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Invisibility In A Time Of Transparency, by Akiko Busch![]() ![]() In my later years and especially this season (>70) I am living into a word Divine LOVE (God) gave me when I asked -- "obscurity". It is in silence and solitude that I "know" all is indeed well, as Lady Julian found in the same way. She cloistered herself as an "anchorite", I find this place off in the wild or even in my own backyard. For the truth is it is more a spiritual posture or attitude than a geographical space or place. Great Mystery revealed and yet impossible to express in human language or words. }:- a.m. "en Christo" | |||
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Ambiguity Of Violence, by Robert Sapolsky![]() ![]() Robert Sapolsky is an amazing human being and neuroscientist. He is also one of many scientists who profess to be atheists. I suspect that attitude is due mostly to “bad” religion? I might also suggest that most atheists are actually agnostic, especially the scientists. Even Einstein knew he didn’t know. Having abandoned religion myself during college, I “returned” later though with a very different perspective on spirituality. I have remained a scientist through it all. | |||
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Ambiguity Of Violence, by Robert Sapolsky![]() ![]() It is true that behind most if not all human evil is brokenness. That said, we must exercise great caution and compassion when confronting it. }:- a.m. (anonemoose monk) | |||
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A Higher Level Of Conscious Engagement, by James O'dea![]() ![]() "Both/And" is the key and of course it starts with our own selves. #transformation #change }:- a.m. | |||
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Two Drops Of Oil, by Paulo Coelho![]() ![]() Always observing yet never forgetting. This is The Journey we call life. }:- a.m. | |||
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Thirsty For Wonder, by Mirabai Starr![]() ![]() Ah, green pastures and quiet waters. And I'm reminded of Rumi -- "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about." | |||
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The False Dichotomy Between Being And Doing, by Rob Burbea![]() ![]() There is muchcould say here, but words often confuse. As we engage in a "pod" concerning water, we are learning that surrender to "flow" is often the best or only way through, the only way of truly "seeing". | |||
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Solitude Is Where Community Begins, by Henri Nouwen![]() ![]() Henri is as usual delightful here, and the wonderful image of the dervish too. | |||
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The Moment We Encounter True Happiness, by Ilie Cioara![]() ![]() I often dismiss with my mantra when outside and simply listen as I let my mind empty. It has become easier in my 70th year. | |||
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The Three Narratives, by Joanna Macy![]() ![]() Reminds me greatly of Macy's dear friend Richard Rohr and his Widom Pattern of order, disorder, reorder. | |||
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Learning How To Think, by William Deresiewicz![]() ![]() Ah but we all (women and men) aren't necessarily effective or efficient when we are being pulled in many different directions. Better to do one thing at a time well, then move on the next. Even busy homemakers ("mister moms" too) discover this truth. | |||
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Learning How To Think, by William Deresiewicz![]() ![]() As Curly in the film City Slickers said, "One thing." ☝🏼 | |||
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Movie Of Me, Now Playing 24 Hours A Day, by Krishna Das![]() ![]() It’s all part of “belonging” — simply sit with it, hold it, then let it hold you. }:- a.m. “en Christo” #TUC | |||
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The Broken Piano In 1975, by Marti Leimbach![]() ![]() Sit with this, hold it, let it speak something else to you. | |||
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The Broken Piano In 1975, by Marti Leimbach![]() ![]() My all time favorite piano piece as well. Jarret not only made do with the old piano, but they thrived and created something perhaps "better" and beautifully new. We can do the same with everything life hands us. }:- a.m. | |||
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Glory And Terror Of It, by Irina Tweedie![]() ![]() “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.” ~Rilke~ | |||
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Glory And Terror Of It, by Irina Tweedie![]() ![]() “Oh no dear one, he’s not safe, but he is good.” Mr. Beaver There is more good going on than we can see, and in it, in Divine LOVE, we are far richer than we know. }:- a.m. | |||
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The Wisdom Of Uncertainty, by Jack Kornfield![]() ![]() The mystics and poets of every good faith tradition know this truth and have tried as best they can to express it, most often simply in their own lives when words are inadequate. }:- a.m. | |||
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Four Types Of Listening, by Otto Scharmer![]() ![]() The first three use our ears and brain (mind), but I would suggest that the fourth is “heart listening”, when the mind drops or centers down into the deep of “heart” where words and explanations disappear and only divine knowledge is left. }:- a.m. | |||
