Category: Rumi

GENUINE SILENCE "... be silent like an oyster shell,..." July 30, 2019

7/30/2019

WAGGING TONGUE A RESULT OF THINKING…
Rx:
MELT INTO GENUINE SILENCE
=
AKASHA TAO CORE SILENCE
THAT HAS NO MAN-MADE
THOUGHTS OR WORDS
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5:17 AM--7/30/19

Listen!
Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell,
for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul,
my friend.
When the lips are silent,
the heart has a hundred tongues.
Rumi

In every breath

In every breath
if you’re the center
of your own desires
you’ll lose the grace
of your beloved
but if in every breath
you blow away
your self claim
the ecstasy of love
will soon arrive
in every breath

if you’re the center
of your own thoughts
the sadness of autumn
will fall on you

but if in every breath
you strip naked
just like a winter
the joy of spring
will grow from within

all your impatience
comes from the push
for gain of patience
let go of the effort
and peace will arrive
all your unfulfilled desires
are from your greed
for gain of fulfillments
let go of them all
and they will be sent as gifts

fall in love with
the agony of love
not the ecstasy
then the beloved
will fall in love with you
Rumi
Translation by Nader Khalili
“Rumi, Fountain of Fire”
Cal-Earth Press, 1994
https://razarumi.wordpress.com/documents-archive/in-every-breath/

There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty
A place where every breath
carves your image
in my soul.
Rumi

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

I closed my mouth
and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
― Rumi

Everyone is so afraid of death,
but the real sufis just laugh:
nothing tyrannizes their hearts.
What strikes the oyster shell
does not damage the pearl.
- Rumi
ntents? Silence; for years my lips were closed.' what g 'Pearl-shell, what gives you your precious contents? Silence; for years my lips were closed.'ives you your precious contents? Silence; for years my lips were closed.'

AFTERNOON

The parenthesis in which we live consists of the degree of mental or material limitation that we come under through the universal belief in two powers. Removing the parenthesis
means unseeing the human picture and becoming
consciously aware of our spiritual Selfhood.

A PARENTHESIS IN ETERNITY
~Joel S Goldsmith
http://www.iwso.org/thedailylesson.htm

A man once asked Rumi,
"Why is it you talk so much about silence?"
His answer:
"The radiant one inside me has never said a word.”

more Rumi Quotes on Silence
on this link:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/37990.Coleman_Barks

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BEYOND ANY TELLING July 22, 2019

7/22/2019

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it is raining all day...
....all photos for sunrise/afternoon are from July 22, 2017
'OLDER THAN GOD' BAUBO
heart shell at ocean jacuzzi
"....from behind the clouds of separation."
July 22, 2017
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/older-than-god-baubo-sunriseafternoon-july-22-2017-from-behind-the-clouds-of-separation

STILLNESS AND UNKNOWING’S KNOWING
BEYOND ANY TELLING OR GRASPING
<
ALL SENSE OF THE ABSOLUTE’S JOY AND FREEDOM
CANNOT BE CAPTURED OR CLAIMED
AS
NO SELF REMAINS
AH!
∞
PS:
“The one who secretly hears this is senseless.”*
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5:49 AM-7/22/19

*Rumi
See below link for full poem/comments:
The Reed Flute’s Song -
https://www.soulfularogya.com/the-reed-flutes-song-by-rumi/
+
Fierce Grace - Ram Dass
https://uplift.tv/2019/ram-dass-fierce-grace/?utm_source=UPLIFT+TV&utm_campaign=d4aca4578c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_30_10_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_932e12aea9-d4aca4578c-116619757

"I've been stroked,"
Ram Dass says repeatedly.
. The film is an effort to explore what this means.
Read more at
https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/buddhism/2002/03/ram-dass-fierce-grace.aspx#WZFqKKYsAK3wltcC.99

Don't confuse me with the facts.
My mind is made up.
Martha Langston
(When becoming much more "elderly" said this quietly to her youngest son
who was trying to gently "reason" with her...re: an issue..
....probably dealing with how she was spending her money!!)

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage
whose door is blown away.
Too busy gold-plating the cage
to soar to their ultimate possibility.
Sadhguru

A View of this Dunes Mansion July 22, 2017.....see the website posting now July 22, 2019 https://lapalmeraiebahamas.com/

https://lapalmeraiebahamas.com/

AFTERNOON

A MOST AMAZING YOUNG WOMAN
dmm/ew MET WITH IN PERSON
KAUAI HAWAII OCTOBER 2005
Where we first heard the term/concept SANCTARII
https://newearthstar.org/about-maia/

Below are wonderful links below Re: her bk re: ELVIS PRESLEY

https://elvisbluestarlove.wordpress.com/the-book/

Blue Star Love – on my book about the mystical and spiritual life of Elvis Presley

https://newearthstar.org/blogs-webs/

Monday, July 22, 2019

In his dialogue 'the Banquet ',
Plato relates the myth of the androgyne.

In the beginning, human beings had both male and female organs,
they were all both male and female,
and this double nature gave them capacities
such that the gods ended up feeling threatened.

To weaken them, Zeus, king of the gods, decided to cut them in half,
and from then on there were men and there were women.
This myth stresses that human beings' power
came from the fact they had both male and female organs.
But despite this kind of mutilation,
humans nevertheless possess the two principles physically.

Yes, in their mouth:
their tongue is the masculine principle,
their two lips are the feminine principle,
and together they create a child: speech.

Speech gives them immense power.
Sometimes, just a few words are needed
to bring them the same results material means would.
Through speech they create and destroy,
gather together and separate,
restore peace or trigger war,
bring healing or disease.

Each one of you must be aware and careful
of the words you say.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/speech-the-child-of-the-masculine-and-feminine-principles-in-us_2019-07-22

How To Always Make the Right Decision?

"Joyfully do something 'wrong'.... It's OK!!!"
– Sadhguru
approx 5 minute video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN7c1xNSxcs&feature=em-uploademail

Love cures people -
both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

~Karl A. Menninger

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JOY POSSESSES DEATH OF MORTALITY-Pocket Pearls Series July 18, 2019

7/18/2019

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Note: After July 16, 2019
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/beyond-awareness-indivisible-totality-of-functioning-untainted-untinted-in-primal-repose-milestone-71619
a Milestone Day of Release & Re-Emergence....
...OceanSpeaks have Simplified...

Camera was "drowned" in a morning sunrise breaker...7/18/19
all photos below from two years ago
7/18/17

JOY POSSESSES
AS THE STORM OF CHAOS & MAYHEM
DERVISH WHIRLS ITSELF INTO OBLIVION
LEAVING ONLY THE TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
OF
ALCHEMICAL GOLD
∞
AN EVERSHINING ORIGINAL SUN
SOURCED IN/OF/AS THE GREAT VOID
…THE OUROBOROS CENTERPOINT…
THE SAME LIGHT THAT CAUSES THE
NIGHT’S MOON TO SHINE….
AH!*
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4:22: AM-7/18/19
*See Read More Below Afternoon Photos
for a "Breath Pausing"
SAME/Similar Experience February 2005
DEATH OF MORTALITY
from unpublished Archives
-Pocket Pearls Milestones Series

Thursday, July 18, 2019
In order to understand the importance of the present day,
we must act as if it were our last.
Some may say it's awful to keep thinking of death in that way.
Well, it isn't.

Thinking of each day as if it were your last
does not drive you towards death,
but towards life.
No, the ones walking towards death are those who behave in a superficial,
careless way while continuing to hope for a better future.
Yes, they are squandering their life.

When the wise tell us we must live each day as if it was our last,
they say it so we will do our best to make today more useful,
more beautiful and more precious.

It is not that you really believe it is your last day;
you are merely using the idea as a teaching method
for living today more fully.

You have a minute here, an hour there, a day perhaps.
This minute, hour or day is yours to create your future.

Before the future,
your true future as the son or daughter of God,
can appear in all its splendour,
it waits for you to learn all your lessons from the past.
But it is alive and moving,
and it is already here since you are creating it.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/today-living-it-as-if-it-were-our-last-day_2019-07-18

AFTERNOON

Yogis do not aspire to worship god.
They aspire instead to dissolve,
to become one with divinity.
Sadhguru

7/17/19

Read More Below
Random Pick Pocket Pearls Booklet
Milestone Series
DEATH OF MORTALITY
February 24, 2005

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NO PERSONAL VOLITION "... you will be taught to fly..." "...you strip naked..." July 8, 2019

7/8/2019

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THE MOST TOTAL SURRENDER
IS NOT
A MATTER OF ASKING FOR HELP...
...BUT RATHER
A REALIZATION OF TRUTH OF BEING SUFFICES
<
ALL IS ADDED UNTO
(OR REMOVED)
THAT IS REQUIRED
FOR TRUTH OF BEING’S CLARITY
𝛑 ∞ 𝛑
WHAT IS REQUIRED MUST BE
THE EFFORTLESS EASE DOING
(COMPARABLE WITH BREATH AND SLEEP)
NO PERSONAL VOLITION IS POSSIBLE
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1:48 AM-7/8/19

You get there by realizing you are already there.
~ Elkhart Tolle

When you come to the edge of all the light you have known,
and are about to step out into darkness,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen;
there will be something to stand on,
or you will be taught to fly..

--Richard Bach,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Awakenings feel like our heart is breaking
and being pieced back together again at the same time.
It feels like all the parts of ourselves are at war
and they are inviting us to come along for the ride.
It feels like we are caught between this person we say we want to be
and the person we are right now (who is a complete mess!).
It can feel wretched one minute and like we are on cloud nine the next.

Sometimes, it just feels sloooooooow.
And then, in the middle of the awakening,
something happens.
A flash of a fresh perspective that shifts the entire world on its axis,
a rush of love to the heart
that makes us grab our chest and catch our breath,
someone telling us that we matter,
an old wound that finally, finally heals.
Something releases.
Something surrenders.

There is a softening where there was once a hard place.
There are moments that feel like we are being hit by a ton of bricks
and knocked over by a feather at the same time.
Awakenings tear us open.
They expose all the yucky stuff,
the shameful stuff, the secrets,
the dreams that were never given a voice,
the relationships that imprison us,
the words left unsaid.

Awakenings are a mirror we can’t turn away from,
even in our ugliest,
most tattered gown.
The truth of who we are is not
in how well we can contort ourselves into
who the world says we are allowed to be.

The truth of who we are is
when we stop contorting.
When we stop making excuses.
When we stop lying to ourselves
that we are satisfied when we are not.
When we stop believing
that all the beautiful experiences in life
are reserved for other people.

Awakenings allow us to realize all the ways
we make ourselves small.
All the ways we try to fit ourselves into other people’s rules,
limitations, and beliefs.
All the ways we have rejected ourselves
and not honored our own wisdom.

