Category: Taylor Caldwell

EAR OF SILENCE - AKASHA WOMB "...as a human soul." August 22, 2020

8/22/2020

THE SILENT EAR….

THE SILENT EAR….

THE EAR OF SILENCE PREVAILS

ORIGIN’S LISTENING OVERFLOWS

A STILLNESS BEYOND BELIEF

AH! BLESSED WOMB OF PEACE*
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2:09 AM-8/22/20

*The most desperate need of men today is not
a new vaccine for any disease,
or a new religion, or a new "way of life".

Man does not need to go to the moon or other solar systems.
He does not require bigger and better bombs and missiles.
He will not die if he does not get “better housing” or more vitamins.
He will not expire of frustration if he is unable to buy
the brightest and newest gadgets,
or if all his children cannot go to college.

His basic needs are few,
and it takes little to acquire them,
in spite of the advertisers.
He can survive on a small amount of bread
and in the meanest shelter.
He always did.

His real need, his most terrible need,
is for someone to listen to him,
not as a “patient,”
but
as a human soul.

Taylor Caldwell
THE LISTENER
(excerpt from Foreword)

Can read more via "Look Inside" on link below:
https://www.amazon.com/Listener-Taylor-Caldwell-ebook/dp/B007MUJ1Q0/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=taylor+caldwell+the+listener&qid=1598087793&sr=8-2

Is there no one to listen? you ask.
Ah yes, there is one who listens,
who will always listen.

Hasten to him, my friend!
He waits on the hill for you.
For you, alone.
Seneca
quoted in
The Listener - Taylor Caldwell

All Photos for today's OceanSpeak from: August 22, 2016
AUTHENTICITY OF SOUL IMMORTAL GRACE Sunrise/Afternoon August 22, 2016
CtrlClick above Title (or below) to open above OceanSpeak
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/authenticiy-of-soul-immortal-grace

AFTERNOON

And that’s how we measure out our real respect for people -
by the degree of feeling they can register,
the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate - and enjoy.
End of sermon.

As Buddha says:
live like a mighty river.

And as the old Greeks said:
live as though all your ancestors
were living again
through you.
—Ted Hughes...

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/08/portions-and-percipients.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

Every man is more than just himself;
he also represents the unique,
the very special and always significant and remarkable
point at which the world’s phenomena intersect,
only once in this way,
and never again.

—Hermann Hesse (1887 - 1962)
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/08/portions-and-percipients.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

True happiness is to enjoy the present,
without anxious dependence upon the future,
not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears
but to rest satisfied with what we have,
which is sufficient,
for he that is so
wants nothing.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach.
A wise man is content with his lot,
whatever it may be,
without wishing for what he has not.
― Seneca

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca

As is a tale, so is life:
not how long it is,
but how good it is,
is what matters.
― Seneca

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms --
you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
― Seneca

If a man knows not to which port he sails,
no wind is favorable.
― Seneca

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SMILE OF ORIGIN "...without speaking a word..." May 23, 2020 "...the unknown one who sits....and listens."

5/23/2020

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THE LISTENER*
THE SILENCE THAT IS SOURCE
AN INAUDIBLE, INVISIBLE OVERFLOWING SMILE OF ORIGIN
BE THE LISTENING, OVERFLOWING SMILE OF SILENCE
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3:32 AM-5/23/20
*THE LISTENER
Taylor Caldwell
(See Read More below Afternoon Photos
For More re: Taylor Caldwell)

Who was the mysterious listener?
And what strange power did
he offer to fifteen people on a desperate quest?

John Godfrey, retired lawyer in a large midwestern city,
erects a beautiful marble sanctum
as a monument to his late wife. Inside,
behind an electronic screen
that hides him from each visitor, is
the unknown one who sits. . .and listens.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369088.The_Listener

Perceptions of The Universe - Selected Quotes

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
Some part of our being knows this is where we came from.
We long to return, and we can because the cosmos is
also within us.

We are made of star stuff.

Carl Sagan
Cosmos

What are we?

A fleeting, intricate presence riding a tiny speck of water
and rock, out here in the dark, sailing the ship of wonder
ever more deeply into the void from which we came...

Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal
from:
The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained

When dew falls as tears from the morning sky,
When riverside trees sparkle in sunlight,
So close in my heart their shadows fall,
Then I know
That the Universe is a floating lotus
In the holy lake of my mind.

Then I know:
I am the voice within the Voice,
The song within the Song,
The life within the Life,
The light breaking through the heart of darkness.

Rabindranath Tagore
from - "A Flight of Swans"
translated by Aurobindo Bose

... thus you came into being
from non-existence...

...like a star without a name...

Move across the night sky
with those anonymous lights...

Rumi

How we perceive affects what we believe,
what we believe affects what our perception is...
MM

All quotes above in this font from:
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/05/perceptions-of-universe-selected-quotes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

All Photos from: May 23, 2019 Unless Otherwise Noted
AFTERLIFE EXPRESSING AS FORM "...toward the immeasurable." "....crystal clearness." ".. Silence of Nothing-ness." May 23, 2019
CtrlClick above link (or below) to open above OceanSpeak
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/afterlife-expressing-as-form-toward-the-immeasurable-crystal-clearness-silence-of-nothing-ness-may-23-2019

AFTERNOON

IF YOU’RE LUCKY

Some speak of the unprovable,
And ask you to have faith.
Others hold forth their “beliefs”,
As if they were facts.
Some break out a whiteboard,
Asserting, “All is Consciousness.”
If you’re lucky, you’ll meet a poet,
Who makes no sense at all.
Luckier still, you’ll meet one,
Who, without speaking a word…
Ignites the Ember in your Heart.

Chuck Surface
In the Garden of The Beloved
May 20 at 5:14 PM ·

www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
www.facebook.com/InTheGardenOfTheBeloved

Birdsong brings relief
to my longing.

I am just as ecstatic as they are,
but with nothing to say.

Please, universal soul, practice
some song, or something, through me.
Rumi
May 20

A bird delegation comes to Solomon
complaining. Why is it
you never criticise the nightingale?

Because my way, the nightingale explains
for Solomon, is different.
Mid-March to mid-June I sing.

The other nine months,
while you continue chirping,
I am silence.
Rumi
May 21

Pray the prayer that is the essence
of every ritual. God, I have no hope.
I am torn to shreds. You are my first,
my last and only refuge.

Do not do daily prayers like a bird
pecking its head up and down.

Prayer is an egg.
Hatch out
the total helplessness inside.
Rumi
July 11

Your True Life

As you start to walk out on the way
the way appears.

As you cease to be,
true life begins.

As you grow smaller,
this world cannot contain you.

You will be shown a being
that has no you in it.
Rumi
December 26

All Above Rumi Quotes from
A YEAR WITH RUMI
Daily Readings
Coleman Barks

See Read More Below
for
Talylor Caldwell
The Listener & More

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UNSULLIED ETERNAL NOW "...remembrance of our true origins." "...please, stay close for the time we have." February 8, 2020

2/8/2020

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Quarantined in the Abode due to "Frigid" Temperature (69 degrees!) Rain and Wind.
Sunrise/Afternoon photos today from 5 years ago February 8, 2015
SILENCE ON FIRE
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/speaking-by-the-unknown-silence-on-fire-sunriseafternoon-february-8-2015

CESSATION OF ALL THINKING’S WORDINGS
UNFETTERS SOUL’S EFFORTLESS EASE
MAINTAINS AUTHENTICITY OF THE LISTENER*
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AKASHA TAO CORE PRESIDES
=
WITHOUT IDO’S ADO ...
“THE LISTENER”*
OVERWHELMS THINKING’S
PETRIFYING OVERWHELMENTS
=
THE UNSULLIED ETERNAL NOW
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3:57 AM-2/8/20
*Taylor Caldwell – THE LISTENER
https://www.amazon.com/Listener-Taylor-Caldwell/dp/0884111660

Sing to me the Song...
Sing to me the Song of the Heart,
as you have heard it...
Do you know that song?

Has "The Mystery"
kissed your Heart?
Does It fill your body?
Does It Sing to you?

Sing to me Its lullaby that
sings through you -
in soothing syllables of sound,
lyrical and refined,
emerging from an unknown
place deep within you -
that brings you back to life again.

Sing to me that song - the one
that enlivens your very being,
and warms you like the sun.

Let me be moved by those melodies
playing from the depths
of our Inner Being.