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The River Cannot Go Back, by Kahlil Gibran![]() ![]() And so it is with Divine LOVE (God by any other name), by entering into LOVE we become one with LOVE, and discover from whence we came in the first place. T.S. Eliot expressed this as well in Little Gidding. }:- a.m. (anonemoose monk) | |||
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What Can You Trust?, by Doug Powers![]() ![]() It was meant to read "depths" of our hearts, but I suppose there is a dying as well that must happen, the false self or ego? | |||
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What Can You Trust?, by Doug Powers![]() ![]() It is a good article for as far as it goes. It leaves us to wrestle with the questions ourselves. For me personally, and many who have been brought to their knees, it is about finding trust within the deaths of our hearts, wherein Divine LOVE "speaks" to us. We must start there, with ourselves. | |||
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Life May Itself Be A Koan, by Rachel Naomi Remen![]() ![]() I love the notion of the koan for it is ultimate truth that requires our holy surrender. It is often in this surrender to the unknown that things become known, that truth reveals itself. But we must put striving aside to come to it. Einstein noted that problems can not be solved with the same mindset that created them. My son, an astrophysicist and professor, likes to say, "Things are impossible until they're not." }:- a.m. (anonemoose monk) | |||
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The Call, by Oriah Mountain Dreamer![]() ![]() Lover of all souls. | |||
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Meditation: A Process Of Retraining The Mind, by Bhante Gunaratna![]() ![]() For those of us who follow a “Christian” path, this is the contemplative way to become “en Christo”, one with Universal Christ. It is of course similar to states alluded to in other faith paths. }:- a.m. (anonemoose monk) | |||
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Opening Thy Palm, by Rabindranath Tagore![]() ![]() “To give is perhaps the greatest gift we can receive.” }:- ♥️ anonemoose monk, proverbs on the hoof | |||
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Greatest Of All Religions, by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan![]() ![]() The greatest of all religions is of course not “religion” at all. And the “study” of life will always be ultimately about relationships, relationships of all kinds because everything is connected. }:- ♥️ anonemoose monk | |||
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Do You Direct Your Mind Or Does Your Mind Direct You?, by Yogi Bhajan![]() ![]() If the mind controls the will and we have nothing else, we are in big trouble! But in “centering down” the mind into the “heart” we bring it under the influence of Divine LOVE. Therein the mind is informed, even transformed and thus the will. }:- ❤️🙏🏼 anonemoose monk | |||
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It Doesn't Matter If You Believe In It, by Kazu Haga![]() ![]() At the Center of the Universe, of all things, is a Relationship — Divine LOVE, the Source of Beloved Community from which all things emanate. This is perennial Truth that mystics, indigenous people, and most faith traditions hold as common knowledge. }:- ❤️ anonemoose monk | |||
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No Rush, No Dawdle: The Secret Of Proper Timing, by Tom Maxwell![]() ![]() “Mindfulness” is simply being present to what is. Not necessarily an easy state of mind and body to reach especially in our highly distracted technological and secular age. The truth of mindfulness is a perennial truth that contemplatives have known for centuries and tried to “practiced”. It is the emptying of nothingness of Buddhism, the “centering down” of Christianity, and other “practices” among the religious. | |||
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Bedrock On Which We All Stand, by J. Krishnamurti![]() ![]() "There are no perfect people or institutions, only the struggle to be whole." Richard Rohr
If we can seek Divine LOVE (God by any other name), we may be enabled to rise above the brokenness and begin The Journey toward wholeness and Home. }:- â¤ï¸
#RelationshipNOTreligion
"The Spirit of Truth can produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." (from a letter to Galatia, a "moosage version")
It is increasingly sad how in this secular age we try to explain goodness aside from (God) Divine LOVE. As if broken humanity has the capacity for goodness aside from inner healing by LOVE. Yet, I do understand as religion has done much harm in the world. }:- ð>â¤ï¸ | |||
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Communication As Mutual Entrainment, by Ursula LeGuin![]() ![]() Face to face dialog (listening) is the beginning of peace. }:- â¤ï¸ anonemoosecmonk and Thich Nhat Hanh too ð | |||
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Somehow I'm Always Held, by Jeff Foster![]() ![]() "Somehow" yes, I have known this too. Now closing in on 70 years, I have found deep Truth in some of the meditations of Richard Rohr, his book titled Falling Upward is applicable in a holy way. }:- â¤ï¸ Patrick Perching Eagle (aka anonemoose monk) | |||
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