Reflections on Life

Dr. Jonathan C. O'Quinn

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In the spirit of Robert Frost, Reflections On Life captures the hidden beauty and magic of the often overlooked and simple beauty surrounding each of us as we each explore our Life's Learning Path.
Still your mind, and sense the quietness of Spirit. Picture the silver thread connecting all living things. Hear the silence within, the Source of Creation bubbling up like a spring in that quiet space between your thoughts. Learn to observe Life around you in a way you may never have thought of before. Let this serve as a guide to help train your mind to see the hidden beauty and perfect order all around you.

Sujets

• Spirituality
• Meditation
• Poetry
• Nature

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 28 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781982279264
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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REFLECTIONS ON LIFE

DR. JONATHAN C. O’QUINN
 

 
Copyright © 2022 Dr. Jonathan C. O’Quinn.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-9822-7925-7 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-9822-7926-4 (e)
 
Balboa Press rev. date: 03/08/2023
 
This book is dedicated to all souls sensitive to Life, who are on a Quest to more deeply appreciate the wonders of Life and the beauty to be found in small, quiet, even seemingly insignificant things encountered along their individual Learning Path.
I offer my heartfelt thanks to all who encouraged me in this project.
Contents
Waves
Seasons
Sunrise
Spring-Time
The Space Between
The Divine Spark
Clouds Across the Moon
A Gift
Life Reacts to Life
A Blink in Time
Regarding Life
Picking Berries
Birds Splashing in the Bird-Bath On A Hot Day…
Riverflow
Dust Devil
Clouds
The Emblazoned Path
A Moment in Time
Voices
The Procession
Meaning
Down the Path to the Water
Under a Pine Tree
And then Again
Rays of Sunshine
Autumn
A Raindrop
Cycles
Among Them
Life Within
The Jester in the Corner
On Rolling Wings
I Am Free!
A Snowfall
The Seeker and the Sage
A Fox in the Snow on a Winter’s Night
Conversation with the Sphinx
Echoes of Kindness
Beloved
Child with a Balloon
Walking in the Fields
Reflections on a Frosty Morning
The Presence
Hidden Within
Back of the Sunset
The Grey
A Season’s Release
Shelling Beans
Love
A Few Degrees
The Visit
Evening in the Woods
Cocoon
Frame of Branches
The Other Side
Waves
Waves thunder along the shore
The endless drumbeat of Time
Hear the Silence within
Stillness within motion
The sound of Eternity
Seasons
The frequency of attraction
Coursing through Life
No one immune…
What we project, draws like
The Universe awaits
With lowly ear
Our Nature the water’s ripples
Picked up on, to hear
An Ocean of experiences
Dip and draw deep
What is needed in the moment
Our lessons to keep
Each spirit’s blueprint
Life accedes
A soul-chartered Learning Path
Determining its needs
The flower, the snowflake
A transient state
Experiences of Life
Share that Fate
A moment, a Lifetime
Our growth is the reason
Inscrutable process
Given for a season
Sunrise
Bare winter branches reach for the sky,
Silent sentinels at the Gates of Dawn
Silhouetted against the growing colors…
Pink, gold and crimson,
Layered then swirled together like a patchwork
quilt
The Stage set, the Play begins
Spring-Time
A Restless stirring holds the air. The birds sense it,
Reflecting it in the excited tone of their chirping.
A dusting of color, shades of pink and red, graces
The tips of tree branches in the distance.
Morning air still brings a chill.
The lid of the box cracks open. Colored flashes of
Light escape, hinting at what is to be revealed.
Sounds emanate from the box, calling out in notes
Familiar, yet hard to recall, like a lucid dream
Fading like smoke upon awakening.
Early arrivals, the bluebells whisper their story in
Voices too low for most to hear, their spicy
Fragrance gathered by inhaling slowly.
Daffodils show up next to the party, splashes of
Bright yellow against the brown and green, like
Dappled beams of sunlight striking the forest floor.
New buds stir with life, as Nature opens its arms to
Embrace the season.
An ancient cycle, yet always Fresh.
Life opens and pours forth.
The Space Between
A quiet space of mind between thoughts, silent and
Elusive
A state of Peace in the background- the Origin, the
Source
Yet thoughts arise, uninvited guests, breaking
Through the stillness
Quiet all thoughts, brush them aside
Re-center…
The silent voice of God
The frequency of Creation
Detached Observer…
Mind untouched by events without
Mind, the vehicle of Spirit’s expression
Go back to that space between, the practice of
Nothing, no thought
Centered in Peace
Spirit? God’s Holy Spirit
The egocentric, self-active mind distorts the
Expression of Spirit through us
Yet also is there a Divine plan for each of us, the
Creator’s Divine Spark within,
With thoughts and plans Divine
A tug-of-war between two realities
Our thoughts create our reality… the mind’s view
Of Life is the reality
That we perceive and receive…
Thus endeavor to contemplate the facts of Life
From the highest possible point of View
The Divine plans of Spirit show up most clearly
When the mind is Quiet and submissive to Spirit,
Like the Sun, which is there, always shining once
The clouds are brushed aside
The self-active mind, when not harmonized with
Spirit, is out of alignment with the Divine design
For our lives and destructive…
Instead of allowing the racing thoughts of the mind
To constantly be “Thinking and Talking,” let the
Mind be Quiet, allowing what would be fitting in
Each moment to express through us by Spirit
The mind was meant to be moved by the Impulse
Of Spirit, in each moment
When the mind is not in harmony with Spirit, it
Moves according to its own impulses, which are
Affected by everything outside of us…
Thus learn to Quiet the thoughts, to calm the
Mind…
Detach from all negativity, all negative emotions,
All negative people and circumstances
There is the ego of us, the false sense of self that is
Always afraid and thus wants to know everything-
That is, to be like God