One Day You Will Ask...

 

“One day you will ask me which is more important?

My life or yours?

I will say mine

and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” 
― Kahlil Gibran

 

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A Window to the Divine is Held Open...

A window to the divine is held open

in a particular way at this time

and we can be even more receptive to the Miraculous.

The mind can think us away from this,

but the inner world knows it strongly.

Mervyn spoke of this inner knowing
and it's power to alter our course,

if we remain open.

Gardens are such a wonderful paradigm
for this process of awakening,

 but we must be open
to an inner knowing of which "season" we are in,

both personally, and as a school.

~J

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Presence Brings Us to the Open Space...

 

 

 

Presence brings us to the open space

where we connect to the spirit,

where the truth of our efforts

can be seen and where there is no judgement.

The higher help meets us to assure that we are accompanied by it,

never alone.

Always under the wings of God.
~M

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Where is My Heart...

Where is my heart this morning?

Looking through my eyes

The state of love flows

reaching strangers

who instantly become lovers when we connect.

The harsh world does not penetrate me.

I am solid in my morning awareness.

Grateful for the magic touch.

~P

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A Potted Plant...

A Potted Plant

I pull a sun from my coin purse each day.

And at night I let my pet the moon

Run freely into the sky meadow.

If I whistled,

She would turn her head and look at me.

If I then waved my arms,

She would come back wagging a marvelous tail 

Of stars.

There are always a few men like me

In this world

Who are house-sitting for God.

We share His royal duties:

I water each day a favorite potted plant

Of His--

This earth.

Ask the Friend for love.

Ask Him again.

For I have learned that every heart will get

What it prays for

Most.

~Hafiz

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Death is in the Cards...

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Birth of Venus...

"Birth of Venus" by Botticelli

It truly is a visual tutorial on how to live and awaken in this life... 

Her face is beyond lovely...

gazing into her left eye she gazes into ours and I am present.

She comes from a higher plane to be the reminder 

that love of beauty can bring us to an awakened state...through love.

~M

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God Speaks to Each of Us...

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,

then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,

go to the limits of your longing.

Embody me.

Flare up like a flame

and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.

You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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This Path to God...

This Path to God

Made me such an old sweet beggar.

I was starving until one night

My love tricked God Himself

To fall into my bowl.

But all I ever want to do 

Is keep emptying out My emerald-filled Pockets

Upon This tear-stained World.

~Hafiz

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We are Always in a State of Love...

We are always in a state of Love 

and always loved by the Higher .... 

we just need to remember and we are there. 

I find I am constantly reminded of this when I fall still 

or find the I's stopping ... 

there is love waiting for me to connect. 

It is a form of rising in love .

rising in vibration to meet what is already "mine" .. 

so amazing to be lucky enough to be a school to keep reminding us.

~P 

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I Look Through My Eyes...

Thomas Cooper Gotch

I look through my eyes, not with them.

~William Blake

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Love One Another...

"Love one another 

and help others to rise to the higher levels, 

simply by pouring out love. 

Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy"

~Sai Baba

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Expression of Negativity...

Expression of negativity is like spreading a virus of heaviness. 

Making efforts to avoid leaks of energy, 

through self-remembering, prayer and meditation, 

helps us maintain a state of higher hydrogens.

~E

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I Have Verified...

 I have verified 

that for me it is so much more important HOW I do things, 

rather than what I choose (or am given) to do. 

If I come always from a pure heart, 

then there is so much I can learn, 

so much more I am given, 

regardless of what situation I find myself in.

Often, along the path of awakening, 

there are moments where new buffers fall. 

Sometimes the new "sight" we have 

or the new "truth" we can speak, 

comes to us easily, 

almost as if someone else were giving us a new tongue, 

new eyes.

~J

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A Man's Household ...

"A man's household 

means all that is in the man himself—

not his body but his psychology— 

the household of all the different sides of himself. 

All the ideas, all the attitudes, 

that were the "father" or "mother" of his thoughts 

and views and opinions 

and all the relationships resulting from them must change 

in view of the sword which is the power of truth of a higher order. " 

~Maurice Nicoll, The New Man

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There are Aways Flowers...

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them".

~Henri Matisse

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Gratitude Can Be Such a Powerful Antidote...

Alfons Mucha

Gratitude can be such a powerful antidote to negativity.

So often negative emotions are caused by expectation.

We expect something to happen 

and when it doesn't happen as we want it, 

we have negative 'I's.

To look for what I can be grateful for 

in each situation that Presence presents me, 

cuts through my negativity 

and brings me closer to the Higher.

~H

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The Immensity of Life...

The immensity of life offers us so much every second.

Only in grace and gratitude does love visit us 

and tells us about the miracles of life, 

and at that moment I understand that we are all connected, 

there is nothing else that is real but love, 

no other prayer other than "thank you".

~Naz

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Buddha in Glory...

Buddha in Glory

Kernel of all kernels, heart of all hearts,

almond, that encloses itself and sweetens –

this universe as far as every star

is your ripening flesh: all hail.

Behold, you feel how nothing more clings to you:

your shell is in the unending,

and there the heavy juice halts and yearns.

And from beyond a brightness helps it,

for all above become your Suns,

full and glowing, turning round you.

But in you is already begun

what will outlast the Suns.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Only With an Openness...

Leonardo DaVinci

Only with an openness to all the possibilities 

can any significant thought, art or scientific discovery be possible. 

But even more poignant for me 

is the realization that those whom we view in the Work 

as the greatest thinkers and artists 

so often give the credit for their epiphanies 

to something far greater than they.

~J

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Actual Crystallization of Higher Centers...

Actual crystallization of higher centers 

is a great distance from almost all of us, 

and there is a tendency to become frustrated 

and discouraged by the slowness of our progress.  

We need to consider the scale of our endeavor.  

Awakening is an extremely rare phenomenon, 

and we have been chosen by the Gods 

as being worthy to become as they are, immortal. 

Correct crystallization includes the understanding that 

“Many are called, but few are chosen.”

~Academy journal on crystallization 

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We are a Rare Species...

We are a rare species, 

able to sometimes use intentional thought. 

Sometimes we even have a 'real' thought from above. 

Our thinking and way of living 

is far remote from the ordinary lifestyle. 

It is important for me to realize how much 'sleep'

there is in the normal way of living and thinking. 

To be present is entering a new level of awareness 

and breaking formatory patterns. 

~S

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The Life of the Spirit...

The life of the spirit 

is to be found in comprehensiveness 

that is free from clinging and in appreciation 

that is free from entanglement. 

It is a life of positive freedom 

which the spirit infuses itself into matter 

and shines through it without submitting 

to any curtailment of its own claims.

~Meher Baba 

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There is a Resistance...

Maurits Cornelis Escher

There is a resistance to just trusting and embracing the unknown, 

the machine needs to know NOW. 

The little 7 year old thinks in many ways in his formatory apparatus. 

However for me there is not really an excuse… 

I need to stay in the king of the intellectual center 

and approach my questions with understanding.

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It Seems That at The Heart Of It All...

It seems that at the heart of it all, 

is to remember that the Work 

is not in creating a perfect machine, 

but in using our talents 

to soar above those considerations of the world, 

to stay in those higher hydrogens 

where we may always be of service to the gods.

~J

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To Observe My Inner World...

To observe my inner world 

and be real with where I am, 

the wolf and the lamb are within me 

as I try and conscientiously engage in this play with my soul. 

~S

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