We change when we realize that there must be another way.
When our inner truth is so loud
that we can’t find any more excuses or distractions
to turn the volume down.
We must answer the call. We owe it to ourselves.
~Elizabeth Gordon

Become like melting snow; wash yourself of yourself.
With love your inner voice will find a atongue
growing like a silent white lily in the heart.
Rumi

AFTERNOON

In every breath

in every breath
if you’re the center
of your own desires
you’ll lose the grace
of your beloved

but if in every breath
you blow away
your self claim
the ecstasy of love
will soon arrive

in every breath
if you’re the center
of your own thoughts
the sadness of autumn
will fall on you

but if in every breath
you strip naked
just like a winter
the joy of spring
will grow from within

all your impatience
comes from the push
for gain of patience
let go of the effort
and peace will arrive

all your unfulfilled desires
are from your greed
for gain of fulfillments
let go of them all
and they will be sent as gifts

fall in love with
the agony of love
not the ecstasy
then the beloved
will fall in love with you
Rumi
Translation by Nader Khalili
“Rumi, Fountain of Fire”
Cal-Earth Press, 1994

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AFTERLIFE....SOULUTIONS "...to be everything, and nothing,..." "caressing the wild" July 3, 2019

7/3/2019

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AFTERLIFE AS TRUTH OF BEING
=
NO PROBLEMS IN PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS
ONLY OPPORTUNITIES FOR
SOULUTIONS*
ew
4:05 AM-7/3/19

*Feeling everything while you still firmly believe
you are land locked into a singular separate me,
is purgatory.

Feeling everything
when you know yourself to be everything,
and nothing,
is heaven.
Lori Ann Lothian

Lori Ann Lothian

https://theawakeneddreamer.com/2019/07/02/the-living-edge-of-surrender-why-you-dont-need-to-amputate-your-ego-to-find-enlightenment/

Ah The Synchronicity of finding this article above via InBox e-mail this morning....
AFTER the Whisper writes.

There is nothing to change;
nothing to correct;
nothing to reincarnate.

There is only Truth to Realize.

~Al Denninger
Daily Lesson
July 3, 2019
http://www.iwso.org/thedailylesson.htm

We must go down to the very
foundations of life.
For any merely superficial ordering of life
that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied
is as ineffectual
as if no attempt at order
had ever been made.
~I Ching
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/07/02/29917/

We need more
rambling, daydreaming, thinking,
perusing, being, looking, existing,
allowing, ambling, opening, listening,
because it teaches us what we are capable of.
~Kerri Smith
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/07/02/29917/

The mind is there to perceive, not to cook up nonsense.
It has to be like a mirror, showing you everything the way it is.
Sadhguru

See Additional Sunrise Favorites in
Read More
Following Afternoon Photos

AFTERNOON

Below in this font from

caressing the wild
by In Blue
caressing the wild by In Blue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/07/03/29932/

I’ll tell you what:
Few people are authentic all the time.
Few.
Like, a very very small percentage.
These people rarely talk about being authentic because they are authentic,
and it’s such an integrated part of them
that it’s literally not worth mentioning.
And most have no idea they aren’t being authentic
(and so they talk about it all the time).
Like, the vast majority of people are clueless to this fact,
and are living in some form of delusion about it.

We have no idea how to author our own lives.
We have no idea how to express ourselves
(truly, genuinely, as a loving being).
We have no idea what that feels like in our own bodies
even if we could tell you in detail
what it looks like in others
(and here, too, we are deluded
and don’t always understand
what authenticity actually is).

So, don’t be so hard on yourself,
and do what you can
to get the support you need to become authentic.

Heal your trauma.
Embody and integrate your experiences.
Learn to listen to and feel your heart.
Get humble and stay there.
Recover.
Reconcile.

Because being authentic
isn’t just about finally creating a life
where people love you for who you truly are
(though this is of course a huge part).

It’s also about authority, personal power, and authorship.
Until you know who you are,
edgy wild bits and all,
and set your life up to continue meeting yourself
anew in every moment,
you’ll be haunted by the parts of you
that remain a mystery.
~Antesa Jensen

when did you leave your own trail behind?

inquiry for today~
don't fall for platitudes today....
be messy and shine anyway.....

big doubt is freedom in the wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaO5UZ5OcI

Do not compare, do not
measure.
No other way is like yours.
All other ways
deceive and tempt you.
You must fulfill
-the way that is in you. "
~Carl Jung

Above in this font from

caressing the wild
by In Blue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/author/inblue66/
caressing the wild by In Blue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/07/03/29932/

Friendships are never one-way streets
but are wide boulevards with traffic
going BOTH ways.
Friend Chef Neff
7:31 AM
7/3/19

A Friend has loaned her golf cart....parked beneath frangipani tree outside my window

Something opens our wings.
Something makes boredom and hurt disappear.
Someone fills the cup in front of us:
We taste only sacredness.
Rumi
https://rashani.com/dharma-gaia-cards/Teachers/RumiRu3.html

See Read More Below
Additional Sunrise Photos

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EASE OF BEING… "Everything supports you...." July 1, 2019

7/1/2019

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ONLY THE PURE SILENCE OF ORIGIN
IS AUTHENTIC…
IS ALL THAT IS…
<
AH! THE EFFORTLESS EASE OF BEING…
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3:36 AM-7/1/19*
*See Additional wordings in
Read More below
Afternoon Photos

6:28 AM

Photos below begin 6:13 AM

Everything supports you
whether or not you even notice it,
whether or not you think about it or understand it,
whether you love it or hate it,
whether you’re happy or sad,
asleep or awake,
motivated or unmotivated.
It just supports you without asking for anything in return.

Right now, sitting in your chair, as you breathe,
notice that you’re not doing the breathing,
you’re being breathed.
You don’t even have to be aware of it;
you don’t even have to remember to breathe,
because that is supported too.

Complicated and intricate as your requirements for existence might be,
they are all being met.
At this moment there’s nothing you need,
nothing you need to do.
Notice how it feels to take in that thought.

~Byron Katie
I Need Your Love – Is That True?
PDF Here
Byron Katie - What supports you right now?

Full quote here:
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/06/byron-katie-what-supports-you-right-now.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

AFTERNOON

Rumi ♡ - "Wake up lovers"

Wake up lovers, it is time to start the journey!
We have seen enough of this world, it is time to see another.
These two gardens may be beautiful
but let us pass beyond them and go to the Gardener.

Let us kiss the ground and flow like a river towards the ocean.
Let us go from the valley of tears to the wedding feast,
let us bring the colors of blossoms to our pale faces.

Our hearts shiver like autumn leaves about to fall,
in this world of dust there is no avoiding pain or feeling exiled.
Let us become like beautifully colored birds
and fly to the sweet land of paradise.

Everything is painted with the brush of the Invisible One
let us follow the hidden signs and find the Painter.

It is best to travel with companions on this perilous journey
only love can lead the way.

We are like rain splashing on a roof
let us find our way down the spout.

We are like an arched bow with the arrow in place
let us become straight and release the arrow towards the target.

We have stayed at home scared like mice
let us find our courage and join the lions.

Let us begin the journey home.
Rumi
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/06/rumi-wake-up-lovers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

*See Additional wordings
from pre-sunrise in
Read More below

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ZOHAR OF BEING "...mystery of absolute nothingness." "...supernal wisdom." June 24, 2019

6/24/2019

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FROM INNER CORE’S
PRIMORDIAL SILENCE
THE ZOHAR OF BEING RADIATES*
EFFORTLESS IMPERSONAL EASE
OF
NON-BEING’S BEING
&
BEING’S NON-BEING
∞
NEVER-ENDING
NEVER-BEGINNING
ETERNITY'S ETERNAL OUROBOROS
∞
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3:20 AM-6/24/19

*The flow broke through and did not break through
its aura.
It was not known at all
until, under the impact of breaking through,
one high and hidden point shone.

Beyond that point, nothing is known.

Zohar (1:15a)
http://www.esotericonline.net/group/kabbalah/forum/topics/ayin-the-concept-of-nothingness-in-jewish-mysticism-by-daniel-c-m
See Read More below Afternoon Photos
for more re: ZOHAR

AFTERNOON

In Every Breath
Rumi

in every breath
if you're the center
of your own desires
you'll lose the grace
of your beloved

but if in every breath
you blow away
your self claim
the ecstasy of love
will soon arrive

in every breath
if you're the center
of your own thoughts
the sadness of autumn
will fall on you

but if in every breath
you strip naked
just like a winter
the joy of spring
will grow from within

all of your impatience
comes from the push
for gain of patience
let go of the effort
and peace will arrive

all your unfulfilled desires
are from your greed
for gain of fulfillments

let go of them all
and they will be sent as gifts

fall in love with
the agony of love
not the ecstasy
then the beloved
will fall in love with you
-Rumi
https://razarumi.wordpress.com/documents-archive/in-every-breath/

The Cause of Causes . . .
... is a place to which forgetting and oblivion pertain.. . .
Why?
Because concerning all the levels and sources
[the sefiot],
one can search out their reality
from the depth of supernal wisdom.
From there it is possible to understand
one thing from another.

However, concerning the  Cause of Causes,
there is no aspect anywhere to
search or probe;
nothing can be known of It,
for It  is hidden'and concealed
in the mystery of absolute  nothingness.
Therefore forgetting pertains to the
comprehension of this place.

So open your eyes and
see this great, awesome secret.
Happy is one whose
eyes shine from this secret,
in this world and the
world that is coming!
http://www.esotericonline.net/group/kabbalah/forum/topics/ayin-the-concept-of-nothingness-in-jewish-mysticism-by-daniel-c-m

Read More below
for more re: ZOHAR & AYIN
+
"the unfolding of God"
+
Additional Photos

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SABBATICAL "...Mystery beyond comprehension." June 23, 2019 "...turned to ash And freed Me..." "As you cease to be..."

6/23/2019

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RESTING IN THE SILENCE OF SOURCE
=
ALL THAT IS REQUIRED IS HAPPENING
WITH OR WITHOUT.... &/OR BEYOND... PERSONAL AGENDAS
SUCH A LIFE ALWAYS IS...
... A SABBATICAL
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2:33 AM-6/23/19

In the Garden of The Beloved
June 20 at 12:14 PM ·

UNKNOWING
“The great religions are ships,
Poets, life boats.
Every sane person I know,
Has jumped overboard”
-Hafez

My mind has lost its will,
To seek knowledge and understanding.
It no longer dreams of resolution,
To a Mystery beyond comprehension.

For after empassioned consideration,
It has concluded, rationally, empirically,
That Unknowing IS the resolution,
Any sane person will come to.

And from this Pregnant Fact is birthed…
The mind's Surrender,
The Heart having long ago Drowned,
In Love.
www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
www.facebook.com/InTheGardenOfTheBeloved

I Have Learned so Much
Hafez

I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
a Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me
That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even a pure
Soul.

Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me
Of every concept and image
my mind has ever known.

From: The Gift Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

https://www.ramdass.org/hafiz/

AFTERNOON

TO DREAM OR NOT TO DREAM?
JOHN MCINTOSH

The expanding Awareness of the Freedom You Are
is Now Present within every aspect of humanity’s experience.
The once cloistered and constricted flow
of the sleeping God-SELF has thrown the curtains open,
breathing in the freshness of possibilities.

Everywhere is the invitation to:
“dream your dream”, “go for your dreams”,
“Imagine and create your dreams”,
“believe – dreams come true”
and many are following this enthusiastic guidance.

