EMPTINESS IS FULL
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Finding more and more need to be quiet since I feel I can’t do peopleing anymore! So the draw to nature, music and the arts is huge for me now. I feel if we use regular language too much we will reach a point of conflict. Simply because words are divisive in nature. They presume each thing the word points to is separate from the other. And it simply isn’t so. I have seen in my own life that life had to go horribly wrong for me to wake up. Again and again. Big whack to my ego! Still happens haha :)) until I humbled into a complete head bowed down yes to life. Complete humility. And an admission to myself that I don’t know anything about life and that I don’t need to. Life is never wrong. It can only be wrong from a point of view of a part. Of a word. Of a separate person. But there is no separate person. This habit finally slows down. The habit of pointing to this body-mind - me me me - what I want - etc - my body - my family - my life — it does stop ....and that’s when true joy is felt. Not the usual highs and lows that are felt with body-conscious feeling and thinking and living. But a true subtle timeless bliss of slowing down. And touching the soil and smiling. Of seeing the sky and crying. Gosh, how beautiful it all is ...
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