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"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the Now the
primary focus of your life"
- E. Tolle
"For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
-T. S. Eliot
“You admire the man who pushes his way to the too the top in any walk of life,
while we admire the one who abandons his ego.”
- Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrier
The Inspiration :
* Recent outer space probes indicate to scientists that our galaxy
is made up of 100-400 billion stars ( each star an equivalent size of our own sun )
and that the galaxy is about 100 million light - years across. Our galaxy being
much like a grain of sand in the universe the size of the Sahara desert.
"Two important days in your life are the day you are born and
the day you know why "
-David Johnson , Director of the Global Owl Project
" Your grandfather once told me it was ok to think about what you
want to do until it was time to start doing what you were meant to
be."
- Jim Morris Sr, ( To his son Jim Morris Jr.. from biographical film
"The Rookie" )
The Writing:
Stargazing : An Ascetic Contemplation
Artificial Intelligence , the headline news of the 21st century.
Doesn't three thousand years of ignorance prove other wise?
Wondering while wandering the ascetic monk-in-training contemplates
The majestic cosmos :
"Why do so many continue to try convince the lost
Wayward sheep that all that these sheep experience and know
Is the result a random accident or coincidence?
Is filling up one's trunk with wordly treasure
A true measure of one's worth ?
Earthly accomplishments are expected to be rewarded by most
When their Odyssey in that the earthen vessel in which they ride is finished.
Does it matter what name is given to the eternal spark,
The divine DNA, the source that gives all things life
and continues to reside in every aspect of creation?
"Make your life your prayer and your prayer your life, '
Read a faded script discovered on a subway wall . "
The novice monastic's stargazing
Abandoned all the spiritual and material busyness by letting go,
Showing compassion to everything and trusting the majesty .
- JF Sobecki
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The Poems and Such:
"Poetry is a gateway into intuitive consciousness. It knocks on the doors
of the heart and the heart opens"
- Mirabai Starr
" To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower.'
- Wm. Blake
Buddha's Last Instruction
"Make yourself a light" , said the Buddha
before he died.
I think of this every morning
as the east begins
to tear off its many clouds
of darkness, to send up the first
signal-a white fan
streaked with pink and violet,
even green.
An old man , he lay down
between two Sala trees,
and he might have said anything,
knowing it was his final hour.
The light burns upward,
it thickens and settles over the fields.
Around him, the villagers gathered
and stretched forward to listen.
Even before the sun itself
hangs , disattached ,, in the blue air,
I am touched everywhere
by the ocean of yellow waves.
No doubt he thought of everything
that happened in his difficult life.
And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills
like a million flowers on fire _
clearly I'm not needed,
yet I feel myself turning
into something of inexplicable value.
Slowly , beneath the branches,
he raised his head.
He looked into the faces of that frightened crowd.
- Mary Oliver
The Music:
Love Comes to Everyone - George Harrison
