Blessing

"May God shield us on every step, may He inspire us on every path And may He hold us safe on every slope, on every hill and on every plain"

Irish

All feelings

All feelings are sacred.

Brand new old year day everyone!

Thank You Love

Tiger, Tiger...

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

William Blake

I Am

Real freedom

"Real freedom means being able to choose how we respond to things."

Andrew Olendzki

True pleasure

"True pleasure lies in the sharing of joy with another."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Possible is everything

"Because you are alive, everything is possible."

Thich Nhat Hanh

To get to know

As I learn to love the other one as myself..it just appears to me that the closest other one is actually my own body. To get to know it´s vital functions well: consciousness, breath, circulation - by watching or rather attending them, means not only to get to know the nature of nature better, but also to discover the nature of my soul..

TyL

Love

"Love inspires us to relax into the blessed flow of our being."

John Wellwood

Merry Christmas

The Lord of Love is before and behind.
He extends to the right and to the left.
He extends above; he extends below.
There is no one here but the Lord of Love.
He alone is; in truth, he alone is.

Mundaka Upanishad

Not one, not two

by Joan Hoeberichts

Not One, Not Two

Infant cries,
Dark night
Cold floor
Baby, warm, soft.
Seeking mouth turns towards mother's hand,
Pants with urgency.
Tiny mouth moves over neck, shoulder, breast, searching, searching,
Seizes nipple, s u c k s
Mother's milk releases
Small body sighs with satisfaction.
All eyes close, lost in mutual feeding.
Infant hand caresses mother's breast, strokes so gentle.
Tenderness deeper than pleasure.
Two bodies one body, nothing else exists.

Yell

Yell as loud as you can, now.

(but don`t wake the baby up.)

Closeness

I feel glad,
I love,
I live,
I learn,
It´s good,

Thank you Life

Personal responsibility

"Our language obscures awareness of personal responsibility."

"Communication is life-alienating when it clouds our awareness that we are each responsible for our own thoughts, feelings and actions."

In her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem" which documents the war crimes trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, Hanna Arendt quotes Eichmann saying that he and his fellow officers had their own name for the responsibilty-denying language they used. They called it "Amtssprache", loosely translated into english as "office talk" or "bureaucratese." For example, if asked why they took a certain action, the response would be, "I had to." If asked why they "had to," the answer would be, "Superiors" orders." "Company policy." "It was the law."

We deny responsibility for our actions when we attribute their cause to factors outside ourselves:
- Vague, impersonal forces- "I cleaned my room because I had to."
- Our condition, diagnosis, or personal or psychological history.-
"I drink because I am an alcoholic."
- The actions of others- "I hit my child because he ran into the street."
- The dictates of authority- "I lied to the client because the boss told me to."
- Group pressure- "I started smoking because all my friends did."
- Institutional policies, rules, and regulations- "I have to suspend you for this infraction because it´s the school policy."
- Gender roles, social roles, or age roles- "I hate going to work, but I do it because I am a husband and a father."
- Uncontrollable impules- "I was overcome by my urge to eat the candy bar."

from: "Nonviolent communication, a language of life."

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Personal, not general

In order to become a better person
it´s important to be personal and not general,
to talk about myself and not another.

Doris

On One

The One I trust in is the Life
Who has never judged anyone.
So here is no need for forgiveness.

Forgiveness is my task only
When I judge without love.
The more I define, the more I limit.
Nevertheless that may and shall be
With Love

Thank Sweet Mystery

Beauty

Beauty is the soul
Who generates peace
By understanding.

That exists

"I was reminded of a sentence in chassidic literature: ´In each of us there is something precious that exists
in no other.`This sounds thrashy in a capitalistic society which has to concentrate on our equality in monetary manpower. But in friendship and love we feel the truth of this sentence. Martin Buber remarked on this: `That which is precious in a person he can discover only when he truly realizes his strongest feeling, his central wish that which is within him, which moves his core."

Michael Lukas Moeller

To be carried & to carry

Faith Heart
What is true carries through.
What is true helps all everywhere.

DI

Feeling

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

George Eliot

Good

"An action is never good just because it obeys a rule, a custom or an impulse....."

Fernando Savater

Love

"Love, and do what you like."

St. Augustine

Shelter II

"Let him not see me who should not see me;
Let him not hear me who will not hear me;
Let him not know me who need not know me.
Beloved, veil and unveil me as Thy wisdom chooseth."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Shelter

On a clear day

I take the one seat

In a mountain shelter

With open windows

I discover

One is making tea.

Aaah

Oooohh

......................

First I wanted to say

> is able to < but

Now, now! my prejudicia.

Life is great.

Life is wonderful.

Thank You Life.

Thank You for the tea.

Doris

Returning

"Returning to the Center within us,
is the gateway to the Center of All."

John Main

On emptiness

Emptiness is in touch with the impartial witness.
The impartial witness walks always hand in hand
With an awakened being who enjoys to walk
Simply for the sake of walking..

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the more i get used to emptiness,
the more i enjoy life´s presents.

to save emptiness means to save content,
and that has much to do with being content,
what does not mean to become non-ambitious.

the practice of non-striving leads to right striving.
the practice of non-judging leads to right judging.
the practice of non-doing leads to right doing.

non-being...being

yes, Great Spirit,
this way may i strive
for mutual understanding and love.

doris

(The book "Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabat-Zinn teaches an attitudinal base: non-judging, patience, beginners mind, trust, non-striving, acceptance, letting go. time investment: 45 min. daily, six days a week)

More love..more freedom

"And who loves the most, feels free."

