BE SILENT<SILENCE & LISTEN!
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OUT OF SUCH ASHES
THE PHOENIX REMAINS RISEN*
ew
5:23 AM-3/17/19
*Excerpt from next Wording/wording below
“Let’s see what soul says about this!"
BE SILENT<SILENCE & LISTEN!
rather than wallow in minding-mind
and become possessed by deadly drama
that is unreal but murderous.
OUT OF SUCH ASHES
THE PHOENIX REMAINS RISEN
ew
5:23 AM-3/17/19
and it is that which has not vanished,
but that which has not yet arrived.
We all live in a pathway in the middle of time,
so there are lots of events, people, places, thoughts, experiences
still ahead of us that have not actually arrived
at the door of our hearts at all.
This is the world of the unknown.
of reaching into the unknown
to find out what kind of treasures it actually holds.
A good question is something
that has incredible grace and light and depth to it.
A good question is something that always,
in some way,
plows the invisible furrows of absence
to find the nourishment and the treasure that we actually need.
~John O'Donohue
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/02/02/28921/
is a great mark of kind attention....
inquiry for today~
deep pain and discomfort call us to commit to being.....
what does that mean to you?
fill up with silence
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/02/02/28921/
AFTERNOON
to connect to another person is to listen.
Just listen.
Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
And especially if it's given from the heart.
there's no need to do anything but receive them.
Just take them in.
Care about it.
Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it.
Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.
"I'm so sorry," when someone is in pain.
And meaning it.
I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening.
In the old days I used to reach for the tissues,
until I realized that passing a person a tissue
may be just another way to shut them down,
to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief.
Now I just listen.
they find me there with them.
A loving silence
often has far more power to heal and to conect
than the most well-intentioned words.
~Rachel Naomi Remen
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2019/02/02/28921/
Our greatest enemy is ourself. All weakness, all ignorance keeps us from the truth of our being, from all the virtues hidden in us and all perfection hidden in our souls. The first self we realize is the false self. Unless the soul is born again it will not see the kingdom of heaven. The soul is born into the false self; it is blind. In the true self the soul opens its eyes. Unless the false self is fought with, the true self cannot be realized.
from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_5.htm
The whole endeavor of a Sufi in life is to liberate the soul from its captivity,
which he does by conquering both mind and body.
from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/V/V_45.htm
from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_14.htm
'When I went to the gate of the divine Beloved and knocked at the door, a voice came and said -- Who art thou?' When he had told, 'I am so and so', the answer came,
'There is no place for anyone else in this abode. Go back to whence thou hast come'.
He turned back and then, after a long time, after having gone through the process of the cross and of crucifixion, he again went there -- with the spirit of selflessness.
He knocked at the door; the word came, 'Who art thou? ', and he said,
'Thyself alone, for no one else exists save Thee'.
And God said,
'Enter into this abode for now it belongs to thee'.
It is such selflessness, to the extent that the thought of self is not there,
it is being dead to the self,
which is the recognition of God.
from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIV/XIV_2_22.htm
TURN THE ATTENTION
TO WHAT CANNOT CHANGE
Wu Hsin