Human and Divine at One Time Were Human and Divine at One Time

Urban Elf — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:58:48 GMT

This is my house This is my home This temple is holy It's where I belong It's my foundation Where the spirit meets flesh Where the waters are flowing Where I find my rest For too many years I've lived without home Believing the stories I don't belong But I have discovered My own flesh and blood My gateway to everything My expression of love So come home to your bodies Despite the scorn Hurled at us through history Discover your own Beyond the lies The fear and deceit Your body is sacred Your body is sweet Takes years to unlearn The things we've been told Like we were created To live in Man's world To nurture others While nurture is good It's only one aspect Of true womanhood So come home to your bodies Come home and be One with Creation A Creator at ease Follow the pathways That only you know Into the Center Where flesh meets your Soul ~ Frances Miller ~ http://www.francesmiller.net/index.htm

NIHIL OBSTAT

Urban Elf — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:50:05 GMT

We are the Light of this Generation and Our Light Abounds. We gathered absent filament; the electricity from our bodies and the light from the central flame passed between candle and waiting candle. Every word sung by we several dozen. At sunset, we headed to the grotto as the flaming chariot dipped behind us into the lake’s waters and cast shadows into Plato’s cave. The law of the cave.. any new candle may only be lit from an existing candle. Any day there weren’t enough of us, all Light would cease. In our history, the Light has not ceased. I did not guess at the number of occasion and ongoing miracles documented each year. Each month. Today. Tonight. What do we truly believe and how does it relate to this Life? Perhaps we can know this more fully as we realize what we are ready to receive. “We only love God as much as the person we love the least.” Let the way of the heart Let the way of the heart Let the way of the heart shine through Love upon love upon love All hearts beating as one Light upon light upon light Shining as bright as the sun Let the way of the light Let the way of the light Let the way of the light shine through This Little Light, Let it Shine