Ultimately, when filtered through the lens of Joy,
if these suggestions resonate with you,
then for now … they are for you.

However, dream-creating is just that …
more dreaming, more sleeping.

The fact that you have shifted from a dream
caught in the hypnotic current of the collective
to a dreamer consciously manifesting dreams
of your own design,
does not lead to Awakening
‘from’ the illusion of the grand dream.
It is simply a different form of play ‘in’ that illusion.

Eventually,
all activity and all practices lead to Self Inquiry
[Who am I?]
with the false self exposed and sinking back
into Pure Conscious Awareness
[the ONE-SELF]
from which it sprang.

That is the moment where all dreams
[child’s toys]
may be put away
[if you choose]
and only that which is timeless and boundless
is embraced.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/to-dream-or-not-to-dream

As you start to walk out on the way,
the way appears.
As you cease to be,
true life begins.
As you grow smaller,
this world cannot contain you.
You will be shown a being
that has no "you" in it.
-Rumi,
Tr. C. Barks "A Year with Rumi"

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THE IMPERSONAL LIFE "...Divine Impersonality." "...become like dust..." Solstice June 21, 2019

6/21/2019

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PURE GRACE ERASES ALL TO ZERO POINT
THE ORIGINAL INFINITE CORE
THE PURE SPOT WITHIN
=
A TRANSPARENT CONDUIT OF
THE NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE LIFE
PURGED OF ALL PERSONAL WORDS & THOUGHTS
=
THE IMPERSONAL LIFE*
BEYOND EARTHLY MEASURE
ew
3:22 AM-6/21/19
*The Impersonal Life
Joseph Benner
http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/bennerJoseph/impersonalLife/

I!
Who am I?
I, Who speak with such seeming knowledge and authority?
Listen!
I AM You, that part of you who IS and KNOWS; WHO KNOWS ALL THINGS,
And always knew, and always was.

Yes, I AM You, Your SELF;
that part of you who says I AM and is I AM;

That transcendent, innermost part of you
which quickens within as you read,
which responds to this My Word,
which perceives Its Truth,
which recognizes all Truth
and discards all error wherever found.

Not that part which has been
feeding on error all these years.
For I AM your real Teacher,
the only real one you will ever know,
and the only MASTER;
5
from
The Impersonal Life
Joseph Benner
http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/bennerJoseph/impersonalLife/

I AM not your human mind, nor its child, the intellect.
They are but the expression of your Being,
as you are the expression of My Being;
they are but phases of your human personality,
as You are a phase of My Divine Impersonality.

Weigh and study carefully these words.

Rise up and free yourself now and for always
from the domination of your personality,
with its self-inflated and self-glorifying mind and intellect.
For your mind henceforth must be Your servant,
and the intellect Your slave,
if My Word is to penetrate to your Soul consciousness.
I AM come now to your Soul consciousness,
which I have quickened expressly
in preparation for the reception of My Word.

Now, if you are strong enough to bear it;
If you can put aside
all your private personal fancies, beliefs and opinions,
which are but the rubbish you have gathered
from the dumping grounds of others;

If you are strong enough to cast them all away;
Then My Word will be to you a source of endless Joy and Blessing.
Be prepared to have this personality of yours
doubt My Word as you read It all along the way;
For its very life is threatened, and it knows it cannot live and thrive
and longer dominate your thinking, your feelings,
your going and coming, as of old,
if you take My Word into your heart
and permit It there to abide.

I AM come to you now,
To make you conscious of My Presence;
For I have likewise prepared your human mind so that it can,
in a measure,
comprehend the meaning of Me.
I have been with you always,
but you did not know it.

from
The Impersonal Life
Joseph Benner
http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/bennerJoseph/impersonalLife/#c1

AFTERNOON

Rumi: Path of Love

Oh Cameleer! Behold the camels!
Head to head, train like, they are drunk!
The commander is drunk,
the vizier is drunk,
the friend is drunk,
the outsider is drunk!

Oh Gardner!
The thunder is as the musician!
The cloud is as the wine bearer
and have made the garden drunk,
the field is drunk,
the flower is drunk,
the thorn is drunk!

Oh Sky!
For how long will you turn?
Behold the turning of the elements.
The water is drunk,
the wind is drunk,
the earth is drunk,
the fire is drunk!

This is the state of the forms,
don’t even ask about the state of the meaning!
The soul is drunk!
The intellect is drunk!
The earth is drunk,
and the mysteries are drunk!

Be gone and let go of tyranny,
become like dust,
so that you may behold that every particle of the earth
is drunk by the tyrant creator!

(Rumi Ghazal 390)
Rumi: Path of Love
June 16 at 4:10 AM ·

61
In the holy instant, the laws of God prevail, and only they have meaning.
The laws of this world cease to hold any meaning at all.
When the Son of God accepts the laws of God as what he gladly wills,
it is impossible that he be bound or limited in any way.
In this instant, he is as free as God would have him be.
For the instant he refuses to be bound,
he is not bound.

ACIM OE T.15. VII
"The Holy Instant
and the Laws of God"
http://www.jcim.net/acim_us/WKBK-Rev5.php

If you allow experiences of the past to overshadow your future,
you are ensuring there is no future in your life,
just recycling the past.
Sadhguru

If you tell the truth, you don't need to remember anything.
--- Mark Twain

If you ARE your Truth, you don't need to think or talk!
---dmm/ew

Identification is bondage.
Whether it is identification
With a thought
With a feeling
Or with an object
It matters not.
Only identification with the LImitless is
Freedom
Wu Hsin

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SMILED CONDITION PRIMORDIAL SILENCE June 14, 2019 "...an unexpected visitor." "There are no frames for the soul."

6/14/2019

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GLIDED IN/OF/AS
UNWAVERING
ORIGINAL PRIMORDIAL SILENCE
=
SMILED CONDITION*
BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHTS
JUST IS
ew
4:19 AM-6/14/19

*SMILED
*The realization which is attained is that
there is nothing to realize any more.

He did not answer, he only smiled.

http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_2_7.htm

See Read More below Afternoon Photos
for full story of
Wall of Mystery
SMILED

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
— Jellaludin Rumi,
translation by Coleman Barks

Later, a sudden larger breaker almost washed camera/tripod away...we took camera off to take this photo above...and the moment we finished that photo, GASP...for the HUGE Heron (below photos) that we barely could photograph...probably the same Heron from a few days ago at this same Remembrance Rock

I am not from the East or West
not up from the ground
or out of the ocean.
My place is placeless
a trace of the Traceless.
I am from the Soul of souls.

Rumi

below from
John O'Donohue

We are no sooner out of the womb than we must begin the
precarious unfolding and shaping of who we are.
If we have bad or destructive times in childhood,
we begin to fix on a survival identity to cover over
and to compensate for what happens to us.
If we are never encouraged to be
ourselves we begin to construct an identity
that will gain us either attention or approval.
When we set out to construct
our lives according to a fixed image,
we damage ourselves.
The image becomes the desperate focus
of all our longing.
There are no frames for the soul.

In truth we are called,
in so far as we can,
to live without
an image of ourselves,
or at least to keep
images we have free and open.

When you sense the immensity
of the Unknown within you,
any image you have built of yourself
gradually loses its promise.
Your name, your face, your address
only suggest the threshold of your identity.

Somehow you are always secretly aware of this.
Sometimes you find yourself listening to someone
telling you what you should do
or describing what is going on inside you,
and you whisper to yourself that
they have not the foggiest idea who you actually are.

John O'Donohue
From Eternal Echoes

There Are No Frames for the Soul
- O'Donohue & Rumi

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/06/there-are-no-frames-for-soul-john.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

AFTERNOON
Beautiful Beach Weather here today...
....but due to conditions beyond my control, am unable to get to afternoon beach.
All photos below are favorites from an Archive File named BREAKERS.....

NOT AS YOU SEEM
JOHN MCINTOSH

You are NOT as you seem.
The world you try to navigate through each day
is NOT as it seems.

Nothing ‘is’ as it seems on the surface …
this is relatively easy to accept,
and the body-mind-false-self will immediately
offer opinions about
conspiracies, hidden agendas
and elite forces controlling the world to support this.
But this goes much deeper than mere theories
about the real world hidden in plain sight.

No matter how close you may get to what seems to be ‘going on’,
on the planet and in your life,
it will always be about the ‘state of a dream’.

Your body, your mind, your world
and your experiences in it are all a dream,
totally believed in by most of humanity
and that belief gives it its shape and design and life.

There is absolutely nothing ‘real’ within it
no matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem.
Every concept of Love, of Life, of Freedom, of Beauty
pales beside one glimpse of Reality.

To access Truth, the Truth that you ‘are’ is simple … turn within.
By turning your Attention inward
and simply ‘opening up’ to the possibility
of something vaster
than anything the imagination [also a dream] can conjure …

6/10/15

Light begins to shine and direct your Attention
toward what ‘is’ Real.
This opening up is actually the beginning
of Real ‘surrender’ to the Infinite.
When the mind then tries to fill in the blanks,
gently return inward to open-ness …

Life will do the heavy lifting and your Awareness
[the Awareness that you ‘are’]
of
Truth will begin to Expand effortlessly.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/not-as-you-seem

11/8/15

See Read More below
for full story of
SMILED
"He did not answer, he only smiled."

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NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE AWARENESS "...losing your head." "...where love breathes." May 28, 2019

5/28/2019

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From the Word
Pondered and Held
in the Quiet Virginal Heart
Emerges only Love

Remain Steadfastly Cocooned
in the Almighty Presence
Speaking, Moving and Breathing
only because Divinity Provides the Expression

the Quiet that takes you beyond thought
word and awareness
Is Sufficient
ew
Random Pick
GODSEED:The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
“Language of the Neverborn”
Dorothea Mills/elizabeth walker

BE WITH ALL ASPECTS OF
NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE AWARENESS
IN/OF/AS DANCING...
...HONORING LOVE WITH BEINGNESS…
…ALL THAT IS…
JUST AS IT IS*
ew
3:42 AM-5/28/19
*“Truly I tell you,
unless you change and become like little children,
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 18:3

The first step in love is losing your head.
After the petty ego you then give up your life
and bear the calamity.
With this behind you, proceed:
polish the ego's rust from the mirror of your self.
—Fakhr al-Din Iraqi
Love's Alchemy
David and Sabrineh Fideler version

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In this font above from:
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-narrow-gate_27.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

poverty of the lover

The true lover gazes toward the reality of things:

My eyes so fix
upon your image
that whatever I gaze at
I imagine you.

Wherever he looks he finds that Face
and therefore needs everything he sees.

"Poverty is intrinsic need;
it has nothing to do with this or that."

And why does nothing need the lover?
One can only need something which exists.
But the lover, outwardly detached and inwardly disengaged,
has returned the robe of existence and all its trappings
- which he only held in trust -
... Again he has donned the patched cloak of his own nothingness.
"He is ... as he was in eternity-without-beginning,"
and in such a state, who needs him?

