At Death...

 

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At death the lighted lamp

of your heart

Will be placed

in the wide center of the sky.

Will it, flickering, go out,

Or in one final act

of all-consuming being

Catching the corners

of the wind

Wake in the ocean of light

Filling a heart

now also without limits.

~John Clarke

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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Image by Alexander Fox - Planet_Fox from Pixabay

"In order to know the future

it is necessary first to know the present 

in all its details, as well as to know the past.

Today is what it is because

yesterday was what it was.

And if today is like yesterday, 

tomorrow will be like today. 

If you want tomorrow to be different, 

you must make today different."

G.I. Gurdjieff

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I Love Spring And Fall...

 

I love Spring and Fall. 

The seasons that seem in-between that seem to be moving, 

perhaps across a threshold. 

Becoming, and Growing as displayed in Spring —

Accepting and Letting Go, 

as mirrored in the golden and red leaves 

that fall to earth (and us!) in Autumn. 

Gifts of nature which can reflect our own nature 

as we reflect upon them. 

These seasons seem to me the most active, 

the most promising.

I’m oh so glad to be back living in a part of the country 

where I can fully experience them once again. 

What gifts will they bring me this year?

~J

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When We Start...

 

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When we start to touch our soul, 

we begin the process of letting go of what is not real in us. 

Yes, now we are dying to our machine. 

And like the leaf, 

we become more unique as we become more real.

~J

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The Ladder of Impressions

 

Melanie Guerra - The Ladder of Impressions

To remember ourselves is to receive life 

without immediately losing ourselves in it. 

Between what arrives and what we do with it, 

there is a sacred space where consciousness 

can enter, and where transformation becomes possible. 

Impression by impression, we build a ladder 

of awareness toward the divine.

~M

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