Category: Silence

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

5/21/2019

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

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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UNFETTERED RELIEF< RELIEF ALSO VANISHES EYE OF GOD "Out of unborn stillness..." Milestone May 20, 2019

5/20/2019

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Note - Eye of God

ORIGINAL PRIMORDIAL
UNKNOWNING/UNKNOWING SILENCE
THAT KNOWS ALL
AS THERE IS NO “ME”, “I” OR “SELF” THAT
HAS TO KNOW AND “MISSIONARY”
<
ALL “CAPTIVES ARE FREE”
MOVED AS INVISIBLE WIND FLUTTERS A LEAF
SHIFTS THE CLOUDS..
AS SUN BRIGHTENS THE SKY...
AND NOW
BREATH KEEPS CONSCIOUSNESS
ALWAYS/ALLWAYS HOME
∞
WHAT UNFETTERED RELIEF
∞
ALL
“flows forth as waves on an ocean.”*
<
SENSE OF RELIEF ALSO VANISHES
=
PEACE THAT PASSETH EARTHLY UNDERSTANDING
ew
4:41 AM-5/20/19

* Rest as the Primordial Silence eludes all thinking,
and yet it is the setting free of Pure Intelligence.
To think, there must be someone reflecting, subject and object.
The Primordial Silence is So Complete,
that even the idea of incompletion is completely beyond its scope.
As the Primordial Silence,
Everything is Self-explanatory
and
flows forth as waves on an ocean.
Aisha
http://aishasalem.com/article/the-primordial-silence/
first shared here May 30, 2016:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/primordial-silence-live-like-a-river-flows-sunriseafternoon-may-30-2016

More re: Aisha:
After 6 years of living herself into the fulfillment of her wishes,
Aisha was called into solitude of retreat.
The calling into Silence invited her beyond the Self/I Am,
into the Primordial Silence.
The Absolute.
For 2,5 years she was in retreat, in deep cultivation of Space,
turning the Fire of Love into Diamond sharp Clarity
– merging with the Silence which is prior to God.

By the end of her retreat,
Life began its return as a landing back into the Earth.
A happening which called for the embrace
of the human conditioning and healing
of the human wound in all of its facets
for a true emptying out of the ground and recognition
of the Feminine Essence and Wholeness
of
the True human.

See this Link for More of her story:
https://aishasalem.com/about/

Grace is a drop of Acceptance
on every moment's revelation
Aisha
https://aishasalem.com/work-with-aisha/retreating-with-aisha/

The realisation as pure Awareness in itself
(completely beyond subject and object)
is an absolute passing beyond the beyond in the way,
which allows for the total disappearance to the Absolute.
That, which is prior to God.

In approaching the Awakening of the Truth-body,
we face the implosion of the ego-identity on mind-level,
in moving with the recognition of and merging into
the Primordial Silence.
Aisha
https://aishasalem.com/about/teachings/

The primordial Silence as the vastness of Pure Mind
is Absolute Peace in and as Total Absence.
Out of unborn stillness
rises the Heart essence as Enlightened Intent.
With no ownership and no conceptually rooted purpose,
it moves like water on stone –
endlessly affecting and timelessly marking
its Silence through its ever clearer expression.
Aisha
https://aishasalem.com/the-primordial-silence/

Deeply surrendered to The Absolute
we are left only with the peace of pure Mind,
which has no reference to anything but recognition as Being –
the ground of Basic Space itself. ...

... In the deepest of Respect and Love for what is Ultimately True,
the embrace of Silence through our every movement,
in our every way,
is the growing Love for-
and surrender to Reality.
Aisha
https://aishasalem.com/the-primordial-silence/

AFTERNOON

The Below Daily Offering/Sharing by John MccIntosh
Arrived on my e-mail at 11 AM this morning
just as we finished the morning's OceanSpeak.
More Synchronicity...
What Times These Are!!!

NOT THE LOVE OF ...
John McIntosh

Not the Love of
Fleeting moments
Or of dangling baubles
That capture the craving heart
For a moment

Not the Love of
Sentimentality
That raises the spirit
Then flies away, replaced
By another new and exciting

Not the Love of
Power
That breathes fire for a season
Then flickers to nothing
Extinguished by today’s flame

I serve only the Love
That has no beginning
And never ends
It is eternal
Relying on nothing

It is the Love
Without conditions
That embraces the Light
As well as the dark
And sees no difference

This Love has
No boundaries
And lives in every breath
Fills all space
And cannot be confined

This Love knows me
‘As’ IT SELF
Who sees only IT SELF
In All That Is
As well as Nothing

John McIntosh

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/not-the-love-of

There is no need to avoid false thoughts or seek true ones
because all thought is spontaneous,
involuntary and without substance.
It is neither to be accepted nor rejected
but ignored
so that it disappears
as spontaneously as it appeared.
Ramesh S. Basekar
The Net of Jewels
May 17

To be free,
One must untie oneself from
The seeming independent entity called me.
Wu Hsin

Those who don't know
Believe
Wu Hsin

Heaven and hell are only
Lodgings for individuals.
When the fiction of individuals is seen through,
Heaven and hell lose all meaning.
Nothing to do,
nowhere to go;
Now or later.
Once the silence is established,
True listening can begin.
Wu Hsin

See Read More Below
More from/re: Aisha
Additional Afternoon Photos

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SURVIVING ENTOMBMENT "...windless wind...voiceless voice." "...the eternal ONE." MAY 19, 2019

5/19/2019

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May 19, 2016

Too Rainy for Sunrise Beach
All Morning Photos from Archives
May 19, 2016
"Rx For Eternal Songing"
see OceanSpeak for this date
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/thats-how-i-could-keep-on-singing-great-breathers-breath-sunriseafternoon-may-19-2016

ALL..or most ALL... of MAY 2016 OceanSpeaks are re: The Great Silence
See Archives List or go Directly to All of May 2016 here:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/archives/05-2016

… SURVIVING ENTOMBMENT WHILE BEING BREATHED
IS TO INVITE & ALLOW
ORIGINAL SILENCE TO POSSESS

DOES IT TAKE MENTAL UNDERSTANDING
OR A HUMAN TEACHER OR GIMMICK
TO BE BREATHED IN FORM?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!

BREATH IS THE TOUCHSTONE
MAINTAINING
AKASHA TAO CORE POSSESSION…
(...UNTIL NO LONGER NECESSARY...)
=
ORIGINAL ONES’ VAST SILENCE INTEGRITY
ew
6:07 AM-5/19/19

Pressure: to get to where I’m Going
Realization: Am already t/here & T/Here
ew/dmm
6:51 AM-5/19/19

NO RUSH
NO PRESSURE
NO CONCEPT OF TIME IN THE ETERNAL NOW
<
AH!
BEING GREAT BREATHER’S BREATH
THAT KEEPS AND GLIDES ONE HOME
ew
4:40 AM-5/19/16
THE WHISPER FOR MAY 19, 2016
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/thats-how-i-could-keep-on-singing-great-breathers-breath-sunriseafternoon-may-19-2016

For forty years,
just like everybody else,
I believed I was my thoughts and my body :
I believed I was somebody.
And then there was a shift.
Spontaneously, in a flash, mind was totally silent.

Not a single thought:
silence, stupefaction, profound astonishment left no room
for anything else whatsoever.

Thus I started observing.
The way I operated had changed.
There was this “thing”, the silence…
and alongside that there was “everything else”.

The name I give to this “everything else” is “I am”,
that is to say whatever arises from one moment to the next:
I saw that everything appeared within this thing,
this silence,
from moment to moment.
That everything disappeared within it too.
Yolande Duran

Beginning Paragraphs of Entire Interview here....with Yolande Duran
http://yolandeduran.com/en/interview-magazine-3eme-millenaire/

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles.

Meantime within man is the soul of the whole;
the wise silence;
the universal beauty,
to which every part and particle is equally related;
the eternal ONE.

And this deep power in which we exist,
and whose beatitude is all accessible to us,
is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour,
but the act of seeing and the thing seen,
the seer and the spectacle,
the subject and the object, are one.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/soul-of-whole.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

.....a silence of the soul,
a silence grounded in the great void.
There is something about us
of a piece with the primordial silence.
A silence waiting for God’s speech, for God’s Word.
A silence into which poetry may be spoken,
that poetry being we ourselves: the poetry of our souls,
the poetry of our very bodies.
Br. Mark Brown
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/ouroboros-of-fresh-silence-memory-sunriseafternoon-may-29-2016

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.
Alone must it seek the ether.
And alone and without its nest
shall the eagle fly across the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/silent-songing-of-inscrutable-human-form-sunriseafternoon-may-25-2016

AFTERNOON

Still Too Rainy for Afternoon Beach
All AFTERNOON Photos from Archives
May 19, 2016
"Rx For Eternal Songing"
see OceanSpeak for this date
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/thats-how-i-could-keep-on-singing-great-breathers-breath-sunriseafternoon-may-19-2016

ALL..or most ALL... of MAY 2016 OceanSpeaks are re: The Great Silence
See Archives List or go Directly to All of May 2016 here:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/archives/05-2016

POETRY – THE ART OF THE VOICE

How fine will your breath become
from listening to these words?

How soft will they seem to be
as they settle through the mind
like silent snowflakes falling
from a windless winter sky?

I often marvel at the mystery--
how words can work
on a listener’s heart and mind,
upon hearing a poet’s thoughts,
a poet’s breath, flowing
from an inner voice--

a windless wind, speaking
through a voiceless voice.
© Ken Chawkin
https://theuncarvedblog.com/2011/09/18/poem-of-the-day-poetry-the-art-of-the-voice-by-ken-chawkin/

A human being is part of a whole,
called by us the ‘Universe,’
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest —-
a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for a few persons nearest us.

Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison
by widening our circles of compassion
to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
—Albert Einstein
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/soul-of-whole.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

INTERVIEW with Yolande Duran -
Blog, Prensa
"Awakening" in/of/as ONLY SILENCE
(excerpt)

In your own words, you testify to a sudden openness
of the self without a reference point or a long spiritual search.
What were the circumstances of this awakening?
It took only that one moment
to see that all that I thought I was, I am not.
I discovered by myself my true nature,
and since then
I am in a state of profound amazement.

Can you describe what you felt
during this instant when awakening happened?
An absolutely powerful obviousness that took over
everything that I thought I was.
A power that overtook the three states
(wakefulness, sleep and dream)
and all that they contain
This is the most potent power in the universe.
SILENCE HEALS.
My vision has changed completely.
It is no longer me who sees with the eyes of my body
but it is silence that sees.
It is a constant state free of thoughts.
In a word,
my true nature is not to think
but to see the body and the senses
play their roles.

What do you see differently?
Previously,
my attention was focused on the world,
and since this encounter my attention is focused on SILENCE.
So, whether my eyes are open or closed,
I only see that.

What is your teaching?
The teaching of Yolande is only the expression of her own experience and realization. A realized person uses his or her own language.
SILENCE is the best language.
SILENCE is the true teaching.
SILENCE is my unique and only reference.
In the silence of our meetings,
let us be guided
by the power of Silence.

