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5: "Love indeed is loving and patient, accepting us even when we reject Her, for not seeing or not being ready, searching for the wrong gleam in places best forgotten. She comes to us in many forms, abides in us silent if we wish, until we open the door for Her release and expression.What bliss that cherished moment of realization, the sense awakening of eternal spiral ever higher and greater!" (by Joe DiMino)
6: "Often the novice lets sex get in the way of love." (Joe DiMino)
7: "No matter what you have done, come to God. There is no one on this planet more deserving of love and forgiveness than yourself." (Joe DiMino)
8: "The simple act of reflection is another form of prayer...while reflecting we are spiritually strengthened through Divine association...like osmosis." (by Joe DiMino)
9: "Unlike other forms of art, great poetry cannot be faked. Nuance is too precise." (by Joe DiMino)
10: "I think all human passion is training for that great passion...learning to see and love God in spirit." (by Joe DiMino)
11: "I can honestly say, Love is everything to me. Most else I can live without or do with less, but one drop of love lost, or a little added distance from—I am in agony!" (by Joe DiMino)
12: "If I have learned anything from life, it is that I know nothing; and the mystery of my journey, to douse the lesser-ego with incendiary, making ready for Divine spark." (by Joe DiMino)
13: "To battle fault is to give it a home. Better, see it for what it is...and move on…." (By Joe DiMino)
14: "If it makes me uncomfortable, it is wrong. What is
right never makes one uncomfortable, not even to motivate us to
change. God's change is love." (By Joe DiMino)
15: "Though one can learn from 'Trial and Error,' best teacher is to simply open the self up to Divine Love in Presence--and know!" (By Joe DiMino)
16: "Art! It is like human love~controlling and all consuming when living with it…death without it!" (by Joe DiMino)
17: "Sometimes I really do feel like little more than a shadow, a composite of myself, reaching deep within to rediscover the many-light from which I have been blinded." (by Joe DiMino)
18: "I am thoroughly convinced that all governments should have non-professional civilian oversight...and all science should have non-educated oversight. It would save us all a lot of grief." (Joe DiMino)
19: "While looking at a picture of a magnificent wasps' nest I thought: 'Amazing how creatures so small seem to have capacity for thought so large...'" (by Joe DiMino)
20: " Too often we improve things of natural beauty~making them ugly." (by Joe DiMino)
21: "When forgetting we are co-creators with God, our behavior is that of independent destroyers." (by Joe DiMino)
22: "Love will not only survive but be born again in us new each day, when we are loyal to its essence, believe in its currents—and cherish our moments shared as if they were all eternity." (by Joe DiMino)
23: "I have often thought, realism is great, but some abstracts are truer representations of our many journeys." (by Joe DiMino)
24: "Only we can shut out the light, but our hands never far from the switches immortal." (by Joe DiMino)
25: “Love is perfect in itself. Complete. Any tinkering can only do it harm. But to give into it, fall trustingly into its fullness ever unfolding into blossom, is bliss eternal." (by Joe DiMino)
26: "We are often so generous and forgiving of others…why not with ourselves once in awhile be fair?" (by Joe DiMino)
27: "Far more lovely than beauty skin-deep is the soul in transparency." (by Joe DiMino)
28: "If I could only keep from getting in my own way!" (by Joe DiMino)
29: "Truth can be far more harmful than lies when compassion is omitted." (by Joe DiMino)
30: "I have long ago forgiven those who have harmed me in anyway—especially happy I had done so after finding out my forgiveness relieved the unspoken weights carried in their souls. I never want my anger or grief to hold anyone back from a higher sense of God's spirit and purpose." (by Joe DiMino)
31: "When looking back I have asked, which is more truth, my image or reflection? Ideally they should both be the same." (by Joe DiMino)
32: " I can’t imagine myself really knowing anything about what God thinks. I only pray that the beauty I see in Nature and the loving presence I am constantly aware of in my heart, is the finer truth. This wish I will cherish always." (by Joe DiMino}
33: "Whenever I identify a fault in someone else, I realize it is time to eradicate it from myself." (by Joe DiMino)
34: " We choose our perspectives. We are of many heavens and many worlds (all are God)." (by Joe DiMino)
35: "I believe we are born creators, and when we do not exercise our brains in such way, our spirits suffer." (by Joe DiMino)
