Walk Softly Live Gently

If you wander don’t worry you’re not lost

Paradox

Paradox
Question of the day:
What is it to fall into the mystery of God?
The human and the divine co-existing at the same time is real religion. This creates honest people. People who don’t waste time proving they’re right, superior, or saved.
They spend time on a journey falling deeper into the mystery of God where they feel [...]

Stumbling Over Truth

“Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened.”
– Sir Winston Churchill

War Incomprehensible

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened,
so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations,
where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Einstein

I Don’t Want To

“Time is a created thing.
To say ‘I don’t have time,’
is like saying,
‘I don’t want to.’”
– Lao-Tzu

War

War can only be understood and put an end to if you and all those who are concerned very deeply with the survival of man, feel that you are utterly responsible for killing others.
What will make you change?
J. Krishnamurti..

Timothy Leary

Meditate on this one for a while….
“I gave way to delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world, so manifestly real, was actually a tiny stage set constructed by the mind. We discover abruptly that everything we accept as reality is just social fabrications”
Timothy Leary, 1966…

To Love

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you love, Or how you love, It matters only that you love.”
– John Lennon

Understand God?

To comprehend and to understand God
above all similitudes,
as He is in Himself,
is to be God with God,
without intermediary,
and without any otherness
that can become a hindrance
or an intermediary.
Whosoever wishes to understand this must have died to himself, and must live in God, and must turn his gaze to the eternal light in the ground of [...]

Bubbles

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream.
‘What are you?’ I cried to them as they drifted by.
‘I am a bubble, of course’ nearly a myriad bubbles answered,
and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed.
But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered,
‘We are this stream’,
and there was [...]

Searchers

There seem to two kinds of searchers:
those who seek to make their ego something other than it is,
i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish),
and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done,
which is to disidentify themselves [...]

The View

The View from the Center of the Universe;
We are central to the universe. This belief has been the foundation of all centering cosmologies in the past, but today it is no longer merely an assumption. Now we have evidence. During the centuries between Newton and the current cosmological revolution, however, people could find no such [...]

Hafiz

“I am a hole in a flute that Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music”
Hafiz….a fourteenth century Persian poet and Sufi master.

Wei Wu Wei

It is necessary to understand that I Am,
In order that I may know that I Am Not,
So that, at last, I may realize that,
I Am Not, therefore I Am.
“Ask the Awakened”
by Wei Wu Wei