Category: John O'Donohue

The APOGEE "... undying and unchanging." June 18, 2020

6/18/2020

The APOGEE

“alone with The Alone”
<
Alone in/of/as The Alone

The APOGEE of alone with the Alone
=
Alone with The Alone
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4:04 AM-6/18/20

when melancholy sweeps in
But when the soul contemplates in herself,
by herself, she passes into the realm of the
pure, the eternal, the
undying and unchanging.

Being akin to these she
always stays there whenever she is by
herself and it is in her power to do so. She
ceases wandering and she is unmoving,
because she has attained these qualities.
And this state of the soul
is called wisdom.
~Plato

I want to feel everything, no matter what....

inquiry for today~ when you turn your head to whisper,
you are sensing your own sweet growing heart.....

When any drowsy one awakes and
springs up, him the nurse Imagination
beguiles, saying ‘Go to sleep my darling,
for I will not let anyone disturb thy
slumber.’
But you, if you are awake, will tear up
your slumber by the roots like a thirsty
man who heard the sound of running
water.
~Rumi
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/06/17/when-the-melancholy-sweeps-in/

when melancholy sweeps in

The Resurrection that Comes from the Smallest of Lives

***
In this pandemic, you look upon the microbial realm as an enemy.
This can only add to the imbalance.
Please send love into this realm.
…Remember, you would not have your physical life
and incarnation and its health
without the service and companionship
of these tiniest of lives.
***
See Read More Below Afternoon Photos
for full article

Yet the fact remains that we are invited
to forget ourselves on purpose,
cast our awful solemnity to the winds
and join in the general dance.
~Thomas Merton
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/06/16/32580/

All Photos for today's OceanSpeak from: February 19, 2020
SURVIVING PURE EVIL’S AGENDA "...center of nowhere..." "...a flash of sanity..." "..once you mess with Exorcism..." "... mordant traits of nightmare..." February 19, 2020
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AFTERNOON

When the soul leaves the body, it is no longer under the burden
and control of space and time. The soul is free;
distance and separation hinder it no more.

The dead are our nearest neighbors; they are all around us.
Meister Eckhart was once asked,
Where does the soul of a person go
when the person dies?

He said, no place.
Where else would the soul be going?
Where else is the eternal world?
It can be nowhere other than here.

We have falsely spatialized the eternal world.
We have driven the eternal
out into some kind of distant galaxy.
Yet the eternal world
does not seem to be a place
but rather
a different state of being.

The soul of the person goes no place
because there is no place else to go.

This suggests that the dead are here with us,
in the air that we are
moving through all the time.

The only difference between us and the dead
is that they are now in an invisible form.
You cannot see them with the human eye.
But you can sense the presence of those you love
who have died.

With the refinement of your soul,
you can sense them.
You feel that they are near.

—John O'Donohue
from Anam Cara

In a field
I am the absence
of field.

This is
always the case.

Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.

I move
to keep things whole.
—Mark Strand

From the beginning
the flying birds
have left no footprints on the blue sky

—Miso Soseki
W.S. Merwin translation
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/06/keeping-things-whole.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

entering
the silences
and chambers
of the heart
to start again.
~David Whyte

Excerpt from
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/06/18/32596/

See Read More Below for full article
The Resurrection that Comes from the Smallest of Lives

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ORIGINAL TONGUE "...naked presence." "...finally liberated..." "...inner whisper..." "...beauty in the soul." June 10, 2020

6/10/2020

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BEYOND FIGHT OR FLIGHT…
SINKING INTO ORIGINAL TONGUE
THE VAST VOID THAT ELIMINATES PERCEPTION
AND EXPERIENCE
OF ALL THAT IS NOT REAL
….UNTIL ONE IS TOTALLY POSSESSED BY
“OLDER THAN GOD”
ALONE WITH THE ALONE
NOONE REMAINS FOR FIGHT OR FLIGHT.
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5:18 AM
10/22/2015
(Random Pick Whisper)

