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Post by zin on Feb 1, 2016 7:32:30 GMT -5
........ every time there's a fear a real fear that things have ended and if it is to be, it is to be as long as I proceed in love as long as I lead with the heart things will be fine .. .. charlie giardino 1/31/16  This is from H. Inayat Khan: --He [Rumi] is the first mystic who came forward in the world and said that the essence of spirituality is the quality of heart. No mystic will ever say it as Rumi as: "Whether you love man or whether you love God, at the end of your destiny you will be brought before the King of love."
(ps. Sometimes in quotes of this saying I also see "if you have loved enough"!) |
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Post by charliegee on Feb 1, 2016 18:30:59 GMT -5
sad songs, they say
some will tell you, 'don't be sad'
you have so much to live for
is sadness not living?
denying the dark obscures the light
love encompasses both
the way it is and should be
seeking happiness
to the exclusion of sadness
is ludicrous ..
loss is the flip side of love
the b side, if you will
it can enhance your life
if your heart is broken open
you can embrace it all
while you sing your saddest song
love the mood you're in
and you'll sing a happy song, trust me
be grateful for what you're given
not for what you lack
gratitude is the missing link
it happens unannounced
it happens in spite of you
charlie giardino 2/1/16
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Post by zin on Feb 2, 2016 21:37:49 GMT -5
sad songs, they say some will tell you, 'don't be sad' you have so much to live for is sadness not living? denying the dark obscures the light love encompasses both the way it is and should be seeking happiness to the exclusion of sadness is ludicrous .. loss is the flip side of love the b side, if you will it can enhance your life if your heart is broken open you can embrace it all while you sing your saddest song love the mood you're in and you'll sing a happy song, trust me be grateful for what you're given not for what you lack gratitude is the missing link it happens unannounced it happens in spite of you charlie giardino 2/1/16 Charlie, for "used to be", this came to my mind: I had read somewhere, that we orbit along an elliptic path so sometimes things look like fading (when we get to far away points from the sun).. not that a consolation is needed but I've said it anyway.. so one remembers this.. For this "sad songs".. I again remembered something from Rumi, again a paraphrase: "This love learns from no disaster.." Yes "it happens unannounced", "it happens in spite of you"... glad that it doesn't depend on me! |
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Post by laughter on Feb 27, 2016 8:55:22 GMT -5
 If that's home, I'm gonna need a big TV. sing without a parachute on top out where the air is thin nothing holds you to this place, all ties that bind have been erased the glide it still goes up and down it's just that now you hear no sound other than the starlit call that can't be stopped by any wall dance without a safety belt out here on the eternal ledge no cracks in stone to trip your feet on this shiny diamond street the steps they seem familiar, how? didn't you just learn them, now? each second life does recreate and each moment it does die to fate be as though there is no cost out here where you are always lost no signs are found on lineless roads that no forever ever sold the way, you know, was always clear no tolls between your place and here a pathless track did gently yield out onto this boundless field stand with strength that knows no bound on this place that has no ground there is no force that matters here no shaking doubt or leaden fear home it now is every where there are no strangers left to stare there never was one pair of eyes ever could true tell you lies |
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Post by glimmer on Mar 2, 2016 3:27:37 GMT -5
here
always shows up.
do you?
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Post by zin on Mar 2, 2016 8:31:05 GMT -5
here always shows up. do you?  |
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Post by laughter on Mar 2, 2016 9:48:03 GMT -5
here always shows up. do you? where else would I bee?  the sun is ashamed of me I like shade, it's cool!  |
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Post by silver on May 30, 2016 21:22:28 GMT -5
A delightful poem from SF (imo).......
SCRAPPLE... A SPIRITUAL LESSON
Religion is kinda like scrapple....
Butter dripping, golden creamy mush
with fried side pork stirred in......
mixed, cooled
congealed, sliced
then fried to a golden brown.
To make it more even appealing,
some folks add toppings......
powdered sugar, hot maple syrup
or even some fruity jam.
Spirituality is pretty basic stuff.
Spirituality celebrates corn on the ear
in the row in the raw earth
with the pink, hairy, squealing,
wet nose, rooting pig
poking his little hoofs in the dirt
just rejoicing to be who he is
while the cow stands by in total peace
thoughtfully chewing her cud.
It’s all a matter of processing.
© Abbara 07-13-2003
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Post by zin on May 31, 2016 15:56:07 GMT -5
~said to me recently~
"I remember the day
I asked you your name
Until then I thought
it was 'mommy'.."
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Post by laughter on Jun 1, 2016 1:05:49 GMT -5
~said to me recently~"I remember the day I asked you your name Until then I thought it was 'mommy'.." the world she can be bittersweet the way love wends escapes our feet move them fast and to the tune but still the light down from the Moon will come and go in cycles true bringing me back home to you |
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Post by zin on Jun 1, 2016 8:39:20 GMT -5
~said to me recently~"I remember the day I asked you your name Until then I thought it was 'mommy'.." the world she can be bittersweet the way love wends escapes our feet move them fast and to the tune but still the light down from the Moon will come and go in cycles true bringing me back home to you  |
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Post by silver on Jul 8, 2016 11:48:47 GMT -5
The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Post by charliegee on Jul 18, 2016 22:32:52 GMT -5
crap shoot
went to the Publican convention
a convention made of words
solely of words, the worst of words
Fox was there, faux fox
promoting, wait for it, TRUMP
all trump, all the time
they are not fair and balanced
they are not caring and nuanced
love is far from this place
they can openly carry guns
the sacrament of this age
but cannot carry water guns
air guns 'cause that's what they are full of
~~~~~~~ AIR ~~~~~~~~~
dark and putrid AIR ......
don't know who will win
only know we all lose ...
someone will whitewash
the white house ..
so go vote ......
its your right, your rite
and your privilege ...
next is the Cratic convention
similarly made of shit
CG 7/18/17
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 7:35:48 GMT -5
crap shoot went to the Publican convention a convention made of words solely of words, the worst of words Fox was there, faux fox promoting, wait for it, TRUMP all trump, all the time they are not fair and balanced they are not caring and nuanced love is far from this place they can openly carry guns the sacrament of this age but cannot carry water guns air guns 'cause that's what they are full of ~~~~~~~ AIR ~~~~~~~~~ dark and putrid AIR ...... don't know who will win only know we all lose ... someone will whitewash the white house .. so go vote ...... its your right, your rite and your privilege ... next is the Cratic convention similarly made of nuts CG 7/18/17 sorry charlie, hope you have a safe place to come back to an stay out of harms-way. Here, we have NO-GUNS but sharks, white pointers an Crocks that take tourists for supper... but you are welcome. ps, bring a tent and long johns. |
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Post by charliegee on Jul 20, 2016 12:35:08 GMT -5
will do, bro .. god help us all ..
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