[Drifter]

Awakening is a flowering of your innermost being.
It is a revelation of your essence,
hidden by long eons of self-delusion,
ignorance,
unbounded desires.

Enlightenment is an ending as well as a beginning:
the ending of the old, veiled, dark ego,
its longings, illusions, frustrations;
the beginning of a vast expanse,
an infinite field of the Unknown,
an adventure in consciousness.

It is a revolution:
it represents danger to the old way of life,
to old ways of thinking and living.

It is freedom from the known and the unknown;
from the real and the unreal;
from any appearance of division between you and Truth.

It is the abandoning of beliefs, dis-beliefs,
presumptions and stances,
self, ego,
call it what you will,
or call it nothing,
what it is.

It is the Path of the golden Dawn,
the Path out of the Night of Time
into the Bursting daylight of Eternal Now...

- Petros

[Drifter]

Namaste`:

"The Spirit within me,
Recognizes, Honors and Greets,
The Spirit within you."

We are one, thereby, inseperable.

Love is the channel by which Spirit assimilates itself into The Godhead/Father.

The son of man and the love of man perishes with man but the love of the Father and the son of the Father lives in the hearts of all mankind forever.

As the son of man becomes one with the son of the Father,

He has Arisen as a new immortal man from within an old and mortal one.

In that death and resurrection we are one.

The psuedo-death of the mortal and finite ego liberates the everlasting immortal infinite.

The last sin that man must conquer is death.

"Oh Harbinger of Death wherefore now art thy sting."

"For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive." 1 Corintians 15:22 & The resurrection of the Dead: 15:12-33 NIV

[Drifter]

On a different note, food for thought: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/shifthappens

[melanie]

=Drifter:
Namaste`:

"The Spirit within me,
Recognizes, Honors and Greets,
The Spirit within you."

We are one, thereby, inseperable.

Here everyone is the same conscious Soul;
Here everyone is the one eternal Soul.
Here only the one undivided Soul exists;
Why lament, then, O mind? I am the same Self in all.


~ Dattatreya ~

[Drifter]

Originally Posted by Fluent Piffle

Beauty is always everywhere, but only if you have evolved a mind for such things...

The pretension of Beauty will be its own Death. Only the REAL can actually BE.

pif.

The great works of art, music, and architecture that have come down through the centuries are enduring representations of the effect of high attractor patterns. In them we see a reflection of the commitment of our civilization's master artists to perfection and grace, and thereby to the ennoblement of humanity.

The fine arts have always provided the venue for man's highest spiritual strivings in the secular realm. From as far back as the time of the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias, it has been the role of the arts to realize, in physical media, the ideals of what man could and should be. Art sets down a distilled expression of the human spirit, one that's tangible in form and accessible to all.

Great art not only brings forth the ordered essence of human experience, but of the world we live in, too---this is what we call beauty.

Like the theoretical physicist, the artist finds order in apparent chaos. For example, where there were only blocks of meaningless marble, Michaelangelo saw David and the Pieta,and with his chisel, removed the surrounding stone to liberate those perfected images. And while contemplating the random patterns of a meaningless plaster wall n the Sistine Chapel, he conceived a wonderous ABC through the inspiration of art---and through the technique of art, he actualized the A>B>C known today as The Last Judgement.

The bequest of the arts to humanity is internal, too: In beholding realized beauty, a sensitivity to the beautiful is implanted within us, enabling us to discover, and create, our own aestetic rewards in the apparently disordered jumble of existence.

Art and love are man;s greatest gifts to himself; and there can be no art without love.

Art is always the making of the soul, the craft of a human being's touch---which can be corporeal or of the mind and spirit---so it has been since Neanderthan times, and so it will always be.

[melanie]

Knowledge and Ignorance

If absolute Knowledge required the aid
Of some other kind of knowledge to know Itself,
It would be nothing but ignorance.

Of course, light is not darkness;
But, to itself, is it even light?

If there is a pot, a pot is perceived,
And if the pot is broken, its brokenness is perceived;
If there is no pot at all,
Is not its absence perceived as well?

It can be seen, therefore,
That he who perceives that there is nothing
Does not himself become nothing.
The Self has this same unique kind of existence,
Beyond both existence and non-existence.

The ultimate Reality
Is neither an object to Itself
Nor is It an object to anyone else.
Should it then be regarded as non-existent?

In a tank the water may be so clear
That it appears non-existent;
Though one who looks into the tank may not see it,
Still it is there.

Similarly,
The ultimate Reality exists in Itself,
And is beyond the conceptions
Of existence or non-existence.



~ Jnanadeva ~

[melanie]

Originally Posted by Fluent Piffle

The pretension of Beauty will be its own Death. Only the REAL can actually BE.




pif.

How our perception of physical beauty is distorted.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GxehXhuY448&NR=1


Perceiving true beauty un-distorted.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SiOhw8...eature=related

[Drifter]

So true Mel.

Pretty is only skin deep, beauty is to the bone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc

Originally Posted by melanie

How our perception of physical beauty is distorted.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GxehXhuY448&NR=1


Perceiving true beauty un-distorted.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SiOhw8...eature=related

[N0B0DY]

Originally Posted by Fluent Piffle

I would say that what people are trying to call 'void' is actually another intuition of Infiniteness. If we posit Space as being the one infinite thing, many other intuitions also fall into place. Space is a REAL thing, it exists, and nothing 'other' is needed for a plausible description of how things necessarily exist.

Would you say that space and time are inseparable, and what is space made of exactly that it can explain emergence?

[N0B0DY]

Originally Posted by melanie

There is no boundary. Your body has no boundary. Neither does mine. Neither does any living system, or non living system for that matter. The relationship that we all share is seamless in REALITY.

If this is true, and I believe it is, how can this reality be classified as "one" when one implies an ending?

We can imagine a point on a simple circle moving around its circumference without end, but the circle itself, if to be called "one circle," must have a boundary in order to make sense of what is observed. Without such finitude, the one without boundaries would be more-accurately classified as none imo.

The same applies to the timeless and eternity, which some folks classified synonymously, which the former is without time (boundary) and the latter with time (boundary) but extending forever. The subtle difference is the implied expansion and of the mind which is the basis for all motion, yet a motion that cannot be shared by the absolute universe. The concept of infinity and eternity requires a mental construct of extension...extending a boundary.

Ultimately, the only perception, minus all our conceptions, of time must be finite. The absolute universe can have no such concepts of time and implies it conforms only to the former above.