Saturday and smiling and joyful to be able to post this to you, before 6.40am here in the UK.
Good day my brothers and sisters.
Blessings love and peace to you and all beings. I think my life is at the point where I have got over passed regrets. This means if now I do no longer look at my own thoughts, words and actions as in actual fact my own, then I, you and we are one and have a responsibility to love all!
Albert Einstein was asked toward the end of his life if he had any regrets. He answered: "I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life." This is a significant confession, coming as it does from one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century, a man who moved beyond the modern science of Newton and ushered in a postmodern science and consciousness.
St. John of the Cross said, "Launch out into the deep."
This launching into the depths -- into the deep ocean of the unconscious
and of the Great Self, which is connected to all things and to the
Creator -- often gets stymied by Western religious dogma, guilt trips
and institutional churchiness. The mystic gets starved. Patriarchal
culture by itself is unable to tap into the deep feminine aspects of
Divine Wisdom and Compassion and the heart. But the mystics, male and
female, do not present a one-sided reality, as Patriarchy does. The
yin/yang, female/male dialectic is alive and well in the mystical
tradition. God as Mother is honored along with God as Father. Through
this, mystics seek wisdom, not mere knowledge.
If where you or I stand is at a point where
from every direction we point towards is
infinite space then are we not, each and
everyone of us, at the centre of our own
universe.
Peter Kimble said as have not many!
Fr. Bede Griffiths was an English Benedictine monk who spent 50 years in India living and building up an ashram that was Christian and, in many respects, Hindu. He wrote a number of books on the coming together of Eastern and Western mysticism. He writes:
"Perhaps this is the deepest impression left by life in India, the sense of the sacred as something pervading the whole order of nature. Every hill and tree and river is holy, and the simplest human acts of eating and drinking, still more of birth and marriage, have all retained their sacred character. ... It is there that the West need to learn form the East the sense of the 'holy,' of a transcendent mystery which is immanent in everything and which gives an ultimate meaning to life..."
Thomas Berry was an American priest in the Passionist Order who called himself a "geologian." A student of world religions and of contemporary science, he was a great ecological prophet as is clear in his books, The Dream of the Earth and The Great Work, where he warns of the work we must do to reinvent our educational, economic, political and religious systems if we are to be a sustainable species on this endangered planet. He writes:
"The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. ... In the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration. It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself ... A way is opening for each person to receive the total spiritual heritage of the human community as well as the total spiritual heritage of the universe. Within this context the religious antagonisms of the past can be overcome, the particular traditions can be vitalized, and the feeling of presence to a sacred universe can appear once more to dynamize and sustain human affairs."
!I do not paint things as such because I cannot capture the wonder of created things; say as a butterfly which moves in its own unique way. This is why I express thoughts and feelings. Wishes and desires in a way I cannot fully understand myself, as I am a limited being at this point in time. Yet.... ah the future.. Yet isnt it always the present. A gift not to ignored and set aside to open in the future!
Boom, we are here now my brothers and sister, but will be elsewhere shortly and it will still be now! O am I going to go now for sure before I start to get confused and dont really know where I am. Actually, I covered this earlier I am at the centre of one of many universes... And `I` will be `one` with `you` and all that is and all that will be.
Stretching out my consciousness I still
come upon a cross or is it an intersection!
Deep down, each one of us is a mystic. When we tap into that energy we become alive again and we give birth. From the creativity that we release is born the prophetic vision and work that we all aspire to realize as our gift to the world. We want to serve in whatever capacity we can. Getting in touch with the mystic inside is the beginning of our deep service.
We have our part to play in creating the reality of all. So for my part this
universe is a place of joy, love and forgiveness. Trials of hurt and horror
are but growing pains that well pass.
Would but we realize our greatness and cheer for one another to reach enlightenment.
Martin Luther had a dream about mankind.
I dream about all sentient beings existing as one, beyond our present understanding!
Blessings and love to you my brothers and sisters and to all beings. Your bro Peter.
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