An old Sufi proverb states: “God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.”
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When Unconditional Love is fully present,
Forgiveness is instantaneous.
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May the rarest gems of beauty leap from your heart’s mind
onto paper, into landscape, through your voice, and into the world.
May the essence of what you really are
marinate and resonate in the Oneness
deeply within your heart and inner space.
You are the pure, radiant Joy of Creation
We are all colleagues in Love
emerging from the darkness of the dream.
Welcome back, my brothers and my sisters.
Here…
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No clue what to do with this taboo of anger
I am looking sick, so leave me alone.
I sense disconnection, this sickness
reaching deep into my bones.
So many questions, so much advice
I vacillate from ambivalence to a nightmarish fright
Pretty pissed off
shouldering these feelings of helplessness and despair.
The shame, collapsed anger, the big taboo.
I project victims: Pick one you like, something that…
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We ride on our own blessings,
along with all the other noble steeds -
aroused by the provocations of our teachers and predecessors
A friend in Arizona recently cited the bolded line above and provided the following response.
Of particular significance to me this day is the line: "We ride on our own blessings." Daily blessing was the major theme of the letter I just wrote Marketa an hour ago. The writing of that letter made me determined to do much more… Continue
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Be humbly present
Check the cleverness
And the entertainer
Along with all the false personas and prophets
At the door, on your way in.
Ground zero
Contact with direct experience
No mind stuff
Where is your energy stuck?
Can you lend it your voice,
Your patience, your attention,
Your full being – NOW?
Lets hear what the provoked voices have to say …
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We are born creator-builders, imaginers ...
We are realizing we are also quantum-equipped birthing portals,
with an adolescent grip on consciousness,
constantly birthing our thoughts, ideas and concepts into the world.
We carry an emergent awareness
returning inward, ready to unfold,
stories to be rewritten and re-told
a chorus, a crescendo of “do-overs” [1] in our queue.
Picking up momentum,
aligning in…
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Letting go and falling into Surrender
starts with shining your light of awareness
into the places where you are hiding out.
The sooner you surrender your helplessness
room will be opened for the arrival of Grace.
Allow everything to be liberated
to be whatever it is
and there will be an immediate
lessening of confusion through projection.
Seeing clearly what is, we can live in peace.
You…
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Yes indeed, it truly is our external world.
A bit messy, yes
Well, what else would you expect, with all the shenanigans and all the sufferin’ succotash going on.
Well, well, what to do about it?
Mmmmmmm. Lets start with my own inner world, where everything is created that shapes my outer world.
A bit messy, yes
Well, what else would you expect, with all the shenanigans and all the sufferin’ succotash going…
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Grieve deeply in this moment of attachments lost.
Of Suffering, give it all to CREATOR.
It was never yours to carry.
You were, are and will always be the child of creation –
Bear your fruit and live in the grace of the gifts of this Kingdom of Creation.
With this Grief is summoned the Angel of Death –
Providing the sacred service to carry away burdens of guilt and remorse
And even the seemingly often cursed human…
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Fundamentally, there is only consciousness,
deeply identified with its forms.
Humans thinking themselves to be like a tortoise,
their only home, the self-constructed shell,
or any make-do container to safe harbor identity.
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It all begins with an aggression
towards oneself,
often then jumps as projection upon someone else,
escalating to a transgression,
this inner aggression flung upon another.
Perhaps the other has the sense of being
to see the projection, and diffuse the bomb of reaction,
so that what is now loosed
becomes a wondrous
boomerang of a double gift
of FORGIVENESS.
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We are magnetically/energetically drawn to those
that hold the unfolding of our experience.
They hold pointers,
both negative and positive charges,
to guide us deeper into suffering,
as well as into our own central expression of Oneness.
We sense in them a talent,
they seemingly ply so well to their trade.
Deep inside, this gift has yet to blossom in us,
still timid, slightly shy, somewhat…
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It is so very easy to take notice
the shinning through radiance of another.
Presence shines through their form.
They exhibit a comfort in being in-their-skin,
Fresh, alive, vulnerable, a kind of letting go in the world.
A letting Grace manage whatever is to be encountered.
Is it possible to be this trusting in your skin?
You’ve been busy distrusting most of your life.
How’s that been workin’…
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Doubt, suspicion and cynicism
the trio of advisors
often tell
stay clear of that well,
it is likely tainted.
And we walk right past the purist of springs
offering to slake our thirst and
deeply nourish our soul.
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Before we became entangled
We experienced direct engagement
With joy, discovery, play and our innocence.
Then we were taught rules
We learned, observing by example
We were bent by will, domesticated
To perform, reform and conform to the world
To survive, then succeed and thrive.
In our innocence and naivety,
We accepted this as the gospel.
In revising our Now
We let all these obsessions and…
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Added by Howard McQueen on October 5, 2009 at 7:38pm —
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Be fully present and aware
To what is arising
Internally,
as you experience the outside world.
Notice.
Feel into it, without judgment
Hang with it.
Be not persuaded to do anything
other than to honestly see an obscured facet of yourself.
Especially when it appears in someone else!
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DISAPPOINTMENT
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I was to be the Host of the show
and it started to blow
as I was told folks could not show.
Reschedule and holster your fragile ego,
its way past time to do so.
Be the Silence!
Who are these children that speak and run wild
In their naïveté and exuberance?
The answer they reveal:
life is a patchwork of priorities to be navigated
not resisted: split up families,…
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We attach ourselves to people, objects in the world, beliefs, …
Attachments, as we learn to feel into them, begin to reveal
An ability for us to honestly appraise the energetic reactions and responses that encouraged our “attaching to” these relationships.
Then, we can also feel into and surrender to our choice for continuing to sustain and the quality of these habitual patterns.
Attributes like “how tightly we hold” an attachment…
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A powerful energetically charged life situation arises.
My habit – become small and contracted
then inflate the Angry double as stand-in
to act out in inverse behalf, anger and rage,
smokescreen for tiny, powerless, victimized self,
that escapes away
scampering into the labyrinth
hiding places of the mind.
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