People feel so vulnerable and put up defenses.  But putting up defenses is like walking out into the starry night and trying to wrap a little coat around vast infinite space.  The vastness just flies out through the arms and the hood.  You have this silly little coat out in the vast space and protect yourself inside it and think maybe someday you will open the buttons and be spiritually liberated.  Probably not.  It’s more likely that someday you will stop identifying with the silly little coat.  Free yourself of all limiting identities and embrace your essence.

What allows this opening to take place at a great depth is to realize we are already the openness into which we are opening.  If we keep identifying with the human aspect of ourselves, we think, “My God, I am opening into something too big for me.”  When we really let go and fall into this open silence, we can’t find any end to it.  It has been eternally here from before the beginning, and, in that, our humanness finds a welcoming to open itself.  This is so because we are not opening ourselves into a mystery that is alien, or foreign, or different,
but into what we have always been…what is most true and natural.

~ Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing

To live and love as the openness and radiant aliveness that I am, we are…this is inner call…
a taste of which I am experiencing…the release of control, grasping, manipulating. forcing, figuring…
and a resting, relaxing, smiling, allowing.  It is natural to live in a state of delight.
Ahhhhhh…exhaling struggle…inhaling the radiant now teeming with life, love and joy.
Free to be, create, love and live.
Thank you Love, one thousand prayers of thanks I give to thee today.
Aymena.

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are words we dimly hear:

Give me your hand.

–  Rainer Maria Rilke –

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will be lost as long as I have
heart & voice to speak
& we will walk again together
with a thousand others
& a thousand more & on & on
until there is no one among us
who does not know the truth:
there is no future without love.

“Don’t forget love;
it will bring
all the madness
you need
to unfurl yourself
across the universe.”

― Mirabai

the essential nature
of love
and
loving
is
eternal
this
is the mysterious
language of the heart
that knows
not
separation
distance
otherness
only one
unbroken
movement
love
rising
cresting
falling
into love

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“Breathe on me, breath of God, fill me with life anew,
That I may love what thou dost love, and do what thou wouldst do,
Breathe on me, breath of God, until my heart is pure,
Until with thee I will one will, to do and to endure.
Breathe on me, breath of God, till I am wholly thine,
Till all this earthly part of me glows with thy fire divine.
Breathe on me, breath of God, so shall I never die,
But live with thee the perfect life of thine eternity.”

~ Edwin Hatch, 1878

And the king chose to touch a tiny feather,
so that it soared up marvelously,
and strong wind bore it up so that it did not fall. . .

~ Hildegard Von Bingen

a tiny feather on the breath of G-d
breathe the fire of Your life
into my heart

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People are fond of saying
that you can’t unring a bell
And while that may be true,
you can certainly smother it’s ring
under the dull roar of conjecture and lies

But some words ring out like church bells
rising about the din, calling us to the Truth

Some words are immortal
long buried or burned
they are destined to be reborn
like a phoneix rising from the ashes

And when they do they can
literally take your breath away

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As Hamlet said to Ophelia, “God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.”

The battle between who we are and who we pretend to be is unwinnable.

Living divided no more,
ending the war inside,
bringing the balm of
peace to unlove.

What was your face before you were born?

Inside out, inside out.
Turning, turning…inside out.

One life, divided no more…

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Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart,
never give up, never losing hope.
The Beloved says, “The broken ones are My darlings.”
Crush your heart, be broken.

– Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir –
“Nobody, Son of Nobody” – Vraje Abramian

My prayer today…to surrender in sweet openness
to the magnitude of love
that is
that i am
that you are
that we are
to let Love
have her way
amena

Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Your own gift you can present every moment
with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation;
but the adopted talent of another you
have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Do that which is assigned to you and
you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson