The Feeling...

 

Ronit Ashkenazi

The feeling, desire, willingness, courage, 

all need to work together to fill that moment 

when laziness of the machine is about me. 

Shakespeare pointed us in the direction 

of using perhaps some wit - 

and similar to question, 

I can think of it as to play with the I's. 

For instance: This ‘I’ feels real- why? 

It has a very certain point of view. 

Where did that come from? 

Investigate and it falls away quickly 

or if not quickly, 

more questions are helpful 

to see if it is a rooted I 

and where the root began.

~M

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The Change is In You

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"There is no Change in God.

The Change is in you.

Plead to God. 

Wake up at the middle of the night.

Get up and prostrate yourself twice.

Need, need, need!

Put your face on the ground,

and rain down tears;

'Lord, if you don't want the Prophets and

Saints to remain like a knocker on the door,

now that you have shown me 

the great man [Mervyn Brady],

Open up my yes through him.'

Happy is he who sees me [God],

and happy is he who sees 

him who has seem me."

~Sham Tabrizi 

You Were Talking...

 

You were talking about “wearing” this string of pearls, 

rather than keeping them in a box. 

How these realizations or pearls of wisdom 

we have verified need to be kept close to our heart and head, 

so that we don't have to search for them 

when we need them. 

(Or this is what I took from your comments.) 

I think this is related to the idea of "having a longer thought." 

Staying with our realizations and verifications 

until they have gone really deeply inside, 

perhaps as part of revealing 

who we are becoming in a very real way. 

Then of course 

they become part of our very being, 

and we can draw upon them 

in a natural way when we need them. 

I think part of Mervyn's fear 

that we might lose the Work 

was about this. 

It is not sufficient for the head 

to make an important connection. 

I must also bring it into all my centers, 

explore it, see how it manifests, 

and make it truly and completely my own. 

Then it will be mine 

and it will inform who I am becoming in the richest sense.

~J

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