Thoughts: Shine on, baby
Thoughts: You ARE what you think….(but you knew that)
What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used.
From the readings of the Akashic Records of Edgar Cayce
Thoughts: “transformations are impermanent….” with Thich Nhat Hanh
My friend Carmen shared this, from Thay:
This silence is called Great Joy
There are two kinds of truth,
Conventional and absolute truth,
But they are not opposites. They
Are part of a continuum:
“All transformations are impermanent…
They are subject to birth and
Death, and this silence is called
Great Joy..”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Thought: You are the entire ocean in a drop – Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
Thoughts: Beauty, through the eyes of some sightless folks….
Dear friends, fellow monks & sister philosophers, family & readers (sorry if I left anyone out!),
One of the cool things about getting to take care of this blog is that I have so many folks who write me & let me know they’re there & what they think, and share their experiences in light of what they see, hear, and experience here.
Three regular readers of Brother Ian are blind – two can’t see anything & one sees light & shapes, kinda, but not detail. I love it that have all dropped me notes as they go over the different postings & listen to the songs & either the computer or a friend reads them things…and they, one way or another, tell me the world is a beautiful place to them.
So, here’s a little video of some folks who can’t see beauty with their eyes, sharing what they perceive beauty to look like, to them.
This one’s for you, Roy & Dan & Elise. Crank the audio & roll.
Love you all –
Brother Ian
Thoughts: Here’s the map to the goldmine…
Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?
Rumi
(Art – Emine Tokmakkaya)
About Brother Ian
Over the centuries, Brother Ian has been collecting stories & information & discourses for the purpose of elevating the human condition as needed, dissecting it when necessary, and building the case for hope.
In the spirit of noting that organized crime, organized baseball, organized labour, and organized religion tend to engender controversy & occasional discord, I promise to be neither organized or critical of those who are.