Jeff Foster

Jesus said to them:
“When you make the two one,
And when you make the inside like the outside
And the outside like the inside,
Then will you enter the Kingdom.”

- Gospel of Thomas


From: Life Without a Centre

Rest. Rest. Rest in God's love. The only work you are required now to do is to give your most intense attention to His still, small voice within.


-Madame Jeanne Guyon

I am full of love tonight

Come look into my eyes, and let’s go off

Sailing, my dear, on a long ocean ride.

This world will not touch you,

I will keep you snug upon my seat.

Let’s plot

To make the moon jealous.

With a radiance leaping from your cheek.

I will be full of love tonight,

Come look into these ancient eyes!

And let’s go off sailing, my dear,

With our spirits intertwined.

Your body is just an old sandbar

In a speeding hourglass of time.

Love will turn the mouth of sorrow

Right side up.

Let your heart commence its destined

Laughing chime!

Hafiz will be brimful of love tonight,

Why ever be shy?

Come look into the playful eyes of my verse,

They are eternally branded,

Branded with

The Sun!”

~ Hafiz

Powerful Pointer

"What you are afraid of happening in the future is what you are living, in the present."
~ Stuart Schwartz

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
– Richard Bach

Today's Fortune...

God, gather and turn my thoughts to you.
With you is light, you do not forget me.
With you is help.
With you is patience.
I do not understand your ways
but you know the way that is mine.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

New Earth Favorite Quote - Chapter TWO

"If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego."
~Tolle

Grace

Divine grace is essential for Realization...

What We Speak

What we speak
Becomes the house we live in.

Who will want to sleep in your bed
If the roof leaks
Right above
It?

Look what happens when the tongue
Cannot say to kindness,

"I will be your slave."

The moon
Covers her face with both hands

And cannot bear

To look.

Love IS

“Love is a state of Being.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you.

You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.

It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

In the stillness of your Presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality

as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form.

You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature.

You look beyond the veil of form and separation.

This is the realization of oneness.

This is love.”

~ Eckhart Tolle

♥

No Inner Baggage

Many people don't realize until they are on
their deathbed and everything external falls
away that no thing ever had anything to do
with who they are. In the proximity of death,
the whole concept of ownership stands
revealed as ultimately meaningless.

In the last moments of their life, they then
also realize that while they were looking
throughout their lives for a more complete
sense of self, what they were really looking for,
their Being, had actually always already
been there, but had been largely obscured by
their identification with things, which
ultimately means identification with their mind.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit," Jesus said, "for
theirs will be the kingdom of heaven.
''What does "poor in spirit" mean? No inner
baggage, no identifications. Not with
things, nor with any mental concepts that
have a sense of self in them.

And what is the "kingdom of heaven"? The simple
but profound joy of Being that
is there when you let go of identifications and so become "poor in spirit."

Eckhart Tolle -- A New Earth

Forgive the Dream

All your images of winter

I see against your sky.

I understand the wounds

That have not healed in you.

They exist

Because God and love

Have yet to become real enough

To allow you to forgive

The dream.

You still listen to an old alley song

That brings your body pain;

Now chain your ears

To His pacing drum and flute.

Fix your eyes upon

The maginficent arch of His brow

That supports

And allows this universe to expand.

Your hands, feet, and heart are wise

And want to know the warmth

Of a Perfect One's circle.

A true saint

Is an earth in eternal sping.

Inside the veins of a petal

On a blooming redbud tree

Are hidden worlds

Where Hafiz sometimes

Resides.

I will spread

A Persian carpet there

Woven with light.

We can drink wine

From a gourd I hollowed

And dried on the roof of my house.

I will bring bread I have kneaded

That contains my own

Divine genes

And cheese from a calf I raised.

My love for your Master is such

You can just lean back

And I will feed you

This truth:

Your wounds of love can only heal

When you can forgive

This dream.

~ Hafiz from "The Gift" translations by Daniel Ladinsky

Don't forget to forgive the dreamer, too...