I heard
in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.
~ Anna Swirszczynska
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2015/01/priceless-gifts.html
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in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.
~ Anna Swirszczynska
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2015/01/priceless-gifts.html
(See Read More for full poem)
PRACTICING THE PRESENCE
BEING THE PRESENCE
IS YOUR ONLY TASK FOR THIS AND EVERY DAY.
ANYTHING IN ADDITION TO THAT WILL SIMPLY BURDEN
AND PULL YOU FROM THE NON AWARENESS OF GRACE.
EXPERIENCE DIVINITY IN ALL THAT IS THIS DAY
BY MELTING MORE PURELY INTO THE INVISIBLE ABYSS OF PERFECT LOVE
ew.
Transcending Possession
1992
BEING THE PRESENCE
IS YOUR ONLY TASK FOR THIS AND EVERY DAY.
ANYTHING IN ADDITION TO THAT WILL SIMPLY BURDEN
AND PULL YOU FROM THE NON AWARENESS OF GRACE.
EXPERIENCE DIVINITY IN ALL THAT IS THIS DAY
BY MELTING MORE PURELY INTO THE INVISIBLE ABYSS OF PERFECT LOVE
ew.
Transcending Possession
1992
"While alive, be dead to yourself, be totally dead. Then
act as you will and your action will be right."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
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act as you will and your action will be right."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
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These forms we seem to be
are cups floating in an ocean
of living consciousness.
They fill and sink without leaving an arc of bubbles
or any good-bye spray.
What we are is that ocean, too near to see,
though we swim in it and drink it in.
Don't be a cup with a dry rim,
or someone who rides all night
and never knows the horse beneath his thighs,
the surging that carries him along.
–Rumi
Mathnawi 1, 1109-16
Coleman Barks version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/01/cup-and-ocean.html
are cups floating in an ocean
of living consciousness.
They fill and sink without leaving an arc of bubbles
or any good-bye spray.
What we are is that ocean, too near to see,
though we swim in it and drink it in.
Don't be a cup with a dry rim,
or someone who rides all night
and never knows the horse beneath his thighs,
the surging that carries him along.
–Rumi
Mathnawi 1, 1109-16
Coleman Barks version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/01/cup-and-ocean.html
An empty day without events.
And that is why it grew
immense as space.
And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.
I heard in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.
~ Anna Swirszczynska
from Talking to My Body
translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2015/01/priceless-gifts.html
And that is why it grew
immense as space.
And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.
I heard in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.
~ Anna Swirszczynska
from Talking to My Body
translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2015/01/priceless-gifts.html
The disciples would frequently be absorbed in questions of right and
wrong. Sometimes the answer would be evident enough. Sometimes it was
elusive.
The Master, if he happened to be present at such discussions, would take no
part in them.
Once he was confronted with this question: "Is it right to kill someone who
seeks to kill me? Or is it wrong?"
He said, "How should I know?"
The shocked disciples answered, "Then how would we tell right from wrong?"
The Master said,
"While alive, be dead to yourself, be totally dead. Then
act as you will and your action will be right."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
wrong. Sometimes the answer would be evident enough. Sometimes it was
elusive.
The Master, if he happened to be present at such discussions, would take no
part in them.
Once he was confronted with this question: "Is it right to kill someone who
seeks to kill me? Or is it wrong?"
He said, "How should I know?"
The shocked disciples answered, "Then how would we tell right from wrong?"
The Master said,
"While alive, be dead to yourself, be totally dead. Then
act as you will and your action will be right."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
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