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Osho , quotes from 'Being in Love'


Love is the food of the soul.

A child is born as love; a child is made of the stuff of love.

Love needs a milieu of love.

Love is a fragile flower. It has to be protected, it has to be
strengthened, it has to be watered; only then does it become strong.

Love is a natural function.

Perfect men and women don't exist.

If you get rid of your parents from your inner being, you become free.

To flow and grow in love needs no perfection. Love has nothing to do
with the other. A loving person simply loves, just as an alive person
breathes and drinks and eats and sleeps.

Be utterly concerned with your joy, be only concerned with your
joy. Everything else is non-essential.

Business is the ugliest thing in the wolrd - anecessary evil.

When you demand love, it never comes.

Give without any condition - then you will know what love is.

Love is your natural, spontaneous being.

When you really love somebody your ego starts slipping away
and melting.

The death of the ego is really your possibility of life, the ego
is just a dead crust around you...

One has to take a bath every day, in fact every moment, so that
the crust of ego nver becomes a prison.

Through dependence and helplessness, the ego is created.

Even in religion and morality, everybody is trying to dominate,
to show the rest of the world that 'I am the center of the world.'
This is the root of all problems between people.

One has to be like a god... by growing to the optimal consciouness.

Love only happens when you surrender.

With consciouness no technologies are possible and in fact, no
control is possible. The very effort to control or make a thing
happen is egoistic.

Love is the only religion, the only god, the only mystery
that has to belived, understood.

I am trying to create every possibility for the emergence of
a new kind of human being who is not contaminated by the past,
who is discontinuous with the past.

When he is loved, a man becomes more polite, nicer, a gentleman.

Through love, the woman starts blossoming, otherwise she remains
a closed bud.

If you really fall in love with someone who loves you, your
meditative energies start growing; they are very deeply joined
experiences.

Because sons and daughters have disagreed with their faters and
mothers, with their whole tradition, human beings have evolved.
And the more intelligent you are, the more you are going to
disagree.

To come to a point where you are so absolutely alert that not
even a fragment of darkness exists around you is the end of
the journey.

Make more and more moments of your life luminous with awareness.

...if you are enlightened ...you have become love itself.

By changing your lovers many times in life, you will be enriched.

Concentration on one person is bound to leed you into madness.

anything that gives you freedom is right.

Love means coming to be at ease with existence.

Man's misery is that he is trying to force the heart to serve
the mind, which is impossible.

The false comes from outside.

The mind puts beautiful labels on ugly things, it tries to cover
your wounds with flowers.

To look at anybody with lust is to insult, humiliate, is to
reduce the other person to a thing, to a commodity. This is the
most immoral act in existence, using the other as a means.

Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy.

Even love is secondary to freedom, but freedom cannot be
sacrificed for love.

Love is a spiritual phenomenon; ego is psychological;
lust is physical.

Love is never afraid. There is nothing to lose for love.
Love only gives. Fear is the opposite of love.

Fear is a grave, love is a temple.

Growth is painful because you have been avoiding a thousand and
one pains in your life.

All societies depend on repression. Two things they repress:
one is pain, another is pleasure.

Death is the final statement of your whole life.

Suffering is only and always the refusal of pain.

If you die crying, weeping, clinging to life, that simply shows
you have been avoiding death and you have been avoiding life too,
with all its pains.

When you witness a certain thing in yourself, it cannot enter
into your system. It always enters when you avoid it, when
you escape from it.

Growth means you are being born every day.

Only one thing is going to help you, and that is awareness -
nothing else.

Your culture tries to make you not grow; it wants you to remain
juvenile.

A grown up person cannot be reduced to a slave.

All the problems of humanity can be solved if nations disappear.

...every human being is a victim of stupid ideologies.

A world completely free from any contracts between man and woman
will be immensely lovely, beautiful, unboring, interesting.

A person's participation in the universe through his creative
actions makes him tremendously fulfilled and gives him dignity.

People's lives have become stale, ugly, and the reason lies
in their idea of permanent love.

Excitement is not joy, it is just an escape from misery.

Unless a love affair is very conscious, it is going to create
great anguish, great trouble.

Make love and meditation so involved in each other that each love
affair automatically becomes a partnership in meditation, and each
meditation makes you so conscious that you need not fall in love,
but rise in love.

Men and women together in deep friendship, in a loving, meditative
relationship, as organic wholes, can reach the goal (of becoming
realized souls) any moment they want.

With meditation the other becomes your heaven.

Love is food - very subtle, spiritual, but it is food and it
nourishes you.