For Full Interview see
http://yolandeduran.com/en/interview-yolande-duran-la-source/

POETRY – THE ART OF THE VOICE
How fine will your breath become
from listening to these words?

How soft will they seem to be
as they settle through the mind
like silent snowflakes falling
from a windless winter sky?

I often marvel at the mystery--
how words can work
on a listener’s heart and mind,
upon hearing a poet’s thoughts,
a poet’s breath, flowing
from an inner voice--

a windless wind, speaking
through a voiceless voice.
© Ken Chawkin
https://theuncarvedblog.com/2011/09/18/poem-of-the-day-poetry-the-art-of-the-voice-by-ken-chawkin/

Below from:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/primordial-silence-live-like-a-river-flows-sunriseafternoon-may-30-2016

Rest as the Primordial Silence eludes all thinking,
and yet it is the setting free of Pure Intelligence.
To think, there must be someone reflecting, subject and object.
The Primordial Silence is So Complete,
that even the idea of incompletion is completely beyond its scope.
As the Primordial Silence,
Everything is Self-explanatory and flows forth as waves on an ocean.
Aisha
http://aishasalem.com/article/the-primordial-silence/

DEAD
DIED
GONE
TO ALL THAT WAS/IS NOT
THE NOW HERE OF NO WHERE
THE NO WHERE OF NOW HERE
SIMPLY NOWHERE

GONE IS ABILITY TO
SUFFER, LAMENT, OR INJOY.
A PEACE AND BEING
BEYOND THE BEYOND.
ew
4:09AM-9/14/03
Youthanasia Acres

Above from:
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/primordial-silence-live-like-a-river-flows-sunriseafternoon-may-30-2016

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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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THIS INNER NUDGE "...the depth is silent.” May 15, 2019

5/15/2019

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Intensities of Galactic Shifts/Storms/Rarefications
Too Rainy for Sunrise Beach
No Whisper Rising This Morning
below is "Random Pick"
followed by the entire chapter
"JOURNEY TOWARD WHOLENESS"
from
GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
Dorothea M. Mills/elizabeth walker

Sunrise Photos from Archive Files
May 15, 2016
https://mailchi.mp/e6f723c657dc/risa-swimming-work-in-progress-new-art-photos-a-k-nicholas?e=e00cc100ea

THERE IS OFTEN INCLINATION
TO SQUELCH
THIS INNER NUDGE OR STIRRING
BY TAKING ON
MORE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE ACTIVITIES

....AND YOU MAY OFTEN
ACCELERATE THIS WAY OF DENIAL
UNTIL PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL,
OR MENTAL ABERRATIONS
CAUSE
WHAT IS GENERALLY TERMED
“ILLNESS”
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This Morning's
Random PIck from
GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
Dorothea M. Mills/elizabeth walker

The BELOW Whispers in this font
from
the entire Chapter:
JOURNEY TOWARDS WHOLENESS
from
GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
Dorothea M. Mills/elizabeth walker

“The more
you evolve spiritually,
the further you pass
from the understanding
of every man.”

“It is the surface of the sea
that makes
waves and roaring breakers;
the depth is silent.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

DEAR HEART
IT REALLY ISN’T A JOURNEY
IT IS A MOMENT OF AWAKENING
OR
REALIZATION
OR
WHAT YOU WOULD TERM
A
HEALING INSTANT

EVERYTHING THAT YOU COULD EVER BE
IS
ALREADY WITHIN YOU
THE GODSEED THAT YOU ARE
IS
YOUR ONLY TRUTH
AND
THIS HAS BEEN ALL THAT YOU ARE
SINCE
BEFORE TIME

WHOLENESS
IS SIMPLY A MATTER
OF
AWAKENING
TO
THE DIVINITY
THAT IS
YOUR ONLY TRUE SELF

BECAUSE OF EXPERIENCES,
SOUL MEMORIES
AND
ABSORPTION
OF
OTHER REALITIES
INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS,
VEILS OF SHADOWS
SHROUD
YOUR SOUL’S PURE EXPRESSION

IT MAY BE
THAT YOU HAVE NEVER FELT HAPPIER
AND
MORE CONTENT,
YET
SENSE A STIRRING,
AN INNER RESTLESSNESS,
THAT WHISPERS
“THERE IS SOMETHING MORE”

THIS IS THE GODSEED
ATTEMPTING TO STRETCH
TOWARDS EXPRESSION
AND
CLEAR REALIZATION

ATTEMPTING TO EXPAND
THRU THE VEILS
TOWARDS
THE
LOVE/LIGHT
THAT
IS
ALL THAT IS

THERE IS OFTEN INCLINATION
TO SQUELCH
THIS INNER NUDGE OR STIRRING
BY TAKING ON
MORE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE ACTIVITIES

....AND YOU MAY OFTEN
ACCELERATE THIS WAY OF DENIAL
UNTIL PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL,
OR MENTAL ABERRATIONS
CAUSE
WHAT IS GENERALLY TERMED
“ILLNESS”

THE ILLNESS,
SHOULD YOU ALLOW IT TO DEVELOP,
IS ONLY A SYMPTOM THAT CAUSES
ENOUGH PAIN SO THAT YOU WILL REST
AND
BE STILL
OR
PERHAPS SURRENDER
MORE SELF WILL
AND
ASK FOR HELP

IT IS FAR MORE GENTLE
TO YOUR BEING
AND
TO THOSE AROUND YOU
IF YOU WILL
BUT STILL AND LISTEN
TO THOSE INNER STIRRINGS

FROM THE STILLNESS
EXACTLY THE MOST PERFECT PEOPLE,
PLACES, AND SITUATIONS
CAN ATTRACT TO YOU
IN ORDER TO ACCELERATE
YOUR HEALINGS AND REALIZATIONS

THERE NEED
BE
NO EFFORT
ON YOUR PART,
EXCEPT TO STILL
YOUR BUSY MIND
INTO
THE SILENCE THAT IS BEYOND SILENCE…

AND FROM THAT ABYSS
OF
PEACE AND LOVE
YOU KNOW
THE NEXT AND MOST NECESSARY STEP…
...BE STILL
AND
KNOW THAT I AM GOD.

BE STILL
AND
KNOW THAT I AM YOU
∞

See this LINK for more regarding the above PHOTO SHOOT on Harbour Island.....
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aknicholas/art-nude-photobook-documentary-film-gallery-prints?ref=card
More "Events" Here:
https://www.bellanuda.com/kickstarter/

Note Re: This Photo Shoot.....had a particularly "alone with the Alone" stroll during sunrise beach to the far south end...NO PEOPLE on beach that morning.....May 15, 2016.......when we turned around to walk north back to dunes path, we saw these Two Solitaries...in the distance....as we came closer, the man's eyes met mine
with a Quiet Smile of Soul Recognition...
....i asked a bit more about him and this model.
Come to find out they had rented a most Magnificent Property
for several models and many photo shoots....
.....this man, his amazing Sensitivities and Offerings
have been in my heart/soul ever since....

.....AS IS the OWNER of the Property they Rented....http://www.thesecretkiss.com/
i canNOT say enough re: the Glorious Soul Qualities and Pithy Practicalities of my Friend Juanita Percentie who built from scratch this Property where the models were!
Not only Juanita, but her whole family, including the Infamous
Ma Ruby of Ma Ruby's Tingum Village....
Ma Ruby, Jaunita's mother, who was/is a legend on this Harbour Island!

Juanita now manages Tingum Village
http://tingumvillage.com/
For Amazing Photos and Information re: the Property where models/photograher were see:
http://www.thesecretkiss.com/

The ABOVE Whispers in this font
from
the entire Chapter:
JOURNEY TOWARDS WHOLENESS
from
GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
Dorothea M. Mills/elizabeth walker
and
ALSO in Original Edition

Original Edition Copyright 2004
a better "Look Inside" on Amazon on this link
https://www.amazon.com/Godseed-elizabeth-walker/dp/1412017742
This Original Edition published BEFORE
ew/dmm ever let anyone know
re: dmm's penname=elizabeth walker
https://www.amazon.com/Godseed-elizabeth-walker/dp/1412017742

AFTERNOON

The Silence of the Stars

When Laurens van der Post one night
In the Kalihari Desert told the Bushmen
He couldn't hear the stars
Singing, they didn't believe him. They looked at him,
Half-smiling. They examined his face
To see whether he was joking
Or deceiving them.

Then two of those small men
Who plant nothing, who have almost
Nothing to hunt, who live
On almost nothing, and with no one
But themselves, led him away
From the crackling thorn-scrub fire
And stood with him under the night sky
And listened.

One of them whispered,
Do you not hear them now?
And van der Post listened, not wanting
To disbelieve, but had to answer,
No.

They walked him slowly
Like a sick man to the small dim
Circle of firelight and told him
They were terribly sorry,
And he felt even sorrier
For himself and blamed his ancestors
For their strange loss of hearing,
Which was his loss now.

On some clear nights
When nearby houses have turned off their televisions,
When the traffic dwindles, when through streets
Are between sirens and the jets overhead
Are between crossings, when the wind
Is hanging fire in the fir trees,
And the long-eared owl in the neighboring grove
Between calls is regarding his own darkness...

...I look at the stars again as I first did
To school myself in the names of constellations
And remember my first sense of their terrible distance,
I can still hear what I thought
At the edge of silence where the inside jokes
Of my heartbeat, my arterial traffic,
The C above high C of my inner ear, myself
Tunelessly humming, but now I know what they are:...

....My fair share of the music of the spheres
And clusters of ripening stars,
Of the songs from the throats of the old gods
Still tending even tone-deaf creatures
Through their exiles in the desert.

—David Wagoner

A grasshopper cannot move in reverse nor move sideways, only ever moving in a forward direction. We only need to think about this for a little to recognize the spiritual lessons involved. By practising the grasshoppers only movements in our own lives. Always moving forward, always open to change and not about to repeat the same mistakes by going backwards.
The sound healing vibration the grasshopper emits moves the very soul to connect spiritually with the earth itself. The sound vibrations meditated upon will open all seven chakras activating spiritual healing. The sound itself eases the mind relaxes the body and soothes lonely straying thoughts. The grasshopper offers its healing to any who’ll listen almost every evening. All we need to do is make ourselves aware and supersensitive to their calling. By psychically tuning into them and their sound while meditating.
(Continued below....)

The sound healing vibration the grasshopper emits moves the very soul to connect spiritually with the earth itself. The sound vibrations meditated upon will open all seven chakras activating spiritual healing. The sound itself eases the mind relaxes the body and soothes lonely straying thoughts. The grasshopper offers its healing to any who’ll listen almost every evening. All we need to do is make ourselves aware and supersensitive to their calling. By psychically tuning into them and their sound while meditating.
https://thriveonnews.com/grasshopper-meaning/

Read More Below
Quotes from today
Additional Photos

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ORIGINAL LISTENING POSSESSION OF ORIGIN "...immersed in bliss..." May 10, 2019

5/10/2019

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A TRANSPARENT CONDUIT'S
ORIGINAL LISTENING
HEARS/SEES/SPEAKS NO GOOD OR EVIL
=
A POSSESSION OF ORIGIN
BEYOND LIFE & DEATH
<
THE IMMORTAL ONES
NEVERBORN-NEVERDIE
THE ONE EYE/EAR OF GOD*
ew
5:10 AM5/10/19
*http://www.angelfire.com/in4/alchemy2084/keys.html
https://www.drunvalo.net/

The eye through which I see God
is the same eye through which God sees me;
my eye and God's eye are one eye,
one seeing, one knowing, one love.
― Meister Eckhart

DIVINE DISCONTENT
JOHN MCINTOSH

Pure Consciousness Awareness [ONE or God]
is naturally ‘Balanced, Perfect, Pure, Empty’.

