In one spark of fire
        there is the whole fire
        it can ignite
        whole cities and nations
        one spark!

        That's how the Truth
        of one Person
        from age to age
        can shake the whole earth.

                   ~ Swami Amar Jyoti   "In Light of Wisdom"
Swami Amar Jyoti
Truth Consciousness, Boulder, Colorado, 1983
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"Crocus" photo by Sam Pasiencier    
"What is the deep listening?
'Sama' is a greeting from the secret ones
inside the heart, a letter.
The branches of your intelligence grow
new leaves in the wind of this listening.  

The body reaches a peace.
Rooster sound comes,
reminding you of your love for dawn.  

The reed flute and the singer's lips:
the knack of how spirit breathes into us
becomes as simple and ordinary
as eating and drinking.  

The dead rise with the pleasure of listening,
if someone can't hear a trumpet melody,
sprinkle dirt on his head and declare him dead.  

Listen, and feel the beauty of your separation,
the unsayable absence.  

There's a moon inside every human being.
Learn to be companions with it. Give
more of your life to this listening.  

As brightness is to time, so you are to
the one who talks to the deep ear
in your chest.  

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears
when that one steps near and begins to speak."

~ Rumi  
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From the book, "The Glance," published by Penguin Compass
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posted to MillionPaths

 

  The mind-moon, the creator of names and forms, will itself set and be extinguished as a concept in front of the sun of consciousness that is one's real nature.  

from Padamalai - Teachings of Ramana Maharshi recorded by Muruganar,
edited by David Godman  

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