What really matters at the end of life
As this yogi rounds his corner into ‘the latter years’ the encountering with the aspect of death (of leaving this ‘mortal coil) draws itself into my reality on many levels. I have experienced a ‘brush’ with it experiencing open heart surgery years ago. I have written posts about this and you may have read some of them. I have also had the opportunity to visit,...
Read MoreYou are far more…
“You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don’t waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big…Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived...
Read MoreMind is everything; mind is nothing
Mind is everything; mind is nothing. Mind creates time and space, mind contains a billion galaxies, mind lifts a spoon of oatmeal to its mouth at breakfast. Mind is life and death, God and devil, you and I; mind stands the tops of the mountain; mind cries for its mother’s breast. Mind pulls the universe out of a top hat, bows to its own applause, and walks off the stage,...
Read MoreSOS 1995
Take a long time with your anger, sleepyhead. Don’t waste it in riots. Don’t tangle it with ideas. The Devil won’t let me speak, will only let me hint that you are a slave, your misery a deliberate policy of those in whose thrall you suffer, and who are sustained by your misfortune. The atrocities over there, the interior paralysis over here — Pleased with the better deal? You are clamped...
Read MoreAnd For No Reason…
And For no reason I start skipping like a child. And For no reason I turn into a leaf That is carried so high I kiss the Sun’s mouth And dissolve. And For no reason A thousand birds Choose my head for a conference table, Start passing their Cups of wine And their wild songbooks all around. And For every reason in existence I begin to eternally, To eternally laugh and love! When I turn into...
Read MoreOn relationship,love and sex
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of...
Read MoreLove’s Camel
“Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.” “My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for...
Read MoreThe Altar of This Moment
Thailand 1 – by Michael Durbin Place everything you can perceive— Everything you can See, Hear, Smell, Taste, Or touch, Upon the altar of this moment And give thanks. It is over so soon— This expression, This single moment of your precious life, This one heart pounding itself open with fear or wild joy, This one breath rising in the cold winter air smoothly and gently or coughing and...
Read MoreHere I am Again
Here I am again, Lord, offering you the fruit of all my actions. I do this knowing you are the tree on which the fruit grows sweet and ripe.. You are the soil,roots, and limbs, rainfall, sunlight, soft night wind. I’ve come to realize that my only gift is the nectar of your love, distilled, expressed, and offered back through all my acts, and simply through my being. What I give you...
Read MoreIf You Listen
If you listen Not to the pages or preachers But to the smallest flower Growing from a crack In your heart, You will hear a great song Moving across a wide ocean Whose water is the music Connecting all the islands Of the universe together, And touching all You will feel it Touching you Around you Embracing you With light. – John...
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