New Spiritualibus Blog Posts – Excerpts

Eye to eye
How are you
Where, when
Open or closed
As reality knocks
May crack frames
That are narrow
To let go free
Soul to soul
Reach out
Embrace
Be embraced
Light and sound
Love all around
Bring silence
With noise
Into life
And death
Transports all
And one across
Gates and bridges
Worlds and planes
Home’s a golden heart
Ocean of love and mercy
God is realizing itself
Every moment now
See each other
Just as soul
Eye to eye

“Welcome to the moment” — remembering the future

Entrusting yourself to divine guidance

The promise of the mysticism of all traditions, namely that heaven will take care of us, is a great challenge for us. At first we experience it differently: that we are dependent on external circumstances… [But] mysticism is alive (mysticism from the Greek myein, to close one’s lips and eyes, meaning: “what do I hear when I am silent; what do I see when I close my eyes?”). The surface of life is dominated by the will to survive and assert ourselves, which demands our performance and our full attention. But the surface is only thin; not so far underneath lives another experience, hidden but just as real; quieter and more delicate, but just as strong and sustaining.

The question that mysticism asks us is: “To whom do you give priority? Do you allow your life to be guided by the laws of the surface or by the mystery of the Tao, which provides and cares for us?” If we make the surface our guiding star, we must abandon all hope, because this is where performance and struggle apply. But if we place the secret at the center of our lives, it is the proofs and being right that we must abandon. Because trust, devotion and love apply here, and these are not based on the power of evidence, but on the power of meaning and affirmation.

— Kontexte des Segens, I Ching – The Book of Changes, 坤 KUN, Thomas Primas

Eye to eye with the divine

No price is too high
For freedom’s peace
If one can pay in coin
It’s better than blood
But best it’s with love
With light and sound
And in total honesty
It could be painful
But deeply healing
Cleaning out all dross
Lives past and present
Entirely here and now
Observing the divine
God is realizing itself
Every moment anew
Giving each freedom
To create one’s world
An existence in love
Free of any hatred
So easily kindled
Human interaction
Claims of ownership
Or plain selfishness
Let go and jump in
The current of life
And love divine
Where we ever are.

“Pragmatic freedom in expression” — a prayer song

Two fundamental laws humans agree upon

“Two fundamental laws on which all major religions and philosophies agree: (1) do all you have agreed to do and (2) do not encroach on other persons or their property. A simple formula, 17 words. Black’s Law Dictionary defines encroach as follows:
‘To enter by gradual steps or stealth into the possession or rights of another; to trespass or intrude. To gain or intrude unlawfully upon the lands, property, or authority of another.’
Each religion or philosophy expresses these laws in different ways but all concur on these two laws — and not much else.
The not much else is as important as the two laws. …
The two laws are stated and restated throughout the lore of all the great religions. They are the point on which all come together.
But only these two. Except for them we have little or no agreement about right and wrong.
So, these are the only two rules that can be enforced on everyone. To go beyond them would be encroachment.”

— “Whatever happened to justice?” by Richard J. Maybury, pp. 31-32

No price is too high for the beauty of freedom and peace