July 23, 2018

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God’s trusting kitten.
Facing hot dry canyon winds -
Heart of a lion.
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There is a common analogy used to describe our relationship with the Divine One. Here is the analogy:
There are two common kinds of Devotees of the Divine Beloved. There is the sweet little monkey baby, who clings tightly to the Mother’s back as she travels across the land and canopy. Then there is the tiny baby kitten, the little one is totally relaxed and trusting as the mother carries the little one by the scruff of the neck. The little kitten is 100% relaxed and trusting rather than anxious and clinging like the little monkey.

When personal will is surrendered to the Beloved Mother God, the power of the Infinite is given free rein to move through us. This begins with a leap of faith. Then indeed the little kitten can have the heart of the lion. The little bubble can melt into the sea of the infinite.

Seeking to be God’s little kitten.

With gratitude for the light of the Mother’s Love which surrounds, protects and sustains me.

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“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.”

Saint Teresa of Avila

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“Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.”

Rabindranath Tagore 

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I do not know the source of the mommy carrying the baby kitten photos
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SADHANA

The holy practice:
Sadhana, every hour
Of every day.

  

We walk on sacred ground. Within and without all is holy. As humans, we have free will. In this free will we have the option of embracing the sacred that is emanant in every moment of every day. Here is a secret – joy is in the heart of those moments and it is only when we recognize and live in the sacred that we open ourselves to the deep joy.
The holy practice / sadhana is prescribed actions to dispel the darkness and bring us to awareness of the joy inherent in All. In the beginning the practice occurs at set time and in set place.
It may be taking the eucharist …
crawling into inipi …
on knees in prayer …
in lotus posture meditating.
However, a time comes when there is no seperation between secular and holy. There comes a time when we finally recognize; all is sacred. Then on knees in prayer is the same as on knees scrubbing floors. Now we enter deepest practice.

  

  
Rabindranath Tagore on “Sadhana”
“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty.” 

page from the classic BE HERE NOW by Ram Das

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