Sing to me that song,
the one that makes the body
tingle with delight, with recognition,
and remembrance of
our true origins.

Sing to me that song...

Mystic Meandering
Feb. 6, 2020

Friends are those people who know
the words to the song
in your heart and sing it
back to you when you have
forgotten the words.

Anonymous
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/02/sing-to-me-song.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

AFTERNOON

When humbled, we finally stop fighting—
against life,
against the tide of time,
against the avalanche of disappointment,
if we can outwait the stubbornness of our dreams.

For every storm,
no matter how fierce,
dissipates itself.
The question is how much damage
it does while wearing itself out.

Eventually, once broken open,
once our soft center spits out its pearl,
we try to put all
that we’ve damaged back together.

And no one tells us that the storm hurts itself.
It guts its own center.
Even the surf crashes into itself.

All this to say,
I’m sorry for the path of my storm.
I know some things can’t be put back together,
and we have to live with what we’ve done.

In time,
the hardest nut will crack and wonder why
it took so long to lean into love.

But now that we’re here,
I don’t know what to say,
other than,
please, stay close
for the time we have.

Like flowers,
we spend long hours underground,
in the dark,
all for these few moments
of blossom
that we never thought would come.
~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/02/08/31669/

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"UNVEILED SOUL "...no extremes are possible..." 12/30/19 "...a virgin alone...“ "...place of resurrection...”

12/30/2019

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BE STILL & LISTEN
<
ERRONEOUS SHROUDS DISAPPEAR
CLARITY SIMPLY IS
AS UNVEILD SOUL OCCURS
<
A TRANSPARENT CONDUIT THAT ONLY LISTENS
=
AT ONE WITH THE REALMS
BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHTS
SILENCE SPEAKS*
ALL JUST IS
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5:41 AM-12/30/19
*See Taylor Caldwell's
THE LISTENER
https://read.amazon.com/nc/?kcrFree=only&asin=B007MUJ1Q0

New Year's Wish

The past year has been for me and for many others,
an opportunity to cling to God
in the face of hardship and pain.
In our acceptance and surrender
we grow closer to God.

To recognize your powerlessness in the face of suffering can be the door to a small circle of peace within,
a stillpoint.
It used to seem to me that
Catholic saints were obsessed with suffering,
gladly accepting and even welcoming it.

This is because pain brought them
to the deep truth of God’s nearness.

In A Passage through Self, Bernadette said:

"Those in the unitive state
now have a balanced psyche
and no extremes are possible.
Once their feelings reach a certain threshold,
that is it,
they come to an end.

They are either stopped and go no further
or they, as it were, bump into God.
So these feelings act kind of as a reminder of God’s presence.

That is why when some saints reached the unitive state
they actually went out and sought suffering,
looked for problems because they realized this situation.

The greater the problems,
the greater the awareness of God.
The more they had to put up with,
the more they had to contact this center,
and the more that center was revealed."

Rather than wishing you
a prosperous and peace-filled New Year,
let me wish you instead everything you need
to draw closer to God.
May the fire of your longing light every day.

Excerpt from:
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2019/12/new-years-wish.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29

See this link for more re: Bernadette Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Roberts

AFTERNOON

Quotes below in this front from EXCELLENT essay re: Thomas Merton
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

Whatever else can be said about Merton, and much has been said,
one thing is certain: he was a monk who loved trees.
One might say I had decided to marry the silence of the forest,
he wrote.
"The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.
Out of the heart of that dark warmth
comes the secret that is heard only in silence …
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."
He had been searching for that center his whole life.
Le point vierge, he called it.

This monk who wed the silence of the forest
was also a gregarious lover of people,
which is exactly why he needed to flee their presence.
He yearned for the kind of deep solitude
where he could shed his public persona
and live for God alone.
Perhaps he would find it among the California redwoods,
along the Lost Coast,
or in New Mexico’s Chama River Canyon.

le point vierge
I first discovered the phrase in Merton’s book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, where he 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.
Merton helped me articulate a belief
I’d long suspected, that the core of our being is not rotten,
as my Protestant upbringing had insisted,
but is a place of untouched beauty and wholeness
reserved for God alone,
a place beyond ego that no evil can touch.

