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| Gladys, Venice, California |
November 29, 2010
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day ninety six - fire dancers
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| Fire Wings, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| Fire Juggler, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
November 21, 2010
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November 16, 2010
day ninety - stella
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| Lorin & Stella, Santa Monica Beach, California, |
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| Post Performance, Rockford, Minnesota |
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| Stella & Freedom, Paradise Cove, California |
November 15, 2010
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November 8, 2010
day eighty two - krishnamurti on love
You Are a Great Mystery -Krishnamurti on Love
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
"...when there is love you have nothing more to do. Then where you are, you have heaven; then all seeking comes to an end."
"When you get rid of attachment, there will be love."
"Love cannot come to those who have a desire to hold on to it, or who like to become identified with it."
"One has seen the torture of love, the dependence on it, the fear of it, the loneliness of not being loved, and the everlasting seeking of it in all kinds of relationships, never finding it to one's complete satisfaction. So one asks, is love satisfaction and, at the same time, a torture hedged about by jealousy, envy, hatred, anger, dependence?"
"When there is love in your heart, in your eyes, in your blood, in your face, you are a different human being."
"If you suffer pain, anxiety, ambition, and soon, you don’t know what love is. You want to have power, position, better house, better cars. Have you ever understood that a man who is ambitious has no love in his heart."
"You cannot practice love. If you do, then it is a self-conscious activity of the 'me' which hopes through loving to gain a result."
"...love alone can transform the present madness and insanity in the world - not systems, not theories, either of the left or of the right."
"The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset. If you are antagonistic to the problem, you will never understand."
"You know, if you love something, you never get tired of it -- I mean love in which there is no seeking of a result, no wanting something out of it. When you love something, it is not self-fulfillment, therefore there is no disappointment, there is no end."
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
"...when there is love you have nothing more to do. Then where you are, you have heaven; then all seeking comes to an end."
"When you get rid of attachment, there will be love."
"Love cannot come to those who have a desire to hold on to it, or who like to become identified with it."
"One has seen the torture of love, the dependence on it, the fear of it, the loneliness of not being loved, and the everlasting seeking of it in all kinds of relationships, never finding it to one's complete satisfaction. So one asks, is love satisfaction and, at the same time, a torture hedged about by jealousy, envy, hatred, anger, dependence?"
"When there is love in your heart, in your eyes, in your blood, in your face, you are a different human being."
"If you suffer pain, anxiety, ambition, and soon, you don’t know what love is. You want to have power, position, better house, better cars. Have you ever understood that a man who is ambitious has no love in his heart."
"You cannot practice love. If you do, then it is a self-conscious activity of the 'me' which hopes through loving to gain a result."
"...love alone can transform the present madness and insanity in the world - not systems, not theories, either of the left or of the right."
"The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset. If you are antagonistic to the problem, you will never understand."
"You know, if you love something, you never get tired of it -- I mean love in which there is no seeking of a result, no wanting something out of it. When you love something, it is not self-fulfillment, therefore there is no disappointment, there is no end."
November 7, 2010
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November 1, 2010
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October 30, 2010
day seventy three - martin luther king
Spoken the day before he died...
"So this morning, as I look into your eyes, and into the eyes of all of my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world, I say to you, "I love you. I would rather die than hate you." And I'm foolish enough to believe that through the power of this love somewhere, men of the most recalcitrant bent will be transformed. And then we will be in God?s kingdom. We will be able to matriculate into the university of eternal life because we had the power to love our enemies, to bless those persons that cursed us, to even decide to be good to those persons who hated us, and we even prayed for those persons who despite-fully used us."
-Martin Luther King
-Martin Luther King
October 29, 2010
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October 25, 2010
day sixty eight - john macenulty
"In case you haven't noticed we are living in a time and place where truth is valued less than opinions. Ideas are ranked as popular or unpopular, not for their truth value.
Opinions are valued for their popularity, not their truth. It's maddening. It can make a kind, good, intelligent person crazy. It's just nuts is all.
It makes me an ivory tower kind of a person, living up here in the clouds, loving and worshipping truth.
I'm watching a pendulum swing.
We've watched pendulums swing before.
But there's no law of pendulums here.
They like to talk about Hitler and such.
Now there's a pendulum swing.
It turns out pendulums can kill a lot of people.
My job is to stay sane, not be drawn into the pendulum.
I wonder about the spiritual lesson in all of this.
There's a kind of required therapy here.
That's the spiritual lesson here. Don't go crazy because things around you are crazy.
I used to have a friend whose mother used the term, crazy makers, to refer to nut balls who had the power to inflame others.
I'm watching the crazy makers. They like to jump on the pendulum and make it swing faster and harder.
My job is not to stop them. There are plenty of people at war with them.
My job is to keep my eye on the beautiful. My job is to preserve and create the beautiful so that when the pendulum swings back there will be a museum with some poetry and some beautiful loving thoughts and some flute music.