36: "Being published and read in print is part of it. But greater is the expression of doing by writing, the act of feeling which is always published in spirit, and in this way reaches into and influences the stream of our collective-conscious." (by Joe DiMino)
37: "Under the skin, under the religion, we are all the same in one body of humanity. If we thought more of our likeness than our differences, it would be a far better world. It is to embrace the beautiful art of individuality, and to love the commonality of God that flows through all of us." (by Joe DiMino)
38: "I am grateful for the opportunity in every breath to make this a better world for myself and others." (by Joe DiMino)
39: "Some say, one is born a Genius. This is incorrect. Genius can be learned, acquired...it just cannot be taught." (by Joe DiMino)
40: "Focus leads to momentum. All things, each of us and every object and thought we have, are universes onto themselves. When we near them in singularity, they open up to us as would a blossom or lover." (by Joe DiMino)
41: "God never sees our flaws--the contract of sin entirely our own...." (by Joe DiMino)
42: "He always lifts our spirits. Never takes us down. Never punishes. We do all that ourselves. To ourselves. There is only love in Him. The negativity is our own creation entirely. And we hold the ticket out of hell in our hands, in our hearts if we free them up for love." (by Joe DiMino)
43: "Negativity can be a habit like coffee or tobacco or booze. Not always easy to kick, but the rewards for doing so are astronomical. Our memories are light-discs (records so to speak)--the same thoughts make the grooves deeper. When they are negative thoughts, more serious distortion soon follows. This is not Theory talking…it is Mr. Trial and Error himself. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" (by Joe DiMino)
44: "I think, as poets, while we are always interested in feelings and bringing clarity to life, we are also simply addicted to word-images and their sounds." (By Joe DiMino)
45: "People often are trapped into What-is, not realizing that, What-is is gone before we determine it. Creation is ongoing, and the only Real worthy of energy is Ever-becoming." (by Joe DiMino)
46: "Sorrow and strife in time will pass. And although we may not be the same, in some sense we are always left stronger, better prepared for new challenges. Defeats or failures will come, but God will find a way to be seen and heard for our restoration and to instill firmer foundations of faith." (by Joe DiMino)
47: "I am grateful for all that I have been given, none of which I can really say that I have earned, for so many have worked much harder than I and yet appear to have far less. Therefore, I thank God for all He has given me, and most of all, for allowing me experience of life through His eyes and heart." (by Joe DiMino)
48: "A picture is a thousand words…ten million to others, leading to even more images. Evolution of conceptional thinking. Then comes physical manifestation. For all our sakes, keep them positive." (by Joe DiMino)
49: "Yes, we do know more of what to expect from the sky. Even when contrary, it is contrary we are accustomed to dealing with—though rather sudden, occasionally, the dark changes. And know that dark will pass in time and the sun will return. Not always so with people. Sometimes the ones closest inclement us the most—and sunshine from them in this journey never to return." (by Joe DiMino)
50: "A wise man knows with reservation. A stupid man knows." (by Joe DiMino)
51: "I keep telling young people how important it is to discriminate when it comes to visuals and audio. We behave according to our focus. No such thing as seeing or hearing and simply forgetting. All additives can become parts of our DNA." (by Joe DiMino)
52: "Our spirits are immortal…and brighten to us with each new incarnation. Physical experience is manifestation of consciousness—the substance of which changes over time. We see what we want to see or have been told to see. Only the spirit is capable of seeing truth. 'And truth is beauty….'" (by Joe DiMino)
53: "All of nature is connected on some level, therefore what we see outside of us is also inside of us to be explored on all planes of experience--many of which are yet beyond imagination." (by Joe DiMino)
54: "A rat put in a maze, even if consisting of a myriad of paths, is still subject to a controlled environment. He only has an illusion of Free Will. For him to truly have free-will, he would need to have created that maze, be able to reshape it at will, place it wherever he wished. In fact, he would need access to ultimate power of fashioning a new self and universe." (by Joe DiMino)
55: "Destiny knows us better than ourselves." (by Joe DiMino)