A compassion with the possibility of anger has strength, stamina.

The fight comes from your mind, from your teachings, upbringing,
conditioning.

Through love you touch your inner completeness.

Real love is to transform loneliness into aloneness, to help
the other.

When love soars high, to the purest sky, it is total freedom.

Any demand from the outside dis-integrates you, is a crime against
you, because your freedom is polluted - then you are no longer sacred.

Love, but be very careful; you are moving on sacred ground, you are
going into the highest, the purest and holiest temple.

Love is the only eye, the only vision...

If love has conditions then growth cannot be total, because these
conditions will come in the way.

In Tantra, the man who is going to make love to the woman has to
worship her for months as a goddess. He has to visualize in the
woman the mother-goddess. When the visualization has become so total,
when no lust arises, when seeing the woman sitting naked before him,
he simply feels thrilled with a divine energy and no lust arises, the
very form of the woman becomes divine, and all thoughts stop and only
reverence is left - then only then, is he allowed to make love.

Love should give you freedom; never settle for less.

There are two types of love. In the first case you go to get something;
in the second case you go to give something.

God is only a desire of the childish mind.

...every effort that has been directed towards avoiding loneliness has
failed, and will fail, because it is against the fundamentals of life.

When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody.

The truth is that all your problems are the abscence of something.

Love is a soul nourishment.

Monks think that worldly people are fools, and the wordly people
deep down know that the monks are fools, they are missing all the
joys of life.

Meditation simply means the process of unconditioning the mind.

Even a good intention in the hands of an unconscious person
turns out to be poisonous.

The crowd is an essential for the false self to exist.

All meditation techniques are a help to destroy the false.

Only the brace, the courageous, the people who have guts can be religious.

Only those few people are fortunate enough who have lived with authentic
being and who have died with authentic being, because they know that
life is eternal and death is a fiction.

Sometimes being alone is perfectly good; one needs one's own space, one
needs to forget the whole world, and to be oneself. The other is absent
so you have no boundary to yourself. The other creates your boundary,
otherwise you are infinite.

Extasy always comes through the other.

People who try to live through love and relationships alone, by and by
become very limited. They lose infinity and purity, and they become
superficial. And people who live only in meditation will become very
deep, but their life loses color, loses the extatic dance, the orgasmic
quality of being. Real humanity, the humanity of the future, will live
with both polarities together.

You don't get any boyfriend or girlfriend whom you don't deserve...

Your whole being is sexual, made of sex cells.

Love is the basic ultimate drug that gives you the real idea of expansion.

The other person has to be different, distant, a mystery that invites
you to explore. With two mysteries meeting together, once they drop the
idea that they have to agree on everything, there is no question of
any fight.

Love is capable of absorbing diagreements, fights, overcoming all
the hinderances.

I say to you that both men and women are polygamous.

The freedom of a person you love will not hurt you. It hurts because
you don't use your freedom.

Couples who love each other should have a few love affairs once in a
while. Those love affairs will renew their relationship, will refresh it.

The natural man needs no morality...to be natural is to be religious.

If you are repressive then you cannot transcend biological pulls naturally
without any effort. So, the first thing to be remembered is that
nature is right.

Humanity has lived under the influence of very wrong ideas.

The woman has been repressed by men so much that you will have to pull
her out of her conditionings. You will have to help her move, once in
a while, into new pastures.

Tantra says that before you make love to a woman or to a man, you
should first pray because it is going to be a divine meeting of energies.

If you love life, you will know that sex is sacred, holy.

Whenever you are half-hearted in anything, it lingers longer.

While the energy is there, move as deeply as you can, love as deeply
as you can, and make an art of it. That is the whole meaning of Tantra,
making an art of love-making.

Real satisfaction is something very aesthetic.

In higher sex, your own energies meet. It is not physical, it is
spiritual, it is Tantra.

If you are afraid while you are young, in old age you will become
obsessed; and then it will be difficult to move deeply into love.

To become a buddha means to get rid of the past and to live in
the present.

Become a buddha if you don't want to become bored.

Love is a mirror.

Please, leave a few things for non-doing, because those are the only
valuable things.

We have created a society which believes only in 'doings', while the
spiritual part of our being remains starved because it needs something
which is not done but 'happens'.

The body is more honest than the mind.
The mind is false, the body is true.

The real moments of love remain unspoken.

If a relationship helps you to find your original face then it is
meditative, then it is spiritual.

You create your reality around yourself. with your ideas.

Why do you think that I have created all the meditations for all kinds
nuts? - so they can enjoy one hour of being a nut, with a great idea
that they are doing a spiritual meditation!