Merton borrowed the phrase le point vierge
from Sufi scholar Louis Massignon,
who borrowed the idea
from the ninth-century Sufi Mansur al-Hallaj.
As al-Hallaj wrote,
“Our hearts, in their secrecy,
are a virgin alone,
where no dreamer’s dream penetrates--
the heart where the presence of the Lord penetrates,
there to be conceived.”

Eight crows wheeled in the sky overhead,
casting their shadows on the bare hillside.
He read the Astavakra Gita on reincarnation,
looked out over the Pacific, and wrote:

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.

In the fall he would cross this Asian ocean on a different pilgrimage, one that would be his last.
Before he left, he photographed Needle Rock.

The great Yang-Yin of sea rock mist,
diffused light and half hidden mountain …
an interior landscape, yet there.
In other words,
what is written within me is there.
“Thou art that.”

As Merton wrote in his essay “From Pilgrimage to Crusade,” the peregrini set out not in order to visit a sacred shrine
but to seek solitude and exile.

If the peregrinus had a goal, it was to find his
“place of resurrection”--

a specific place where he might live out his remaining days
in prayer and solitude.

This was not simply wandering for its own sake, Merton wrote:

“It was a journey to a mysterious, unknown,
but divinely appointed place,
which was to be the place of the monk’s
ultimate meeting with God.”

Whether Merton sought God here in this desert canyon
or along the desolate Mendocino coast
or in the deep hush of the redwoods,
he began to suspect that his search for the perfect hermitage
was a chimera.

The country which is nowhere is the real home.
His 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.

The Christian of the future, Rahner said fifty years ago,
will either be a mystic or cease to exist.
Brother Leander looks hard at me with his good eye.
“And what is mysticism?
The experience of God in the interior of one’s being.
I always liked Hermann Hesse’s definition of a mystic:
a poet without verses,
a painter without a brush,
a musician without notes.”

I tell Brother Leander that I pray the Jesus Prayer,
a kind of mantra used by the early desert monks.
“Yes, laddie, and you must pray the prayer
not only with your lips or your mind
but with your heart.”

IT WAS A COLLECTIVE madness that befell European Christianity
in the medieval years when Christians gave up wandering
in search of God and turned their search
toward wealth and power.
By the twelfth century,
the peaceful and defenseless peregrinatio of the Irish monks
had been replaced by the violence of the Crusades.
When knights, kings, and priests attempted to liberate
the land of Abraham through force, Merton wrote,
they implanted within the European psyche
an insidious pattern of conquest
that would repeat itself many times
over the coming centuries.

By the time Europeans set foot in North America,
the pilgrim mentality and crusader mentality had finally fused,
creating a singular and disastrous form of alienation
that resulted in the conquest of indigenous peoples.

As Merton wrote:
“Centuries of ardent, unconscious desire for the Lost Island
had established a kind of right to paradise once it was found.
It never occurred to the sixteenth-century Spaniard or Englishman to doubt for a moment that the new world was entirely and rightly his.
It had been promised and given to him by God.
It was the end of centuries of pilgrimage.”

“There is no lost island merely for the individual,”
Merton concluded in his essay on pilgrimage.
“We are all pieces of the paradise isle.”

In no time is that more true than now,
in this age when our paradise isle
is threatened at every turn.
Perhaps the meaning of pilgrimage now
in this age of climate change and species loss
is that the fruits of our inner life in God
cannot remain ours alone;
they must be shared for the sake of all life.
The portal to the invisible must be visible.
“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.

This is the work:
to take these feelings of loneliness and exile
and bring them into the furnace of the heart,
where emotional abandonment becomes mystical abandonment.
Sitting in this tiny patch of shade,
surrounded by white sage and ocotillo,
I bring these thoughts into prayer.

Normally my prayers are a dull litany of requests and complaints,
the hypes and gripes of a lukewarm spiritual life,
but here on the edge of this vast mesa,
I feel those petitions giving way to something more compelling,
an opening into a more spacious country.
An uncomplicated resting in God,
who seems to have no other agenda
than to welcome me into this place of
silence and mercy and at-oneness.
A feeling of Presence
that is so much more than the breeze on my face
or the sweat evaporating on my skin.