When IT sleeps to this Truth
IT believes in a concept called separation
and seems to fragment IT SELF
through a projection on the screen of Consciousness
in a myriad of illusionary forms,
which it seems to enter as IT dreams IT ‘is’ each of these individual entities …
some of which are called humans.

As this occurs there is a constant ‘pull’ back Home
to the full Awareness of Who IT Really Is.
This is called the ‘Divine Discontent’,
which eventually becomes
the pathless-path ‘out’ of the dream.

No matter how deep or dark the dream becomes
for each splinted ‘God-entity’ this powerful ‘pull’
is always calling IT Home.
IT cannot ever actually be ‘lost’
and therefore does NOT need to be ‘saved’
as has been taught for thousands of years by many belief systems
… because, IT is only dreaming …
no matter how ‘real’ that dream may be.

IT only needs to be Awakened ‘from’ the dream to return Home.

This Awakening is in full throttle Now
as countless individual sleeping God-SELVES
have become and are becoming ‘aware’ that they have been dreaming.
In most cases they are NOT Home yet,
but they ‘are’ aware on some level
that their life experience and the world they live it in
‘is’ a dream.

The error that occurs at this stage for most ‘awakening’ ones
it to somehow try to ‘fix’ themselves
because they have not fully comprehended
that their dream body-mind is NOT real and ‘cannot’ be fixed.

The direct route Home is to ‘surrender’ their dream fully
to the Pure Conscious Awareness they ‘are’
and IT will shine the Light on the pathless-path
‘out of’ the dream.

“Not my will but YOUR WILL be done” is one way.
If you are sufficiently frustrated with the dream …
your life will shift dramatically.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/divine-discontent

THE VITAL ORIGINAL PORTAL-OF ORIGIN..... AT REMEMBRANCE ROCK ON THIS ISLAND

AFTERNOON

Something inside of me has reached to the place
where the world is breathing.
~ Kabir

Be quiet in your mind,
quiet in your senses,
and also quiet in your body.
Then, when all these are quiet,
don't do anything.
In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
Kabir

He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes;
who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies;
Who does not make you close your doors,
and hold your breath,
and renounce the world;

Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit
whenever the mind attaches itself;
Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities.
Fearless, always immersed in bliss,
he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.
Kabir

Within this body
The Eternal keeps singing
And Its spring goes on and on flowing.
~ Kabir

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace.
You will find that deep place of silence right in your room,
your garden or even your bathtub.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

It is time to put up a love-swing!
Tie the body and then tie the mind so that
they swing between the arms of the
Secret One you love.
Bring the water that falls from the clouds
to your eyes.
And cover yourself over entirely with the
shadow of the night.
Bring your face up close to Love's ear,
and then talk only about what you want
deeply to happen.

Kabir says:
"Listen to me, friend, bring the face,
shape, and odor of the Holy One inside you."
~ from TRY TO LIVE TO SEE THIS!
by Kabir - Versions by Robert Bly

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

Remember, in the face of Mystery, silence ultimately alone will do:
you simply cannot categorize,
in ANY way, that which is radically Unqualifiable.
You know that Mystery by being Emptiness,
not by conceptualizing it, naming it, labeling it.
Ken Wilber

No, my soul is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,
its eyes wide open
far off things, and listens
at the shores of the great silence.
- Antonio Machado

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

"A tremendous "knowing" comes effortlessly into the mind
when it falls into Silence,
when it gives up trying to understand,
when its reel of stored images
no longer projects abstract pictures
onto the clean screen of simplicity.

This kind of knowing is transmitted
to us as pure revelation,
as a clarity untouched by words
or other symbols of meaning.

When we allow this knowing into our minds,
our very lives become
as clear and startling as this knowing."
Robert Rabbin

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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
ew

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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ORIGIN’S VAST SILENCE "...LEAP in Awareness..." "...silent watchfulness and waiting..." "...only in utter silence" May 4, 2019

5/4/2019

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TRANSPARENT CONDUIT
OF
ORIGIN’S VAST SILENCE
PARTS ALL RED SEAS*

ew
5:54 AM-5/4/19

*13 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
It is not up to us to fight, it is up to us to follow.
We have to trust that God not only knows our situation but knows the outcome.
The ability to be still
when everything in you is screaming to do anything but be still
is the essence of faith,
and it is then that we see the greatest miracles.

https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/every-believer-faces-a-red-sea-moment.html

GOD IS 'NOT' WITHIN YOU
JOHN McINTOSH

God is NOT ‘within’ you.
God [the ONE Reality by any name] ‘cannot be contained’ being Infinite and … there ‘is’ no ‘you’ as an individual person - ‘YOU’ … ARE GOD.

The ‘you’ most call themselves is a fiction made up of attachments,
expectations, identifications, memory and imagination
and changes from moment to moment.
This ‘you’ at age 5 is totally different from ‘you’ at 35.

Truth is eternal and never changing.
That which most call reality,
which includes your immediate surroundings,
your ‘unique’ world
and the universe that ‘seems’ to be somewhere ‘out there’
is totally dependent on this illusory ‘you’
and does NOT exist ‘without’ you.
All of it is a dream ‘within’ YOU.

It is common to hear of the Divine Presence
being somehow ‘enveloped’
within this ‘made-up’ body-mind-identity called ‘you’,
but this is part of the false self’s subtle trickery
to keep you trapped in the dream of separation.

There are a multitude of ‘tiny’ phrases and concepts
that ‘sculpt’ the conditioning which
binds you with paper chains
that seem unbreakable.

‘God within you’, ‘the spark of God within’,
‘surrounded in Light’
and the concept of ‘self improvement
or self empowerment’
are just a few.
None of these is Real
despite the widespread popularity of them.

ONE or Pure Conscious Awareness
[Who You Really Are]
cannot be ‘circumscribed’.
Everything that ‘seems to be’ is ‘contained within’ IT. IT is Emptiness
– Nothing-ness as well as All That Is.

To say that your unique world is ‘within YOU’
[as the God-SELF]
is as accurate as is possible.

This offers a more precise setting
‘from which’ to observe the grand dream
that you have known as reality for eons
and ‘in which’ you may continue to PLAY in,
Free of the binding illusion
that you are an individual person
with some sort of God ‘outside’.

This giant LEAP in Awareness
is available to you in this very Moment.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/god-is-not-within-you

AFTERNOON

Below in this font from
OSHO

We are very much enclosed in our own psychology,
and we project that psychology all around.

A man of silence finds this whole world is full of silence.
Even the sounds only deepen the silence.
And a man full of noise never becomes aware
of the immense silences in the night.

It all depends on you.
Your world is nothing but you, projected.

Become silent.
In your silence, all questions will disappear.
And the dance will begin, whatever the figure!
Because as far as your inner being is concerned, it has no figure;
it is just a luminous flame which can dance.

It has been eternally there, repressed by you.
You are the greatest enemy of yourself.
My effort is to turn you into the greatest friend of yourself.

A man of silence moves with a certain field of energy around him,
and if you are receptive, his vibe starts touching your heart.

In meditation, silence comes on its own accord.
You simply go on watching the mind without any control,
without any repression,
and silence comes suddenly just like a breeze,
and with the silence, the fragrance of the flowers
— that is your blissfulness;
it is your own fragrance which
you were not capable of knowing
because there was so much noise.

Ask, do everything that is possible, and then finally
— tired, exhausted —
you need to relax;
you even let go of the idea of enlightenment,
it is all futile.

In this silence, when there is no desire stirring your mind,
you suddenly find you are the enlightened one.
That enlightenment was not somewhere else,
it was within you.
But it needed utter silence, no desire.

Enlightenment as such is already there.
You are a buddha,
but you are not aware of it.
How to make you aware of it?
Down the ages, this has been the way,
and I don’t see there is any other possibility.

You will become aware of it only in utter silence.
But the utter silence, a state of no-mind, a pure space,
needs all your desires to be exhausted.

Being in the presence of a master,
silence happens on its own accord.
Just as in the deep Himalayas,
where the snow is eternal and the silence almost ancient…
just sitting there under a tree,
you start feeling, falling in tune with the immensity that surrounds you.
To be in the presence of the master is even more deep-going.

Your inner being can be reflected only in a mirror without any ripples.

No mind
— absolute silence of all thoughts, absence of the mind completely —
becomes the mirror without any ripples,
without even a single fluttering of thought.

And suddenly, the explosion:
you have become aware for the first time of your own being.

What is the point of a beautiful sunrise if you are asleep?
What is the beauty of a rose if you are asleep?
Mind is your sleep, concentrated or not.
Meditation is your awakening.

The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams,
all the projections, all expectations, all desires.
Suddenly you are in a state of desirelessness,
non-ambition, unfathomable silence.
And only in this silence, blossoms flower in your being.
Only in this silence the lotuses open their petals.

Truth is not something that comes from outside,
it arises out of the intensity of your silence.
In fact, the intensity of your silence,
a great silence crystallized,
is truth.

Truth is not something other than silence.
A small silence becomes the door to greater silences,
and finally, the silence itself becomes so condensed
— Gurdjieff used to call it the crystallization —
you find yourself.

In that very finding you have found the truth.
Then life is a sheer joy, a song, a dance, a celebration.

The Lone Tree - Harbour Waters this morning.

If you really want to express the truth,
don’t say anything about it, just leave the gap.
Let people hear without your saying anything.
That’s the only way truth has always been transferred --
from one silent heart to another silent heart.

In utter silence
is the only possibility to meet, to merge, to share.

Silence is all that is needed,
and everything else follows on its own accord.

Meditation is an effort to bring light and to bring joy
and to bring silence and to bring blissfulness,
and out of this beautiful world of meditation
it is impossible for you to do anything wrong.

So I have changed it completely.
Religions were insisting on action;
my insistence is on consciousness,
and consciousness can grow only in silence.

Silence is the right soil for consciousness
. When you are noisy you cannot be very alert and conscious.
When you are conscious and alert, you cannot be noisy --
they cannot co-exist.

Grace comes as a flowering of your being.
The moment your meditation reaches to the deepest core,
to the very center of the cyclone,
a tremendous silence, peace and blissfulness arise within you.

Grace is the total effect of all these qualities:
silence, peace, love, compassion, blissfulness, ecstasy.
When these things arise in you,
their flame, their fire
starts radiating from your physical body.
They are so much they start overflowing.
That overflowing of your inner ecstasy
is what can be defined as grace.

