tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14295943335271975992024-03-19T01:08:00.624-07:00love is a placeyes is a world
& in this world of yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-21198021029274644552024-03-18T07:16:00.000-07:002024-03-18T07:16:57.973-07:00a love letter.Within a circle of one meter You sit, pray and sing.Within a shelter ten meters largeYou sleep well, rain sounds a lullaby.Within a field a hundred meters largeGrow rice and raise goats.Within a valley a thousand meters largeGather firewood, water, wild vegetables and Amanitas.Within a forest ten kilometers largePlay with raccoons, hawks, poison snakes and butterflies.Mountainous country Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-46356557842741392452024-03-18T07:03:00.000-07:002024-03-18T10:22:58.202-07:00sudden rightnesses, wholly containing the mind .All fluid activities are in resonance. They mutualize and inform each other. The fluid inside this biosphere called Earth and the fluids of our bodies are in constant rapport.—Emilie Conrad.Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, Every poem an epitaph. And any action Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea’s throat Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-20449382165820530192024-03-18T06:57:00.000-07:002024-03-18T07:37:32.126-07:00the branch might seem like the fruit’s origin: in fact, the branch exists because of the fruit —Rumi .Prayer is something that happens to you (Romans 8:26-27), much more than anything you privately do. It is an allowing of the Big Self more than an assertion of the small self. Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, “Prayer happened, and I was there” more than “I prayed today.” All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being prayed through—Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-86103725155851920782024-03-17T04:09:00.000-07:002024-03-17T04:09:25.309-07:00there’s music in us.Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods.Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt.But there's music in us. Hope is pushed downbut the angel flies up again taking us with her.The summer mornings begin inch by inchwhile we sleep, and walk with us lateras long-legged beauty throughthe dirty streets. It is no surprisethat danger and suffering surround us.What astonishes is the singing.We know the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-10498983737435785912024-03-17T04:07:00.000-07:002024-03-17T04:07:46.676-07:00eyes of the heart .For one who sees with the eyes of the heart, rather than the senses, the world looks different; the blades of grass, the song of the birds, the drops of dew, all are seen to be none other than the One Life that surrounds us in every moment. They see the One in every creature and every creature in the One… they see everything with an equal eye.—Bhagavad Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-69370912363473374582024-03-17T04:05:00.000-07:002024-03-17T05:46:45.964-07:00earth(lings .We come into being in and through the Earth.Simply put, we are Earthlings. The Earth is our origin, our nourishment, our educator, our healer, our fulfillment. At its core, even our spirituality is Earth derived.The human and the Earth are totally implicated, each in the other. If there is no spirituality in the Earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves.—Thomas Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-72874818093480743742024-03-16T06:31:00.000-07:002024-03-16T06:32:55.940-07:00drama of the visible and the invisibleTree of Knowledge, 1913Hilma af Klint, Swedish .There slumbers in every human being faculties by means of which he can acquire for himself a knowledge of higher worlds. Mystics, Gnostics, Theosophists — all speak of a world of soul and spirit which for them is just as real as the world we see with our physical eyes and touch with our physical hands. [...] Just as in the body, eye and ear Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-35468782400185922772024-03-16T06:25:00.000-07:002024-03-16T06:25:00.746-07:00this road is the heart opening —Mirabai .To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.—Wendell Berry.The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-48653739686284538212024-03-16T06:08:00.000-07:002024-03-16T06:33:53.338-07:00you know ... .The world only exists in your eyes … You can make it as big or as small as you want. —F. Scott Fitzgerald .Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-85061124849140819082024-03-15T06:32:00.000-07:002024-03-17T02:59:07.498-07:00adaequatio.Knowledge comes about insofar as the object known is within the knower.—St. Thomas Aquinas.The wild mind of the planet blows through us all, ensconced as we are in the depths of this elusive medium. However, although it is our common element, every one of us experiences it differently. No two bodies or beings ever inhabit this big awareness from precisely the same angle, or with the same sensoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-83638886056150305242024-03-15T06:27:00.000-07:002024-03-15T06:27:18.825-07:00know(ledge .When we say that the world is knowable, i.e. that knowledge as such exists, we state through this fact itself the tenet of the essential unity of the world or its knowability. We declare that the world is not a mosaic, where a plurality of worlds which are essentially strangers to one another are fitted together, but that it is an organism - all of whose parts are governed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-49572028569556169802024-03-15T06:21:00.000-07:002024-03-15T06:21:39.522-07:00the shapes of all thingsLotta at Hof Butenland Farm Sanctuary.... the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-85965631988471630352024-03-14T05:38:00.000-07:002024-03-14T05:38:48.382-07:00thou art that .A knower of the Truthtravels without leaving a tracespeaks without causing harmgives without keeping an accountThe door he shuts, though having no lock,cannot be openedThe knot he ties, though using no cord,cannot be undoneIf you think otherwise,despite your knowledge, you have blundered—Lao TzuTao Te Ching.You know that you are. Don’t burden yourself with names, just be. Any Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-46293426499195881172024-03-14T05:37:00.000-07:002024-03-14T05:37:45.095-07:00the summons .Listen.In the silencebetween your heartbeatsbides a summons.Do you hear it?Name it if you must,or leave it forever nameless,but why pretend it is not there?Leave that which is not,but appears to be.Seek that which is,but is not apparent.—Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-18269041956283453832024-03-14T05:35:00.000-07:002024-03-14T05:40:29.616-07:00bee(ing. There is a being wonderful, perfect; It existed before heaven and earth. How quiet it is! How spiritual it is! It stands alone and it does not change; It moves, but does not on that account suffer. All life comes from it, yet it does not demand to be Lord. I do not know its name, so I call it Tao, the Way, And I rejoice in its power.—Tao Te Ching25th Chapter . God Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-1807894746559875692024-03-13T05:46:00.000-07:002024-03-13T05:47:13.229-07:00the role - if any - of the brain in consciousness .Cleve Backster could name the moment the focus of his life changed forever, from lie detection to plant intelligence: early in the morning on February 2, 1966, at 13 minutes, 55 seconds of chart time for a polygraph he was administering. He had threatened the subject’s well-being in hopes of triggering a response. The subject had responded electrochemically to this threat. The subject was a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-82984160612677772772024-03-13T05:45:00.000-07:002024-03-13T05:45:28.443-07:00note to self .If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.—Teilhard de Chardin.What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.—Werner Heisenberg.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-67655545262814547042024-03-13T05:44:00.000-07:002024-03-13T05:44:48.890-07:00every mode of perception is subjective .When you look at anything, it is the ultimate you see, but you imagine that you see a cloud or a tree. Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelt, felt or Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-76615685652933540222024-03-12T08:36:00.000-07:002024-03-12T08:36:10.760-07:00The Universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. —Teilhard de Chardin .19. The Mind is not self-luminous, since it can be seen as an object. This is a further step toward overthrowing the tyranny of the “mind”: the psychic nature of emotion and mental measuring. This psychic self, the personality, claims to be absolute, asserting that life is for it and through it; it seeks to impose on the whole being of man its narrow, materialistic, faithless Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-69339345494685217082024-03-12T08:26:00.000-07:002024-03-12T08:26:53.822-07:00worry not .If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.Even the idea of being a man or woman, or even human, should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans.So, first abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such, so-and-so, this or that.Abandon all self-concern, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-42058237912484946412024-03-12T08:20:00.000-07:002024-03-12T08:20:52.923-07:00If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere. —Hermes Trismegistus .Leave it all behind you. Forget it.Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs.Abandon all verbal structures, all relative truth, all tangible objectives.—Nisargadatta Maharaj.Suppose thateverything that greens and growsshould blacken in one moment, flower and branch.I think that I would find your blinded hand.Suppose that your hand and mine were lost among numberless criesin aUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-13783000431598283552024-03-11T10:00:00.000-07:002024-03-11T10:00:44.158-07:00what is the nature of the world? .Sometimes I patrol the perimeter of life,checking for holes where reality might leak in.—Sayings of Te Toh .You want somehow or other to maintain that the world is real. What is the standard of reality? That alone is real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging. Does the world exist by itself? Was it ever seen without the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-81827007545117283542024-03-11T09:47:00.000-07:002024-03-11T09:47:11.545-07:00the invisible next .She lets the confused stay confusedif that is what they wantand is always availableto those with a passion for the truth.In the welter of opinions,she is content with not-knowing.She makes distinctionsbut doesn’t take them seriously.She sees the world constantly breakingapart, and stays centered in the whole.She sees the world endlessly changingand never wants it to bedifferent from what Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-90098041292852991212024-03-11T09:46:00.000-07:002024-03-11T09:46:43.892-07:00Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? —Annie Dillard .For a day, just for one day,Talk about that which disturbs no one And bring some peace into yourBeautiful eyes.—Hafiz.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429594333527197599.post-53253377089018452702024-03-10T07:15:00.000-07:002024-03-10T07:16:33.981-07:00the blessedness at the heart of things .In a different mode, or another plane of being, music is the equivalent of some of man’s most significant and most inexpressible experiences. By mysterious analogy it evokes in the mind of the listener, sometimes the phantom of these experiences, sometimes even the experiences themselves in their full force of life — it is a question of intensity; the phantom is dim, the reality, near and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0