Dear Ones,
Currently, the inherent uncertainty that comes with living is elevated in the collective consciousness. Beyond certainty or uncertainty, the root of existence is never coming or going. Silent, Aware, Unknowingness from which all of existence emerges is not a relative experience. Through inquiry, meditation, prayer, and open listening, I encourage and invite us to be as available and present as possible to our True Nature. In Presence all is lit-up and transformed. Direct realization of the unknown Ground, the potentiality prior to and AS all form, gives rise to creative, fresh expressions of Lovingness.
In gratitude and love, Jennifer.
the misery here is quite terrible; and yet, late at night when the day has slunk away into the depths behind me, I often walk with a spring in my step along the barbed wire. And then time and again, it soars straight from my heart—I can’t help it, that’s just the way it is, like some elementary force—the feeling that life is glorious and magnificent, and that one day we shall be building a whole new world. ― Etty Hillesum
God must give us a renewed mind (from Vale Millies)
By Hadewijch (13th Century), English version by Mother Columba Hart
Source must give us a renewed mind
For nobler and freer love,
To make us so new in our life
That Love may bless us
And renew, with new taste,
Those to whom she can give new fulness;
Love is the new and powerful recompense
Of those whose life renews itself for Love alone.
-- Ay, vale, vale, millies (Ay, farewell, farewell, a thousand times) --
That renewing of new Love
-- Si dixero, non satis est (If I speak it is not enough) --
Which renewal will newly experience.
(background art by Suzanne Gayle, used with permission)
Mathew 5:16, translated from the Aramaic by Neil Douglas Klotz
Let the light of your Being
the consciousness of knowing
your real Self,
radiate and illuminate
the human beings
you find before you,
as well as the
community of voices
you find within.
When they see and feel
your atmosphere of ripeness,
your ability to act
at the right time and place,
they will be reconnected in praise
to the song and harmony
of the Parent of All,
the nurturing Force
that re-creates the cosmos
each moment,
unfolding a universe
of sound, vibration, and light.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are infinite ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
--RUMI.
In Silence
by Thomas Merton
Be still.
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
to speak your
name.
Listen
to the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
are you? Whose
silence are you?
Who (be quiet)
are you (as these stones
are quiet). Do not
think of what you are
still less of
what you may one day be.
Rather
be what you are (but who?)
be the unthinkable one
you do not know.
O be still, while
you are still alive,
and all things live around you
speaking (I do not hear)
to your own being,
speaking by the unknown
that is in you and in themselves.
“I will try, like them
to be my own silence:
and this is difficult. The whole
world is secretly on fire. The stones
burn, even the stones they burn me.
How can a man be still or
listen to all things burning?
How can he dare to sit with them
when all their silence is on fire?”
Jennifer's beloved teacher, Sharon Landrith (a teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti), has confirmed her as a teacher in the lineage. And encouraged her to be a guide for those genuinely moved to remember and embody their essential nature. Jennifer's joy is to be of service in the unfoldment of spiritual awakening through: private meetings for spiritual-inquiry, group silent retreats and evening gatherings.