Went To A 1920's Huge Party...

 

Christina Ostrander-Larocque

Went to a 1920s huge party. 

Hundreds of people. 

All dressed up in a magnificent structure 

with columns and music and costumes. 

Had such an odd experience 

as if everyone was in a play 

getting ready for something. 

All these different colors, different ages, 

different faces all in one play.

Something in me just walked around 

and looked into people’s eyes, 

smiling as if they were so so dear to me. 

I fixed someone’s hair 

and she almost bit off my finger 

but then melted:) 

Then I touched an older man’s shoulder 

because he seemed so so nervous 

with his sex center and he melted. 

Many connections. 

And the heart just melted 

one after another after another. 

What is that? 

We are all one, 

we are all part of a play. 

We are all so so beautiful.

~M

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There Are Many...

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There are many other kinds of suffering

through which you will pass 

before you attain your aim.

Try to understand that suffering 

is the only active principle in us 

which can be converted into higher feeling -

which is also higher 

thought and higher understanding.

Do not be afraid 

of thinking of your emotions 

and finding contradictions in them,

even if it hurts you.

Only by comparing different emotions 

referring to the same subject 

can you find buffers in yourself 

and eventually destroy them 

if you work hard enough 

and are not afraid

of hurting yourself.

Remember that this will lead you 

to the awakening of conscience, 

which is the simultaneous feeling 

of all contradictory emotions; 

and remember that the awakening of conscience 

is a necessary step 

for transferring yourself 

to the higher level of consciousness.

~P.D. Ouspensky - Conscience The Search for Truth

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Room for More

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I can see that we can always love more. 

It is as if we are born with a limited amount 

of love within ourselves, a baseline that varies 

from person to person. 

Some people naturally have a greater capacity to love 

or more love to give, while others have less. 

But regardless of our starting point, 

I see that there is always room for more. 

Nobody teaches us this. 

We are taught that we can be "better human beings, 

more responsible, more successful, etc." but 

rarely that we can consciously choose to love more.

A Spanish song comes to mind with a chorus that says, 

"Falta Amor (there is a lack of love)." I see that. 

There are moments when I know I could easily give more 

to my loved ones, but I don’t. 

In those moments, I recognize my own lack of love 

and the vast room I have to grow. 

The question is: how? How do I love more? 

How do I cultivate a purer heart? 

Sometimes I struggle to see the correlation 

between the capacity for love and the capacity for 

self-remembering, but Mervyn did. 

He taught us that the process of love follows 

the exact same rules as the process of self-remembering. 

This means love can grow as the soul grows. 

Let's continue self remembering, lets continue increasing 

our capacity to love.

~T

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Dare To Declare...

 

“Dare to declare who you are. 

It is not far from the shores of silence 

to the boundaries of speech. 

The path is not long, 

but the way is deep. 

You must not only walk there, 

you must be prepared to leap.”

~ St. Hildegard of Bingen

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When I First Saw...

 

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When I first saw your topic 

of “Working Together in Harmony” 

I thought of how we can be with others 

while sharing a common purpose, 

and what goes into making that work 

with synergy and balance. 

I know that in a pure sense 

a shared aim and purpose is the beginning, 

but then I went on to wonder 

what makes it harmonious, 

what makes the octave sing 

and become self-propelling. 

Somehow there must be 

a natural ebb-and-flow within the process, 

between us.

For me, it is recognizing each voice 

and what melody or counter-melody or harmony 

it has to add to the organic whole — 

accepting this without needing to control anything. 

Letting the song or the symphony unfold on its own, 

trusting in the divine plan. 

This comes 

with a certain relinquishing of my own plan, 

my need to project and control the outcome.

And yet, I can have a fully conceptualized plan, 

and somehow let the details emerge surprisingly, 

let them unfold 

in the community of that shared process. 

I need to recognize those magical moments 

where holding back and observing 

allows others to shine their light—

a light which moves us all—

and allows us to fully realize 

the mysterious potential 

that we can only have when we are together, 

each fully ourselves, 

yet fully engaged with each other.

~J

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