It Seems...

It seems that we have death around us - 

the flower dies, the sun sets, 

the grass goes from green to brittle brown, 

the waves come crash and go - 

but meet the leaving of the human is still a grasping concept. 

I wonder why? 

I think it is because we have a brain 

that imagines all sorts of things, 

mostly our importance in the world. 

If I am quiet in my body without I's 

I am just that, a body, 

a grain of sand on the beach. 

This helps take the fear and place it in perspective.

~K

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Gratitude ...

 

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. 

It turns what we have into enough, and more. 

It turns denial into acceptance, 

chaos to order, 

confusion to clarity. 

It can turn a meal into a feast, 

a house into a home, 

a stranger into a friend.” 

~ Melody Beattie

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When I Was In School...

 

When I was in school, 

I always wondered what happened at death. 

When I was 12, I asked my rabbi 

what happens when you die, 

He said you become dust. 

I asked him how this could be, 

if I am something now, 

how can I become nothing? 

At uni, my teacher was explaining 

Einstein's theory of relativity, e=mc2. 

Then I realized that before we were born we were energy, 

at birth become matter, 

and again at death 

go back to the energy side of the equation. 

When I'm remembering myself 

I don't have thoughts about death. 

It seems just like some kind of continuation 

of the experience I am having.

~J

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I Was Out In My Garden...

I was out in my garden 

planting two new pots and watering. 

I totally lost track of time. 

I found some flowers peeping up 

from a previous planting 

that were such exquisite colours of peach, pink, gold. 

I had to stop and be still with them a little while 

and breathe their reality into my heart, 

to feel that the colors were transmitted from the light, 

through the light and held in another space and time, 

like the colors floated here 

in a substantial kind of way, 

hovering and waiting to be seen by the soul. 

It really did lift me up with its beauty, 

it was a real moment of beauty.

~C

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Truly,...

 

Truly, it is in darkness

that one finds the light,

so when we are in sorrow,

then this light is nearest of all to us.

~Meister Eckhart

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I Will Try To Explain...

 

I will try to explain in words 

something ineffable! 

I remember reading 

in DEEPER MAN by J.G. Bennett 

that in the higher worlds 

one needs more substance 

to be able to live there. 

Words such as "finer, subtler, etc." 

are used to define the higher worlds 

and one can think of them 

as fairy-like when in reality 

higher worlds are more real, 

more substantial. 

I can see and feel (how to explain) 

the inconsistencies within myself 

and how I so often fall (inside) 

like a house of cards. 

How I wish to BE substantial, 

REAL. 

To be able to stand and withstand.

~M

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The Trees...

Abraham Magier

The Trees

The Trees talk 

in rain and in snow.

I feel their aliveness

breathing...

The Soul unites with the trees,

and the trees are so Silent.

This Silence 

calls forth Eternity.

And I know God will not let it

all end...

~ Abraham Magier

From - Toward Awareness of Body and Soul

Discovering Who am I

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Something Special...

 

Something special in Snow White 

is when the Queen asked the mirror 

who was more beautiful. 

The answer came back that she was beautiful 

but that Snow White even surpassed her in beauty. 

For me this is a good answer, 

the body is beautiful 

but perhaps the soul is just a bit more beautiful.

~J

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Rodney Points Out ...

 

Rodney points out 

that we can have negative thoughts internally, 

but if we do not emanate negativity, 

we hurt no one. 

It is important that the energy 

which we project outwardly is positive, and loving. 

And then we have the possibility 

of "turning" the negativity which is outside us 

and using it in a positive way 

(and possibly "turning" the negativity INSIDE us, as well, 

into a force for love or good).

~J

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The Kingdom...

 

The kingdom, 

it can't be built through conflict. 

Not by opposition, 

not by destruction. 

It grows with us, 

with every act of love and care, 

with our forgiveness. 

We have the power to lift the people, 

just as he did, 

and then we will be free, 

just as he is.

~Mary Magdalene

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