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Locked In

The time has come

To break away from habit.

 

Habits of thinking

And being and doing.

 

Our way of life

Was a roadmap of diversions;

 

We never really arrived anywhere

Except to where we began.

 

The search for validation

Was misconstrued as the search for self.

 

We have lived as partial beings

Unable to embrace a world of our making.

 

We speak, but don’t listen

We hurry, but to no specific destination.

 

Activity is valued as action

And in its chaos we seek our purpose.

 

How do we see our truth?

How do we integrate our being?

 

How do we come to see

That to be we must be free?

 

Our exchanges must be directed

To let go of a lesser value for a higher one.

 

Poverty does not belong to outer circumstances

But to an inner blindness that doesn’t let us see

 

That our wealth is as unreal

As our imagined poverty

 

Gain and loss are the way of life

It’s the alternating of breath that sustains life.

 

Freedom cannot be won in a world of perceptions.

We must stay silent, watchful and locked in.

 

 

 

 

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Perfection is At Work

Things remain clean

When we persist

With the act of cleaning.

 

The action then,

Is more important

Than the state.

 

A state is indefinite

It can change or disappear

But the action must be consistent.

 

Persistence and perseverance

Are the only ways

To deal with entropy.

 

Action is the essence of life

To live , is to be

In an eternal relationship with perfection.

 

While you persistently act

To keep things in a state of perfection

Allow Perfection to act on you.

 

Life after all,

Is infinitely intelligent

And inherently perfect.

 

Disorder, disruption, chaos

Are surface disturbances…

Look deeper. Perfection is at work.

 

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The New is Being Prepared; Be Prepared for the New

Are these testing times,

Or is this an Act of Providence?

 

We know what our losses are;

Will we be able to see our gains?

 

Or, will all questions

Of loss and gain lose relevance?

 

With the discovery of new values

Will old denominations vanish?

 

Will our houses now become homes;

Will our hearths now warm our hearts?

 

Will social distancing

Re-acquaint us with each other?

 

Will we learn in isolation

What good company is all about?

 

Will we remember over time

This spring that  renewed us all?

 

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Value is That Which Remains

To make,

To fashion is

To give appearance

To that which had existence

But not a life.

 

To make or fashion

A thing,

Is to simultaneously

Make or fashion

The maker.

 

The made

Is like the born

It will live amongst us

And alter our lives

In some or the other way.

 

The made

And the maker

Are of value

Not for the profits they supply

But for the stories they create.

 

Because when the made

And their makers are gone

All that is left behind

Is the memory

Of how things were.

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Beauty Beholds

To see beauty

Is to awaken

To all that is.

 

Beauty is not

A matter of judgement

But of absorption.

 

After all,

You cannot seize something

That grips you.

 

In the presence of beauty

The mind is silenced;

At her altar, all the senses kneel.

 

You stand there-

Feeling privileged,

Feeling blessed.

 

She won’t be spoken to;

There’s nothing

That you can say to her.

 

Silence becomes

The expression of your awe

And wonder.

 

Your words

Can’t describe her

For she is pure essence.

 

Not this, not that

Not this way

Not that way.

 

She can’t be drawn

Or designed

Or sculpted.

 

You can find her

Only when

You are immersed in her.

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Good Taste

Good taste

Is born out of refinement;

Out of a refusal

To vulgarize life and

To appropriate it for pleasure.

 

We live confused lives

Scripted by our fickle ignorance

Our beliefs are misguided

Our values, misplaced

Our philosophy, arrogant.

 

We buy to own

We earn money to buy

We work to earn money

In this organization of our time

Much is lost.

 

What if you reminded yourself

Life is a gift to be valued

Not a pseudo poverty

Needing pseudo alleviation.

All vulgarity would be transformed…

 

What could entice man

If he cares not for money

And has not mortgaged his time?

And has understood that

To love is his essential responsibility.

 

To simply be is humility

To be engaged, but not tied

To be essential

Not excessive…

Good taste is good judgment.

 

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Are You Ready for Departure?

Have you emptied your mind

Of all resentments and grudges

And offered it at the altar

Of an ever-present love

That has the heart-space

To let thoughts of all textures be?

 

Have you risen from the feeling of paucity and need;

Reclaimed your inheritance of abundance

And come to the realization

That your blessings far exceed your need;

Have you come to see

That to give is the only way to live?

 

Have you let go of all expectations

That external change

Must be ordered by your efforts

And instead re-directed

Your attention and work

Towards re-aligning yourself?

 

Have you understood

That you will not live forever

And that you are life’s guest;

A pilgrim on a journey…

Have you found as yet

What you are here to seek?

 

Have you embraced both

Strength and vulnerability

Gain and loss

Success and failure

Pleasure and pain

Requital and rejection?

 

Are you ready for your onward journey?

Have you packed in your magic-

That special power that life decorated you with?

That incredible ability to convert

Darkness to light; experience to wisdom and

Apprehension to love.

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Undisturbed

Do not be intimidated by a blow.

Do not be crippled by doubt.

Do not lose your faith

In the face of obstacles.

Do not hand over

Your courage to fear.

Do not break up with truth

To accommodate a lie.

Do not let opinions

Douse your spark.

 

Forgoing your essence

Is not a virtue;

It’s a weakness.

Immorality proceeds

From our forgetting

That we are protected by a reality

That stands over and above appearances;

And that stands outside the bounds of

Perception, emotion and intelligence.

Stay intact. Stay whole. Stay undisturbed.

 

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Innate

Happiness

Wealth and

Power

 

Are innate

 

They cannot be acquired from the world.

They are hidden in three capacities

Within you:

 

Dedication

Sacrifice and

Service.

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Three Questions

Your self-worth

Cannot be worthily determined

By yardsticks and expectations

Laid out by other people

Or by perceptions that are not framed by you;

Your worth ought to be self-measured.

 

Ask yourself:

Where abides your faith?

The creation of which value

Can you take responsibility for?

And wherein lies

Your greatest treasure?