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Near where I used to live was a small pond, maybe an acre at
most. I liked to visit the pond every now and then because some of
the neighborhood eagles would hang out there; plus, there were
red-winged blackbirds who had the gall to try to chase the eagles
from the prime perches. And there were salamanders, and
dragonflies. And mayflies.
The mayflies would spend almost all of their lives as larvae and
nymphs under water, and then hatch in large swarms, clouds, when
the time was right. They'd fill the air and cling to everything.
They'd mate, lay their eggs in the water, and die on the water's
surface. All in one day.
I used to wonder about them: did they sense how short their
airborne lives were, did they have...
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Have you ever seen a slow motion movie of a lightning strike?
Most people think that lightning hits the earth wherever it wants,
hitting the highest point in an area, or the best conductor, or
whatever-- in any case, it's the lightning coming out of the cloud
and hitting the earth -- the lightning strikes the earth, the earth
just sits there. However, if you watch a stop action movie of a
lightning strike the whole event looks very different: way before
the lightning comes down out of the sky and strikes the earth, the
earth sends up what's called a ground leader-- you can't see it
with your naked eye, but you can see it on a video/movie. This
ground leader reaches up from the earth to the sky, and if it's
strong enough the lightning "senses" it and connects with it. What
you see with...
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Mirrors are strange things to me. Whenever I look in a mirror
I'm always surprised to see anything there. And when I look in one
mirror that's reflecting me from another mirror, I'm even more
surprised.
Quite a few years ago I used to do a meditation practice in
which I'd sit and gaze at myself in a mirror-- not staring,
non-blinking-- but just looking softly. After a short period of
time I'd notice that my face would start to change into other
faces, faces I didn't recognize, people I didn't know. If I kept
going and didn't get lost in the faces I would eventually see no
one in the mirror, as if there were no one looking in the mirror at
all. I'd see whatever was behind me; I'd see the room reflected in
the mirror as if I weren't there at all, as if I were
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The heart: everything resides there, comes from there, and returns there. Last week I woke up in the middle of the night looking into my heart space-- like I was looking into a pool of water-- I could see the ripples on the surface, the reflection of the sun, and all of this life moving below the surface -- all life moving below the surface. Then I noticed the reflection of the sun on the water once again, and realized I was seeing my own reflection, and laughed. |
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By pure, infinite unconditional love, I don’t just mean some
kind of infinite emotional state, or being in the mood to hug
anyone and everyone you meet. To me, pure, infinite unconditional
love is the ground, the source and the sustainer of all of creation
on all levels. Pure, infinite, unconditional love is the creative
force of the Absolute. It is the Absolute being self-aware, it is
the Absolute being self-conscious, it is the Absolute interacting
with Itself as Itself. Even your awareness of these words, your
awareness of sitting at your computer reading these pages, even
your self-awareness of these simple things, is the Absolute being
aware of Itself. And this whole process is grounded and sustained
in pure, infinite, unconditional love.
This is how I experience...
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