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~Eli~

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joined on 08/05/05
last updated 11/14/06
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If you want what visible reality
Can give, you’re an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you’re not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish,
but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love’s confusing joy

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Only Source Is

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"There is no reaching the Self. If the Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now, but that it is yet to be obtained.

What is got afresh will also be lost. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. You are the Self. You are already That!" ~ Ramana Maharshi

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Animal Totem

Mountain Lion
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Year of the Dog...yay!
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Juicy stuff

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"Just when I thought it couldn't get any better"
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"A blissful stirring sensual journey"
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"I bow to the lyrical light....."
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"Ravishing and illuminating verse"
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"A movie to blow your mind"
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"Best Cafe Newcomer to London"
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"ChewwBroccoli and Cuke Skywalker - the Organic Revolution"
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Every being is a jar full of delight

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Who is speaking

if the voice in your head is you, who's the one listening to it?

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There is but One

Gender
Female
Location
about me
Mountain Lion, Gemini, Deer, Metal Dog, Kapha/Pitta!
Existential, Pure unboundless Source .....

I've had joy of travelling for the last 7 years, studying and sharing precious moments with my ever expanding yet interconnected family, while rooting myself in each place, feeling the land and making friends with it's people. I am, amongst other things, a bodytherapist and a practioner of lomi lomi (kahuna) massage, and ayurvedic therapies, and in complete contrast presently working in the music industry to earn my pennies since I came back with a belly full of giardia (aaah, India!) which put the brakes on me doing bodywork full time. Am spreading the love and playfullness, the people here need some! I am a nature bunny, love community, and work at keeping connected, feeding my spirit in this crazy city. Loving the gatherings which always give cause for celebration! meeting likeminded people, who challenge me and inspire - everyone has something to teach me, no matter. To share my essence - honesty, integrity, care, gentleness, warmth, authenticity and love! to give of myself, experience, expand, explore, understand, to recognise the Truth in all things and laugh with it. Recognising the nature of this mind, and through this body, expressing my Self, unboundless source. Identifying the tendency to separate in this play of leela, and coming back to what is. Direct, inquisitive, mischevious, saucy, playful, loyal and honest and real is what I'm about. The travel and discovery (inner and outer) is always a constant. But to dip my toes in the ocean, sand in my hair, sun on my skin, and the life of liberated island living makes my heart ::sing:: ~~~
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awake

You are not a kindergarten student of spirituality, so you must cease to think and speak as if you are a phenomenal object. You are the animating consciousness that provides sentience to the sentient being. But you are this consciousness only in manifestation.

In truth you are that which is prior to consciousness itself. You are the pure Awareness. You do not need to be liberated. Liberation is a preposterous idea, for were you an object as you still think you are, then as an object you could never be liberated.

- Nisargadatta -

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~Simple Blissful Home of Homes~

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Embracing the play

this has been an interesting time. I met someone who wowed me with their beauty. I walked away, with a glance over my shoulder to the 'stranger' who would become someone I shared my laughter, tears, heart and soul with and who allowed me in to share theirs too.

And so the months have rolled by, and the challenges and discoveries have been enormous, joyous, painful, all encompassing. It was important to me to be present to each other, with Truth and integrity in our relating. At no time ... read more
Fri, June 2, 2006 - 7:32 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
continuing on the theme of the dialogue with said friend in my last entry, here's another musing.....

It was new years eve, last, and I was celebrating this fine existence with friends on a community in thailand, in a state of uplifted inebriation (the first time in 6 years I had partaken in anything to affect my present state)...anyway, my friend turned to me and said soemthing about "ah, life". And the word instantly formed this anacronym in my head -

L iving
I n
F ull
E xpres... read more
Thu, March 2, 2006 - 2:48 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
Wow - I just seen a note I wrote to my friend (an excerpt from our thread of communication) - posted on his blog entry. It made me realise that due to a number of ridiculous reasons such as self exposure, confidence etc I've never posted a real blog entry before (look, I said ridiculous!) but then, seeing my writing in someone elses blog got me thinking - why not blog it myself!!! Andreas, thank you for your beautiful unintentional vote of confidence.

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hahaha, yes, bring it o... read more
Wed, March 1, 2006 - 11:58 AM permalink - 2 comments
 
Gabriel the trumpeter
bestowed upon us a voice with a choice
and a tongue kept moist by years of salivating
for oysters.. pearls and aphrodisiacs
locked in an ugly shell always too chewy and gooey
so they get swallowed whole

but a tongue is so much more than a vehicle for greed
a tongue is for washing fur
or for licking wounds
or for welcoming newcomers into a room
or cleansing those fresh from the womb

without a tongue there would be no croons
swoons, Junes under the moon
no... read more
Sat, January 28, 2006 - 2:48 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
Having had a hard day in the grind this song came to mind....