But...in poverty there comes a state
wherein the poor man himself needs nothing.
As one of them said,
"The poor man is not is not in need of God Himself!"
Need, after all, is an attribute of the existent;
but he who dives into the sea of nothingness
needs no more.
His poverty is complete.

You are nothing
when you wed the One;
but you are everything
when you become nothing.

~ Fakhruddin 'Iraqi
from Divine Flashes

https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2013/04/poverty-of-lover.html

A lover doesn't figure the odds.

He figures he came clean from God
as a gift without a reason,
so he gives without cause
or calculation or limit.

A conventionally religious person
behaves a certain way
to achieve salvation.

A lover gambles everything, the self,
the circle around the zero! He or she
cuts and throws it all away.
This is beyond any religion.

Lovers do not require from God any proof,
or any text, nor do they knock on a door
to make sure this is the right street.
They run,
and they run.
—Rumi
Coleman Barks version
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/a-lover-gambles-everything.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

AFTERNOON

YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE
JOHN MCINTOSH

There is nothing to ‘fix’ … not in your own life,
humanity’s or the world itself.
Nothing is out of order.

Can a dream be somehow wrong?
It comes in brilliant Light or shadowed darkness but remains ‘only’ a dream.
Your body, your mind, your life experience … is all a dream.
It is not wrong, and you are NOT wrong … you are simply dreaming.
No matter how you tweak your dream
[try to fix yourself and the world],
it is still just a dream.

When you have had every dream experience [several times],
as if you had watched every movie ever produced,
the allure will have faded and the mind
that projected each dream-experience will also have dissolved
along with the person you call you.

This point of saturation arises for everyone
[who are also aspects of the grand dream] …
‘YOU’ are the only ONE there is
despite enormous evidence to the contrary.

As these words are written,
it is YOU who writes them.
Even ‘surrender’ is NOT a choice
but an inevitable aspect of the dream
that tells you dream stories about ‘free will and control’.

You ‘are’ God or ONE or Pure Conscious Awareness – NOW
… the dream you dream cannot change that.

There ‘is’ no possibility of you being
somehow ‘left out’ of this eventual Awareness.

When you at last become fully Aware of this single Truth,
your sojourn within the dream will become softer,
gentler and you will begin to see
God ‘in’ and ‘as’ everything.

Resistance will dwindle to ‘What Is’
and the Moment of full Awakening to Who You Really Are
will ‘rush’ to greet you
with the Love that IT ‘is’.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/you-are-the-only-one

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BREATH BREATHING BREATH "Your Original Depth" "...when he has touched truth..." "...love's confusing joy." 5/25 19

5/25/2019

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SILENCED IN THE ETERNAL NOW MOMENT
WITHOUT WORDS OR THOUGHTS
<
GENTLE AWARENESS THAT IS TRANSPARENT CONDUIT’S CLEAR FOCUS
OR
A QUANTUM DIMENSIONAL SOFTNESS
OF THE NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE AFTERLIFE CONSCIOUSNESS
…AND/OR BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY…
∞
EFFORTLESS EASE WITHOUT A MURMUR OF EGOIC ORCHESTRATION
AH!
IN/OF/AS BREATH BREATHING BREATH
OUROBOROUS FLOW/OVERFLOW
∞
BREATHE
BeRealEtherealAfterlifeTouchstoneHoldsEternally*
ew
2:08 AM-5/25/19
*“Our spirits Know Truth & Know each other.”
Alycia Sunrise Beach
5/20/19

Your Original Depth - Eckhart Tolle

Partly as a result of the spiritual teachings
that have arisen outside the established religions,
but also due to an influx of the ancient
Eastern wisdom teachings,
a growing number of followers of traditional religions
are able to let go of identification with form,
dogma, and rigid belief systems
and discover the original depth
that is hidden within themselves.

They realize that how 'spiritual'
you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to
do with your state of consciousness.
This, in turn, determines how
you act in the world and interact with others.

Many people are already aware
of the difference between spirituality and religion.
They realize that having a belief system
- a set of thoughts that you regard as absolute truth -
does not make you
spiritual no matter what the nature of those beliefs is.

In fact, the more you make your thoughts [beliefs]
into your identity,
the more cut off you are from
the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Many 'religious' people are stuck at that level.
They equate truth with thought,
and
as they are completely identified with thought
[their mind],
they claim to be in sole possession of the truth
in an unconscious attempt
to protect their identity.

What is arising now is not a new belief system, a new religion,
spiritual ideology, or mythology.
We are coming to an end,
not only of mythologies but also ideologies and belief systems.

The change goes deeper than the content of your mind,
deeper than your thoughts...
to your Original Depth...

Eckhart Tolle
From - A New Earth
2005
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/05/your-original-depth-eckhart-tolle.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

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

ALSO POSTED HERE:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/graced-naked-exorcised-of-projections-beliefs-may-24-2019

AFTERNOON

In this color font below...all from the link at end...

(Costing not less than everything) --
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, excerpt

Reality is merely an illusion,
although a very persistent one.
—Albert Einstein

We are like the spider.
We weave our life and then move along in it.
We are like the dreamer who dreams
and then lives in the dream.
This is true for the entire universe.
—The Upanishads...

Give up all.
The correct understanding will be
when you realize that whatever you have understood so far,
is invalid.

Give up all and you gain all.
Then life becomes what it was meant to be:
pure radiation from an inexhaustible source.

In that light the world appears dimly, like a dream.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj

As stars, a lamp, a fault of vision,

As dewdrops or a bubble,

A dream, a lightning flash, a cloud,

So one should see conditioned things.

—Diamond Sutra

Start seeing everything as God,

But keep it a secret.
—Hafiz
.
wait - what ?

.All in this color font above from:
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/costing-not-less-than-everything-t-s_24.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

May 25, 2019
Like all matter, that of our physical body is subject to time, and it wears out.
This is what we call growing old, and we all grow old,
which, of course, is not particularly pleasant.
But we are not just a physical body,
and if the wear of the body is in the natural order of things,
internally, nothing forces us to grow old with it.
Therefore,
instead of becoming upset about the physical manifestations of age,
humans should be concerned
with nurturing that which always keeps them young and alive:
their heart.

It is their heart, their capacity to love, not their body,
that makes humans young or old,
and if their heart ages, it is because they allow it to.

How so?
By losing their love for people and things,
by losing their curiosity and their interest for the life
that abounds all around them,
the rich and abundant life of the universe.

But if they strive to feel this life,
if they seek to participate in it,
to introduce it into themselves,
they will not grow old.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/youth-a-quality-of-the-heart_2019-05-25

listen
hiding in this cage
of visible matter
is the invisible
lifebird
pay attention
to her
she is singing
your song

—Kabir
Sushil Rao version

If you want what visible reality
can give, you're an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you're not living your truth.

Both wishes are foolish,
but you'll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love's confusing joy.

—Rumi
Coleman Barks version

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OCEAN ROARS "...as fish out of water hear the waves,.." May 21, 2019

5/21/2019

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THE HOLLOW FLUTE IS PLAYED
OCEAN ROARS
FISH SWIM
HUMANS ARE THEIR QUIET ANSWER
IF AS SILENT AS THE ANSWER ITSELF
∞
RESIDING IN/OF/AS THE GREAT NOTHING..
ORIGINAL SILENCE
THE SOURCE OF ALL
ew
4:54 AM-5/21/19

NO BETTER GIFT
When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly, for God’s sake!
Don’t postpone it!

Existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching will find this.

A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.
Rumi

Why are you so afraid of silence?
Silence is the root of everything.
If you spiral into its void,
a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear..
Rumi

When a madman smiles at you -
Rumi

Galen, the great physician, asked one of his assistants
to give him a certain medicine.

"Master, that medicine is for crazy people!
You're far from needing that!"

Galen: Yesterday a madman turned and smiled at me,
did his eyebrows up and down, and touched my sleeve.
He wouldn't have done that if he hadn't recognized
in me someone congenial."

Anyone that feels drawn,
for however short a time, to anyone else,
those two share a common consciousness.
Rumi

From Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter
version by Coleman Barks
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/05/when-madman-smiles-at-you-rumi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you,
as fish out of water hear the waves,
or a hunting falcon
hears the drum's
Come back.
Come back.
Rumi

Spirit’s moon in a wide-open sky.
I’ve beat this drum of Love for so long,
for you whom I adore, singing:
“My life depends upon my dying”
This keeps my body and soul alive.
I dream but I do not sleep.
Rumi

Our spirits know truth
and know each other.
Alycia V
H.I. Sunrise Beach
5/20&21 2019

AFTERNOON

We would rather be ruined than changed.
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the present
And let our illusions die.
~W. H. Auden
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/05/21/29476/

If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you..
Kabir

Expectation is the grandfather of disappointment.
The world can never own a man who wants nothing.
Wu Hsin

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ENSOULED LIFE PREVAILS "... a surprisingly present absence." "..silence that knows." "...burning=wholeness revealed." 5/18/19

5/18/2019

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ENSOULED LIFE PREVAILS
ELIMINATING ALL AWARENESS OF SELVES AND SELF
<
CENTERPOINT OF ALL THAT IS
ORCHESTRATING ALL EMBODIMENTS
AS
SEAMLESS LOOSE GARMENTS
=
WITHOUT WORDS & THOUGHTS
CORE SILENCE KNOWS AND IS
ew
7:09 AM-5/18/19

By all accounts
the ancients experienced themselves
as living with an ensouled world -
one thoroughly drenched
in perceptions of goodness and value.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ensoul

Yolande Duran - Silence (3)

" I'm alive like never and I'm dead, at the same time.
This is a surprisingly present absence.
To live everything in peace, I fell into a deep astonishment and I left myself to do, more and more, more and more deeply.

This silence prevents you
from recreating yourself at every moment,
to interfere, to think, to project, to secrete this filter of the mind.

You feel more than you think.
The agitation remains on the outside.
On the inside, everything remains quiet.
No waste of energy.
The fact of perceiving things from another point of view,
not from me but from silence,
breeds great tranquility,
a great presence that nothing can disturb.

So a great efficiency.
The old reflex to identify with one's thoughts
is immediately swept away.

That energy loss that was before
comes from the identification with this agitation.
We believe in our thoughts.
We're involved, agree, don't agree, anxious, reactive.
We want, we don't want to, we plan, we evaluate.
We're actor of the movie.

Here we are a spectator.
We see the unfolding:
the one from the outside:
the people, the events that pass and that of the inside:
the thoughts, the emotions that pass too,
the same way.
There is not a "I" to say I am that thought,
I am that emotion.
There is no challenge.

And then, there is this flavor of silence...
a sweetness that is there, continuously.
There is no more that voice that judges you,
condemns you, submits you, that exhausts you.

There is no more that suffering,
those thoughts that command you to exist.
And even if, from time to time,
a thought appears, it's so sweet...
She makes you light.
There is no separation.

Everything is in fusion with everything else.
My body, my feeling, is what's closer,
but it's fused with everything else.
It's in the background.
This constant presence prevents you
from falling into the trap of complicity with your own thoughts...
so even less with those of others.

