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Showing posts with label Real love. Show all posts
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Monday, March 3, 2025

Real Love Video


 A rescue kitten abused by a previous owner lashes out in 
fear.  But the foster Mom cat knows just what to do to
patiently gain the kitten's trust...

Friday, February 14, 2025

Rest Your Heart in Love - Fred LaMotte


The purest meditation is just to rest in Love...

Our love is often toward what we know to be God.
The "toward" of love is like an in-coming or out-going breath.
Its flow may proceed from my heart toward the Divine,
or from the Divine toward my heart,
until the two tides equalize in one serenity;
the silence between breaths... inhalation kisses exhalation.

Words cease.
Prayer becomes deep meditation,
and there is no more "toward"...
It is effortless repose through love, as love...
Just be with the formless feeling.
The little thread of formless love expands to fill the cosmos,
because it has no boundary, no image.
In a moment, you have captured the ocean of love
in the cup of the heart.

The tiniest thread, the faintest impulse of love,
is a breath of the Cosmic Mother,
felt as a sense of the heart.
Surrender to that subtle intuitive sensation,
without attaching any picture or face.
This ripple of affection will lead you to the sea.
Depth calleth unto depth.
In the formless abyss of love, one depth touches another.
The depth of God merges with the depth of You.

If images of an Avatar or a Master appear, let them.
They are delightful bubbles playing on the surface of
love's formless ocean.
They are all facets of one diamond,
the brilliance of your divine heart.
Your heart is a little hologram that contains the cosmos,
the forms of every Avatar, every God or Goddess.

Whatever sadhana we practice, just rest in the heart,
filling the empty silence where thought used to be.
This silent glory is the substance of creation itself,
suffusing every cell of the body.
Then it pours out through our eyes, our words, and our hands
in blessing...


Fred LaMotte
Uradiance

Excerpts from a blog post.
Fred's words, my format.

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Art - Mystic Meandering

 

Monday, August 29, 2022

Primordial Love...



The Love that emerges within us
when the Inner Sanctuary opens ~

Just Is...

Just Loves

Love ~ Loving

A causeless Love

Beyond space and time


My first felt experience of It
left me in awe
of Its Vastness...
Its Clarity...
Its Lovingness...


This Love doesn't love
"because of"...
It Loves without reason...

It is Primordial Love ~
Unconditioned
Uncontrived
Untouched

It loves "just because",
because It IS Love...

Love beyond comprehension...
Love beyond what we think is "love"...

How could one possibly
comprehend the
limitless,
unbounded,
uncontained
Love
that
Just
IS
~
~
~

Effluent Love
flowing from Itself
Endlessly
~
~
~

It is not an object called "love"
or an attribute that "I"
can achieve or attain...

But is the pure,
perpetual

GLOW

of Effulgent Primordial Love

Self-sustaining, self-generating
Brilliance
from
the Heart of Hearts


L~O~V~E



Mystic Meandering
2015

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Photo - Aurora Borealis from a calendar




 

 

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Love Rises...



 

Love Rises...

Unsought... Unintended...
Surprising me with its soft
dancing vibration in the
hollow of my chest...

Love Rises...

A Mystical Energy....
Unbidden... Uncreated...
Hidden within
this caged Heart...

Love Rises...

Surrounding the wounded heart...
An unexpected presence,
vibrating quietly like a
breeze flutters leaves...

Love Rises...

Revealing Itself...
Emerging from the depths
of The Silence within...
Of Its own accord,
In Its own time,
In Its own way...


When I'm not looking...

Love Rises...

Gently brushing my Heart open,
moving me to tears...


The Mystery of Love:

Love Rises...

From within...


No matter how dark
our life circumstances;
how broken society is...

Love Rises...


Mystic Meandering
July 16, 2022

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Photo taken by my husband on 
the Full Moon July 2022



Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Love Floats...


~ Love ~
wafted through my being one night;
a simple, unassuming
gentle, tender, openness of love
that just
floated
t h r o u g h ~~~~

Don't know where it came from - or why...

