When the power of love overcomes the love of power we will know peace

I was surprised to realize, in reaching the witnessing mind, that my thoughts are words. The longer I stayed in that state of consciousness the more fleeting the words. I thought about the post I am now making, I thought about Dacher. It occurred to me that thought process is necessary to plan, devise and accomplish tasks, but it can wait. I have not attained unity consciousness but I have been able to reach the calm-abiding state, which is as much nothing as I have experienced. Once I gave myself permission to reside in the calm-abiding state I was able to relax and enjoy the nothingness. I did find myself having images form in my mind, not identifiable, formed images but rather images of dancing light and color. In this state there was no emotion, frustration or otherwise. There was simply being.

Spiritual wellness as is expressed in mindfulness calms both the physical and the mind. I had an experience yesterday where my husband became angry and I watched as his body changed, the agitation manifested in his facial expressions. I could imagine his blood pressure rising, his stress response activated. I watched as he first turned angry words and emotions at me, then at the clerk who he then blamed, and finally at himself. After he calmed some I asked him to evaluate the source of his anger and watched again as it took hours for his body and mind to return to homeostasis. Spiritual wellness would have saved him the aggravation.

I saw a bumper sticker yesterday it read:
When the power of love overcomes the love of power we will know peace. The loving-kindness practice is focused with intentional purpose. It gives the mind a goal, something to do, replacing random thoughts with purpose. By contrast the purpose of the subtle mind exercise is to clear all thought and just be.