FORMLESS FORM ONCE UNDERSTOOD
=
NO TURNING TO PRIOR EARTHLY WAYS
AS ALL IS ETERNALLY NOW
<
THE BONES RISING AGAIN* AS ONLY
WAY OF ORIGINAL ONES’ BEING
∞
WITHOUT PERSONAL VOLITION
ALL IS GLIDED THRU ALL
THAT IS UPON THE FORMLESS FORM
∞
“THE FINE ART OF DOING NOTHING”**
∞
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3:28 AM-6/10/18

*https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/bible/story/the-dry-bones-revived/king-james-version
**FADN:=From a Friend Named Yogi

It seems that the deeper the inner silence,
the more naturally and effortlessly the words flow,
finally liberated from their shackles,
set free from the prison of conformity and correctness
and the need to be liked or even heard.
~ Jeff Foster
https://thedawnwithin.com/blog/

It is my plea and my wanting,
rather my offering – for I’m asking nothing,
to be rid of all my clothes and be seen
naked in front of your most naked presence.
Alain Joy
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All Photos from: June 10, 2018 Unless Otherwise Noted
FORMLESS FORM   BONES RISING
"...renunciation of sages."
Sunrise/Afternoon   All Photos JUNE 10, 2018
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AFTERNOON

An Inner Whisper - John O'Donohue

Human identity is complex.
Nothing is ever given simply or immediately.

Even the simplest act
of perception has
many layers...

Time and memory often reveal things later
that were staring us in the eye,
but we never noticed them.

The quest for the truth of things is never ending.

Every experience is open
to countless readings and interpretations.
We never see a thing completely.
In sure anticipation,
our eyes have always already altered
what awaits our gaze.

The search for truth is difficult and uncomfortable.
Because the mystery is too much for us,
we may opt to settle for the surface of things.
Comfort becomes more important
than true presence.

This is precisely why we need to hear the
discerning voice.

Somewhere in every heart there is a discerning voice.
This voice distrusts the status quo.
It sounds out the falsity in things
and encourages the dissent
from the images things
tend to assume.

It underlines the secret crevices where the
surface has become strained.
It advises distance and opens
up a new perspective through which
the concealed meaning
of a situation might emerge...

Its intention is to keep the heart
clean and clear.

This voice is an inner whisper
not obvious or known to others outside...

Yet much depends on that small voice.

The truth of its whisper
marks the line between honor and egoism,
kindness and chaos.

In extreme situations,
which have been emptied
of all shelter and tenderness,
that small voice whispers
from somewhere beyond
and
encourages the heart
to hold out for dignity,
respect,
beauty and love.

That whisper brings forgotten nobility into an arena
where violence has traduced everything.
This faithful voice
can illuminate the dark lands of despair.
It becomes both the
sign and presence of a transcendence
that no force or horror can extinguish.

REMEMBRANCE ROCK

Each day in the world, in the prisons, hospitals
and killing fields, against all the odds, this still, small voice
continues to echo the beauty of the human being.

In haunted places this voice carries the light of beauty
like a magical lantern to transform the desolation,
to remind us that
regardless of what may be wrenched from us,
there is a dignity and hope that we do not have to lose.

This voice brings us directly into contact
with the inalienable presence
of
beauty in the soul.

John O'Donohue
An Inner Whisper - John O'Donohue
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/06/an-inner-whisper-john-odonohue.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

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Naked Presence
Additional Photos

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ORIGINAL MOMENT "...pulled out of trauma’s doomed loop..." "... fresh pastures of promise,..." April 5, 2020

4/5/2020

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OCEANSPEAK<SKYSPEAK
AS WE ARE NOW IN
OCALA, FLORIDA

Today's Photo Fuelings are from
Harbour Island, Bahamas
April 5, 2019 - ORGASMIC DEATH
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/orgasmic-death-clinging-to-nothing-grieve-for-nothing-you-become-still-april-5-2019

EVER PRESENT MOMENT OPPORTUNITY!!!
HARKEN UNTO THE DEPTHS
OF
ETERNAL ORIGINAL MOMENT
<
THE POOFING OF ALL THAT IS NOT REAL
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7:25 AM-4/5/20

Weapons cannot cut It,
nor can fire burn It,
water cannot wet It,
nor can wind dry It.
~Bhagavad Gita
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/04/04/32066/

