Posts Tagged "God"
This Surprising Truth
This I say from my dwelling place within your heart: Do not miss me in your focus at the world. I am the orange glow of dawn, sun the color of monk’s robes shining equally upon all beings. I am your frustration as you seek me and come up empty. I am the dusty web you sweep down from the ceiling, and the spider who races into hiding when you clean. I am disbelief, devotion, grief, joy, and...
Read MoreWhat If ?
What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the Temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water the rivers, lakes and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was self-knowledge? If Love was the center of our being? What if God was oneself, and all? 1998 Ganga White, Santa Barbara All...
Read MoreI Want Both of Us
I Want Both of Us To start talking about this great love As if you, I and the Sun were all married And living in a tiny room, Helping each other to cook, Do the wash, Weave and sew Care for our beautiful Animals. We all leave each morning To labor on the earth’s field. No one does not lift a great pack. I want both of us to start singing like two Traveling minstrels About this extraordinary...
Read MoreYou’re It!
God Disguised As a myriad things and Playing a game of tag Has kissed you and said, “You’re it! — I mean you’re REALLY IT!” Now It does not matter What you believe or feel For something wonderful Major-league Wonderful Is someday going To Happen. ——...
Read MoreAll in the present
God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally, in this present now. Everything God created…God creates now all at once. – Meister Eckhart, Christian mystic The universe emerges out of an all-nourishing abyss not only twelve billion years ago but in every moment. – Brian Swimme, physicist My solemn proclamation is that a new universe is created every moment –...
Read MoreA Gigantic Prayer
Bravo Viva Aloha Blessed be We are free Abracadabra This is a perfect moment. It’s a perfect moment because I have been inspired to say a gigantic prayer. I have been roused to unleash a divinely greedy, apocalyptically healing prayer for each and every one of us — even those of us who don’t believe in the power of prayer. And so I’m starting to pray right now to the God of Gods...
Read MoreCould You Embrace That?
I said to God, “Let me love you.” And He replied, “Which part?” “All of you, all of you,” I said. ”Dear,” God spoke, “you are as a mouse wanting to impregnate a tiger who is not even in heat. It is a feat way beyond your courage and strength. You would run from me if I removed my mask.” I said to God again, “Beloved I need to love...
Read MoreEnergies of Love
Some day , after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of Love: And then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire! Pierre Teilhard de...
Read MoreHow do I listen?
How do I listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words. —Hafiz
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