Impatience makes you ugly.
Impatience is a disturbance in your meditation.
Learn to wait.
Be patient and trust that existence will give
you whatever you are ready for.
All that you have to do is to go on deeper in meditation,
beyond mind into silence.
No thoughts, no emotions, no moods,
just a silent watchfulness and waiting
for whatever existence finds you ready for.

Above OSHO quotes in this font from:
http://eddymumu.blogspot.com/2012/02/osho-quotes-on-silence.html

GOD IS 'NOT' WITHIN YOU
JOHN McINTOSH
God is NOT ‘within’ you. God [the ONE Reality by any name] ‘cannot be contained’ being Infinite and … there ‘is’ no ‘you’ as an individual person - ‘YOU’ … ARE GOD.
The ‘you’ most call themselves is a fiction made up of attachments, expectations, identifications, memory and imagination and changes from moment to moment. This ‘you’ at age 5 is totally different from ‘you’ at 35. Truth is eternal and never changing. That which most call reality, which includes your immediate surroundings, your ‘unique’ world and the universe that ‘seems’ to be somewhere ‘out there’ is totally dependent on this illusory ‘you’ and does NOT exist ‘without’ you. All of it is a dream ‘within’ YOU.
It is common to hear of the Divine Presence being somehow ‘enveloped’ within this ‘made-up’ body-mind-identity called ‘you’, but this is part of the false self’s subtle trickery to keep you trapped in the dream of separation. There are a multitude of ‘tiny’ phrases and concepts that ‘sculpt’ the conditioning which binds you with paper chains that seem unbreakable. ‘God within you’, ‘the spark of God within’, ‘surrounded in Light’ and the concept of ‘self improvement or self empowerment’ are just a few. None of these is Real despite the widespread popularity of them.
ONE or Pure Conscious Awareness [Who You Really Are] cannot be ‘circumscribed’. Everything that ‘seems to be’ is ‘contained within’ IT. IT is Emptiness – Nothing-ness as well as All That Is. To say that your unique world is ‘within YOU’ [as the God-SELF] is as accurate as is possible. This offers a more precise setting ‘from which’ to observe the grand dream that you have known as reality for eons and ‘in which’ you may continue to PLAY in, Free of the binding illusion that you are an individual person with some sort of God ‘outside’.
This giant LEAP in Awareness is available to you in this very Moment.
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/god-is-not-within-you

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SILENCE BEFORE SOUND "...wanting for nothing." "...take nothing personally." "...effortlessness itself." May 3, 2019

5/3/2019

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THE SILENCE BEFORE SOUND PREVAILS
ALL IS ALWAYS WELL
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3:12 AM-5/3/19

When you become aware of silence,
immediately there is that state of inner still alertness.
You are present.
You have stepped out of thousands of years
of collective human conditioning.
Eckhart Tolle

When you cease to fear your solitude,
a new creativity awakens in you.
Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.
You come home to yourself and learn to rest within.
Thoughts are our inner senses.
Infused with silence and solitude,
they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.
John O’Donohue
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/1-language-of-the-neverborn-riches-of-solitude-phoenix-baubo-combined-nov-27-2018

WAITING AND PATIENCE
John McIntosh

Waiting and patience on the surface
sound like important attributes of a spiritually oriented person.
However, both suggest desire,
wanting and time in some way.
The God-SELF has no desires of any kind being ‘complete’.

Stillness, also known as Silence
‘is’ Empty [the God-SELF], wanting for nothing.
In every moment, while IT dwells within a body
IT is provided for perfectly.

The false self, which claims it is ‘seeking’ Freedom,
is always looking to gain things and experiences
that it says are for its highest good
and will in some way lead
to Freedom ‘out there’ someday.

But Freedom is always and only Now
and requires nothing but your undivided Attention ‘on’ it.
In this way Awareness ‘of’ it EXPANDS.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 says: "Love is patient ... "
however, this is not the time/desire oriented patience
the false self speaks of
but the ‘infinite and all-encompassing
unconditioned’ Love/Patience
that has no beginning or ending.
As with many passages in sacred texts,
meanings are often misinterpreted
or distorted altogether.
They must be understood through
the Feeling nature of the Heart.

Despite words being a basic requisite of human communication,
Truth simply IS and cannot be personified.

‘Silence’ is the highest form of communicating Truth.

“Your own Self-Realization
is the greatest service you can render the world.”
- Ramana

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/waiting-and-patience

“A strange loneliness
and an unchildish sorrow.”
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“There are a few souls in the world
who seem as if they do not belong here,
but had strayed
from just round the corner
while they were on the way
to another planet or world.”
¥
Kahlil Gibran
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/1-language-of-the-neverborn-riches-of-solitude-phoenix-baubo-combined-nov-27-2018

AFTERNOON

You have been telling the people that this is
the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.

And there are things to be considered:
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?

Where is your water?
Know your garden.

It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those
who will be afraid.

They will try to hold onto the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart
and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore,
push off into the middle of the river,
keep our eyes open and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do,
our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner
and in celebration.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

—The Hopi Nation Elders
of Oraibi, Arizona
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/this-is-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

The human condition in terms of good and evil,
which really means pleasure and pain,
is like that of fleas on a hot griddle -
he who jumps must fall,
and he who falls must jump.

Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
May 3

Self-realization is not only effortless,
it is effortlessness itself.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
May 3

When man closes his lips,
God begins to speak.

Gayan
Inayat Khan

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ONLY ORIGINAL SILENCE "....uttered in silence" April 30, 2019 "...blessing of discord." "words....turn into silence.

4/30/2019

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ONLY ORIGINAL SILENCE
DESCRIBES THIS CONDITION
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“THIS TOUCH WHERE ‘I’ DISAPPEARS”*
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4:49 AM-4/30/19

*arif k
https://www.poetseers.org/submissions/2006-2/arif-k/

When souls meet each other,
what truth they can exchange!
It is uttered in silence,
yet always surely reaches its goal.

An Indian poet says,
'Pearl-shell, what gives you your precious contents?
Silence; for years my lips were closed.'
https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IV/IV_34.htm

Bowl of Saki, April 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_date.php

You must go in quest of yourself,
and you will find yourself again only
in the simple and forgotten things.
Why not go into the forest for a time,
literally? Sometimes a tree tells you
more than can be read in books.
~ C.G. Jung
Bibliography:
– ‘Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul’ – by Claire Dunne – (Watkins Publishing)
– ‘The Earth has a Soul: C.G.Jung on Nature, Technology and Modern Life’ – by C.G. Jung and Meredith Sabini – (North Atlantic Books)
Website:
– Carl Gustav Jung (Wikipedia)
Corinne’s websites: 500px & Galerie photographique
Corinne's Photograph is on this post link below... with Jung quote...::
https://thedawnwithin.com/2019/04/30/the-forgotten-things/

"This quiet center,
in which you do nothing,
will remain with you,
giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing
on which you are sent."
(T.18.VII.8.3) (ACIM OE T.18.VIII.70)
In other words, we bring the peace to every situation.

To rest in God is to be in His flow and allow Him to lead the way.
To rest in God is to find our center of peace, if only for a moment,
where we release the external world.

To rest in God is to know the constancy of the Self
we are and know the changing, seeking, and striving self is an illusion.

To rest in God is to know we are eternally safe in His loving arms.

Today, let us find this place of respite within
and know that in spite of any experiences of stress and turmoil,
the truth is that we are at home,
we are safe,
and we are whole.
When we don't experience this,
we are actually listening to the ego.
Excerpt from:
https://files.constantcontact.com/e46e0407001/7e35535c-4c58-45fd-b595-cd31f9fae9a1.pdf

6:31 AM "Sunrise"

Above and Below
Earlier Sunrise Beach Photos from this morning
According to Man-Made Calculations
Sunrise was at 6:31 AM this morning

Heading back to Sanctarii Abode as huge rain is on a rapid approach....

AFTERNOON

THE BLESSING OF DISCORD
JOHN MCINTOSH

Disease is never somehow ‘defeated’.
Disease is no more real than the mind that manifested it.
Nothing shows up in your personal experience
that ‘you’ [not YOU] did not project into it.

It is NOT created because only that which is eternal is a True creation …
it is only an additional ‘scene’ written into your play of life
– just as story.

The body/mind are both a part of these projections
as are the world, the planets, galaxies and universe(s) …
all holographic and very believable stories
YOU as the sleeping God-SELF You Are have made up
and stepped into to experience.

When illness shows up in your body,
from a hang-nail to a cancer
it is a ‘projection’ only
[usually below the radar of your awareness]
… an amalgam of thoughts co-mingled
with a ‘stew’ of your own unique conditioning
[attachments, expectations and identifications]
and designed to get your ‘attention’
so that you will turn within
and look at and feel what conditioning
is ready to be transformed
[returned to nothing-ness].

Few, as yet ‘get’ this
and instead deal with the illness
with a band-aid approach treatment – ‘out there’
rather than inside.
This merely shifts the energy
to reappear elsewhere in your experience
or terminates this particular temporary body you are wearing.

It has NOT ‘gone’ anywhere and ‘ will’ come again
‘somehow’ until it is transformed.

Everything in your world experience
is a gentle to a shocking ‘tug’ on your ‘attention’
to pull you inside and WILL NOT leave
until you are fully aware of the God You Are.

This is the enormous blessing of discord.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/the-blessing-of-discord

Rest seems like a nice contrast to overwhelment,
but enthusiasm is always chosen over rest.
The only thing that ever makes you tired
or bogs you down
is resistance.
http://abrahamquotes.com/2019/04/daily-quote-june-10-2017/

Overwhelment is about you
not being up to speed
with what you told the Universe that you want.
The Universe is yielding to you.
You’re just not ready to receive it right now.

http://abrahamquotes.com/2019/04/daily-quote-june-9-2017/

The surest sign of spiritual progress
is a total lack of concern about progress.
There is an utter absence of anxiety
about anything like liberation
and a sort of hollowness in one's being,
a kind of looseness and involuntary surrender
to whatever might happen.
Rasmesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
April 30

The original and eternal state of ours
can no more be described than can the state of deep sleep.
What spills over into the description
is the sense of peace and contentment,
but the state itself cannot be defined.
Beyond merely pointing at it,
words can only turn into silence.

Rasmesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
April 29

Do everything like it is the last thing you do.
There is nothing to hold back,
nothing to save for later.
Sadhguru

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UNSPEAKABLE UNTHINKABLE April 27, 2019

4/27/2019

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AH!
ALL IS ONLY A FLEETING GLIMPSE
OF
SHIFTING SANDS
OR
A RAINDROP BECOMING OCEAN
∞
THE UNSPEAKABLE
UNTHINKABLE
INNER CORE ALONE REMAINS
∞
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5:10 AM-4/27/19

Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche - The Song of the Vajra

Unborn,
Yet continuing without interruption,
Neither coming nor going, omnipresent,
Supreme Dharma,
Immutable space, beyond definition,
Spontaneously, self-liberating.

