New Spiritualibus Blog Posts – Excerpts

Finish your own puzzle
It is individually yours
Or you may have to go
Rip it apart and do it over
Hopefully with all the pieces
Or else find some fallen down
When some whirlwind blew
And deep emotions reset
That may be destructive
To what needs to go
Or gracefully gentle
In moments of rage
When energies clash
Doors open and close
First is best to focus on
No point on ones closed
But opening ones for sure
Where the energies flow
And big steps are made
Forward in unfoldment
Left behind for good
Openings long past
Closed and healed
Wounds and scars
Of loving hearts.

“Tears of joy” — generations mantra with a waking toddler’s song

A lesson from Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi was boarding a train. Just as he was going inside, one of his shoes slipped off and got caught on the track. He tried to retrieve it but could not. People standing near watched him. When he was unable to pull the shoe from the track, he took off the other shoe as well and threw it on the track right at the spot where the first one was stuck.

The astonished passengers asked, “Why are you throwing the other shoe onto the track?” Gandhi replied, “The poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track will now have a pair he can use.”

Lessons from Gandhi by Rajinder Singh — The Pinoneer, Sunday Magazine, 6 October 2013

Looking out from within, to finish your own puzzle

Be excited and inspired
Or don’t do whatever at all
This is a basic requirement
And appears hard to meet
Without any compromise
For things in this world
Always have two sides
Or possibly even more
All to balance individually
Separate need from desire
Opinions and apparent views
From the realities that are
All intertwined — so tight
Forming rugs to stand on
And ideally soar away on
Or may weigh one down
When attached any way
Detached one may float
Better yet leave behind
In such great moments
Explore spirit’s freedom
Coming with realizations
Beyond making divisions
For unity brings together
Everyone as one with love
In the light and sound let go.

“Perfect imperfection” — one step closer

Quotes by Gurdjieff can inspire and excite

“Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.”

“In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him… Accept nothing you cannot verify for yourself.”

— George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, as cited on the webite Quotes by Gurdjieff (English version)

What does it take to be inspired and excited?

Measure by consciousness
And find spiritual friends
Testing what’s really real
Going beyond surfaces
Into the depth of realities
One to another so different
While sharing the essence
The very present moment
Elusive common fulcrum
The silence and sound
All the light and love
Touch opening hearts
And soften those closed
Decelerate perceptions
Dissolve all the movies
In one’s head and mind
Experience beyond talk
The silence in full volume
Turned way up to be so soft
Contributing consciousness
Space for breathing in and out
And the moment in between
Not merely for acceptance
But embracing the love
Overflowing gratitude
As God realizes itself
And all have part in it
Conscious of the divine
And the spirit of soul.

“Consciousness” — the only state worth considering

What is consciousness, to measure by?

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debate by philosophers, theologians, and all of science. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness. In some explanations, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of mind. In the past, it was one’s “inner life”, the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, it often includes any kind of cognition, experience, feeling or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness, or self-awareness either continuously changing or not the disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises a curiosity about whether the right questions are being asked.

Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: ordered distinction between self and environment, simple wakefulness, one’s sense of selfhood or soul explored by “looking within”; being a metaphorical “stream” of contents, or being a mental state, mental event or mental process of the brain.

… in Latin … the phrase conscius sibi … translates literally as “knowing with oneself”, or in other words “sharing knowledge with oneself about something”. This phrase has the figurative sense of “knowing that one knows”, which is something like the modern English word “conscious”.

— From Wikipedia in English on consciousness

The fire of consciousness reaches up high