REGARDING THE ETERNAL NATURE OF THE SOUL.....
SEE:
https://www.esamskriti.com/e/Spirituality/Bhagavad-Gita/Bhagavad-Gita~-Chapter-2-(Part~3)-Saankhya-Yogah-~-Yoga-Of-Knowledge-1.aspx

Feeling Nature’s rhythms,
participating in her ever-cycling birth and growth,
death and rebirth,
we’re reminded that change
is also always happening in us-
in our inner world of thoughts and feelings,
organs and cells.
In Nature we may feel
- without effort or warning-
that trauma’s burdens are slipping
from our shoulders.

We know then in our bones
the truth that the studies tell us:
that Nature relaxes and focuses us.
Bending to Nature,
bonding with her,
we are pulled out of trauma’s doomed loop,
back into the ordinary,
ever-flowing current of life
and of our lives,
of life and death and rebirth.
~James Gordon

https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/04/04/32066/

AFTERNOON

Grazing on the backyard MORINGA TREE BLOSSOMS

John O'Donohue - Time to be slow

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.

John O'Donohue
from his book, To Bless the Space Between

http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2020/04/john-odonohue-time-to-be-slow.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

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OUROBOROS CENTERPOINT "...dawn and twilight are one" March 21, 2020

3/21/2020

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OCEANSPEAK
HAS BECOME
SKYSPEAK
AS WE ARE NOW IN OCALA, FLORIDA

HELD IN THE OUROBOROS CENTERPOINT
OF
SUNRISE & NOON
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8:38 AM-3/21/20

Embrace the Losses
John O'Donohue

May you know that absence is alive with hidden presence,
that nothing is ever lost or forgotten.

May the absences in your life grow full of eternal echo.
May you sense around you the secret Elsewhere,
where the presences that have left you dwell..

May you be generous in your embrace of loss.

May the sore well of grief turn into a seamless flow
of presence.

May you be embraced by God in whom
dawn and twilight are one -
within the Great Belonging.

John O'Donohue
from: To Bless the Space Between Us
Original title: A Blessing for Absence

Photo Below - Mystic Meandering
"Mom's last wave"
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In memory of my mother
who passed from this life into
the "secret Elsewhere"
one year ago today...
~
And this goes out to all
who have experienced loss
around the world in our ongoing
coronavirus crisis...
~
Photo - Mystic Meandering
"Mom's last wave"
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/03/embrace-losses-john-odonohue.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

MORE BELOW
for any
"Thirsty Fish"
from
https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com

We are all strangers in a strange land,
longing for home,
but not quite knowing what or where home is.
We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams,
or as we turn a corner,
and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity
that vanishes
almost as soon as it comes.
Madeleine L’Engle

“And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
And everybody knows that you’re in trouble
Everybody knows what you’ve been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it’s coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows”
— Leonard Cohen
Alive On All Channels
(Source: youngmadbadboy, via 4thsoul)

Listen to Leonard Cohen....Everybody Knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfmiKnZi3E

LYRICS
EVERYBODY KNOWS

"Everybody Knows"

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows

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

2/6/2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AFTERNOON

The Challenge of Illness - John O'Donohue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Such attention enriches and
deepens genuineness and presence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Extensive Morning Notes and Resources

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PETRIFYING FOLLY! "...anything that was once wild..." Feb. 5, 2020 "Die in love..." "Draw alongside the silence of stone."

2/5/2020

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WHAT PETRIFYING FOLLY!
WORDS!

WITHOUT WORDS & THOUGHTS…
…THIS SILENCE PRECEDING
THE VOICE THAT PRECEDES THOUGHT*
∞AH!∞
∞ONLY BREATH∞!
AS THE SOLITARY REMAINING SLENDER THREAD**
3:11 AM-2/5/20
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*The Voice That Precedes Thought
by Tara Singh
https://www.amazon.com/Voice-That-Precedes-Thought/dp/15553
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/category/course-in-miracles

**Robert Johnson - https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/umbilical-cords-infinite-now-golden-threads-february-4-2020

“I don't think..."
then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Stop telling yourself what you are
and only be what you are.
Wu Hsin
Solving Yourself
August 21

Modern people have become pliantly trained,
having traded in our inner wilderness
for the opium glow of screens and more screens.

