Happy Last of March Day!

It snowed here on Saturday night. Then melted on Sunday. It snowed again last night. Ah. Spring in the Rockies. I mostly got on here to post one thing, but I feel like I owe more to the post than just a ” here, enjoy” which I know that I do regularly, and you must know: I am always ashamed when I do so.

I spent the morning till now in bed. Waiting for the sun to peak through the cloudy mistiness and then I will go for a walk. But I will probably end up at the gym. Today is a new day.

Things I am grateful for, today:

a) The birdsong. The birds are back and I love to hear them in the early house of spring, in the first light of my morning.

b) the tiny red buds on the crabapple tree that grows by the side of the house and shades the back deck.

c) That winter, for all intensive purposes, is already over. That despite mountain slush storms, the energy has already shifted.

d) finding the SouleMama blog, this morning. Eve though I am not yet a mother myself, this woman is absolutely inspirational, and has crafty hands: she makes beautiful things.

e) also, finding the M.Writes blog, too. And she is where I found the inspiration rocks picture, which I snitched to put here. But I guess it’s not really snitching if you tell everyone where you got it.

and so now I can post what I wanted to: “Human Thing” by The Be Good Tanyas. Enjoy! *wink.

Light is Light

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. ~Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider

I was told sometime ago, and again recently about our false perception of the dark universe. Namely, that it isn’t dark at all. Physically speaking, there is so much light (star matter, light bodies) in the galaxy, there is no “real” room for dark matter. The darkness appears to be so because the “body” is “facing away from us” and so it seems to the human eye to be dark. If we could actually perceive the light of the universe, it would blind us.

When I see photos like these, I get a sense of the majesty that is this world; that any sense of darkness is but a perception of being “turned away”. A shadow cast because of the light.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~ Plato

Hey Zeus Commentary: Annunciation (3/25)

(I know this is a little late for Annunciation, which was on Tuesday… but better late than never.)

When we are told to take something on Faith — it doesn’t mean that we must or should blindly accept as Truth whatever it is that’s being asked of us. But, seeing as what is called “faith” actually relates to our perceptions of the Light (G!d, etc). Then, an act of faith is a reaching out, a seeking of the Truth as a sensation within us — not based on an intellectual idea or belief, but an inner knowing, a perceiving.

Perceive means: to obtain, to gather, to take in entirety and literally to receive or collect. Faith means to take into us as a whole — to grasp it thoroughly — There is no room for mindlessness, or passivity. Faith, like G!d, is a verb. It is active.

And this is why Jesus tells Thomas {in John 20:29} “Because thous hast seen me, thou hast believed; blessed be those that have not seen and yet believe.”

The interpretation of the word Believe did not come into practice as related to Creed or I believe in _____, until the 16th century. Before that, it meant one, or any combination of the following three things: 1) To hold dear, to love, 2) to be like, to be in like desire to, or 3) to have trust in G!d. * Notice, none of these are a mental practice.

So when Jesus says blessed are those who without seeing, believe, he is saying to us: to trust fully in the Christ and the Father… thereby seek to be in like desire (or Will or Intention) to G!d, even without your senses, but in Faith (actively, sensing the Divine Presence which lies beyond any capacity of the corporeal senses) Be — in full perception of the intention behind the request.

Everyone is Beautiful in Their Own Way

yup. Rock and roll.

Rav Michael Laitman

I am newly enamored of Rav Laitman. His understandings of spirituality touches me so deeply. Hear him speak of the 5 Principles of Kabbalah.

and more on the Historical Kabbalists from the past:

The World Should Take Sips

In addition to being Easter Sunday, yesterday, it was also World Water Day 2008. And as I was looking through my RSS feeds this morning I found this article on Treehugger.com

And I suddenly found another instance where my life is at odds with the day to day experience of most of the world. Case in point: as I was reading the article at 8:20 this morning, I did so as I was feasting on a breakfast of leftover meringue cookies, fruit salad and custard. Whew. Yeah.

So if you can’t read the little color key (as it is in French) the orange means that less than 65% of the population has access to drinking water… How’s that for perspective?