May 18, 2023·edited May 18, 2023Liked by Joan Tollifson
Read this twice. Different bits and pieces highlighted themselves, like jewels in a moving light, but the overall sense and experience remains: strikingly real and truthful. Accurate. Lovingly helpful. Waves of gratitude, feeling both yours and mine together.
And by the way, it's only been in the last few years that I have become comfortable about using the word God. But I am, I AM! So many names for the un-nameable, colored by different traditions, history, culture, as well as the habits or predilection of individuals. All just pointers, no?
These days I’m especially drawn to the first response you mention, Joan, “the wonder of the apparently ordinary….” We humans tend to take the fact of existence for granted, but what a wonder anything and everything is! As you write later, “simple beingness is the jewel beyond all price.”
Mary and I really enjoy how you keep questioning your own assumptions and concepts. And we like holding this as a koan: “We must become this Love.”
Thank you, Joan, for continuing to find ways to explore and express what really matters and for sharing yourself with us.
Love this!..Is Love something to become, or is it something We already are?❣🙏
Coming home, Joan! Yes.
Thank you so much, I can not surrender to not knowing without trust in sacredness. I believe Love is.
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Well done leaving in that paragraph about “must” and “become” and love. ♥️
Beautiful message, Joan! Thank you for this! 🙏
Read this twice. Different bits and pieces highlighted themselves, like jewels in a moving light, but the overall sense and experience remains: strikingly real and truthful. Accurate. Lovingly helpful. Waves of gratitude, feeling both yours and mine together.
And by the way, it's only been in the last few years that I have become comfortable about using the word God. But I am, I AM! So many names for the un-nameable, colored by different traditions, history, culture, as well as the habits or predilection of individuals. All just pointers, no?
These days I’m especially drawn to the first response you mention, Joan, “the wonder of the apparently ordinary….” We humans tend to take the fact of existence for granted, but what a wonder anything and everything is! As you write later, “simple beingness is the jewel beyond all price.”
Mary and I really enjoy how you keep questioning your own assumptions and concepts. And we like holding this as a koan: “We must become this Love.”
Thank you, Joan, for continuing to find ways to explore and express what really matters and for sharing yourself with us.
My favorite quote:
"Is it possible to be a mindless swooning bhakti devoted to the rain, the traffic, the wind in the leaves, the utter simplicity of bare awareness?"
enjoyed reading