PERVERTING CAUL "... might lead to madness." June 6, 2020 "... rest purely, without utterance." "It is needless..."

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5:42 AM-6/6/20

The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally
that the mind's muddy river,
this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash,
cannot be dammed,
and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort
that might lead to madness.

Instead you must
allow the muddy river to flow unheeded
in the dim channels of consciousness;
you raise your sights;

you look along it, mildly,
acknowledging its presence without interest
and gazing beyond it into the realm of the real
where subjects and objects act
​ and
rest purely,
​ without utterance.
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—Annie Dillard
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/06/theater-in-mind.html

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​NO-SELF IMMORTALITY   "...the memory of God,..." June 6, 2019​​​
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​AFTERNOON

You see what the eye does teach;
and yet it would never of itself
have afforded this insight, without something
that looks through the eyes
and uses the data of the senses
as mere guides to penetrate
from the apparent to the unseen.

It is needless
to add the methods of geometry
that lead us step by step
through visible delineations
to truths that lie out of sight,
and countless other instances
which all prove that apprehension
is the work of an intellectual essence
deeply seated in our nature,
acting through the operation
of our bodily senses.
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—St. Gregory of Nyssa (335 – 395)
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/06/is-it-body-that-is-thinking-or-is-it.html

If you’ve got somebody’s aspects
in your experience that you don’t like,
there’s only one reason they’re there.
You keep evoking them with your attention to them.

​Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have
— through your old habit of observation --
achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them
that you do not like,...
and you keep summoning
those parts from them
​ by your constant
vibrational offering of them.
Esther (Hicks)
(and Abraham and Jerry)

First, forget what time it is
for an hour
do it regularly every day

then forget what day of the week it is
and do this regularly for a week
then forget what country you are in
and practice doing it in company
for a week
and then do them together
for a week
with as few breaks as possible

follow these by forgetting to add
or to subtract
it makes no difference
you can change them
around after a week
both will help you later
to forget how to count

forget how to count
starting with your own age
starting with how to count backwards
starting with even numbers
with Roman numerals
starting with fractions of Roman numerals
with the old calendar
going on to the old alphabet
going on to the alphabet
forgetting it all until everything
is continuous again

go on to forgetting elements
starting with water
proceeding to earth
rising in fire

forget fire


—W. S. Merwin

I PLACED ONE FOOT ON THE WIDE PLAIN
OF DEATH, AND SOME GRAND IMMENSITY
SOUNDED ON THE EMPTINESS.

i HAVE FELT NOTHING EVER
LIKE THE WILD WONDER OF THAT MOMENT.
Rumi

A Year with Rumi - Daily Readings
Coleman Barks

REMEMBRANCE ROCK

WONDERFUL Merwin quotes...Love is a Place
​https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/search?q=merwin

More re Merwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Merwin

​QUOTES  SOLITUDE
​https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/solitude.html