Maria, "Eleven Minutes"
by Paulo Coelho

Whole, heal and holy

German shows that the terms > whole, heal and holy < have the same word-origin:

whole: heil
heal: heilen
holy: heilig

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Every one is loved, sheltered and guided.

DI

'Taking the one seat

"Spiritual transformation is a profound process that doesn't happen by accident. We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing. To mature on the spiritual path we need to commit ourselves in a systematic way. My teacher Achaan Chah described this committment as "taking the 1 seat." He said, "Just go into the room and put 1 chair in the center. Take the seat in the center of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit. You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptation and stories imaginable. Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come."

Jack Kornfield

Save emptiness

"May my mind be clear,
May I live fearlessly
In the Mind of Readiness.
May I rely on nothing
Save Emptiness."

Ji Aoi Isshi

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Questioner: And Who can face fear?
M.T. Ness: Courage and I

:-)


(etym.dic.: courage...c.1300, from O.Fr. corage, from V.L. *coraticum, from L. cor "heart," which remains a common metaphor for inner strength.)

Miracle

Meadows Islands Rivers Alps Canyons Lagoons Edges

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Myrtle Iris Ranunculus Angelica Currant Lilium Eremurus

Maitri

"If you said, "OK, I want to practice non-maitri." And I would say, "All right, I can tell you how to do that. Just hold an ideal in your mind of what a good person is, and then spend your whole life trying to live up to it."

Pema Chödrön

(Maitri: Love that never dies)

Hunger for love

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

Mother Teresa


And yet, and yet, and yet ~Thank Life~ it´s possible.

View of life

"..the more I am disappointed the more I fixate on my unfulfilled needs and thus also on my view of life. The aggressiveness is based on the disappointment. It is frightening how much hate accumulates in the course of years between a couple. It climaxes in couple racism. I begin to scorn the world of the other which with its constant infringements on my life became so tiresome and yet remained so foreign. Racism always attempts the termination of the other."

"The blindness for the otherness of a person who is near to you is no extraordinary relation symptom - this is clear to me today - but an ordinary, typical human delusion. Only now I know that I know nothing about you."

"Each of us creates his own relationship but is tightly intertwined with another in a huge unconscious relation sphere. We do not want either to be true. If we recognize this, however, we have a chance to develop our relationship(s) in a livelier manner. The decisive way is the essential dialogue."

Michael Lukas Moeller

It already is

"Just watch. Remember, we are simply allowing anything and everything that we experience from moment to moment to be here, because it already is."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Moving with Presence

"Walking on the Earth is a miracle!"

~*~

"I have arrived. I am home.
In the here. In the now.
I am solid. I am free.
In the ultimate I dwell."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Beauty is

"Beauty is a heart
that generates love
and a mind that is open."

Thich Nhat Hanh

The door

"When the door needs to be celebrated, it ceases to be a door. When people grasp the finger pointing to the moon, they can no longer tell where it is pointing."

Paul Ferrini

Oh Love

Now I know By Heart

~*~*~*~

May All Beings Enjoy Joy
And The Root Of Joy.

Thank you Life

For helping us to be attentive.

Hungry monk

"Once there was a monk who was an expert on the Diamond Sutra, and as books were very valuable in his day, he carried the only copy in his part of the world on his back. He was widely sought after for his readings and insight into the Diamond Sutra, and very successful at propounding its profundities to not only monks and masters but to the lay people as well. Thus the people of that region came to know of the Diamond Sutra, and as the monk was traveling on a mountain road, he came upon an old woman selling tea and cakes. The hungry monk would have loved to refresh himself, but alas, he had no money. He told the old woman, "I have upon my back a treasure beyond knowing -- the Diamond Sutra. If you will give me some tea and cakes, I will tell you of this great treasure of knowledge."

The old woman knew something of the Diamond Sutra herself, and proposed her own bargain. She said, "Oh learned monk, if you will answer a simple question, I will give you tea and cakes." To this the monk readily agreed. The woman then said, "When you eat these cakes, are you eating with the mind of the past, the mind of the present or the mind of the future?"

No answer occurred to the monk, so he took the pack from his back and got out the text of the Diamond Sutra, hoping he could find the answer. As he studied and pondered, the day grew late and the old woman packed up her things to go home for the day."

"You are a foolish monk indeed," said the old woman as she left the hungry monk in his quandary. "You eat the tea and cakes with your mouth." :-)

To day

"If I doubt
I become a coward."

Teresa of Avila

Constantly

"When the water is still
it takes a clear reflection;
and when our atmosphere is still
then we hear that voice which is
constantly coming to the heart of every person."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Just is always now

What the present moments hold ready
Is more relevant than what one has in store.

Doris

Thank you Life

For helping us to be present.

Riddle for the day

"A . . . . is a lovely trick designed by nature
to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Ingrid B.

Gatha

"Words can travel thousands of miles.
May my words create mutual understanding and love."

Thich Nhat Hanh

You are the truth

"What would we want with an objective truth floating above us? I have only one answer: with it we want to distract ourselves, deceive ourselves."

Michael Lukas Moeller

Stepping into freedom

"When we can acknowledge and accept our own shadows, our negative self-judgment lightens. When our negative self-judgment lightens, our negative judgment of others lightens simultaneously, and compassion for the pain of others arises."

Joan Hoeberichts


"Great Beloved Mystery, lead me on the Path of the Heart."