WITHOUT WAVER "... too much verbalizing,..." September 17, 2020

January 17, 2015

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EARTHLY FORMS’ DRAMAS GLIDE THRU METAMORPHOSIS
A TRANSFIGURATION/TRANSMOGRIFICATION  
BEYOND HUMAN WORDING
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April 7, 2015

Allow yourself to be used -
​ Thomas Merton

You are fed up with words,
I don't blame you.
I am nauseated by them sometimes. 

I am also,
to tell the truth,
nauseated by ideals and with causes.

This sounds like heresy,
but I think you will understand
what I mean. 
It is so easy to get engrossed with ideas
and slogans and myths
that in the end one is left
holding the bag,
empty,
with no trace of meaning left in it.

 And then the temptation is to yell
louder than ever in order to
make the meaning be there again by magic. 
​
Going through this kind of reaction
helps you to guard against this.
Your system is complaining
of too much verbalizing,
and it is right.

...The big results are not in your hands or mine,
but they suddenly happen,
and we can share in them,
but there is
no point in building our lives
on personal satisfaction,
which may be denied us
and which after all is not that
important.

The next step in the process
is for you to see that your
even thinking about what you are doing
is crucially important. 

You are probably striving to build yourself
an identity in your work, out of your work... 
You are using it, so to speak,
  to protect yourself against
nothingness, annihilation. 

​That is not the right use
of your work. ​

All the good that you will do will come,
not from you
but from the fact that you
have allowed
yourself to be used by Love [Grace]. ​

Think of this
more and more and gradually
you will be free from
the need to prove yourself,
 and you can be more
open to the power that will work through you
without your knowing it.

Thomas Merton

"We are an instrument of Grace...
We are being played...
Keep the instrument tuned so
that Grace can play the music."

Mitch Rosacker
Self Discovery Studio
http://www.selfdiscoverystudio.com/home.html

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​AFTERNOON

Between Heaven and Earth,
There seems to be a Bellows:
It is empty, and yet it is inexhaustible;
  The more it works,
the more comes out of it
No amount of words can fathom it: 
Better look for it within you.
— Tao Te Ching

To return to the root is to find peace. 
To find peace is to fulfill one’s destiny.
​ — Tao Te Ching

Only simple and quiet words will ripen of themselves.
For a whirlwind does not last a whole morning.
Nor does a sudden shower last a whole day.
— Tao Te Ching

The world is a sacred vessel,
which must not be tampered with or grabbed after.
To tamper with it is to spoil it,
​and to grasp it is to lose it.
— Tao Te Ching

There is no calamity like not knowing what is enough. 
There is no evil like covetousness. 
Only he who knows what is enough
​will always have enough.
— Tao Te Ching

Tackle things before they have appeared. 
Cultivate peace and order
before  confusion and disorder
​ have set in.
— Tao Te Ching

Heaviness is the root of lightness. 
Serenity is the master of restlessness.
— Tao Te Ching

Only when we are sick of our sickness 
Shall we cease to be sick.
— Tao Te Ching

Few things under heaven
are as instructive as
the lessons of Silence.
— Tao Te Ching

All Tao Te Ching quotes from:
​https://healingbrave.com/blogs/all/tao-te-ching-quotes

My soul is racing ahead of me.
It says,
​The body is too slow for me.
I am going.
Rumi

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