Barry Mallis writes:
> During that moment we "can laugh" at our smallness, at how serious we have
> been taking the Call-of-The-Mind-Alone. Here, in a pause between
> existences, we may smile without wits at what we have become, what we have
> made of ourselves. And if we are lucky, we come home again with the shiver
> of memory. Sometimes we give expression, as on this list, to these mindful
> journeys of the Spirit beyond such words as would tempt explanation.
> And also, sometimes, an individual may not return from this flight away,
> because in her eyes there is no place to land, no place to come back to.
Wonderful stuff, these messages! In the same vein from another source
(the Tao Te Ching):
The Tao that can be known is not Tao.
The substance of the World is only a name for Tao.
Tao is all that exists and may exist;
The World is only a map of what exists and may exist.
One experiences without Self to sense the World,
And experiences with Self to understand the World.
The two experiences are the same within Tao;
They are distinct only within the World.
Neither experience conveys Tao
Which is infinitely greater and more subtle than the World.
> How do we open the heart to have it be Home again?
Also from the same source:
Like a riverbed, the heart is never filled
It is an ineffable female
Whose entrance is the source of the World;
Tao is ever present within it:
Draw upon it and it will never fail.
(I've had recent occasion to learn the truth of this, when I had nothing
else to draw on, and managed to find enough in my heart.)
Don Dwiggins "The truth will make you free,
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