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#2846 - Sunday, June 17, 2007 - Editor: Gloria Lee
Nondual Highlights
When you take photographs,
just before you click the shutter, your mind is empty and open,
just seeing without words. When you stand in front of a blank
sheet of paper, about to make a painting or a calligraphy, you
have no idea what you will do. Maybe you have some plan for a
painting, or you know what symbol you want to calligraph, but you
don't actually know what will appear when you put brush to paper.
What you do out of trust in open mind will be fresh and
spontaneous. Opening to first thought is the way to begin any
action properly.
--Jeremy Hayward
The thinking mind
can turn any experience, including the realization that all
problems are conceptual, into yet another concept or philosophy.
“All is well, all is well, all is well,” like a mantra,
thought, lulling itself back to sleep. But awareness is awake and
alive. It isn't drawing mental conclusions about the fact that
nothing is a problem and then deciding, "Well, I'll just sit
on my enlightened butt and revel in the fact that nothing is
wrong.”
We fear that the realization that “all is well” will
lead people to not care, to become cold and heartless. But, it is
actually the realization of “no problem” that liberates
love. This is the very insight that makes true love possible, a
love that asks for nothing because nothing is needed.
--John Astin
Be Still and Know
Imagine perceiving the
world through Stillness. It's like God looking at his/her/its
creation … Ohhhh … Beautiful! And you see there's a
goodness present that pervades the entire Universe.
What is that Presence? -- it's your Presence. There isn't the
Presence of God and you. There's only Presence. It's arising from
within you. And so you know at first hand, not as a
belief, that there's a goodness that pervades the entire
Universe, a benevolence. And you know it, not as something
external to you, but as your very essence. That means that's who
you are.
You are that power, that goodness, that aliveness, that Stillness…
beyond that temporary form in which you appear for a flash ... a
brief time ... and then it's gone.
And that's the deeper meaning of the Old Testament saying, 'Be
still and know that I am God.' That I am and God are one.
--Eckhart Tolle
posted to TheNow_2
David Spero http://www.davidspero.org
Shifting
the Sun
When your father dies, say the Irish,
you lose your umbrella against bad weather.
May his sun be your light, say the Armenians
When your father dies, say the Welsh,
you sink a foot deeper into the earth.
May you inherit his light, say the Armenians.
When your father dies, say the Canadians,
you run out of excuses.
May you inherit his sun, say the Armenians.
When your father dies, say the French,
you become your own father.
May you stand up in his light, say the Armenians.
When you father dies, say the Indians,
he comes back as the thunder.
May you inherit his light, say the Armenians.
When your father dies, say the Russians,
he takes your childhood with him.
May you inherit his light, say the Armenians.
When your father dies, say the English,
you join his club you vowed you wouldn't.
May you inherit his sun, say the Armenians.
When your father dies, say the Armenians,
your sun shifts forever.
And you walk in his light.
~ Diana
Der-Hovanessian ~
(Selected
Poems)
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