As I Sit Here...

                                                               

As I sit here dividing my attention 

I am bringing my awareness 

to the many and at the same time the one. 

The so many visual stimuli 

I can see in front of me and my periphery, 

and sounds, and the ONE breath. 

Per moment that I hold so many different attentions - 

the fingers moving on the keys, 

the breath I have breathed in the world into me 

and move it out of me effortlessly it vanishes.

I cannot know my own weight - 

but I know I have mass and am a physical being 

moving in space and I am full of light, 

air and am permeable. 

It is my work to hold the dual nature of the journey - 

to recognize it when it is opening itself to me. 

There is wisdom there. 

There are moments to ride upon 

and stay with longer, 

extending moments 

using these realizations to help us.

~M

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One Touch...

One touch of nature

makes the whole world kin.

~William Shakespeare

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About Building Desire...

 

Edward Robert Hughes

About building desire for the work, 

one of the things 

that I have been thinking of lately 

is that we must build our own heaven, 

because we can always return 

to moments of presence. 

So, when we are going through life 

in the busy day to day, 

we have a choice 

to either let that moment pass through the Jacks, 

or to decide to take it in fully 

and store it up in our heaven, 

a place we can always return to. 

To understand 

that our heaven must be constantly created brick by brick, 

moment by moment, 

can be a huge third force to gain desire in the work, 

to stay present, 

and to raise the hydrogens 

by building our heaven 

and by staying out of the Jacks too much.

~L

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I Feel Like It Is Often...

I feel like it is often 

our ordinary state of mechanical inclinations 

that we go so quickly. 

Having a queen machine 

in myself I see this very vividly, 

even in meetings - 

rushing to give an angle 

after a student has spoken, 

not allowing the time to digest what one has said, 

feel the immensity of the students words 

from their inner world. 

I am verifying more and more 

the importance of developing 

and using my kings 

so that my inner world can savior an angle, 

digest a piece of music 

while restraining to respond or eliminate so quickly. 

This is the struggle that I have to work with very, very much. 

~S

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Lose Yourself...

“Lose yourself,

Lose yourself in this love.

When you lose yourself in this love,

you will find everything.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Do not fear this loss,

For you will rise from the earth

and embrace the endless heavens.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from this earthly form, 

For this body is a chain

and you are its prisoner.

Smash through the prison wall

and walk outside with the kings and princes.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King. When you lose yourself

before the King

you will become the King.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from the black cloud

that surrounds you.

Then you will see your own light

as radiant as the full moon.

Now enter that silence. 

This is the surest way

to lose yourself. . . .

What is your life about, anyway?—

Nothing but a struggle to be someone,

Nothing but a running from your own silence.”

~Rumi

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If We Live...

“If we live in our oneness-heart, 

we will feel the essence of all religions 

which is the love of God. 

Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood 

and the feeling of oneness 

are the signs of a true religion.”

~ Sri Chinmoy

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It's So Difficult...

     

               

           Lionel Smit

 

 

It's so difficult to bear it all,

yet that is what I must do.

So I can see and transform.

How can I transform if I buffer, deny?

By bringing in understanding,

love, the willingness to it all,

then I can come into the pure air

of healing & regeneration.

Something about a new order

of the atoms comes to mind.

Breathing in the rarified air of a higher order.

~M

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Love ...

Vincent VanGogh

“Love your Enemies, 

for they tell you your Faults.”

~Ben Franklin

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I Think...

I think that to try to be present 

whenever you can 

is the higher right, 

to practice more and more 

and push the envelope so to speak. 

To find what stops your being present 

is a good starting point though - 

as you have done 

by starting to observe yourself.

~P

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I Think It’s Important...

 

I think it’s important 

to keep trying to understand 

and forgive our unconscious selves 

and see that if it could have been different 

it would have been. 

For that to happen 

we would have to override mechanical reactions -  

and also if the law of recurrence is to be believed 

we can work in this life 

so that we heal the past 

and it does not recur 

in the next lifetime in the same way.

~M

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