Not Alone, But All One. Imagine.

So much of our energy, time, and money goes into maintaining
distance from one another. Many if not most of the
resources of the world are used to defend ourselves against
each other, to maintain or increase our power, and to
safeguard our own privileged position.

Imagine all that effort being put in the service of peace
and reconciliation! Would there be any poverty? Would
there be crimes and wars? Just imagine that there was no
longer fear among people, no longer any rivalry, hostility,
bitterness, or revenge. Just imagine all the people on this
planet holding hands and forming one large circle of love.
We say, "I can't imagine." But God says, "That's what I
imagine, a whole world not only created but also living in
my image."
 
Henri Nouwen

Feel The Lurve, O My Soul.

What is the soul after?
The highest feeling of love you can imagine.
This is the soul's desire. This is Its purpose. The soul is after the feeling. Not the knowledge, but the feeling. It already has the knowledge, but knowledge is conceptual. Feeling is experiential. The soul wants to feel Its Self, and thus to know Its Self in Its own experience.

Conversations With God, Book 1
Neale Donald Walsch

I Think, Therefore I Am. Not.

Humanity's condition: Lost in thought.

Stillness Speaks
Eckhart Tolle

The Universe Bows Before You

The Glory that is You...

If it's not yet obvious, the real reason for this, and all seasons, is You. A more perfect child of the Universe has never lived. Until now, only celebrations cloaked in myth and mystery could hint at your divine heritage and sacred destiny. You are life's prayer of becoming and its answer. The first light at the dawn of eternity, drawn from the ether, so that I might know my own depth, discover new heights, and revel in seas of blessed emotion.

A pioneer into illusion, an adventurer into the unknown, and a lifter of veils. Courageous, heroic, and exalted by legions in the unseen.

To give beyond reason, to care beyond hope, to love without limit; to reach, stretch, and dream, in spite of your fears. These are the hallmarks of divinity - traits of the immortal - your badges of honour. May you wear them with a pride as great as the immeasurable pride we feel for you.

Your light has illuminated darkened paths, your gaze has lifted broken spirits, and already your life has changed the course of history.

This is the time of year we celebrate You.

Bowing before Greatness,

The Universe

Let The Joy Flow - Be Who You Are

Whenever the free and unlimited expression of life and love -- that is, the experience of unity and oneness with all things and with every sentient being -- is prohibited or limited by any circumstance or condition, the soul, which is joy itself, is not fully expressed.

Joy not fully expressed is the feeling that you call sadness.

Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch

Zen and the Art of Computer Maintenance

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.

Ah so.

Luv U 4 Ever lol

Most people will find this very hard to believe, but there is nothing, ever, worth being unhappy about.

Because, no matter what happens, it will add to you, you'll still live forever, and our love affair will remain tabloid fodder in realms far, far away.

But then "most people" don't believe in a Universe that conspires, dotes, and sends emails.

Earth rocks,

The Universe

Do Be Do

Life has nothing to do with what you are doing,
and everything to do with what you are being.

Be careful not to get caught in the "doingness" of your
life. That is not what you are here for. You are a sacred
soul, and you came here to the earth to Be something.
And not just one thing, but many things.

The wonderful thing is, you get to choose.
And you get to do that right now. Always Right Now.
So what do you choose to Be right now? Happy?
Content? Safe? Peace? Forgiving? Compassionate?
Love? Go ahead, choose. As many as you wish! 

NDW

I Am.

I am not Body.
I am not Mind.
I Just Am.
I Am a Gloriously Singular Expression of All That Is.
And so Are You.
And I Love It.
Whatever It Is;)

God Thinks

I Am.

Amen.

An Ancient Learning Passed Away

Let us be still an instant, and forget all things we ever learned, all thoughts
we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean and
what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world
is for. We do not know. Let every image held of everyone be loosened from
our minds and swept away.

Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that
ever crossed your mind of anyone. Now do you know him not. But you are
free to learn of him, and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you,
and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die,
and you with him. Now is he free to live as you are free, because an ancient
learning passed away, and left a place for truth to be reborn.

from A Course In Miracles

True Purpose

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.
 
Conversations With God, Book 1
Neale Donald Walsch

We Are All One

We just need to wake up, become aware, remember Who We Are and Where Our Home Is.
Just like Jesus did.

All of creation belongs together in the arms of its Creator.
The final vision is that not only will all recognise that they
are brothers and sisters called to live
in unity but all members of God's creation will come
together in complete harmony.  Jesus the Christ came to
realise that vision.  Long before he was born, the prophet
Isaiah saw it:

...The wolf will live with the lamb,

the panther lie down with the kid,
calf, lion and fat-stock beast together,
with a little boy to lead them.
The cow and the bear will graze,
their young will lie down together.
The lion will eat hay like the ox.
The infant will play over the den of the adder;
the baby will put his hand into the viper's lair.
No hurt, no harm will be done
on all my holy mountain,
for the country will be full of knowledge of Yahweh
as the waters cover the sea...
(Isaiah 11:6-9)

Henri Nouwen

A Mystic's Manifesto

I couldn't say it better... 
"I mean by the word mystical; entering into conscious direct relationship with the divine. It must be conscious and it must be direct to be mystical. Mystical is not theological; it’s not having a series of ideas about God, however lucid or wonderful.  It’s not emotional; it’s not having a series of feelings, however deep and adoring, about God.  And it’s not intellectual, in any sense, even in the most refined sense." 
Andrew Harvey

Space. Time.

Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Near Infrared

 

Some of these galaxies appear as they were over 12 billion years ago, and this is the furthest back the Hubble Time Machine has ever viewed.

Still no sign of Doctor Who though, so I'm sceptical.

Reality

Every atom, every subatomic particle, is Existence Expressing Itself Uniquely.

How amazing does that make Existence?

And none of it is ever destroyed, but simply changes form into another subatomic particle, combination of the same particles into atoms, or combination of atoms into molecules, along with an exchange of energy.

Matter is 'condensed' energy, and 'solid' as it seems to our senses it is in fact all but a tiny fraction nothing, nada, zip, nix. Pure Emptiness. A Void. And that tiny fraction which we call 'matter' can be described both as energy and a particle, depending on how we look at it. And the very act of observing what's 'happening' at these tiny scales actually changes what is observed, because it involves the use of energy (the reflection of light etc.)

And we insist on calling this All But Nothingness, which refuses to be pinned down, Reality. Ha! Crazy or what?!

....and the earth was without  form, and void. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters....

...and God said, let there be light, and there was light...

...The Tao that is seen is not the true Tao...

...in Him we live and move and have our very existence...

God is Love. In Love we live and move and have our being. Love never fails, but just changes form into the next utterly sublime expression of Itself. Love, Divine Energy, is never lessened by being given, because the very act of giving is accompanied by a simultaneous receiving. Love is never lost, but simply moves between one expression of Itself and another. 

...Therefore love, for love is of God...

Glory.

The Divine Dropkick

Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.

If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth

That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,

Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.

God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.

The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:

Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.

But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.

From: 'The Gift' by Hafiz
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Just Askin'

Just what use are the ideas of hell and the devil, except to keep folks in fear and to manipulate them?
It's all a pile of steaming dingos' kidneys.
Humanity, just grow up! Wake up and smell the glorious aroma of the Coffee of Life! OK?
Thanks, ever so.
Signed, God.

Live. Now.

What if your contribution to the world and the fulfillment of your own happiness is not dependent upon discovering a better method of prayer or technique of meditation, not dependent upon reading the right book or attending the right seminar, but upon really seeing and deeply appreciating yourself and the world as they are right now?

How would this affect your search for spiritual development?

The Dance
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Page xi

Fear. Not.

If perfect love casts out fear,
And if fear exists,
Then there is not perfect love.

