Mesmerized Meditating on the Magic of the Moonlight on the Waves

Gorgeous clear (high pressure system) night, perfect temperature, & nice breeze blowing off water. The moonlight dances, surfs off the front of the waves creating a magnificent lightshow that cannot be matched by artificial means. Lily enjoyed my enthusiastic petting of her during the show.

Pamela Pollard Arrington: Beautiful! Nice way to end the day isn't it?
Ron Alexander: Very refreshing, thanks Pamela - this collage is from last month, actually even brighter tonight!. "As I get older, life becomes more beautiful." Frank Lloyd Wright

Pure Peace Equals Being Fully Alive & in Oneness

The Glory of God is a human being fully alive.
St. Irenaeus

Ron Alexander: As a youth, I thought peace was boring. As an elder, I realize that "peace that passeth all understanding" is bliss, nirvana - Being Fully Alive!
Ra Divakar: Agree whole-heartedly Ron. Pure Peace is Nirvana!
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.Etty Hillesum
An Interrupted Life

>"Throw everything away, forget about it all!
You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard…
relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way,
unassisted by your mind and effort.
Stop directing the river’s flow!"- Mooji -

This reminder is necessary for peace - Aum Shant!

Need do nothing." ACIM ("Be a Human Being not a human doing.")

Buddha taught to achieve enlightenment, one must develop a pure mind. And I think in Christianity, the "pure mind" is the "Great I AM", achieving the "same mind as Christ".
Loving Unity: Great Spirit/ Brahman/ Divine Mind/ God. Christ/ Son/ Buddha/Creation live and move and have their being in the ONE Great Spirit/ Brahman/ Divine Mind/ God, and all are ONE together..... ~♥~

Silence is the Classroom of Self-knowledge

Silence is the classroom of self-knowledge:
In the silence practice, the surface of the mind settles and we can see what lies beneath. Very often creative insight, healing and inspiration become a byproduct of therapeutic silence.

http://www.travel-soul-therapy.com/silence_practice.htmlSolo travel and silence practice on the road to self-knowledge and healing.
www.travel-soul-therapy.com
Thank you, Anatoly Petrenko

Let silence take you to the core of life.
All your talk is worthless,when compared
to whisper of the Beloved.╭♥╯Rumi

Silence practice for spiritual wellness

In the quest for change, silence practice is one of very effective spiritual wellness methods. In the silence the surface of the mind settles and we can see what lies beneath.
As the absence of sounds and noises, silence provides an environment for focusing inwardly. When you choose to experience it with unconditional self-acceptance, it can open you to receive gifts of clarity and resolution available on the level of your Self.

Without experiencing hidden emotions, how do we know what to change, to toss out or heal?

The world around us teaches us from the early on to keep busy in order to keep the surface of the mind occupied. It is teaching us to be this way so wouldn't look deeper into a possibility to free our mind from external influences and heavy and inessential baggage.

Everywhere we go, we deprived of silence, of its possibility to offer us a retreat into our own nature — free and interdependent. That is an authentic power of imperturbability and compassion toward ourselves and others based in knowledge of the causes of misery.

Even when we take a ride in the elevator, there's a music to distract us from even momentary plunge into depth of our consciousness. The world is an anesthetic protecting us from our own minds.

In therapeutic silence without distraction you can clearly hear
How you talk to yourself, your own voice as a running commentary on perception of self, your thoughts, feelings and actions. Without practicing silence we destined to continue acting out our lives on the stage of our mind in the dark without an audience and without proper credit.

As a traveler with intention of deepening spiritual insight and personal transformation, practicing silence could be greatly available on the journey unless you choose to avoid it. Silence is naturally imbedded in the process of travel. The naturally arising silence therapy is working in the background of your experience, especially if you're traveling alone.




Silence practice avails you a precious opportunity to observe and recognize the quality of relationship you have with yourself — things you approve of and things that you tend to avoid owning and therefore project onto the world. In the silence practice, there is an opportunity to detect your beliefs, conclusions about the world and yourself that provoke unexamined behavioral responses.

You can use silent as a way to communicate loving to yourself and others by the way of silent allowing.

•Very often it results in a sense of greater intimacy.


