Reflections on Life

By Dr. Jonathan C. O'Quinn

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781982279264

Dr. Jonathan C. O'Quinn

A lifelong Nature enthusiast, Dr. O’Quinn’s decades observing and interacting with Nature and Nature’s Source have given him unique insight into the deeper realities underlying the mysteries of Life that surround us all. A member of the Medical Profession by training, Dr. O’Quinn has had a number of unique experiences that confirmed to him that there is so much more to Life than what may appear at the surface upon a casual glance.

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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