As you awaken ...

As you awaken and grow in this work, 

You become objective to yourself.

~J

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The Hope Of Loving...

 

Edward Burne-Jones

The hope of Loving...

“What keeps us alive? 

What allows us to endure? 

I think it is the hope of loving or being loved.

I heard a fable once 

about the sun going on a journey to find its source. 

And how the moon wept without her lovers warm gaze.

We weep when light does not reach our hearts, 

we wither like fields 

if someone does not rain 

their kindness upon us.”

~Meister Eckardt

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To Live In The Heart ...

To live in the heart requires stillness, 

and attentiveness 

or we may miss these beautiful clues 

to higher understanding. 

~J

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Working With Vanity...

John Clarke

Working with Vanity is a long term project 

and requires all of our patience 

with ourselves and acceptance. 

Acceptance means acceptance, 

that we have this thing we would rather not have, 

but that we will not judge ourselves for it, 

just see it and note it. 

But keep at the back of your mind that with inner work 

and presence over time, 

you will most certainly change and Vanity will lessen.

 

A good sign of it becoming less strong 

is when we start to really value others 

and to actually LISTEN to what they have to say. 

That is not half listen 

and identify with our much “better” I.  

That comes usually after fairly long work 

at seeing ourselves, 

seeing we are more or less the same as everyone else, 

not better or worse, 

in fact that we are brothers and sisters on the path.

~John Clarke

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Tenderheartedness...

 

Xiaofei Yue

“Tenderheartedness” is a term St. Theresa often uses. 

There is a wonderful explanation 

where she explains 

her heart becoming soft like “Molten metal” 

and the beloved comes and stamps his presence within it. 

This feeling of tenderness 

is beyond false personality 

or the feature and is to be trusted and followed. 

It is our ear within, 

our sense and openness towards others, 

the place we open within 

when Jesus has been “knocking” on the door 

we looked at in “Light of the World”.

~C

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