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Measure of Stillness

Qualitative And quantitative Self appraisal Humorously casual Of our stillness quotient Moment to moment ... First the qualitative The depth meditative Thoughts & body still By non-self will Imbibing the love energy Of current divine in synergy Is uplifting Consciousness enhancing And yet but the beginning Of our journey enlightening Then going in deeper The ascension steeper Requires dissolution Total annihilation Of the self, voluntarily Choice made choicelessly Being, becoming, in oneness The That Awareness Next, the quantitative A matter contemplative Being the response time taken By our consciousness when shaken To return to equilibrium From egoism fearsome When the external Stirs the internal The ripples disturbing our calm Are cause for observational alarm In that our reflex response Imagined to be divine ensconced Is fragile From anxiety to smile The time we take To forsake Narrowness & contraction Back to Oneness & expansion Is the quantitative scale Of the way on earth we sail 03-November-2020

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