God, whose love and joy
are present everywhere,
can’t come to visit you
unless you aren’t there.

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God is a pure no-thing,
concealed in now and here:
the less you reach for him,
the more he will appear.

Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

– Neale Donald Walsch

Taste of Eternity

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.”

Nisargadatta

Amen.

None of us are completely present. So don’t feel guilty, but do know presence is still the great teacher, those enlightened moments that come now and then. When we are manipulating, changing, controlling, and fixing, we are not there yet. We cannot be present to something and trying to change it at the same time.

The calculating mind is the opposite of the contemplative mind. The first is taught by the systems of our world, the second by the Holy Spirit.

We might consider this prayer to try to draw ourselves into a contemplative frame of mind:

Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be.

Richard Rohr

Seeing

Look at the words on this page.

Observe your eyes picking up the light,

your mind making out the symbols and interpreting the words.

Observe your mind thinking about what these words mean.

Observe yourself thinking…

Understanding… 

Now step back from your mind

and observe the part of you that can observe your thoughts.

What is that that can observe thought

or no thought?

What is that? 

Take a moment and observe your consciousness.

You can’t see it physically, or feel it,

but you can be made aware of it.

You become aware of it

by observing it. 

As it is what you are

it behooves you to know it.

By realizing that which you are

you come to know why you were born.

There is a purpose to your existence, and it’s time to discover it.

Once you know the purpose for which you incarnated

you can begin fulfilling that purpose and you will be guided to.

Once you begin fulfilling your life purpose

your life will be more fulfilling,

more meaningful,

happier.

When you discover the privilege
and the profound opportunity
inherent in being alive,
your life will become
a Sacred Blessing
for others.

Honor the Grace
that is Life
within this
moment.

Daily Guru

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 safe enough, secure enough, and loved enough to admit such things.

That is how one gets into the mystery of freedom, and why this notion of freedom is so scary.

from Great Themes of Paul

Current mantra:
Lose my life, find my life

Richard Rohr

“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

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

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

– Lao-Tzu

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..

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…

“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

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 his spirit, where the Hidden Truth reveals Itself without means.

Ruysbroek.

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 neither surprise nor indignation in their voices,
but just a quiet certitude.

Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei