consciousness – Page 7 – Feel with Neil

The Still River Hike

“The river” is a thing, but always in motion. So never really the same. It couldn’t be “the river” without its unmoving bed.

There’s something happening here… Stop, children, what’s that sound?

“There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” Except to the child-mind and -heart

Ear kiss in gray morn

Coffee before the sun comes up. But there was no sunrise today. The gray dawn grew merely more brightly gray

Dark Night of the Soul (5) – One Simplification

Forget “One day at a time,” or, “Live in the moment,” if you aren’t up to them… What IS naturally human is relationship. Relate to one Christface at a time. As each comes.

Dark Night of the Soul (3) – Michael Mirdad

[3 minute read] If you’d like shallower but wider presentation than the earlier selected excerpts, before diving into their full sources, here’s a decent soup-to-nuts application, all on one (long) page. Nicely synthesized and broadened for a comtemporary, if somewhat New-Age commercial consumer market, I’m comfortable endorsing it as orthodox enough to the original: “…notContinue reading “Dark Night of the Soul (3) – Michael Mirdad”

Dark Night of the Soul (1) – Mirabai Starr

“…the darkness is nothing but unutterable radiance… you are ready… to be annihilated in love.”