The Secret of the Path lies in the greatest of all simplicity. It is not
shrouded but very clear. It is not one that is discerned by the intellect of
humanity but by the Great Heart within. It is not known by complexity but by
the greatest distillation of simple, pure discernment. The Path is not
something that can be understood solely by the mind, but is something that is
lived by the soul, one step at a time – one healing, one struggle overcome, one
humility that transcends pride, one suffering that leads to release, one anger
that is given up to love, one Love that transcends all. The Path is where the
Lion lies down with the Lamb – where the ego surrenders to the Great I Am –
where the need to be greater surrenders to the All.
The Path is the understanding that suffering is the greatest healer – it is the
releaser from the prison of ego that chains us to the corporal. When we suffer
injustice, in that mirror we should see our own capacity for it and seek release
from this capacity. When we suffer abuse at the hands of others, we should see
ourselves in the mirror of this abuse and understand our own capacity for it and
seek release from this capacity. When we are hurt and downtrodden, we should
rejoice in the blessings of the lessons of this suffering and know that our
souls can rise above it only through a real understanding of our own capacity
to do the same. In the mirror of suffering, we see ourselves truly and this
reflection impels us to greater heights of Love that break the shackles of our
humanity to rise us to the Evolutionary Potential of our spiritual Union with
the Great Love that is our Creator.
The Secret of the Path lies most simply in a real tolerance that arises through
looking long into the reflection of ourselves in the mirror of the souls around
us and seeing that where we are weak so also are our fellows weak, where pride
leads us astray so also pride leads our fellows into harms way, where anger
destroys our peace, so also it destroys the peace of our fellows – and where
healing comes it comes only through Love. Love is the secret of the Path – love
of self that leads to Love of all others – even our greatest enemies. For truly
the greatest of those we see as being opposed to us deserve and need more than
us – the blessings of Love. Seek always after Love – resolve the pain that is
in the heart and always look after the way of Peace, of Compassion, of Love –
for this is the secret of the Path – there is NO other.
Sparrow
Never Say (Rumi)
never say
"No one knows the way."
never say
"Profound humans
can't be found."
just because
you're kept out of
heaven's secrets
you think everyone
is like you
--Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
"No one knows the way."
never say
"Profound humans
can't be found."
just because
you're kept out of
heaven's secrets
you think everyone
is like you
--Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
St. Francis and the Sow...
The bud
stands for all things,
even those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;
as St. Francis
put his hand on the creased forehead
of the sow, and told her in words and in touch
blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow
began remembering all down her thick length,
from the earthen snout all the way
through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of
the tail,
from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine
down through the great broken heart
to the blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking
and blowing beneath them:
the long, perfect loveliness of sow.
~ Galway Kinnell ~
(Mortal Acts, Mortal Words)
stands for all things,
even those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;
as St. Francis
put his hand on the creased forehead
of the sow, and told her in words and in touch
blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow
began remembering all down her thick length,
from the earthen snout all the way
through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of
the tail,
from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine
down through the great broken heart
to the blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking
and blowing beneath them:
the long, perfect loveliness of sow.
~ Galway Kinnell ~
(Mortal Acts, Mortal Words)
Intelligence...
Men of inferior intelligence quite naturally want a God who will be
attentive to their requirements, interested in their personal lives,
and helpful during times of distress. That is to say, they want a
human God. Men of superior intelligence come in time to consider God
as an impersonal essence that is everywhere present, and consequently
embodied in themselves and to be communed with interiorly too. That is
to say, they recognize only a mystical God. Men of the highest
intelligence perceive that the "I" is illusory, that it is only
ignorance of this fact that causes man to regard himself as a separate
embodiment of the divine essence, and that in reality there is only
this nondual nameless being. How impossible it is to get men of
inferior intelligence to worship or even to credit such an Existence
which has no shape, no individuality, no thinking even! Hence such men
are given a figure after their own image as God, a deity that is a
personal, human, five-sensed being.
— Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 1: What Is God? > # 11....Paul Brunton
attentive to their requirements, interested in their personal lives,
and helpful during times of distress. That is to say, they want a
human God. Men of superior intelligence come in time to consider God
as an impersonal essence that is everywhere present, and consequently
embodied in themselves and to be communed with interiorly too. That is
to say, they recognize only a mystical God. Men of the highest
intelligence perceive that the "I" is illusory, that it is only
ignorance of this fact that causes man to regard himself as a separate
embodiment of the divine essence, and that in reality there is only
this nondual nameless being. How impossible it is to get men of
inferior intelligence to worship or even to credit such an Existence
which has no shape, no individuality, no thinking even! Hence such men
are given a figure after their own image as God, a deity that is a
personal, human, five-sensed being.
— Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 1: What Is God? > # 11....Paul Brunton
Fear...
Fear can manifest only because of a belief in separation. As long as you are something apart from God you will experience, in one form or another, fear. It is subtle and hidden like a poisonous serpent coiled in the grass, liable to strike at any time--at the most unguarded moment, when least expected.
Its only power is given to it by thought, and it can be swollen by thought from a serpent into a dragon. All thoughts of evil are like toy balloons in that they are enlarged until finally the capacity is overtaxed and they burst. Sooner or later a fear will explode itself, however much or little damage it has done.
