A blade of grass and timelessness 
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"The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even
a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent world unto itself."
~ Henry Miller
In timelessness there is no time so your soul can explore each and every thing you want to the nth degree... On the other side I remember looking at gems embedded in the pillars there... That quote above reminds of one of those gems...- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... #50953
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This is a reply to # 1,029,849Rudy, to know that in your NDE that gems embedded in a pillar were worthy of contemplation helps me to feel less strange, less unconnected. In the simplest things, viewed closely, so often I am breathless, awed, by beauty, by otherness, by
an intrinsic worth and mystery. Everyone I know cares about soccer teams and football teams and such things; these are not bad because they help people to escape themselves. But because I sense that a single blade of grass, even in its browness on a late autumn hillside, when carefully, contemplatively viewed, carries all I ever could bear to know--knowing that a blade of dying grass speaks to me more than a football game, I am necessarily alone. But because you, in an NDE, noticed a gem, I thrill, soar to imagine what it carried in itself unfettered by this place. Keep talking. Keep validating those of us who live on the edge and sense that our fleeting seconds of understanding when we see grasses and gems have value. Yes, yes, yes.
We are not mad. Those of us who briefly see heaven in earth--gems and grasses in all their radiance--need your confirmation.
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- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... Infinitelove
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This is a reply to # 1,030,401'helps me to feel less strange, less unconnected.'
One of the first things I do with my day after I've put my time in at work is to literally collapse into the arms of Nature. Daily excursions deep into the woods where there's no one else except the occasional dog and its owner tromping thru the grasses.
Usually there's no opening to display love to these dear people out walking their dogs. They're either deeply absorbing the healing proffered by Mother Nature, or they're attempting to LET GO of their day inside the world of men. I keep myself open to smile at them or acknowledge the beauty of the landscape or even to interact with their canine friend. The dogs seem always open to loving...of course, they've not been stressing (except to eagerly await their master's return home) or working for the past 8-10 hours either!
To me the land, trees, rolling pathways, sunshine, fresh breeze are the epitome of God. Nothing can heal me faster than this daily excursion. As I walk my daily walk, I take mental & emotional pictures of not only the landscape but of the feelings of peace it offers in order to take it to work with me the following day. I can jettison myself right back to that wonderful park in a singular breath. This is where I hope to transition...deep in the woods - quietly (similar to the old woman living in the woods who aided Inman in the movie Cold Mountain). This is where my point of Connection is.
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- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... #50953
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This is a reply to # 1,030,511And do these woods you know have seasons? Seasons confound time...the same paths have different light and shadows, different scents, different colors; some seasons the birds are noisy, then suddenly hush as I pass through; in winter, most are gone.
Like you, I recreate, recharge, recycle the old day at work into something marvelous when I step into the woods...Sometimes I wonder if once long ago there didn't really exist wee folk(fairies, elves, and such) and we lost the ability to see these.- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... Infinitelove
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This is a reply to # 1,030,746'Sometimes I wonder if once long ago there didn't really exist wee folk(fairies, elves, and such) and we lost the ability to see these.'
I don't doubt that these wee folk still exist...but as you say, we've lost the vision.
Do you ever catch something out of the corner of your eye & when you turn your head to look, nothing's there? When this happens to me, I greet whomever was crossing my path and invite them to come closer.
I'll share a secret with you. Whenever I walk the woods, I anticipate meeting myself on the path coming from the opposing direction.- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... #50953
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This is a reply to # 1,030,939"Whenever I walk in the woods, I anticipate meeting myself coming from the opposing direction." !!! That image, that thought, thrills and startles and delights me beyond words! Infinite Love, you have just mocked time and space, the most imprisoning of all the illusions we have in this realm! In the forests and in other moments when I am not self aware, when I'm totally captivated by a mushroom I just found or a perfectly curved hunk of garlic I am about the chop.. while I haven't exactly "caught something out of the corner of my eye", I've, well, sensed something else, something good nearby, but if I think to much about it, or try to touch, engage it, it will slip away; like trying to hold on to light or liquids. These things happen rarely.
Since I have been following CZ, I have decided that angels are slipping about like so much silk between time and space. Or are these slips of silk the wee folk of old?
How strange to be lonely in crowds talking about movie stars and sports plays, but to find the invisible space, when lost in contemplation/refelction/wonder--to find these spaces friendly and non-lonely?
- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... iNan
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This is a reply to # 1,030,998'but if I think to much about it, or try to touch, engage it, it will slip away;'
That sentence is one my greatest discoveries too, and also one of my worst failures... (Mainly in least in the past... Thanksfully)
It is a control problem. We are always trying to be 'in control'.
Now that's an illusion! Don't you think? :)
Control... Ego-related, fear-related... Possibly.-
From our current human condition, it seems that when we are those who makes those spiritual Kodak moments vanishes, without a trace.
But maybe those moment do not dissapear at all, what happens is that we start to look in the opposite direction, trying to control everything, ...analyzing, instead of feeling.
So the next moment we are blind -at least to a certain degree, for a certain amount of time-.
Inan
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This is a reply to # 1,030,939JAUNT
I visit the skies at night
I'm not allowed to go there at daybreak
It's too bright
The light fills the air when I fly
'Else I would hit the clouds
'Stead of breeze them by.
Winds carry me to places I used to go
When I was first young.
Fun places,
Places I visited before I was born.
My soul drifts on seeds I planted long ago
I remember now,
What I was supposed to forget.
- HJP
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- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... Infinitelove
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- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... #50953
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- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... Infinitelove
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- Re: A blade of grass and timelessnes... #50953
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