SEER SEES "...an appeal to either our greed or our fears." "...a quiet light..." January 26, 2020

GOD I AM*
HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?
DOES THE SEEING PHYSICAL EYE SEE ITSELF?
ONLY WITH A MIRROR
∞
IT’S ALL A MIRROR THE SEER SEES
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1:24 AM-1/26/20
*GOD I AM: From Tragic to Magic – Peter Erbe

​this home
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart.
It draws no attention to itself
though it is always secretly there.

It is what illuminates
our minds to see beauty,
our desire to seek possibility
and our hearts to love life.
Without this subtle quickening
our days would be empty and wearisome,
and no horizon would ever awaken our longing.

Our passion for life is quietly sustained
from somewhere in us
that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life.

This shy inner light is what enables us
to recognize and receive our very presence here
as blessing.

We enter the world as strangers
who all at once become heirs to a harvest
of memory, spirit, and dream that has long preceded us
​ and will now enfold, nourish, and sustain us.
~John O'Donohue
​https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/25/31562/

This breakage within us
is what makes us human and vulnerable.
There is nothing more sinister
than someone whose mind
seems to be an absolute circle;
there is a helpless coldness
and a deadly certainty
​ about such a presence.
― John O'Donohue, 
Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

We live in a world that responds to our longing;
it is a place where the echoes always return,
​ even if sometimes slowly.
― John O'Donohue
Eternal Echoes

​AFTERNOON

Sand Dunes Path July 20, 2017

Above:  Sand Dunes Path     July 20, 2017
Below:   Sand Dunes Path   January 26, 2020

In our loneliness and isolation
and seemingly perpetual impulse
toward self-distraction
in the service of
finding a moment of meaningful connection,
there is a deep longing,
a yearning,
usually unconscious or ignored,
to belong, to be part of a larger whole,
to not be anonymous,
to be seen and known.

For relationality, exchange, give-and-take,
especially on an emotional plane,
is how we are reminded that we have
a place in this world,
how we know in our hearts
that we actually do belong
and make a difference.

It is deeply satisfying to experience
meaningful connection with others.
We hunger to be perceived by others,
to be both noticed and valued for
​ who we actually are,
and not merely for what we do.
And mostly we are not

It is now harder to pay attention to any one thing
and there is more to pay attention to.
Things come at us fast and furious,
relentlessly.
And almost all of it is man-made,
it has thought behind it,
and more often than not,
an appeal to either our greed or our fears.

These assaults on our nervous system
continually stimulate and foster
desire and agitation
rather than contentedness and calmness.

And above all,
if we are not careful,
they rob us of time,
of our moments.
~Jon Kabat-Zinn
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/25/31562/

The world is changed by your example,
not your opinion.
~Paul Coelho
​https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/26/31572/

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