Camo Spider 5/16/14

Flashback Wednesday, May 16, 2012 – This is my pick photo for today, May 16th, and stars a nice close-up of an ant doing its business on a peony.

Flashback Thursday, may 16, 2013 – This is my pick photo for today and it stars one of the prettiest irises in my yard.

Friday, May 16, 2014 – Today I saw a different spider and this one was camouflaged in comfrey.  We also have a little bumblebee loaded with pollen and my resident hummingbird.

“I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.

It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.

And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”
~ Osho

“We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young — not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age — and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.”
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
~ Voltaire

Our hearts give thanks for the Grace in the Universe!
Bright Bee Blessings and Namaste ~ Raven