56: "Unfolding in spirit in a sense can be likened to awakening what is latent within us—all the wonderful treasures stored inside by our creator. In truth, the dream can become a living reality as we rise from sleep into conscious oneness with each other, time, space, and more yet we suspect will surface though beyond imagination." (by Joe DiMino)
57: "We are all that was, is, and yet to be. Through cooperative living and by way of art we serve to uplift and strengthen each other when weary along the path. No one gets to the ultimate trophy first." (by Joe DiMino)
58: "I think imagination is The Real...everything else sort of just manifests afterwards." (by Joe DiMino)
59: "Difficult sometimes to keep a youthful approach to life, but it is well worth the extra effort." (by Joe DiMino)
60: "Life is a great mystery. Answers we define become ever finer lines reaching into infinity, revealing endless subtle differences with overlapping complexities often beyond comprehension." (Joe DiMino)
61: "The least obvious, what is behind our art, the things that support our images, the frames that surround them, hooks and wires suspending them in reality, can be more compelling a story than the work itself." (by Joe DiMino)
62: "The very sensitivity and fire that makes us artists, always leaves us quite vulnerable and incendiary. And I was never one to have it any other way. If I wasn't dying from, brokenhearted because of a love I lost, I found one in a hurry over whom I could poetically lament--even went out of my way to invent one if no conscriptions available, missing the absence of abysmal feeling for the balance of High Ecstasy." (by Joe DiMino)
63: "I sometimes drive my truck down the road, imagining what I must look like to others, seeing myself from the outside, through different eyes and points of view. Then I come back in, think of all that I have learned about them and me." (by Joe DiMino)
64: "We must take hold of our own destinies and not let anyone or any incident convince us that we are entirely powerless." (by Joe DiMino)
65: "The universe responds to us in all ways. Most beautiful is that of Harmony. In spirit and in body it produces vibrations off the chart!" (by Joe DiMino)
66: "In the silence all is still, even the voice of Time respectfully pauses, in awe of her lips of eternity." (by Joe DiMino)
67: "If God is all knowing, and my journey as Him to see, now I look into eternity blind only to limits." (Joe DiMino)
68: "As we realize what was lost with our conscious independence from God, we more and more long for both...." (by Joe DiMino)
69: "While looking at a magnificent photo of a sunset, I thought, sometimes we defy Nature to our credit: She is always in change and here the artist has captured a moment of Her beauty that our eyes and hearts may fondly linger." (by Joe DiMino)
70: "Here we are in the middle, where nothing is black and white--a colorful image with loads of hues somewhere between shadow and light. One reveals us--while the other envies and darkly copies." (by Joe DiMino)
71: "Creation is the illusive mystery we seek--what we love of great art, writing, and symphony passionately motivates us to emulate in spirit." (by Joe DiMino)
72: "Our outward manifestations of great writing, art and music, are exclamations of awakening!" (by Joe DiMino)
73: "When seeing God, our relationship, the awe, responsibility and all else that goes with it, we often hide again in contrived personality and circumstance. But He never stops looking for an opportunity given to Him to reveal Himself in truth." (by Joe DiMino)
74: "There is the God of our religions and philosophies, and then the unknowable God, always out beyond our understanding, of infinite evolution." (by Joe DiMino)
75: "Answers are not so important...better to pray for quality time to enjoy the questions." (by Joe DiMino)
76: "A satisfying ending is often the toughest part, trying to get things to come together in a meaningful way. A never ending challenge with art and life." (by Joe DiMino)
77: "Often we do not project ourselves as we really are, tuning eyes out instead of In." (by Joe DiMino)
78: "Final analysis, you alone should be left standing in God." (by Joe DiMino)
79: "Our minds are not simply what we think and imagine, but gateways of formation to where we are going." (by Joe DiMino)
80: "Whenever I am angry with someone or upset with their behavior, I quickly look inside myself for its twin. Sure enough I will find it. And then it is a perfect opportunity for self improvement." (by Joe DiMino)
81: "The God in you sees and loves the God in me. Then we are one in all." (by Joe DiMino)
82: "We are often wanting what we can't have--and never having what we can't leave. (by Joe DiMino)
83: "Sometimes art can be destructive, becoming an excuse for dying instead of another reason for living." (by Joe DiMino)
