Whatever You Fear, Do It Now ...

Taking the next step ...

Come to the edge, she said.

They said: We are afraid.

Come to the edge, she said.

They replied: We can’t, we will fall!

Come to the edge, she said.

And so they came.

And she pushed them,

And they flew.

Quit!

Travelling in harmony ...

"Just as a white summer cloud, in harmony with heaven and earth, freely floats in the blue sky from horizon to horizon folllowing the breath of atmosphere - in the same way the pilgrim abandons herself to the breath of the greater life that leads her beyond the farthest horizons to an aim which is already present within her, though yet hidden from her sight."


By Peter Matthiessen in Snow Leopard.

Choose Love

Humans, like all life, are about growth.

We grow and change.

Sometimes, after we've grown,

We find our old relationships

Aren't working the way we want them to.

We've changed.
They've changed.

We've grown.

They've grown.

It happens.
Try to meet in love.

Remember it can all be revised and changed.

Things aren't always clear.

They won't always be clear.
The point of it is to focus on what you want.

Choose Love as your guide.

This Is It ... !

With all this

Past

Future

Past

Future

We miss the now

All we have

Is the now

This is it

This is

Who you are

It is inherent

It is joyful

Don't just do something

Sit there

With all this socially engaged work

First you must learn

What the Buddha learned

To still the mind

Then you don't take action

Action takes you

Peace

And

Love

So who are we?

We are the life force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are -- I am -- the life force power of the universe, and the life force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form. At one with all that is. Or I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere. where I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, intellectual, neuroanatomist. These are the "we" inside of me.

Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading.

To watch the full talk from which this quote is taken goto http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229

hymn to the sacred body of the universe

let's meet

at the confluence

where you flow in to me

and one breath

swirls between our lungs

for one instant

to dwell in the presence of the galaxies

for one instant

to live in the truth of the heart

the poet says this entire traveling cosmos is

" the secret One slowly growing a body"

16 million tonnes of rain are falling every second

on the planet

an ocean

perpetually falling

and every drop

is your body

every motion, every feather, every thought

is your body

time

is your body

and the infinite

curled inside like

invisible rainbows turning into light

every word of every tongue is love

telling a story to her own ears

you are the dark

that holds the stars

in intimate

distance

that spun the whirling,

whirling,

world

into existence

let's meet

at the confluence

where you flow into me

and one breath

swirls between our lungs

- drew dellinger -

how do we breathe in under water?

how do we breathe in so much happiness

once you make contact with being
you know that you belong

the thinking mind separates us
outside the garden we are very lonely

we have to find a new way of taking in life
we call it the contemplative life

the way of breathing under water
is some form of simple contemplation

it is a simple as the breath
it does not happen through the mind

you cannot get there
you can only BE there

- richard rohr -

Success

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
And affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
Whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or
A redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
Because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Identity

The world tells us all about
what we are supposed to feel,
how we are suppose to be ...
and what it wants us to want.

It subjects us to a barrage of subtle
and not so subtle persuasion.
Adverts blare out at us.
TV shows and movies beckon to us.

People around us whisper in our ears
to indicate through their expressions
whether they approve of our behaviour.

In all this, it is hard to know
who we truly are and what
we genuinely require.

Hard but not impossible.

If ...

I f

the earth were only a

few feet in diameter, floating a

few feet above a field somewhere,

people would come from everywhere to

marvel at it. People would walk around it

marveling at its big pools of water, its little

pools and the water flowing between the pools.

People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the

holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin

layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in

the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures

walking around the surface of the ball, and in the water.

The people would declare it precious because it was the

only one and they would protect it so that it would not

be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder

known, and people would come to behold it, to be

healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and

wonder how it could be. People would love it,

and defend it with their lives, because they

would some how know that their lives,

their own roundness, could be nothing

without it. If the earth were

only a few feet in

d i a m e t e r.

"When sleeping women wake, mountains move!"

-Chinese Proverb -