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Great Secret of Heart – Part 1
In our own self, in the deepest recess of our own heart, there is a great secret. This is the subject of this chapter. We carry within our own self a great mystery. No one can be a greater mystery than our own Self. Everything else is capable of definition and understanding, but one’s own Self is the greatest enigma in the whole world. Everything can be investigated into, but not one’s own Self, because it is a great secret by itself. It is not an open box where we can pick out whatever we like merely by sense perception. It is a tremendous mystery which hides, within its own bosom, the miracles of the whole creation. Such is the heart of man which is the pivot of every kind of activity, whether internal or external.
The great teacher this Upanishad tells us that there is the city of Brahman…
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Nurturing Thursday: Watching and Keeping
Mean Girls #1
Based on my own experience of being the victim of cyber stalking, I’m going to share the stories of women who have been harmed online by female predators. This is the first of a series of posts dedicated to bringing awareness to the problem.
It’s difficult for me to imagine women victimizing other women. I’ve always had the opinion that women should be treated with dignity and respect. If that’s not possible it’s better to just walk away and not cause any harm.
Women are often subjected to harsh criticism at home, in the workplace and in social situations. The internet has now become a stalker’s paradise. Female predators are using websites, email, chat rooms and public blogs and forums to stalk and bully their victims.
Meet My Stalkers…
I have six cyber stalkers at the present time….all six are female predators.
I’ve been blogging with a group of men…
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Paul Ryan’s Own Janesville Neighbors Voted Against Him
See Link Above – Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin neighbors supported his opponents
I neglected to post this a couple of weeks back. Again, Obama benefited from a very diversified and well-informed voting coalition that happened to include a wide block of white voters as well. Republican sore losers have continued to try to divide the country, implying Obama’s message of government-private sector collaborative balance only appealed to so-called “urban” voters. However, this contention is debunked by Paul Ryan’s own hometown. As the attached article explains, Janesville, Wisconsin voted overwhelmingly against their hometown boy, Mr. Ryan, and his message of extreme corporate capitalism.
In the closing days of his vice-presidential run, Paul D. Ryan sought to connect with voters in small- and medium-sized towns across Ohio by repeatedly telling them how much their community had in common with his own hometown of Janesville, Wis.
Now, post-election, the Wisconsin congressman is blaming his Republican ticket loss with presidential contender Mitt Romney on…
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Our Window On The World
Poems
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
by Jane Kenyon
I am the blossom pressed in a book
and found again after 200 years
I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper
When the young girl who starves
sits down to a table
she will sit beside me
I am food on the prisoner’s plate
I am water rushing to the wellhead,
filling the pitcher until it spills
I am the patient gardener
of the dry and weedy garden
I am the stone step,
the latch, and the working hinge
I am the heart contracted by joy
the longest hair, white
before the rest
I am the basket of fans
presented to the widow
I am the musk rose opening
unattended, the fern on the boggy summit
I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you
when you think to call my name.
Welcome Morning
—Anne Sexton
There is joy
in all
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning,
in the chapel of eggs I cook
each morning,
in the outcry from the kettle
that heats my coffee
each morning,
in the spoon and the chair
that cry “hello there, Anne”
each morning,
in the godhead of the table
that I set my silver, plate, cup upon
each morning.
All this is God,
right here in my pea-green house
each morning
and I mean,
though often forget,
to give thanks,
to faint down by the kitchen table
in a prayer of rejoicing
as the holy birds at the kitchen window
peck into their marriage of seeds.
So while I think of it,
let me paint a thank-you on my palm
for this God, this laughter of the morning,
lest it go unspoken.
The Joy that isn’t shared, I’ve heard,
dies young.
Hello to all my friends and readers. The words of the feminists poets were in my mind so I shared them with you today. I hope everyone is well. We are having our first hurricane, Hurricane Arthur. I would like to ask that if you don’t mind. please send white light and prayers for my daughter who is just leaving her beach place and driving north to home. They live close to where the storm will come inland. Thank you all. They were closing up and readying the beach house for the storm. This hurricane is coming with much less warning than people usually have to prepare. Thanks everyone. And may all of you be safe over this celebration of our country’s birth. Happy 4th of July!!
Contemplation for the month of July…..the great purification!
Photo credit: Return To Eden on Facebook
“Soon the ring will close. Things are piling up ever more, rising like a rampart which will soon collapse and crash down upon mankind, who go on living unsuspectingly in spiritual apathy. Finally, at the time of fulfillment, they will naturally no longer have the free choice!
They must now just reap what they sowed at that time, and also later on their wrong ways.
ALL WHO ONCE REJECTED THE WORD AT THE TIME OF CHRIST ARE TODAY REINCARNATED ON THIS EARTH TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS”
– The Grail Message “In The Light of Truth” by Abd-ru-shin
http://grailmessage.com/en/about/the-book/
Contemplation for the month of July…..the great purification!
Photo credit: Return To Eden on Facebook
“Soon the ring will close. Things are piling up ever more, rising like a rampart which will soon collapse and crash down upon mankind, who go on living unsuspectingly in spiritual apathy. Finally, at the time of fulfillment, they will naturally no longer have the free choice!
They must now just reap what they sowed at that time, and also later on their wrong ways.
ALL WHO ONCE REJECTED THE WORD AT THE TIME OF CHRIST ARE TODAY REINCARNATED ON THIS EARTH TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS”
– The Grail Message “In The Light of Truth” by Abd-ru-shin
http://grailmessage.com/en/about/the-book/