It's imponderable...

It moved through
like a feather of light;
a moment of in-spiration
here and gone,
awakening the 
Heart.

It came without reason...

Just ~ Love ~ loving.

Somehow I knew
that our deepest purpose,
our deepest Truth
is this "Love"
that softly glided through,
unannounced...

We cannot contrive this
Love, this purpose...
grasp it, or hold onto it.
It is not a goal, or concept.
It is not "we" who love
but simply Love loving,
on its own,
without effort.

Love happening...

Unbidden
Unexpected

"We" merely remain open
and allow
Love
to come,
to move in us,
and through us.

Like a fragrant breeze
that drifts
through an open window,
softly kissing the air,
startling the senses
awake...

and before dissipating,
silently whispers...

All there is,
is
~ Love ~

~

And so it is...


Mystic Meandering
May 17, 2015

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Photo -  Mystic Meandering



 

Thursday, December 23, 2021

The Beginning of Love - Thomas Merton


The beginning of love
is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them to fit our own image.

Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves
we find in them.


Thomas Merton

with thanks to The Beauty We Love

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Photo from pixabay.com



 

Monday, November 22, 2021

May Your Heart Fly - Hafiz


The lily-perfumed wings of love
Will lay dust of all your grief.
Patience my heart, and struggle on.

For when love binds,
It binds you to the tyranny of a racing steed,
And when love scatters,
It flings the soul-like fragments of the stars
Out of the ambergris scented woods.

Love makes of each moment an eternity
And tends the garden of the heart's desire.
When love mocks, ruby tears fall heavy as pomegranates
And when love looks, it sees your deepest mystery.

Love seeks out the tears of hidden hearts
And turns not from the Lovers of the Dawn.
Is there a remedy for the pain of love?
Or is it too unbearable for thought?

One taste of the medicine
And you realize just how sick you have been.
Those who plead in the defense of love
In love's judgement shall find grace
And to the court, Hafiz
May your heart fly...

Hafiz

with thanks to Death Deconstructed

Photo from the internet



 

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

The Yawn of Infinity - Caitlin Johnstone


...you and everything you've ever known is nothing but an
infinitely small blip in the middle of a yawning expanse of
infinity...

The very thing you think of as you is no more substantial
than a wisp of sea foam.  You're nothing but a loosely
associated cloud of cells swirling around for a short time
in the inseparable interplay with the ecosystem which 
birthed on a tiny planet in the outer periphery of a galaxy
which in the grand scheme of things is scarcely older than
you are.  You're a little eddie twirling in the middle of the
ocean for a single instant, and you presume yourself so wise
and authoritative that you can pass out decrees on the
meaninglessness of life...?

From every Big Bang in every universe there emerge
movements of every possible form.  These movements
may and can include pain.  And cancer.  [And COVID].
They can also include serial killers, ecocide, oligarchs, and
warmongers.  These things are all part of the swirling ongoing
explosion of this universe, which achieves peaks of dazzling
beauty, the likes of which your primate mind cannot even
imagine, then it grows old and collapses in on itself once again.
They're all little curlicues in the movement of its energy, just
like the sea foam on the waves.  And they are fully, entirely
beloved, just as they are.  No part of the cosmic dance is
rejected
.  Every part is embrace.  And when it all goes, that
going is embraced as well, and so is the pain of loss.

Love doesn't seek to dominate and control what is happening.
Real love loves everything just as it is, however it shows up.
Real love doesn't reject what is; it's a deep and unconditional
yes.  And of course that yes can include saying yes to surgery,
and chemotherapy [or death].  The yes is always there, if you
can get past all the head noise and notice it.

You're every molecule is perfectly beloved no matter what
you do...
You can learn what is is to love life if you want...


Caitlin Johnstone
From an article entitled:
The Boy and the Starfish and the Yawning Chasm of Infinity

with thanks to No Mind's Land

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FunQi Art - Mystic Meandering
2012