The parting should be as beautiful as the meeting. It should be
even more beautiful.

The mystery that keeps love together is not in your hands.

Trust life because we are children of life.

Real persons love each other as a luxury.

Fear is the abscence of love, like darkness.

Love is always a river, flowing, unending.

Love is a constant adventure, it is a great alchemy.

Love means to give all that is beautiful to the beloved.

The more you paint, the better the paintings you create.

The more you love, the more love grows. And as your love grows,
you grow, you expand.

When one has come to this point that you love the whole of
exitence irrespective of what it is - that love has become
unconditional. It is turning into prayerfulness,
it is becoming meditative.

Never fight with the non-existential, that's where all the
ancient religions got lost. Once you start fighting with the
non-existencial you are doomed. Your small river of consciousness
will be lost in the non-existencial desert, and it is infinite.

Only understanding can give you deep intimacy.

Every lover feels that something is missing, because love is
unfinished, it is a process, it knows no fulfillment.

That is exactly what love is: to create a space between two
persons, a space which belong to neither or belongs to both.
You both come into that space and you meet. If it grows, then
that space becomes bigger and bigger and bigger and then both
the partners are dissolved into it.

Don't think of the past, it is gone forever.

Sex can be beautiful but sexuality can never be beautiful.

If love goes deeper, husbands and wives eventually become
brothers and sisters.

Only truth helps.

Be in love with love, everything else is secondary!

One who does not know oneself cannot love deeply.

In a single moment, a person can change completely.

First one has to settle inside, then you can afford to go
outside and it is not a distraction.

Love is possible only when there is freedom to be oneself without
any guarding, without any reserve. One is simply flowing.

There are three kinds of love. The first is object oriented - eros.
Love two is: the object is not important, your subjectivity is.
You are loving so you bestow your love on somebody. With the third,
when subject and object disappear, all definitions dissapear.
There is only love; you are not.

Extracts from ELIXIR DIVINE

by Gurudev Sri Swami Sivananda


'I am the body' is ignorance. 'I am Pure Consciousness' is wisdom.

Religion is philosophy practiced in life.

Prayer is lifeless when there is no faith.

Wisdom dawns when names and forms vanish.

'Be Yourself' this is wisdom.

When the Divine virtues increase,
the mind will recoil from pleasures of the senses.

Purified by the fire of wisdom one attains the state of God.

With every experience you evolve a little.

Pride of renunciation is more harmful than pride of wealth.

Religion is the realisation that man, in essence, is God.

Fogs of worldly obscure the vision of God.

Begin each day as if it is the beginning of a new life.

Work done for the individual binds;
work done for the common good releases your soul.

Every little action has its effect on character.

The more we feel the presence of God, the more free we are.

Thy heart is the sanctum sanctorum. Install the Lord there and worship Him.

Love is its own reward and joy.

Creation is the appearance of the Lord, Who is one, as many.

Sow the seed of self-discipline. Water it with love.
Fence it with the Lord's Name. The tree will yield you the fruit of immortality.

Love is the healing stream of life.

Get up at dawn with His Name on your lips.
Do your duties with His Name in your heart.
Retire to bed with His Name on your lips.

Love alone can cure all the ills of life.

The lower mind is your enemy and the higher mind your friend.

Embrace poverty, chastity and humility.
You will attain immortality and eternal peace.

Make God your guide when you walk on the path of life.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

Without prayer there is no purity.
Without purity there is no meditation.
Without meditation there is no illumination.
Without illumination there is no salvation.

He knows the world who knows God.

Brahman is the thread on which are strung all the worlds and all the beings.

Association with the wise is the root-cause for eradicating all misery.

The key to the gateway of perfection is purity.
The key to bliss is meditation.
The key to wisdom is Enquiry.
The key to Divine Ecstasy is devotion.

God generates, permeates, sustains, absorbs the universe.

He who hears the music of the Soul, plays his part well in life.

Love looks not with eyes but with heart.

Aim of spiritual life is not merely to know about God but to become God.

Check the outgoing tendencies of the mind and direct them inward.

Man is a bridge between the two worlds - the visible and the invisible.

Nature is the art of God.

A sage's look is a spiritual fire that burns the impurities.

Vanity makes one blind.

Be patient with others but impatient with yourself.

God reveals Himself in different ways at different stages of evolution.

A saint is the mightiest hero; for he has broken the unbreakable chain of Karma.

The elimination of ego is the sole condition of Self-Realisation.

God is the essential Truth in man.

