The paradox that in a love-relationship,
a letting go, a surrender,
a ‘death’ to the self-contained,
autonomous ego-self
is indispensable is a fact
of experience which
any lover knows,
who has tasted something
of the riches of friendship.
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Only being is.
time and space deceive man,and it is only when he is ableto become oblivious to themthat he can be illuminated.
In our fallen nature
to commit to othersand prone to breakingthe commitmentswe do make.In love, God yearnsfor covenantrelationships andmaintains hisfaithful love forever.
There is only one problem
my peace, my happiness depends.That is to discover myselfin discovering God.
The experiences
of beauty and passionwill bring with themhints of mystery and wonder.Its appeal will not be to the clever brainbut to the desirous heart,the intuitive sense of man.
The original divine image
The perfect blendingof the divine and humanin Jesus makes possiblethe transformation of all meninto true sons of God.Jesus is the uttered Wordwho breaks throughthe silence of alienation.As a result of this union ofGod and Man in the onePerson of Christ, it was possiblefor every man to be united to God.
Mysticism is seen as the ‘one way out’
It is the healing of that incompletenesswhich is the origin of our divine unrest:the inevitable reaction of thefully consciousfully living soulupon ‘Eternal Truth’,true love, and Loved Eternity.(The reader may refer to St. Agustine, Confessions, bk. Vii Chp.10) Comp. Meister Eckhart ‘I am sure that if a soul knew the very least of all that Being…
The paradox that in a love-relationship,
a letting go, a surrender,
a ‘death’ to the self-contained,
autonomous ego-self
is indispensable is a fact
of experience which
any lover knows,
who has tasted something
of the riches of friendship.
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Since the very personal
he demanded fromhis own self,as a monk,for far deeperand purer personhood.
Blessed are those
eyes of othersand heed to theirneeds because theywill be harbringersof peace.
Whoknows about
When did thecreation happen?No one knows.Who cansurveythe creationfrom the lofty skies?Can a human being do it?None shall be able.Whoknowsanything for certain?No human being.Even then, our Egoclaims full knowledge.It is the greatestirony of the Ego.
I was a beggar whose foot was cut off.
I was the child on the homeless street.I was the one who fell on your feetfor a bowl full to eat.You saw me and did not care.I was in ragged clothes.I had no shoes and walked in rain.I was poor and cried on the road.I was the school girl who had no books.You saw me…
You are
driving desire is.As your desire isso is your will.As our will isso is your deed.As your deed isso is your destiny.(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad) .
We shall admit
admiration of theillimitable and undeniableall-powerfulspiritwho revealshimself in the slightdetails we are ableto perceive.Our minds arefeeble and frailto understand it.