What is going to be done, in the moment,
will be,
will be said,
but it will not be the result of a knowledge,
an understanding.

It's that silence that knows.
It is the one who's doing it.
You let this fluidity act.
It was always here, even when you didn't perceive it.
It is here before everything that can appear at every moment.

It is the one who allows you to live what is.
You don't need to think your life.

It is this presence that allows the world to appear.
Everything that appears,
everything that exists
is there only because this silence is here "
http://yolandeduran.com/en/

http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/05/yolande-duran-silence-3.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

AFTERNOON

When you are with everyone but me, you’re with no one.
When you are with no one but me, you’re with everyone.
Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone.
When you become that many, you’re nothing.
Empty.
~Rumi

SO WHAT IS THERE TO REALIZE?
Peonies bloom on peony trees.
A cat doesn’t become a chicken.
Tulips are tulips, not roses.
Why can’t we realize this true fact?
That to be me is great.
I don’t have to be anyone but me.

I am blooming as I am in my life, just as
a peony blooms on a peony tree.
Further, a beautiful peony flower does not
worry about when it will wilt and fall to the ground.
It does not compete with the flower next to it;
rather it blooms with its whole self.
~ Sensie Ogui, from Zen Shin Talks

Neither "Separate" nor "One" - Matt Licata

We are neither "separate" nor "one",
but the erupting holding field in which
the energies of "separate" and "one"
interpenetrate
and dance the relative into being.

Neither of these concepts
are majestic enough to contain the mystery of the soul.

Whilewe may have a preference over unity and oneness,
over multiplicity and differentiation,
it would appear that Love
does not share this bias
and is ready at all times
to equally employ either of its manifestations
to be its envoy here.

Those visitors of raw, achy, lonely, broken openness
are not neuroses to be cured
or mistakes to be remedied.

The shaky vulnerability is not pathology, it is path.
As our perception is cleansed,
we see that they are not obstacles,
but passionate, yearning requests
into the tending of the lost grief,
joy, rage and peace
of the unlived life.

The freedom we long for will never be found
in the eradication of the unwanted,
but only in deeper layers of attunement
to the
love and information it carries.

At times the burning can seem unbearable.
Such is the nature of the human heart.
We may burn until we are translucent,
but it is by way of this burning
that wholeness is revealed.

Matt Licata
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/05/neither-separate-nor-one-matt-licata.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

This ‘passion’ to return
to the Awareness of the Light/Life You Are
must be greater than the need
for air by a drowning person.
Then, IT literally ‘seeks’ YOU,
which means IT is seeking the sleeping aspect of IT SELF
… when this occurs,
nothing can prevent the inevitable reunion.
John McIntosh
Excerpt from
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/when-your-eye-is-single

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PURE SILENT LISTENER "-the virgin point-" May 9, 2019 ".. a point of nothingness.." "...a point of pure truth."

5/9/2019

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∞
THAT WHICH CANNOT CHANGE
IS
ALL THAT IS….AH!
∞
BEHOLD & HELD
AS THAT PURE SILENT LISTENER**
IN/OF/AS ALL ASPECTS OF ALL
=
THE TRANSPARENT ZERO POINT*
OF
‘THE LISTENER’**
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3:56 AM-5/9/19

*Gregg Braden....quotes below
**Taylor Caldwell VITAL quote in Read More
from her book
The Listener
below
Afternoon photos

O GREAT BREATHER!
INHALING ME GENTLY HOME
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four words

Every child has known god,
not the god of names,
not the god of don’t,
not the god who does anything
weird,
but the god who only knows four words
and keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come dance with Me."....
Come
Dance

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

....Come
Dance

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

The Trappist monk,
mystic and author Thomas Merton wrote of le point vierge
- the virgin point -
and described how there is "at the center of our being
a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion,
a point of pure truth,
a point or spark which belongs entirely to God...
which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind
or the brutalities of our own will".

Le point vierge is found in different forms
in the great wisdom traditions,
particularly in Sufism,
and it is from this tradition that
Thomas Merton developed his vision
of a point of pure truth.

This vision is also found in popular culture:
for instance in John Lennon's Imagine,
which
- in an unashamed hymn to le point vierge -
implores us to "imagine there is
no heaven..
no religion...
no countries..
no possessions".

This search for a point of nothingness
can be extended beyond faith traditions to cultural traditions,
and in an unstructured way I have in recent years
found myself exploring diverse overgrown paths
in search of the point
where dogma and conditioning disappear
and pure truth can be glimpsed.

At this central point
classical, sacred, world and all music fuse
into a single Nada Brahma,
and the great wisdom traditions
-- Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism --
coexist without conflict
https://www.overgrownpath.com/2014/12/in-search-of-le-point-vierge.html

Quotes Below in this font from:
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

In Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, where he (Thomas Merton) wrote:

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness
which is untouched by sin and by illusion,
a point of pure truth,
a point or spark which belongs entirely to God,
which is never at our disposal,
from which God disposes of our lives,
which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind
or the brutalities of our own will.

This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty
is the pure glory of God in us.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

Reincarnation or not,
I am as tired of talking and writing
as if I had done it for centuries.
Now it is the time to listen at length to this Asian ocean.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

The country which is nowhere is the real home.
His (Thomas Merton) real home was le point vierge,
the place in himself reserved only for God.

Perhaps I have an obligation to preserve the stillness,
the silence,
the poverty,
the virginal point of pure nothingness
which is at the center of all other loves.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon
if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”
Merton asked.
“This is the most important of all voyages of discovery,
and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous.”

To update Merton’s question:
What can we gain by fixing climate change or ending poverty
or terraforming Mars if we remain alienated from ourselves?
How to cross that abyss?

Brother Leander:
You must let the prayer descend to your heart, laddie!

Brother Isidore:
Let us be silent before God who made us.

Brother Jerome:
You learn to talk to silence, and silence answers in silence.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/87400-the-divine-matrix-bridging-time-space-miracles-and-belief?page=2

The lesson was less about reacting to what the world was showing us
and more about creating our own rules for what we choose to experience.
The secret here is that our instructor was experiencing himself
from the perspective that he was already fixed
in one place on that mat.

In those moments,
he was living from the outcome of his meditation.

Until he chose
to break the chains in his imagination,
nothing could move him.
And that’s precisely what we found out.”
― Gregg Braden,
Above is conclusion of short article here...well worth the read...:
https://www.greggbraden.com/blog/message-from-a-native-american-wisdom-keeper/

The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/25150.Gregg_Braden?page=2
See Read More below afternoon quotes for full story of above quote

AFTERNOON

Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!
Rumi

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside,
look inside yourself and seek that..
Rumi

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi

I have neither a soul nor a body,
for I come from the very Soul of all souls.
Rumi

See Read More Below
for
More from Gregg Braden
+
Excellent Taylor Caldwell - Seneca's THE LISTENER
+
Foreword to Caldwell's Book THE LISTENER
+
Additional Photos

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LAID BARE DENUDED "What IS, simply IS." "This giving up..." MILESTONE April 29, 2019

4/29/2019

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Early Morning Note
This entire predawn morning has been very rainy...
NOW...at Sunise Time, all rain has stopped and entire sky VERY dark..
Roosters Crowing from all directions--banana tree at my window dripping with rain drops from so much rain..
Mother Ocean's lull cannot be heard right now with human ears.
The annual Visitation of Flocks of Black Pigeons are swarming in the gardenlot on Pigeon Plumb Tree
http://www.eattheweeds.com/coccoloba-diversifolia-seagrape-sibling-2/
SO...no walk to sunrise beach this morning
All Sunrise Photos from ARCHIVES
April 25, 2015

LAID BARE
DENUDED
NAKED GRACE
<
NO BATTLES
PHOBIAS OR PANIC
<
CESSATION OF ALL UNEASE
&
CHOKING ENTANGLEMENTS
>∞<
THE BREATH THAT BREATHES
THE WIND THAT WHISPERS
THE BIRD THAT GLIDES
THE SMILE THAT SMILES
∞
ALWAYS AND BEFORE/AFTER FOREVER…
AS ALL THAT IS
AH! MA'RIFA**
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4:16 AM-4/29/19**

*In Sufism, ma'rifa (Arabic: معرفة‎, translit. ma‘rifah, lit. 'knowledge')
describes the mystical intuitive knowledge of spiritual truth
reached through ecstatic experiences,
rather than revealed or rationally acquired.
A seeker of ma'rifa is called
'arif, "the one who knows"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27rifa
...........................................
**When the above Morning Whisper Wrote,
we had absolutely NO CONSCIOUS MEMORY
of the Ma/rifa/arif.k Understanding
OR
ALL the below quotes chosen PRIOR to this morning
(..for today's Sharing)
during the last few days...

YOU ARE THIS
Part - 3
John McIntosh

When you are ‘Aware’ you have always been Self Realized
[since it is your ever-present Reality]
… IT will have no significance, nor will it be ‘known’ at all.
All labels constructed by the sleeping God-SELF You Are – dissolve,
along with their many meanings.

The concept of ‘problems’ also disappears
since there is no attachment to consequences …
What IS, simply IS.

The many reactions emanating from ‘fear’ no longer have life –
Peace, in all circumstances IS.

Concepts such as sympathy and pity
have also faded into nothing-ness
because the belief in victim-hood
has departed along with separation.

These have been replaced
with an all-encompassing compassion
for those who still suffer in the world of dreams.

While the state of Pure Conscious Awareness
may often seem passive and indifferent,
that one knows that everything playing
on the screen of consciousness
‘is’ ONE ‘as’ them
and the Peace, Joy and Love they Are
experiences no separation.

The vast contrasts apparent throughout humanity,
the world and the universe have melted
into the seamless essence of Beauty
to the one who is Aware of Truth.

Nor can the endless swirling chaos
of drama within the dream
touch the one who sees
the Infinite Harmony in diversity.

YOU ARE THIS.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/you-are-this-part-3

AFTERNOON

Eric Baret - Transmission

The heart is yearning to be open.
When a heart meets an open heart,
when a match approaches a lighted match,
it rejoices in unity, in the flame;
There is no longer a match.
This is called transmission.
But nothing is transmitted.
No one transmits, no one receives;
There is heart-to-heart transmission.
There is only one heart.

http://www.bhairava.ws/

http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/04/eric-baret-transmission.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

This Giving Up
Rumi
Can you find another market like this?
Where, with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Where, for one seed you get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath, the divine wind?

You have been fearful of being absorbed
in the ground, or drawn up by the air.

Now your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean, where it came from.

This giving up is not a repenting.
It is a deep honoring of yourself.

When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly for God's sake.

Don't postpone it. Existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching will find this.

A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder, and become yours.

~ Rumi
translation by Coleman Barks
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2011/02/this-giving-up.htm

Heading back to The Sanctarii Abode with Treasure of Coarse Pink Sand for the grandchildren....

See Read More Below
Gathering "rare" low tide coarse sand at Remembrance Rock
Additional Afternoon Photos

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NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE TOUCH "Become the sky" 4/28/19 "..don't allow yourself to be confused by people." "....the freedom of madness."