The panacea for all fear is your union with God.
The moment you are separated from ME and wander into the thought world (the vacuum of separation), you are subject to the laws of fear. The one who is filled with fear sees the ''ten thousand fall at your right hand,'' and is so convinced of the reality and power of evil that he fails to notice the one who passes through unscathed.
''Stand and see the salvation of the Lord'' has a definite, positive value to you NOW. For you are beginning to sense-see the power of being one instead of two. You are beginning to appropriate the instantaneous relief felt from this ONENESS.
This sudden appropriation of ONENESS is accompanied by the consciousness of how to eliminate the object of, or the belief in, fear. There are different ''cities'' of refuge into which you may run for every differing degree of fear; yet all are the same God. This ''running'' into God is not as symbolical as it appears. It is an actual fusing of you with the Father within you, and from that moment you are a majority, and you will know the NOTHINGNESS of the fear belief.
We arrive finally at the point, which is so full of the acceptance of God that it can and does say, ''Even if You slay me, yet I will say You are God''---and the last stand is taken. Even if You slay me---yet will I acknowledge this One and Only Power......... Walter Lanyon
Its only power is given to it by thought, and it can be swollen by thought from a serpent into a dragon. All thoughts of evil are like toy balloons in that they are enlarged until finally the capacity is overtaxed and they burst. Sooner or later a fear will explode itself, however much or little damage it has done.
The panacea for all fear is your union with God.
The moment you are separated from ME and wander into the thought world (the vacuum of separation), you are subject to the laws of fear. The one who is filled with fear sees the ''ten thousand fall at your right hand,'' and is so convinced of the reality and power of evil that he fails to notice the one who passes through unscathed.
''Stand and see the salvation of the Lord'' has a definite, positive value to you NOW. For you are beginning to sense-see the power of being one instead of two. You are beginning to appropriate the instantaneous relief felt from this ONENESS.
This sudden appropriation of ONENESS is accompanied by the consciousness of how to eliminate the object of, or the belief in, fear. There are different ''cities'' of refuge into which you may run for every differing degree of fear; yet all are the same God. This ''running'' into God is not as symbolical as it appears. It is an actual fusing of you with the Father within you, and from that moment you are a majority, and you will know the NOTHINGNESS of the fear belief.
We arrive finally at the point, which is so full of the acceptance of God that it can and does say, ''Even if You slay me, yet I will say You are God''---and the last stand is taken. Even if You slay me---yet will I acknowledge this One and Only Power......... Walter Lanyon
Opposites...
There are opposites, There is God and anti-God.. God is Love and anti-God is ego.. Ego is a false belief in separation and greed.. But God is Real and ego is ignorance of Truth.. Evil appears real because those that choose evil (ego) have some of the same powers of God to create, they have created selfishness and evil.. This energy of ego and evil are drawn to each other and create a power of evil and ego that we call satan.. This energy is powered by the ego and evil thoughts of other souls in this world and other worlds.. Thoughts have great power to create or destroy.. This is why evil souls that have died and become spirit are drawn to wars and violence, this is a way to gain the energy of ego and evil to feed upon.. If they did not gain the energy of ego thoughts, they would eventually dissolve and cease to exist.. This is why, if Love was found and shared within all humans, earth would turn into a paradise..........namaste, thomas
Levels of Consciousness...
There are levels of Knowledge within Consciousness (God).. Even those Great
Mystics such as Jesus and Gautama have not reached the deepest level of
Consciousness.. Although, They are One with God, They are still learning what
God Is.. Since, this Knowledge is without end, It becomes an Enormity of
Knowledge.. This Knowledge contains the deepest Knowledge of what exactly Love
Is..This is the Eternal Goal of All that enter Consciousness as
Non-Ego........namaste, thomas
Mystics such as Jesus and Gautama have not reached the deepest level of
Consciousness.. Although, They are One with God, They are still learning what
God Is.. Since, this Knowledge is without end, It becomes an Enormity of
Knowledge.. This Knowledge contains the deepest Knowledge of what exactly Love
Is..This is the Eternal Goal of All that enter Consciousness as
Non-Ego........namaste, thomas
Love and Hate...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction...
The chain reaction of evil~ hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars~ must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The chain reaction of evil~ hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars~ must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why are we here?...
God wants to Know more about Itself by sending Itself into the illusion of the material planes.. It is a process of Exploration.. We, as the Spirit that was sent into this exploration began to believe that we were the creature that we were inhabiting.. Because, the creatures seem to be separate, we began to believe that we are separate from God and from each other.. The individuality that you feel is the illusion of the ego that we believe is us.. Once, you have Realized that you are not the ego, you will then Realize that we do not have individuality.. When you have Realized Union with God through Meditation and Ego Surrender, you will Realize that what you believe is Creation and Physical is Thought that we call Consciousness that forms the illusion that we believe is real..You do not reach Reality, you merely disolve all that is not Reality.. This is called Enlightenment.. .................namaste, thomas
To Be Truth...
“Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.”
---Rumi
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.”
---Rumi
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