The Open Dimension
Commentary on social issues; politics; religion and spirituality
About Me
- Name: Alfred E. McGuire
- Location: Laguna Hills, California, United States
I am a semi-retired psychotherapist/psychiatric social worker and certified hypnotherapist. Originally a practicing attorney, I changed careers during the 1980's. My interests include history, constitutional law, Hindustani classical music, yoga, meditation and spirituality.
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa
— Jigme Lingpa
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
Monday, September 07, 2015
But understand this: There will be terrifying times in the last days.
People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty,
abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious,
callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,
traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God, as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power.
Reject them.
Sunday, September 06, 2015
Sayings of Rumi
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic
motion.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another
form.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be
polished?”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through
life?”
“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving
in you, a joy.”
“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything .”
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything .”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend
to end up there.”
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade
you back towards disease and death.”
“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor
translation.”
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure .”
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which
you truly love.”
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who
hears or what they think.”
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from
yourself.”
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?”
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?”
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person
to another, not words.”
" Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
“This being human is a guest house. Every
morning is a
new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some
momentary
awareness comes as an unexpected
visitor...Welcome and entertain them all.
Treat each
guest honorably. The dark whoever comes, because
each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
“Set
your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames .”
“Be
like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to
cover others' faults. Be
like running water for
generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like
the
Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you
appear.”
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a
hundred veils to
fall each moment. First to let go of life .
Finally, to take a step without
feet.”