Posts Tagged "rumi"
What’s Not Here
Reading at Waimea practice 3/3/2013 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...
Read MoreTrading in Love’s Currency
Reading at Kalaheo and Anara practices 2/14/2013 Reason said, ” We live in a world of six directions – and that’s it! Love replied, “There is a path beyond, and I have traveled it many times.” Reason saw a market and set up shop, but love trades in another currency...
Read MoreDon’t go back to sleep…
Reading at Kalaheo practice 1/17/2013 “The Breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the door sill Where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open Don’t go back to...
Read MoreOn a Day When the Wind is Perfect
Reading at Kalaheo and Anara Practices 12/27/2012 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...
Read MoreSilk Worm
Reading at Anara Practice – 12/13/2012 I stood before a silk worm one day And that night my heart said to me, “I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet Throughout the earth My sacks filled With the Sacred’ And I replied...
Read MoreAll Paths, No paths
Reading at Kalaheo practice 12/10/2012 Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the east or the west, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My...
Read MoreNeck Deep in Grace
Reading at Waimea Practice 7/31/2012 …A friend James Baraz tells of traveling to India to be with the guru H. W. L. Poonja… Poonja was celebrated for his freedom of spirit, for the energy of awakening he transmitted to his disciples, and for his joyful laughter. James had completed twenty years of meditation practice and become a greatly beloved Buddhist teacher. Still wanting to...
Read MoreBird Wings
Reading at Kalaheo, Anara and Metamorphose practices 7/30/2012 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...
Read MoreYou Were Born With Wings
Reading at Anara practice 7/11/2012 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...
Read MoreOn Vocation…..
Reading at Koloa and Anara practice 5/28/2012 “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...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
On the Day Before You Came…
Conscious Evolution
Buy Paul’s Art…
