The Silent Pulse
One of the fruits of recognizing and unleashing your Innate Freedom is an ever increasing awareness of the subtle rhythms that underlie your life. If you can sense and synchronize with them, your life begins to change in wonderful ways.
Here is a beautiful expression of what I am talking about:
“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet connects us to everything in the universe. The act of getting in touch with this pulse can transform our personal experience and in some way alter the world around us.”
–George Leonard (American Aikidoist and Writer, 1923-2010)
The piece comes from a wonderful book that I recommend most highly.
“The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us” (George Leonard)
Genius Inspires
“Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.”
–Madame de Staël (a.k.a. Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein, French Social Leader and Writer, 1766-1817)
Corinne (bk. XVI, ch. I)
Our Evolutionary Goal
“We are called to fulfill our evolutionary goal of bringing unconditional love, enlightened wisdom, and healing power into our world.”
–David Richo (American Psychotherapist, Workshop Leader, Teacher and Writer, 1940-)
“Mary Within: A Contemplation of Her Titles and Powers” (David Richo)
Essence and Enlightenment
“When it’s cold, water freezes into ice; when it’s warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.”
–Muso Kokushi (a.k.a. Muso Soseki, Japanese Zen Buddhist Artist and Philosopher, 1275-1351)
Archetypes and the Unknown – For Now
“That there is something beyond the borderline, beyond the frontiers of knowledge, is shown by the archetypes and most clearly of all, by numbers, which this side of the border are quantities but on the other side are autonomous psychic entities, capable of making qualitative statements which manifest themselves in a priori patterns of order.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961″
‘Flying Saucers: a Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies’ In: Civilization in Transition, Collected Works Volume 10
“Civilization in Transition (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 10)” (C. G. Jung)
Challenging Dogmatism in Science 1
A brief discussion about some crucially important questions.
Truth, Spirit and Optimism
“Because I have confidence in the power of Truth and of the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind.”
–Albert Schweitzer (Alsatian-born Theologian, Philosopher, Mission Doctor and, in 1952, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)
Mysteries of Nature
“The world of biology is full of miracles, but nothing I have seen is as miraculous as the metamorphosis of the monarch caterpillar. Her brain is a speck of neural tissue a few millimeters long, about a million times smaller than a human brain.
With this almost microscopic clump of nerve cells she knows how to manage her new legs and wings, to walk and to fly, to find her way by some unknown means of navigation over thousands of miles from Massachusetts to Mexico.
How are her behavior patterns programmed first into the genes of the caterpillar and then translated into the neural pathways of the butterfly? These are mysteries that biologists are far from understanding. The monarch is living proof that nature’s imagination is richer than our own.”
–Freeman Dyson (English-born American Physicist and Mathematician, 1923-)
Penetrating Through Illusion
There is an extraordinary treasure trove to be found in the Philokalia.
Here is just one that is worth meditating upon:
“If the intellect has not risen above the contemplation of the created world, it has not yet beheld the realm of God perfectly. For it may be occupied with the knowledge of intelligible things and so involved in their mulitplicity.”
–Evagrios the Solitary (a.k.a. Evagrius Ponticus, Pontus-born Christian Mystic, Writer and “Desert Father,” c.346-399) {From: On Prayer: “Philokalia Vol. 1”, p. 62, text 58}
Open Mindedness
An excellent caution!
“Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
–G.K. Chesterton (a.k.a. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English Writer and Poet, 1874-1936)
