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#3187 - Wednesday, June 4,
2008 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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When the mind is at peace,
the world too is at peace.
Nothing real, nothing absent.
Not holding on to reality,
not getting stuck in the void,
you are neither holy nor wise, just
an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.
- Layman P'ang (c. 740-808)
"The
Enlightened Heart"
An Anthology of Sacred Poetry
Edited by Stephen Mitchell
posted to Along The Way
http://www.pbase.com/1heart/image/98112358
http://www.pbase.com/1heart/image/98112360/original
LoveAlways
Bob O'Hearn
When you lose touch with
your inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose
touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from
stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and
form.
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner
space or awareness in which the words on this page are being
perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there
would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.
You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
-- Eckhart Tolle
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
START CLOSE IN
Start
close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step you don't want to take.
Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way of starting
the conversation.
Start with
your own
question,
give up on other
people's questions,
don't let them
smother something
simple.
To find
another's voice
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes a
private ear
listening
to another.
Start right
now
take a small step
you can call your own
don't follow
someone else's
heroics, be humble
and focused,
start close in,
don't mistake
that other
for your own.
Start
close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step you don't want to take.
~ David Whyte ~
(River Flow)
Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/Start_Close_In.html
Lord, you
exist
as me. Your power moves,
and I start walking.
A prior impulse is the only difference
between us. Other than that,
everything I am is You.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
posted to
Along The Way