84: "We choose our life and we choose our death--till we choose only life." (by Joe DiMino)
85: "I know we stop travelling the moment we believe that we have arrived somewhere. I pray God spares me this egoism!" (by Joe DiMino)
86: "We are each a universe of: Lost and found. Open, expose and find. Heal and let love." (by Joe DiMino)
87: "There is nothing we do right except loving and forgiving, learned by God's example. Anything else we thing we know will be proven in time to have been illusion." (by Joe DiMino)
88: "I try my best when I write to be truthful to my feelings while also remaining true to what I comprehend of truth. The only way I can really know if I am even close to truth (what I am able to understand at my level of development) is by how what I write effects others. I believe there is a deep level of truth, by which we relate (though Truth appears to all of us on close examination as slightly different--our personal relationship) that is the same for all of us. And that is God evident." (by Joe DiMino)
89: "All that we think we know, are really only symbols--representations of deeper truth and meaning ever evolving infinite." (by Joe DiMino)
90: "I’m certain He doesn’t blame us for what we are yet to learn. As we evolve in love and forgiveness, He will also in our eyes." (Joe DiMino)
91: "Within my abstract I discovery the infinite. A universe of clarity without division." (by Joe DiMino)
92: "Divine Light, can only be seen by the quickened spirit-eye. Sunlight is of far less vibration, appearing dark in comparison. As a Student of Truth continues to develop his sensitivity for higher vibration, by focused use of the opening spirit-eye, his soul is simultaneously enlightened and lifted into ever brighter Illumination." (by Joe DiMino)
93: There are many things for which we should simply be grateful--enjoy them, accept them for their beauty, and never try to interpret or analyze, pry into the chemistry of miracle." (by Joe DiMino)
94: "Nothing wrong with being human. How could there be? God made us." (Joe DiMino)
95: "Governments come and go. Some attempt to elevate and glorify the individual, while most elevate and glorify only themselves and their own personal causes. The more power a government seizes, restricting personal freedoms of choice, the more resistance in time a suppressed people will surmount until their very souls cry-out for renewed liberty. This is a basic right of the human spirit, that of self expression with the freedom to expand out into an ever-changing, never-ending journey of personal-awareness while respecting the rights of others. God is The prime example of freedom, unselfishly giving of Himself as the Eternal Well of Essence from which all of creation draws, having realized in these deep waters the Purest Source of Immortal Substance. He has given birth to us, with complete faith in His offspring having dominance of goodness. The greatest crime against Heaven and Earth is to squander, for the false promise of social security, our own Freewill, the treasure of which is Righteous Self-determination." (by Joe DiMino)
96: "I think that the high of love evolving in our hearts (even the One that is seemingly all and enough—between us and God), or any knowledge or understandings of truth we come-by after much sincere searching, is in part knowing that all beauty, may it be that which we see in nature or that of human expression at its best, will always be yet lacking when not attempting to let others see through our own eyes as we see. It is the full circle of, finding God in ourselves…then in others and all things…then all of us and them one in Him. Then He and ourselves are truly enough." (by Joe DiMino)
97: '"Absolute power absolutely corrupts."' "I believe this is God's own realization and Crowning-perfection--the very reason why He thought it necessary to give His creation, Man, Freewill. What greater love, than to be willing to give everything you own away, down to the very essence of yourself?" (by Joe DiMino)
98: "One can see truth or gravitate toward the malignancy of clouded perceptions…but truth is everything that is worth maintaining and possessing (what is eternal and left after the perfected reality of all)...and it never changes—within truth the painful/good Law-of-consequences." (by Joe DiMino)
99: "There can be an entire world of sensation in even the smallest particle of every moment we live. We must open ourselves up to each eternal voice. The secret is, to live in the moment, unencumbered by the past and future; knowing one is gone, and other—a miracle to happen." (by Joe DiMino)
100: "Nothing is correct without a center…to start from and stay in if one wishes to experience the beauty of essence." (by Joe DiMino)
