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.