BEING ORIGINAL CORE SILENCE
WITHOUT HOPE, THOUGHT, LOVE OR FAITH
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DARKNESS IS LIGHT
STILLNESS IS DANCING*
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3:36 AM-1/25/20
*T.S. Eliot...See first quote below
*I said to my soul,
be still and wait without hope,
for hope would be hope for the wrong thing;
wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing;
there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light,
and the stillness the dancing.
― T.S. Eliot
be still and wait without hope,
for hope would be hope for the wrong thing;
wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing;
there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light,
and the stillness the dancing.
― T.S. Eliot
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
Rumi
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
Rumi
I've crossed some kind of invisible line.
I feel as if I've come to a place
I never thought I'd have to come to.
And I don't know how I got here.
It's a strange place.
It's a place where a little harmless dreaming
and then some sleepy, early-morning talk
has led me into considerations
of death and annihilation.
― Raymond Carver,
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
I feel as if I've come to a place
I never thought I'd have to come to.
And I don't know how I got here.
It's a strange place.
It's a place where a little harmless dreaming
and then some sleepy, early-morning talk
has led me into considerations
of death and annihilation.
― Raymond Carver,
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder
― Shannon L. Alder
AFTERNOON
Death has been with me,
getting my attention, saying nothing.
getting my attention, saying nothing.
So this morning, in a hotel in New York,
I take a long shower, hoping the hot, anonymous stream might
wash the aches from my heart and the fear from my mind.
Yet once rinsed of my memory and worry,
death takes off its mask and it is only life
trying to get my attention one more time.
I take a long shower, hoping the hot, anonymous stream might
wash the aches from my heart and the fear from my mind.
Yet once rinsed of my memory and worry,
death takes off its mask and it is only life
trying to get my attention one more time.
But I insist, I have never taken any of this for granted.
And now, from the inside, I can see the story of the Universe
in the homeless man’s eye,
and the kindness of time in the sun
off the thunderstorm puddle,
which will evaporate by noon.
And now, from the inside, I can see the story of the Universe
in the homeless man’s eye,
and the kindness of time in the sun
off the thunderstorm puddle,
which will evaporate by noon.
Like me.
Like you.
Now life appears as a small bird drinking from the puddle.
So that’s it.
All our efforts come down to one life
offering itself as a drink to another
before we evaporate into everything else.
Like you.
Now life appears as a small bird drinking from the puddle.
So that’s it.
All our efforts come down to one life
offering itself as a drink to another
before we evaporate into everything else.
It makes me sad to think that you and I will vanish.
But the way this works is elegant:
the expending of one life
till it is seamlessly absorbed in the next.
And so, this morning,
these thoughts hardly seem my own.
~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/23/31546/
But the way this works is elegant:
the expending of one life
till it is seamlessly absorbed in the next.
And so, this morning,
these thoughts hardly seem my own.
~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/23/31546/
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt
participation with life, with another,
with a community, a work;
a future.
participation with life, with another,
with a community, a work;
a future.
To be courageous is not necessarily
to go anywhere or do anything
except to make conscious those things
we already feel deeply
and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities
of those consequences.
to go anywhere or do anything
except to make conscious those things
we already feel deeply
and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities
of those consequences.
To be courageous
is to seat our feelings deeply in the body
and in the world:
to live up to and into the necessities of relationships
that often already exist,
with things we find we already care deeply about:
with a person, a future, a possibility in society,
or with an unknown that begs us on
and always has begged us on.
is to seat our feelings deeply in the body
and in the world:
to live up to and into the necessities of relationships
that often already exist,
with things we find we already care deeply about:
with a person, a future, a possibility in society,
or with an unknown that begs us on
and always has begged us on.
Courage is what love looks like
when tested by the simple everyday
necessities of being alive.
~David Whyte
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/23/31546/
when tested by the simple everyday
necessities of being alive.
~David Whyte
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/23/31546/
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Both Afternoon Quotes Repeated
Additional Photos
Both Afternoon Quotes Repeated
Additional Photos
Death has been with me,
getting my attention, saying nothing.
So this morning, in a hotel in New York,
I take a long shower, hoping the hot, anonymous stream might
wash the aches from my heart and the fear from my mind.
Yet once rinsed of my memory and worry,
death takes off its mask and it is only life
trying to get my attention one more time.
But I insist, I have never taken any of this for granted.
And now, from the inside, I can see the story of the Universe
in the homeless man’s eye,
and the kindness of time in the sun
off the thunderstorm puddle,
which will evaporate by noon.
Like me.
Like you.
Now life appears as a small bird drinking from the puddle.
So that’s it.
All our efforts come down to one life
offering itself as a drink to another
before we evaporate into everything else.
It makes me sad to think that you and I will vanish.
But the way this works is elegant:
the expending of one life till it is seamlessly absorbed in the next.
And so, this morning,
these thoughts hardly seem my own.
~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/23/31546/
getting my attention, saying nothing.
So this morning, in a hotel in New York,
I take a long shower, hoping the hot, anonymous stream might
wash the aches from my heart and the fear from my mind.
Yet once rinsed of my memory and worry,
death takes off its mask and it is only life
trying to get my attention one more time.
But I insist, I have never taken any of this for granted.
And now, from the inside, I can see the story of the Universe
in the homeless man’s eye,
and the kindness of time in the sun
off the thunderstorm puddle,
which will evaporate by noon.
Like me.
Like you.
Now life appears as a small bird drinking from the puddle.
So that’s it.
All our efforts come down to one life
offering itself as a drink to another
before we evaporate into everything else.
It makes me sad to think that you and I will vanish.
But the way this works is elegant:
the expending of one life till it is seamlessly absorbed in the next.
And so, this morning,
these thoughts hardly seem my own.
~Mark Nepo
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/23/31546/
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt
participation with life, with another,
with a community, a work;
a future.
To be courageous is not necessarily
to go anywhere or do anything
except to make conscious those things
we already feel deeply
and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities
of those consequences.
To be courageous
is to seat our feelings deeply in the body
and in the world:
to live up to and into the necessities of relationships
that often already exist,
with things we find we already care deeply about:
with a person, a future, a possibility in society,
or with an unknown that begs us on
and always has begged us on.
Courage is what love looks like
when tested by the simple everyday
necessities of being alive.
~David Whyte
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/23/31546/
participation with life, with another,
with a community, a work;
a future.
To be courageous is not necessarily
to go anywhere or do anything
except to make conscious those things
we already feel deeply
and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities
of those consequences.
To be courageous
is to seat our feelings deeply in the body
and in the world:
to live up to and into the necessities of relationships
that often already exist,
with things we find we already care deeply about:
with a person, a future, a possibility in society,
or with an unknown that begs us on
and always has begged us on.
Courage is what love looks like
when tested by the simple everyday
necessities of being alive.
~David Whyte
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2020/01/23/31546/
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