Close to the beach the waves pound the sand and toss me, but as I dive into the waters I enter a stillness in which I see the waves sparkle above me. As the light breaks through the surface, I'm awestruck by its power and beauty. The living sea, the gentle light, the tranquility, and me, all are held in one grand order of simplicity.
It illustrates for me the great spiritual simplicity I find in just being! Its power unifies even in the midst of racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural diversity:
" Let your communication be, Yea, Yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil" (Matt. 5:37)
It's fear that complicates everything by inflaming the human senses. But keep in mind a kick against a shell cannot hurt the pearl. Wisdom's strength lies in the clear reading and recognition of what is essential and immediately supplies constructive ideas.
Each idea clarifies and guides, never pushes or asserts pressure --in stillness it reveals--especially, how to assimilate the concept of the changeless Christ-nature within us, the practical truth of all that glorifies Life.
What grace, what wisdom will give me wings and make my life equal to a dove, that I may rest?
Is human life really like a meadow? There the lush green grass wet from the morning dew bends its head and supports tender flowers and makes them grow--but oh under cover silently waits a serpent! My feet look for another road to step away from the foe.
I love a solitary life, it includes the mountaintops, the streams that rush down into the valley and the dark woods, where I like to linger and listen to the owl, and the golden-winged warbler, a delight to me, as all songs that come out of the throat of a little bird--they have sight of Heaven!
I prefer their company then to those with deaf ears and cold hearts and blind minds--or bruised senses.
Don't ask me about love-- it changes by the minute, makes some blind to its radiance.
In some moments: I ask Intelligence, "What is it I need to see?"
No answer, but when a call comes requesting it, the answer also comes immediately!
A tranquil peace--brings comfort free from the sneers of pain!
Free from the tearing winds-- and I endure,
And smile---
So my thoughts continue to speak to me about deep wounds and my injured heart!
Ah, I know not to speak about problems but to them!
When Gautama the Buddha sat under the Botree he made a great discovery: "Only
love goes from me and only love comes to me!'
From the shores there comes a western wind and awakes the flowers in the grassy meadow from dreaming and I--shed a tear.
It is impossible to define Love--as it is to define the infinite! And above all it defines itself and the universe. To understand it is to understand Life!
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not really what I meant.--
So, I drew a circle and took you in!
I'm only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything. But still, I'm always willing to do something, I do not refuse to do something that I can do!
The improvement of understanding is for two ends--first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
"Action is Eloquence!" Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom, and with all thy
getting , get understanding."
"As
a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, so are God and man, Father and son, one in being. The Scripture reads: “For in Him
we live, and move, and have our being.”
'So let your works lead your words.'
To live is to express yourself--
The elements and qualities of the ocean give substance, being to each wave and to every wave. No wave, in and of itself, shares its individual good with any other wave, but each wave, becauase of its source and being is in the ocean, blesses every other wave.
This allness and oneness of universal Consciousness is a tremendious idea when once we grasp it.
This allness and oneness stands for the law of reciprocal being.
Will you seek far off, or in the here and now?
I see you face to face.......
