Yes, you are ....

Envoi
God within me, God without,
How shall I ever be in doubt?
There is no place where I may go
And not there see God's face, not know
I am God's vision and God's ears
So through the harvest of my years
I am the Sower and the Sown
God's self unfolding and God's own.

From a tenth C. gravestone, St. Lars Church, Linkoping, Sweden

Going Nowhere

This TED talk is a reminder of our human need to just "be."

Going Nowhere

Quantum Religion

"I have dealt with the many questions of faith as it is presumed..and I am certain that each of us is conceived of the Spirit, born of Virgin, and bears their part in the sufferings and death of the Eternal."

 --- Mary Berlin

Understand.....

Change 
is the law 
of God's mind, 
and resistance to it 
is the source 
of all pain.

Atheist? =

Change 
is the law 
of the universe, 
and resistance to it 
is the source 
of all pain.

still Craig Ferguson

Thanks, Craig!!!

Happy Birthday!!

To proclaim your natal celebration
is not a boast -
for it is perhaps the most
to proclaim a toast
for being alive
and not being toast --- yet!!

 

70 isn't so bad .... so far! LOL!! Thanks to EVERYONE who sent me BD greetings!  

As one of my cards read (via Katie P.) -
"To be seventy years young is far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." 

        Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I'm Tired

I'm tired ...
    Tired of the words and pics
    of war and agression. So stupid.
Why all this violence?!

They look like spoiled children
    playing games ---
When does it end?
    Who wins?  --- no one
    Who loses?  --- everyone

They are like spoiled children
   playing games ---
       with others' lives...
       with their own lives

There is so much
   to experience
in this wonderful world ---
Why keep one another
   from the joy of wonder?

Don't take life so seriously, kids.
   G₃ doesn't.

Become like little children, he said ---
   Full of wonder and joy --- now.
It's never too late.

agd

Blessings

To recognize a blessing is to be nestled already in the heart of God.

Perfect 2

An Invocation

This has been the most perfect prayer/insight I have come across.


God within me, God without,
How shall I ever be in doubt?
There is no place I may go
And not there see God's face, not know
I am God's vision and God's ears.
So through the harvest of my years
I am the Sower and the Sown,
God's Self unfolding and God's own.

Rune Stone, Asmund Karasun, Circa 1050 a.d
discovered in Vasterby, Uppland, Sweden..

Perfect Love

The Tao says:

Why do you work so hard

to achieve something

which disintegrates so quickly?

Why do you work 

so diligently

to reap more and higher 

"rewards" (even heavenly)?

It is all illusion.

This world passes

and along with it

all your sweat and determination.

We all receive

the same amount of love - infinite

the same amount of forgiveness - for the asking

the same amount of pardon - for the taking

the same amount of promise - salvation (the awakening)

The Tao is Perfect Love - 

not to be questioned,

but to be awed.

Be purposeful -

It's the reason you are here.
                                                agd 9.21.2014

Matthew 20:1-16

Why pray?

Why should I pray for peace .....
When I hear of the disrespect for life
    in Pakistan
    in Afghanistan
    in many areas of Africa
    in Malaysia
    in China, esp. Tibet
    in Mexico
    in Central American countries
    in South American countries
    in North American countries
    in MY country, the U.S.A.
    in European countries
    in every culture,
    on every continent.

Why are people so unhappy?
Why do people want to make others unhappy?
Why are humans so selfish?
This life is a short journey
and we should live awed by the experience.

The energy of chaos swells to fever pitch
guaranteeing the ruin of our future.

agd

The Fire of Life

Everything is burning ---
    Everything

We are on fire ---
from the greatest star
to the miniscule atom ---

Everything is burning ---
   Everything

We are on fire
--- change the craving fire
to being fire

The fire of desire
cannot be quenched,
but one can trasmute the desire
into compassion ---
The alchemist's dream

What you need to know
is how to deal with suffering

What is more miraculous
than the present moment?

                      agd

Forsooth!

Does grass compare itself
    to a tree?

Does a tree flinch at the filching of a finch ---
   or at the violent kiss of a woodpecker?

Does vermin determine
 the best place to learn in?

Does a fly sigh at the sight
   of its mate's flight?

And where does a carnation
   plan to go on vacation?

Why do humans worry
about every little thing?
It is all forgotten in a century's passing.

Live, laugh. love,
   forgive and believe you are forgiven.

And don't wander too far from  hOMe.

agd

Do unto others

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

You are not as separate a person as you think.
We are all linked, forged from the same kiln,
connected by channels you cannot see,
but through which travel the changing energies
of human experience.

Everything, every thing, everyone, every one is connected.

Therefore, what you do unto others, 
   you are virtually doing to yourself. 
      So, be nice to yourself ---
         Be compassionate to others.

agd