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Grace From Outer SpaceDate: Thu May 8, 2003 5:44 amSubject: Grace From Outer Space http://www.sulekha.com/chpost.asp...ilosophy&show=0&cid=58288 The true understanding comes from outside. It is not of the space- time dimension. Therefore, we can only call it Grace. Keeping your being open and receptive to that other dimension is a matter of Grace. - Ramesh S. Balsekar "A Net of Jewels" Ramesh S. Balsekar Advaita Press, 1966 ================== If a man sings of God and hears of Him, And lets love of God sprout within him, All his sorrows shall vanish, And in his mind, God will bestow abiding peace. (Sikhism, Adi Granth) ================== Just as a deep lake is clear and still, even so, on hearing the teachings and realizing them, the wise become exceedingly peaceful. (Buddhism, Dhammapada) ================== Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee. (Judaism, Isaiah 26.3) ================== I have seen one such Yogi who lives in a cave in India. He is one of the most wonderful men I have ever seen. He has so completely lost the sense of his own individuality that we may say that the man in him is completely gone, leaving behind only the all comprehending sense of the divine. If an animal bites one of his arms, he is ready to give it his other arm also, and say that it is the Lord's will. Everything that comes to him is from the Lord. He does not show himself to men, and yet he is a magazine of love and of true and sweet ideas. ================== A stubborn child will say that he will only eat from his own special plate and will not eat any food - however good - if served in any other plate. Despite a lot of persuasion, the child will not budge,he would rather starve than eat from any other plate. He must eat from his own plate..... We may smile at such antics, but if we think carefully we discover that we tooare stuck with the same dilemma. We like to view this world from our own little perspectives. We must use our own little minds,our own little intellects to try to make sense of this world. What else can we do? And we are pretty stubborn. If someone says there are larger plates in the housethat can hold greater variety of food, we will not listen, we must have our own little plates to eat from ================== One must chant without ceasing the name of the Lord and His glories. And keep company of the holy one must frequently go to God's bhaktas, or sadhus. One's mind does not fix itself on the Lord while living night and day in the midst of worldly activities and family life. Hence, one must go into solitude now and then to meditate on God. In the first stage it is very hard to fix the mind on the Lord unless one frequently goes into solitude. "When the plant is young, it needs a hedge around it. Without the hedge goats and cows eat it up. "The mind, the solitary corner and the forest are the places where you will meditate. And you will always have good thoughts in your mind. The Lord alone is real, i.e. the eternal substance, and all else is unreal, i.e. transitory. Discriminating thus, you will shake off attachment to the perishable things of the world. - Ramakrishna ================== One cannot love what one does not know. Until the dawn of realization one can only love one's "notions" about God. So practice something so that you can know God, and then you can love. ================== I believe that this physical separation from the Beloved is very unique and better than meeting each other. So keep separate and also aspire to meet your Beloved and one day this separation will burn you! This separation is more sweet than the meeting. - Papaji "The Truth Is" Sri H.W.L. Poonja Yudhishtara, 1995 ================== Always say "yes" to the present moment. Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life - and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you. - Eckhart Tolle "The Power of Now", Eckhart Tolle New World Library, 1999 ================== http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8454/eec.htm love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds - e. e. cummings ================== the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mine looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself, one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things, your flesh, a succinct wandlike animal, a little strolling with the futile purr of blood; your sex squeaked like a billiard-cue chalking itself, as not to make an error, with twist spontaneously methodical. He suddenly tasted worms windows and roses he laughed, and closed his eyes as a girl closes her left hand upon a mirror. - e. e. cummings ================== Le Monocle de Mon Oncle, XI If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words. But note the unconscionable treachery of fate, That makes us weep, laugh, grunt and groan, and shout Doleful heroics, pinching gestures forth From madness or delight, without regard To that first, foremost law. Anguishing hour! Last night, we sat beside a pool of pink, Clippered with lilies scudding the bright chromes, Keen to the point of starlight, while a frog Boomed from his very belly odious chords. - Wallace Stevens ================== http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8454/bio.htm e.e. cummings time line 1894 EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS ("Estlin") is born October 14 in family residence 104 Irving Street, Cambridge, Mass., the son of EDWARD and REBECCA CLARKE CUMMINGS. His energetic, versatile, and highly articulate father teaches sociology and political science at Harvard in the 1890's and in 1900 is ordained minister of the South Congregational Church, Unitarian, in Boston. The Irving Street household will include at various times Grandmother Cummings, MISS JANE CUMMINGS ("Aunt Jane"), EEC's maternal uncle, GEORGE CLARKE, and younger sister ELIZABETH ("Elos"), who eventually marries Carlton Qualey. EEC attends Cambridge public schools, vacations in Maine and at the family summer home, Joy Farm, in Silver Lake, N.H. "Ever since I can remember I've written; & painted or made drawings." 