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  • from just these thoughts

    I don’t even understand the mixed messages I send.
    I tell others to leave us be;
    leave us alone.
    At the same time
    I care for them
    and wish them well.
    I don’t look for understanding,
    although
    I wish these others would understand.
    Their acceptance without implied judgment
    is what I hope for.

    I don’t have a way to share this
    because that door is closed;
    and the window’s open
    just a crack
    so I can hear.

    How come relationships have to be
    as defined by one of the parties
    and it is not accepted
    that the relationship
    is
    permanently changed?

    So many questions arise
    from just these thoughts,
    but the point is
    I don’t offer answers.

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  • December 2011 – cleaning out the notebooks – Humility waits

    intersubjective epistemology
    and partially shared divergences of meaning.
    Result in phenomenology of intersubjectivity
    You in me
    Me in you
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    At any age, be it 18 or 91,
    the ability to be
    rather than to do
    is what our Creator asks.
    As to bitterness,
    if death is an advisor (ala Carlos Casteneda)
    then all we can do is listen.
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    Blazing shooting star
    Under Orion’s right foot
    Lights the hunter’s way
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    Humility waits
    For the flash of light on steel
    Illuminating
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    Crush is in the air
    Aromas of things to come
    Sense of promises
    by Anne
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    We made our wreath decoration

    The purpose of shadows is not to celebrate the light.
    It is to illuminate that there is something outside the brightness.
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    I hope the sun warms your day and your loving heart shines on us both.
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    Canned goodness 2011-01
    Passing of this day
    Moves forward like no other
    Happy New Year, All
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  • Ripples of November 2011 – consumed by keen intransigent kindness

    I spent a lot of time from August 2011 sharing the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood. I was writing the whole time, so it’s time to clean out the notebooks.

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    Now within my self
    Spirit in dwells quietly
    Holding silence there.
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    Fly white butterfly
    Through mid October sunshine
    Flitting here and there
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    Holly comes prancing
    Through the back door so sprightly
    Like a ball bouncing
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    Sunrise reflected
    On glass windows through the fog
    Surreal glimpse of light
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    She is consumed by
    Keen intransigent kindness
    En route to heaven
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    The turtle lady
    Travels night and day looking
    For a turtle man
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    Touched by the Lord’s light
    Awareness of only presence
    Each moment of life
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    Leaves in the Fall
    A dream in the night
    Forgotten upon rising
    Was it angst or joy?
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    The southwestern sky
    Clear, crisp, flickering full of
    possibility
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    Flickering mind’s eye
    Has the possibility
    To see the great light.
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    Angels have angles
    For getting into the heart
    Blessings come unseen
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    Having to deal with
    Narcissistic selfishness
    Relationship hell!
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    Kneeland excursion-12
    In Eureka

    The brown leaves flutter
    Down like butterflies of Fall
    Watch nature descend
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    Stand of trees arise
    Where redwoods once enshrouded
    Light and life abound
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    Shining wisp of cloud
    Deep green deciduous trees
    Beautiful Fall day
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  • Seasons

    A tulip a rose
    Seasons of blooming/fading
    Contentment with you
    Tulips and roses
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  • Basket of Dreams

    Basket of dreams laid
    Sandy forlorn abandoned
    Like the weaver’s heart

    Basket of sandy dreams

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  • 4/30/2012 12:53 PM

    Life and the events
    It is both more and less than
    It appears to be

  • Twelfth Installment of the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

    The first installment with the introduction is here.

    The eleventh installment is here.
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    The mystery of each person’s life is not revealed at once, but day by day, little by little, and, only to the seeker.
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    The next and final installment is here.

    Rosemary of February

    Walk confidently carrying your dawn with you. Within you is the dawn, within you is the light, within you is the freedom, therefore with eye turned inward you are safe. …And the far reaching of the Light you trust in is boundless, and unknown to you as you sit here in this hour, in this century, in this universe.
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    You must not trouble yourself with whys and wherefores because it is a waste of time.
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    Every individual has within themselves a great part to play. Let no one think he or she is too small, too insignificant. For the power of the kingdom of heaven, when you make way for it to pour though as a channel in the stillness of disciplined and controlled emotion, cannot be measured. There is nothing too great, nor nothing too small for the part you play.
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    Everyone has a divine spark and it is realized for the most part, but also forgotten often.
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    Bring this light within you into your eyes and hands and feet; into your comings and goings; into every small effort, for the more you use it the more wonderful will be your reward.