I Trust You With My Heart {Beyond Courage and Logic}

Urban Elf — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:56:50 GMT

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life; life will not listen to your logic, it does not bother about your logic. The word courage is very interesting. It comes from a Latin root cor, which means "heart". The way of the heart is courage. It is to live in insecurity; it is to live in love, and trust; it is to move in the unknown. It is leaving the past and allowing the future to be. Courage is to move on to dangerous paths. Life is dangerous, and only cowards can avoid the danger - but then, they are already dead. A person who is alive, really alive, vitally alive, will always move into the unknown. There is danger there, but he will take the risk. The heart is always ready to take the risk, the heart is a gambler. The head is a businessman. The head always calculates - it is cunning. The heart is non-calculating. This English word Courage is beautiful, very interesting. To live through the heart is to discover meaning. A poet lives through the heart and, by and by, in the heart he starts listening to the sounds of the unknown. The head cannot listen, it is very far away from the unknown. The head is filled with the known. What is your mind? It is all that you have known. It is the past, the dead, that which has gone. Mind is nothing but the accumulated past, the memory. Heart is the future; heart is always the hope, heart is always somewhere in the future. Head thinks about the past; heart dreams about the future. The future is yet to come. The future has yet a possibility - it will come, it is already coming. Every moment the future is becoming the present, and the present is becoming the past. The past has no possibility, it has been used. you have already moved away from it - it is exhausted, it is a dead thing, it is like a grave. The future is like a seed, it is coming, ever coming, always reaching and meeting with the present. You are always moving. The present is nothing but a movement into the future. It is the step you have already taken; it is going into the future. If you love deeply, fear is not found. Fear is a negativity, an absence. This has to be understood very, very deeply. If you miss there, you will never be able to understand the nature of fear. It is like darkness. Darkness does not exist, it only appears to be. In fact it is just an absence of light. Light exists; remove the light - there is darkness. Darkness does not exist, you cannot remove darkness. You cannot bring it, you cannot throw it. If you want to do something wiht darkness, you will have to do something with light, because only something that has an existence can be related to. Put the light off, darkness is there; put the light on, darkness is not there - but you do something with Light. You cannot do anything with darkness. Fear is darkness, it is the absence of love. You cannot do anything about it, and the more you do, the more you will become fearful because then the more you will find it impossible. The problem will become more and more complicated. If you fight with darkness, you will be defeated. You can bring a sword and try to kill the darkness; you will only be exhausted. And finally the mind will think, "Darkness is so powerful, that is why I am defeated." This is where logic goes wrong. It is absolutely logical - if you have been struggling with darkness and you could not defeat it, could not defeat it, it is absolutely logical to come to the conclusion that "darkness is very, very powerful. I am impotent before it." But the reality is just the opposite. You are not impotent; darkness is impotent. In fact, darkness is not there - that's why you could not defeat it. How can you defeat something which is not. Don't fight with the fear; otherwise you will become more and more afraid and a new fear will enter into your being; that is fear of fear, which is very dangerous. In the first place fear is an absence and in the second place, the fear of fear is the fear of the absence of absence. Then you go into a madness! Fear is nothing but absence of love. Do something with love, forget about fear. If you well, fear disappears. If you love deeply, fear is not found. Whenever you have been in love with someone, even for a single moment, was there any fear? It has never been found in any relationship where, if even for a single moment, two persons are in deep love and a meeting happens, they are tuned to each other-in that moment fear has never been found. Just as if the light is on and darkness has not been found - there is the secret key: love more. If you feel there is fear in your being, love more. Be courageous in love, take courage. Be adventurous in love, love more, love unconditionally, because the more you love, the less will be the fear. And when I say love, I mean all the four layers of love, from sex to amadhi. Love deeply. If you love deeply in a sexual relationship much fear will disappear from your body. If your body trembles in fear, it is the fear of sex; you have not been in a deep sexual relationship. Your body is not at east, at home. Love deeply - a sexual orgasm will dispel all fear out of the body. When I say it will disappear all fear I don't mean that you will become brave, because brave people are nothing but cowards upside down. When I say all fear will disappear, I mean there will be no cowardice and no bravery. Those are two aspects of fear. Look at your brave people you will find deep inside they are afraid, they have just created around them. Bravery is not fearlessness, it is fear well-protected, well-defended, armored. When fear disappears, you become fearless. And a fearless person is one who never creates in fear anybody and who never allows anybody to create fear in him. Deep sexual orgasm gives the body at-homeness. A very, very deep health happens in the body when the body feels whole. Then the second step is love. Love people - unconditionally. If you have some conditions in the mind then you will never be able to love; those ocnditions will become barriers. Because love is beneficial to you, why bother about conditions? It is so beneficial, it is such a deep well-being - love unconditionally, don't ask anything in return. If you can come to understand that just by loving people, you grow in fearlessness, you will love for the sheer joy of it. Ordinarily people love only when their conditions are fulfilled. They say, You should be like this, only then will I love. A mother says to the child, "I'll love you only if you behave." A wife says to the husband, "You have to be this way, only then can I love you." Everybody creates conditions; love disappears. Love is an infinite sky! You cannot force it into narrow spaces, conditioned, limited. If you bring fresh air into your house and it off from everywhere - all the windows closed, all the doors closed-soon it will become stale. Whenever love happens, it is a part of freedom; then soon you bring that fresh ais into your house and everything goes stale, dirty. This is a deep problem for the whole of humanity-it has been a problem. When you fall in love, everything looks beautiful, because in those moments you don't put conditions. Two persons move near each other unconditionally. Once they have settled, once they have taken each other for granted, then conditions are being imposed. "You should be like this, you should behave like that, only then will I love " - as if love is a bargain. When you don't love out of the fullness of your heart, you are bargaining. You want to force the other person to do something for you, only then will you love; otherwise you will betray your love. Now you are using your love as a punishment, or as an enforcement, but