101: "Talent manifests when we allow divine-spark within to surface. It is less a process of learning and more the process of becoming the triumph of our innate gifts." (by Joe DiMino)
102: "What we see in others...and in the world at large...the good and bad...we could not, would not see if it were not within ourselves. On the positive side (when referring to the negatives), to see evil within ourselves does not mean that we must act upon it (are slave to it)--bad within us can be used as reference for what not to do." (by Joe DiMino)
103: "Science vs God? Of course, as you know, the answer is not found in looking at near or distant matter, but while listening to Divine-echo within…the yet unsolved mystery behind a human heartbeat…further confounding the sciences when combined with another in Love’s Harmony. Science will never decide love…it just is when allowed!" (by Joe DiMino)
104: "I never believe that I have arrived in any sense of the word. Just another human foraging for truth, looking up through canopy for beams of light, finding my way through a Forest Of Self." (by Joe DiMino)
105: "I love to travel in the realms of art, here we are omnipotent and thus become humble, realizing our gift and Great Wonder." (by Joe DiMino)
106: "It is always a new you…evolving, inventing yourself and world as you think. The past should never be used as a reference or balance. The references are a part of us, used spontaneously whether we like them or not. Freedom is to seize the moment…before the moment seizes us." (By Joe DiMino)
107: "What is given from Love's heart, is never apart...." (by Joe DiMino)
108: "There is only one value, and one place. They are both God." (by Joe DiMino}
109: "One cannot separate the art from the artists, nor the lover from love…it is never past…and always into the future…." (by Joe DiMino)
110: "God is Love. So if one’s self is only love…all of the time, then God is indeed self. Personally, I've got a ways to go, therefore I seek myself in Christ." (by Joe DiMino)
111: "You are indeed all with Him; substance made out of Him; out of love; for us; for Him; Forever." (By Joe DiMino)
112: "I see no indication that anything is fully at rest; even the departed are alive in memory at the least…so I well anticipate life (motion) to be eternal in one form or another. And I know love will always be a major player." (By Joe DiMino)
113: "There is a greater mystery of our being, a personality shared just awaiting introduction of spirit. The greatest story yet to be told." (by Joe DiMino)
114: "So true, if you cannot attract what you physically need, or those that can help you get it, you then have the power to create it from nothing (a metaphor). The law of attraction applies to all that God has in the way of power released by love—therefore, Love is the greatest of all. There is nothing you can imagine, in essence good, that the Divine will not bless into the world of physical manifestation." (by Joe DiMino)
115: "Soul is the real substance. Everything else, illusion—veils hiding the greater beauty of spirit." (by Joe DiMino)
116: "Why tell the truth? Simply for Truth: "As Keats
said, "Truth is beauty...that is all." (by Joe DiMino)
117: "One Perfect Kiss..." "That is one that lingers on the lips and heart forever...." (By Joe DiMino)
118: "Forgiveness...the greatest relief for the deepest pain...." (by Joe DiMino)
119: "When men and women compliment one another, come together with their own special strengths and tenderness, no matter what the occasion the experience is divine." (by Joe DiMino)
120: "Some loves can never be replaced, remain singular and immortal in our hearts; but we should not languish and wither if by fate parted. Great love would not want this as a memorial, but insist on being kept alive by continued expression. It is the way of love and consistent with our Divine Nature." (by Joe DiMino)
121: "At times what we think, long for ahead is more important and closer to truth than where we are…the physical journey trailing behind spirit driven by imagination—" (by Joe DiMino)
122: "Time" does not exist. It is much like math: 2+2 does not exist other than as a concept. What exists are 2 apples plus 2 apples. It is the same with Time: Time is only relevant to human consciousness (awareness), and has nothing to do with actual Matter. Time is simply a flexible concept for explaining away ignorance. (by Joe DiMino)
123:
"Nature’s law,
Deploring
That which she fills;
God’s refined law:
Loving even those
Who sin—" (by Joe DiMino)
124: "Father, I ask only that Your love grow in me...and I live only to seed...." (by Joe DiMino)
125:
"Eyes of Love" (by Joe DiMino)
Thank God,
His Son of Triumph
Sees only
The victory in me!
126:
"Faith Need Never Be Blind" (by Joe DiMino)
Faith need never be blind-
ongoing conversation
in prayer;
but uninterrupted rapport
when intimate
all times
irregardless
of where….