Our sedentary, indoor lifestyles
express our true domestication,
the Latin word for domesticus,
or “belonging to the house.”

For in the now 11 hours a day that Americans spend on screens, or 90 percent of the day that we are inside, anything that was once wild in us
has now laid down, obedient.

The lonely touch of keyboards;
the stale, recycled air of the indoors;
the plastic perfection of having everything new--
this is what has become the normalized expectation
of our consumeristic culture.

As Rewilding author Micah Mortali describes,
“We have come to see the earth as an endless resource instead of the source of our lives.”
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/01/rewilding-yourself-practices-for-everyday-life/

You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love,
so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.
Rumi

AFTERNOON

For One Who Is Exhausted
- John O'Donohue

When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic,
Time takes on the strain until it breaks;
The all the unattended stress falls in
On the mind like an endless, increasing weight.

The light in the mind becomes dim.
Things you could take in your stride before
Now become labor some events of will.

Weariness invades your spirit.
Gravity begins falling inside you,
Dragging down every bone.

The tide you never valued has gone out.
And you are marooned on unsure ground.
Something within you has closed down;
And you cannot push yourself back to life.

You have been forced to enter empty time.
The desire that drove you has relinquished.
There is nothing else to do now but rest
And patiently learn to receive the self
You have forsaken in the race of days.

At first your thinking will darken
And sadness take over like listless weather.
The flow of unwept tears will frighten you.

You have traveled too fast over false ground;
now your soul has come to take you back.

Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles your rushed through.

Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day

Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
Be excessively gently with yourself.

Stay clear of those vexed of spirit.
Learn to linger around someone of ease
Who feels they have all the time in the world.

Gradually, you will return to yourself,
Having learned a new respect for the heart
And joy that dwells far within slow time.

John O'Donohue
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/02/for-one-who-is-exhausted-john-odonohue.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

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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
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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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NAKED-IN-GRACE FOOL January 27, 2020

1/27/2020

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EACH MOMENT IS WHOLE & COMPLETE
WITHOUT PERSONAL INFLUENCE
AKASHA TAO CORE POSSESSES
=
NAKED-IN-GRACE FOOL
UNFETTERED EMBODIED SOUL
RELEASED TO BE OR NOT BE IN PHYSICAL FORM
THEY WOULD SAY:
“DIE BEFORE PHYSICAL DEATH”
∞
TRUTH IS:
AN UNFETTERED SOUL KNOWS NO DEATH*
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04:07-1/27/20

*"Nothing is,
Nothing is not.
What more is there to say?"

Last sentence of
Ashtavakra Gita
THE HEART OF AWARENESS
Thomas Byrom
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/category/ashtavakra-gita

See Read More below Afternoon photos
for link and more details re: the entire Ashtavakra Gita on a series of OceanSpeaks

Let the rest in this rested place rest for you.
Let the birds sing and the geese call
and the sky race from west to east
when you cannot raise a wing to fly.

Let evening trace your loss
in the stonework of a fading sky.
So that you can give up and give in
and be given back to.

So you can cry alone and be alone
so you can let yourself alone to be lost,
so you can let the one you have lost alone,

So that you can let the one
you have lost have their own life
and even their own death
without you.

So that you can let winter
come and live fully inside you,
so that you can retrace
the loving path of heartbreak
that brought you here.

So the world and everyone
who has ever lived
and ever died
can come and go
as they please.

So you can
let yourself
not know, what
not knowing
means.

So that you can be even more generous
in your letting go than they were
in their leaving.

So that you can
let winter be winter.

So that you can let
the world alone
to think of spring.

~David Whyte
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/10/31455/

AFTERNOON

Too windy/cold/rainy for beach this afternoon.
All Photos Below from January 27, 2019
(error in date on the link address below....
the actual day is January 27, 2019)
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/parasitic-embalments-importance-of-light-vivify-cadavers-the-wildwoman-january-27-2018

May you listen to your longing to be free.
May the frames of your belonging
be generous enough for your dreams.
May you arise each day
with a voice of blessing
whispering in your heart.

