© 2009 Howard McQueen
I had dinner with an acquaintance in Savannah in November. .
I had been listening to their stories now and then, over a week or two.
The stories of their youth included passion and independence,
running small businesses and, on the side,
always suckering others in on bets – that they always won.
It seems like these past ten years that life has been in a sort of reversal,
that employees began taking my acquaintance for a…
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The complete mystery and miracle of it all.
(C) 2009 Howard McQueen
I AM the indwelling being.
To meet you is to meet me,
the same One,
everything alive,
radiating and reflecting
the indwelling being-ness.
Being-ness has chosen again to awaken,
to take up a temporary home,
to assume perspective in organic
form and function,
flesh and bone.
There is no why,
there is but…
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The dynamic acceptance
of being responsible with the grand gift
the eternal journey,
immersed and connected with LIFE.
Ever so gently
guiding our tiller,
ever so deftly,
navigating and course-correcting,
remaining in our center,
witnessing all that ebbs and flows.
Sometimes a torrent,
that the ego wants to label torment,
sometimes a trickle,
that the ego wants to label way too…
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The glorious work of inner liberation,
neck deep, mired in stuck emotions and public hi-jackings.
Containment of aggression,
the learning to stick with,
digest and transmute
jittery, jolting energies that have for too long
been allowed to escape and run amuck,
confusing,
short-circuiting and
shocking the external world.
So, I practice the art of containment,
holding and turning what was once allowed to…
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To stop believing and practicing
the falseness
is one thing.
To also not be in opposition
to the falseness
is a greater thing.
True peace does not give birth to revolution.
Revolution keeps us from stepping off the ever-turning Wheel.
Still on the Wheel,
revolving around the stuck,
repetitious pattern,
we continue to manufacture delusion for ourselves,
believing we've magically swept…
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It's as simple as being here in the now. Period. Not flashy, necessarily, yet oh so sweet and satisfying. So satisfying nothing else is wanted, or needed. We often want "higher states" to be this simple Presence. Sorry, there is no such thing as permanent higher states where lotus blossoms bloom where you have walked, the angels bow, and milk & honey is always available for your bowl of cherries. Just Be Still. Be in the moment, as it is,wanting nothing different from what is here…
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The external world:
Seductive,
Alluring,
Frightening,
Compelling,
All encompasing,
completely and totally spellbinding,
A deep, grand attraction.
A gravity well.
We are captives and captivated,
holding ourselves spellbound and hostage,
suspended in our spidery web of relationships,
our collective co-dependencies
with our physical things and routines.
“I’ve grown quite…
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Added by Howard McQueen on December 15, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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This posting clipped from the very beautiful publication
Heron Dance
Cielo Myczack was another person whom I interviewed and who shaped the publication. Cielo and her husband, Leaf, founded the
RiverKeepers, a group of environmental and wilderness protection activists in Tennessee. Cielo talked of the spiritual challenges of a life of activism:
By becoming…
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The Gap,
chasm,
dense smog,
imprisoning walls.
Our beliefs ensnare us,
close us down,
short-circuit the forces of life
flowing to and, when we are believing ourselves impeded,
cutoff, separate and alone,
urgently manufacturing from our isolated, marginalized energetic footprint
more and more illusions to sustain our sentence of severance from All.
This is the great, inherited disease of…
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So many powerful, ancient, external influences of nature:
hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, earthquakes ...
Six.five billion humans and their defense and politically-charged institutions,
along with the exploitative globally-based corporations,
meddling and manipulating, stepping across boundaries, mucking all around.
So many indwelling influences running around within:
animal drives, desires and longings of the…
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Life is accelerating,
picking up the pace,
softening us,
swallowing us,
digesting us - completely.
This is making us a bunch of Yummies,
silly foolish,
digestive enzymes.
If we become really silent and listen in closely, we will
hear these enzymatic Troubadours
gaily singing the Yummies-in-the-tummy, chorale refrain:
"Oh my goshin,
we be sloshin'
and dancin'
and singin'
with…
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When we say we are looking, searching for meaning in life,
this usually means we are attempting to judge or compare
to decide
- do I present myself in a way that lures someone/something my way
- do I shrink myself so someone/something will fail to take notice
- do I inflate my anger to ward someone/something away
- do I [insert your own custom ego-centric strategy here ...]
Peace begins to arrive on the scene
when…
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The Lineage of Feminine Transformational Love
© 2009 Howard McQueen
This day last month, I realized life just
harvested me,
a fully grown pearl
from its twelve months of nourishment in shell.
My housemate, a mom of two
beautiful daughters,
aka my sister gypsy-soul,
shared with me her gift as mother-of-pearl.
What beautiful luster and opulent shining spirit
is created between the pearl and it motherly…
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If you are seeking,
looking to find,
If you are asking,
expecting to receive an answer,
what you will encounter
are various pointers
leading back inside
yourself.
The world is this perfectly polished
neutral, reflective mirror.
If you feel lacking, incomplete,
this will be your experience with the external world.
You will experience a polar mix of abundance and…
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Try really listening to your mind.
Meditation suggests that you notice the contents, then return.
But for now, try really listening.
Pick a theme that the mind is obsessing over.
Grab a pen and paper.
Let the mind be represented on paper as
"me is feeling ..." and/or "this ... is happening to me"
Don't use the "I am feeling ...".
Stick with the more juvenile "me is feeling ..."
Now, really allow this voice complete…
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We're holding on to volumes,
vast stores of evidence
used to shore up our identity as
The Victim -- ta da (drum roll, role the cameras) ... !
We may even have our evidence in official writing:
so and so court or magistrate decrees "..."
Victims, like any role, must be constantly sustained,
otherwise, anything left alone and unfed,
withers on the vine.
Playing the character role of…
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That we have to earn
or qualify
or please another
or look outside ourselves
to receive the experience of
UNCONDITIONAL
LOVE
is
one
of
the
great, ancient
false beliefs
shadowing
and haunting the
human
MIND
and
constricting the
human
HEART.
This particular infrastructure belief is the mother of countless false subordinate, orphaning beliefs. Cleansing, neutralizing, releasing and…
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May we live
in rapture
fully digesting
and
assimilating
the multi-dimensional nutrition infusions
of our experiences of Oneness.
May we connect
to the grand-scale Mystery.
May we experience
and not waste our breath explaining
our experiencing the Divine
to the Divine.
Why keep tripping over inadequate word constructs
and recalling the ancient separation influenza,
when we can silently and directly share…
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Life just is.
We are often out-of-alignment,
not in the middle of the flow,
not appreciating some aspect
or experience provided by life.
Life lovingly points out our misalignments
through other people (messengers)
and their behaviors to us (the message).
Our resistance often kicks in,
escalating the ante
and the pain and the suffering.
Resistance is indeed, futile,
unless one…
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Imagine the Great Oneness,
in a single exhale,
a profound breathing out,
breathed life into everything.
Infinite life force,
Unconditional love for the creation,
unlimited potential to manifest.
Sublime balance,
Freedom for the creation to practice creation
and destruction.
Non-interference,
non-judgment,
and,
embedded deep within each human heart,
the spark,
the…
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