127: "Too few dare to explore the heart openly, but it is the only way we will ever get to know spirit independent of mechanics." (by Joe DiMino)
128: "There are parts of the self we fear to look direct on, by chance seeing a dark-side few are prepared to confront, afraid one might embrace. If we do our best, God and His angels will do the rest." (by Joe DiMino)
129: "I see a beautiful, universal-cooperative-spirit awakening in the minds and hearts of young and old alike. Unfortunately, those same growths in spirit are seen by many industries and governments as perfect vehicles for greater manipulation leading to more selfish gain. I have been lied to so often by government, especially self-serving hypocrites, I feel like the kid in that move with her head spinning. The narcotic of power destroys the hearts and confiscates the souls of most men/women. That is why the US Constitution was written in such a way as to limit centralized power. That constitution presently is under serious attack by many of those who have sworn to protect. A majority of us are naively allowing our leaders to throw our babies out with the bathwater. We have become one or two issue citizens with tendency to vote our own immediate needs and desires while staying ignorant to greater issues which further down-the-road guard the rights and freedoms of all." (by Joe DiMino)
130: "Difficult to gain approval of the critics--and low, for them to look at themselves with such fine scrutiny would be something only to imagine; but a driven individual will be able to raise applauds from those who really matter, the best of us, having this in common, the uncritical love of our Creator." (by Joe DiMino)
131:
"By the time we are truly capable
Of understanding human love
We are too tired
To entirely express it—
Sort of like
Falling asleep
In the middle
Of a good show…." (by Joe DiMino)
132: "When possible I have walked to the beat of my own drummer, and it has not always been easy. If there’s anything in the way of advice I could give young people it would simply be, no matter what you do, always give it your best shot. Hot/cold are far better statements than runny lukewarm." (by Joe DiMino)
133: "Sometimes I believe, all the love we feel for each other and Mother-earth must first come out of poetry before it is truly real." (by Joe DiMino)
134:
"Don't believe for a moment
that you are ever near the finish
no matter how dire
the situation;
there is depth in each of us
below sea
and high of sky
with light-years
yet to travel...." (by Joe DiMino)
135: "When I die, I think, if given the choice out of all I have experienced, I would be more than satisfied to just take with me what I know of love." (by Joe DiMino)
136: "It is so important to be politically involved, to elect leaders who have the will to mobilize the power of nations into one combined loving purpose, to alleviate suffering and abuse in the world. It can be done, and must be done. There is no Heaven in Heaven for anyone until we make it a Heaven on earth. As Heaven casts down Her Light here on earth, earth reflects back that Light or its own shadows. It is entirely up to us." (by Joe DiMino)
137: "When allowing nature to simply express its eternal purpose, one can see God’s beauty manifesting in everything around us. Truth be told, all mishaps are our free-will evolving the way to God’s perfect state of being." ( by Joe DiMino)
138: "Difficult to see clearly some times…but on those occasions when we do, I like to think it is natural for us to say beautiful things and to paint lovely images." (by Joe DiMino)
139: "There is hope if just alive. The God of Infinite Wonders could not have errored, made for our challenge a question without a healing answer. Our destiny is not to accept, but God's will that we rise and conquer." (by Joe DiMino)
140: "The moments most precious to me, are when I do not feel a product of my past (nor distracted by focus on the future), but freely letting the present unfettered release within me its treasures of simply being" (by Joe DiMino)
141: "Fabulous when feeling so alive that nothing else is greater than the life surging through you at a particular moment! It is at times like these, while listening to magnificent music, or reading exquisite poetry, awed by a Rembrandt or Degas, one touches the power that brings all into being—a-twirl amidst such brilliance, one cannot help but sense the truth of omnipotence and immortality." (by Joe DiMino)
142: "Lessons can be painful, all of us, I would guess, having had more than we feel our share or deserved; but the rewards for getting beyond are truly great; and the walls from not trying, are tall and wide as eternity. God loves us." (by Joe DiMino)