Perfect state without any obstruction,
Existent from the very beginning,
Self created, without location,
With nothing negative to reject,
And nothing positive to accept,

Infinite expanse, all pervading,
Immense, and limitless, unbound,
With nothing even to dissolve
Or from which to be liberated.

Present beyond Space and Time,
Existent from the beginning,
Immense dimension of inner space,
The radiance of clarity is like the sun and the moon,
Self perfected,
As indestructible as the Vajra,...

...As stable as a mountain,
As pure as a lotus,
Strong as a lion,
Incomparable bliss
Beyond all limits;
Illumination,
Equanimity,
Peak of the Dharma,
Light of the Universe,
Perfect since the very beginning.

From "The Song of the Vajra", An Oral Commentary by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
read more here
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http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2019/04/namkhai-norbu-rinpoche-song-of-vajra.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoMindsLand+%28No+Mind%27s+Land%29

A mystic is content with nothing
less than to touch the Truth in
its most universal purity.
~~ Ivan Granger
Poetry Chaikhana

AFTERNOON

Walk The Earth In Silence

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

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

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

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

December 2010

Above in this color font from
each page of
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/

The whole point of life is to live NOW
in this present moment,
always.
If one makes a fetish
of improving condition in the future,
one lives neither in the apparent present
nor in the illusory future.

Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
July 25

In above photos, self-timer is clicking every THREE SECONDS....
note how quickly that breaker appeared in the NOW moment seemingly without warning....
...and disappeared just as suddenly....

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ALL IS AS IT IS "...nothing to believe." "..the timeless divine." "A wild woman..." April 26, 2018

4/26/2019

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“DIE & BE QUIET
LIVE IN SILENCE”*
ALL THINKING >< FEAR-BASED ILLUSION
∞
BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHTS
AKASHA TAO CORE AWARENESS SUFFICETH **
∞
ENOUGH OF MAN-MADE ILLUSIONS IS ENOUGH
AND YET
ALL IS AS IT IS...
WITH OR WITHOUT
AN ILLUSORY ME NAMING IT
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5:22 AM-4/26/19

*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

**Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
John 14. Ruth 2.

The Sanctuary of Silence -
Dada Gavand & Angeles Arrien

You cannot meet God through the mind,
nor experience the timeless through time.

Thought cannot touch the transient.
Only with freedom from thought
and from mental cravings and ambitions
does the energy become
whole, tranquil and pure.

Such inner purity and humility
will invite the hidden divinity.

The pure consolidated energy
with its silence and fullness within,
awaits in readiness to meet the divine,
to experience that which is beyond the mind.

There across the region of time
beyond the frontiers of the mind,
within the sanctuary of silence,
resides the supreme intelligence,
the timeless divine.

Dada Gavand

I trust the Mystery.
I trust what comes in silence
and what comes in nature
where there's no diversion.
I think the lack of stimulation
allows us to hear and
experience a deeper river
that's constant, still,vibrant,
and real.

Angeles Arrien

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-sanctuary-of-silence-dada-gavand.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

AFTERNOON

I've been walking the acre
of my soul.
It's been so long.

And over there,
the hill I used to sit on.
I'd watch the stars
reflect in the river
when it was tired of
running.

I wonder what the view
is now.

But it takes at least a day
to get there
and another to sit still
in the grass
and another to wait for
the stars to come out
and another
for the river to tire.

Sure, life keeps
taking us away.
But the only time
I'm free of fear is when I drink
from that river.

~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/26/29455/

A wild woman is strong and sensitive.
She protects the innocent,
and defends those who can’t defend themselves.
She loves with her whole heart,
and never with half of her heart.

But do not mistake her kindness for weakness.
That kind of ignorance will leave you
in her trail of magic dust.
Every… single… time.

Where does this wild woman exist, you ask?
She is everywhere.
She is the unassuming woman at the book store
radiating a quiet confidence you can’t help but notice.

She is the otherworldly,
offbeat lady at the park dancing barefoot
and alone to music only she can hear.

She is the sweet but spunky goddess
offering you a warm meal
and a safe place to rest your head
when you’ve lost your way.

She is the quirky,
tell-it-like-it-is free spirit
with a rare and everlasting fascination for life.

She is the friend who listens to you
with her undivided attention.

She is the keeper of secrets she will never spill.
She is the one who got away.

Above all, she is magic.

~Zella Sage
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/26/29455/

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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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POOF OF THE UNREAL "A point of stillness..." "KHAMOSH!!!!!...." "...silence prevails." MILESTONE April 22, 2019

4/22/2019

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POOF OF THE UNREAL

ALL FORMER
FEAR, DREAD & PANIC POSSESSIONS
…THAT BLACK VOID
DOWNWARD VORTEXING
HOLE IN CORE…*
INVITES MERGING
IN/OF/AS
IMMORTAL CORE**
<
LIFE LIVED
VIA
BREATH AS TOUCHSTONE
(IF NECESSARY)
<
WORDLESS SPEECH
&
SPEECHLESS WORDS
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4:59 AM-4/22/19
*“The Snake was only a stick”
**SLEEP = Return to Immortal Core
(these * ** notes are next: below first photos)

* ".. the vivid imagination creates the presence of the snake in a rope and the imagination is so strong that a person can die from an imaginary snake bite. Thus wrongly perceived situations may result in physical or psychological reaction -- an imagination of a frightened mind.”
http://creative.sulekha.com/the-snake-in-a-rope_625942_blog

http://www.1netcentral.com/articles/the-snake-rope-essential-buddhist-teaching/

** In Sleep article below
SLEEP = ("POOF") Return to Immortal Core

SLEEP
Why it is necessary for our survival

From the moment we fall asleep our soul moves away from our physical body
and goes to join the universal Soul.
During the body's rest, an entire process of cleansing and purification takes place.
Subtle ties known as the 'silver cord'
keep the soul connected to the physical body
when it leaves it.

On its return,
the soul finds the house swept,
cleaned and washed,
and it can take up its work again.

If the soul did not leave the body in this way,
we would die from poisoning and asphyxiation,
because the work of cleansing could not be done.

You may wonder where these toxins and poisons come from.
They are produced quite simply because life is a combustion.
All the physical, emotional and mental activities we know as 'life' give off forces,
but they also leave behind impurities
which take a while to be eliminated.

So it is necessary for the soul to withdraw from the body
so the cleansing can take place.
Sleep is the solution that cosmic Intelligence has found
so that we can continue to live.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanho
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/sleep-why-it-is-necessary-for-our-survival_2019-04-22

Longing has its own secret, future destination,
and its own seasonal emergence from within,
a ripening from the core,
a seed growing in our own bodies;
it is as if we are put into relationship with
an enormous distance inside us
leading back to some unknown origin
with its own secret timing
indifferent to our wills,
and gifted at the same time
with an intimate sense of proximity,
to a lover, to a future,
to a transformation,
to a life
we want for ourselves,
and to the beauty of
the sky and the ground
that surrounds us.

The foundational instinct that we are here
essentially to risk ourselves in the world,
that we are a form of invitation to others and to otherness,
that we are meant to hazard ourselves for the right thing,
for the right woman or the right man,
for a son or a daughter,
for the right work or for a gift given against all the odds.
In longing we move and are moving
from a known but abstracted elsewhere,
to a beautiful, about to be reached, someone,
something or somewhere we want to call our own.

Reality met on its own terms
demands absolute presence,
and absolute giving away,
an ability to live on equal terms
with the fleeting and the eternal,
the hardly touchable and the fully possible,
a full bodily appearance and disappearance,
a rested giving in and giving up;
another identity braver,
more generous and more here
than the one looking hungrily
for the easy,
unearned answer.
~David Whyte
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/22/29424/

TRANSFORMING ANCIENT PATTERNS
John McIntosh

The seemingly endless rays
[individual separated beings]
of the ONE we ‘are’,
when immersed in the delusion of separation,
take on a kaleidoscope of unique conditioning.

When one sleeps and dreams behind this veil,
they are subject to the dream of reincarnation
and in those many dream lives,
they ‘relive’ the conditioning over and over again
until a dreamer begins to AWAKEN
from their long slumber.
That one may choose to enter a dysfunctional lineage
that emphasizes a particular manifestation of conditioning
such as ‘abuse’ … with its many branches.

While the extended family of this specific tree
engages in and fosters this belief/habit
the ‘awakening one’ becomes a source of Light
that begins to ‘dilute’
this toxic energy ‘for the entire group’ of sleepers
living out their karmic dream in this way.

These Light sources are often labeled
the ‘black sheep’ of the family and may be ‘outcast’ in some way,
but their growing Awareness is weakening the dysfunctional pattern.

This makes it possible for ‘many’ to be released from this uninterrupted cycle. While there ‘are’ no ‘others’ in Truth …
the dream of separation is very convincing,
and this is one aspect of the
Infinite Divine Love
You Are drawing IT SELF Home.

Those who are fully Realized
often ‘take on’ an entire planet of imbalanced energy
to help reduce its ancient ‘hold’
over the many who sleep in painful dreams.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/transforming-ancient-patterns

AFTERNOON

Tsu Ma was free.
Attached to nothing,
He roamed,
He explored.
Never becoming,
Only being.
He was like the wind,
Ungraspable, uncontainable.
Wu Hsin

One can speak about
Silent or chattering mind.
But who speaks about the source of mind,
What resides behind the mind?
Silent mind or chattering mind are conditions.
Wu Hsin speaks only of the Unconditioned.
Wu Hsin

People need words until
Direct experience speaks louder.
Then, silence prevails.
It is for this reason that
Wu Hsin writes.
Wu Hsin

Sam Fu used to think that he thought.
Upon investigation, he discovered that
Thoughts arise in the expanse of awareness and that
There is no thinker thinking.

Sam Fu now watches the show as
A spectator in the audience.
He may laugh.
He may cry.
He carries on his normal activities.

Yet never forgets That which facilitates and is
The support of these activities.
Wu Hsin

Understanding is not birthed by
A mental process any more than
Blue sky is created by
A clearing in the clouds.
Wu Hsin

The Guest - Kabir
The god that man has imagined in his own image, the god
that man made according to his own wishes, the god that is
nothing but the projection of man's mind and desires; that
god is certainly dead. That god never really existed.
The untrue MUST cease for the truth to be.

You have to become more conscious of your Consciousness.
You have to become more aware of your Awareness.
A point of stillness comes where you are simply aware of
your [inner] Awareness...

When Awareness [the Core Being] is the only content of your
awareness, that is the moment when The Guest is found...

Above are
Brief excerpts from the link below....
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-guest-kabir.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

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BELOW
WITH
ADDITIONAL AFTERNOON PHOTOS

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SILENCE BEFORE SOUND "A quiet mind...." "...dead to its own." "The most powerful prayer,...." April 21, 2019

4/21/2019

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ALL TALKING & THINKING
<
A DEVOURING
CONTAMINATION<POSSESSION
OF ALL THAT IS REAL
<
APPROACH OF THE DREADED BLACK HOLE ABYSS
IS REALLY
A "WELCOME HOME" ANNOUNCEMENT
TO THE
AKASHA-TAO-CORE-OF-ORIGIN

∞

The Rx
FOR SEEMING DREADED BLACK HOLE AYBYSS:

BE STILL AND KNOW BEYOND KNOWING
<
EVEN MORE STILL
∞=∞
BE BEYOND KNOWING
THE SILENCE BEFORE SOUND
∞=∞
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5:57 AM-4/21/19

Something inside of me has reached to the place
where the world is breathing.
~ Kabir

The most powerful prayer,
one well nigh omnipotent,
and the worthiest work of all
is the outcome of a quiet mind.

