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#4422 - Thursday,
November 10, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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If you want to understand it, you cannot understand it. When you
give up
trying to understand it, true understanding is always there.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Where should I seek knowledge? In the abandonment of knowledge.
~ Rumi
When your discernment penetrates to the four quarters
Are you capable of not knowing anything?
~ Lao Tzu
Mysteries are not to be solved.
The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
~ Rumi
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Ascetics wander shrine to shrine,
looking for what can only come
from visiting the soul.
Study the mystery you embody.
When you look up from that,
the dub grass looks fresher
a little ways off, and even more
green farther on. Stay here.
~ Lalla
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The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the
Secret.
~ Rumi
by Tony Cartledge on Facebook
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FIRST
First something happens inwardly and then it happens outwardly.
Where we
make our mistake is in giving the word “outwardly” too
much power. We
begin to hope for outward results and that is the very essence of
sleep.
This morning I woke up imbued with a physical ecstasy. I brought
it in here
to the keyboard to share with all of you. From whence did this
ecstasy arise?
It can only come from the mystery of being alive and present. Now
my fingers
of flame are burning up the keyboard in the mystery of inner
connection with
the outer.
There is a book called Daughter of Fire, written by Irina
Tweedie. Some of
you know it well. One person has had the privilege of sitting
with Mrs.
Tweedie. Her book is huge; my mother said I was probably one of
the few
people who read it word for word. Heck, I have read and reread
it,
underscoring passages, pondering the mystery....
My life has been licking at my feet for a long time now; but so
has yours. We
are only, as Elton John said, candles in the wind. This is
monumentally
difficult to grasp because our fingers get burned in the very
attempt. Fire is
dangerous and all-consuming.
If we know that we are fire, what can we do with that sure
knowledge? For
one thing, we can remember that we are also water.
"Book knowledge is useful to some extent. There are books
written by
enlightened people, scriptures, and so on. On the level of the
mind you will
accept this and reject that. But to verify what is written, one
has to realize.
Then one will know the truth, absolutely, only then. But until
this happens,
one has to be content with books." ~ Bhai Sahib, speaking to
Irina Tweedie
Vicki Woodyard
http://www.nondualitynow.com
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The Truth stands before me
On my left is a blazing fire, and
On my right, a cool flowing stream.
One group of people walk toward the fire, into the fire
And the other towards the cool flowing waters.
No one knows which is blessed and which is not.
But just as someone enters the fire
That head bobs up from the water
And just as a head sinks into the water
That face appears in the fire.
Those who love the sweet water of pleasure
And make it their devotion are
Cheated by this reversal.
The deception goes further.
The voice of the fire says :
"I am not fire, I am fountainhead
Come into me and don’t mind the sparks."
~ Bernard Guy on Facebook
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It is always my wish that you might find enough patience within
yourself to
endure, and enough innocence to have faith. It is my wish that
you might
gain more and more trust in whatever is difficult for you, in
your aloneness,
among other things.
Allow life to happen to you. Believe me, life is right in all
cases.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
by ONE LOVE ONE HEART ONE VISION community on Facebook
Thanks to Belle Heywood
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So simple, so stunning....Francis Lucille:
"We all have the deep intuition that the ultimate reality of
everything is
eternal. Nothing comes out of nothing, and nothing vanishes into
nothing.
Since there is something rather than nothing, there has been and
always will
be something. The French chemist Lavoisier once said:
"Nothing gets created,
nothing gets lost." Krishna in the B. G. says it much
better: "That which is
never ceases to be, that which is not never comes into
being." The ultimate
reality of what we are as sentient beings, that which really
perceives, the
consciousness or awareness we are was never born and never
dies."
~ Francis Lucille
by Christopher Hebard on Facebook