Dreams
Trying to recall the plot And characters we dreamed, What life was like Before the morning came, We are seldom satisfied, And even then There is no way of knowing If what we know is true. Something nameless Hums us into sleep, Withdraws, and leaves us in A place that seems Always vaguely familiar. Perhaps it is because We take the props And fixtures of our days With us into the dark, Assuring...
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The Only Child
As your fortune comes to carry you down the line And you watch as the changes unfold And you sort among the stories you’ve been told If some pieces of the picture are hard to find And the answers to your questions are hard to hold Take good care of your mother When you’re making up your mind Should one thing or another take you from behind Though the world may make you hard and...
Read MoreEnhancing Your Loving Lust For Life
Code words for experiments in enhancing your lust for life: numinous: (adj.) describing an experience that makes you overwhelmed yet fascinated, awed yet attracted—the powerful, personal feeling of being viscerally inspired ostranenie: (n.) encouraging people to see common things as strange, wild, or unfamiliar; defamiliarizing what is known in order to know it differently or more...
Read MoreTrading in Love’s Currency
Reason said, ” We live in a world of six directions – and that’s it! Love replied, “There is a path beyond, and I have traveled it many times.” Reason saw a market and set up shop, but love trades in another currency...
Read MoreWalk Slowly
It only takes a reminder to breathe, a moment to be still, and just like that, something in me settles, softens, makes space for imperfection. The harsh voice of judgement drops to a whisper and I remember again that life isn’t a relay race; that we will all cross the finish line; that waking up to life is what we were born for. As many times as I forget, catch myself charging forward without...
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The Actualization of Your Callings
“It’s not about what you are here to bring to the world. It’s about what you are here to bring to yourself, first and foremost. The actualization of your callings is fundamental to your own transformation. It is the way you bring yourself into wholeness. And from that place, your offerings radiate outward to touch the world-at-large. It’s your bridge to humanity. But it always begins in...
Read MoreYour Problem…
“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.” ― Anne...
Read MoreOn Listening
“If we are to live in harmony with ourselves and with nature,” he wrote in his excellent and timely treatise on the paradox of communication, “we need to be able to communicate freely in a creative movement in which no one permanently holds to or otherwise defends his own ideas.” – David Bohm “Listening is an art like the understanding of poetry” – Erich Fromm The...
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