Quotes above in this front from EXCELLENT essay re: Thomas Merton
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

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UNUTTERABLE MOVEMENT THE INVISIBLE LISTENER May 13, 2019

5/13/2019

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NOW IS ALL THAT IS
<
A MATTER OF PERCEPTION
∞
WITHOUT WORDS OR THOUGHTS
<
THE ONLY REAL FREEDOM
OF
TRUTH OF BEING
JUST IS
∞
ONLY THE
UNUTTERABLE UNTHINKABLE
MOVEMENT
OF LIFE ITSELF
REMAINS
<
THE INVISIBLE LISTENER *
AS TRANSPARENT CONDUIT OF LIFE
PREVAILS
∞

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5:31 AM-5/13/19
*See Categories THE LISTENER, Taylor Caldwell, Bernadette Roberts
in right hand column for Categories

Suppose you wanted to reach the sun in a cart pulled by oxen
– assuming there is a proper road from here to the sun for your oxen –
how many thousands of years would it take you?

If you were to go by boat on the cosmic ocean,
it would take you almost as much time.

If you were to take the train,
you would get there faster.
If you were to take a plane,
you would arrive even sooner.

And if you were to travel at the speed of light,
you would arrive in eight minutes and a few seconds.

What do these examples mean?
That someone who travels in an ox cart, that is,
who only uses the physical body’s means,
the old methods to solve all problems,
will only discover the truth thousands of years later.

For someone who travels on water, that is,
who walks at the speed of ordinary feelings,
it will take almost as long.

Someone who travels by air, who, in other words,
uses their intellect,
will go faster.

But someone who can travel via the spirit and intuition,
moves at the speed of light
and
discovers the truth immediately.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/truth-the-only-the-spirit-allows-us-to-reach-it-quickly_2019-05-13

for your raw and willy-nilly ways....
it's all welcome on the wave of breath....

every time you ask yourself,
"Who am I now?"
you receive a little grace...

See More on this link:
.https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/05/13/29612/

AFTERNOON

How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the strongest thing and pulls it toward
the heart of the world.
Each thing - each stone, blossom, child - is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance, push out beyond what we belong to
for some empty freedom.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

So, like children, we begin again to learn from the things,
because they are in God's heart; they have never left him.
This is what the things can teach us:
to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness.

Even a bird must do that before he can fly.

—Rainer Maria Rilke
what the things can teach us
Anita Barrows/Joanna Macy translation

https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2019/05/no-snowflake-in-avalanche-ever-feels.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself,
you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs,
expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system.
The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind,
Knowing without Thinking.
Gabrielle Roth

To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self.
Sweat is holy water, prayer beads,
pearls of liquid that release your past.
The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray.
The more you pray,
the closer you are to ecstasy.
Gabrielle Roth

Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist;
shape-shifting through archetypal energy,
between your darkness and fields of light,
your body and spirit,
your heaven and hell,
until you land in the moment of sweet surrender;
when you,
as a dancer,
disappear into the dance.
Gabrielle Roth

Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.
Gabrielle Roth

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.
~ Gabrielle Roth

Attachment guarantees that you will wake up every morning with a mission:
to prove you are who you think you are—today.
But it’s a total energy drain.
You’re so busy performing a role
that you miss out on the freedom to improvise,
to be real rather than rehearsed.
― Gabrielle Roth,
Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom

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

5/9/2019

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

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

O GREAT BREATHER!
INHALING ME GENTLY HOME
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four words

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

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

....Come
Dance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AFTERNOON

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

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

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

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

See Read More Below
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More from Gregg Braden
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Excellent Taylor Caldwell - Seneca's THE LISTENER
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Foreword to Caldwell's Book THE LISTENER
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BEYOND SENSE GLIDING AS NO/WHERE’S NOW/HERE TELLER<LISTENER "..vault of love..." May 8, 2019

5/8/2019

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BEYOND SENSE OF “I” & “AM”
GLIDING AS NO/WHERE’S NOW/HERE
∞
ORIGINAL-BEING CORE
“WHICH CANNOT CHANGE”*
ANIMATES PURELY
ALL BEING’S DOINGS
∞
THE TELLER HAS BECOME THE LISTENER**
∞
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4:39 AM-5/8/2019

*Rather than focus on what needs changing
Turn The Attention
To what cannot change.
WuHsin
Solving Yourself
Aug 14

