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#4187 - Thursday, March 10, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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The earth has music for those who listen.
~William Shakespeare
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What the Dog Perhaps Hears
"If an inaudible whistle
blown between our lips
can send him home to us,
...then silence is perhaps
the sound of spiders breathing
and roots mining the earth;
it may be asparagus heaving,
headfirst, into the light
and the long brown sound
of cracked cups, when it happens.
We would like to ask the dog
if there is a continuous whir
because the child in the house
keeps growing, if the snake
really stretches full length
without a click and the sun
breaks through clouds without
a decibel of effort,
whether in autumn, when the trees
dry up their wells, there isn't a shudder
too high for us to hear.
What is it like up there
above the shut-off level
of our simple ears?
For us there was no birth cry,
the newborn bird is suddenly here,
the egg broken, the nest alive,
and we heard nothing when the world changed."
~ Lisel Mueller
Mazie Lane on Facebook
"Amos and Yosy" by Bob O'Hearn
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Words that go beyond the pattern
do not come from the mouth.
~Joshu
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It’s been many years
since I could find a problem.
I know better
than to take my dreams
to analysts and those whose lives
are rutted in consensus reality,
still arguing with what is.
I share my dreams now
with siddhas and sanyasins,
and the occasional dervish
though they’re harder to find,
and those whose illusions
have been joyously demolished
by God.
Most people seek
(and perhaps find a temporary)
happiness
through ‘getting what they want.’
Or, what they think they want.
I was raised in the opposite way:
to want what I get.
To truly savor it.
The equanimity
that stays
has little to do with getting
or for that matter, losing, anything.
And no, beloved friend,
you are not
“everything I wanted”
but you are the love letter
the most exquisitely beautiful
and imperfectly perfect love letter
sent to me by God.
I am drenched,
utterly drenched in bewilderment
and poetry,
gloriously unhinged
and loving this dance!
~Rashani Rea
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We have fallen into the place where everything is music.
~Rumi
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The Winter of Listening
No one but me by the fire,
my hands burning
red in the palms while
the night wind carries
everything away outside.
All this petty worry
while the great cloak
of the sky grows dark
and intense
round every living thing.
What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind
in ways that diminish
its presence.
What we strive for
in perfection
is not what turns us
into the lit angel
we desire,
what disturbs
and then nourishes
has everything
we need.
What we hate
in ourselves
is what we cannot know
in ourselves but
what is true to the pattern
does not need
to be explained.
Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.
Even with the summer
so far off
I feel it grown in me
now and ready
to arrive in the world.
All those years
listening to those
who had
nothing to say.
All those years
forgetting
how everything
has its own voice
to make
itself heard.
All those years
forgetting
how easily
you can belong
to everything
simply by listening.
And the slow
difficulty
of remembering
how everything
is born from
an opposite
and miraculous
otherness.
Silence and winter
has led me to that
otherness.
So let this winter
of listening
be enough
for the new life
I must call my own.
~ David Whyte ~
(The House of Belonging)
Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/The_Winter_of_Listening.html
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Mark gave this link over the past weekend. I would like to remove
the perhaps.
Home... (This is not a short video... but perhaps it's worth
watching and yet, perhaps it's not....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
"I loved this movie "home", fantastic, well worth
the 90 min...." from a reader, Bruce.
May I just add another affirmation. Find the time. The second
half presents the current
situation and condition of our planet, the unforgettable images
say it all. -Gloria