But only perfect love really exists.
So if there is fear,
It creates a state which does not exist.

from A Course in Miracles 

 

Take Your Meds

Okay, I admit it. I'm on a Hafiz High for a day or two. Thissun wakes my heart up with a good laugh...

Resist your temptation to lie
By speaking of separation from God,

Otherwise,
We might have to medicate
You.

In the ocean
A lot goes on beneath your eyes.

Listen,
They have clinics there too
For the insane
Who persist in saying things like:

"I am independent from the
Sea,

God is not always around

Gently
Pressing against
My body."

From: 'The Gift'
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Another Warm, Steaming Cup Of Hafiz, Please!...

...and I'll have freedom fries with that...

I know the way you can get
When you have not had a drink of Love:

Your face hardens,
Your sweet muscles cramp.
Children become concerned
About a strange look that appears in your eyes
Which even begins to worry your own mirror
And nose.

Squirrels and birds sense your sadness
And call an important conference in a tall tree.
They decide which secret code to chant
To help your mind and soul.

Even angels fear that brand of madness
That arrays itself against the world
And throws sharp stones and spears into
The innocent
And into one's self.

O I know the way you can get
If you have not been drinking Love:

You might rip apart
Every sentence your friends and teachers say,
Looking for hidden clauses.

You might weigh every word on a scale
Like a dead fish.

You might pull out a ruler to measure
From every angle in your darkness
The beautiful dimensions of a heart you once
Trusted.

I know the way you can get
If you have not had a drink from Love's
Hands.
 
That is why all the Great Ones speak of
The vital need
To keep remembering God,
So you will come to know and see Him
As being so Playful
And Wanting,
Just Wanting to help.

That is why Hafiz says:
Bring your cup near me.
For all I care about
Is quenching your thirst for freedom!

All a Sane man can ever care about
Is giving Love!

From 'I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz' 
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

To Be Befriended By Love

This is where I desire to be in my finest moments, so befriended by Love, and free of all concepts and images. I think this is one vision of Heaven.

I 
Have 
Learned so much from God 
That I can no longer 
Call 
Myself 
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, 
a Buddhist, a Jew. 
The Truth has shared so much of Itself 
With me 
That I can no longer call myself 
A man, a woman, an angel, 
Or even a pure 
Soul. 
Love has 
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash 
And freed 
Me 
Of every concept and image 
my mind has ever known. 
From The Gift by Hafiz 
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Evangelism

Go, tell it on the mountains...

There is one major difference in the role of Heaven's messengers which sets them off from those the world appoints. The messages that they deliver are intended first for them. And it is only as they can accept them for themselves that they become able to bring them further, and to give them everywhere that they were meant to be. Like earthly messengers, they did not write the messages they bear, but they become their first receivers in the truest sense, receiving to prepare themselves to give.

An earthly messenger fulfils his role by giving all his messages away. The messengers of God perform their part by their acceptance of His messages as for themselves, and show they understand the messages by giving them away. They choose no roles that are not given them by His authority. And so they gain by every message that they give away.

From A Course in Miracles 

Beauty

Rain-silver'd Leylandii, sun-glistening, many-prism'd.
Glory!

Change Your Mind, Man

Your Soul waits patiently for You to do so...

Humanity's struggle is not a military struggle, it is a struggle for the mind.

If it were merely a military struggle, then the struggle would be over, because the mightiest military would easily win. Yet your histories, and world events to this very day, prove that the mightiest military cannot win anything. It can subdue, but it cannot be victorious.

Subjugation and victory are not the same thing.

Only when you change people's minds can you claim victory in the struggle to bring peace and harmony to humanity. And this will only occur when humanity understands that its problem is not a military problem, it is not a political problem, and it is not an economic problem. The problem facing humanity today is a spiritual problem.

NDW

Gospel

Preach it.

God is separate from nothing, and nothing is separate from God.
There is nothing that God needs, because God is everything there is.
This is the Good News. Everything else is an illusion.
Neale Donald Walsch

Turn Within

“There is a force within that gives you Life - seek that. In your body there lies a priceless jewel - seek that. Oh, wandering Sufi, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look Within, and seek That."