May you find a harmony between your soul and your life.
May the sanctuary of your soul never become haunted.
May you know the eternal longing
that lives at the heart of time.
May there be kindness in your gaze
when you look within.

May you never place walls
between the light and yourself.
May you allow
the wild beauty of the invisible world
to gather you,
mind you,
and embrace you in belonging.

John O'Donahue
http://www.passionart.guide/project/john-o-donohue-celtic-reflections-on-our-yearning-to-belong/

"You don't like to face "lust" head on...
so you make it love...."
Sadhguru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX5whT_3x0M&feature=em-uploademail
How Shiva Overcame Lust
7:08 min

See Read More Below
for
Links for complete ASHTAVAKRA via Series of OCEANSPEAKS

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SEER SEES "...an appeal to either our greed or our fears." "...a quiet light..." January 26, 2020

1/26/2020

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GOD I AM*
HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?
DOES THE SEEING PHYSICAL EYE SEE ITSELF?
ONLY WITH A MIRROR
∞
IT’S ALL A MIRROR THE SEER SEES
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1:24 AM-1/26/20
*GOD I AM: From Tragic to Magic – Peter Erbe

this home
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart.
It draws no attention to itself
though it is always secretly there.

It is what illuminates
our minds to see beauty,
our desire to seek possibility
and our hearts to love life.
Without this subtle quickening
our days would be empty and wearisome,
and no horizon would ever awaken our longing.

Our passion for life is quietly sustained
from somewhere in us
that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life.

This shy inner light is what enables us
to recognize and receive our very presence here
as blessing.

We enter the world as strangers
who all at once become heirs to a harvest
of memory, spirit, and dream that has long preceded us
and will now enfold, nourish, and sustain us.
~John O'Donohue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/25/31562/

This breakage within us
is what makes us human and vulnerable.
There is nothing more sinister
than someone whose mind
seems to be an absolute circle;
there is a helpless coldness
and a deadly certainty
about such a presence.
― John O'Donohue,
Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

We live in a world that responds to our longing;
it is a place where the echoes always return,
even if sometimes slowly.
― John O'Donohue
Eternal Echoes

AFTERNOON

Sand Dunes Path July 20, 2017

Above: Sand Dunes Path July 20, 2017
Below: Sand Dunes Path January 26, 2020

In our loneliness and isolation
and seemingly perpetual impulse
toward self-distraction
in the service of
finding a moment of meaningful connection,
there is a deep longing,
a yearning,
usually unconscious or ignored,
to belong, to be part of a larger whole,
to not be anonymous,
to be seen and known.

For relationality, exchange, give-and-take,
especially on an emotional plane,
is how we are reminded that we have
a place in this world,
how we know in our hearts
that we actually do belong
and make a difference.

It is deeply satisfying to experience
meaningful connection with others.
We hunger to be perceived by others,
to be both noticed and valued for
who we actually are,
and not merely for what we do.
And mostly we are not

It is now harder to pay attention to any one thing
and there is more to pay attention to.
Things come at us fast and furious,
relentlessly.
And almost all of it is man-made,
it has thought behind it,
and more often than not,
an appeal to either our greed or our fears.

These assaults on our nervous system
continually stimulate and foster
desire and agitation
rather than contentedness and calmness.

And above all,
if we are not careful,
they rob us of time,
of our moments.
~Jon Kabat-Zinn
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/25/31562/

The world is changed by your example,
not your opinion.
~Paul Coelho
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/26/31572/

Here is the link for many more details re: this project:
https://modernhouseharbourisland.com

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

1/19/2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AFTERNOON

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

Take No Notice

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

“Patience is the highest asceticism.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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for Additional Truth of Being Understandings

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HEART & SOUL GUIDANCE "...betrothed to the unknown..." "..Let the light of your madness shine," "...the silence of stone.." December 1, 2019 MILESTONE

12/1/2019

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AS
HEART & SOUL GUIDANCE SYSTEMS INCREASINGLY PREVAIL
ALL THINKING ATROPHIES
<
A SOOTHING, COMFORTING RETURN
TO
ORIGINAL NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE
AKASHA TAO CORE OF BEING
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3:16 AM-12/1/19

You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.

Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.

Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
Be excessively gentle with yourself.
~John O'Donohue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/11/30/31138/

AFTERNOON

JUST TO THE RIGHT OF SAND DUNES PATH TO BEACH

How the Day Keeps Us - John O'Donohue

No one knew the name of this day;
Born quietly from deepest night.
It hid its face in light,
Demanded nothing for itself,
opened out to offer each of us
A field of brightness that traveled ahead,
Providing in time, ground to hold our footsteps
And the light of thought to show the way.

The mind of the day draws attention;
It dwells within the silence with elegance
To create a space for all our words,
Drawing us to listen inward and outward.

We seldom notice now each day is a holy place
Where the Eucharist of the ordinary happens,
Transforming our broken fragments
into an eternal continuity that keeps us.

Somewhere in us a dignity presides
That is more gracious than the smallness
That fuels us with fear and force,
A dignity that trusts the form a day takes.

So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown
And for the secret work
Through which the mind of the day
And wisdom of the soul become one.

John O'Donohue
Original Title: The Inner History of a Day
From: To Bless the Space Between Us:
A Book of Blessings
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-day-keeps-us-john-odonohue.html

There is greater comfort in the substance of silence
than in the the answer to a question.
~Thomas Merton
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/12/01/31148/

Carl Gustav Jung:
The Red Book, Liber Novus
How an existential crisis
precipitated an artistic masterpiece

*******

Despite the emotional turmoil that plagued Jung,
forcing him to resort to yoga practices
and even clinging on to the table
in order to keep himself together,
he persevered in compiling
his artistic and literary magnum opus,
knowing that the very salvation
of his own soul was at stake.
(excerpts below)

My soul spoke to me in a whisper, urgently and alarmingly: ‘Word, words, do not make too many words.
Be silent and listen:
have you recognized your madness
and do you admit it?

Have you noticed that all your foundations
are completely mired in madness?
Do you not want to recognize your madness
and welcome it in a friendly manner?
You wanted to accept everything.
So accept madness too.

Let the light of your madness shine,
and it will suddenly dawn on you.
Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared,
but instead you should give it life …

If you want to find paths,
you should also not spurn madness,
since it makes up such a great part of your nature …
Be glad that you can recognize it,
for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings
to all teachings and philosophies,
but even more to daily life,
since life itself is full of craziness
and at bottom utterly illogical.

Man strives toward reason
only so that he can make rules for himself.

Life itself has no rules.
That is its mystery and its unknown law.
What you call knowledge
is an attempt to impose
something comprehensible on life.
--C. G. Jung,
The Red Book, Liber Novus

Entire EXCELLENT Offering is here:
https://www.theculturium.com/carl-gustav-jung-the-red-book-liber-novus/?utm_source=The+Culturium+Newsletter&utm_campaign=871a0c691f-10%2F10+Visual+%26+Performing+Arts+on+The+Culturium&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_093f7b5965-871a0c691f-193413089

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for
John O'Donohue
+
CG Jung
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Additional Afternoon Photos

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The APOGEE "... undying and unchanging." June 18, 2020

ORIGINAL TONGUE "...naked presence." "...finally liberated..." "...inner whisper..." "...beauty in the soul." June 10, 2020

ORIGINAL MOMENT "...pulled out of trauma’s doomed loop..." "... fresh pastures of promise,..." April 5, 2020

OUROBOROS CENTERPOINT "...dawn and twilight are one" March 21, 2020

Listen to Leonard Cohen....Everybody Knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfmiKnZi3E

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

PETRIFYING FOLLY! "...anything that was once wild..." Feb. 5, 2020 "Die in love..." "Draw alongside the silence of stone."

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

NAKED-IN-GRACE FOOL January 27, 2020

SEER SEES "...an appeal to either our greed or our fears." "...a quiet light..." January 26, 2020

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

HEART & SOUL GUIDANCE "...betrothed to the unknown..." "..Let the light of your madness shine," "...the silence of stone.." December 1, 2019 MILESTONE

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