Freedom and Permanence...(With Wendell Berry)

Freedom and Permanence 

These are the names of Grace
Found in nature by many..
Never-ending change in the midst of
And made of the Permanence...

Happy New Year..!




The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

Listen
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Turning aside

The Bright Field
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had
the treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receeding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
-- R.S.Thomas

Bondage

Bondage

in progress




The belief that you are in bondage and the search for Freedom is the ‘veil’ that seems to cover your Awareness that YOU are ‘not’ lost and never have been.
-John McIntosh

Only and All

Consciousness

Assumes all forms

Which take shapes of

Consciousness..

This is happening

Only and All...

Thought for the day....... “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tobey Ancestry

Forebearers

These are people
From the past
Appearing to gaze
Into our present..
We know some
Dates and places but
Not much else..
We must  be satisfied
With their gaze now
Perhaps a blessing of
Unity of eyes
As their gift of plenty...

Photo is of my Great Grandparents:
Lucy Maria Tobey (1832-1909)
Lycurgus Lindsey (1825-1908)



825. Lucy Maria Tobey (Samuel340, Nathaniel114, Samuel31, Jonathan7, Thomas1) was born on 2 Dec 1832 in Madison, Jefferson, Indiana and died on 10 Aug 1909 in Missouri at age 76.

Lucy married Lycurgus Lindsey on 16 Jan 1851 in , Camden, Missouri, son of Amos Lindsey and Mary Madison. Lycurgus was born on 8 Nov 1825 in , Butler, Kentucky, died on 14 Jun 1908 in Missouri at age 82, and was buried in Bower Chapel Cem, Urbana, Hickory, Missouri.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 1948 F    i. Cynthia Lindsey was born on 1 Feb 1852 and died before 1889.

+ 1949 F    ii. Mary E. Lindsey was born on 27 Dec 1853 and died before 1889 of Kansas City, , Missouri.

+ 1950 F    iii. Josephine Lindsey was born on 11 Dec 1855.

+ 1951 F    iv. Emma Lindsey was born on 3 Feb 1858 and died in Dec 1939 in Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona at age 81.

+ 1952 F    v. Matilda Lindsey was born on 26 May 1860, died in 1936 at age 76, and was buried in Hermitage, Hickory, Missouri.

   1953 F    vi. Laura L. Lindsey was born on 30 Apr 1864.

Laura married John W. White.

   1954 M    vii. Eugene T. Lindsey was born on 8 Sep 1871.

Eugene married Pearl Turk.

Experience

Experience

Impersonally
We are aware
of happenings..
Of happenings rising
And departing..
We as characters
Sometimes are part
Of happenings
Sometimes not..
Yet our character
Wishes always to
Be center stage
Keeping the dream...





It is our Self, luminous, open, empty Awareness, which gives experience its unmistakable reality. What we truly know and love in all experience is the reality of Awareness. It is that alone for which the apparently separate self longs.~Rupert Spira

Not True

Not True

Thoughts fill our days
Rising always and we
Allow them..questioning
Their makeup and merit..
Settling on a yes or no
And the truth seemingly
Is born..

We seem to forget
Truth is not born when
Thought is the cradle..
Truth arrives with 
Thought's dissolving and
Departure..

And so..do we see the
Preceding words for what
They are..simply thoughts..?
Time to use the Delete key
And bathe in the silent Truth...



No thought you have ever had is true. No opinion you have ever held is right. Let them.go. No idea you have of yourself, or ofwho or what you are, has ever corresponded to reality. Or ever will. Let them go.

~~Perfect Brilliant Silence