4/28/2019

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REALIZED ORIGINAL ONENESS
JUST IS
<
OFFERING ONLY A TOUCH
THAT CAN NEVER DIE*

THE TOUCH OF A NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE ONE
HAS ALWAYS BEEN
ALWAYS IS
ALWAYS WILL BE
∞
IT IS THE CORE OF ALL
IT IS
&
THAT IS
=
THAT WHICH CANNOT CHANGE**
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4:42 AM-4/28/19

*i have no thing to offer you,
but this touch, where i disappear.
arif k
https://www.poetseers.org/submissions/2006-2/arif-k/

**Rather than focus on what needs changing
Turn the attention to what cannot change.
Wu Hsin
Solving Yourself
Aug 19
Also shared here at end of this post:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/invisible-space-arrogance-of-belonging-august-19-2018

"The spider taketh hold with her hands,
and is in kings' palaces"
- Proverbs 30:28
See this page for More
re: this Synchronistic Biblical Message of the Spider
https://www.onlythebible.com/Bible-Gems/Wisdom-of-the-Spider.html

The New Rule
Rumi

It's the old rule that drunks have to argue
and get into fights.
The lover is just as bad. he falls into a hole.
But down in that hole he finds something shining,
worth more than any amount of money or power.

Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street.
I took it as a sign to start singing,
falling up into the bowl of sky.
The bowl breaks.
Everywhere is falling everywhere.
Nothing else to do.

Here's the new rule: break the wineglass,
and fall toward the glassblower's breath.

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.

Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You're covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side.
Die, and be quiet.

Quietness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.
The speechless full moon
comes out now.

"I used to want buyers for my words.
Now I wish someone would buy me away from words.

I've made a lot of charmingly profound images,
scenes with Abraham, and Abraham's father, Azar,
who was also famous for icons.

I'm so tired of what I've been doing.

Then one image without form came,
and I quit.

Look for someone else to tend the shop.
I'm out of the image-making business.

Finally I know the freedom
of madness.

A random image arrives. I scream,
"Get out!" It disintegrates.

Only love.
Only the holder the flag fits into, and wind.
No flag. "

~ Rumi
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-rule.html

AFTERNOON

If you want to perceive and understand objectively,
just don't allow yourself
to be confused by people.

Detach from whatever
you find inside or outside yourself -
detach from religion, tradition, and society,
and only then will you attain liberation.

When you're not entangled in things,
you pass through freely...

Lin Chi
Buddhist

All explanations are myths
whose truth-value we assign subjectively.

They are true only
insofar as we say that they are true.

They are stories we conjure up and tell ourselves
in order to make sense of the disconnected,
context-free phantasmagoria of present perception.

It makes no sense to proclaim any explanation
for the present to be objectively true...

Bernardo Kastrup
Philosopher
More Than Allegory

Above in the color font from
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/perspective-carse-lin-chi-kastrup-bailey.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

Put thoughts to rest.
The real being, with no status,
is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

If you want to be free,
get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,
but is lively and buoyant.

It responds with versatile facility, but its function cannot be located.
Therefore when you look for it you become further from it,
when you seek it you turn away from it all the more.

Just put thoughts to rest and don't seek outwardly anymore.
When things come up, then give them your attention;
just trust what is functional in you at present,
and you have nothing to be concerned about.

If you want to perceive and understand objectively,
just don't allow yourself to be confused by people.

Detach from whatever you find inside or outside yourself –
detach from religion, tradition, and society,
and only then will you attain liberation.
When you are not entangled in things,
you pass through freely to autonomy.

—Lin Chi
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/put-thoughts-to-rest.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Oh soul-
You worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.

Of anything less-
why do you worry?
You are in truth-
the soul,
of the soul,
of the soul.
~Rumi

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TOUCHSTONE OF SILENT CORE "..the wind of listening." "Die and be quiet." "... miracles...are normal." April 25, 2019

4/25/2019

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TOUCHSTONE
OF
SILENT ORIGINAL CORE
USURPS ALL
PETRIFYING/PUTREFYING EXCESS
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5:06 AM-4/25/19

Sama - Rumi
What is deep listening?

Sama is a greeting from the secret ones inside the heart,
a letter. The branches of your "intelligence" grow
new leaves inhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bwrz9AAAGhH/
The body reaches a peace.

Rooster sound comes, reminding you of your love
for dawn. The reed flute and thin singer's lips:
the knack of how spirit breathes into us
becomes as simple and ordinary as
eating and drinking.

Listen, and feel the beauty of the
unsayable...

Give more of your life to this listening.
As brightness is to time, so are you to
the one who talks to the deep ear in
your chest.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand
ears when that one steps near and begins to speak.
Rumi
Excerpt from - The Glance
Coleman Barks version
via The Beauty We Love
~
Sama is the quality of calmness and tranquility
of the mind...It is deep listening as a way
of connecting with the Divine

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/sama-rumi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

This silence, this moment, every moment,
if it's genuinely inside you,
brings what you need

There's nothing to believe.
Only when I stopped believing in myself
did I come into this beauty.

Sit quietly,
and listen for a voice that will say,
'Be more silent.'

Die and be quiet.

Quietness is the surest sign that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running from silence.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.

Live in silence.
Rumi

AFTERNOON

With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?
Rumi

All religions, all this singing, one song.
The differences are just illusion and vanity.
The sun’s light looks a little different
on this wall than it does on that wall,
and a lot different on this other one,
but it’s still one light.
Rumi

Close the door of words
that the window of your heart may open.
To see what cannot be seen
turn your eyes inward
and listen, in silence.
~ Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whomever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi

EVERYTHING IS HANDLED
JOHN MCINTOSH

The false self cannot conceive
of LIFE taking care of everything.
It believes something must be done,
effort must be exerted,
agendas, activities, actions, plans, schemes
must be exercised so that results will ensue,
and it will be cared for
… and hopefully it will thrive and enjoy itself and have wonderful experiences.

This is the lament of the personal identity
which is due to its belief that it is basically alone,
a victim of circumstances
in a dog-eat-dog world.

And yet in the Stillness of your True Reality
EVERYTHING is handled Perfectly
if this personal ‘you’ stays out of the way.

This ‘is’ occurring anyway
but the false self produces endless detours
through its interference,
always laden with struggle, pain, frustration
and the feeling that is has
‘some’ degree of control ...
… it has NONE,
no control over anything whatsoever because,
“of itself it is nothing”.

There is no need at all to tell the God-SELF
what you ‘think’ you need
or ‘how’ to provide it for you.

Whatever is Perfect for your highest good
[which is always and only your return HOME],
is happening with every breath
and there ‘is’ nothing you can do
to interfere with this.

Rest in this ‘knowing’
and watch LIFE perform
what you may now think of
as miracles and yet …
... are normal.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/everything-is-handled

If you want to live, die in Love.
~ Rumi

The soul lives there in the silent Breath.
~ Rumi

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BLACK HOLE < SOULUTIONS ARISE "...the most subtle trap..." "...deepest silence echoes from the eternal." April 24, 2019

4/24/2019

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FALL INTO THE BLACK HOLE
THAT IS
PURE SILENCE OF ORIGINAL CREATON
THE CORE OF ALL
<
FROM THAT QUIET DEPTH
SOULUTIONS ARISE
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5:55 AM-4/24/19

12/15/2016

We must become so alone,
so utterly alone,
that we withdraw into our innermost self.
It is a way of bitter suffering.

But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone,
for we find that our innermost self is the spirit,
that it is God, the indivisible. .....

.....And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world,
yet undisturbed by its multiplicity,
for our innermost soul
we know ourselves to be one with all being.
— Hermann Hesse

The Deepest Silence
- John Roger Barrie

The eloquence of the deepest silence echoes from the eternal.
Originating there and reverberating
through the ripples of time and space.
It bursts forth in shimmering waves, forming light
and color, shadow, and dimension.
But it remains unchanged.

Never affected by the slightest permutation of outer phenomenon,
silence interweaves the temporal
but is forever untouched by it.

Ever abiding within and without,
overlaid with the mutable
patchwork garment we know as the visible universe,
silence forms
the woof and warp of all things seen and unseen.
Yet at any instant
it is immanent and accessible.

To the mystic,
silence is the ground,
the core of reality.

All else relates to and emanates from it.

The deeper elements in all religions point to this silence.
It is God,
it is Buddha; it is Allah.
But, to paraphrase Lao Tzu,
to name it is to elude its essence.
It can only be experienced.

How can we not experience that which always
envelops and permeates us?
Merely affirming its existence will not garner for us
its experiential realization.
It is spiritual practice [like meditation]
that provides us with the means to fine tune our faculties
so that we perceive it for ourselves.

Such practice enables us, in due course,
to experience a blistering,
conscious realization of silence
that
suffuses the core of our being.

By embarking on the spiritual path,
an aspirant is attempting to encounter silence firsthand.
This is the quintessential journey in life - the inner sojourn.
It is returning to a source long ago forgotten
but often glimpsed unawares.

Recapturing that which flitters on the
periphery of awareness is the goal of the mystic.

The mystic consciously dives into silence, at first unfelt.
With repeated practice it becomes
a living, palpable Presence
filled with immeasurable
vitality and boundless,
nondual continuity.

But what causes this
gradual revelation?

First we need to discover why we do not experience silence.
The simplest answer is that we are habituated to noise.
We are addicted to novelty, sensation, to ourselves.
Fuss and commotion,
mental chattering and outer stimulation
occupy our minds from
dawn to dusk.

The twentieth-century Japanese Zen master Nan-in
rightly noted that we are overflowing
with our own ideas and opinions.
When one is clattering away
on a keyboard sixteen hours every day,
the capacious pockets of silence are kept well at bay.
We thereby deafen ourselves to the
underlying silence we would
otherwise clearly hear.

By intentionally quieting our restless minds
and calling a temporary
halt to the random noise
- inner and outer -
to which we are subject,
we create an environment conducive to
the manifestation of silence.
Welling up from within,
this silence subtly engulfs us,
drowning out
all the noise of existence.

New Chicks in Abandoned Garden Lot

When constantly engaged at the forefront of our minds,
our awareness restlessly flutters about
from thought to thought,
sensation to sensation,
thus pushing out silence.

(...continuing this AFTERNOON ...)

AFTERNOON

The effort required to break
through the surface waves of the mind
forges an inward path
to the deepest levels of silence.
When deliberately sustained....
this inner drilling displaces the obfuscatory debris
that clutters the mind
with a matrix of noise.

When all mental ruminations are at last
exhausted, genuine silence emerges.

But, many prefer the comfort of noise,
the bustling of crowds,
the constant engagement of
new thoughts and interesting repartee.

To embrace silence means splicing off
a certain arena of the familiar and venturing
into uncharted territories.
While one may fruitfully participate
in communal spiritual activities,
quite often the deeper stages of this voyage
are undertaken
by oneself.

To keep the mind occupied with external concerns
is to point the inner compass in an outward direction.
This is the most subtle trap
to which the feeble mind continually succumbs.

For to interact constantly with the objects of the senses
is to eclipse entirely the realm of silence,
which is first experienced within.
When repeatedly accessed,
the decibel level of true silence will deafen
the resolute mystic.

