Pot Pouri

― Dalai Lama

-Annie Dillard, “Total Eclipse” from Teaching a Stone to Talk 

[Alive On All Channels]

"One must find the strength to see beyond the illusion of duality." – Aleister Crowley XI - Strength Arcane Limbus Tarot Senkai Yami The Strength Tarot card represents nature, which, however wild in its primal form, is tamed by our subtler, finer self — our feminine side, our inner self. The will and passion of our instinctive nature does not need to be broken, but refined and brought to consciousness, so that all levels of creation may come into harmony. The feminine soul-force contains a persuasive power that can nurture and induce cooperation from others, stilling disruptive energies by harmonizing differences in the spirit of collective good will.

“Nature is the living, visible garment of God.” — Goethe Quetzalcóatl - Feathered Serpent Talon Abraxas THE CONTACT OF THE ECLIPSE This is the moment when the Moon, which symbolizes the vessel of the Soul, perfectly darkens the Sun, which symbolizes the sovereign. The "laws" of the material world are briefly suspended. It is the coronation of the Sovereign Soul. For a few minutes, the "ruler" is hidden, and only the inner Sun "EL LOGOS" remains. It is a portal for the sovereign individual to "restart" their reality, declaring themselves free from all the inherited karmic cycles. Our many hundreds of thousands of lives are uniting, and we are remembering. This is what "awakening" is all about. It is about remembering who we are and where we come from, and why we are here. We come from the Higher dimensions with a vision and a dream, and it is a dream that NOW COMES TO AWAKEN US. The point of zero of the eclipse on August 12th, This is the most powerful window for the "time travel". As the physical light fades, the spiritual light intensifies. Sensitive people can perceive a "buzzing" in the silence, a discharge of inactive codes related to their original purpose. THE DREAM OF LIFE, THE DREAM OF ETERNITY by opening this Gate of vision will allow us to walk towards the world of Immortality. This Gate opens all the darkness and all the Light, at that moment our freedom of Consciousness will choose which path we want to cross, the Light or the Darkness. The Vigil of the Perseids: While you observe the fleeting stars, imagine that each one is a fragment of your own forgotten wisdom that returns to you. Remember that the stars are just the "clothing" of the Cosmos, and that you are the one who carries them. Do not fear the darkening of the Sun or the falling of the stars, because you were present even before they were created. As the Word of Yeshua says: "Let him who seeks continue searching until he finds. When he finds, he will be troubled. When he is troubled, he will be amazed and reign over all things." You are the owner of your destiny. The heavens inform you, but you are the sovereign Light, who decides. As more and more Light covers the surface of the Earth, it also expands its Consciousness to cover all living things that reside in, and within its body of Light. If she is all Light, as we are Light, as all life is Light in various states of evolution. This is the spiritual evolution that is causing confusion and chaos on the earthly plane, since those entities that are not prepared to evolve resist the Energies that are being released. When one resists the Light, then in its place there is pain and confusion in the hearts. To remember, we must only focus on ourselves, seeing ourselves wrapped in the White, Golden Light of Perfection and Beauty, knowing that we are ourselves. Knowing that we are beautiful beyond words and perfect beyond sight. Because this is the picture of who we truly are in all our Majesty of Light. Isabel Garcia Martinez Conciencia Universal

Joan Halifax

~ Cynthia Bourgeault, from 'Conscious Suffering' in 'Spiritual Practices from the Gurdjieff Work'

Kai Cheng Thom, from "to a lost sister", Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

[Hell and Earth]

— Tomas Tranströmer (via albarrancabrera)

"If you remain calm and quiet when someone else is angry, you are acting in a way that benefits both themselves and the other person." Buddha (Samyutta Nikhaya: 7.1)

~ Ken McLeod, 'Reflections on Silver River, teachings on Tokmé Zongpo's 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva' (Ian Sanders)

“What is required to come to an inner sensation, an inner feeling of reality? We need to know the way, the process, accepting that as we are today we have no means to open to reality amid the activity of life. I must know the road I am traveling—the way up and the way down. I learn first to withdraw from activity in order to find this Presence, something real in me. Afterward, I will again go toward manifestation.” ~ Jeanne de Salzmann, 'The Reality of Being' [Thanks to Ian Sanders]

— Rainer Maria Rilke

~ Bruce Coville