How About Warmth As The Better Part Of Enlightenment?

[skywords]

Not as much insight of the mind, as gentleness of the heart?

Not as much courage of commitment, as patience of affection?

Not as much intensity of distinction, as subtlety of sensitivity?

Not as much confrontation with death, as harmony with what is present, here, now?

Not as much attainment of high ideals, as their integration throughout our being, from moment to moment?

1.   Abstention from demonization as, more thoroughly meaning, less saying anyone nor anything is "wrong," at any turn:
2.   Rather, more literally, all as God  meaning, more, experiencing all truths as merely songs we all sing, and empathy as transcendence of separation between self, and selves and others.
3.   The progress of all stages as an ongoing journey, not into the distant past nor future, but as deepening engagement with the Here and Now.
4.   The errors of mind or experience, less as requiring correction, and more as opportunities for greater empathy with both self and other.
5.    The ineffable experience of the infinite, less as in contrast to either materialism or spirituality, and more as in concert with an infinite empathy of both self as other and other as self.
6.   Enlightenment, more as a gradual, tentative, suspension of judgement, incrementally and adoringly settling into the heart, and less an abrupt and urgent realization or awakening.
7.   Less hard work, and more blissful play.
8.   Less enduring steadfast commitment to truth, and more effortless embrace of all that is, as is, in lighthearted jubilation.
9.   All activities, less as methods toward a distant possibility, and more as experience of experience and celebration of celebration itself.

The tenderness of warmth, shared, radiant and all inclusive, as the measure of an all the more embracing integration of both the corporeal (core/corpus - reality) and ideal sides of, both:

     A. Our sentient, physical, transient, vulnerable, delicate, organic nature, and 

     B. Our ethereal, idealistic, eternal, mental, abstract, intellectual, invulnerable imagination.

 

 

Edited December 23, 2019 by skywords

[skywords]

@skywords

What does the secret of life mean?

 

WARMTH

That’s The Secret:

yes: WARMTH

Let me explain

This has been the secret for a very long time because people have been looking for it in the wrong place: In Their Heads.

What do I mean by “Their Heads”? I mean, in their thoughts (brains), vision (eyes), sounds (ears), mouths (words, food), touch (5 senses), noses (perfumes).

The secret is not to be FOUND.

The secret is to be FELT. Feelings are not “out there,” they are in here.

The center of “in here,” is THE HEART.

THE SECRET IS WARMTH OF HEART:

LOVE

And this is not something one gets from “out there.” It is something one gives from one’s HEART. And one gives it,

To Oneself

Through WARMTH

Which includes: Tenderness, Gentleness, Serenity, Joy, Sensitivity, Friendship, Lightheartedness, Ease, Comfort, Support, Companionship, Honor, Respect, Rest, Care, among a host of generous and grateful gifts.

Once one’s LOVE chalice is FULL: Only Then Can One Share These, This Warmth, With Others

This Self Love is Both A Cultivated Habit ~ for the long run

And A Habit Of Living Fully ~ In The NOW, the ever present moment

That is why it is never “finally found.” It is constantly Created And Recreated By You In Each Unfolding Moment Of The Now.

This Is ENLIGHTENMENT.

It is referred to as “Enlightenment” because it’s GRACE is Resplendent: Radiant, Brilliant, Glowing, Harmonious. But this is only the Surface of Enlightenment. Deep withing this translucency, at the very heart of Enlightenment, is it’s Compassionate And Empathetic Source. It is Simpler Than Simplicity Itself:

PURE, GENTLE, GENEROUS AND GRATEFUL ~ ALL TOO SIMPLE
(Hidden Under Our Very Noses: Our Hearts’)

WARMTH

[skywords]

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

                                                                                                    ~ Jean Paul

Edited December 26, 2019 by skywords

[Forestluv]

Some nice musings in the OP ? 

[skywords]

@Serotoninluv

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