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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Realizing Silence

Begin with the thought of “silence”.
Hold that thought in mind for a while;
perhaps repeating the word “silence"
or a holding a picture of silence.
Allow mind to drop into actual silence -
not the symbol but the living reality of silence:
the silent mind.
Move around with silent mind.
Come back to it (silent mind),
again and again as the day flows on.
A day lived in silence is a good day.
A day of peace and love.

our pulsating earth

It is like the ebb and flow of life,
the waxing and waning of the moon,
the waves atop the ocean deep:
Not only is it like the world of mind that we've created,
the logical growth of moving, shifting, mirroring ourselves,
but our world, our earth,
magnificently pulsating, always under heavy gravity,
mostly ocean, emotion,
breathing just like us.

And that is why the masters always tell us to breathe,
to begin with the breath, to just breathe, in and out, in, out,
because it is painful, we see that it painful, it hurts when we breathe in, we hold it,
we hold it, it is so tight, we hold it, we are suffocating, it hurts, but
finally, finally, release, sweet release and we breathe out, we let the breath out,
and so we see this is it, this is how life is, we suffer, we suffer, we grow,
we are in pain because we are ever in forming, shaping, the man the statue, the man the chisler,
suffering.

It is life. We are golden children, the greater the struggle the greater the outcome,
you should feel blessed, you are the chosen one so see the light and get through that darkness my friend. So easily all seems lost, when really you have just forgotten your power. The rays are there,
it may sound hard to believe but some part of you is choosing not to see them, and it is not your fault.
The fact is that only you can change it. We lie, we lie, we deny, we create the illusion of love, when really, we don't even know what love is. We lie, worse than faking it to making it, we say that the world is love, all is love, everyone is just love, we want it to be true so badly, but it's not true. If we are all connected and we are all love, then some part of the human race, some part of us, we are like one body on this earth, billions and billions of us; if one part of that body and destroy itself, if men are to murder children, to rake them down.

Sweet Somethings


We whispered
sweet somethings
in each others'
ears,
For the “nothing”
of love
is all that lasts
through the years.

And even love
that is "lost"
has more “something”,
than a fortune
handed down
through generations
of the citizens
“of substance”.

Though unlike
the parable
of the camel
and the needle,
I know there are
many of those
“fortunate”,
who would toss
all their jewels
away just to hear,
love’s
“sweet nothings’ ”
warm breath
on their ear.

For Love
is always
God,
no matter
whose heart
has sent it.

And Love
is always
the heart’s
inhabitant,
no matter how life
has bent it.

          Diane Shavelson (October 2012)