beauty, love, understanding
Beauty is never seen, but every object is its footprint; love is never felt, but every feeling is its face; understanding is never known, but every thought shines with its light.
experiencing and knowing
All that is known is ‘experiencing’, and whatever it is that knows ‘experiencing’ is utterly, intimately one with it. In fact, it is not even ‘one with’ it, for there are not really two things there – ‘experiencing’ and ‘the knowing of it’ – to be one with each other. There is just the indivisible, …
Meditation: Nothing Can Make You Happy
“In this meditation, we investigate our search for happiness. We discover that happiness does not depend on circumstances but instead only on that which takes place in our mind and heart. To experience continuous peace and happiness is to say ‘yes’ to our current circumstances, and ‘yes’ is a choice we make moment to moment. Happiness is what we are, not what we do. ”
From the seven day retreat at Buckland Hall, Wales. Spring 2019.
doors of perception
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern. William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Understanding Comes First, Understanding Is Absolute
2019-04-20 Francis Dialogue
Happiness
The feeling experience of happiness does not change according to external circumstances; it is not contingent on extraneous human living. “
Peace
…is the absence of suffering