We have in us the infinite possibilities of the Lord.

Fix the eyes on the feet of the Lord and direct thy hands in the service of humanity.

Bondage and liberation exist not in the Self but in the mind.

Repeat Hari. Never worry. Seek and find.
Feel and realise. Assert and Affirm. Aspire and Inspire. Move forward and Godward.

He who sows generosity, reaps love Divine.

God is a great artist. This world is his Masterpiece.

Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.

Virtue is the offspring of wisdom.

Purity is the gateway to the kingdom of God.

Destiny is powerless before Divine Grace.

What is the greatest joy that never becomes distasteful? That is the bliss of the Self.

Meditation without dispassion is a wasted effort.

Life moves by faith alone. Without faith all will perish.

Religion is the art of re-modelling man into divinity.

Close the gates of the senses. Shut the door of the mind.
Light the lamp in the inner chamber of thy heart and
stand face to face with the Lord.

'God is in Heaven';
'The kingdom of God is within you';
'I and my Father are one'.
These are stages of spiritual attainment according to the Bible.

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer,
whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker and
whose spirit is entering in living peace.

Sow love, reap peace; sow humility, reap reverence;
sow meditation, reap wisdom; sow prayer, reap grace.

Where there is no selfishness there is peace, joy and illumination.

Temptation is the test of spiritual growth.

Names and forms are many but the underlying consciousness is one.

OM is the matrix of all sounds and words.

Prayer and meditation are the food and water of the soul.

Mineness is the cause of all pains and sorrows.
Mineness is the essence of Maya.

Compassion is Divine Power.

A sage does not reject anything, does not crave for anything,
does not acquire anything, and does not renounce anything.

Humility draws in Divine Grace.
Faith draws in Divine Grace.
Surrender draws in Divine Grace.
Prayer draws in Divine Grace.

Develop faith, practice humility, pray regularly, and
surrender unconditionally unto His Will.

Divine Life bestows happiness, blessedness, goodness and godliness.

Behold the Light that lighteth everywhere.

You can develop will-power if you do what the mind
does not want to do, and do not do what the minds wants to do.

Remain unaffected by the ever changing mental Vrittis
by identifying yourself with the unchanging Self.

Let your eye look with kindness, your tongue speak with sweetness,
and your hand touch with softness.

Yield not to Tamas and Rajas.
Stick to Sattva. Get yourself rooted firmly in Samadhi.

Discontentment regarding wealth and pleasure causes one untold misery.
Therefore, be content with what you get by chance.

Let Dharma underlie your quest for enjoyments.

Have constant contact with your mind and intellect
through the eternal laws of God. The alone your life will have some meaning.

God walks with the simple, reveals Himself to the humble,
gives understanding to the noble, and hides himself from the proud.

Sadhana is the effort. Siddhis are the effects. But Self-realisation is the goal.
Practice rigorous Sadhana till you attain that Supreme Goal.

Prayer is the greatest and most efficient antibiotic to kill the germs of evil Vrittis
that germinate in the mind. Therefore pray regularly.

Love is the moving principle of all forms of fellowship. Love redeems.
Love transforms. Love purifies. Love promotes understanding.

God is with those who persevere patiently, and put away all earthly anxieties.

Life in spirit is real living.
You will lag behind if you depend upon your bodily life.

Glorious is the world of God around us but
more glorious still is the world of God within us.

Thoughts of God cheer up the body, mind and spirit. Names of God soothe the nerves.
Love of God bestows peace and joy. Knowledge of God breaks the fetters of Karma.

Peace is the fruit of fervent prayer.
Joy is the fruit of generous sharing.
Bliss is the fruit of intense meditation.

Wherever there is ignorance, there is neither faith, nor devotion, nor wisdom.

True satisfaction and contentment are attained only by a saint.

Objects do not bind you, but it is the desires that bind you.
Therefore annihilate desires.

Mineness is the fuel with which the fire of ignorance burns.
Stop the supply of fuel and the fire will be extinguished.

Karmas cannot be annihilated. They must be worked out.
But you can change your angle of vision by attaining wisdom
and detach your mind from their effects, good or bad.

Entertain noble, divine thoughts. You will have noble,
divine speech and perform noble divine actions.

Learn to see God everywhere. This is real food for the eye.

You can see better, hear better, taste better, think better,
when you entertain sublime, divine thoughts.

You are not a creature of time in the material universe.
But you are the spark of divinity. Assert this and roam fearlessly.

Mind turned inwards becomes the self, and mind turned outwards becomes the world.