    The quiet effort is toward awareness, keeping cool and unruffled in perfect faith, in celestial stillness – in your daily lives.

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    No one faces reality with more profound awareness than the person who looks upon it with the eyes of compassion that see through the wrong to the invincible right brooding near, waiting to be used, to pour out itself in abundant joy. “Of myself I can do nothing.” Abide in the Creator’s presence and bring this peace nearer than the despair of the world.
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    Selflessness is a more-of-God-ness.
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    There is a strange place in the thick realm between the hearing of the word and the assimilation of it – the acting upon it.
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    You always loved the truth and it is strong stuff. We are trying to say that the beautiful, childlike thing to do is exquisitely joyful – hold yourself in a listening attitude and be artists in the Creator. [Or, in other words, be as a brush held in the hand of the Almighty to create art in the world.]
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    Here you stand. It is the moment for you to realize that when you open to receive the spirit of the mind of the Creator, you let into this maelstrom of feeling a north wind to cool the heat and clear the skies and to know that you can be a means of bringing sanity and lifting hope.
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    In the galaxy of thoughts that makes your mind you have the imagination of the seeing eye, the eye that perceives the invisible. Keep a childlike hopeful knowledge of the unseen goodness and a surety that the divine principle can be reached. Remember that though you may be very small outwardly you can be as the universe – your mind is limitless. Realize your cosmic powers and take time to be a channel for the infinite Spirit to pour through in this great war against the darkness, inertia, and savagery. As you walk your way and go about your daily lives, be measureless, be timeless, be eternal. Thus will you begin at this time, at this place, to fulfill the prophecy, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
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    You have never been failed when you have wholeheartedly opened up to receive the Spirit that abides within you; opened to receive it into your mind, into your heart by transmuting all untoward emotions through it.
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    All that is asked is an awareness of the Creator’s awareness of you, of the immense love of the Spirit for you. There is no “must” nor effort in this, for once the heart is touched by an awareness of the Creator it is comforted, reassured, and content.
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    Another self portrait

    The next and final installment is here.

  • Eleventh installment of Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

    The first installment with the introduction is here.

    The tenth installment is here.

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    The kingdom of all peace and power is within you
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    Great and good forces are your companions; you do not walk alone.
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    Flowers in March 2012 - Daisies

    Be faithful in intent and all you need will be revealed to you.
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    Take the dare and converse with God.
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    Now is the time of your safe return, Salvation and immortality are already in you. Begin now to know immortality.
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    Flowers in March 2012 - About to burst out

    Create the atmosphere of achievement in creative expectancy.
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    You acquire a strength which will not fail, through the use of your daily companionship with the One who walks with you, whose strength you use, whose power is yours for the asking, whose mightiness is illumination and whose gentleness can make you great.
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    In your outer life translate humble things into divine things.
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    Flowers in March 2012 - Peek to the sky

    So peace be unto your hearts and great stillness and calm. Seek this creative peace within; here there is no struggle. Here are beauty and truth and protection and joy in abundance. Here is order, and here, locked away, is the divine plan. When you dissolve and become still, holy (wholly?) in that oneness with the infinite holiness, the divine plan comes to pass and you are free. You are challenged out there; in here the challenge is defeated. Seek and worship the Creator.
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    You are a distinct portion of the essence of the Creator; and contain part of the Creator in yourself. Epictetus, A.D. 50
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    There is nothing wrong with the human race except destructive emotions
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    When you close your eyes and turn to the silence of the divine darkness you will have a sense of spaciousness without boundary, the timelessness of the joyous instant and the light of a new day.
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    “Meditation is the clarifier of a beclouded mind.” The Tibetan Doctrine
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    The thing expected of you, through your final realization of all that has been told to you, is to use your imagination so that you will not allow any separation from the Spirit by withdrawing into forgetfulness…. That does not mean that you are to think of nothing else – it is an attitude of mind. Bring everything to the high quality of spirit. Do not take thoughts and problems down into the gloom of materialism nor of negative and despairing solutions.
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    If you say, “I have no life except with the spirit within me”, you wear the garment (spirit) through the sordid traffic of the world. And if it is unseen that does not matter to you.
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    You can cleanse the body and cleanse the mind by the bright discipline of entertaining light (where “entertaining” means to “hold present”).
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    Within this center of infinite quiet and peace lies resolution to action that is born of love and wisdom. Whenever challenged by the horrors or irritations of human living, you know that through the mind you can touch all that is august, deathless beauty and immortality.
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    What do you desire above all, above all? Perfect peace of mind, integrity, order, the victory of goodness, honor, joy and eternal love, free from human sentimentality and emotionalism; the high clean impersonal rightness. Well all these are for your asking, not praying, for your accepting and realizing and wanting.

