unique sealed orders

March 6th, 2009

“Throughout our lives each of us discovers more and more deeply our unique sealed orders, a way that only we are gifted to give and receive love.

When I am in touch with the special purpose of my life and carrying out my sealed orders, I have a profound feeling of consolation or rightness and my whole body relaxes.  I believe this sense of rightness expresses itself physiologically because the purpose of our life is built into the very cells of our body.

I have noticed this sense of rightness whenever I am in touch with our learning about the inner goodness of created things.  Loooking back, I realize that this has guided all my major decisions in life.”

Moments of desolation are equally instructive.

 

Sleeping with Bread - Dennis Linn

Mind Like Water: TAO 56

October 1st, 2008

Those who know don’t talk.

Those who talk don’t know.

 

Block the passage

Bolt the gate

Blunt the sharp

Untie the knot

Blend with the light

Become one with the dust–

This is called original unity

 

It can’t be embraced

It can’t be escaped,

It can’t be helped

It can’t be harmed,

It can’t be exalted

It can’t be despised,

Therefore it is revered under Heaven.

TAO TE CHING by Lao-Tzu Translated by Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo

I heard this one quoted in Forbidden Kingdom as I watched it today – I love Kung Fu movies!

 

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