This Beloved...

 

Remedios Varo

“This Beloved of ours is merciful and good. 

Besides, he so deeply longs for our love 

that he keeps calling us to come closer. 

This voice of his is so sweet 

that the poor soul falls apart 

in the face of her own inability to instantly do 

whatever he asks of her. 

And so you can see, 

hearing him hurts 

much more than not being able to hear him… 

For now, 

his voice reaches us through words spoken by good people, 

through listening to spiritual talks, 

and reading sacred literature. 

God calls to us in countless little ways all the time. 

Through illnesses and suffering 

and through sorrow he calls to us. 

Through a truth 

glimpsed fleetingly in a state of prayer he calls to us. 

No matter how halfhearted 

such insights may be, 

God rejoices 

whenever we learn what he is trying to teach us.”

~St. Teresa of Avila

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We Cannot Learn...

 

Marc Chagall

We cannot learn to forgive one another 

until we learn to forgive ourselves.  

It is common for us to react negatively 

when we witness the behavior of someone 

whose chief feature is the same as ours.  

We are repelled by their mechanicality 

because it reflects the degree 

to which we ourselves lack control.  

The more we acknowledge how helpless we are, 

the greater compassion we will feel towards others.

~Mervyn Brady

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Nature is...

Leonardo DaVinci

 Nature is the source of all true knowledge. 

She has her own logic, 

her own laws, 

she has no effect 

without cause nor invention without necessity. 

~Leonardo DaVinci

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I Wanted To Share...

I wanted to share something about the sun. 

Photons (units of energy) of sun 

take 8 min or so to reach the earth from the surface. 

But the photon originating at the core 

can take up to a million years to get to the surface. 

The sun is so dense that the photon 

has to keep bouncing around 

and being dragged through the different layer systems 

of the sun for eons. 

It’s amazing to understand the journey that it, 

the photon, has to undertake to get to us. 

A metaphor for divine love, right? 

And it also parallels our journey 

as organic form to man to conscious man. 

Seems the sun also understands our journey.

~J

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In This Time...

 In this time I feel we have become more 
“Unified” in lightness as a Cosmos, a School. 
Our soul's join and quiver 
like strings kissing the thin skins of our 
confines within this realm, 
reaching into a higher atmosphere 
and understanding 
our divine responsibility towards Love. 
Let us float together today in this light.

~C

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Flowing, Magical, Joyous!

Water has so much to teach us,

we are composed mostly of water, 

and when we learn to imitate water, 

to just flow and not resist what life 

brings us in each moment. 

Then we can be like water in nature,

 flowing, magical, joyous! 

 - J

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Limitless Love...

"Limitless Love,

from the depths, to the stars,

flooding all, loving all,

it is the royal kiss of peace"

~Hildegard of Bingen

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After A While...

Mark Rothko

After a while in this work, 

one can find “The center”. 

No matter how lost we become in our little galaxies. 

One can be silent and move into the center 

and presently wait for the light and breath of the sun. 

In silence, it is possible to “Feel” this breathing 

of another higher being inside.

~C

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There Is A Center Point...

Natasha Tayles

There is a center point in all of us 

that goes to the center of the universe 

to the heart of god. 

Dare we say that it goes to God himself? 

Finding this center point 

and valuing enough to find this point again and again 

in ourselves is perhaps what this means. 

What is outside - the stars, 

nature man is also what is inside us. 

The sun, perhaps was worshiped as God by our ancestors. 

But really it was the energy of all life. 

The deep knowing that we are really energy. 

We are form 

and nothing without this divine energy.

~J

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Death Is...

Death is only interesting

in relation to the search for what cannot die.

~Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony

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That Is What...

 That is what the machine does, 

it mocks the work. 

It down plays, 

justifies, 

and everything else to undermine it's realness; 

to give it less credibility. 

And it's all done to keep us asleep. 

What a beautiful state to be completely detached 

from the machine and it's "I's" 

and see it for what it's worth, 

and see how it's almost comical. 

~C

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Today Is Naz McSweeney’s Birthday...

Today is Naz McSweeney’s birthday.

I don’t think there was one soul 

she didn’t touch in her lifetime.

She was a wonderful teacher 

for myself and others 

and had such a deep understanding of the work.

My life has been so enriched knowing her 

and I continue to feel her presence

to this day.

~P

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