PEACEFUL POSSESSION "...sound of the genuine..." Jan. 9, 2020 "...with a winged heart..."

BEYOND BELIEF APPRECIATION
FLOODS CONSCIOUSNESS
=
A PEACEFUL POSSESSION
BEYOND WORDS & THOUGHT
∞
BEINGNESS AS
 THE GRASS IS GROWN
THE WIND IS BLOWN
AND THE BIRD GLIDES ON
&
IN/OF/AS
 INVISIBLE CURRENTS
∞
AH!
UNSEEN ORCHESTRATION
 BREATH OF ALL
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5:40 AM-1/9/20

All Sunrise Photos Below from January 9, 2015

The below in this font read immediately AFTER
The Morning Whisper Writes
​
The Sound of The Genuine - Howard Thurman

​There is something in every one of you that waits, listens for
the sound of the genuine in yourself. 
And if you cannot hear it,
you will never find whatever it is
for which you are searching,
and if you hear it and then do not follow it,
it was better that
you had never been born...

You are the only you that has ever lived;
your idiom [your unique signature]  is the only idiom
of its kind in all of existence
and if you cannot hear the sound
of the genuine in you,
you will all of your life spend your days on the
ends of strings that somebody else pulls...

There is in you something that waits and listens
for the sound of
the genuine in yourself,
and sometimes there is
so much traffic going on in your minds,
so many different kinds of signals,
so many vast
impulses floating through your organism
that go back thousands of generations,
long before you were even a thought
in the mind of creation,
and you are buffeted by these,
and in the midst of all of this
you have got to find out.....Who you are... 
​ How the sound of
the genuine comes through to you...

The sound of the genuine is flowing through you. 
Don't be deceived and thrown off
by all the noises that are a part
even of your dreams, your ambitions,
so that you don't hear the sound of the genuine in you,
because that is the only true guide
that you will ever have,
and if you
don't have that
​you don't have a thing.

You may be famous. 
You may be whatever the other ideals are which
are part of this generation,
but you know you don't have the foggiest
notion of who you are,
where you are going,
what you want.
​
Cultivate the discipline of
listening to
the sound of the genuine in yourself.

Now there is something in everybody
that waits and listens for the
sound of the genuine in other people. 
And it is so easy to say that
anybody who looks like him or her,
anybody who acts as this person acts,
can't hear any sound of the genuine. 

I must wait and listen for
the sound of the genuine in you.
  I must wait. 
For if I cannot hear it,
then in my scheme of things,
you are not even present. 
And everybody
wants to feel 
that everybody else knows
​ that she is there.

There is something that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine
in your mother, in your father, 
in the people you can't stand,
and if you had the power
you would wipe them out. 

But instinctively you
know that if you wipe them out,
​ you go with them.
​
  So you fight for your own life
by finding some way to get along with them
without killing them.

There is something in you that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in other people. 
And if you can't hear it,
then you are reduced by that much.
​
  If I were to ask you what is the thing that you
desire most in life,
you would say a lot of things
off the top of your  head,
most of which you wouldn't believe
but you would think that
you were saying the things
that I thought you ought to think
 that you should say.

But I think that if you were stripped
of whatever there is in you that is
literal and irreducible,
and you tried to answer that question,
the answer may be something like this:
 I want to feel completely vulnerable,
completely naked,
completely exposed
and absolutely  secure...
​ [i.e. to be my Authentic Self].

This is what you look for in your children [if] you have them,
this is what you look for in your husband if you get one. 
That I can run the risk of radical exposure
and know that the eye that beholds my vulnerability
will not step on me. 
That I can feel secure
in my awareness of the
active presence of my own
​ [uniqueness].

So as I live my life then,
this is what I am trying to fulfill. 
It doesn't matter whether I become a doctor, lawyer, housewife. 
 I'm secure
because I hear the sound of the genuine in myself
and having learned to listen to that,
I can become quiet enough, still enough,
​ to hear the
sound of the genuine in you.

Now if I hear the sound of the genuine in me,
and if I hear the soundof the genuine in you,
it is possible for me to go down in me
and come up in you. 

So that when I look at myself
through your eyes having made that pilgrimage,
I see in me what you see in me and the wall
that separates and divides will disappear
and we will become as one,
because the sound of the genuine
​makes the same music.

Howard Thurman
from a 1980 commencement speech at Spelman College

with thanks to The Beauty We Love

Don't ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive,
​ and go do it. 
Because what the world needs is people
who have come alive...

Howard Thurman​
The Sound of The Genuine - Howard Thurman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurman

The above in this font read immediately AFTER
The Morning Whisper Writes

​

​AFTERNOON

From 
The Prophet
by
Kahlil Gibran

Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love.
     And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
     When love beckons to you, follow him,
     Though his ways are hard and steep.
     And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
     Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
     And when he speaks to you believe in him,
     Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

     For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
     Even as he ascends to your height and caresses
your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
     So shall he descend to your roots
​ and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself
     He threshes you to make your naked.
     He sifts you to free you from your husks.
     He grinds you to whiteness.
     He kneads you until you are pliant;
     And then he assigns you to his sacred fire,
that you may become
​ sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.

     All these things shall love do unto you
that you may know the secrets of your heart,
and in that knowledge
​ become a fragment of Life’s heart.

  But if in your heart you would seek only
love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
     Then it is better for you that you
cover your nakedness and pass out
of love’s threshing-floor,
     Into the seasonless world where you
shall laugh,
but not all of your laughter,
and weep,
but not all of your tears.

     Love gives naught but itself
​and takes naught but from itself.
     Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
     For love is sufficient unto love.

     When you love you should not say,
“God is in my heart,”
but rather,
“I am in the heart of God.”
     And think not you can direct the course of love,
for love, if it finds you worthy,
​directs your course.

  Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
     But if you love and must needs have desires,
let these be your desires:
     To melt and be like a running brook
that sings its melody to the night.
     To know the pain of too much tenderness.
     To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
     And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

     To wake at dawn with a winged heart
and give thanks for another day of loving;
     To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
     To return home at eventide with gratitude;

     And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved
in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Kahlil Gibran - 1883-1931
http://www.katsandogz.com/onlove.html

Re: Kahlil Gibran
​"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent,
but the majesty and beauty of the language
with which he clothed it were all his own."
-- Claude Bragdon
http://www.katsandogz.com/gibran.html