you are not loving. Either you are trying to withold your love or you are giving your love, but in both cases love in itself is not the end, something else is. Nobody love you - this has become an ingrained thought within you. How is this man trying to change your mind? He is trying to LOVE you? Must be something false, is he trying to deceive you? Must be a cunning man, tricky. You protect yourself. You don't allow anybody to love you and you don't love others. Then there is fear. Then you are alone in the world, so alone, so lonely, not connected. This comes up because you are brought up in such a way that you don't allow love to happen. The whole of humanity has been trained for other things, not for love. To kill, we have been trained. To calculate, we have been trained; colleges, universities exist, years of training just to calculate so that nobody can deceive you, but you can deceive others. But nowhere is there any opportunity available where you are allowed to love - and love in freedom. If you understand me well, drop all fears and love more - and love unconditionally. Don't think you are doing something for the other when you love; you are doing something for yourself. When you love it is beneficial to you. So don't wait; don't say that when others love, you will love - that is not the point at all. Be selfish. Love is selfish. Love people - you will be fulfulled through it, you will be getting more and more blessedness through it. And when love goes deeper, fear disappears. And then there is the third stage of love - prayer. Churches, religions, organized sects, they teach you to pray. But in fact they hinder you from praying because prayer is a spontaneous phenomenon, it cannot be taught. If you have been taught a prayer in your childhood, you have been prevented from a beautiful experience that could have happened. Prayer is a spontaneous phenomenon. Let your prayer be spontaneous. If even your prayer cannot be spontaneous, then what will be? If even with God you have to be ready-made, then where will you be authentic and true and natural? Say things you would like to say. Talk to God as you would talk to a wise friend. But don't bring formalities in. A formal relationship is no relationship at all. Abd you have become formal with God also? You miss all spontaneous. Bring love into prayer. Then you can talk! It is a beautiful thing, a dialogue with the universe. Prayer should be a lived expereince, a heart-to-heart dialogue. And soon, if it is heartful, you will feel that not only are you talking but the response is there. Then prayer has come into its own, come of age. When you feel the response, theat not only are you talking - if it is a monologue, it is still not prayer - it becomes a dialogue. You not only speak, you listen. And I tell you the whole existence is ready to respond. Once your heart is open the whole responds. Love is not a relationship, it is a state of being. It has nothing to do with anything else. One is not in love, one is love. And of course, when one is love, one is in love - but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love. And who can be loved? Certainly, if you are not aware of who you are, you cannot be love. You will be fear. Fear is just the opposite of love. Remember, hate is not the opposite of love, as people think. Hate is love standing upside down. The real opposite of love is fear. In love one expands, in fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens. In fear one doubts, in love one trusts. In fear one is left lonely. In love, one disappears; hence there is no question of loneliness at all. When one is not, how can one be lonely? Then these trees and the birds and the clouds and the sun and the stars are all within you. Love is when you have known your inner sky. The young child is free of fear; children are born without any fear. If the society can help and support them to remain without fear, can help them to climb trees and mountains and swim the oceans and rivers - if the society can help them in every possible way to become adventurers, adventurers of the unknown, and if the society can create a great inquiry instead o giving them dead beliefs - then the children will turn into great lovers, lovers of life. And that is true religion. There is no higher religion than love. Meditate, dance, sing and go deeper and deeper into yourself. Listen to the birds more attentively. Look at the flowers with awe, wonder. Don't become knowledgeable, do go labeling things. That's what knowledgeability is - the great art of labeling everything, categorizing everything. Meet people, mix with people, with as many as possible, because each person expresses a different facet of God. Learn from people. Don't be afraid, this existence is not your enemy. This existence mothers you, this existence is ready to support you in every possible way. Trust, and you will start feeling a new upsurge of energy in you. That energy is love. What Jesus did was his own heart's whispering, and what Christians go on doing is not their own heart's whispering. They are imitators - and the moment you imitate them, you insult your humanity, you insult your God. Never be an imitator, be always original. Don't become a carbon copy. Committ as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don't committ the same mistake again. It is part of your freedom to go astray, it is part of your dignity to go even against God. And it is sometimes beautiful to go even against God. This is how you will start having a spine; otherwise there are millions of people, spineless. The whole world is full of pseudo-religious people - churches, temples, gurudwaras, mosques, full of religious people. And can't you see that the world is absolutely irreligious? With so many religious people, the world is so irreligious - how is this miracle happening? Everybody is religious and the total is irreligiousness. The religions is false. People have "cultivated" trust. Trust has become a belief, not an experience. They have been taught to believe, they have been taught to know - that's where humanity has missed. Never believe. If you cannot trust, it is better to doubt, because through doubt, someday or other the possibility of trust will arise. You cannot live with doubt eternally. Doubt is a disease; it is an illness. In doubt you can never be fulfilled; in doubt you will always tremble; in doubt you will always remain in anguish and divided and indecisive. In doubt, you will remain in a nightmare. So one day or other you will start seeking how to go beyond it. So I say it is good to be an atheist rather than a theist, a pseudotheist. So remember, there is a great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, belief is social. Trust you have to grow in, belief you can remain in, whatsoever you are, and belief can be imposed on you. Drop beliefs. The fear will be there - because if you drop belief, doubt arises. Each belief is forcing doubt into hiding somewhere, repressing doubt. Don't be worried about it; let the doubt come. Everybody has to pass through a dark night before he reaches the sunrise. Everybody has to pass through doubt. Long is the journey, dark is the night. But when after ht elong journey and the dark night, the morning arises, then you will know it was all worthwhile. Trust cannot be "cultivated" - and never try to cultivate it; that is what has been done by the whole of humanity. Cultivated trust becomes belief. Discover trust within yourself, don't cultivate it. Go deeper into your being, to the very source of your being and discover it. ~ Scripture ~

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Human and Divine at One Time Were Human and Divine at One Time

NIHIL OBSTAT

I Trust You With My Heart {Beyond Courage and Logic}