Every elusive yet all pervading,
silence is known by those who take the leap.
The adventuresome hiker seeks areas untrampled
by the masses.

The successful inner voyager treks to the precipice,
and then, having encountered the Unknowable,
brazenly discards map and
compass and boldly treads onward.

The yearning heart echoes the
cry that seized the Psalmist:

"Be still and know that I am God."

John Roger Barrie
Excerpt from
Parabola
via - No Mind's Land
https://parabola.org/2018/09/26/the-deepest-silence-by-john-roger-barrie/

Silence is the language of God,
all else is poor translation.

Rumi

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RELIEF SANS BELIEF "He looks busy, But he does nothing." "...the teaching of my Soul." April 14, 2019

4/14/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 1-20

NOTHING IS THE SAME
AS IT WAS
AND YET…
IT IS FOREVERMORE
ALWAYS THE SAME
AS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
∞
AH!
THE TOTALITY
OF
RELIEF SANS BELIEF
∞
ew
1:54 AM-4/14/19

Chapter 18
The Master

1
Love your true Self,
Which is naturally happy
And peaceful and bright!

Awaken to your own nature,
And all delusion melts like a dream.

2
How much pleasure you take
In acquiring worldly goods!

But to find happiness
You must give them all up.

3
The sorrows of duty,
Like the heat of the sun,
Have scorched your heart.

But let stillness fall on you
With its sweet and cooling showers,
And you will find happiness.

4
For the world is nothing.
It is only an idea.

But the essence of what is
And of what is not
Can never fail.

5
The Self is always the same,
Already fulfilled,
Without flaw or choice or striving.

Close at hand,
But boundless.

6
When the Self is known,
All illusions vanish.

The veil falls,
And you see clearly.

Your sorrows are dispelled.

7
For the Self is free
And lives forever.

Everything else is imagination,
Nothing more!

Because he understands this,
The master acts like a child.

8
When you know you are God
And that what is and what is not
Are both imaginary,
And you are at last free of desire,
Then what is there left
To know or to say or to do?

9
For the Self is everything.

When the seeker knows this,
He falls silent.

He no longer thinks,
"I am this, I am not that."

Such thoughts melt away.

10
He is still.

Without pleasure or pain,
Distraction or concentration,
Learning or ignorance.

11
His nature is free of conditions.

Win or lose,
It makes no difference to him.

Alone in the forest or out in the world,
A god in heaven or a simple beggar,
It makes no difference!

12
He is free of duality.

Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or discrimination
Mean nothing to him.

What does he care
What is accomplished or neglected?

13
Finding freedom in this life,
The seeker takes nothing to heart,
Neither duty nor desire.

He has nothing to do
But to live out his life.

14
The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire.
Delusion or the world,

Meditation on the truth,
Liberation itself--
What are they to him?

15
You see the world
And you try to dissolve it.

But the master has no need to.
He is without desire.

For though he sees,
He sees nothing.

Continuing last 5 Verses this Afternoon

AFTERNOON

16
When you have seen God
You meditate on Him,
Saying to yourself, "I am He."

But when you are without thought
And you understand there is only one,
Without a second,
On whom can you meditate?

17
When you are distracted,
You practice concentration.

But the master is undistracted.

He has nothing to fulfill.
What is there left for him to accomplish?

18
He acts like an ordinary man.
But inside he is quite different.

He sees no imperfection in himself,
Nor distraction,
Nor any need for meditation.

19
He is awake,
Fulfilled,
Free from desire.

He neither is nor is not.

He looks busy,
But he does nothing.

20
Striving or still,
He is never troubled.

He does whatever comes his way,
And he is happy.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 18
The Master
Verses 1-20
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

from Rumi:

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/114283-all-day-i-think-about-it-then-at-night-i

S K Y- C I R C L E S
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn that?

They fall, and falling,
they’re given wings.
Rumi

Trans Coleman Barks
Full book/pdf below
http://www.venerabilisopus.org/en/books-samael-aun-weor-gnostic-sacred-esoteric-spiritual/pdf/100/171_rumi-the-book-of-love.pdf

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
I have been a seeker and I still am,
but I stopped asking the books and the stars.
I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Rumi

Let silence be the art you practice.
Rumi

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NO CHOICE TRANSPARENT SILENCE OF ORIGIN "...free of all desires." "...being in the void." April 13, 2019

4/13/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Below is Chapter 17
Beyond All
Verses 11-20

ONLY
THE NO CHOICE
TRANSPARENT SILENCE OF ORIGIN
∞ALONE WITH THE ALONE∞
SUFFICETH
<
AH!
ALPHA & OMEGA SIMPLICITY
ew
4:57 AM-4/13/19

“LISTEN, ELSE THY TONGUE RENDERS THEE DEAF”
American Indian Proverb
(ew slight paraphrase)

God is my final end;
Does he from me evolve,
Then he grows out of me,
While I in Him dissolve.
~ Angelus Silesius
(The Cherubinic Wanderer)
https://thedawnwithin.com/2019/04/13/where-god-speaks/

See this OceanSpeak from 2014...
Synchronistically Appearing from a present-time reader comment
early this morning....underscores today's OceanSpeak Offerings

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping-sunrisenoon-march-21-2014

ASHTAVAKRA
Continuing Chapter 17
Beyond All
Verses 11-20

11
And the man who is free
Always lives in his heart.
His heart is always pure.

Whatever happens,
He is free of all desires.

12
Whatever he sees or hears or touches,
Whatever he smells or tastes,
Whatever he acquires,
He is free.

Free from striving,
And from stillness.

For indeed he is a great soul.

13
Without blame or praise,
Anger or rejoicing.

He gives nothing.
He takes nothing.

He wants nothing,
Nothing at all.

14
And whoever draws near him,
A woman full of passion
Or Death Himself,
He is not shaken.

He stays in his heart.

He is free indeed!

15
It is all the same to him.
Man or woman,
Good fortune or bad,
Happiness or sorrow.

It makes no difference.
He is serene.

16
The world no longer holds him.
He has gone beyond
The bounds of human nature.

Without compassion
Or the wish to harm,
Without pride or humility.

Nothing disturbs him.
Nothing surprises him.

17
Because he is free,
He neither craves nor disdains
The things of the world.

He takes them as they come.

His mind is always detached.

18
His mind is empty.
He is not concerned with meditation,
Or the absence of it,
Or the struggle between good and evil.

He is beyond all,
Alone.

19
No "I,"
No "mine."

He knows there is nothing.

All his inner desires have melted away.

Whatever he does,
He does nothing.

20
His mind has stopped working!

It has simply melted away. . .

And with it,
Dreams and delusions and dullness.

And for what he has become,
There is no name.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters

Chapter 17
Beyond All
Verses 11-20
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

Yet another Synchronistic "Arrival" this early morning...April 13, 2019
He who wants to understand, will understand.
Bowl of Saki, April 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

BOWL OF SAKI - April 13, 2019
for full commentary:
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php

AFTERNOON

The only problem with human beings is that they are arrogant,
because that’s what thinking is.
This is in essence ‘I know’.
Wisdom is being in the void.
To be thoughtless.

Only by being in the void can the Light come through.
As long as I have something going on in my mind
the Light can’t come through.
The Light can only come in when the mind is cleared
–in a state of silence.
– Dr Hew Len, Shamanic Wisdomkeepers
https://upliftconnect.com/hawaiian-practice-of-forgiveness/?utm_source=UPLIFT&utm_campaign=8a40cfc3e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_11_06_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_19c1fc07c2-8a40cfc3e4-116418961

You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.

You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary,
and the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.

It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka

Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave ‘til
it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.
—Rumi
above in this font from:
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/need-then-is-net-for-all-things-rumi_13.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

All there is is
Never not here,
Never not now.

One gets further lost in
All destinations other than
Here.
Wu Hsin

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BE SO NOW ... BEYOND THE FRAY "Hold on to nothing." "I grow silent" April 4, 2019

4/4/2019

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Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 10

“SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW”*
<
HELD IN TRUTH OF BEING
BEYOND THE FRAY
=
ORIGIN’S ORIGINAL SILENCE SUFFICETH
ew
6:48 AM-4/4/19

* SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW
(.. Googled for this phrase that Arose from Depths...
not even knowing these are Biblical..Christ words…)

“ So what is Christ saying
about how we meet the challenges
of our physical needs?
To
trust our ancient wisdom
not the cravings of our body
and that our life really comes
from the outpouring
that
touches us of the foundation of existence.”
http://christswords.com/content/christs-first-words

Chapter 10
Desire

1
Striving and craving,
For pleasure or prosperity,
These are your enemies,
Springing up to destroy you
From the presumptions of virtue.

Let them all go.
Hold on to nothing.

2
Every good fortune,
Wives, friends, houses, lands,
All these gifts and riches. . .

They are a dream,
A juggling act,
A traveling show!

A few days, and they are gone.

3
Consider.
Wherever there is desire,
There is the world.

With resolute dispassion
Free yourself from desire,
And find happiness.

4
Desire binds you,
Nothing else.
Destroy it, and you are free.

Turn from the world.
Fulfill yourself,
And find lasting happiness.

5
You are one.
You are pure awareness.

The world is not real.
It is cold and lifeless.

Nor is ignorance real.
So what can you wish to know?

6
Life after life you indulged In different forms,
Different pleasures,
Sons and kingdoms and wives.

Only to lose them all. . .

7
Enough of the pursuit of pleasure,
Enough of wealth and righteous deeds!

In the dark forest of the world
What peace of mind can they bring you?
How you have toiled,

8
How you have toiled,
Life after life,
Pressing into painful labor
Your body and your mind and your words.

It is time to stop.

Now!

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 10

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

Too rainy for beach this afternoon....
Below photos are a few favorites from Archives

I grow silent
dear soul-
you speak.
~Rumi
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/04/29303/

July 7, 2015

Self, experienced in the egoless state,
is the supreme Reality.
***
My relative absence is my absolute presence.
The moment of death
will be the moment of highest ecstasy,
the last sensorial perception
of the psychosomatic apparatus.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jesels
April 4

July 5, 2015

AH!
4:42 PM 4/4/19
Just returned from SUNNY AFTERNOON BEACH
Obviously the rain has stopped....

3:59 PM--4/4/19

More photos from this afternoon at end of
Read More Segment Below

See Read More Below
Chapter 10 - ASHTAVAKRA
Additional Photos

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CORE FORMLESSNESS "...without worry of redemption,..." "...set adrift on the Infinite Ocean." March 25, 2019

3/25/2019

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PEACE THAT PASSETH
MATERIAL MAN’S UNDERSTANDING
TAKES OVER A LIVING/DYING ORCHESTRATION
OF
LIFE IN PHYSICAL FORM
=
AKASHA TAO CORE FORMLESSNESS PRESIDES
ew
5:25 AM-3/25/19

light pours like rain

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
Who finds us here circling, bewitched, like atoms?

—Rumi

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/03/light-pours-like-rain.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

God
pours light
into every cup,
quenching darkness.

