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Loss is Always Less Than What You Gain

Deprived
Defeated
Robbed
Disadvantaged
Negated.

Diminished
Wasted
Impoverished
Lessened
Subtracted….

Yet here you are
Within an expanse
Reminded that this wholeness
Was never defined
By what you lost.

Embrace then
This completeness…
This ocean of life
That is forever brimming
And you stand immersed in it.

You cannot see it
Even though it surrounds you
The things that you lost
The things that you now cling to
Cloud your vision.

See with a new understanding
Your newness.
Your loss by virtue
Will always be less than
What you gain.

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Learn to Live

The problem with inertia
Is that there is no recourse
Life moves on…
Undeterred by your paralysis
You move with it-
A lifeless being.

It makes everything redundant
Relationships, emotions,
Celebrations, plans and projects
Life continues
It’s very hard to deal with
The fact that you don’t matter.

And yet here you are
In the grand scheme of things
Partial, but essential to the whole
To flow with life then
Must mean being
In a ‘whole’ new way.

Without contest,
Without ambition,
Without separation
Free of machinations
Reclaim your individuality
And fear not the future.

Don’t avoid the end
But embrace it
Keep your mind lean,
Attentive, responsive
Not loaded with
The unnecessary.

Travel lightly
There’s nothing to arrive to
Apart from the moment
Take away important lessons
From your state of inertia
Things will happen as they should.

Align yourself to life
Step away from ideas
Wake up
After enjoying your sleep
Know the difference
Between perception and reality.

From wherever you go to
Return…
Abide in a space
Where all life abides
In that space
Make your home.

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Perception

The seen is meaning

That superimposes itself

On the unseen.

 

Look carefully.

Look beyond the edges

And the boundaries of meaning…

 

See how it extends itself

How it negotiates

Its freedom from finitude.

 

Positivity is illusion.

Possibility is promise.

All forms transform.

 

After you’ve understood

The meaning of a thing

Perceive its meaningfulness.

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Watching

I look at the darkness without

From a lit room within

Reflections appear before me

Creating interesting collages…

The world isn’t reality

It’s yet another layer…

 

Outside, the wind seduces the trees

The rain quenches their thirst

And the trees dance in ecstasy.

I’m riveted to my window.

I’m the spectator, the enjoyer

I’m the one watching.

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Contained

There is a perpetual war within…

A war between

Hopes and circumstances

Between confinement

And the beckoning of freedom

Between the lower

And the higher

Between what is

And what could be.

 

I saunter into the kitchen

Look at all the jars lined up

Standing as if under a command.

Inanimate, still ready to serve

Like soldiers in a rank

Also in a war?

Contained, silent, closed…

Human civility demands

That we fight our battles in silence.

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The Biggest Failing

The biggest failing

Is the inability

To see things as they are

To understand them

For how they are

To accept them

The way they are

And to appreciate them

For what they are.

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Do You Have Any Idea?

Can you see that ideas

Make up our world?

Can you see that you have

The power to reject ideas…

To give them no attention?

Can you see that you can

Offer your own for every idea

That feels wrong, unjust and diminishing?

Give your ideas a voice,

Give them a shape, a form…

Give them expression.

 

Prepare them for the stage

That is life…

Create your own setting

Tell your own story…

But first live life well

Live fully. Expose yourself to

The world’s ideas

But neither borrow nor steal

You are the sovereign of your world

The centre around which

Your world revolves.

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Education

To educate is to open up

The expanse of the mind

So that for all our assumptions

The right questions we may find.

 

An education must make you

A seeker not a knower

You must be able to

Over your ignorance cross over.

 

Pride and foolishness

Often walk hand-in-hand

A true seeker knows

The grounds on which he stands.

 

That we know nothing

A good education must show

That what needs to be known

Lies beyond what we know.

 

Not just a fast-track

To worldly success

In the worst of times

It prepares you to be your best.

 

Education is design

Education is art

It’s the architecture of the mind

Built with inroads to the heart

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The Big Things Are Small

We are the earth-

72% water

28% mineral

Fire and wind

And ether too, we are.

Which is why we have the power

To make, to move, to listen

And to digest.

 

Why then

Is there hopelessness…

Why are there mental breakdowns?

Why does the mind

Turn against the being?

Why must man be in

A relationship of torment

With his own mind?

 

To be conscious is to think.

To think is to supply

The energy to make real.

The mind makes real

What it is conscious of

Be aware…listen

The wind moves and

In and through hollow steel tubes it chimes.

 

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Nothing Fails Like Success

Over time,

Success gets dusted off…

It is not rooted in the real

Power & Wealth

Beauty & influence

Disappear like they appeared.

 

It can take a lifetime

To see that money

Is but of notional value

Power rides on the back of fear

And influence and beauty

Do not last.

 

So then,

What is worth having?

What is a worthy pursuit?

What will validate me?

What will make my efforts

Valuable, fruitful and meaningful?

 

Imagine yourself as being

Other than what you own

And what you seek

Success cannot liberate you

It’s circle of influence can only

reach up to the edge of low reason.

 

The false entices because

We don’t know the truth

The false is ever-changing

Ever-growing and ever-progressing

The true remains unaffected,

Unchanged and eternal.

 

So look at what you don’t see

And listen to what you don’t hear

The truth doesn’t speak

She’s not spectacular or grand

She just is. Free from failure

Because she’s disinterested in success.