Jalaluddin Rumi

Awesome, Dude

Like, Cool 'n' Happenin'...

There is an almighty awareness.
One almighty awareness.
A thinking, compassionate awareness, of which you are a part.
Infinitely kind. All-knowing. All-loving. Distant as the furthest mote of dust in space, yet as near as the beating of your heart. Here and there, before and after, always and forever.
And whensoever you should call unto it, it answers you by name. Or, "Dude..."

Just like that,
    The Universe

from TUT - Notes From The Universe

Angels Whisper Fast

...Listen...

...to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition,

do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or

ideas. Heaven talks in snippets, not in speeches. Angels

whisper fast. They have to when they're flying around...

Honour your Hints from Heaven. They could be giving

you the best advice you ever had.

Neale Donald Walsch

Wonder at You

This is one of the many fine, quirky meditations I receive each day. Let it sink into the very centre of You. What do you find rising up when you do? I find a quiet joy in my Self and a sure sense that All Is Well, in All Ways. I choose, whenever I slip into Unreality, to come back to these ideas and to claim them as describing Reality, Now.

One day it will all be a distant memory, Harry, yet I can tell you now, with the supreme confidence of someone who's gone ahead in time to know, that you'll look back on this life and be so flush with love and admiration for yourself, your journey, and who it made you, that you'll wonder, as I do now, how it could possibly have escaped you then.

You rock, "Mini-Me-Harry," you so rock. And it's never too early to see it. Maybe this will help.

Your greater-self,

The Universe

Heresy City

We are All One. This is All That Matters. You, me, the universe, God (Who is Love). No distinction, no separation and never can be. Made of the same stuff - Love Expressed.

We are the Light of the world. We are not our bodies. Death does not exist, as our bodies only change form. Need does not exist, as there is In All Ways Enough of Everything.

All is Well, and it just needs us to change our minds for this to be our collective experience, as Reality is what we, collectively and individually, believe it to be.

Jesus - Yeshua - did not give himself up as a sacrifice (death does not exist anyway, except in our unrenewed minds), but was 'the firstborn of them that sleep' the sleep of Unreality. Being the first human (Son of Man) to be fully Self-Realised, he showed us the Way to be Real, and conquered the No-Thing of death.

Now ain't that all just dandy? Makes more sense to me than anything else I've ever been told or read.

But then I'm just a whacko nutjob raving heretic who believes God is Love...

Now burn my virtual body at that stake:)

Perception

"What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are." - Epictetus

Release the Joy in Another's Heart

With the sharing of a feeling, the telling of a truth, the ending of anger, the healing of judgment. With the willingness to listen, and the willingness to speak. With the decision to forgive, and the choice to release. With the commitment to give, and the grace to receive.

I tell you there are a thousand ways to release the joy in the heart of another. Nay, a thousand times a thousand. And in the moment you decide to do so, you will know how.

Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

Another mystical dude tells it how it is...

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame...
… Each mortal thing does one thing and the same ...
… Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells;
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

And so we know Love

More Mystical Musings...

Love is All That Is.
Fear is All That Is Not.
Love is Being.
Fear is Non-Being.

And so we know Love.

Love is a Word the mind has to use, because it knows not the language of the heart, which is wordless, consisting of the strong, tender motions of the spirit as it moves within, and mingles with, the Spirit.

Jesus is that Word made Flesh, and we are all, with Him, unique expressions of Love. This is All There Is To Know, and all else flows from this. Life consists in re-minding our Selves of this. In this way we become Who We Are.

A Beautiful Country

 Langdale Pikes, Lake District, UK

As I go deeper into this Beautiful Country, I find myself speaking an utterly strange yet utterly familiar language.

And my spirit sets it to music, in glorious many-voiced harmony, in the unforced free rhythms of Love.

And my heart gently teaches my mind not to fear.

And my mind slowly gets the message, and begins, falteringly, to dance.