Saying For Today: We are literally soaked in the Eternal, and most persons seem to miss that altogether.
LOTUS OF THE HEART
All is Welcome Here
Living in Love beyond Beliefs
We Share One Life, We Are One Life
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
*Dr. Seuss
A lovely, wilted, red rose is in a glass on my kitchen table. Yes, that is what I said - lovely, wilted. Someone left the beautiful, fresh rose on my desk at work. I do not know who. That was two weeks ago. Most persons would have removed and thrown away the lovely, wilted rose - they would not see its beauty remains, as lovely as before, only different, even transformed.
A few things about the rose I know for sure. First, simply because most persons, even almost all, see wilted roses as having lost their beauty and to be disposed of, that is not true. If we see with the Heart, which means the beauty in us looking out, what most, even almost everyone, sees will not be what we see through or how we esteem other persons or things, in general. Second, we see as we are. We never see anything as it is apart from where we see it from - you, me. Third, the lovely, wilted rose is lovely not merely as a material explanation of its exterior - a wilted exterior -, but the interiority of what it represents as a rose and that it was given, a gift always, even when the rose is no longer wilted, no longer a rose - as we, too, will not always be who we are, either. Last, there is continuity between the rose when fresh and wilted, and that continuity provides a link of communion within the impermanence, so that impermanence is good news - form is eternal essentially, not accidently - according to qualities. Now, see, you and I are like that, so we, too, are not a bundle of qualities but that the qualities apply to. And the rose envelops and is enveloped by and in this moment all from which the rose became and all that will arise from the rose. We are literally soaked in the Eternal, and most persons seem to miss that altogether.
I do not know when I will remove the rose, likely not for many days still. The lovely, wilted rose has some wise lessons it silently shares. Every form of Grace bears in its interiority wisdom we can hear, if we will only listen. Everything shines with Truth. But to listen to things like wilted roses requires a humility that many of us simply cannot allow ourselves to be with long enough to see why a wilted rose is so lovely and so wise.
♥ ♥ ♥
Grace and Peace to All
The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
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