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Jul 20, 2013 7:02:13 GMT
Post by gurthbruins on Jul 20, 2013 7:02:13 GMT
^^(reply #44) Blows my mind... not what it says, we are familiar with the idea... but that it is spelled out so clearly in Isaiah - I had no idea! Thanks ws!
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Jul 20, 2013 14:13:23 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Jul 20, 2013 14:13:23 GMT
no prob Gurth. I agree, when I first read it I was surprised that its been right there the whole time. Ha, I guess that's why it's said that truth is right in front of our eyes but we fail to see it.
Also, after one allows the full understanding of that statement take affect.........well, what's to know? what's to worry about? All is as it is, so be it!
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Mar 29, 2015 13:01:55 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Mar 29, 2015 13:01:55 GMT
Thinking about living is not living, Thinking about eating is not eating, Thinking about walking is not walking, Thinking about helping is not helping, Thinking about the future, is not the future, Thinking about the past is not the past.
Eating the menu does not satisfy hunger, Reading about ones experience does not make it your own.
Images in the mind are not what is seen, A picture of nature is not being in nature, One cannot smell a picture of the rose, One cannot feel the grass in a picture, One cannot hear the singing of painted birds, Attached to images in the mind, the present passes by.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.
Shall we forfeit the real for the unreal, the image for the actual, thinking for real sensuous experiencing? Can the substitution ever surpass the original, raw, uncontrived natural? Nature is the one vestige of non-artificiality. Being in nature, observing her timeless wisdom, one drops any idea of a past or a future, and recognizes that change is an eternal phenomenon.
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