The realm of the sacred

The realm of the sacred and the realm of wisdom is the big realm. And that’s where the oneness happens, but it happens in the heart. It’s not something out there; it happens in the heart.

~ Matthew Fox, Bowing to the Heart Over Authority

The wisdom of love

Wisdom tells me I am nothing.  Love tells me I am everything.  And between the two my life flows.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

(Full quote from the book, I Am That:  “I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says “I am everything”. Wisdom says “I am nothing”. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.”)

The deep blue sky

What is the true self? It’s brilliantly transparent like the deep blue sky, and there’s no gap between it and all living beings.

~ Kodo Sawaki Roshi, “The True Self”

Soft eyes

Sunrise through the raindrops resting on the window.

To perceive the world through others senses is to find splendor in familiarity, wilderness in one’s backyard, the sacred in the mundane.

~ Ed Yong

Observers

River rocks

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Messages

Soul is that unconditioned, mysterious, untamed, undomesticated, unique individual wild core of ourselves which is inextricably connected to the mysteries of wild nature.

– Claire Dunn

Love Moves Away

Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.

Love moves away.
The light changes.

I need more grace
than I thought.

~ Rumi

being vulnerable

relaxing in the garden

Being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure.

~ Bob Marley

waves

on Assateague Island

Like the sea, we are always in motion. The waves loom in our dreams and in our nightmares through all of time, their rhythms pulsing through us. They move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still, the rise and fall and rise and fall of all of it, the incoming and the outgoing, the infinite procession of life. And the ocean wraps the earth, a reminder. The mysteries come forward in waves.

~ Susan Casey

Blessing

After the storm

Some wish blessings, others pray for them.  Some send blessings and they become one.

~ Joyce C. Lock