You Cannot Find Peace by Avoiding Life!

  ~ Michael Cunningham ~

Image taken on a trip to Gleniffer  NSW 2012

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"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky."

 ~ Kahlil Gibran ~

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Image: Barbours Flame Tree

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People empty me, I have to get away to refill.

~ Charles Bukowski ~

Urunga NSW

Visiting this tree and the one on the other side were some of my favorite places to go and sit and refill... re-energize and remind myself to breath.

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“I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.”

~ Jeffrey McDaniel ~

Lost its leaves and it snowed..

 I could probably learn a lot from the trees in winter.  I could begin in Autumn and let go gently.  Letting go gently is a lot less damaging to ones soul.

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"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit".
   ...  Moliere   ...

Kathy's Apple Tree

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Wikipedia

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"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

~Albert Einstein~

Trees and people operate on an intuitive level.

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It is both a blessing and a curse to feel so deeply.

~ Unknown   ~

Urunga at dawn under the spirit trees

Sit with a tree
Let the tree become me
and
me become the tree

The two become true
and disappear
While still standing near

Dropping leaves like tears always
and new life returns
After a fiery strife
From  a dry and parched life.

Spirit moves
The ground below soothes the pas
The lightening strikes of misguided dislikes
With left over spikes

Those wood bees on the far right
Who duck for cover
Outta sight
as they attempt to unscrew any sands that are tight.

I am here in the first light
and
I am spoiling from my toiling
The boys sing "I want this fight"
"I want to set this issue alight"

And so I desire us to get on with it
We desist from contrite acts of greediness
And see the parts
she's played in this.   M Peters

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“Experience the beauties of nature, and in doing so, learn about yourself.”

~ Japanese Proverb  ~

Sitting at the Beach I tend to learn a great deal.

It is said that the trees know we are there when we are close to them.   I have also heard that plants are there to teach us things.   Both of these scenarios are very deep and very beautiful.

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“There is no such thing as reforestation; a forest cannot be replanted tree by tree. A forest is a society. Only a forest can give birth to a forest.”

~ William Stanley Merwin  ~

Paper Bark Forest in Urunga

Merwin was born September 30, 1927.  He is an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose and this was quoted in response to  a query about his work to restore native forest on Maui at a reading at the Eugene Public Library 2010.

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Once you stop learning, you start dying!

~ Albert Einstein   ~ 

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~  

The limb appears to pop out of this tree.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.  I learned this a very long time ago.  We who consider ourselves to be of this ilk do not entertain defeat.

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"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on its own wings. Always believe in yourself".

"Unknown"

We have to ability to resonate with the planet.  If we do this then we are connected and that feeling will make you feel held and safe.   Trust your intuition as it speaks truth always.

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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

~ African Proverb   ~

The story of Daniel in the Lions Den displays the fact that Daniel understood who he was and from that point of no fear of dying or death then he vibrated higher and the lions sensed this vibration and there was no need to attack Daniel.
 
Read the story here:

Daniel 6

   ¹⁶ So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!”

   ¹⁷ A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel’s situation might not be changed. ¹⁸ Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.
   ¹⁹ At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den. ²⁰ When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?”
   ²¹ Daniel answered, “May the king live forever! ²² My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”
   ²³ The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
   ²⁴ At the king’s command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions’ den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

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You were born to be real not perfect!

~ Unknown ~

 

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Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace. Spirit says, "Find peace, and then everything will fall into place."

 ~ Marianne Williamson ~

Spirit Tree on Armidale Road

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"Nature itself is the best physician".

~ Hippocrates. ~

Looking up on the Avenue Road Glenugie NSW

Trees give off a certain awesome vibration that I pick up in my spirit and I love this so much as I feel a real connection to them where ever I go,  they appear as friends on a journey with me how ever they are very ancient and wise and there medicine is good.

Spirit Tree at Glenugie

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Seek out a Tree and it will teach you Stillness.

~ Eckhart Tolle ~

I love this Eucalyptus tree with the beautiful wrinkles at the boughs.

