The Painting By Botticelli...

The painting by Botticelli that is posted is lovely. 

It harkens to a period in the Italian Renaissance 

that called for art with "grazia" a sense of grace. 

And this to me has to do with stillness. 

Not a 'forcing" of things, 

not imposing oneself on a situation, etc. 

There's a lyrical sweetness if you will, 

a quietness that is powerful.

~M

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Sometimes, By Letting Go' ...

“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

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It Is So Easy...

It is so easy to be hypnotized 

by the motion of outer life, 

where it puts me to sleep, 

as if I am slipping into sleep. 

Very stealthy. 

YET, when I remember that the whole universe 

is really a "wake up call" to me, 

then there's the shift of allowing higher help to enter. 

EVERYTHING can be and is a guide, a help. 

~M

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Perhaps The Most Difficult And Important Thing ...

"Perhaps the most difficult and important thing 

is to learn to wait. 

And when one asks oneself 

what one is waiting for, 

one begins to realize that it is for a moment of stillness, 

without attachment to the past or future. 

For in such a moment 

all kinds of exercises and perceptions 

become possible which are never available 

when one is hurrying 

into the future or out of the past".

~Rodney Collin

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True Love...

“True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak. 

It is born of strength and understanding.” 

~Meher Baba 

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