What's going into your museum for when things become sane and hungry for truth and beauty?"
Emanations
Copyright © 2010 by John MacEnulty
Opinions are valued for their popularity, not their truth. It's maddening. It can make a kind, good, intelligent person crazy. It's just nuts is all.
It makes me an ivory tower kind of a person, living up here in the clouds, loving and worshipping truth.
I'm watching a pendulum swing.
We've watched pendulums swing before.
But there's no law of pendulums here.
They like to talk about Hitler and such.
Now there's a pendulum swing.
It turns out pendulums can kill a lot of people.
My job is to stay sane, not be drawn into the pendulum.
I wonder about the spiritual lesson in all of this.
There's a kind of required therapy here.
That's the spiritual lesson here. Don't go crazy because things around you are crazy.
I used to have a friend whose mother used the term, crazy makers, to refer to nut balls who had the power to inflame others.
I'm watching the crazy makers. They like to jump on the pendulum and make it swing faster and harder.
My job is not to stop them. There are plenty of people at war with them.
My job is to keep my eye on the beautiful. My job is to preserve and create the beautiful so that when the pendulum swings back there will be a museum with some poetry and some beautiful loving thoughts and some flute music.
What's going into your museum for when things become sane and hungry for truth and beauty?"
Emanations
Copyright © 2010 by John MacEnulty
October 24, 2010
October 23, 2010
October 22, 2010
day sixty five - john macenulty
"There is a place inside us that is pure understanding, pure beauty, pure love.
We feel it within us, an indescribable feeling,
We express it as poetry, art, prayer, beautiful music, kindness, love.
But the deeper stillness that opens us to everything, to the inner feelings, to the sense of connection with the trees, feeling their roots touch the earth, reaching into her soul and into ours, becoming one with Gaia and ourselves: I can speak of it, but the fullness is hopeless to communicate.
The mystical communion we experience when I speak my words to you is a mystery too, indescribable, inexpressible.
I say, Sacred Tree, and you experience the communion because that is your way.
But that is all we can do. We can't really describe it unless someone already understands it. The words, left to their own devices, don't express anything. They only point. They say, There! That! This!
Point at the easy things, give them names, car, truck, hill, sky, stars, face, eyes, nose.
Point at love, God, beauty, truth and we begin to depend on the inner awareness of the listener.
I come to the ineffable feeling. I sense the purpose and determination of a woman putting gas in a cake delivery truck. She floods me with a mystical sense of sympathy and admiration. It's a sudden thing, a mysterious thing.
You'll understand it if you've experienced it, if it resonates within. Otherwise you may say, Hey, C'mon John, she's just getting some gas.
The mystic may have a sense of the miraculous in ordinary things. But the love of the Great Mystery creates love in ordinary situations crucial to our continued growth and survival."
We feel it within us, an indescribable feeling,
We express it as poetry, art, prayer, beautiful music, kindness, love.
But the deeper stillness that opens us to everything, to the inner feelings, to the sense of connection with the trees, feeling their roots touch the earth, reaching into her soul and into ours, becoming one with Gaia and ourselves: I can speak of it, but the fullness is hopeless to communicate.
The mystical communion we experience when I speak my words to you is a mystery too, indescribable, inexpressible.
I say, Sacred Tree, and you experience the communion because that is your way.
But that is all we can do. We can't really describe it unless someone already understands it. The words, left to their own devices, don't express anything. They only point. They say, There! That! This!
Point at the easy things, give them names, car, truck, hill, sky, stars, face, eyes, nose.
Point at love, God, beauty, truth and we begin to depend on the inner awareness of the listener.
I come to the ineffable feeling. I sense the purpose and determination of a woman putting gas in a cake delivery truck. She floods me with a mystical sense of sympathy and admiration. It's a sudden thing, a mysterious thing.
You'll understand it if you've experienced it, if it resonates within. Otherwise you may say, Hey, C'mon John, she's just getting some gas.
The mystic may have a sense of the miraculous in ordinary things. But the love of the Great Mystery creates love in ordinary situations crucial to our continued growth and survival."
Emanations
Copyright © 2010 by John MacEnulty
October 21, 2010
October 20, 2010
October 19, 2010
October 18, 2010
October 17, 2010
October 16, 2010
October 15, 2010
October 14, 2010
October 13, 2010
day fifty five - osho
"I may have become awakened; I may like you to be awakened, but that is my thing, not your thing. If you are fast asleep and dreaming beautiful dreams, who am I to disturb you? I will wait. I will surround you like a fragrance. And if that fragrance catches you, and if that fragrance brings you out of your sleep, it is okay. But it is not a direct effort, it is very, very indirect. And always remember: only those people who are absolutely indirect can be of any help. Direct help is from the politician, indirect help is from the sage."
Osho, Tantra; The Supreme Understanding
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