"When I Cast All Dreams Away" Sunrise/Afternoon December 20, 2014

JUST BE  <  BY KNOWING NOTHING

JUST BE  <  BY KNOWING NOTHING

BY BEING THE REALIZED (THEN FORGOTTEN**) GREAT NOTHING..
**(THE FORGETTING** IS THE CESSATION OF POSSESSING WORDS AND THOUGHTS)
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THE JOY OF GRACE THAT CANNOT BE THOUGHT OR WORDED

ATTEMPTING TO WORD OR THINK GRACE IS A FORM OF RESISTING TRUE REALITY
JOY IS THEN VEILED AND PERCEPTIONS SHIFT INTO MENTAL MOVIES

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4:06 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014
(prior to reading
  the Yogananda quote below
post sunrise this morning)

I squeezed the scriptures for drops of peace;
I wrung poems from the winepress of Nature;
I lifted gems from the mine of thoughts;
I stole the sweetness from the honeycomb of innocent joys;
I read, I smiled, I worked, I planned, I throbbed, I aspired;
    But naught was sufficient.
Only nightmares of incompleteness,
Ever receding will-o’-the wisps of promised happiness,
   Haunted and hastened my heart.
 

But when I cast all dreams away,
   I found the deep sanctuary of peace,
   And my soul sang: “God alone! God alone!”

- P.Yogananda

(see full poem at end)

When I Cast All Dreams Away ~

I sipped the sap of each sane pleasure;
I exulted in the crushed beauty of sextillion stars;
I made a bonfire of all sorrows and basked in the glory blaze;
I quaffed the questing love of all hearts;
I mingled paternal, maternal, and fraternal love together,
And drank the solacing draught;
I squeezed the scriptures for drops of peace;
I wrung poems from the winepress of Nature;
I lifted gems from the mine of thoughts;
I stole the sweetness from the honeycomb of innocent joys;
I read, I smiled, I worked, I planned, I throbbed, I aspired;
    But naught was sufficient.
Only nightmares of incompleteness,
Ever receding will-o’-the wisps of promised happiness,
   Haunted and hastened my heart.
   But when I cast all dreams away,
   I found the deep sanctuary of peace,
   And my soul sang: “God alone! God alone!”

- P.Yogananda