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A little house finch came to perch on our rolled blind. Squatted, it peers in. Dusk is drawing near. This seems a safe bird haven. Sacred moment shared. Feathered and human are the same Divine Being appearing as Life.     No experience can come to you except as the unfolding of your own consciousness, and once you realize that all is God, unfolding and disclosing itself, the experiences you attract to yourself are on the level of this realization. Joel S. Goldsmith, The Invisible Nature of Your Life     The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh   “Cool Facts” about the House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus): • The House Finch was originally a bird of the western United States and Mexico. In 1940 a small number of finches were turned loose on Long Island, New York, after failed attempts to sell them as cage birds (“Hollywood finches”). They quickly started breeding and spread across almost all of the eastern United States and southern Canada within the next 50 years. • The total House Finch population across North America is staggering. Scientists estimate between 267 million and 1.4 billion individuals. • House Finches were introduced to Oahu from San Francisco sometime before 1870. They had become abundant on all the major Hawaiian Islands by 1901. • The red of a male House Finch comes from pigments contained in its food during molt (birds can’t make bright red or yellow colors directly). So the more pigment in the food, the redder the male. This is why people sometimes see orange or yellowish male House Finches. Females prefer to mate with the reddest male they can find, perhaps raising the chances they get a capable mate who can do his part in feeding the nestlings. • House Finches feed their nestlings exclusively plant foods, a fairly rare occurrence in the bird world. Many birds that are vegetarians as adults still find animal foods to keep their fast-growing young supplied with protein. • The oldest known House Finch was a female, and at least 11 years, 7 months old when she was recaptured and released during banding operations in New York in 1985, the same state where she had been banded in 1973.1 Other Feathered Offerings: • Bird Consciousness • Birdie Diner • Insignificant Significance   (about the American crows) • Those “Shy” Birds   (about the Great tits) • Dove of Peace • Until The Last One…   (about the Violet-green swallows) • Graced By White-Crowned Sparrows • Little Angel Band   (about the wee Bush tits) Endnote: 1. The “Cool Facts” list is direct quotes found from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Finch/lifehistory © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2017. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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Always the sun shines. Sunbeams stream from the center. Visually one. The water, ice cube— same substance, different form. Ocean of oneness. A tree and a branch— same body, different parts. Forest unity. A single factor creates unification. LOVE, Love, love it is.     On the lotus leaf of your life is trembling the dewdrop of God’s consciousness. Realize that! Find the connection between the dewdrop and its Infinite Source and you shall find Him. Paramahansa Yogananda, spiritual Master and loved teacher   Other Spiritual Offerings: • “One Body” • The World is in our Neighborhood • The Fabric Of Oneness • That Could Be Me • Compassion On the Day of Love © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2017. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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A well can’t be filled from above, outside its walls but from underground. When we walk the Path the personal sense of self is surrendered, cleansed. To seek mastery, to be an empty vessel, go sit at the well. New water comes from within—pure, clear, infinite. Emptied we are filled.     Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, “rivers of living water will flow from within them.” John 7:38, New International Version   Other Spiritual Offerings: • Choose Your Fork Of The Path • Casting Outward, Casting Inward • Self-Emptying Meditation • Solitude’s Gift • Soul Suffering: The “Dark Night” of Saint John of the Cross • Your Own Christmas Day: Awaken! © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2017. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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In morning’s soft light, the garden hushed, freshly dewed, my caretaking starts. Came the inner Voice. “This is My Eden Garden. With your heart love it. Here, you work for Me. Your service is holy watch. This is sacred ground. Each bee, leaf, rose, task your mission creates beauty. The small becomes great.”       Except the Beloved build the garden, they labor in vain that build it. They who labor as holy gardeners build it as instruments of love. Zane’s version of Psalm 127   One soul can help the whole world… The service is here beside you, and waiting in your own heart every day. The greatest service that anyone can give is continually to think aright—continually to send forth love, to forgive. White Eagle, beloved spiritual teacher   Other Spiritual Offerings: • Soul Purpose • Soul Assignments • “Be-ing” In Our Right Work • Joyous Activity • The Tree That Shares • Divine Shaping • Insignificant Significance • Birdie Diner • A Visual Celebration Of Summer © Haiku poem and Photos © by Zane Maser, 2017. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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What is “the Father?” The Father is universal Consciousness; the Substance of all form; divine Mind acting as your mind and manifesting as limitless ideas; immortal Life appearing as the harmonious individual life. Seek everything in life from the kingdom within. Draw your good from the infinity of your own being. Touch that center, the kingdom within, and let the Father reveal your heritage. This is to live by Grace. Joel S. Goldsmith, The Heart of Mysticism     Other Spiritual Offerings: • The Lineage of Fatherhood • Divinity Remembered • Divine Seeds • Heaven is Earth • Happy Buddha Day • For the Love of Dad © Quote from “The Heart of Mysticism” © by Joel S. Goldsmith, 2017. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. The print of Confucius has been released into the public domain legally. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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Lilies full of faith. Sun shines on rocks, soil, plants, man. All rests in glory.   What is true of one is true of all Creation. Spirit Family.   Lilies full of peace. Shimmering, reverent Light. Life shares one Great Soul.     