Faith induces one to pray. Prayer purifies the heart.
In the purified heart is reflected the Light of the Lord.
When the light shines mortal becomes immortal.

Eradication of evil qualities in you is just like dusting away the dirt on a mirror.
When the dust is removed you can see the beauty of your face in the mirror.
When evil qualities are eradicated, you can see the beauty of the Self in your heart.

Desire of sensual pleasures keeps you tied to this world.
Grow the wings of Bhakti and Jnana and fly to the eternal abode of everlasting peace and joy.

Wealth lost can be replaced by work. Knowledge lost can be regained by study.
But time lost, can never be regained.

Be like a river. Dirt and filth of cravings and desires will be poured forth into you
from either sides. But by the constant flow of the water of devotion you will remain pure.

What sunshine is to flowers, prayer is to humanity.

Sorrows are like hunger, caused by spiritual starvation
and will be relieved only by spiritual food.

As sleep is necessary for the well-being of the body, so solitude at home
is necessary for the well-being of the soul.

Push out the king of lust, hatred and passion who has usurped
the throne of your heart and invite the righteous and rightful
monarch of love, purity and peace.

Wisdom never dawns upon the mind which is under the control
and mercy of desires and expectations and is destitute of contentment.

The mortal sheath craves for gratification of desires; the Spirit imposes discipline.
The mortal sheath is extrovert and noisy; the Spirit is introvert and silent.
The mortal sheath is subject to moods, but the Spirit is always peaceful.

There is no such thing as a bad man. Recognise the truth in him
and help him express it.

Those who are suffering now would know that they are reaping what they have previously sown, and by sowing good deeds now they can in future reap
a rich harvest of happiness.

Objects are only reflections in the Eternal Supreme Consciousness.

Just as rays of the sun are invisible but capable of illuminating objects,
Consciousness though invisible, illumines everything.

Perfect bliss is unconditional.

Just as we exist during the dream and survive the dream, so also
the Lord exists during the creation and survives after the dissolution.

Essence of Vedanta is Self-realisation.
Essence of Yoga is union with God.
Essence of Bhakti is communion of the Sakti with Lord Siva.

Every moment in the waking state that is free from thought is a state of Samadhi.
It is unnoticed because it lasts only for a fraction of a second.

When the beast in man perishes, the God in man manifests.

It is better to suffer loneliness than to be in evil company.

Prayer is the mystic bridge built across the gap between God and man.

No one can go through life without making mistakes.
Do not brood over the mistake. Repent for it; the forget it,
but remember the experience gained.

Happiness comes from within. It cannot come from without.

Happiness is in one's own Self, and not in objects.

Happiness comes when the individual merges with God.





Glossary


Bhakti: devotion

Brahma: God

Hari: The Hari Mantra, singing

Jnana: Transcendental Wisdom-Knowledge

Mantra: Sacred Name or Sound

Rajas: mode of passions (Fire&Water)

Samadhi: State of enlightenment

Sakti: Universal Feminine Energy

Sattva: mode of goodness (Air&Spirit)

Tamas: mode of ignorance (Earth)

Vrittis: Mind-Stuff, thoughtforms

Zen if full
of empty
that is full
such is Zen


a haiku is
more than seventeen
syllables, or minutes
pointing finger


the haiku can
be less than
a mere seventeen
syllables softly spoken


ice floats bobbing
melting spring cold
river sweet sounds


blue snow of shadows
twigs dance in the wind
my mind blows


every day tears
bittersweet smile
sick parents' soul


Mark Lummis,

all written the 24th. of february 2008, around noon.

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Excerpts, and fine wisdom from:

The Mastery of Love, By Don Miguel Ruiz.


The master lives in everyone.

Just imagine if all humans could start being truthful with
themselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone!

You are the force that plays with your mind and uses your body
as its favourite toy to play and have fun with.

The normal frequency of humans before domestication
is to explore and enjoy life; we are tuned to love.

Happiness comes from inside you and is the result of your love,
you are responsible for your own happiness.

Everyone around the world is hunting the attention
of others all the time, thus the Dream is transferred,
power is transferred, but emotional poison is
transferred also.

The fear of love is one of the biggest fear that humans have.

Emotional poison is created by our reaction
to what we consider injustice.

The human mind is sick because it has a Parasite that
steals its vital energy and robs it of joy.

If you are aware that no one else can make you happy,
and that happiness is the result of love coming out
of you, this becomes the greatest mastery, the Mastery
of Love.

The one who loves you, loves you just the way you are.

Don't invent in people what is not there.