The quieter it is
the more powerful,
the worthier, the deeper,
the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

What is a quiet mind?

A quiet mind is one
which nothing weighs on,
nothing worries,
which,
free from ties and from all self-seeking,
is wholly merged into the will of God
and dead to its own.
~ Meister Eckhart

The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.
Rumi

AFTERNOON

THE EYE OF THE STORM
JOHN MCINTOSH

There is no physical ‘cause’ for anything.
The manifested universe down to the most infinitesimal particle
all show up according to a ‘projection’
from the mind on the screen of consciousness.

A tiny shift in ‘Attention, Belief and Passion’
can alter worlds and how they play out.
The mind itself is ‘also’ a projection
and when combined with the belief in separation
produces a myriad of new beliefs
that sculpt the visible, sensually accessible world
each one experiences.

Only the SELF ‘as’ ONE is Real
and as Pure Consciousness Awareness,
everything that seems to be happening
is NOT somehow ‘out there’ but …
‘within’ IT.

Believing yourself to be a ‘separated being’
throws you into this swirling hurricane
of physical manifestation like a leaf in a storm.

When you are fully Aware,
this dynamic panorama shows up clearly as the dream it is and
... then, if you choose,
you may remain
IN it
but are never again
OF it.

Attempting to influence the storm
while you are still in this ‘leaf-awareness’
may shift the winds slightly
but the ‘effect’ of the storm-energy
will simply show up elsewhere in your life.

Only the True Awareness
of your ONE-ness
places you in the ‘eye of the storm’
where Peace is eternal.
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/the-eye-of-the-storm

Life abounds
in all variety of resources and resourcefulness.
Every moment is a divine encounter,
every facet is an exposure
to the boundless energies
by which life is sustained
and our spirits made whole."
Howard Thurman
Meditations of the Heart

Below is an example of the above Howard Thurman Quote...
...An Outing just before Afternoon Beach with Friend Chef Neff
who lives down the 'Jungle Path" from the Abode where i live.
The first photos are of her property and Rental Suites...
......then the Sanctuary Pool by Harbour Waterfront we often
Disappear to for Privacy/Sancturary/Relaxation...
...and Mama Hen and chicks on the road in town

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BEING’S BEINGLESSNESS "Whatever he does, He does nothing." "Just this breath,..." April 15, 2019

4/15/2019

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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 21-40

ROOTED IN THE GROUND
OF BEING’S BEINGLESSNESS
<
THE SOURCE OF ALL
FLOWERS IN/OF/AS
UNIMAGINABLE TRANSPARENCY
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4:50 AM-4/15/19

The Master
Verses 21-40

21
He has no desires.
He has cast off his chains.
He walks on air.

He is free,
Tumbling like a leaf in the wind,
From life to life.

22
He has gone beyond the world,
Beyond joy and sorrow.

His mind is always cool.
He lives as if he had no body.

23
His mind is cool and pure.
He delights in the Self.

There is nothing he wishes to renounce.
He misses nothing.

24
His mind is naturally empty.
He does as he pleases.

He is not an ordinary man.
Honor and dishonor mean nothing to him.

25
"The body does this, not I."
"My nature is purity."

With these thoughts,
Whatever he does,
He does nothing.

26
But he pretends not to know.

He finds freedom in this life,
But he acts like an ordinary man.

Yet he is not a fool.

Happy and bright,
He thrives in the world.

27
Weary of the vagaries of the mind,
He is at last composed.

He does not know or think,
Or hear or see.

28
Undistracted,
He does not meditate.

Unbound,
He does not seek freedom.

He sees the world,
But knows it is an illusion.

He lives like God.

29
Even when he is still,
The selfish man is busy.

Even when he is busy,
The selfless man is still.

30
He is free.

His mind is unmoved
By trouble or pleasure.

Free from action, desire or doubt,
He is still, and he shines!

31
His mind does not strive
To meditate or to act.

It acts or meditates without purpose.

32
When a fool hears the truth,
He is muddled.

When a wise man hears it,
He goes within.

He may look like a fool,
But he is not muddled.

33
The fool practices concentration
And control of the mind...

Cock Fight in Yard after Sunrise

...But the master is like a man asleep.
He rests in himself
And finds nothing more to do.

34
Striving or still,
The fool never finds peace....

Crowing Cock

...But the master finds it
Just by knowing how things are.

35
In this world
Men try all kinds of paths.

But they overlook the Self,
The Beloved.

Awake and pure,
Flawless and full,
Beyond the world.

36
The fool will never find freedom
By practicing concentration.

But the master never fails.

Just by knowing how things are,
He is free and constant.

37
Because the fool wants to become God,
He never finds him.

The master is already God,
Without ever wishing to be

38
The fool has no foundation.
Fretting to be free,
He only keeps the world spinning.

But the master cuts at its root,
The root of all suffering.

39
Because the fool looks for peace,
He never finds it.

But the master is always at peace,
Because he understands how things are.

40
If a man looks to the world,
How can he see himself?

The master is never distracted by this or that.

He sees himself,
The Self that never changes.

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 21-40
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

Settle in the here and now.
Reach down into the center
where the world is not spinning
and drink this holy peace.
Feel relief flood into every
cell. Nothing to do. Nothing
to be but what you are already.

Settle in the here and now.
Reach down into the center
where the world is not spinning
and drink this holy peace.

Feel relief flood into every
cell. Nothing to do. Nothing
to be but what you are already.
Nothing to receive but what
flows effortlessly from the
mystery into form.

Nothing to run from or run
toward. Just this breath,
Awareness knowing itself as
embodiment. Just this breath,
awareness waking up to truth.
― Danna Faulds

Above photo and Dana Faulds poem - posted on this Facebook page:
Ann Frances Ellis April 2, 2019

Limitless
Danna Faulds

Sun says, “Be your own
illumination.” Wren says,
“Sing your heart out,
all day long.” Stream says,
“Do not stop for any
obstacle.” Oak says,
“When the wind blows,
bend easily, and trust
your roots to hold.”

Stars say, “What you see
is one small slice of a
single modest galaxy.
Remember that vastness
cannot be grasped by mind.”
Ant says, “Small does not
mean powerless.”

Silence
says nothing. In the quiet,
everything comes clear.
I say, “Limitless.” I say,
“Yes.”
http://www.mindfullivingprograms.com/resources_poetry.php

The Gentle Voice
- John O'Donohue

When you take the time
to draw on your listening-imagination,
you will begin to hear this gentle voice
at the heart of your life.

It is deeper and surer than all the other voices of disappointment,
unease, self-criticism and bleakness.
All holiness is about learning to hear
the voice of your own soul.
It is always there
and the more deeply you learn to listen,
the greater surprises
and discoveries that will unfold.

To enter into the gentleness of your own soul
changes the tone and quality of your life.
Your life is no longer consumed by
hunger for the next event, experience or achievement.
You gain a new respect for yourself and others.

You begin to see through
the enchanting veils of illusion
that you had taken for reality.
You no longer squander yourself
on things and situations
that deplete your essence.
You know now that your true source
is not outside you.

Your soul is your true source,
and a new energy and passion
awakens within you.

John O'Donohue
From: Beauty, The Invisible Embrace

via - The Beauty We Love

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

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Both Danna Faulds Poems

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VAST SILENCE "...in sanest hours..." "...lesson of Nature." "...calm, like the stars, shining eternal." April 12, 2019

4/12/2019

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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 1-10

I HAVE ALREADY BEEN
WHATEVER IS
IN WORDLING PROJECTIONS

THE VAST SILENCE
IS TOO MUCH
FOR WORDS
¥I¥
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March 20, 2006
(Random Pick from Archived Files
See Read More below Afternoon Photos
for More)

17
Beyond All

1

The man who is happy and pure
And likes his own company
Gathers the fruit of his practice
And the fruit of wisdom.

2
The man who knows the truth
Is never unhappy in the world.

For he alone fills the universe.

3
Just as the elephant loves
The leaves of the sallaki tree,
But not the neem tree,
So the man who loves himself
Always spurns the senses.

4
It is hard to find
A man who has no desire
For what he has not tasted,
Or who tastes the world
And is untouched.

5
Here in the world
Some crave pleasure,
Some seek freedom.
But it is hard to find
A man who wants neither.

He is a great soul.

6
It is hard to find
A man who has an open mind,
Who neither seeks nor shuns
Wealth or pleasure,
Duty or liberation,
Life or death. . .

7
He does not want the world to end.
He does not mind if it lasts.

Whatever befalls him,
He lives in happiness.

For he is truly blessed.

8
Now that he understands,
He is fulfilled.
His mind is drawn within,
And he is fulfilled.

He sees and he hears,
He touches and smells and tastes,
And he is happy.

9
Whatever he does is without purpose.
His senses have been stilled.
His eyes are empty.

He is without desire or aversion.

For him the waters of the world
Have all dried up!

10
He is not asleep.
He is not awake.
He never closes his eyes
Or opens them.

Wherever he is,
He is beyond everything.
He is free.

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 1-10
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

AFTERNOON

whoever you are

You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life.
—Walt Whitman

I believe in an invisible universe
in which we mark out our dark accomplishment.
I feel the energy of the light that makes the stone break into music,
and I suffer from the arrow-tip of longing
that pierces us to death from the very beginning
and pushes us to go searching beyond,
where the wash of uncertainty begins.

—Nelly Sachs to Paul Celan
Stockholm, 1. 9. 1958 –
from their Correspondence...

There is, in sanest hours,
a consciousness, a thought that rises,
independent, lifted out from all else, calm,
like the stars, shining eternal.
This is the thought of identity -
yours for you, whoever you are, as mine for me.
Miracle of miracles, beyond statement,
most spiritual and vaguest of earth's dreams,
yet hardest basic fact, and only entrance to all facts.

In such devout hours,
in the midst of the significant wonders of heaven and earth,
(significant only because of the Me in the centre)
creeds, conventions, fall away and become of no account
before this simple idea.
Under the luminousness of real vision,
it alone takes possession,
takes value.

Like the shadowy dwarf in the fable, once liberated and look'd upon,
it expands over the whole earth,
and spreads to the roof of heaven.

The quality of being, in the object’s self,
according to its own central idea and purpose,
and of growing therefrom and thereto
— not criticism by other standards, and adjustments thereto --
is the lesson of Nature.
—Walt Whitman
Above in this color font from:
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/whoever-you-are.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Heart-to-Heart Resonance - Eric Baret and Rumi

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...
This is called transmission.
But nothing is transmitted.
No one transmits, no one receives;
There is [just] heart-to-heart [resonance].
There is only one heart.

