Posts Tagged "Truth"
The Time Before Death
Reading at Waimea practice 4/23, Koloa practice 4/25/2011 Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think… and think… while you are alive. What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death. If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? The idea that the soul will...
Read MoreNowhere to Hide
“Help me stay awake to every moment of this day the events I like and those I don’t-equally welcomed in my sight, or at least not pushed away. Help me celebrate the simple truths, the march of clouds across blue sky, the scent of purple hyacinths, the small green pea shoots pushing up from seeds. If I am made in your image and likeness, may my heart grow wider and wider until...
Read MoreSmells of Good Food
Truth never frightens. I remember once walking out in the winter to greet my father as he returned from work. He was a little late that night and I waited by a street corner near our house. The cold can enliven thanks, my wool coat became a sacred robe, how happy I felt to be alive. I waited in a world of magic, smells of good food, the street lamps, the smoke coming from chimneys, the candles...
Read MoreThe Taste of Truth
Reading at Anara practice 08/01/2010 For the moment/ I’ve stopped struggling. The undertow tugs at my clothes/ and the current takes me where it will. Surrender sounds like defeat/ but this tastes like victory/ the sweet release into something open/ empty/ yet complete. My heart speaks/ instructing me to relinquish all control, I close my eyes/ and see myself dissolving while remaining...
Read MoreThe Taste of Truth
For the moment, I’ve stopped struggling. The undertow tugs at my clothes/ and the current takes me where it will. Surrender sounds like defeat, but this tastes like victory, the sweet release into something open, empty, yet complete. My heartspeaks, instructing me to relinquish all control. I close my eyes, and see myself dissolving while remaining whole. When, at last, I am delivered...
Read MoreSnippets of Inspiration 1
Anara Spa Readings 5/08/09 Linaji's India “Irregularity and unpredictability are important features of health. On the other hand, decreased variability and accentuated periodicities are associated with disease. Healthy systems don’t want homeostasis. They want chaos.” —John R. Van Eenwyk, “The Chaotic Dynamic* of Everyday Life,” Quest magazine “One must...
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