Path of Initiation... June 2018, rebirth month as I enter into the month of my birth

"Although nothing has really changed, everything is different." ~ me
Because, I decided: June 24, 2018

Connectedness of everything to everything else, is one reason I like to play with "randomness" here

Disposition of openness toward the inner Depths of our being and intimacy with the Divine so that this can be felt in every attitude and activity... Daily life as exercise...

Everything is different now ... Experience a breakthrough of being which lifts us out of mundane... Every moment is an opportunity for awakening from within...

"Flash of an awakening experience... Fleeting but unforgettable moments which have Flooded us with feelings of inexpressible joy, peace, and gratitude..."

"Golden thread to our depths... water a flower with a Gesture of love... enter into it in such a way that it develops the inner life... that is work on ones self."

"Hara: The Vital Centre of Man" by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

Initiation : the action of beginning something.

Jackie's  Joy

Julie, Lane Bob, Carrie, Kevin

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

Learn to Look outside the way we are Learning to Look within. Listen to the secret core of our being within

"Mighty gratefulness for being alive and feeling myself alive... It is in this atmosphere that life as such took on a numinous character for me. I discovered at the same time that it was in facing death that we step forward toward true life. That experience was later a part of my teaching: by accepting death, we discover and receive life which is beyond life and death..." ~ Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

Numinous : having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.

Our contact with Openness and intimacy with the divine such that any Ordinary action can be the "Occasion of a transcendental encounter" ~ min 25

"Path of Initiation: The Wisdom of Kalfried Graf Durckheim" by Ted Nottingham

"Quiet Trees"  source
"Responsibility to help other persons who also seek this path." min 15

"She believe that the world looked better upside down" ~ Spirit of a Hippie

"Turtle coming out of brumation" thank you, Emily. Cool photo and a new word for me: brumation is a term used for the hibernation-like state that cold-blooded animals utilize during very cold weather.

"Unbecoming is necessary for transformation ... Unconditional mission which leads to the inner way."

"Vaster self which is part of transcendent being as the drop is part of the ocean. Through making sustained effort..."

"We can become not only receptive, but transparent to the greater life within us which links us to the universe." ~ Path of Initiation

"eXistential self stands for the artificial identity made of unconscious habits, fears, and imitation."
Yes, I am a hippie: 
Zen of "Two Falling Blossoms" from a poem entitled “Stranger” by Thomas Merton

When no one listens
To the quiet trees
When no one notices
The sun in the pool

Where no one feels
The first drop of rain
Or sees the last star

Or hails the first morning
Of a giant world
Where peace begins
And rages end:

One bird sits still
Watching the work of God:
One turning leaf,
Two falling blossoms,
Ten circles upon the pond.

One cloud upon the hillside,
Two shadows in the valley
And the light strikes home.
Now dawn commands the capture
Of the tallest fortune,
The surrender
Of no less marvelous prize!

Closer and clearer
Than any wordy master,
Thou inward Stranger
Whom I have never seen,

Deeper and cleaner
Than the clamorous ocean,
Seize up my silence
Hold me in Thy Hand!

Now act is waste
And suffering undone
Laws become prodigals
Limits are torn down
For envy has no property
And passion is none.

Look, the vast Light stands still
Our cleanest Light is One!