Eric Baret

Some souls have gotten free of their bodies.
Do you see them?
Open your eyes for those who escape to meet
with other escapees, whose hearts associate in a way
they have of leaving their false selves to live
in a truer Self...

Rumi
From: Escaping to the Forest

What does pre-eternity mean to you?
What is your origin? The Source?
What is spirit?

Spend your life finding out your own state.
Those other mysteries will come clear.

God is depth. And you, you are also deep.
The same depth is in you.

Don't worry about terminology, pre-existence,
the original face, spirit, soul.
Search within yourself.
The great mystery is there.

I want someone with a living pulse,
a living friend...

************************************************************
Excerpts from the Sayings of Shams Tabriz
Soul Fury
Rumi and Shams Tabriz on Friendship
Coleman Barks

Sharings above in this font from:
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/04/heart-to-heart-resonance-eric-baret-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29
April 12, 2019

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WAILS & HOWLS **** APPLY VAST SILENCE "Even in sleep, I am awake." April 8, 2019

4/8/2019

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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 14
The Fool

6:42 AM - View from garden lot

WAILS & HOWLS
YOWLS & WAILS
VIA
PHYSICAL NERVE ENDINGS
MAP THE RELIEF REQUIRED
<
APPLY VAST SILENCE
VIA
PRESSURE TO PRESSURE
∞
ALSO REMEMBER:
ORIGINAL ONES’ AWARENESS
HAPPENS WITHOUT PHYSICAL TOUCH
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5:10 AM-4/8/19

14
The Fool

1
By nature my mind is empty.
Even in sleep,
I am awake.
I think of things without thinking.

All my impressions of the world
Have dissolved.

2
My desires have melted away.

So what do I care for money
Or the thieving senses,
For friends or knowledge or holy books?

3
Liberation,
Bondage,
What are they to me?

What do I care for freedom?

For I have known God,
The infinite Self,
The witness of all things.

4
Without, a fool.
Within, free of thought.

I do as I please,
And only those like me
Understand my ways.

Above from
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 14
The Fool
Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

Before she became fire, she was water.
Quenched the thirst of every dying creature.
She gave and she gave,
until she turned from sea to desert.
But instead of dying of the heat,
the sadness, the heartache,
she took all of her pain
and from her own ashes
became fire.
~Nikita Gill
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/04/08/29324/

AFTERNOON

The path to heaven lies through heaven,
and all the way to heaven is heaven.
–Catherine of Siena

The bird has no path;
where the bird flies is the path.

The fish has no path in water;
wherever it swims is the path.
–The Upanishads

Rather the flying bird, leaving no trace
Than the going beast
Marking the earth with his track.

The bird flies by and forgets
(As is only right). The beast
Where he no longer is
(And is therefore no use)
Marks that he was there before
(Which is also no use).

For to remember is to betray
Nature, since the nature of yesterday
Is not nature.
What has been, is nothing.
Remembering
Is failure to see.

Move on, bird, move on, teach me
To move on.

–Fernando Pessoa
Thomas Merton version

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/if-thou-but-settest-foot-on-this-path.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

http://www.goodworksonearth.org/spinning.html

Who (be quiet) Are you

Be still
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
To speak your

Name.
Listen
To the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
Are you? Whose
Silence are you?

Who (be quiet)
Are you (as these stones
Are quiet). Do not
Think of what you are
Still less of

What you may one day be.
Rather
Be what you are (but who?) be
The unthinkable one
You do not know.

O be still, while
You are still alive,
And all things live around you
Speaking (I do not hear)
To your own being,
Speaking by the Unknown
That is in you and in themselves.

“I will try, like them
To be my own silence:
And this is difficult. The whole
World is secretly on fire. The stones
Burn, even the stones
They burn me. How can a man be still or
Listen to all things burning? How can he dare
To sit with them when
All their silence
Is on fire?”

–Thomas Merton
in silence
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/04/who-be-quiet-are-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

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PRISTINE FORMLESS ABUNDANCE "Tear off the mask." "...cry of the Soul." "The Silence is palpable." March 30, 2019

3/30/2019

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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 5

7:05 AM View from Garden Lot...

PRISTINE FORMLESS ABUNDANCE
IN/OF/AS IMMATERIAL REALMS
OVERFLOWS FREELY
THRU TRANSPARENT
ORIGINAL ONES
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5:41 AM-3/30/19

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.
—Rumi

As a child I felt myself to be alone,
and I am still,
because I know things
and must hint at things
which others apparently know nothing of,
and for the most part
do not want to know.

–Carl Gustav Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, excerpt

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/03/tear-off-mask-your-face-is-glorious-rumi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

BELOW:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 5

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

Dissolving
Chapter 5

1
You are pure.
Nothing touches you.
What is there to renounce?
Let it all go,
The body and the mind.
Let yourself dissolve.

2
Like bubbles in the sea,
All the worlds arise in you.
Know you are the Self.
Know you are one.
Let yourself dissolve.

3
You see the world.
But like the snake in the rope,
It is not really there.
You are pure.
Let yourself dissolve.

4
You are one and the same
In joy and sorrow,
Hope and despair,
Life and death.

You are already fulfilled.

Let yourself dissolve.

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 5

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

AFTERNOON

There is a Living Silence that hears the cry of the Soul.

Abandon surface impressions and patterns.
Abandon what has become comfortable,
and embrace a sacred depth of being
that asks us to enter that which is wholly unknown
and that which fosters genuine metanoia.

This Holy Silence creates an inner clearing
that makes room for new life,
including
living, breathing Silence.
In this dimension
where time has become space,
life is enlivened.

We are fortunate to have night's solace.
In the silence that is created by the dark of night...
....that melancholy time,
when the stars remind us of the Silence of "God" -
here we can lean into the unknown,
setting aside life's demands and tasks,
and the oppressive weight
of our carefully constructed version
of who we think we are.

We can remember
how to see in the dark...
with our ears... perceiving the Silence
in its holy echoing and resonance,
its calling forth a knowing
that is from the Soul.

The Silence sends us on a different pilgrimage.
It guards the heart's fire and teaches us
to speak from within with a language
that is imbued with the Sacred.
Words thus nurtured in this Holy Silence
fly forth to lead us back
to the Silence from which we were born...

As we enter the mystery of Silence,
its presence resonates throughout the fibers of our flesh
to the soul inwardly and to the cosmos outwardly.
The inward silence of solitude
meets up with the Great Silence of Cosmic Wisdom.
When we do not cultivate this,
we lose access to the presence of the Silence.
Without silence we are lost
and cannot get still enough
to find
our way back.

Silence bears the wholeness we keep looking for
while we do not know exactly what we are looking for.
It is around us and within us.
It goes to the deepest depths of the Soul
and to the outermost reaches of the cosmos
and continuously unites the two
at the centering place of our Heart.
Here everything comes alive again
as if for the first time.
We may be shocked to notice
we had not even realized we had lost ourselves.
And feel a new attunement to Spirit as a directly felt reality.
The Silence is palpable.

In Silence everything displays its depth.
We are part of the depth of everything around us.
We see that separation between
ourselves and the world is an illusion.
We and the world
each mirror the other
within the depths of the Soul.

Silence is not merely the void
from which things spring up,
it is a living presence.
The deeper we enter into Silence
the more we become aware
that this living presence is primary.

Robert Sardello
From: Silence - The Mystery of Wholeness
from the Introduction and Chapter 1

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/03/silence-mystery-of-wholeness-sardello.html

Rumi - Silence is the guide

The story admits of being told up to this point,
But what follows is hidden, and inexpressible in words.
If you should speak and try a hundred ways to express it,
'Tis useless; the mystery becomes no clearer,
You can ride on saddle and horse to the sea-coast,
But then you must use a horse of wood (i.e. a boat).
A horse of wood is useless on dry land,
It is the special vehicle of voyagers by sea.
Silence is this horse of wood,
Silence is the guide and support of men at sea.

The Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi

See Read More Below for
Ashtavakra Gita - Chapter 5

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CESSATION OF EXPLANATIONS "...gazing beyond..." "...energies, which are immortal." March 28, 2019

3/28/2019

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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 3

BEING FLOWED IN/OF/AS THE ETERNAL NOW
WITHOUT WORDS OR THOUGHTS…
…CESSATION OF EXPLANATIONS
∞
AN ORIGINAL-SILENCE LIFE
TELLS THE STORY
WITHOUT A PERSONAL “I”
<
TRANSPARENCY’S RELIEF
ew
4:55 AM-3/28/19

sunrise

The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally
that the mind's muddy river,
this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash,
cannot be dammed,
and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort
that might lead to madness.

Instead you must allow the muddy river
to flow unheeded in the dim channels of consciousness;
you raise your sights;
you look along it, mildly,
acknowledging its presence without interest
and gazing beyond it into the realm of the real
where subjects and objects act and rest purely, without utterance.
–Annie Dillard
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/03/sunrise.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
(the above quote read
just moments after the above Morning Whisper Emerged)

AFTERNOON

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 3

Chapter 3
Wisdom

1
You know the Self,
By nature one
Without end.
You know the Self,
And you are serene.
How can you still desire riches?

2
When from ignorance
You see silver in mother-of-pearl,
Greed arises.
From ignorance of the Self
Desire arises
For the world where the senses whirl.

3
Knowing yourself as
That In which the worlds rise and fall
Like waves in the ocean,
Why do you run about so wretchedly?

4
For have you not heard?
You are pure awareness,
And your beauty is infinite!
So why let lust mislead you?

5
The man who is wise
Knows himself in all things
And all things in himself.
Yet how strange!
He still says,
"This is mine."

6
Determined to be free,
He abides in the oneness
Beyond all things.
Yet how strange!
Indulging in passion, he weakens,
And lust overwhelms him.

7
Feeble with age,
Still he is filled with desire,
When without doubt he knows
That lust is the enemy of awareness.
Indeed how strange!

8
He longs to be free . . .
He has no care for this world
Or the next,
And he knows what is passing
Or forever.
And yet how strange!
He is still afraid of freedom.

9
But he who is truly wise
Always sees the absolute Self.
Celebrated, he is not delighted.
Spurned, he is not angry.

10
Pure of heart,
He watches his own actions
As if they were another's.
How can praise or blame disturb him?

11
With clear and steady insight
He sees this world is a mirage,
And he no longer wonders about it.
How can he fear the approach of death?

12
Pure of heart,
He desires nothing,
Even in despair.
He is content In the knowledge of the Self.
With whom may I compare him?

13
With clear and steady insight
He knows that whatever he sees
Is by its very nature nothing.
How can he prefer one thing to another?

14
He is beyond all duality,
Free from desire,
He has driven from his mind
All longing for the world.
Come what may,
Joy or sorrow,
Nothing moves him.

Above in this font from:

The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 3

http://www.austincc.edu/adechene/Ashta%20Byrom%20short.pdf

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

the over-soul, excerpts

... So come I to live in thoughts, and act with
energies, which are immortal.
Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said,
that "its beauty is immense," man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh,
and be less astonished at particular wonders;
he will learn that there is no profane history;
that all history is sacred;
that the universe is represented in an atom,
in a moment of time.

