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To create is to pull different threads  of several things together to birth something new. Creation is an endless journey of inner self-inquiry,  outer movement  and boundless imagination  rising from our sacred spaces.  Creativity is a mosaic, a recipe, a tapestry,  a breathing changing kaleidoscope of potent living creation. We cannot miss any story that we are  destined to live and experience. Nature's Creative Gifts "THE island dreams under the dawn And great boughs drop tranquillity; The peahens dance on a smooth lawn, A parrot sways upon a tree, Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea. Here we will moor our lonely ship And wander ever with woven hands, Murmuring softly lip to lip, Along the grass, along the sands, Murmuring how far away are the unquiet lands: How we alone of mortals are Hid under quiet boughs apart, While our love grows an Indian star, A meteor of the burning heart, ...

"When Western civilisation set out on its many paths of winning, accomplishment, and conquest, the contemplative mind seemed uninteresting and even counterproductive to our egoic purposes.  The contemplative mind got in the way of definable goals for progress, science, and development, which were very good and necessary in their own way—but not for soul knowledge.  We lost almost any notion of paradox, mystery, or the wisdom of unsayability—which are the open-ended qualities that make faith so dynamic, creative, and nonviolent.  Instead, we insisted on “knowing,” and even certain knowing all the time and every step of the way!  This is no longer the enlightening path but a rather late and utterly inadequate form of religion, which is probably why so many individuals, especially in the West, now say they are “spiritual but not religious.” I cannot fault them for that, though it sounds like the dualistic mind speaking.  We must remember that Faith i...

True Nature ~ Inner and Outer Journey Spirals To The Centre of The Universe #Dadirri Wash Away The Worry ~  Soaking With Care "Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.  It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves.  Love, therefore, is its own reward."  Thomas Merton Nature's Classics  #LuceatLuxVestra #smartartists #music #yes

Wild wands of tall ferny greens,  conduct sweet drops, unfold curled tips  sweet sprinkle rain of a soft fronded rise. Blue lizard, moss rocks, red backs, The swing, the Cubby and old backyard dunny Grapefruit, green grass, footy space. Calling me, "Now!", calling me quick, just one more magical moment running a secret garden path farewell fern playful, frond tip flicks scoring this sated face. Thank you Mr Spider's Web, Thank you Mrs Tree Fern Thank you all creatures great and small these magic friends sleep now as you bide me safely home. Now softer, now kinder and maybe wiser, Each tiny pebble, each towering gum, each Friendly Green Frond  was, still is, This Wonder,  Full World,  to me. 

Dadirri deeper as mountain water flows  tall flora finds our shining lakeside,  Tiona green cathedral prayers for first people always was, always will Be, home,  these ancients dreams of vast horizons.

Researched and Compiled by Kara Eva Schlegl Additional research and fact checking: Simon Holmes à Court Special thanks to Dan Ilic, Alex Gabbott, Maria Yanovsky, Ena Markovic, Matt Perrott, James Colley, Scott Ludlam, Tim Minchin, Simon & Katrina Holmes à Court & Dick Smith. Introduction I was driving home at 3am, after my team and I finalised the edit of this video, and a government ad came on the radio advising that extreme water restrictions are now in place, due to the severe drought currently afflicting NSW. I don’t know about you, but I’m furious. Furious that we are governed by people who will instruct us to have shorter showers, and at the same time, will allow Australia’s mining sector to consume over 20% of our freshwater supply every single year . I’m furious that our government will pour billions of dollars into the mining sector, but refuses to pay even minimum wage to the firefighters who put their lives on the line for us every bushfire season. In December...

The desert mystics’ primary quest was for God, for Love;  everything else was secondary.  Thomas Merton (1915–1968) helped modern Christianity recover an  awareness of contemplative practice, in part inspired by his reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.  Merton wrote:  “All through the Verba Seniorum [Latin for Words of the Elders] we find a repeated insistence on the primacy of love over everything else in the spiritual life: over knowledge, gnosis, asceticism, contemplation, solitude, prayer. Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions. The more lofty they are, the more dangerous the illusion.” [1] The Desert Fathers and Mothers focused on these primary practices in their search for God: 1) leaving, to some extent, the systems of the world; 2) a degree of solitude to break from the maddening crowd;  3) times o...

