Go with the flow No more holding on Release, let go and surrender Her waters will carry you to the ocean Deep within your heart you'll remember
[Refrain]
We are made of water, like the river we know How to release our fears and let go We are made of water, like the river we know How to trust that our path brings us home
Yemanja, Mamãe Oxum Yemanja, Mamãe Oxum
[Two female deities in the Yoruba religion]
See how she goes the way of least resistance See how she moves with the land Carving her path with a heart of forgiveness Acceptance and compassion
...
I receive your messages into my being I learn to listen, I pray to heal I return and I welcome back all of me I am whole, I am complete and I am free like water I am free like water [repeat]
Like water [repeat]
We return to the Ocean like water [repeat] We return to the Ocean like water We return to the Ocean like water We return to the Ocean like water
Like water [repeat]
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Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed each day. - Christian Scripture
I am a crazy vagabond. My cupped hands stretch out hungry to see you. I beg at your gate, day after day.
Guru Nanak. Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition. Trans. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh.
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Thomas Merton, "spring... and stream"
spring Source
first
stream flow
second
one Water
both
Yes - "Spring" then "stream" "Source" then "i"
dawn before full sun a seed before a tree a Spring before a you
mind think think think
speech talk talk talk
body do do do
- all derivatives -
(what are those streams running away from... the Headwaters, even in doing good, trying to escape?... but the Waters are the same, the union cannot be broken, one cannot escape It is-I am)
people go go go thinking talking doing restless, exhausted, afraid of the Quiet
(the Quiet restores, gives Life, and Quiet is more than being quiet)
busyness, talkativeness, do-goodism justified with "I must," I have to," "I don't have time" - a well-proven way to hide... from ourselves...
without drawing life - liveliness - from the Headwaters of Living (Life-Giving) Waters...
if not from the Headwaters - how can parched streambeds share the refreshing, revivifying Life people are so thirsty for... even if they do not know what they are thirsty for?
Jesus... "I have come that they might have life..." is more than what most mean by being alive
(there is a life before lives, you, me)
(the great Paths have said, dead people are walking about everywhere - but what is this "dead"?)
breathing out expiration - out-spiriting - sharing, spreading, shining with Spirit-Light
mind, body, speech means of expiration
how shall we share Spirit unless joining with
(a light disconnected from its energy-source does not shine... we cannot shine of ourselves)
one returns to the Heart to share what is of the Heart
(not merely what is of the self)
if we do not breathe in, we perish, having no breath to breathe out
(what dies when we think, talk, and do but have lost connection with the Breath?)
daily drawing from the Otherness freshness, aliveness, generosity naturally, spontaneously flow
you do not have to ask, "How shall I bless others?," you will be blessing
presence, even without thinking... saying... doing anything, is a channel for the Blessing to flow
(but you'll not take the credit no one possesses the Water)
no, it is not wrong not to connect with the Source we can choose to ignore, to disbelieve, delay
but one thing I've learned over time, people need more than just "Brian" - More
I can be a hand that gives but I'm not the one opening the hand or the gift given
we are spirit of Spirit to flow... our hands to be hands of Light giving
We need means to connect and commune daily, consciously, with our Source. We will come to different means for doing this. People find their means, sometimes through different traditions, sometimes from a single one. And the means may change over time- as has been the case with me. These "tools," as the abbot Benedict called them in his Rule, are means for remembrance, revivification, and healing.
Very little in our modern societies encourages us in this way. Secularism has swallowed up the spirit of Spirit. Stuff has pushed aside the Other. We must aspire and act with a firm resolve to thrive spiritually.
Using the tools is self-care for others and ourselves. What we do is not only for ourselves, but for the whole.
