Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
Capricorn Horoscope for week of June 2, 2011
Describing muckraking journalist Peter Freyne, Senator Patrick Leahy said, “He knew the difference between healthy skepticism and hollow cynicism.” Mastering that distinction happens to be your next assignment, Capricorn. Can you distinguish between your tendency to make compulsive negative judgments and your skill at practicing thoughtful and compassionate discernment? My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you will have a successful week if you do. Not only that: The universe will conspire to bring you blessings you didn’t even realize you needed.
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“The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words,” said Terence McKenna in Alien Dreamtime, “and that if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.” Here’s my version of that hypothesis: What world you end up living in depends at least in part on your use of language.
Do you want to move and breathe amidst infertile chaos where nothing makes sense and no one really loves anyone? Then speak with unconscious carelessness, expressing yourself lazily. Constantly materialize and entertain angry thoughts in the privacy of your own imagination, beaming silent curses out into eternity.
Or would you prefer to live in a realm that’s rich with fluid epiphanies and intriguing coincidences and mysterious harmonies? Then be discerning and inventive in how you speak, primed to name the unexpected codes that are always being born right in front of your eyes. Turn your imagination into an ebullient laboratory where the somethings you create out of nothings are tinctured with the secret light you see in your dreams of invisible fire.
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The preceding oracle comes from my book, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings.
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“I live my life in growing rings
which move out over the things around me.
Perhaps I’ll never complete the last,
but that’s what I mean to try. I’m circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I’ve been circling thousands years; and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm or a great song.”
Poetry or prose?
An old poem I wrote. It just turned up, voila!
The day is young, and there is time to change, a chance to do something different. When no amount of pain seems to motivate, it must be hope that comes from nowhere, grace, that saves. Pride and suffering have their own elegance, hard, and dark, unlike the full roundness of humility, which overflows with tolerance. Change, a fleeting chance to choose one act or word, or silence, and let healing truth be revealed.
A Quote by Andrew Harvey on heart, love, compassion, and opening
“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”
Andrew Harvey
Source: The Return of the Mother
Contributed by: Blessing Conspirator
Vulnerability
“Be deeply seen, love with your whole heart – even with no guarantees, practice gratitude and lean into joy, believe that I am and you are enough, exactly as we are.”
Quote from Editor of Parabola Magazine
“Man remains a mystery to himself…” writes Jeanne de Salzmann from “Finding Our True Home,” Parabola Editor Blogs:http://bit.ly/bL0IP4
Through a Jungian Lens
“As we peel off the layers of persona and expose the essence of who we are. As we make this journey during which we shed masks our load becomes lighter and our inner beauty is allowed to shine through. It is when we are authentic and transparent that we sense the more numinous aspect of self, that which we ascribe to an outer god. Individuation is about separating from the collective and allowing the fullness of the individual to emerge. And in the process, the self then sees its true connection to the whole.”
awareness, acceptance, action
“Why is that, do you think?” I think this is a quote from The Matrix, but I’ll have to watch it again to be sure. The Matrix reminds me of how important it is to be aware of reality. Then I can accept it and choose what I want/need, and take appropriate action, or inaction, what ever the case may be.
Timeless Love Connection 