Water, This Must Be The Place. Unable to perceive the shape of you,  I find you all around me.  Your presence fills my eyes with your love.  It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere. When we do not see or taste or feel the water We are the flow, We know, we have arrived. 

Nic reminding men about our primal natures.  The Descent to ground zero, shed all that is not true Stand tall and firm in our animalistic natures,  embrace our wild, contain the potency,  predatory. survival, cellular richness Shadow work in groups, innate divine power of love  connects deeply as earth, direct barefoot and naked as born stripped of pretence and comfort and light. Does this terror terrify?  Reclaim and own it consciously, Nic is a lead learner living his truth. Submit to depths uncertainty of oceans not knowing where you stand Harness the inner fire, discerningly flame and rise to share a slow heated feast   Not to scorch or pillage or forcefully take the fruit But rather tend the soils, deeper still and sow the seed spread of receptive deeper wells.  I first worked with Nic in 2012 Lessons Remain from what he graciously shared.   

"There is nothing for Her to submit TO until He provides a container of provision (which is multidimensional) around Her. In other words, for ME, it is the Masculine who must always 'submit' first." - Gillian Pothier I surrender to vast Horizons of Natural Wonder Deep pools, those stars, eye more awe as we wander. Open to mystery, no destination, I lead in following true nature, life, devoted, divine, aligned and kind. 

"Contemporary philosopher Ken Wilber offers a helpful distinction between stages and states.  Your stage is your outer awareness.  Your state is your inner aliveness.  The goal is to be both holy and whole, saintly and wise.  But your state and stage don’t always coincide; many of us are stronger in one area than another. You can be a high–level thinker and be quite astute about psychology, theology, history, or philosophy (a high stage), but do it all from a perspective of individualism and arrogance about that very information (a low state)—because it is still all about “you.”  Conversely, you could be quite unified within and with others, in a high state of loving consciousness, but be poorly informed, lacking in exposure and education to helpful and informative knowledge. Perhaps you know people who are compassionate and kind yet still reveal prejudicial attitudes.  They may seem hypocritical but are simply at a high state and a l...

"entree of ushered thunder as lightning bows her encore ghost sky dances a pane less grey in the heavy cloud belly pregnant. The resplendent birth overdue deep soothing shared in tears of joy rich life elixir race rivers to sea,  to seed, to land, to us, a cycling birth of unchained hearts in flow, our deepest celebration." by Tony Searl #sendherdownhuey

The person who strives after worldly goods and seeks satisfaction from outside the self is working for death because everything in the world is constantly dying and something else is born. This striving to validate externally becomes comfortably futile as intention hears from a place of lack. We earn and choose a living to live freely and lightly, not to possess and accumulate. If we focus on this constantly turning wheel, keeping up, comparing, we burden ourselves with stress. We lose our self as we exert externally and allow or spill energy that is ultimately wasted. Discern what is worth your energy, where we are challenged to grow, aligned with symbiotic energies of self contained fullness. If we leak energy to other's, if we become conditioned to debt, slaves to corporations, beholden to employers, codependent as partners or unhealed from family of origin, we spin away from or are never living our Truth, our core. We get enmeshed in this external force, we lose our sovere...

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery.  There is always more mystery." Explore The Delta of Venus, death, love, Truth and other sensual depths of  Anais Nin.

"So much talk of the divine feminine these days yet most of what I see is still Eve worship... The holy mother soft yin receptive nurturing side of Her...  There is a serious castration of the goddess going on in this perversely patriarchal worship of the gentle side of the feminine... It's like sucking at her generous soothing tit while forgetting the lower half of her body If you want to worship the goddess and see the feminine rise you've got to get down on your knees and worship the holy savage power between her legs too The sacred whore, Lilith, dark Goddess.  The untethered wildness of her holy Night The raw untamed boundless power that arises in the vessel of her sexual potency This is the power that made God banish Lilith because Adam couldn't handle the undulation of her hips...kicked out of the garden and replaced by the submissive gentle digestible Eve The power of woman is so fierce and total that it has been feared as evi...