What Survives...

 

What Survives

Who says that all must vanish?

Who knows, perhaps the flight

of the bird you wound remains,

and perhaps flowers survive 

caresses in us, in their ground.

It isn't the gesture that lasts,

but it dresses you again in gold

armor —from breast to knees—

and the battle was so pure

an Angel wears it after you.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Glory To God...

 

“Glory to God in the highest, 

and on earth peace, 

good will toward men” 

~Luke 2:14

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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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In My Work...

 

In my work 

I have verified that the Work 

is preparation to be able to process and hold, 

build being when being done unto. 

Without understanding, 

these moments of grace, 

being done unto, 

could not produce any triad.

~M

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Today I Had A Conversation...

 

Berthe Morisot

Today I had a conversation with my son 

about presence 

and we talked about quieting the mind 

and dividing attention. 

We stayed in silence and gazed. 

And he said, 

is it about a deep listening then? 

And I realized that perhaps that is part of it,  

a deep listening, 

as in my last quote from Rumi. 

If we wait patiently and long enough, 

the soul will become the receiver, 

the translator of God’s language and our Being. 

This vessel will start to live a life that is so full, 

so full of the deep listening of what is next.  

How can I be more serviceable 

How can I love more? 

All will be answered, 

every question, 

every longing of the past will be answered. 

~F & Rumi

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Sweet Are The Uses Of Adversity...

"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, 

like the toad, 

ugly and venomous, 

wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

~William Shakespeare As You Like It

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Lately I've Been Thinking...

 

  

Erin Hanson

                                                                           

Lately I've been thinking & feeling that Creation, 

the Creator, 

LIFE is waiting for us. 

Waiting for us to SEE it, 

FEEL it and be a part of the wonder. 

It wants us to join in.

~M

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For Me ...

 

For me this inner stillness, 

silence, emptiness, 

this void, that many avoid, 

is my only real refugee. 

“Just This. Just Now” as Mervyn used to say. 

Where everything belongs, 

where there is no separation. 

No need for joy, or happiness because it Just Is. 

That extraordinary glimpse 

could possibly be a state of Real Love. 

Oneness. 

This is what I long for. 

~C

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What I Have Been Verifying...

 

What I have been verifying lately in myself 

is that my inner world has been quiet 

after years of struggle with mechanics 

and pursuit of higher states and mystical experiences. 

I have come to a place of rest. 

The machine that has accompanied me in the work 

isn’t comfortable with this state, 

yet I meet it over and over again. 

I recognize that stillness has the quality of Grace 

where the gods enter and all seems possible. 

Yet there is a part of the machine 

that is still restless 

even when presented with this newly found state of peace. 

I stay in the discomfort. 

It reminds me 

of when Mervyn would try to shake of a higher state 

and it wouldn’t leave him. 

My soul is holding me in silence and I wait.

~F

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Sometimes...

 

Sometimes, by 'letting go' 

we allow some 'grace' to enter by another channel, 

which all our mental efforts have hitherto kept out. 

Stillness is a quality of the heart. 

We must not expect to find it 

among the doubts of the mind—

it is the mind which must make way for it.

~Rodney Collin The Theory of Conscious Harmony

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The Awareness...

 

Douglas Francois Girard

The awareness of how thin a veil there is 

between life and death 

has been with me very strongly

 since I was in my early 20s. 

It came as a result of an accident, 

when I felt myself flying in space, 

and was certain I was dying. 

Since then, 

after a pure experience of the soul 

separating from the body, 

I see death more as an amazing mystery, 

and less of a horror. 

The freedom experienced 

when I felt life was being taken away 

was profoundly educational, 

and also gave me a first glimpse of higher worlds. 

Since then, 

I have rarely lost that sense of death 

awaiting me around every corner. 

And when I am able to bring presence to it, 

this feeling pushes me to strive higher.

~J

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God's Bucket...

 

GOD’S BUCKET

If this world was not held in God’s bucket

How could an ocean stand upside down on its head

 and never lose a drop?

If your life was not contained in God’s cup

                                                    How could you be so brave and laugh,                                                                                

Dance in the face of death?

Hafiz,

There is a private chamber in the soul 

that knows a great secret

Of which no tongue can speak.

Your existence my dear, O love my dear, 

Has been sealed and marked “Too sacred”, 

“too sacred” by the Beloved – 

To ever end!

Indeed God has written 

a thousand promises all over your heart

That says

Life, life, life

Is far too sacred to

Ever End

~Hafiz

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