 Trees are growing where they are for hundreds of years if they are lucky enough to survive humanity.    They cannot walk to a new spot if they get sick of the view.   They show us real stability and strength as they withstand all that comes their way. 

They see the sun rise and set and they weather mighty storms and winds and at other times a tree can just be and relax in the gentle moonlight.   I wonder what a tree feels when it sees a seedling growing nearby?

 Look at a tree, a flower, a plant.

Let your awareness rest upon it.

How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

~ Eckhart Tolle ~

Loving arms outstretched to the world.

I am sure that trees feel things.  I am sure trees are intuitive to our feelings and emotions through our resonant vibrational output onto the air around us. I describe it as a sympathetic resonance going backwards and forwards between the tree and me.  

When I am very distraught about missing my children and not seeing them, I often take it to the tree just down from my house.  I go and lay my palms flat against the trunk and ask for help,  I must see the tree as a grand father figure, solemn and consistent.  

I can see this particular tree from my bed, and so its usually visible through all of  the windows of my house on that side and it is  very visible from anywhere outside in the backyard. What pleasure I receive from this. It is such a comfort to me when I feel like I am getting down in my spirit.

The tree knows all of everything before I say anything.  Nature is fully aware of the circumstances and situations facing us.  Nature has already taken the necessary steps to re-erect herself and hold her head high and keep her place in our solar system in continuum regardless of us mere mortals.  Nature is perhaps thinking mankind is not so kind after all.
 
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"For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root."

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

A sacred place ~ A scarred tree on the Condamine River.

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But we cannot escape Law or rise above it entirely.

The Divine Paradox ( Chapter IV) Kybalion

"Nothing but THE ALL can escape Law–and that is because THE ALL is LAW itself, from which all Laws emerge. "

Jacaranda trees with all of its friends growing in Bellingen NSW

I have a paradoxical situation around Bellingen,  It is seen to be beautiful and pretty but it is cursed because of the atrocities committed close by in this area against woman.  This was a healing place and it was desecrated and so the law of Karma is in action here in a strong way.  It is hard for anyone to even want to contemplate that this place is cursed as such.  This is the Paradox.

What Hermetists know as “the Law of Paradox” is an aspect of the 'Principle of Polarity'. The Hermetic writings are filled with references to the appearance of the Paradox in the consideration of the problems of Life and Being.

THE DIVINE PARADOX

“The half-wise, recognizing the comparative unreality of the Universe, imagine that they may defy its Laws–

such are vain and presumptuous fools, and they are broken against the rocks and torn asunder by the elements by reason of their folly. The truly wise, knowing the nature of the Universe, use Law against laws; the higher against the lower; and by the Art of Alchemy transmute that which is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus triumph. Mastery consists not in abnormal dreams, visions and fantastic imaginings or living, but in using the higher forces against the lower–escaping the pains of the lower planes by vibrating on the higher. Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master.”– The Kybalion

This is the Paradox of the Universe, resulting from the Principle of Polarity which

manifests when THE ALL begins to Create–hearken to it for it points  out the difference between

half-wisdom and wisdom.

 The Teachers are constantly warning their students against the error of omitting the “other side” of any question. And their warnings are particularly directed to the problems of the Absolute and the Relative, which perplex all students of philosophy, and which cause so many to think and act contrary to what is generally known as “common sense.” And we caution all students to be sure to grasp the Divine Paradox of the Absolute and Relative, lest they become entangled in the mire of the Half-Truth. With this in view this particular lesson has been written. 

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PARADOX ~ [from Late Latin paradoxum, from Greek paradoxos opposed to existing notions, from para- + doxa opinion]

[Latin paradoxum, from Greek paradoxon, from neuter sing. of paradoxos, conflicting with expectation : para-, beyond; see para- + doxa, opinion.]

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"To me this means it is an opinion that is beyond belief but it is true even though it looks like it it would not be true on first examination."

~  The paradox that 'standing' is more tiring than 'walking'. ~

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