tremble."

*"To Hell with Devils"
Gerald May Article re:
St. Teresa d'Avila
see full article here in this Post's: Read More section at end
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/naked-in-unfathomable-grace-steeping-in-silence-to-hell-with-the-devils-sunriseafternoon-feb-7-2018

**all quotes below in this color font
are from:
OSHO
Communion #2
Harmony Without and Within
TRANSFORMATION TAROT

Man is living as an island, and that’s from where all misery arises.
Down the centuries man has been trying to live independently from existence--
that is not possible in the very nature of things.
Man can neither be independent nor dependent.
Existence is a state of interdependence: everything depends on everything else.
There is no hierarchy, nobody is lower and nobody is higher.
Existence is a communion, an eternal love affair.

But the idea that man has to be higher, superior, special, creates trouble.
Man has to be nothing! – man has to dissolve into the totality of things.
And when we drop all the barriers, communion happens
and that communion is a benediction.
To be one with the whole is all.
That is the very core of religiousness.
*******************

Heraclitus says:
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find the truth,
for it is hard to discover ad hard to attain.
Nature loves to hide.
The lord whose oracle is at Delphi
neither speaks nor conceals – but gives signs.

Existence has no language….and if you depend on language
there can be no communication with existence.
Existence is a mystery, you cannot interpret it.
If you interpret, you miss.

Existence can be lived, but not thought about.
It is more like poetry, less like philosophy.
It is a sign, it is a door.
It shows, but is says nothing.
Through mind, there is no approach to existence.

If you think about it,
you can go on thinking and thinking,
about and about,
but you will never reach it –
because it is precisely thinking that is the barrier.
Thinking is a private world, it belongs to you –
then you are enclosed, encapsulated,
imprisoned within yourself.

Nonthinking, you are no more;
you are enclosed no more.
You open,
you become porous,
existence flows into you and you flow into existence.

Urchin is a symbol for fertility. It is the virgin beauty, associated with flowers,
the organs of land.
Sea Urchins are the organs of the sea. It is symbolic for rare youth.
More here in depth:
http://symbolism.wikia.com/wiki/Urchin

AFTERNOON..........

Learn to listen –
listening means you are open, vulnerable, receptive,
but you are not in any way thinking.
Thinking is a positive action.
Listening is passivity; you become like a valley and receive;
you become like a womb and you receive.

If you can listen, then nature speaks –
but it is not a language.
Nature doesn’t use words.
Then what does nature use?

Says Heraclitus, it uses signs.
A flower is there: what is the sign in it?
It is not saying anything –
but can you really say it is not saying anything?
It is saying much, but it is not using any words –
a wordless message.

To hear the wordless you will have to become wordless,
because only the same can hear the same,
only the same can relate to the same.

Sitting by a flower don’t be a person, be a flower.
Sitting by the tree don’t be a person, be a tree.
Taking a bath in a river don’t be a man, be a river.

And then millions of signs are given to you.
And it is not a communication –
it is a communion.

Then nature speaks,
speaks in thousands of tongues,
but not in language.

All quotes above in this color font from:
OSHO
Communion #2
Harmony Without and Within
TRANSFORMATION TAROT

See Read More below

Above & Additional
quotes/information
&
photos

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ETERNAL LIFE'S TOUCHSTONE "...the moment before a thought." "...returned to the primordial..." "..translucent curtain.." 1/13/18

1/12/2018

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PEACE THAT PASSETH EARTHLY UNDERSTANDING…
… A CONDITION BEYOND ALL MINDING MINDS
THE ALPHA OMEGA SOURCE OF ALL
∞
BREATHED BY BREATHER
<
BREATHED AS BREATHER
<
ETERNAL LIFE'S TOUCHSTONE…
THE ORIGINAL IMMORTAL AKASHA
ew
1:35 AM-1/13/18

Artist Emily Buchanan
http://www.emilybuchanan.com/
at top of Dunes Path
this morning (1/13/18) at sunrise

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.

They didn’t hold on to life,
and they faced death free of concepts,
emerging without desire,
going back without resistance.

They never forgot their beginning;
they didn’t trouble their minds
searching for what their end was.

AFTERNOON...

They received life as a gift
and handed it back gratefully.

Minds supple, faces serene,
in a crisis cool as autumn,
in relationships warm as spring,
they were balanced, throughout the four seasons,
and in harmony with the Tao.

There was no limit to their freedom.

Commentary by Stephen Mitchell

The ancient Masters had pared themselves down to the essential.
They woke up, they ate, they worked,
they made love,
they raised their families,
all the while unseduced by any thoughts that arose.
This gave their lives a sense of spaciousness.

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.

They had returned to the primordial:
mind hovering over its own abyss,
objectless,
serene.
No wonder
their nights were dreamless
and their skies full of stars.