Sometimes I feel like I can do anything and
Sometimes I'm so alive, so alive!
Sometimes I feel like I can zoom cross the sky and
Sometimes I wanna cry

Most people try to aim to please
but a lot of them are kinda weak in the knees
learning later bout the birds and the bees
falling in love and want to be set free
playing ball at the age of thirteen
everybody's growing up with a dream
I never noticed what could happen... read more
Fri, January 27, 2006 - 1:38 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
I saw you dancing last night
on the roof of your house
all alone.
I felt your heart longing for the Friend.
I saw you whirling
beneath the soft bright rose
that hung from an invisible stem in the sky.
So I began to change into my best clothes
in hopes of joining you,
even though I live a thousand miles away.
And if you had spun like an immaculate sphere
just two more times,
then bowed again so sweetly to the east,
you would have found God and me
standing so near
... read more
Thu, January 12, 2006 - 9:44 AM permalink - 5 comments
 
The principle is simple; from one thing comes another. So it is that before there can be mastery, there must be errors; before there can be knowledge there must be ignorance; before there can be understanding, there must be confusion; before there can be wisdom; there must be foolishness.

Therefore the sage uses errors to attain mastery, embraces ignorance to acquire knowledge, cultivates confusion to reach understanding, courts foolishness to find wisdom.

For the sage, losing is seen... read more
Wed, January 11, 2006 - 5:53 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of the Infinite One.

If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved his choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of Truth
That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,
Causing the worl... read more
Mon, December 19, 2005 - 11:00 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
The year is coming to an end, and what an amazing year it's been. It's had it moments....with much beauty and learning curves as always!

I give thanks for all the amazing souls who have met me on my path, for teaching me much, for your patience, grace, reflections and friendships. For joining me on this magical jourey and blessing me with love, insight, and for being my greatest teachers.
And I pray the Universe is kinder this coming year than this last and nature shows her softness ... read more
Sun, December 18, 2005 - 3:27 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
If I could be the sun, I'd radiate like Africa,
and smile upon the world intergallactic love laughter.
If I could be the rains, I'd wash away the whole worlds pains,
and bring the gift of cool, like ice cream trucks on sunny days.

If were the earth, i'd be like mountains bountiful,
and if I were the sky so high, I'd be like wind invincible,
If I could be a seed, I would give birth to redwood trees,
And if I were the trees, I'd generate the freshest air to breath in..

If I could be... read more
Sat, December 17, 2005 - 1:47 AM permalink - 3 comments
 
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are bo... read more
Fri, December 16, 2005 - 5:52 AM permalink - 2 comments
 
O mind, you wander far in search of bliss,
not knowing your natural state of freedom.
You will regain your home of infinite bliss,
only if you go back the way you came. ~ ramana maharshi ~

With an empty mind and open heart,
out of not knowing, you know.
You are Truth itself, it is your very, very nature.

What is called Truth is That which is always, and does not change.
It is That which is before, during and after experiences;
That which remains the same.
It is That which d... read more
Mon, December 12, 2005 - 3:31 AM permalink - 3 comments
 
I'm here:
your fallen idol.
Your unhinged fire god, a Lazarus back from the dead.
The echo in your heart that no one hears.
The longing foretold.

You will remember my eyes in darkness,
the crack of my smile.
You will learn about the scars in my pages.
You will know no end to the rustle in my caverns.

When you hear me
your blood will push hard
against the walls of your body.
The weight of days in my voice
will keep you up at night.

When we make love
your dem... read more
Thu, December 8, 2005 - 3:59 AM permalink - 2 comments
 
Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,

let them sleep.

This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
I you want to improve your mind that way,

sleep on.

I've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.

If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of w... read more
Tue, December 6, 2005 - 7:41 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
We have forgotten how to wait; it is almost an abandoned space. And it is our greatest treasure to be able to wait for the right moment. The whole existence waits for the right moment. Even trees know it--when it is time to bring the flowers and when it is time to let go of all the leaves and stand naked against the sky. They are still beautiful in that nakedness, waiting for the new foliage with a great trust that the old has gone, and the new will soon be coming, and the new leaves will sta... read more
Fri, December 2, 2005 - 7:27 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
What
Is the
Root of all these
Words?

One thing: love.

But a love so deep and sweet
It needed to express itself
With scents, sounds, colors
That never before
Existed
Fri, December 2, 2005 - 4:29 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."
Of course you do not do this out loud,
otherwise someone would call the cops.

Still, though,
think about this,
this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye
that is always saying,
with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in this world
is dying
to hear?
Fri, December 2, 2005 - 3:10 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
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Illuminating