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Bird Wings
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’ve been bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small...
Read MoreWake Up, Wake Up
This night is gone wake up abandon abandon even your dear self abandon there is an idiot in our market place selling a precious soul if you doubt my word get up this moment and head for the market now don’t listen to trickery don’t listen to the witches don’t wash blood with blood first turn yourself upside down empty yourself like a cup of wine then fill to the brim with the essence a...
Read MoreYou Were Born With Wings
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? Absorbed in this world, you’ve made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you’ve paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. Let yourself be...
Read MoreWhat’s Not Here
I start out on this road, call it love or emptiness. I only know what’s not here: resentment seeds, back-scratching greed, worrying about out-come, fear of people. When a bird gets free, it doesn’t go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage! Close by, I’m rain. Far off, a cloud of fire. I seem restless, but I am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still. I...
Read MoreYour Emptiness
But whoever sees your emptiness sees beyond blue and beyond the blind man. A great soul hides like Mohammed, or Jesus, moving through a crowd in a city where no one knows him. To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness. To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. Praise, the ocean. What we say, a little ship. So the sea-journey goes on, and who knows where! Just to be held by...
Read MoreIBN ‘ARABI AND THE CHRIST
I remember the first time I ever heard my master recite the verse of Ibn’Arabi. It was Christmas day. And my master said this poem, in part,describes the consciousness of Mohammad, Jesus, Buddha and anyone who achieves union with the Rose, with God. I knew something of this poem but my master spoke it differently, adding to it as one might to a song they were playfully singing. Later that...
Read MoreDoing from the Soul
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” “Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.” “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” “The universe and the light of the stars come through...
Read MoreOn a Day When the Wind is Perfect
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. today is such a day. My eyes are like the sun that makes promises; the promise of life that it always keeps each morning. The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere, both caress the earth with great tenderness. There is a breeze that can enter the soul. This love I know plays a drum. ...
Read MoreOn a Day When the Wind is Perfect
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. My eyes are like the sun that makes promises; the promise of life that it always keeps each morning. The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere, both caress the earth with great tenderness. There is a breeze that can enter the soul. This love I know plays a drum. ...
Read MoreOn Vocation…..
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy” Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.” Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” The Universe and the light of the stars come through me.” Jala ad-Din...
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