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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It Seems...

It seems that we have death around us - 

the flower dies, the sun sets, 

the grass goes from green to brittle brown, 

the waves come crash and go - 

but meet the leaving of the human is still a grasping concept. 

I wonder why? 

I think it is because we have a brain 

that imagines all sorts of things, 

mostly our importance in the world. 

If I am quiet in my body without I's 

I am just that, a body, 

a grain of sand on the beach. 

This helps take the fear and place it in perspective.

~K

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Gratitude ...

 

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. 

It turns what we have into enough, and more. 

It turns denial into acceptance, 

chaos to order, 

confusion to clarity. 

It can turn a meal into a feast, 

a house into a home, 

a stranger into a friend.” 

~ Melody Beattie

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When I Was In School...

 

When I was in school, 

I always wondered what happened at death. 

When I was 12, I asked my rabbi 

what happens when you die, 

He said you become dust. 

I asked him how this could be, 

if I am something now, 

how can I become nothing? 

At uni, my teacher was explaining 

Einstein's theory of relativity, e=mc2. 

Then I realized that before we were born we were energy, 

at birth become matter, 

and again at death 

go back to the energy side of the equation. 

When I'm remembering myself 

I don't have thoughts about death. 

It seems just like some kind of continuation 

of the experience I am having.

~J

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I Was Out In My Garden...

I was out in my garden 

planting two new pots and watering. 

I totally lost track of time. 

I found some flowers peeping up 

from a previous planting 

that were such exquisite colours of peach, pink, gold. 

I had to stop and be still with them a little while 

and breathe their reality into my heart, 

to feel that the colors were transmitted from the light, 

through the light and held in another space and time, 

like the colors floated here 

in a substantial kind of way, 

hovering and waiting to be seen by the soul. 

It really did lift me up with its beauty, 

it was a real moment of beauty.

~C

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Truly,...

 

Truly, it is in darkness

that one finds the light,

so when we are in sorrow,

then this light is nearest of all to us.

~Meister Eckhart

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I Will Try To Explain...

 

I will try to explain in words 

something ineffable! 

I remember reading 

in DEEPER MAN by J.G. Bennett 

that in the higher worlds 

one needs more substance 

to be able to live there. 

Words such as "finer, subtler, etc." 

are used to define the higher worlds 

and one can think of them 

as fairy-like when in reality 

higher worlds are more real, 

more substantial. 

I can see and feel (how to explain) 

the inconsistencies within myself 

and how I so often fall (inside) 

like a house of cards. 

How I wish to BE substantial, 

REAL. 

To be able to stand and withstand.

~M

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The Trees...

Abraham Magier

The Trees

The Trees talk 

in rain and in snow.

I feel their aliveness

breathing...

The Soul unites with the trees,

and the trees are so Silent.

This Silence 

calls forth Eternity.

And I know God will not let it

all end...

~ Abraham Magier

From - Toward Awareness of Body and Soul

Discovering Who am I

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Something Special...

 

Something special in Snow White 

is when the Queen asked the mirror 

who was more beautiful. 

The answer came back that she was beautiful 

but that Snow White even surpassed her in beauty. 

For me this is a good answer, 

the body is beautiful 

but perhaps the soul is just a bit more beautiful.

~J

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Rodney Points Out ...

 

Rodney points out 

that we can have negative thoughts internally, 

but if we do not emanate negativity, 

we hurt no one. 

It is important that the energy 

which we project outwardly is positive, and loving. 

And then we have the possibility 

of "turning" the negativity which is outside us 

and using it in a positive way 

(and possibly "turning" the negativity INSIDE us, as well, 

into a force for love or good).

~J

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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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I Remember ...

I remember being very negative 

in an argument with my Boss many years ago. 

I tried self-remembering but was being difficult. 

Then, I saw the Human Resource gentlemen. 

He was listening and at peace. 

His peace gave me permission 

to return to my peace. 

It was then I verified 

how negative emotions have been taught to us 

and it is within us.

 ~T

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One Way...

 

One way I can "be ground, be crumbled ..." 

is to loosen my expectations. 

Then I can be open 

to receive the floating seeds of the wildflowers. 

This kind of practice 

has been very powerful for me lately. 

It's a new way to see through becoming more receptive, 

more relaxed (thank you, Maurice Nicoll!). 

Then images and events, 

surprising gifts from higher realms 

become visible and can change my path, 

perhaps correct my path.

~J

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About Our School...

 

Edouard Manet

(About our school)

The mirror of presence is invaluable.

~S

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Somebody Should Tell Us...

 

Somebody should tell us, 

right at the start of our lives, 

that we are dying.

Then we might live life to the limit,

every minute of every day.

Do it!

I say.

Whatever you want to do,

do it now!

There are only so many tomorrows.

~Pope Paul VI

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The Current Of The Work ...

 

The current of the work draws us in 

to submit more than we perhaps know 

or would be mechanically comfortable with. 

In my own play 

recently has come the experience 

of the third class of negative emotion 

that Ouspenksy outlines, 

those that we cannot stop, 

only observe when they come. 

It's helping me to understand better 

the second conscious shock - 

of the transformation of negative emotions 

because in these states the soul is aflame. 

And any leak or egoism 

will only serve to give expression to one's anguish. 

And then down we go. 

In these cases, 

it's becoming apparent 

that the only value in these states 

is the ultimate valuation and trust in God 

and all his servants. 

For what else could our sufferings 

be propelling us toward if the first shock is maintained. 

And so in ultimate friction and cleaved heart 

the smile and comfort of our father 

can overtake me 

and these pains can be transmuted 

into acceptance and grace, 

lightening the load of our creator

~O

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I Desire...

Guilio Romano

I desire each and everyone of you 

to evolve to your maximum potential.

So do the Gods 

who long before 

have incessantly prepared you all 

for a great happening.

What has been missing and now must be replaced 

is your Desire to awaken.

Eros and I are ready to serve you 

and that is not all.

There are other Gods in the wings 

waiting to emerge too.

Love to you all,

~Mervyn

Deseo que todos y cada uno de Ustedes, 

evolucionen a su máximo potencial.

Así lo hicieron los Dioses, 

quienes incesantemente, 

los han preparado a todos para un gran suceso.

Lo que ha estado faltando 

y ahora debe ser reemplazado, 

es vuestro Deseo por despertar.

Eros y yo, 

estámos listos para ayudarlos; 

y eso no es todo.

Hay otros Dioses en las alas, 

listos para emerger también.

Amor a todos,

~Mervyn

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