1911 Enters Harvard College, specializing in Greek and other languages He contributes poems to Harvard periodicals, is exposed to the work of EZRA POUND and other modernist writers and painters, and forms lasting friendships with JOHN DOS PASSOS ("Dos"), R. STEWART MITCHELL ("The Great Awk"), EDWARD NAGLE (stepson of the sculptor Gaston Lachaise), SCOFIELD THAYER ("Sco"), JAMES SIBLEY WATSON ("Sib"), S. FOSTER DAMON, GILBERT SELDES, M. R. WERNER ("Morrie"), JOSEPH FERDINAND GOULD ("Joe"), ROBERT HILLYER. 1915 Graduates magna cum laude; delivers commencement address on "The New Art." 1916 Receives MA from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 1917 In New York. Lives at 21 East 15th Street with the painter ARTHUR WILSON ("Tex"). Works for P. F. Collier & Son. In April joins Norton-Haries Ambulance Corps. Sails for France on La Touraine, meeting on board another Harjes-Norton recruit, WILLIAM SLATER BROWN, who will remain his lifelong friend. After several weeks in Paris EEC and Brown are assigned to ambulance duty on Noyon sector. Brown's letters home arouse suspicions of French army censor. On September 21, he is arrested together with Cummings, who refuses to dissociate himself from his friend. Both are sent to [the] concentration camp at La Ferte Mace, where they submit to further interrogation. Following strenuous efforts on his father's part, EEC is released December 19. Eight Harvard Poets published, with EEC among contributors. 1918 Arrives in New York from France January 1. Moves with W. Slater Brown to 11 Christopher Street. Drafted during summer; stationed at Camp Devens until his discharge following Armistice. Moves with Brown to 9 West 14th Street, New York. Meets Elaine Orr, whom he will later marry and who is the mother of his only child, Nancy ("Mopsy"), now Mrs. Kevin Andrews. The marriage will end in divorce. 1920 In New York. Works seriously at his painting. Friendship with GASTON LACHAISE. First number of the new Dial, owned by Scofield Thayer and J. Sibley Watson, with R. Stewart Mitchell as managing editor, comes out in January. Other friends connected with The Dial at various times and in various capacities: PAUL ROSENFELD, music critic; HENRY McBRIDE, art critic; GILBERT SELDES, MARIANNE MOORE, KENNETH BURKE, EDMUND WILSON. On his father's urging, EEC begins, in September, to write The Enormous Room, an account of his and Brown's experiences in the La Ferte Mace prison. 1921 Travels to Portugal and Spain with Dos Passos, then to Paris, which remains his European headquarters for the next two years. Friends made during these years include EZRA POUND, HART CRANE, JOHN PEALE BISHOP, LEWIS GALANTIERE, GORHAM B. MUNSON, MALCOLM COWLE, ARCHIBALD MacLEISH. 1922 In Rapallo and Rome during early summer; meets parents in Venice in late summer. The Enormous Room published in mutilalated version by Boni and Liveright, New York. 1923 Summer at Guethary, France. Back in New York in autumn, moves to 4 Patchin Place, which remains his New York address until his death. Tulips and Chimneys published. 1924 In Paris on first of several short trips he makes to Europe during the later twenties. 1925 Wins Dial Award- Begins to write and draw for Vanity Fair. & and XLI Poems published. 1926 His father killed in an accident. is 5 published. 1927 Marries Anne Barton; this marriage also ends in divorce. Him published. 1928 Him produced in New York by Provincetown Players, April 18, James Light, director. 1930 [No Title] published. 1931 Trip to Russia. CIOPW, a book of pictures in Charcoal, Ink, Oil, Pastel, and Watercolors published. Viva published. First show of his paintings, in New York. 1932 Meets and soon marries Marion Morehouse, well known as model, actress, and photographer. Henceforth they are rarely apart. New York exhibition of his watercolors. 1933 Trip to Europe. Visit to Tunisia. Guggenheim Fellowship. Eimi, an account of his trip to Russia in 1931, published. 1935 Travels to Mexico in June and to California in July. no thanks and Tom published. 1936 1/20 [One over twenty] published. A selection of twenty poems, the first volume of his poems to be published in England. 1937 Trip to France. 1938 Collected Poems published. 1940 50 Poems published. 1944 1 X 1 published. Show of oils and watercolors at the American British Art Gallery in New York. 1945 Show of oils, watercolors, and sketches in Rochester. 1946 Santa Claus published. Special EEC number of Harvard Wake. 1947 His mother dies in January 1948 Show of watercolors and oils at the American British Art Gallery. 1950 Academy of American Poets fellowship. Trip to France, Italy and Greece. XAIPE published. 1951 Guggenheim fellowship. Death of Aunt Jane: a small inheritance. 1952 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard. Lectures published in 1953 as i:six nonlectures. 1954 Poems 1923-1954 published. 1956 Trip to Spain, Italy, and France. 1957 Gives Boston Arts Festival poetry reading in Public Gardens, June 23. 1958 Bollingen Prize in Poetry. A Miscellany (a collection of fugitive pieces) and 95 Poems published. 1961 Trip to Italy, Greece, and France. 1962 Collapses of cerebral hemorrhage at Joy Farm and dies on September 3, at 1:15 A.M. Adventures in Value, photographs by Marion Morehouse with text by EEC, published. 1963 73 Poems published. 1965 Miscellany Revised (an expanded edition of the 1958 volume) published. Fairy Tales, illustrated by John Eaton, published. |