ONLY AWARENESS "...abandon oneself to life..." August 13, 2020

CENTERED AWARENESS OF BREATH
AS THE ONLY AWARENESS

• =
• ALL IS ONE ETERNAL MOMENT*

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5:21AM-8/13/20

*i have no thing to offer you, but this touch, where i disappear 
i want to surrender to your silence which peels me.
Arif K
https://www.poetseers.org/submissions/2006-2/arif-k/

​“Perfect rest is absolute freedom from motion.”
~ Meister Eckhart

​“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
~ J. Krishnamurti

Surrender is the outcome of stillness.
But it’s a devastating stillness.
For surrender is an absence, a free fall.
It is unattached, security-less.
It is not a smart achievement.
Nothing cunning lies here in a corner.
It is in plain sight.

For to abandon oneself to life
needs no knowledge whatsoever.
But it needs one thing though:
the ultimate understanding
of the cunning and illusory
nature of ego,
and the instantaneous seeing
that our deepest interest and security
lies in life itself,
in the very spacious
presence or consciousness that we are,
which is nothing but God’s  will
​at its richest and profoundest.

True acceptance is not a doing.
It is the natural state when all resistance is abandoned.
There is no effort in being,
in the recognition of our true nature.

This is a letting go,
something obvious,
natural, easy,
like an opening.

​We ease in that recognition,
we come home.

There is a release of tension.
It’s a resting.

Alain Joly
Excerpts from
The Everlasting Arms
https://thedawnwithin.com/2020/08/12/the-everlasting-arms/
The Everlasting Arms

 







All Photos for today's OceanSpeak from: August 13, 2018       
IT ALWAYS IS     "Dare the wild unknown."    August 13, 2018              "...the awake silence that you are."
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​AFTERNOON

The beginning of the path of healing
is the end of life unlived.
As awareness deepens,
each moment is received anew.

Entering the process as complete beginners,
we take each breath as though it were the last,
watching each thought
as though it were the last,
becoming wholly alive.
~Stephen Levine
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/08/13/32986/

At the very heart and core of our being, there exists an
overwhelming 'yes' to existence.
  This yes is discovered by
those who have the courage
to open their hearts to the
totality of life. 

This yes is found only by
embracing the reality of sorrow
and
going beyond it. 
Adyashanti
Full Quote here:
Embracing the Reality of Sorrow - Adyashanti
https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2020/08/embracing-reality-of-sorrow-adyashanti.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

Happy are those who know:
Behind all words, the Unsayable stands;
And from that source alone, the Infinite
Crosses over to gladness, and us

Free of our bridges
Built with the stone of distinctions;
So that always, within each delight,
We gaze at what is purely single and joined.

—Rainer Maria Rilke
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/08/behind-all-words.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

We are sick with fascination
for the useful tools of names and numbers,
of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

Meditation is therefore the art
of suspending
verbal and symbolic thinking for a time,
somewhat as a courteous audience
will stop talking
when a concert is
​ about to begin.
—Alan Watts
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/08/formation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29

When you look at anything,
it is the ultimate you see,
but you imagine that you see
a cloud or a tree.

Learn to look without imagination,
to listen without distortion:
that is all.

Stop attributing names and shapes
to the essentially nameless and formless,
realize that every mode of perception is subjective,
that what is seen or heard, touched or smelt,
felt or thought, expected or imagined,
is in the mind and not in reality,
and you will experience
peace and freedom from fear.

Even the sense of ‘I am’
is composed of the pure light
and the sense of being.

The ‘I’ is there even without the ‘am’.
So is the pure light there whether you say ‘I’ or not.

Become aware of that pure light
and you will never lose it.

The beingness in being,
the awareness in consciousness,
the interest in every experience --
that is not describable,
yet perfectly accessible,
for
there is nothing else.

—Ramana Maharshi 
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