If you love yourself so much, you are never going to
give up your personal freedom.

Do your best because you are the one who is going to
reap the reward.

If you can love your partner the way she is,
if you can open your heart completely to your partner,
you can reach heaven through your love.

Let go of the past and begin every day
at a higher frequency of love.

Let it go because it was nothing but personal importance.

If your partner tries to clean your garbage,
she is going to end up with a broken nose.

There is a war of control in human relationships because
we were domesticated to compete for the control of attention.

If one person doesn't love you, someone else will.

When love is coming out of you, you are not searching for love
because you are afraid to be alone.

What makes you happy is love coming out of you.

Your generosity will open all the doors, not your selfishness.

Every relationship in your life can be healed.

Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.

You control your personal dream by making choices.

We need to give the body the freedom from
the tyrant that is the mind.

Humans who hunt each other for love will never
be satisfied; they will never find the love
they need in other humans.

If you have the eyes of love, you just see love
wherever you go. When you perceive with the eyes
of love, you can connect your will with the will
of another dreamer, and the dream becomes one.
When you perceive with love, you become one with
the birds, with nature, with a person, with everything.
But to do this you need to clean the mind of fear and
perceive with eyes of love. You have to develop your will
that it can hook the other will and become one will.

You are what you believe you are.

You don't need anyone to love you.

When you accept yourself completely, you will feel so good
about your own body, and you are going to be happy. Then
when you relate with someone else, your limit of self-abuse
is almost zero. This is self-love. This is not personal
importance because you trust others with the same love,
the same honor, the same respect, nd the same gratitude
you use with yourself. Can you see the perfection in a
relationship like that? It's about honouring the God
inside each other.

Just looking into each others eyes is enough to fulfill the
needs of the mind and the needs of the soul.

The eyes are an expression of what you feel. You perceive
the outside Dream according to you eyes.

Don't believe in your own dream.

When you no longer have emotional wounds, when you don't
have the need to believe other peoplejust to be accepted,
you see everything more clearly.

Don't believe others because they will use your stupidity
to manipulate your mind.

...you are always free to make new choices.

Nothing anyone does is because of you.

The words and actions that hurt you are merely a reaction
to the demons in that person's own mind.

We don't have to suffer any longer, if we are aware
that our mind is sick, that our emotional body is wounded,
we can also heal.


* HEALING:

1. Opening the wounds.

By using the Truth, you open and see the injustice
from a new persperctive.

You discover that perhaps what you believe hurt you
so badly was never true!

Most of the lies we believe simply dissipate if we don't believe them.


2. Cleaning the wounds.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love.

When we can touch a wound and it doesn't hurt,
then you know you have truly forgiven.

Our personal importance, and pride, grows when we don't forgive.
The supreme forgiveness is the only way to clean emotional wounds.


3. Healing the wounds.

There is no other medicine but unconditional love.

You cannot be happy if you don't love yourself.

You can share only what you have.


Heaven and hell is here and now, in the mind.

Everything that exists is perfect. You are a master.

The Dream isn't real, so knowledge isn't real either.

It isn't knowledge that will lead us to ourselves,
it is wisdom.

Knowledge is the only tool we have to communicate,
because humans hardly communicate heart to heart.

Wisdom has to do with freedom, freedom from the Dream.

When you are wise, you are free to use your own mind,
and to run your own life.

When you are wise you respect you body, your mind, your soul.

'No more blame, guilt and judgements!'

When you become wise, you no longer try to change other
people or impose your point of view.

You can enjoy the dream or suffer the dream.

Suffering is nothing but resistance to God.

The healthy human being is not afraid to express love.

We are humans, and because we are so intelligent, we learn to
repress our instincts; we don't listen to what comes from the
heart. That's why we go against our own body and try to repress
the eeds of the body or deny they exist. This is not wise.

When you awake, your heart is an exprsession of the Spirit,
an expression of Love, an expression of Life.

The heart is in direct communication with the human soul,
and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head,
something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart,
and true love is possible.

Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles
are performed by the heart.

You are alive because of the power of God,
which is the power of life.

Whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

You accept your own Divinity, and yet you are humble,
because you see the same Divinity in everyone else.

The only thing left is to enjoy your life, to be alive,
to heal your emotional body so you can create your life
in such a way that you openly share all the love inside you.

Then just like the sun, your are giving light and you are
giving love all the time, with no conditions.

When you love with no conditions, you the human, and you the god,
align with the Spirit of Life moving through you.
Your life becomes the expression of the beauty of the Spirit.

