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Solane Star
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posted June 12, 2007 08:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message
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“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”

-- Lame Deer, Medicine Man of the Oglala people

Whenever we’re thinking, our experience is being filtered through our minds. For example, when I say to myself, “What a beautiful sunset!” I am not fully experiencing the sunset because I am involved with the words in my mind.

Explore letting go of the thoughts, the words, and connecting directly with your experiences. Tune in to the silence and the sensations in your body. Be aware of the spaciousness this brings because this is truly living in the present moment.

Being present doesn’t mean that we have to abandon thinking entirely. That’s not feasible, of course. But we can experiment with what it’s like to stop thinking once in a while!

“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”

-- Hans Margolius

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SattvicMoon
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posted June 28, 2007 02:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SattvicMoon     Edit/Delete Message
Stillness of the mind is the true depth of the strength! Which in turn brings in rationality in our mind!

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Welcome to my Blog: The RechargeHouse

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Dervish
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posted June 28, 2007 07:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dervish     Edit/Delete Message
I think I did that in the experience I'm about to share, only putting words to it when I tried describing the ineffable moment I experienced.

Anyway, I recorded this on 12-18-05:

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I had gotten off the comp this morn when a friend that I had just emailed a few minutes before called (since she knew I was up). She wanted us to go surfing with them. Having just gotten over a flu, I was thinking of saying no, but my roomie really wanted to go, so I agreed.

I am so glad for that.

We surfed as normal and the lingering depression and such from fighting off the flu was banished and I really enjoyed myself and the company. The morn was cloudy, but it was still beautiful, with fog in the distant hills, and the ocean itself vanishing off into the distant mists. There was rain, but it was very light--I'm not even sure it counts as rain. And hardly matters when you're in a wetsuit anyway.

And then the wind picked up. Friends had a wonderful idea, to try windsurfing. This was interesting, and I wasn't sure about it, having never done it before. When I finally tried, it took me some minutes just to not fall over, though they said I picked it up really fast. It was difficult because I had to hold my feet differently, and dealing with the harness. But at some point, WHOOSH, the SPEED! I couldn't help it: I screamed with joy, and I was SO glad we had come.

And then the sun broke through.... not direct, but close. The water turned from gray to aqua, and I was suddenly recalling when I was like 6-10, how I'd get up before Mom & Dad (and often before dawn back then) and go outside and explore, play, go to friend's houses.... I felt so free and there was a stark beauty to life that I rarely feel (at least sober) since I guess I became a teen. And then I surpassed even that, and I reached a state that was nothing less than ecstasy, I'd say on par (though distinct and different in its own way) to mindaltering dancing or sex, and perhaps even more fulfilling in its own way.

If there was any doubt about fighting to survive the dark times in my life, it was dispelled at this moment of utter beauty in which I lived totally within this miraculous moment, my shout and my heart praising the Goddess of Life and for this moment in Life, one that was worth every horror and ache I had endured just to be here. Tears came down my face (just a few), and I knew that when I die, should my life flash before my eyes, this exact moment will be replayed, and if it affects my body at all, I will smile then, at peace, knowing it was all worth it in part to this one ineffable moment.

What else is there to say? My cold seemed to come back but it went away again, and it was hardly even noted (at least not by me--and we were all wet enough anyway). I found out that the wind was LIGHT (like how fast would I have gone in a HIGH wind???) Because we messed with the boards (including the beginner board I had borrowed), we failed to miss the churches getting out and ended up eating at a Pizza Hut for awhile to give the traffic a chance to die down more.

Now I am home. I've showered, dishes are now washing, warms are washing and hots are drying. Today was awesome, and I'm sharing. If you get a chance to try something new like that, and to be out in nature in a way that helps you to fuse with it, if just for a moment, then avail yourself of the moment. If more people did, psychiatry would be an endangered profession.

As the Wiccans say, Blessed Be (it seems appropiate to now).

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Mirandee
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posted June 28, 2007 08:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mirandee     Edit/Delete Message
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“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”

-- Hans Margolius


Beautiful message that you brought us today, Star

I do get distracted by my thoughts even when I am attempting to meditate and be still. I used to resist that to no avail.

Then I discovered that if I read something spiritual first or said the rosary first I could easier quiet my mind and fall easier into silent meditation.

LOL Reminds me of that Ellen Degeneres commercial where she is supposed to be meditating and she keeps thinking about the socks she just bought and whether or not she should have charged them on her credit card. That would be me a lot of times. hee hee

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Bluemoon
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posted June 28, 2007 09:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bluemoon     Edit/Delete Message
Thanks for starting this thread, Starlady. Love you the most!!

Dervish, all i can say to you is, WOW!! I was there, it the waves, girl. you really have a lovely writing style.

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