intimacy and tenderness of the souls light

NOTHING IS LOST

 

“All through your life, the most precious experiences seem to vanish. Transience turns everything to air. You look behind and see no sign even of a yesterday that was so intense. Yet in truth, nothing ever disappears, nothing is lost. Everything that happened to us in the world passes into us. It all becomes part of the inner temple of the soul and it can never be lost. This is the art of the soul: to harvest your deeper life from all the seasons of your experience. This is probably why the soul never surfaces fully. The intimacy and tenderness of its light would blind us. We continue in our days to wander between the shadowing and the brightening, while all the time a more subtle brightness sustains us. If we could but realize the sureness around us, we would be much more courageous in our lives. The frames of anxiety that keep us caged would dissolve. We would live the life we love and in that way, day by day, free our future from the weight of regret.”

 

~JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books, BEAUTY: THE INVISIBLE EMBRACE (US) / DIVINE BEAUTY (Europe)

 

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...our true self..."

“Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular. Our reality, our true self, is hidden in what appears to us to be nothingness....We can rise above this unreality and recover our hidden reality....God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.”

~Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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“yours are the heart, the hands, the feet that do the work of Love...”

"Christ has no body now but yours, 

no hands, no feet on earth but yours, 

yours are the eyes through which he looks 

with compassion on this world. 

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. 

 Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world. 

Christ has no body now on earth but yours."

~ Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)

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live streaming life...

"What is birth and death but the beginning and the ending of a stream of events in consciousness? Because of the idea of separation and limitation they are painful. 

Momentary relief from pain we call pleasure -- and we build castles in the air hoping for endless pleasure which we call happiness. 

It is all misunderstanding and misuse. 

Wake up, go beyond, live really."

- Nisargadatta

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what am I? what is the real me?

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You have experienced moments in your life, whether or not you are aware of them, when you momentarily forgot the "I" with which you have been identified. It can happen spontaneously at a beautiful sight, or it can occur from egoic forgetfulness. People usually discount these moments.
After experiencing the "nice moment," you then reconstitute your familiar sense of identity. But actually these opportunities are like little peepholes through which the truth is experienced. If you start to watch for them, you will notice them. All of a sudden the mind will stop thinking of its story.

You might notice that your separate identity or sense of a me just took a break, and whatever you truly are didn't disappear. Then ask yourself, "What is the real me? If my identity can take a break and I don't disappear, what am I then?" or rather, "What am I when I do disappear?"
- Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing
 
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How can I keep from singing?

"My life goes on in endless song
Above earth's lamentations...
I hear the real, though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.

Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear it's music ringing...
It sounds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?"
~~Author Unknown~~

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in the silence is where pure awareness reveals itself...

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SILENCE IS ANOTHER NAME FOR GOD. 

Quietness is a name for consciousness, peace. Everything is found in the silence and not too much in the words. In quietness, you should try to be quiet for as long as you can, especially when you are at home. Try to sit in the silence and quietness for as long as you can. It’s in the silence where you will receive the message. It’s in the silence where pure awareness reveals itself to you. Never be afraid to sit in the silence. It’s your greatest asset.
~Robert Adams

a cave of solitude, and a space of deep listening...

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"And don't we all, with fierce hunger, 

crave a cave of solitude, 

a space of deep listening - 

full of quiet darkness and stars, 

until finally 

we hear a syllable of God echoing in the cave of our hearts?" 

~Macrina Wiederkehr

(I don't know about ALL of us but for sure some of us.)

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ten thousand things rise and fall...

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"Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
The ten thousand things rise and fall
while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish
and then Return to the Source.
Returning to the Source is stillness,
which is the Way of Nature."
~ Lao Tsu

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Be still, and know... 

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beyond expectations and disappointments...

Suffering, beyond physical and emotional pain, 

can be caused by our attachment to expectations.  

"When we are disappointed by a pleasure 

which we have been expecting and which comes, 

the disappointment is because we were expecting the future, 

and as soon as it is there it is present. 

We want the future to be there without ceasing to be future. 

This is an absurdity of which eternity alone is the cure."

~Simone Weil (1909-1943)

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