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You Are What Cannot Collapse

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       Anything that can collapse is not who you are. You are what cannot collapse, because it was never built. It was never babbled by the mind into a many-storied tower. Governments collapse. Political parties implode. Dollar bills suddenly blow away, empty and worthless. Overnight, world teachers, ayatollahs, popes and gurus lose their hypnotic charisma. You open your eye, even your own personality collapses, the persona you called "me," dissolving like an angry nest of fleeing hornets from your chest. You fall down crying like a baby on the kitchen floor, strangely relieved, wondering what ever happened to "you." Good work! Keep falling! Right through the linoleum, into the worm-dark loam where stones breathe wisdom in chthonic stillness, ancestral waters spring from blue crystal silence at the core of the planet, and you plummet all the way into the womb of your heart. Which is my heart. Which is our great great grandmother's heart. Which is the unshakable ...
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Heart Murmurs from the Masters of Prayer

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  “In this silence there is a strange warmth, a soft light in the heart that is not of thought. It is not an idea of God, nor a vision; it is simply being, without name.” ~ J. Krishnamurti "Above all things, love silence. Out of your silence will arise something that draws you into deeper silence. If you practice this, inexpressible light will dawn upon you." ~St. Hesychius of Jerusalem " If I create from the heart,  nearly everything works;  if from the head,  almost nothing."  ~Marc Chagall "The soul's ability  to nourish itself  lies in the heart."  ~Aristotle "Exhalation goes out,  inhalation comes in.  At the stillpoint where  they merge,  one enters the space  from which Creation comes forth  and into which it is absorbed. The supreme Goddess,  whose nature is to create, constantly expresses herself  as outbreath and inbreath.  By resting awareness  in the space of the heart,  between t...
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The Sensuality Of God

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   "Glorify God in your Body." ~1 Corinthians 6:20 Spirituality is not the renunciation of the senses, but their refinement to the subtlest of all sensations: God. God is the most sensuous of delights. Meditation refines sensation through quietness. Our spiritual practice cultivates finer perception until taste and smell sense the flavor and fragrance of pure Being; sight gazes into the light shining from Divine Darkness; touch feels the inner caress of breath, the gravity-hug of earth through the skin; hearing listens to the hum of silence, which contains the music of galaxies. Subtler than these five sense organs is the sixth, the mind. Meditation refines the mind just as it refines the other organs of perception. When the restless mind settles into quietness, we transcend thought, no image limits awareness, the bliss of emptiness overflows, and reason relishes infinity. Subtler than mind is the soul, I Am, yet the soul is also a sense organ. The soul ...
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Rest In The Heart

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 In this conversation, may we dare to touch on the question of the  incarnation of Christ? Not as a doctrine but a gift to the human heart,  the ultimate expression of divine Friendship.  Pictured here is our new  book, 'Rest In The Heart,' with my poems and the wondrous mandala- collages of Rashani Réa, soon to be published. 
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