Other Spiritual Offerings: • The Lily-Work • The Divine Face • “One Body” • The Divine Broadcast • Nothing Needs Adding • It’s Already Present © Haiku poem and first flower photo © by Zane Maser, 2017. Photo of white lilies gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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Go down to Egypt. There you shed more to wait, wait. Alone in the dark. One plateau to next, the hard, hushed, hidden, holy un-selfed-ness time. Weightless, the light grows. Inner vision sees God’s form. Our eternal form.     The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. Joseph Campbell God, who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when he is absent than when He is present. Thomas Merton The Abyss was the place of transformation for the mystics. In its depths shone the illumination of the ‘divine dark,’ where divinity revealed itself. …[One] of the great mystics, St. John of the Cross, speaks of the ‘secret stair’ by which one descends in the dark night to meet the Beloved—the way the soul journeys into union with God. But prior to that union of ecstatic rapture with the Beloved comes the Dark Night of the Soul, that painful period of privation when one feels imprisoned in The Abyss. Linda Schierse Leonard Only those willing to walk through the dark night will be able to see the beauty of the moon and the brilliance of the stars. Archbishop Socrates Vilegas   Other Spiritual Offerings: • Shrouded in “A Dark Night” • The River of Grief • Timeliness • Fallowness • An Eclipse Story of Healing • The Gift of Release © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2017. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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Misty mountain peaks. Rarified air, pristine view. Vast landscape stretches. What is there to judge of black, white, bad, good, wrong, right at high altitudes? Worldly life, status, awards, money, big car, house. What fleeting value… Judge not self, others. Let go remarks, reviews, blame. Silent mountains speak.       Drop the titles. You don’t need to call yourselves lamas or roshis. Drop the costumes. His Holiness the Dalai Lama Three things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, and the Truth. The Buddha   Other Spiritual Offerings: • What Value A Gold Nugget? • The Hunchback in Each of Us • Self-Acceptance Heals the World • That Could Be Me • Be of Understanding Heart • Choose Love • The World is in our Neighborhood © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2017. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. Second photo attributed to I, Cszmurio. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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NATURE designed a forest as an experiment in unpredictability. We are trying to design a regulated forest. Nature designed a forest of long-term trends. We are trying to design a forest with short-term absolutes. Nature designed a forest with diversity. We are designing a forest with simplistic uniformity. Nature designed a forest of interrelated processes. We are trying to design a forest based on isolated products. Nature designed a forest in which all elements are neutral. We are designing a forest in which we perceive some elements to be good, others bad. Nature designed a forest to be a flexible, timeless continuum of species. We are designing a forest to be a rigid, time- constrained monoculture. Nature designed a forest over a landscape. We are trying to design a forest on each acre. Nature designed a forest to be self-sustaining and self- repairing. We are designing a forest to require increasing external subsidies—fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Nature designed forests of the Pacific Northwest to live 500 to 1,200 years. We are designing a forest that may seldom live 100 years. Nature designed forests of the Pacific Northwest to be unique in the world, with twenty-five species of conifers, the longest lived and the largest of their genera anywhere. We are designing a forest based largely on a single-species, short rotation. Our dream—a sustainable forest—must be bold enough to allow change not only in the forest but also in our thinking because the land is not to be conquered but is to be nurtured. We must also understand, accept, and remember that the world is always in a state of becoming, in a state of change, so nothing is ever ‘finished.’ Thus, if we try to hold things constant, like yesterday’s timber values projected into tomorrow’s forests, then it is like driving through life looking in the rearview mirror. Today’s decisions will design and sustain or destroy the forests of tomorrow. Now, more than ever, we must recognize that we are part of the human family and trust and respect each other as if human dignity truly were the philosophical cornerstone of society. We must also recognize and accept that we have one ecosystem that simultaneously produces a multitude of products. And we, as individuals and generations, as societies and nations, are both inseparable products of and tenants of that system, custodians for those who follow. Chris Maser, words from the classic book, The Redesigned Forest Other “Chris Maser” Offerings: • One Small Nudge affects the Whole World • Saint Worm • Earth Day 2012 • The Paradox of Grief (an excerpt from “The World is in my Garden: A      Journey of Consciousness”) • In Emptiness Is Spiritual Fulfillment (from the above Garden book) • Self-Emptying Meditation (from the above Garden book) • Eternity And The Banishment Of Fear (an excerpt from “Conversations      with Fear”) © Quoted material from “The Redesigned Forest” and middle forest photo © by Chris Maser, 2017. The other two pictures of forests are gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. First photo is attributed to Kelvin Kay at English Wikipedia. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.

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It’s nothing contrived. It’s not an imitation to seek, race after. The entire Network is already functioning from the beginning. Our personal switch, accessed in meditation. Splendid Light that lights! Light in each atom. Light shining out in service. Radiant Spirit!     When you are in a spiritual place, you really feel you are in the light. You close your eyes and meditate on spiritual sun-light; you wander in your meditation in gardens of indescribable beauty; then you come back to what you call reality. But it is the vision you enjoyed when meditating that was real; for that is your true life, the life of spirit. What you come back to is illusion. Do you realize that your physical world is illusory? That in reality, it is built of light and that your physical body is composed of light? White Eagle, Further Steps on a Spiritual Path     Other Spiritual Offerings: • Self-Emptying Meditation • The Lily-Work • Manifested Splendour • Poem of Light • United Light • Spiritual Lighting at the Solstice © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2017. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2017 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my joyful husband.