Reading at Waimea 02/06/2010
I kick my own ass and wash my own brain.
I push my own buttons and trick my own pain.
I burn my own flags and roast my own heroes.
I mock my own fears and cheer my own zeroes.
Totally Crazy
Patience….
Reading at Anara Spa 2/04/2010
Rainer Maria Rilke
…. I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day to the answer. Resolve to be always beginning, to be a beginner.
-Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet
Just For Now
Just for now, without asking how, let yourself
sink into stillness.
Just for now, lay down
the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders.
I Have Come Into this World to See
mentor-shadow-heart-shall-rise-above-all-things by Linaji
I have come into this world to see this:
The sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of anger
A Yogi’s Welcome
Welcome
Please allow your stories to be left at the door with your shoes.
You may pick them up if you really want them on your way back out.
They are not required to enter here.
Kiss your ego and allow it to be still.
As you achieve your comfortable seated posture and consciously take in your next breath,
Also take in this assurance…
There is no need to achieve anything here…
There is no need to defend anything here…
The Sun Never Says
Reading at the end of most all practices:
“Even after all this time
The sun never says
to the Earth
“You owe me.”
Look what happens
with a Love like that
It lights the whole sky
–Hafiz
Dark thoughts
Reading at Koloa practice 01/18/2010
“I once had a garden
filled with flowers
that only grew on dark thoughts
but they need constant attention
& one day I decided
I had better things
to do.”
—Brian Andreas
A Good Read
Reading at Waimea practice 01/16/2010
Untitled by Kent Bond
The mirror reveals
A very unique notebook
A cherished volume
That I have chosen
to journal in
Today
This Chapter….
Reading at Waimea practice 01/12/2010
This Chapter is closed now
Not one word more
Until we meet some day
and the voices rising
to the window
take wing and fly
No Artist is Pleased
Reading at Anara Spa 10/05/2007
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