He will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches,
but he will live with a divine unity.
He will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life,
and be content with all places and with any service he can render.
He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency
of that trust which carries God with it,
and so
hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson
1841
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-over-soul-excerpts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

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Chapter 3
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
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AFTERLIFE OF A MINDING-MIND March 16, 2019 "no personal self = no personal God"

3/16/2019

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AFTERLIFE OF A MINDING-MIND:
NOTHING BETWEEN ME & THEE
...REGARDLESS OF FORMLESSNESS IN FORM
OF ANYTHING OR ANYONE…
CREATIONS’ CORE IS THE SAME
∞
WHEN THERE IS NO ME OR MINE
THERE IS NO PROBLEM
ew
12:09 AM-3/16/19

The SELF simply ‘IS’ and has no frame of reference
with which to ‘compare’ one state of Being with another …
there is only BEING.
While limitless attempts have been made
to ‘describe’ BEING-ness,
none are possible since BEING is infinite
and cannot be contained
with a frame of words.
John McIntosh
Excerpt from this Excellent short sharing
https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/labels
Read just AFTER today's Morning Whisper above Surfaces

It is far more than the discovery of life without a self.
The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence
into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails
a difficult and prolonged readjustment.
The reflexive mechanism of the mind
-or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious -
is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind
is ever after held in a fixed now moment
out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze
upon the Unknown.
-- Bernadette Roberts
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8712-bernadette-roberts

Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside.
And not only do we not need a self to love God,
but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him,
for that in us which knows God,
is God.
-- Bernadette Roberts

The truest communication with God
is absolute, total silence;
there is not a single word in existence
that can convey this communication.
-- Bernadette Roberts

Coming home that day from the library, Roberts turned her gaze inward
and saw there was no longer a center, no longer a self.
There was emptiness.
She felt great joy and lightness with this knowledge.
She decided that this emptiness and joy was Christ.
She could live forever with that.
However, further annihilation was in the cards.

Chapter 2
After a while, the joy of the emptiness began to wane
and Roberts sought
to rejuvenate it by spending time alone,
simply gazing into the
emptiness,
which she was still sure was God.

On one such occasion, the emptiness expanded rapidly
and every sense of life became drained from her.
The realization that came was:
"When there is no personal self,
there is also no personal God."

This marked the end of an interior spiritual life, as well as any other
kind of life. Roberts felt now that she was on an unknown path,
lifeless, yet she recognized life all around her. She intensely felt the
need to be in nature, as life at home was too routine and lifeless.

Though she found herself in the midst of life during her time of the
day she spent in nature, she still had to deal with an intense
emptiness.

In a matter of days another realization arrived, a new way of perceiving
reality: "God of life was not IN anything, it was just the reverse:
everything was IN God."

At this point, Roberts comments on the limitations of language: "One
thing is for sure: as long as we are caught up in words, definitions,
and all that the mind wants to cling to, we can never see how it works.
And until we can go beyond our notions regarding the true nature of life
we will never realize how totally secure we really are
and how all the fighting for individual survival and self-security
is a waste of energy."

Roberts points out that the mystic depends upon the separation of God
and self for his mysticism, for his oneness experience that he or she so
values. But the no-self experience becomes the Only God experience, and
with God eternally accessible, where is the mystical experience, the
lights and visions? It is the end of the mystical life and the beginning
of real life.

And that is what Roberts is talking about all along. She repeats that
there is the theologically defined oneness of self with God, known in
its highest category by the mystics; and there is "undefineable
essential Oneness" beyond self and God, which theology does not deal
with. It is the becoming of God, not merely the relationship with God.
These are the two ways of seeing and knowing.

Above excerpts from
ww.nonduality.com/berna.htm

More Re: Bernadette Roberts
See
Category Bernadette Roberts on right hand side of this page in Categories Column
(above Archives Listing)

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PURE GRACE AUTHENTICITY PERFECTED ANTIDOTE "...if death also traveled toward life..." JANUARY 22, 2019

1/22/2019

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6:43 AM MoonSetting in western sky

PURE GRACE AUTHENTICITY
SWARMS TO THIS LIFE
AS A NO-WAR-STRUGGLE
PERFECTED ANTIDOTE
FOR NIETZSCHE’S MONSTERS AND ABYSS*
<
SUCH SYNCHRONOUS EVENTS BECOMING
A WAY OF LIFE
QUANTUMMING THE NAKEDNESS OF
AKASHA TAO CORE
SILENT TRUTH OF BEING
ew
2:37 AM-1/22/19

*Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche

Trajectory of Life - Richard Wehrman

He was surprised
to see the gray clouds,
for the sunrise was clear
with blue sky, and he
assumed, as he always had,
that the sky moved
as the sun moved, east
to west,...

...yet here the clouds
came, traveling west to
east, and he thought of
the trajectory he imagined
his life took, of birth
to death, infancy to old age,...

...and he wondered if he
had missed something,...

...if the winds moved
differently than he supposed,
if death also traveled
toward life,...

...if there were
more currents than he
could imagine;...

...and if
imagining itself, setting
a distinct course, one he
planned in advance, kept
him from seeing,...

...if he
were at this moment
actually growing younger,
at the same time he grew
older;...

...if he was in fact
moving in ways he could
barely sense, into another
life, into other worlds.

Richard Wehrman
From: Being Here
original title: Traveling
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2019/01/trajectory-of-life-richard-wehrman.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

http://www.merlinwood.net/index.html
http://www.richardwehrman.com/chapbooks/index.html

AFTERNOON

When man closes his lips,
God begins to speak.

Gayan
Inayat Khan

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BATHE & IMMERSE "...my longing burned..." January 11, 2019

1/11/2019

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BATHE & IMMERSE ALL IN
OVERFLOWING
CHANGELESS
ORIGINAL TAO AKASKA CORE
<
NOW IS ALL THERE IS
THE SILENCE OF ‘NOT’
NETI-NETI*
ew
3:58 AM-1/11/19
*Beyond This - Beyond That
https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/5325/neti-neti

I have longed for people I thought I would die without.
And wanted books and music I was sure would bring me peace.
And I’ve driven myself to accomplish things
I thought would secure my worth.

And though I seldom touched what I longed for
or got what I wanted
or achieved what I pushed for,
the remnants of my longing burned
like ancient wood on the fire of my soul,
making the heart of my being burn brighter.

To my surprise,
I loved and worked and pushed till I used my self up.
To my surprise,
using my self up was the fate under all my aspirations.

At the end of all we want,
we’re meant to glow.

So long and want and dream
till you exhaust your heart’s desire.

We learn so much from longing,
and wanting, and dreaming.
Mostly, that they are not the mansions
we dream of living in,
but the wood that keeps our fire going.
~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/01/11/28789/

AFTERNOON
(...and yes, it was such a dark afternoon sky...
not rainy in the least...just dark....
this is same camera setting
that shows the bright and vivid blues
that are usual
for most afternoons....)

All Wordings below in this font are
Random Pick from
REVELATIONS
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Series of Whispers
August 2002
Youthanasia Acres
Barnlot near Dublin, Indiana

Thursday, August 08, 2002
4:43 AM

I AM NEVER IDENTIFIED WITH MATTER.
OTHERS ARE NEVER IDENTIFIED WITH SPIRIT.
THIS SOLVES THE MYSTERY
ERASING ALL CONFUSION

WHAT THEY CONSIDER DEATH IS LIFE TO ME.
WHAT I KNOW AS LIFE IS DEATH TO THEM.

THE TRUTH INVOLVES ALL BEYOND THE EITHER/OR.

“AND THE FLESH BECAME WORD”

Friday, August 16, 2002
5:30 AM

If I Remain here on estate rest of earthly days…..that is OK.
If I am Re-located, that is OK.
It matters not so long as I AM that I AM and BE,
beyond human awareness,
the Truth of Being.

Sunday, August 18, 2002
5:38 AM

ANIMALS & NATURE RESPOND/THRIVE
WITH PURE LOVE.
PEOPLE RESPOND WITH AGENDA
AND FEAR.
MOST HUMANS CANNOT REMEMBER
DIVINE LOVE IN THEIR SOULS

Wednesday, August 21, 2002
4:39 AM

EMPTIED OF IT all
EXCEPT THE “ALL”

WITHOUT OLD PARADIGMS
IT DOESN’T MATTER

‘KNOWING TOO MUCH’
MAKES OTHERS’ PARADIGMS
A CHATTERY TOWER OF BABEL

BY ABSORBING OTHERS’ PARADIGMS
I BECOME A CHATTERY TOWER

THE SILENCE KNOWS AND IS

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UNDILUTED CREATION "...generous sea sends me home..." January 9, 2019

1/9/2019

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ORIGINAL TRUTH OF BEING
IS SO BY UNKNOWING<BEING
IT IS SO
<
AN UNDILUTED CREATION
THAT HAS NO THINKING WORDS*
<
ONLY THE SILENCE OF
PRISTINE CLARITY REMAINS
AH MUNI!
ew
3:46 AM-1/9/19

*If you wish to enter into this cloud of unknowing you must do something more:
“Just as the cloud of unknowing lies above you, between you and your God,
so you must fashion a cloud of forgetting beneath you,
between you and every living thing.

The cloud of unknowing,
will perhaps leave you with the feeling that you are far from God.
But no,
if it is authentic,
only the absence of a
cloud of forgetting
keeps you from him now…..

You are to concern yourself with no creature
whether material or spiritual
nor with their situation and doings
whether good or ill.

To put it briefly, during this work
you must abandon them all beneath
the cloud of forgetting.”[v]
https://spectrummagazine.org/article/delcy-kuhlman/2013/02/18/reading-cloud-unknowing

…the emptiness expanded rapidly
and every sense of
life became drained from her.
The realization that came was:
"When there is no personal self,
there is also no personal God.
re: Bernadette Roberts
*http://www.nonduality.com/berna.htm
See both categories for Bernadette Roberts
Categories Column on right of any OceanSpeak page

Rather than focus on what needs changing,
TURN THE ATTENTION TO WHAT CANNOT CHANGE
Wu Hsin
Solving Yourself
Aug 19

AFTERNOON

Seaweed

I close my eyes
and breathe -
smell the seaweed
strewn across the sand,
hauntingly familiar,
the mind-madness
momentarily, magically
arrested.
Old memories
capture me
enrapture me
and I am freed
to wander
through old dreams.
Child, girl, woman
in moments of bliss
on English days.
Cold seas,
shells and seaweed.
Chalky country lanes,
the summer smell
of hot tar melting
on the road,
shimmering
like oily water
in the sun -
or a meadow,
cowslips and cowpats
sharing the space.

As I raise my face
in this foreign land
looking for release,
the smell of seaweed
more evocative
than any perfume
rescues me.
It winds itself
around me,
lingering,
like longing does.
Healing.

Senses saturated,
I drift away.
The generous sea
sends me home
on scented waves of salt.

VixanWriter
Nassau, Bahamas - 1/7/19
www.Lifelineswritingservice.com

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