Silently Thundering the Truth of Oneness

~ Alaskan Fjord ~ 

Clicking the shutter on this stunning serenity just last week while in Alaska, I was so struck by the quiet serenity and profound power of the environment. Otherworldly beauty, and we were trespassing through the sacred waters of the whales and eagles and otters and bears; through Nature's realms.

As I allowed this resonance of majesty to impact me, I became aware that this dreamlike place lives on long after I leave to go back to my daily living. It lives on like this, infinitely generating from past into future a holy integrity that dwarfs my opinions, my concerns, my fascination with myself and with differences between me and others, silently thundering the truth of oneness.

"A single hand cannot know the whole animal at once. The ocean has an eye. The foam bubbles of phenomena see separately: we bump against each other, asleep at the bottom of our body-boats. We should wake and look with the clear eye of water we float on."

~ Rumi

Intuition: The Seventh Sense

 Inward Sky

"You are the soul, the universe, 

and what animates the universe. ...

Why cry for what is closer than voice? ...

Prophets come and go for one reason, to say,

Human beings, you have a great value

inside your form, a seed. Be led 

by the rose inside the rose."

~  Rumi

Have you ever had a thought of someone, perhaps someone you haven't been in contact with for some time, and at that moment the phone rings and it is that very person? Have you ever had a dream about an unidentified or uncommunicated event, and then that event occurs? Have you ever stopped and been very still and reflectd on something of concern to you, and an insight occurs, or even an epiphany, and you are flooded with knowing the solution to your problem?

What if we were to practice listening to the "still small voice" within? What if we listened for the inner wisdom that resonates to our question, and tested the result in the laboratory of our own life? The more we practice, the more audible is the innate wisdom. We can see that it has been speaking all along, we have simply been listening to the cacophany of the external world of our circumstances and conditions, and not paying attention to the permeating flute music. 

The more attention we pay to the Silence within, the more we can avail ourselves to what It is saying, and recognize that It is always available to us. Like Balance, Intuition is a sense that is ours for the cultivation. It is as available as the air.

Taste, Touch, Smell, Sight, Hearing, Balance, and Intuition. 

Seven!