Digging Graves

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Digging Graves

6/15/11

I am so sick of hearing "there is no point in dwelling on it" as if the ghosts of the past don't exist and don't haunt us in unconscious and conscious ways. These very same people go on to express anger and grief and do everything in their power to keep the lid on the coffin... Sitting there having a glass of wine, drinking a beer or smoking a joint and saying "What coffin? I'm sitting on my couch!"

I WILL lay these ghost to rest. Once and for all, they will be recognized for who and what they are, with their hurts angers resentments and fears from the past... They will be given a PROPER BURIAL.

I spent twenty years on a mountain and in the desert on an archeological dig. Now I am digging graves. It's time to lay all of of this to rest.

DEAR GOD SHOW ME THE WAY.

Attached to post on personal blog:

http://catherinetodd.blogspot.com/search/label/beginning%20and%20the%20end

Proper Burial and Digging Graves

Notes from my Facebook page (I've been busy grave digging for weeks now):

https://www.facebook.com/catherine.todd2

All Journeys have secret destinations

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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ~ Martin Buber

Trust in God

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Put your trust in God for support and see His hidden hand working through all sources.  Bowl of Saki, August 24, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.   ~~~ "Classes for Mureeds,  Mureedship", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished) Man's greatest privilege is to become a suitable instrument of God, and until he knows this he has not realized his true purpose in life. The whole tragedy in the life of man is his ignorance of this fact. From the moment a man realizes this, he lives the real life, the life of harmony between God and man. When Jesus Christ said, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God,' this teaching was an answer to the cry of humanity: some crying, 'I have no wealth,' others crying, 'I have no rest,' others crying, 'My situation in life is difficult,' My friends are troubling me,' or, 'I want a position, wealth.' The answer to them all is, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.'   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_2_40.htm

Refuse to Stay Down

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Refuse to fall down.

If you cannot refuse to fall down,

refuse to stay down.

If you cannot refuse to stay down,

lift your heart toward heaven,

and like a hungry beggar,

ask that it be filled, and it will be filled.

You may be pushed down.

You may be kept from rising.

But no one can keep you from

lifting your heart toward heaven.

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Beauty Seen

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Beauty seen

makes the one who sees

it more beautiful.

David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart

Guest House

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Seasons of Peace: Poems from Rumi

Guest House

Being human is like
a guest house.

Each morning a new arrival.

A joy,
a depression,
a meanness,
some momentary awareness

comes as an unexpected visitor.


Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.


The dark thought,
the shame,
the malice,

meet them at the door
laughing,

and invite them in.


Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


~ Jelal'uddin Rumi - 13th century Sufi mystic and poet

From The Essential Rumi, page 109.
Translated by Coleman Barks.

http://www.seasons-of-peace.net/rumi/index.htm