I Find That Mechanically...

I find that mechanically, once I have taken on an octave, 

I cannot bear to stop until I have finished. 

So much I want to do, 

and I have to learn to have a wider perspective, 

so that I don't start something 

which will end up being just too much. 

Efforts can turn into compulsion, 

leaving me identified,  

then my moving center takes over, 

and there is no space left for the unexpected, 

for the moment that the miraculous can come to visit. 

In fact, something amazing may take place, 

and my machine will be keeping me so busy that I hardly notice.

~J

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Happiness Is...

Happiness is when what you think, 

what you say, 

and what you do are in harmony.

~Mahatma Gandhi

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We Are Loved...

Howard David Johnson

We are loved not in spite of being broken, 

but I think even more so because we are broken down. 

We have to allow ourselves to be ground down, 

for something real to emerge. 

God knows this…He won't leave us.

~J

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I Just Realized...

I just realized how much the Beloved loves me. 

Sometimes when my machine is very active, 

with moments of depression, anger and jealousy, 

I am very often still feeling the Higher with me. 

I realize right now how shocked my machine is 

that the Beloved is still here and has not left me. 

What Unconditional Love I am being shown; 

I am actually loved, all parts. 

I’m literally just having this realization now. 

And that is what I feel for almost every bit of my play...

with everyone who is in it… 

I must love more, accept more,live from the heart.

~S

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I Understood...

I understood that this struggle and then acceptance

and then release leaves behind a very real “hole” in the heart, 

it's literally in the energetic body. 

This is the space where I am not my machine; 

the only place that is clean enough for God to enter

because it is not me. 

This is the space where I can put my judgment, my pettiness, 

my shame, my anger; this is the only place that can hold all of this.

Sometimes when I am intentional enough

and using this understanding ... 

I feel that I have this enormous emptiness, like the icon. 

Really it's probably a little pinprick, 

but so real, because I can breathe REAL air.

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Oh, That One Day...

 Oh, that one day my Soul too would emerge to freedom, 
to dance with the garden fairies and angels! 
The scent of the flowers is the promise of evolution … 
if I could learn to blossom. 
Not every rose will flower, 
and sometimes, after years of solitude and effort, 
just as one begins to bloom, a young lad will trample it underfoot. 
I began to suspect that God and his laws were all around us, 
if we could only see.
~Mervyn Brady

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Love Takes the Place...

Hans Zatzka

Love takes the place of speech  

and the energy between the souls is immediately understood.

With love and the projection of that state, 

we can let the mechanics stay behind and not interfere with our work. 

We have the ability to access the "short cut" with each other as students. 

This is the practice we need to go out into the rest of the world 

in strength to emit that love state.

~M

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Faith Is...

Faith is taking the first step

even when you don't see the whole staircase.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

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I Have Experienced...

I have experienced the falling of buffers recently, 
and new "flowers" of direction for me in my work. 
As we each begin to express these fruits of our experience 
and path, we are growing a new School together. 
And then, the words of the Conscious Beings 
have new meaning for us. 
Like electricity, the realizations we have hard won, 
are suddenly mirrored in new ways 
in the voices of those who have so carefully guided us here.
~J

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Life Is...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Often the Work Grows In Us...

Often the work grows in us, 

unseen, as in winter's hibernation ... 

and the seeds we plant, 

the bulbs we let go fallow seemingly, 

at the correct time, start to appear.

Yes much watering, 

fertilizing, pruning must be done ... 

but those seeds which may have been planted long ago, 

grow silently in us over time, 

just as our understandings do.  

And then suddenly, a buffer falls, 

or an idea springs forth as if new and unheralded.

~J

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I Have Verified...

I have verified 

that it is important to find ones own soul voice.

It is nice to quote conscious beings, 

but we have also a responsibility to express ourselves

 and listen to the  song of our own souls, 

our own understanding, 

expressing ourselves with our realizations on love.

We all need to find our language of the heart.

~S

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So Often Worries...

So often worries and other I's pollute my mind, 

and I forget, there is a much Higher Power driving this Universe.

When I commune with the Higher Power 

in reverent stillness and depth, 

that is where I find true rest.

~E

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