Spiralling Peace and Love

 Spiraling peace and love with these cool designs made by Shirley Gibson! 

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Like The Morning Breeze

Art by Sam Brown

Like the morning breeze, if you bring to the morning good deeds,

The rose of our desire will open and bloom.

Go forward, and make advances down this road of love;

In forward motion, the pain is great.

To beg at the door of the Winehouse is a wonderful alchemy.

If you practice this, soon you will be converting dust into gold.

O heart, if only once you experience the light of purity,

Like a laughing candle, you can abandon the life you live in your head.

But if you are still yearning for cheap wine and a beautiful face,

Don't go out looking for an enlightened job.

Hafiz, if you are listening to this good advice,

The road of Love and its enrichment are right around the curve.

From: Drunk on the Wind of the Beloved

Translated by Thomas Rain Crowe

What would make us both stop mid-step, he in his world and me in mine,
when once we saw one another?
It’s simple.
He is my world, and I am his,
and when we first know it, time stops and never starts up again...

~Grace Gibson
~From the Diary of a Lady Beloved

The Heart Chakra

The Heart Chakra is centered along the spine behind the heart region and is a deep emerald green in color. It is responsive to your feelings of love and completeness as a person. It affects the circulatory system of the physical body.

When your heart chakra is open and balanced: You are a very compassionate, understanding, and generous person. The emotions of love, joy, happiness, honesty, and respect are very important to you. You are considerate and sensitive to the needs of others, and empathetic to their pain. You are able to feel love for all beings around you, in an ever-widening circle from yourself and family, your pets, friends, neighbours, countrymen, fellow human beings and all fellow living beings. on Earth. Ultimately, you can see the Divine in all beings, and you realise the same Self in you is also the Self in them as well.

When your heart chakra is out of balance or constricted, there may be problems with: co-dependency, melancholia, fears concerning loneliness, commitment and/or betrayal, shallow breathing, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer.

The Heart Chakra is our central chakra, it is here that the physical body meets with spirit. The heart is very complex it not only gives us our beat for life, but here we feel all kinds of emotions, Love, compassion, truth, as well as confusion and frustration.

Once we have ascended the first three chakras on relating to survival, the Root, self knowledge the sacral and personal power the solar plexus, we are now ready for the embodiment of enlightenment. Embodiment is about embracing all your qualities of the lower chakras to make them part of our lives.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

~Leo Tolstoy

Mandala art by Eve Naia

Peace

Gentleness

Joy

Forgiveness

Receiving Divine Love

Goddesses Sing

Dolphin Consciousness

These mandalas, and more beautiful artworks can be found and purchased at the Eve Naia website.

Hold out if you think you can
Hide if you'd like
Love will eat hiding and holding
Love will eat anything to have you

~Grace Gibson

... more mandala art and inspiration can be found at my new website, Mandala Madness, hosted at shirleytwofeathers.com

Clouds of Love

Says Kabir:
the clouds of love have gathered,
raining over me,
my soul soaked within,
green woods around....

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, Mandala Madness, hosted at shirleytwofeathers.com, and can be found in its entirety here: Clouds of Love

Marriage is...

Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself.

"I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you."

~Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure

... more cool quotes can be found at my new website, Mandala Madness, hosted at shirleytwofeathers.com

Let Thought Become Your
Beautiful Lover

Let thought become the beautiful Woman.

Cultivate your mind and heart to that depth

That it can give you everything
A warm body can....

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, Mandala Madness, hosted at shirleytwofeathers.com, and can be found in its entirety here: Your Beautiful Lover

Pleasure

Your mouth says you want me…
When the rest of you agrees
I’ll be there.

~Grace Gibson

Laughing At the Word Two

Only

That Illumined
One

Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form

Had the charm to win my
Heart.

Only a Perfect One

Who is always
Laughing at the word
Two

Can make you know

Of

Love.


~Hafiz

I Have Learned So Much

I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself

A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
a Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me

That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even a pure
Soul.

Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me

Of every concept and image
my mind has ever known.

~Hafiz

Zephyr

"...though unmoving, cold and breathless, I heard the world breathe into her great lung - the breath of all pain taken in, held in love and released to wind as pure as peace...”

~from "The Ravening Wing"
by Grace Gibson

Love

From Discover Meditation here is something really nice for today:

The Secret Key

Description:
Love is the secret key. It opens the door of the divine.
Truth is hidden as love in the deepest core of your being.
Truth is not logic; it is an explosion of love.

How do we find it?
Through facing the unknown.

Normally we seek the known. Mind seeks the known. Mind is repetitive. It likes what it already knows. The unknown brings up fear. By finding the courage to face the unknown, you discover the art of meditation, the art of dropping the mind. Even if you drop the mind only for a few moments, you can look at the unknown and this is what makes you wise.

When and Where:
Any opportunity you get to face the unknown - face it. Notice the mind coming in trying to create logical outcomes - and let the mind pass by. Allow yourself to rest in the unknown, without fear, with trust that all is well.

Benefits:
Love makes you wise, but never knowledgeable. The known is the mind, the unknown is the divine. Love comes through the unknown, with the unknown, as part of the unknown. To move into the unknown requires tremendous courage. You are rewarded with wisdom and understanding.... the greatest wealth possible.

-oOo-

This is from: Discover Meditation Training
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I have loved in life and have been loved.

I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow.

My heart, aflame in love, set afire
every heart that came in touch with it
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;

I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks,
the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.

The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled,
And when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.

I bowed my head low in humility,
And on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret."

She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth,
And spoke softly in my ear,

"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored."

~Inayat Khan

We have not come here

We have not come here
to take prisoners,
But to surrender ever more deeply
To freedom and joy.

We have not come into this exquisite world
To hold ourselves hostage from love.

Run, my dear
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.

Run like hell my dear,
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, tender vision
Of your beautiful heart.

We have a duty to befriend
Those aspects of obedience
That stand outside of our house

And shout to our reason
"O please, O please
Come out and play."

For we have not come here to take prisoners
Or to confine our wondrous spirits

But to experience ever and ever more deeply
Our divine courage, freedom, and Light!

~ Hafiz

When our eyes see

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts,
the circle of Creation is completed inside us,
the doors of our souls fly open
and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

~ Michael Bridge ~