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.
Archive > January 2010
Just For Now
I Have Come Into this World to See
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 [...]
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
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.
A Song for the Search
Reading at Waimea Practice 01/12/10
And the song rang out ‘midst the silence of the lodge
I have sat in the pews of hundreds of churches
Praised your name-Praised your name
Your Laughter…
Reading at Waimea 01/05/2010
Take breath away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.