143: "Finding truth begins with asking questions: the greater discovery, through more layers of uncovering. Truth is, we can never know a thing in itself (not entirely, not even ourselves, for we are Free-will-beings with unlimited possibilities for expression), for each thing has a sacred relationship that is ultimately between it and God alone with a combined purpose that only the mind of god can hold; but we are privy to a treasure-of-aspects, sort of like seeing a flower unfolding, invited to inspect one by one the infinite miracle of each petal. Greater discoveries start with burning questions (Though there is no burning in God’s knowledge—only love), leading to obsessions of having-to-know (however God gives openly and spontaneously of Himself, never his way one of only driven suffering). While this may make us uncomfortable, the rewards of greater enlightenment are astronomical." (by Joe DiMino)
144: "True wealth and comfort is in the health of respectful harmony. "Do no harm."" (By Joe DiMino)
145: "I think it is less developing strength and more just stepping outside our grief and disappointments allowing the greatness we are each born with to do its thing." (by Joe DiMino)
146: "Night is quite attractive…but fatal darkness if not viewed with God’s stars for illumination." (by Joe DiMino)
147: "Sometimes Heaven clips our wings a bit, not to stop our flying, but just to ground us some, allowing for time to necessarily reflect." (by Joe DiMino)
147:
"Those walls built
To keep out
Are also walls
We must later scale
If ever again
To be free;
But once easy
Self-extraction
with prolonged time
Becomes a major
Root-canal—
Better to forgive
And be done—" (by Joe DiMino)
148: "People do not realize their own powers...intellectually, logically we can do little but react; spiritually imagination is the only limit." (by Joe DiMino)
148: "It is what we declare. The more often we say it is difficult, the more difficult it will be. These negative thoughts are bricks added to the walls. God did not make happiness Brain Surgery. Even walls that others put up are penetrated by true forgiveness. We can intellectualize forgiveness forever...or instantly let loose on a soul level and experience the miracle of spontaneous regeneration. I tell you this not as theory, but proven Spiritual Science. Just let go. Every time a negative comes back, change your mind's subject. Don't shoo it away, because that sets up a battle, which enforces a form of ownership. But to simply disown it--to sever all relationship is the key. This is not of God and therefore it is not of me." (by Joe DiMino)
149: "There is a perverted sense of beauty in suffering
or we would not, as with the case Poe and his Raven, inflict ourselves
so. The Raven will stay above our doors, there to greet us when
coming and going for as long as we persist to dwell in the same
sad house." (by Joe DiMino)
150: "The Guardian of one’s spirit
has many different names and forms (accepting what we allow Him)—
but He is always intimate…
when turned to, there for comfort
and love…." (by Joe DiMino)
151: "To know is to set the foundation for living, I believe. And with true life comes greater joy, I have prayed and found." (by Joe DiMino)
152: "I think too many people are insecure with themselves therefore untrusting of love, which really doesn’t allow one to fully experience either. Love can be so easy and joyful to recieve and express if just allowed to be itself in the light, free from personal structures of confinement." (by Joe DiMino)
153: "Sadly, when behaving mortal often we try to improve on perfection to the destruction of all that is naturally sacred and beautifully evolutionary." (by Joe DiMino)
154: "Often one is stranger to his or herself most, and only revealed when in the arms and looking into the eyes of a significant other." (by Joe DiMino)
155: "And they wind again and then unravel and rewind at last woven into new garment sturdy and seamless for all seasons from threads of our lives." ( by Joe DiMino)
156: "When he is at one with the brush, with the pen, allowing each its spirit’s authority, the artist feels closest to God." (by Joe DiMino)
157: "All first starts with dream…and then the will that makes from seeming nothing but whimsical fantasy jewels to manifest. You are your own treasure…in time to know your complete beauty." by Joe DiMino)
158: "We do set up our own rhythms and boundaries, limited by our needs, dreams or lack of, and faith, a capacity to draw love which is the source of everything." by Joe DiMino)
159: We are double-minded; and for real, part of us in the grip of hell while the source of us is the love of Heaven. Succeeding is not learning or conquering, but more--letting go. All we need to be happy and productive is already with us." (by Joe DiMino)
