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let your eyes get clear enough

inside the presence

 

Having anxieties and feeling sad

about being alive is like piling black mud

and garbage on your head. The mud slides over

your eyes and the rubbish infects them. You can’t

see and you get sick. Everyone does this at some

time. Try to stop doing it. Let your eyes get

clear enough to see the beauty

around you.

 

O giver of worriedness and grief,

remove me from my being. Give me the peace

of not-being. This prayer, if you can pray it, will wash

the mud off your head. There is a beloved who pours muddy

water over the head of the lover, and there is a lover who

says, I cannot see you with my eyes, but the drops

of muddy water on my eyelashes are filled

with the rose of your face.

 

Bahauddin, father of Rumi

The Drowned Book

 

the highest good is like water

they accepted life as a gift

 

The highest

good is like water,

which benefits all things and

contends with none. It flows in low

places that others disdain, and

thus it is close to

the tao.

 

In living,

choose your ground well.

In thought, stay deep in the heart.

In relationships, be generous.

In speaking, hold to the truth.

In leadership, be organized.

In work, do your best.

In action, be

timely.

 

If you compete with no one,

no one can compete with you.
 

The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 8

 

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they see the divine in all forms

he did

 

In the East,

when we speak of saints

or sages, it is not because of their

miracles, it is because of their presence

and their countenance which radiate vibrations

of love. How does this love express itself? In tolerance,

in forgiveness, in respect, in overlooking the faults of others.

Their sympathy covers the defects of others as if they were

their own; they forget their own interest in the interest

of others. They do not mind what conditions they are

in; be they high or humble, their foreheads are

smiling. To their eyes everyone is the

expression of the Beloved, whose

name they repeat. They see the

divine in all forms and

in all beings.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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three miracles of jesus

There

are three miracles of our

Brother Jesus not yet recorded in the Book:

the first that he was a man like you and me; the second that

he had a sense of humor; and the third that he

knew he was a conqueror though

conquered.

 

Kahlil Gibran

 

Why do

people hate Jesus,

or at least prefer the ethereal dead

version known as Christ? Because Jesus made

outrageous demands: Love your enemy,

renounce material possessions,

give all you have to

the poor.

 

Barbara Ehrenreich

 

A

conservative is

someone who admires radicals

centuries after they’re

dead.

 

Leo Rosten

 

 

Think of the life

of the great Master Jesus Christ

who was the soul of religion — one sees

that from beginning to end there was nothing

but love and forgiveness. The best expression of love

is that love which is expressed in forgiveness.

Those who came with their wrongs, errors,

imperfections, before the love, that was

all forgiven; there was always a

stream of love which

always purified.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

letting your body leap

an object of esteem becomes a nest

 

If you miss the

mark even by a strand of hair,

you are as distant as heaven from earth.

If the slightest discrimination occurs, you will be

lost in confusion. You could be proud of your understanding;

have abundant realization, or acquire outstanding wisdom

and attain the way by clarifying the mind. Still, if you

are wandering about in your head, you may

miss the vital path of letting

your body leap.

 

Dogen

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