**THE LISTENER
Taylor Caldwell

Excellent quotes from this author
whose life changed at Edgar Cayce Institute
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/taylor_caldwell

Around 1970, she became interested in reincarnation.
She had become friends with well-known occultist author Jess Stearn,
who suggested that the vivid detail in her many historical novels
was actually subconscious recollection of previous lives.
She agreed to be hypnotized and undergo "past life regression"
to disprove reincarnation.
However, according to Stearn's book,
The Search for a Soul - Taylor Caldwell's Psychic Lives (1973),
Caldwell instead began to recall her own past lives -
eleven in all,
including one on "lost" continent of Lemuria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Caldwell

A Taylor Caldwell link worth the read...
http://www.peterbgemma.com/2018/08/no-eunuch-ever-wrote-a-book/

“Whatever is to come forth into expression must come forth from deep within,
even though it still comes in ways that appear to be external.

When we see fruit on the trees,
we are seeing the fruitage of an invisible life,
an invisible activity,
an invisible unfoldment appearing visibly.

As we lead the spiritual life,
looking to no man,
seeking nothing in the outer plane,
but living in continual rapport with the Life-stream,
our experience will unfold as the fruit appears on the tree,
as an externalization of an inward Grace.”

~Joel S Goldsmith
from Chapter 10 -
"REALITY AND ILLUSION".
A PARENTHESIS IN ETERNITY

Revelation 22:1,2 (KJV)
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life,
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river,
was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits,
and yielded her fruit every month:
and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

John 1:16 (KJV)
16 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.

As we remain focused on the
Infinite Invisible Source of All Life and Its Activity,
we are continually fed fresh manna from above every day.
~Al Denninger
www.iwso.org/thedailylesson.htm

6
Peace and be still a little while,
and see how far you rise above the world
when you release your mind from chains
and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home.

It will be grateful to be free a while.
It knows where it belongs.

But free its wings,
and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose.

Let it rest in its Creator,
there to be restored to sanity, to freedom,
and to love.

7
Give it ten minutes rest three times today.
And when your eyes are opened afterwards,
you will not value anything you see
as much as when you looked at it before.

Your whole perspective on the world will shift
by just a little every time
you let your mind escape its chains.
The world is not where it belongs.

And you belong where it would be
and where it goes to rest
when you release it from the world.

Your Guide is sure.

Open your mind to Him.

Be still and rest.

8
Protect your mind throughout the day as well.

And when you think you see some value
in an aspect or an image of the world,
refuse to lay this chain upon your mind
and tell yourself with quiet certainty:

9
This will not tempt me to delay myself.
The world I see has nothing that I want.
Excerpt from:
http://www.jcim.net/acim_us/WKBK-L128.php

AFTERNOON

SPONTANEITY
John McIntosh

Spontaneity is the ‘essence’ of Being-in-the-flow of Life.
It requires total Trust that Life will ‘Live’ you Perfectly
in every moment.

It says you ‘know’ from deep in your Heart [the God-SELF],
not just intellectually that Life is unfolding perfectly
no matter ‘how’ it shows up.

It is an expression of this knowing
that you are ‘not’ in the way, ‘not’ demanding, ‘not’ trying to control
or yearning for outcomes
but see yourself [you God-SELF] an unattached unicity …
an ever changing tapestry within
the changeless-ness of Consciousness Awareness
expressing and experiencing
IT SELF ‘as’ YOU.

There is no courage required to Live this way
because when you Live ‘as’ this Conscious Awareness
you are fearless,
nothing ‘sticks’ to you,
you have no expectations
and you are not trying to promote
any identity that is dear to you.

A world of unexpected, fresh New Life
shows up continuously
and there is the natural joyful and playful wonder
that all new-born life experiences.

Everything is a ‘first’
when you live spontaneously
where no baggage colors each moment.

You pick up and discard effortlessly
and always a ribbon of Gratitude
wraps around each new experience.

Nothing is missed that was meant for you
and you are always in exactly the right place
at the perfect moment …
if only for a happy glance with another.

The tumblers to the vault of Love
always fall into place as doors open everywhere
for the God you Are to extend
IT SELF to the world ‘of’ IT SELF.

https://www.johnmcintosh.info/post/spontaneity

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