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"Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already."
- Pema Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings, 11-12.

P'taah the El Douad

There was an Egyptian God called P'TAAH. He is speaking through me now. He says to share with you that there are 12 sets of twin characteristics. These are the 12 sets of opposite characteristics:

keeping silent - talking
receptivity - resistance to influence
obeying - ruling
humility - self confidence
lightning-like speed - circumspection
to accept everyting - to be able to differentiate
ability to fight - peace
caution - courage
to possess nothing - to command everything
to have no ties - loyalty
contempt for death - regard for life
indifference - love

In order to serve you must master the use of DIVINE RIGHT TIMING and DIVINE RIGHT PLACE for the expression of the 12 sets of opposite characteristics.

- Robin Alexis

lotus law

"You can move into passivity only when all that is there like junk has been thrown out. Anger has been thrown out, greed has been thrown out...layer upon layer, these things are there. But once you have thrown them out, you can easily slip in. There is nothing to hinder. And suddenly the bright light of the Buddha land. And suddenly you are in a totally different world - the world of the Lotus Law, the world of Dharma, the world of Tao."
- Osho, Meditation, 62

Wenn nämlich der Rebe Saft...

Wenn nämlich der Rebe Saft,
Das milde Gewächs, suchet Schatten
Und die Traube wächset unter dem kühlen
Gewölbe der Blätter,
Den Männern eine Stärke,
Wohl aber duftend den Jungfraun,
Und Bienen,
Wenn sie, vom Wohlgeruche
Des Frühlings trunken, der Geist
Der Sonne rühret, irren ihr nach
Die Getriebenen, wenn aber
Ein Strahl brennt, kehren sie
Mit Gesumm, vielahnend
          darob
     die Eiche rauschet,

Friedrich Hölderlin

Visible Speech Music

Now all that can be perceived by supersensible vision, all that can thus be learned about the nature of these forms and gestures of the air, can be carried into movements of the arms and hands, into movements of the whole human being. There then arises in visible form the actual counterpart of speech. One can use the entire human body in such a way that it really carries out those movements which are otherwise carried out by the organs connected with speech and music. Thus there arises visible speech, visible music — in other words, the art of Eurythmy.

- Rudolf Steiner, Lecture on Eurythmy

what lasts

BI - O - MIM - IC - RY

[From the Greek bios, life, and mimesis, imitation]

1. Nature as model. Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems, e.g. a solar cell inspired by a leaf.
2. Nature as measure. Biomimicry uses an ecological standard to judge the "rightness" of our innovations. After 3.8 billion years of evolution, nature has learned: What works. What is appropriate. What lasts.
3. Nature as mentor. Biomimicry is a new way of viewing and valuing nature. It introduces an era based not on what we can extract from the natural world, but on what we can learn from it.

Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature [Preface]

velvet innovation

"'We must draw our standards from the natural world. We must honor with the humility of the wise the bounds of that natural world and the mystery which lies beyond them, admitting that there is something in the order of beings which evidently exceeds all our competence.'"

Václav Havel, q. Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, New York: Harper Perennial, 1997.

sleeping king

"After this I asked to be allowed another question. When this was granted, I asked about the event mentioned in many versions of the legends, where the soldiers of the king of the gnomes would awaken if a youth entered the great hall of the underworld and drew the sword from the king's sheath. Immediately the sword was pulled a third of the way out of its sheath. The blade was illuminated like one of the power lines on earth, which we call dragon lines, which glow as they run through the landscape. Simultaneously, I received a message that the youth is a symbol for a new generation of human beings who will rediscover the earth's energy pattern: they will purify it and respect it. When this happens, the fully drawn sword is to be a sign for the elementals that the time has come to return from exile. They will transform the earth into a new Garden of Eden, co-creating it together with humanity."

Marko Pogacnik, Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings: Working with the Intelligence in Nature, Forres, Scotland: Findhorn Press, 1997, 26.

lost and found

"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
Henry Miller

high horse

"Things take place instantaneously, but there's a long process to be gone through first. What you get when something happens is only the explosion, and the second before that the spark. But everything happens according to law -- and with the full consent and collaboration of the whole cosmos. Before I could get up and explode the bomb had to be properly prepared, properly primed. After putting things in order for the bastards up above I had to be taken down from my high horse, had to be kicked around like a football, manacled, made impotent as a jellyfish."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, 1961, 40.