If your choice is to be in a relationship, and your partner
is playing the same game, what a gift! And what the two of you
are going to create is a dream of heaven.

God is living within you as Life.

...

Cheeze it out Cowgirl
I'll sing you a song
once, my darling he wrote
a song of love and of hope
the deepest love - heaven ever bespoke.

Dear God - you sent me a lady so great
I gave our love my very best,
or at least that's what he said...
Alas, and Hurray! it is now to a stop!
Though could as I did and may -
it did also draw some of the worst!

In our eyes did love shine so
In our hearts together all the time
In our bodies a grand cavalcade
is now gone in Past's cascade...
Oh, how we were wed! (refrain)

But now our live's meeting
has come to the end, of this needing
the weeping is gone, a lot of leaving
and much more meaning, from now on
love's breeding - on love's weaving.

Yes, we did love each other so much
and now - we just stay in touch...
fro true friends we did become
after all was said and done!


Mark Lummis, aug. 15th. 2007.

Together 

A still heart's 
Clear delight 
Who's past is just 
As far from reach. 

Grains of Time 
Identicals twins 
Every single moment 
Loved to its deepest. 

Now do I greet 
Embracing now 
Now is where I am 
Only thing is now. 

Eternal bliss 
Always love 
Life flows 
Open hearts. 

A smile glimmers 
Your lips quiver 
Outside senses touch 
Pure flower of Self. 

© Mark Lummis, Dec. 18th. 1999.


SEA CHURN

Faint smell of seaside breeze 
Salty gulls sailing upon crests 
Corals ashore washing down sands 
Horizon's vague lines growing mists 
Songs swelling through long grass 
Low full clouds pass and churn. 

Swells of waves smashing 
shores of musky brine 
Retreating from the line 
Revealing Dawn's drawing. 

Dunes of time swirling 
Fingers trhough your hair 
Kelps breathing and swaying 
Tanning cream on your pair 
Mermaid hypnotizes your fright 
Little coral conch of delight ! 

© Mark Lummis, July 10th., 1999.


Ode to Venus 

I hear her calling, calling ... 
The tides are begging, begging 
The brine's scent, seathing 
Crashing waves, bringing in a splash 
Churning forth, polished are the sands. 

Beauty beyond delight 
Gift made from God's Light 
Blissful caress of softest skin 
Womanhood at her most beckoning 
Venus, the Aphrodite, the Astarte 
Venus, our dear guardian of Life 
Venus, ondulatrix of all our loves. 
Venus, golden body - birthing Love. 

© Mark Lummis, 2001   (reviewed May 18th. 2005).



In Rapture

Pure emotion 
Throbs my heart 
Flutters my smile 
Made real. 

My eyes bright 
Body tremors 
With Fever 
Thru the Night. 

Lingering touch 
On sacred temple 
Skin so supple 
Clasping fingers. 

Holding you tight 
Feeling shivers 
Make us quiver 
All our might. 

Soft breeze 
Heaven's sigh 
Here we lie 
At our eaze. 

© Mark Lummis, 23rd. dec. 1999.



Desert

Wind blows this 
sand off my hands 
this flesh still throbs 
My eyes dry, in the sun. 

Spirits in the sky 
fly in rapture - 
fly in colour... 

This day, like all days 
whisps of water 
catch the ray 
glory of Life 
so bright! 

Aloft - aloof 
birds of sight 
skies of Light. 

Another day 
another life 
to hope 
to welcome... 

Those mountains move 
Heavy feet - silent 
Earth & Rock - deep 
running with time 
Chasing the moon 
Hiding in sundew 
bigger than the field 
Old times - they wield. 

Men have worked them 
dug out the jewels 
Hurt & slaved 
'till interests beraved 
Men, now worm out. 

Those mountains move, 
they've seen so many 
others - so many 
brothers - so many 
Gold-diggers - fight! 
with all their might. 

After, all these sighs 
- all these dreams 
wishes in the depths 
- of darkness 
in the starry light. 

Precious life 
all is great 
fine 'n dandy 
happy go lucky 
striding funny 
following friend 
a short forever 
a glad worry 
always cherish, 
cherish the day. 

Smile to your brother 
smile to your sister. 

Greet this rock 
full of life 
love it well - 
This rock of dung 
is full of life 
animal make 
redo all this 
Desert - 
Desert Alive! 

© Mark Lummis, winter 2003.


FLOW

Creek & Brook 
Stream river flow 
Rocks swirl spray 
Bright sunlight 
Water faery play. 

Old root holds 
Sand's thirst off 
Life's growing on 
Earth plowed into 
Pebble now polished up. 