    Go your way, step by step. Now is the appointed time to do your part; and your part, as you well know, cannot be done with righteous and breathless rectitude, but by being receptive so that you can be used as a channel, which is part of being a temple of the Spirit. It is the antithesis of noise and dubious fame; be the silent ones, anointed with rod and staff and the scallop shell of quiet and the promise of truth.
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    Many people would be impatient if you should tell them that creative action, action based upon spiritual premises, is born in complete stillness, the stillness the inventor and scientist know in the laboratory. Not necessarily the stillness which is merely noiselessness alone but this intense quiet of drawing upon the source of inspiration.
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    Those who go still further within themselves for the answer will find a timeless wisdom and inspiration to be translated into the human need of the moment. [Being still is “not movement, and, it is “still further” moving beyond the present progress.]
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    Do not belittle yourself, for this spiritual concept within you is deathless and all powerful, measureless. Therefore when you look through your eyes at immensities know that that which you hold within is more powerful.
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    The ignorant are awed by show, the wise are awed by what is not seen, by thought. Hold the concept which encompasses more universes than you are yet aware of and through complete humility of self and your service of faith you will become as yeast in the sodden world of materialism. Though your personal lives seem constricted and humble, it dos not matter.
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    This infinite power is only revealed by the denial of self in the true sense and the glorifying of the Light within.
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    miranda redwoods in the sky

    This spiritual concept within you is deathless and all powerful, measureless (beyond what is seen in all of nature). …. The wise are awed by what is not seen, by thought….. through the complete humility of self and your service of faith you will become as yeast in the sodden world of materialism. Though your personal lives seem constricted and humble it does not matter.
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    This infinite power is only revealed by the denial of self in the true sense and the glorifying of the Light within.
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    Use this indwelling spirit! The Creator moves in you now through limitless space. Cast off your mooring from the land of fear and doubt; leave the prisons of despair and melancholy and set sail on a guided journey where the stars are in their appointed places and the voyage is true and beautiful and safe.
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    Be alert, industrious in the habit of being in His presence. All that is asked of you is to be gloriously happy. Because of your intent you are being filled with healing, vitalizing, sustaining truth and eternal love. You will astonish yourself and if you can see the simplicity of this – the victory is yours.

    Watch your every response and thought and bring to yourself a day, even a fraction of a day, when you have kept His presence; for this is the good news of which the prophets spoke, this is what it is all about.
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    The next installment is here.

    Tahoe Cousins, 2002

  • Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood – Third installment

    The first installment with the introduction is here

    The second installment is here.

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    He is to be sought through the refinements of the heart.
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    Be holy by pouring the light on humble ordinary things. You will be transfigured and your day blessed.
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    Your direct action is when you go back to your world charged and supercharged and stay charged.
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    He abides in a lifted heart so an attitude of joy maintains our connection to the forces of spirit within.
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    Do not wonder what to do. Keep a naked intent toward the Creator of all things. It makes for the capacity of loving stillness. It gives gentle holiness and protection so that you may stand strong and alert.
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    It takes courage, therefore, take courage and give it.
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    Do not be fearful ever of being fearful, but rather abide where you will be given these things that will protect you.
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    The next installment is here.

  • Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood – Second installment

    The first installment is here

    The nearest way to His nearness is through a refined essence of spirit
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    When you are plunging into the sea of sensuous existence your true life leaves you like smoke.
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    If you desire to be in the presence of the infinite omniscient spirit it must mean that you lay down your sensuous material life, that you may find strength and happiness and beauty and knowledge, by being in holy communion with the spirit within… To meet this spirit within you must acquire a quality and a technique in dwelling in the invisible while in the visible.
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    My first photos 11/19/1975

    Now that you know, now that you begin to realize your godhood, take measures to keep invisible in a visible world, immortal in a mortal world, eternal in a changing world, continually reborn in a dying world.
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    Peace can only be found in action.
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    When you seek the spirit within, you become more alive, or better still, more awake.
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    Examine each moment as it comes and thus make it spiritual.
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    Relax in quiet and in the confidence which is your strength.
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    For you carry with you your knowledge of high peace like a lofty peak. High up in the silence near the stars.
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    Cherry blossoms

    The gift a man or woman has with animals, or with children and flowers, is inarticulate and silent and unselfconscious without words that have been thought out.
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    The next installment is here.