Persistent Beauty

Persistent Beauty

Sharp edges are boundaries

in our perceptions which exhibit

the persistent illusion of a mind plus world..

So we allow the encroachment of Awareness

to soften the sharp

to expose the illusion

and bring us to discovery

of the Self reality

which as background lies ..

Allowing the sharp edges

to be sharp once more

made now of persistent Beauty...

Thought for the day....... “Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.” Willa Cather

Rilke for Today...

Mont Sainte-Victoire, by Paul Cézanne

You, mountain, here since mountains began,

slopes where nothing is built,

peaks that no one has named,

eternal snows littered with stars,

valleys in flower

offering fragrances of earth. . . .

Do I move inside you now?

Am I within the rock

like a metal that hasn't been mined?

Your hardness encloses me everywhere. . . .

Or is it fear

I am caught in? The tightening fear

of the swollen cities

in which I suffocate. . .

~~Rainer Maria Rilke .

See source at:  http://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/08/like-metal-that-hasnt-been-mined.html

Seeming..

Seeming..

Is a seeming something really so..

This word "seem" hedges our certainty

de-sharpens the edges of the object world

which in this moment is the scene we survey..

But on reflection it seems (that word again)

that all observations must begin with

this oft-neglected preface..

Seeming give recognition

to what we can know and the

wool which often diminishes our seeing..

Certainties melt in a wave of seeming

and somehow seeming brings

a wave of Peace...

Sabbath and clutter

Sabbath and clutter

Our weekdays unfold

as complexity and clutter..

We await what seems as

Sabbath's de-cluttering..

Waiting to discover

as we have before:

I am not this..not that..

..not really..yet I am..

A new Monday arrives

with Sabbath's late glow

and one more discovery:

we are strangely immersed

yet somehow free

of the clutter on

our path ahead...

A gnat swarm

A swarm of gnats

This entity appeared

not really welcome

due to imaginings

of tangling hair and eyes..

But the confrontational paths

circling directions

chaotic inside with appearance

of order and grace as whole..

If all is whole

we might announce that

chaos of the swarm is

composed of grace...

Eyeing

Eyeing

is the way perception becomes beauty

observing today August light and flower

and my Eye takes in the emerging color and form..

Then the distances burn

as Eyeing now is Seeing..

Gone now is Eye and flower

as Beauty remains...

The closest exoplanet

The closest exoplanet

The search goes on

to discover at last

that we are not alone..

Yet others wait

for the discovery

that we are alone..

Alone in knowing

that Awareness knows 

itself Alone

and that we

and this exoplanet

color our Awareness

as we remain Alone...

Closest Exoplanet To Earth -- August 2016

On Aug 24 2016, the European Southern Observatory announced the confirmation of the closest exoplanet to Earth. This illustration shows Proxima b, which orbits its parent star Proxima Centauri, the closest sun to Earth's sun. Proxima b lies within its sun's habitable zone, strongly suggesting the planet has liquid water on its surface.

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