The proudly pious
stuff their cups with parchment
and critique the taste of ink
while God pours light

and the trees lift their limbs
without worry of redemption,
every blossom a chalice.

Hafiz, seduce those withered souls
with words that wet their parched lips

as light
pours like rain
into every empty cup
set adrift on the Infinite Ocean.
–Hafiz

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/03/light-pours-like-rain.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

AFTERNOON

Fellow travelers of interior wealth, richness, and meaning
Matt Licata

While the desire for transformation is natural, noble, and honorable,
if we are not careful it can serve as a powerful reminder
and expression of the painful realities of materialism and self-abandonment.
One of the shadow sides of seeking
and the (seemingly) endless project of self-improvement
is that we never slow down enough to digest what we have already been given,
which is often much more than we consciously realize.
Which, in some sense, is everything.

Not the “everything” the mind thinks it needs to be happy and fulfilled,
found by way of a journey of internal and external consumerism.
Not the “everything” that conforms to our fantasies of power, control,
“mastery,” and safe from the possibility that our heart can break
and our world can reorganize anew in any moment.
But the “everything” that is already here as part of our true nature,
the raw materials for a life of purpose and meaning,
revealed by way of slowness and humility,
not unconscious acquisition.

In Tibetan tradition,
there is an image of the hungry ghost,
a figure of the imaginal realms with a large distended belly and tiny mouth.
No matter how much food (experience) is consumed,
there is a deep ache and longing for more.
Regardless of how much is taken in there remains an insatiable hunger.
Because this one is not able to make use of or enjoy what is given,
a primordial hole is left behind which can never seem to be filled.

The invitation as this one appears is to slow way down
and to send breath, awareness, and warmth directly into the hole,
infusing it with curiosity and presence,
and tend to what is already here,
not what is missing and may come by way of further procurement.

To listen to the heartbeat within,
the heartbeat of the earth,
the heartbeat of the stars.
To attune to the drum of the holy reverberating
within a nervous system and body that is open, ripe, and sacred.

The willingness to fully digest our own vulnerability, tenderness,
confusion, suffering, and joy
is an act of love and fierce, revolutionary kindness.
There are soul-nutrients
buried in the food of our embodied experience
that yearn to be integrated, metabolized, and assimilated
in the flame of the heart.
But this digestion requires the enzymes
of presence, embodiment, and compassion,
and a curiosity about what is here now.

May we all slow down and become mindful
of the ways we seek to fill the empty hole in the center,
whether it be with food when we’re not hungry
or experience when we are already full.

And in this way we can walk lightly
together in this world, on this precious planet,
not as hungry ghosts desperate to be fed, but as
fellow travelers of interior wealth,
richness,
and meaning.

Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2019/03/fellow-travelers-of-interior-wealth.html

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ORGASMIC CLARITY OF THE IMMORTAL FEBRUARY 2, 2019 "...vibration of two as one is orgasm."

2/2/2019

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All day rain today....all photos below from a year ago...
.Febuary 2, 2018

LEAVE AS THOUGH NEVER TO RETURN
ARRIVE AS THOUGH NEVER TO LEAVE
BE WITH EACH ETERNAL MOMENT
AS THE FIRST AND LAST IN PHYSICAL FORM
<
AN IMMORTAL’S TOUCHSTONE
OF ORGASMIC CLARITY*
ew
3:03 AM-2/2/19

*“first will be last and the last, first”
can be found in four major passages of the Bible:
Matthew 19:30; 20:16; Mark 10:31 and Luke 13:30.
https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/qa-archives/question/what-is-the-meaning-of-last-shall-be-first-and-the-first-last/

SISYPHUS

*This vibration of two as one is orgasm.
When the same thing happens, not with another person,
but with the whole existence,
then it is Mahamudra.
then it is the great orgasm.
OSHO
TRANSFORMATION TAROT
Chapter 55 - SEX
See Category in right column on this page
OSHO CREATION ORGASM
for additinal OceanSpeaks re: this Way of Life

In the morning as the storm begins to blow away
the clear sky appears for a moment and it seems to me
that there has been something simpler
than I could ever believe

simpler than I could have begun to find words for
not patient not even waiting no more hidden
than the air itself that became part of me for a while
with every breath and remained with me unnoticed

something that was here unnamed unknown in the days
and the nights not separate from them
not separate from them as they came and were gone
it must have been here neither early nor late then
by what name can I address it now holding out my thanks
–W.S. Merwin.
buffleheadcabin
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/02/just-now.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

AFTERNOON

say i am you

I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.
To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
To the sun, Keep moving.
I am morning mist,
and the breathing of evening.
I am wind in the top of a grove,
and surf on the cliff.

Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,
I am also the coral reef they founder on.
I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.
Silence, thought, and voice.

the musical air coming through a flute,
a spark of stone, a flickering in metal.
Both candle and the moth crazy around it.
Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.

I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,
the evolutionary intelligence, the lift, and the falling away.
What is, and what isn’t.

You who know, Jelaluddin,
You the one in all, say who I am.
Say I am you.

You embrace some form
saying, “I am this.”
By God, you are not this
or that or the other

you are “Unique One”
“Heart-ravishing”
You are throne and palace and king;
You are bird and snare and fowler.
As water in jar and river are in essence the same,
You are spirit, are the same.
You, every idol prostrates before;
Your every thought-form perishes in your formlessness.
–Rumi

say i am you
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/02/say-i-am-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Look at your feet.
You are standing in the sky.
When we think of the sky, we tend to look up,
but the sky actually begins at the earth.

We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves,
wash the dog, and drive cars in it.

We breathe it deep within us.

With every breath,
we inhale millions of molecules of sky,
heat them briefly,
and then exhale them back into the world.

–Diane Ackerman
a natural history of the senses, excerpt
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-natural-history-of-senses-excerpt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Appreciation and love, and alignment to that which is Source,
is the ultimate “giving back,” so to speak,
for in your pain or struggle,
you have nothing to give back.

What you are living is always an exact replication
of your vibrational patterns of thought.

Nothing could be more fair
than life as you are living it,
for as you are thinking,
you are vibrating,
and as you are vibrating,
you are attracting--
and so you are always getting back
the essence of what you are giving.

Abraham - Esther HIcks
http://abrahamquotes.com/2019/02/daily-quote-february-2-2019/

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WITHOUT CENSOR "...the hour of separation." "...the peaceful one..." January 14, 2019

1/14/2019

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RELIEF OF NO SELF, NO MIND…NO TALKING OR THINKING…
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF RETARDATION,
MONGOLOID SIMPLICITY AND SENSITIVITIES
The “hush of not” without words or thoughts….
.....REMAINING IN EACH MOMENT
WITH ONLY SOUL AWARENESS….
=
SOLE AWARENESS

ORIGINAL SILENCE
<
HUSH OF NOT
THAT SOURCES ALL
<
FOLLOW IN EACH MOMENT
…WITHOUT CENSOR…
THREADS OF ENERGY FROM WITHIN
“TO DO” OR “NOT DO”
WHAT ARISES
<
ACTION OR NON-ACTION WITHOUT THOUGHTS
JUST BEING
JUST IS*
ew
3:43 AM-1/14/19
*Savant Syndrome
Islands of Genius
- Darold A. Treffert, MD
http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/professional/savant-syndrome/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677584/

Quotes below in this font from:
https://ta44.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/some-of-my-favourite-quotes/

Midway this way of life we’re bound upon,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
where the right road was wholly lost and gone.
Dante in the Divine Comedy

All we can say for sure is that a mystery comes through us,
seeking its own fullest incarnation
and that whenever we serve the mystery within us;
we experience a linkage to the mystery outside.
When we stand in conscious relationship to the mystery
we are more deeply alive.
James Hollis –
Swamplands of the Soul

And ever has it been that love
knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
Kahil Gibran in The Prophet

Let the beauty we love be what we do,
there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi
(Coleman Barks)

Since no one really knows about God, those who say they do
are just troublemakers.
Rabia

We find God in that which enlivens the soul.
Simply say hello.
James Hollis

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

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

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

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

When we resonate to this incarnated energy
we are in the presence of soul.
When, for whatever reason
the energy no longer enlivens that image for us,
then that structure dies for us as a source of the divine….
The energy has departed leaving a dry husk.
James Hollis

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

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

All of the hurts and failures, losings and dyings and forgetting
were but part of the gaining of the rich material of your life.
Jean Houston in A Mythic Life

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts?
It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up.”
Hafiz
(Daniel Ladinsky)

Darkness is a sacred wick awaiting your touch Beloved
to become a sacred flame.
Light is the cure, all else a placebo.
St. Francis
(Daniel Ladinsky in Love Poems from God.)

There is really nothing more beautiful
than the magnificence of the human heart
as it reveals itself.
I believe we cannot open our hearts on our own.
We must rely on each other.
Janie Brown of Callonish

Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart
and try and love the questions themselves.
Rainer Maria Rilke

You are not a human being having a spiritual experience
but a spiritual being having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

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

It is not always a blind man who falls into a pit.
Sometimes it is one who can see.
Rumi
(Coleman Barks)

Tears are the language of the heart.
Thomas Atum O’Kane

If our action is not consistent
with the soul’s desire, we lose energy.
Ennui may set in.
James Hollis – Swamplands of the Soul

https://ta44.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/some-of-my-favourite-quotes/

Quote sabove in this font from:
https://ta44.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/some-of-my-favourite-quotes/

another most EXCELLENT link
http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual-and-devotional-poets/contemp/daniel-ladinsky/index.html

~~ Peace is perfected activity; that is perfect which is complete in all its aspects, balanced in each direction and under complete control of the will.
Bowl of Saki - 1/12/19

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:
It is useless to discuss the peace of the world. What is necessary just now is to create peace in ourselves that we, ourselves, become examples of love, harmony and peace. That is the only way of saving the world and ourselves.
from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_1_17.htm

Peace is independently felt within oneself.
It is not dependent upon the outer sensation.
It is something that belongs to one,
something that is one's own self. ...
Peace is not a knowledge, peace is not a power,
peace is not a happiness, but peace is all these.
And besides, peace is productive of happiness.
Peace inspires one with knowledge of the seen and unseen,
and in peace is to be found the divine Presence.
It is not the excited one who conquers in this continual battle of life.
It is the peaceful one who tolerates all, who forgives all,
who understands all, who assimilates all things.

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

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

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

And now the question is what makes one lack peace?
The answer is, love of sensation.
A person who is always seeking to experience life in movement,
in activity, in whatever form, wants more and more of that experience.
In the end he becomes dependent upon the life which is outside,
and so he loses in the end his peace, the peace which is his real self.
... the first thing is to seek the kingdom of God within ourselves,
in which there is our peace.
As soon as we have found that, we have found our support,
we have found our self.
And in spite of all the activity and movement on the surface,
we shall be able to keep that peace undisturbed
if only we hold it fast by becoming conscious of it.

from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/I/I_IV_6.htm

~~~ Peace is perfected activity;
that is perfect which is complete in all its aspects,
balanced in each direction and under complete control of the will.
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php
JANUARY 12, 2019

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