•Silence is a place where intuition speaks.


•Through silence you can communicate respect for the dignity of yourself and others.

HOW TO DO SILENCE PRACTICE


1.Remove yourself from any vocal interaction, loud music, cacophony and chaotic environment.


2.Release your mind from flow of thoughts that are not relevant to your experience of here and now.


3.Bring your focus inwardly and have an intention to allow anything to come up to the surface of your consciousness.


4.Give "okay" to the feelings and the commentary to appear. Notice, but remain a neutral observer of all that's present and don't react.
5.Trust the power of silence practice and your innate resources to provide you with successful resolution.

Glory of God is Being Fully Alive

The Glory of God is a human being fully alive.St. Irenaeus


Our life
is an apprenticeship
to the truth
that around every circle
another can be drawn;
... that there is no end in nature,
but every end
is a beginning,
and under every deep
lower deep opens.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ron Alexander: Spiraling life - up and down and all around!

DelightFULL Silence in Nature - Celebrate Existence

Ra Divakar
Let silence take you to the core of life.
All your talk is worthless,when compared
to whisper of the Beloved.╭♥╯Rumi



Kishore Katthar: basics to learn what we always forget
DelightFULL: D
"Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
... everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence and become part of it."

Osho

True! The Guru is You!

The Guru Is YOU!!!

Panache Desai | RADIO SHOW
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Radio Show

Subodh Kumar Misra:

– The Guru Is You with Panache Desai on World Puja Network. Panache ends the illusion of what it is to live a spiritual life and vibrationally aligns you to limitless possibilities. Intriguing topics, unexpected insights, and powerful meditations (presence sessions)..


Subodh Kumar Misra:
The Guru physically, from the point of view of a photographic camera, may look like you, and may not be different from you in any way, from the point of view of the physical contours, but he represents a ‘principle’ which is wider than yo...u and your individuality. The Guru is a principle which represents a power behind and beyond the visible framework which you call the body of the Guru. There is an aura which is spread by the mentality and vision of the Guru. Guru is a principle and not a person. And, therefore, to look upon the Guru as a person and then to judge him as you judge anybody else in the world would be to cut the ground from under your own feet……….Aum!

Gene Yakub: Oh yes indeed. She/he lives within, not in some abstract place "up there". We are still divine, once created from a certain material the material cannot be removed (applies also to tables, cars, buildings, whatever one likes) but we have applied over aeons endless gunge which can nonetheless be removed if we choose by readjusting our priorities and habits.
Anatoly Petrenko: This is truth that excludes no one. Yet most of us are lazy or distracted to make it a priority to know it directly. Or wallow in a state of confusing appearances for reality.
Guru is an actor of compassion who can help you to rein in your mind in its natural state and realize guru within.

Ron Alexander: Divine Intelligence is in All, and We are All part of this Divine One Love Mind. I am so grateful for this Inner Wisdom in All of us!

Ra Divakar: I resolutely identify as mySelf!

With Love, I Walk in Gratitude (Love in Action)

"Today I walk with love in gratitude" - first morning in months, water in ocean was warmer (70+) than air temperature (62) - luv this early fall weather here in S. C. lotsappreciation, ron


That photo was back in the late 60's- Boy, was I skinny back then. Interestingly, I have a much better self-image now many years and pounds later. That is my dear cousin Ginger with me (she's still thin) and a pet that looks much like present-day Lil!

Love in Action (thanks to Jackie Boyce)

Like humanity, creation and the universe, love is a force of incomprehensible
magnitude, choreographing the many details of our lives.

...Love is simple, but often requires painstaking effort.
Love costs no money, but may demand that we make large investments of ourselves.
Love might wound for a lifetime, but is also the bearer of our most enduring joys.
Who can understand the intelligence of the heart?

Think of the people you know who have already mastered the secrets to open-hearted living.
They are delightful human beings who radiate joy, peace,
wisdom and harmony, and we all want to be around them.

You will know them by the calm they instill and the non-judgmental respect
they extend to each person, regardless of personal differences.
You feel welcomed, loved and accepted in their presence.
They are rare and precious people in our lives.

My own prayer is to grow to be more like them,
so that I too can be a bringer of hope and joy to those I meet on the path.