I Have Always Been Fond...

 

I have always been fond of the saying 

“Do not let religion 

be an obstacle to the religious experience.” 

It seems that religion 

is more for the machine, 

and religious experiences are for the soul 

and its relationship with God and the angels - 

from these experiences 

the love of God pours out towards others.

~M

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I Was Observing My Ides...

 

Christine Soliman

 I was observing my ides, 

those that don't want to do the work, 

those that make my inner world

feel like a solid balloon that can't be pierced. 

And I thought, 

I have to acknowledge and transform it. 

It reminds me of those kids 

who are troublemakers in school, 

who don't want to follow instructions 

and wants to do as it pleases. 

How much I have loved those children. 

How much I have worked with them 

and waited for their transformation. 

However, I had to acknowledge them as different 

and wish with them 

on a more Loving way without judgement, 

lovingly teaching them boundaries. 

So it must be with the parts of me 

that need to shepherd more, 

an inner and complete transformation.

~T

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What Is It...

Marc Chagall - Lovers in the Moonlight

 

What is it we have to let go of? 

Could be a question each asks for themselves. 

One person's friction is 'just another day at the office' 

for someone who may be experiencing real suffering. 

For that person exists the opportunity 

of transformation of the suffering. 

We all have our identifications 

but when we are in state of presence 

with the inner world, 

we see the laws of the universe operating, 

we see things are happening 

in their automatic cause and effect ways. 

But real suffering is special. 

The transformation of real suffering 

is one of the fastest ways 

to feel real and unconditional love, 

to connect to the higher. 

One way we can let go of friction and pain 

and hold on to Love 

is by accepting the play of the lower centres 

and going higher with Love.

~M

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The Art Of "Noticing"...

 

That art of “noticing” 

has been resonating in my mind and heart. 

As I listened to the Bach, 

I could feel the vibrations throughout my body, 

those waves of sound, 

the chorus of beautiful souls singing, 

Bach’s ability to express grace in sound. 

And I began to look around me, 

seeing the tableaux in our home 

which became more vibrant, 

more resonant. 

And then I looked at our chihuahua, Rudy, 

standing in the kitchen, 

and suddenly I felt him so strongly, 

the beauty of this tiny being, 

and my eyes welled up with tears, 

my heart soaring in gratitude. 

I realize we are all part of that chorus of souls, 

of angels-in-the-making 

singing our individual parts of the great music of life, 

if only we could see that always.

~J

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We Need To Find God...

We need to find God,

and he cannot be found 

in noise and restlessness. 

God is the friend of silence.

See how nature - 

trees, flowers, grass grows in silence;

see the stars, the moon and the sun,

how they move in silence..

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

~Mother Teresa

 

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I See Jesus Walking...

 Ivan Aivazovsky

I see Jesus walking on top of the waters. 

His feet just touching the surface 

but not going into the water. 

As when we can separate and "see" our I'd, 

our sufferings, yet not becoming them. 

It's a beautiful image. 

The waters may be roaring underneath, 

yet we can stay above it.

~M

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The Transformation Of Real Suffering...

 

Pablo Picasso

The transformation of real suffering 

is one of the fastest ways 

to feel real and unconditional love, 

to connect to the higher. 

One way we can let go of friction and pain 

and hold on to Love 

is by accepting the play of the lower centres 

and going higher with Love.

~M

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The Beauty Of Certain Music...

 

The beauty of certain music, 

all the notes being played in harmony 

and sometimes disharmony 

making the melody of song. 

Our Song is to be here 

with every note that is being played.

~S

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No Two Leaves...

 

"No two leaves are alike,

and yet there is no antagonism between them

or between the branches on which they grow."

~Mahatma Gandhi

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The Gift...

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

The gift of working together in harmony, 

seeing that we are all the same, 

we all struggle, daily, 

moment by moment sometimes - 

the urgency to know when that moment is, 

how I can become aware of the vibrations 

of the higher calling to me, 

asking me to transcend. 

Let go. 

Then when I do, 

it is pure joy, joy above emotion - 

Jesus on the sea.

Feeling that I AM in nature and nature is in me, 

no separation from creation. 

What a beautiful experience that is. 

And one by one 

to know that we all exist in that space, 

taking all the souls that participate 

up into the mist of the crashing waves, 

to begin again and again.

~C

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Don't Only Practice...

 

Don't only practice your art,

but force your way into its secrets;

art deserves that,

for it and knowledge 

can raise man to the Divine.

~ Ludwig van Beethoven

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