Ramping ramifications 
Light's Truth 
Running through 
Time enough for All 
Phantasies come real 
Tides pulled in reef. 

Shore's white froth 
Draw as high broth 
Lather in the brine 
Swished ashore 
Lapped by Time. 

© Mark Lummis, Nov. 1999.


( There are many more... hiding somewhere...! ;-)

+*** The GOLD BOOK of Mark Lummis, painter *** +


From artists I often hear: 'Laches pas!' / "Keep at It!" ...

Most people, the unknowledgeable, tend to say someting
along the lines of:

'Wow, very very beautifull...'

or 'Nice Colours!...' Etc.


Je vous remercie vivement de votre e-mail,
et ‡ la dÈcouverte de vos oeuvres,
pour les moments en votre compagnie.

- JoÎl RiviËre de ArtActif.com

Thatís impressionistic! I love that one! Bring me a dozen moreÖ
- Stanley Borenstein

Tu as un immense talent!
- Guy Montpetit


I like the subtle variety of your lines,
strokes and colours, and the great opening
and potential your essays and nÈo-expressionistic
painting demonstrates!
- AndrÈ Seleanu, art critic.


Ton style est tachiste et coloriste. La toile que jíai
me rappelle quíil y a un Autre Monde aprËs celui-ciÖ
- FranÁois Chaudron

Ta peinture ressemble ‡ la touche de Gauguin!
- Francine


Tes peintures sont belles...
- AndrÈ Fauteux


FÈlicitations, bon travail!
- ClÈment


Quite prolific, nice soft touch.

- Mark Holdaway



"On the land of the Eclatysme:

Thou art, becoming Mark The PoloNordic, Your Eclatic domain Shall extend to the Empire of the Sun! and Prevail among Geishas, Samurais, Dragons...and finaly fools!

Heil Marcus, heil, heil Marcus (repeated one thounsand times) Heil, heil, Marcus Di Lumis !
Ora pronovis!!! Heil, Heil!
God Save the man an his Net Regime!!!

Verita, verita, Siempre Viva!"

- Iago Minter (de Santo German)



L'Èveil d'une ConsÈquente Conscience Nouvelle.
- Oschmann, 1999.


Les couleurs du pectre
et de l'arc-en-ciel
est animÈ par l'automne
des couleurs vivantes.

Mark que tu puisses faire
revivre ces couleurs sur
toutes tes peintures!

- FÈlipÈ.


Merci de partager tes crÈations.
Ton univers intÈrieur est
intrigant et Ëa dÈcouvrir.
Bonne crÈation!

- Sophie Brassard.


FÈlicitations! Tu as des idÈes innovatrices
et enigmatiques. Je t'encourage ‡ continuer
dans ta crÈation.

- Julie Leclerc


Thank you for showing us your inspired work!

- Robin Massey


Freedom childhood,
innocence - desire & bliss
Healing, alive and vitality!

- Anonymos.


Que de belles oeuvres dont
tu t'inspire! Je te souhaite
en ce moment unique du genre
que de la prospÈritÈ et
d'amour des autres...

- Alain Sylvain


Coules, coules
les couleurs
sur tes toiles
et continue
avec l'inspiration
et les pinceaux!

- Alain


Quel travail de fou!
Reste comme tu es
et tu verras la lumiËre!
Super ÈclatÈ,
sois-tu ainsi!
Vas, vas, y'a d'la vie
Vie d'la joie, de tout
sur tout murmure
Voil‡!
Bonne route...

- Michel Roy (Michel-Ange)


Words are hard to find, to explain
what is expressed in both your
LummisArt website, and your soul
as it is, not as much an experience
of the mind as it is of the soul.

This is the part of me that
has been touched and inspired
in all you've shown me,
and had to offer.

Milles mercis,
d'une grande amie de plusieurs vies.

- Joanne Plamondon.


Reverberations, we walken in
Formally yours,
Formally ours,
Smell the rose,
respond to the parrot's gaze
once you were there
No messenger - no melodies
Poets are clean
have you ever been in between!?
Craftmen on a window pane
'Beauty lived a stranger on Earth
until you were revealed to it'.

- E. A. T.


Hey There Mark!
I am proud of you...
I especially like the Sensua Collection...
Serenade the princess! Along with the rest of course.
The colors are super and the description is interesting.
I like the fact that you write details of each painting below.
Nice touch. If you ever feel inspired to paint me sometime...
I would be curious to know what you see... ha!

- Sandra Ianuccilli

& more to come...!