FRUITS: Some Green, Some Ripe

"The Formless Absolute is my Father,
and God With Form is my Mother." -Kabir
We are the jewel which completes the Trinity;
every one of us a facet.

All things perish.
How much quicker do your models break down?
No vision can encapsulate the mystery.
Sell your cleverness and purchase love-simplicity.

The Lady cradling, and gazing lovingly
upon the Christed Child.
His face is round like the Earth,
His Mother's is round like the Sun.
She beams Love and He receives.

Love is sweetness, joy, compassion, sympathy; all of these.

Do not scrutinize the sayings of the wise. A cup turned over cannot hold water; truth cannot perform its function in an atmosphere of doubt. The wise know their insights are precarious steps, which crumble beneath all but the lightest feet. It is with the quickness of faith that they carry their message, and do not fall.

She drinks wine. She said to me, "Everyone deserves one vice. Everyone is allowed one vice." Has the ignorance of virtue attained to such abyssmal heights? Her entire life is vice! Yet she believes the wine alone prevents it from being viceless. How can life be anything but vice, when one is not on the path of virtue; devoted to God and His most miserable creatures? How can we speak of virtue with our own lips? Saints do not open their mouths; God opens them. Yet we think we can count our vices, -- and on one finger!

Of the healthy and unemployed, it is justly expected that they commit themselves to the revelation of mysteries; -- be they worldly or more directly engaged with the life of the Spirit. If they did not seek and reveal these things, their liberty would surely be license, and a disgrace. Whereas, for those entangled in the world and its labors, such seeking and revealing becomes a badge of true merit, and neglecting these things, though unfortunate, would not be disgraceful.

The sayings are not arranged; which is to say, they are arranged purely by Providence. God Himself will direct the reader, providing what is needed, and not merely what is sought. Read in order or at random, they jump from topic to topic, so as to awaken a consciousness of the whole, without undue attention to its parts.

God ordains that some, by His grace, observe a perfect and minute order in their daily lives, while others He leads by seemingly chaotic channels, more intuitive than anything. Each one must discover Him anew.

The original sin is procreation. God loves His Children too much to see them in the world. And while His Love makes everything good, His Fullness makes great. Bodily incarnation conceals from us the fullness of His Presence. Though it may be possible to build a heaven on earth, we know -- by faith and for certain -- that His Heaven is ready-made in the sky. Non-action is sometimes the wisest of actions.

It is said that God chooses the weakest, and the lowest of the low, in order to exhibit the fullness of His power. But are they not the ones made weak with alienation; brought low by the misunderstanding scorn of their communities? Are they not simply the most maligned? Those who, before God illumined them, struggled to interpret their prophetic wisdom, and almost believed it when the people called them mad?

The source of wisdom is mysterious.
Even the wise are shocked by what they know.