Gratitude makes no distinctions.
It precedes its occasion.
It is the magic well that never runs dry,
the still waters where you kneel
and see your own face,
more beautiful
than you could have imagined.

THE SECOND BOOK OF TAO #15
Stephen Mitchell

When the Creator, whoever or whatever He may be, created creation,
there were no temples, no mosques, no churches,
no synagogues, no telling of beads,
no prattle of priests, no chanting of hymns,
no offering of bribes at altars.
When rituals came into existence,
God gradually began to fade out of it

When nothing upsets you,
you are at the beginning of the path.
When you desire nothing,
you are halfway on the path;
when nothing becomes everything,
you are perfected.
Meer Baba

quoted by Jacqueline Lunger here:
https://www.psychicauthor.com/spiral-trail-blog/

I see us standing on
the no visibility side of a translucent curtain for a short time.
The curtain will dissolve soon
and when we step into the new space
it will be so magical, beautiful, joyous and loving,
that we will forget about the things that we co existed with
that didn't love and support us.
I see it will be like your favorite birthday party,
best vacation and biggest gift giving celebration ever.
All those descriptions are symbolic of course but you get the idea.
Jacqueline Lunger - 1/12/18
www.psychicauthor.com

See Read More Below for
all of Stephen Mitchell's SECOND TAO Sharing
without paragraph breaks

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ORIGINAL AKASHA "...in sanest hours..." "...shining eternal." "...memoria & transfiguration..." Milestone January 9, 2018

1/9/2018

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ORIGINAL AKASHA
SOURCES ALL
<
IF IT’S MEANT TO BE
IT ALREADY WAS/IS
AND ALL OF LIFE
IS A DÉJÀ VU
ew
3:44 AM-1/9/18

∞
*IF IT’S MEANT TO BE
IT ALREADY IS
AND ALL OF LIFE
BECOMES A GENTLE DÉJÀ VU.*
ew
∞
*(FIRST VERSION THAT WORDED
1986 TN WOODS)

All quotes below in this color font from a most amazing article
that "Synchronistically" Found us this morning just after the above Whisper Worded
Article Link at end of these quotes.

There is, in sanest hours,
a consciousness,
a thought that rises,
independent,
lifted out from all else,
calm,
like the stars,
shining eternal.
Walt Whitman

It is crucial to understand that experience itself
is not merely an empirical process of appropriating
or digesting blocks of life.
Experience is rather a journey of transfiguration.
Both that which is lived and the one who lives it
are transfigured.
The above and remaining quotes below in this color font are from
John O'Donohue

Taking experience seriously must make it equally necessary
to take the destiny or future of experience seriously.
This is a particularly poignant necessity,
given that the future of each experience is its disappearance.
The destiny of every experience is transience.

Transience makes a ghost out of each experience.
There was never a dawn that did not drop down into noon,
never a noon which did not fade into evening,
and never an evening
that did not get buried
in the graveyard of the night.

Out of the fiber and density of each experience
transience makes a ghost.
The future, rich with possibility, becomes a vacant past.
Every thing, no matter how painful, beautiful or sonorous,
recedes into the silence of transience.
Transience too is the maker of the final silence,
the silence of death.

Is the silence which transience brings a vacant silence?
Does everything vanish into emptiness?
Like the patterns which birdflight makes in the air,
is there nothing left?
Where does the flame go when the candle is blown out?
Is there a place where the past can gather?
I believe there is.
That place is memory.
That which holds out against transience is memoria.

Memoria is always quietly at work,
gathering and interweaving experience.

Memoria is the place where our vanished lives secretly gather.
For nothing that happens to us
is ever finally lost or forgotten.

In a strange way,
everything that happens to us
remains somehow still alive within us.

Viewed against this perspective,
the concealed nature of memoria is easier to understand.
Memoria is the harvester and harvest of transfigured experience.

Deep in the silent layers of selfhood,
the coagulations of memoria are at work.

It is because of this subtle integration of self and life
that there is the possibility
of any continuity in experience.

ALL QUOTES ABOVE IN THIS COLOR FONT FROM THIS ARTICLE:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/01/04/john-o-donohue-four-elements-transience/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=9afe029263-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-9afe029263-236985913&mc_cid=9afe029263&mc_eid=a7b5089357

AFTERNOON...

To set aside our fantasies of invulnerability, mastery, and power and lay ourselves at the feet of the mystery.
To see that life would never ask us to “master” it,
but to become, dance, and play as its humble servant.

And to then rest in unstructured, open being.
Explore, and then rest.
And then explore,
and then rest.
Sort of like an ocean or a star.
Matt Licata
Full Article here:
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-full-spectrum-inquiry.html

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