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How to speak of the Silence from which all comes?  
That which comes from True Silence travels, as through a thousand rivulets
to be poured here,
through the bowl of my mouth
into your hair
as tiny star-fishes
in radiant recognition
of the All in you
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Lessons From the Stones

6/4/2017

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Today my spirit spoke to me through the stone beings.
As they gazed over my life,
the question they asked was not “What did you do?”
but “Were you fully present?”
When each moment, small or large, was born and died,
were you there, breathing,
heart-beating, eyes open,
listening, and receiving
the fullness of what existed to be experienced?
 
Because if you were present, you cannot not have participated.
you cannot not have influenced,
as a stone who knows who she is
creates a space around her that the plants and creatures nestle up against,
and slide and move around.
 
Worms build whole kingdoms beneath the weight of stones.
Lizards and snakes cool themselves in the sweet shade of stones.
Fish find refuge beneath the thirsty lips of boulders,
and a young girl skinny dipping in the rocky canyon
while her father fishes upriver
suns herself on the faces of stones.
The ones huddled in the wet willow womb of the sweat lodge
make their prayers in the heat of stones.
Whole mountains are composed of stones,
and the mineral kingdom stretches out like a deep cup
to hold the energy of all places on this earth in its multi-layered matrix ,
even as forests are cut and animals flee the cities…
 
The stones are the oldest ones.
The stones are the bones of this planet.
The bones make it possible for all to rest, and to shift, to move and gurgle and churn
within their solid embrace.
 
While I am here, I want to be like the stones.
I want to stand firmly in place, in this moment, in each moment in which I find myself.
May I stand upon the platform of Infinite Presence
and may all my actions arise from here,
from the steadiness and sturdiness of stone.
Even as I am cooked in the cosmic, evolutionary oven, and am purified by Light,
may this up-shift be anchored, as clear, sharp, crystalline, diamond,
the Diamond of Ancient, Ageless, Essential Nature,
which is the Home in which all selves of myself dwell...
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...And, resting, here, now, in this moment,
in the Home of this Diamond that I am,
steadily wiping clean my foggy lenses and peering out with Eyes beyond Time,
may I touch the world from this place, with this gaze,
knowing the power of my very Be-ing, my very See-ing,
like the quantum physicists who altered reality
simply by providing their undivided attention
to the tiny beings—particles—who, feeling the Eye of God upon their backs,
jumped gleefully into a state of graceful organization.
 
May my Presence on this Earth
be a force of Harmony, Healing, and Grace.
May the knowing of who I am
and where I stand
permeate this body of flesh and blood and nerve.
 
May the salt of my body glow like tiny diamonds of stars.
tuned to the resonance of the  Queen of Diamonds,
who lives
in my Heart of hearts.
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Kat Rose link
6/5/2017 06:54:02 pm

Love this so much!!! Your words are a gift of remembrance <3

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