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The Decision

To decide
Is to commence
A journey of self-actualisation.

It is to lay the very path
That you and countless others
Will eventually come to walk on.

It is to take responsibility
For yourself and for those
Who depend on your care.

To decide
Is an act of faith.
It is prayer in action.

It is to be ready
To put in the heart and sweat
To make the new work.

A decision
May be a tough choice
Resulting in heartbreak and sorrow.

But in the final analysis
A decision is a poetic promise
That you must make to honour your life.

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Life is to be Made

Play an active role
In your own life:

Make tough choices.
Create joy.
Give love.
Provide space.
Bring intelligence.
Leverage opportunities.
Earn respect.
Work for a cause.
Acquire experiences.
Develop capability.
Dream and then recreate the dream.
Inspire and influence.
Leave. Know when you’re not needed.
Accept your fate with faith.
Rest. Redeem yourself.

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What Are We Seeking?

What does feeling a need for change mean
In a changed new world?

Does it mean
Regaining control?
Leading the change?
Or returning to a time before it?

Does time always march forward?

Or is it our idea of progress that keeps
Marching ahead
Trading the familiar for the unfamiliar?

Are we seeking
Reformation or
Transformation?

Are we seeking
Continuity or
Liberation?

What are we seeking?
Now that we are living the change
We wanted to see.

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Art

Expression without art
Keeps you tied to the emotion.
With art, expression acquires the power
To release you.
It educates, cultivates, sublimates.

The art is in the manner of expression.
The sadhana of the artist
Is not merely to express feelings
But to transform them
Into an experience of beauty.

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The Human Being is a Broken Being.

When something breaks
Destiny takes over its purpose.
What becomes of the part,
Separated from the whole-
Depends on the actions
Of many forces.

Life takes over.
Emotions drive it.
Sustenance becomes essential
For survival.
Separated from the whole,
The part searches for its own identity.

It awaits true love…
Searches for something
And someone to belong to.
Unconscious of the truth
That no one thing can complete it-
As it belongs with All.

Life is a journey
To a destination-
A voyage from no-thing
To no-thing.
Our something-ness is maya
That should be lived…endured…
But not preserved or pursued.

Intoxicated with life
We live in a state of forgetfulness
Of who we essentially are;
Adamant to ‘be’ someone whole…
Someone who will be
Loved, remembered…continued.

The feeling of purposelessness
Haunts the part.
Separated from the whole
It may be re-imagined, re-purposed…cultivated.
But it can never become
What it cannot be.

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Understanding Design

So much activity, very little action.
So much knowledge, very little understanding.
So many words, very little meaning.
So many functions, very little purpose.
So many pleasures, but very little satisfaction.

Man can only provide
Imagination and variety,
Alternatives, substitutes and evocations
For what evades him in essence.

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What is Good?

Originality is good.
The true is good.
The honest is good.
To surrender the material
At the altar of the spiritual
Is good
Self-awareness is good.
To love is good.

Correct knowledge is good.
To overcome weakness is good.
Courage is good.
To adapt to change
But to remain unchanged by it
Is good.
To relate with care is good.
To sustain the good is good.

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The Human Condition

To be human
Is not an easy condition.

We stand in a liminal space
Between heaven and hell

We feel love; we feel hatred
And everything else in between.

We know that what we know
Is defined by our ignorance.

Do we determine the course of our lives
Or are we determined by it?

We seek expansion through our relationships
But feel constrained by their society.

We feel want
But don’t know what we want.

We feverishly seek knowledge
Because we wish to know who we are.

But our ignorance is fundamental
More than we understand.

We wish to do good
As a way to negate our evil.

We want happiness
But search for it in things designed to yield sorrow.

We set out to understand the eternal
But can’t deal with the ephemeral.

We hedge our losses
Through acquisition and gain.

Seeking permanence
In the impermanent.

We desire the meaningful
But produce the wasteful.

Always in search
Always in pursuit

We long for our
Own homecoming.

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What Faith Is

We enter every day
Not knowing what awaits us
We operate on the faith
That we will be conveyed.

Faith is deep and silent
It’s secure and real
Unshaken and undeterred
By the havoc wreaked by emotion.

Faith alone is knowledge
Because of it
I can wait, watch and listen
And see past my own misconceptions.

Faith is a promise
That all that you need
Will be provided to you
And all that needs you, will come to you.

Faith is acceptance-
An understanding
That all our experiences
Are the intent of a larger design.

Faith is the ground
On which realization
Will eventually stand, victorious-
Having defeated all delusions.

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The Ultimate Choice

Every expectation for happiness
Is met with sorrow.
The ultimate outcome
Of all pursuits
Is disappointment.

Perhaps happiness is not
Something to be expected;
Or something to be pursued…
Its place isn’t at a distance
Somewhere in the future…

It’s a way of being
In this moment
A way of seeing…
A way of meeting and greeting life
With nothing more than your presence.

Happiness is a choice.
It’s when you choose
To put gratitude before demand
Appreciation before dismay
And love before hope.