160: "I have felt this more than once in my life--lived and settled for at least something of remaining affection, while knowing the relationship will never again be quite the same...and soon, what little left, perhaps gone. Gone in one realistic sense...but in another, made of mine more immortal--forever in knowing that, though life and people often turn up shallow, my capacity for love, due to expression regardless, is strengthened pure as its creator, and someday will know such a heart’s full reward." (by Joe DiMino)
161: "The creator loves us…and never abandons us. Abandonment is our own illusion, for us to see through." (by Joe DiMino)
162: "We need not be subject to Cause and Effect, but in fact have dominion over all. It is often repeated, "Sometimes we cannot see the trees for the forest"--however this is only because of where we have placed ourselves to stand, and really has less to do with the forest and more to do with attitude and positioning." (by Joe DiMino)
163: "Queer thing about helping others, giving of yourself--when one gives in this manner, one does not have less but increases by multiplies." (by Joe DiMino)
164: "We are born to learn, to evolve toward our ultimate greatness; not trials for suffering but dismantling for greater configuration. We are Gods—sons and daughters of the one God, our combined greatness. We live that we may evolve into greater understanding leading to ever greater expressions of love." (by Joe DiMino)
165: "Please, someone, throw me and Arch! I wonder if Noah had a weight or quota by which to limit? Or some other limit I have yet to fathom? I certainly at times feel one of the animals left out--so busy jockeying between too much sun and too much shade, I feel in a deluge of both I often cannot understand." (by Joe DiMino)
166: "Random collisions can cause life...but something far greater insured its survival...." (by Joe DiMino)
167: "I think some of life is timing beyond our conscious control--some great force provides what we need when we really need it. And then often compels us in directions we would not dream on our own." (by Joe DiMino)
168: "At times we are all vampires of sorts, exchanging our bites." (by Joe DiMino)
169: "...reflections of the seasons
mean nothing
when a pall over the heart—
for the heart sees and knows
light only
by the dawn of its own gleaming..." (by Joe DiMino"
170: "If one feels a need to sing, then sing--though the choir may be out to lunch and all the pews empty. Thus we sing for Him, Who is always present and our filling beyond capacity." (by Joe DiMino)
171:
"think of all I am not
[ blessed in this ]
all I don't want to be
[ again blessed ]
Too often we think of ourselves and others--as to worth or achievements--by simply recalling what we seem to have accomplished, excluding often perhaps the greater, all we have avoided becoming." (by Joe DiMino)
172: "It is difficult to forget what the heart has known. In truth, the heart never lies…it is the world and its turns that throw us." (by Joe DiMino)
173: "The most binding slavery can be that of memory." (by Joe DiMino)
174: "Dreams are foundations for reality; if not, at the least they are a spirit of hope which has sustained many through some very lean times." (by Joe DiMino)
175: "Poetry is poetry, and if it needs further explanation
it is not—as should life be no less or more than living.
In my mind, if there is other redeemable value, it is for someone
greater than I to say. I just write and live, hoping I do honor
to all works." (by Joe DiMino)
176: "When true to one's Higher-Self one is true to God and His others." (by Joe DiMino)
177: "The important thing is to be who you are...and that will always satisfy those that really matter." (by Joe DiMino)
178: "Love should not be selective…if it is, then it is still just learning to love." (by Joe DiMino)
179: "Yes, what we seek and hold on to is control…and, ironically, what frees one is release…." (by Joe DiMino)
180: "Only the spirit conquers, and that comes when a seasoned rider of faith." (by Joe DiMino)
181: "It is easiest to write that which falls directly from the heart. And so perhaps with living, it is easiest when simply giving...." (by Joe DiMino)
182: "Our tears are the real diamonds we keep...to the pawnshop with the other." (by Joe DiMino)
183: "There is only one truth...and a world of lies we call personalities." (by Joe DiMino)
184:
"Expression of love
Gives the soul wings
And a never-ending
Span of light…."
(by Joe DiMino"
185:
"In the silence
all is still
poised over the lips
of eternity…
Now I know
The meaning of a word-drop
And the ripple voice
Of eternal-sea…."
(by Joe DiMino)
186: "If scrubbing brings pain, it is the wrong instrument
and the wrong place...better to just let go and breathe in the
light. A good airing does wonders." (by Joe DiMino)