Self to light

A hint of warning: harbour well
the Spirit’s bounty, gifts from god
are there to ripen, there to swell
earthed in the soul and, fructifying, bring
the fruits of Self to light.

Steiner, Rudolf (2006-07-30). Calendar of the Soul: The Year Participated (Kindle Locations 175-178). Rudolph Steiner Pr. Kindle Edition.

Intuitive experience and garden hoeing

The events and interactions during daily living dis-tract from sustained inner awareness. For the intuitive, life is movement in and out of illumination. I pick certain tasks as meditative practice to strengthen the inner life with the hope of someday showing up in all tasks. Hoeing the garden has become a beloved meditative exercise. The unwanted plant life growing in the garden are thoughts, feelings, and perceptions randomly popping up throughout the garden of daily life. I address them, acknowledge them, and clear them. A garden full of unwanted plant life is like thought life so full of random and unwanted thoughts that awareness is chocked off or extinguished. Sustaining awareness during the process of hoeing helps me showup in other tasks and interactions throughout the day.

"... the soul could, in thinking, lay hold of its own nature in the self-conscious ego, and if it could arrive, through a spiritual experience, at inner activities of the self with which it could see itself as being grounded in its own entity."

Steiner, Rudolf (2009-08-01). The Riddles of Philosophy (p. 420). SteinerBooks, Collected Works 18. Kindle Edition.

Imagine showing up in every moment. Imagine being self-aware in every moment as opposed to the normality of becoming lost and carried along in each event or every contact with another. Showing up in every moment is being eternal. There are intuitives in the world who experience this inner light or eternal being. Life for the intuitives is ever light extinguishing and darkness illuminating.

The beauty of fragmented government

I read this morning about the passage South Carolina legislation criminalizing the implementation of centralized health care.

I then reflected on how wonderful it is to live in a country under a Constitution that limits centralized power in favor of fragmented government. It is so refreshing to live in a country wherein one state (Massachusetts) embraces mandatory participation in a health care system and other state reject such a system summarily. If you want to live in a state with universal health care ... you can. If you don't want to support state imposed and implemented health care ... you can live in a state that matches your conviction. This is the essence of freedom ... tolerance in diversity.

It is so disturbing that there are individuals in our midst that reject the freedom of fragmentation for the imposition of centralized control by the federal government.

Again ... the foundation of freedom is tolerance. I tolerant those who do not wish to live as I with the expectation they will tolerant my state of being.


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Bushtit young leaving nest

I captured this event on video last year. This builds up to the moment the Bushit young leave there nest. The experience is wonderful.

Showing up

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:
"It is easy in this world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he, who in the midst of a crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

This morning I thought:

It is easy in this world to lose ourselves in the things and events that press upon us each moment of the day. It is easy in solitude to know and experience personal transcendence. But true freedom is, in the midst of a crowd, the perfect sweetness of sustained transcendence.

A Beautiful Creation

Imagine ... leaves, lichen, downy plant material, spider silk worked and woven in such a fashion that a warm home manifests were nothing existed.

Location:Oregon Coast Hwy,,United States