In depth of night my soul cries out in anguish and in fear Where are You, the Compassionate, the Merciful? I do not see You, I do not feel You, Your voice is a silent whisper My heart is clenched in the steel vice of guilt and shame Fearful of my karma and the punishment [...]
Shafts of misty sunlight through a canopy of green Penetrate the clouds in the canyons of my mind And fall softly on the garden of my heart Here in the garden are the fruits of seeds sown long ago A sumptuous feast fit for a king, born in the heart of a beggar
Wings of sunlight, dancing in suspended time Spiraling ballerinas fluttering upward in weightless joy Again floating in rhythm, without care, back down to the earth Delicate forms, fully present during their brief moment of life What artist could ever create such magical beauty As two butterflies with wings of sunlight Dancing free in suspended time
I don’t know why but I woke up inspired this morning….I was expecting something else. Sometimes we are given a gift that has nothing at all to do with anything we have done or earned…it’s just a gift. So this morning I was given the gift of inspiration. Not the inspiration to do anything in [...]
There is nothing so intoxicating as the drama of this life. There is no spirit or elixir that can make us so drunk with misperception as the ongoing play of our life and the world. Beyond the drama there is a peace, an all-consuming joy that we both endlessly seek and simultaneously run from and [...]
I see You in the snow white moon hanging in the breathless sky I hear your voice in the ocean breathing it’s song at the shore I feel your touch in the fingers of the morning breeze caressing the earth I see your eyes as the stars reaching out through the veil of night It [...]
Like a thief in the darkness I strain to listen, searching for the silence, for the still well out of which all these vibrations of creation are pouring. My soul is thirsty for the silent stillness that is robbed by the incessant demands of the talking mind-self. Never ending re-runs of what was…or what never [...]
Nothing special, just another ordinary day…..of opening my eyes upon the incomprehensible miracle of mystery and madness, another day in the journey of this dreamlife. I look up at the infinite ocean of blue with a snowy white half-moon suspended above me, wispy and weightless clouds drifting lazily by. Silently the landscape is illumined as [...]
Last evening the sky was Robin’s egg blue with mother of pearl clouds hanging over the mountains. The tops of the mountains were lit up by the last blissful rays of the sun before it took it’s rest on the other side of the Pacific. They looked like they were lit up from the inside, [...]
This morning I was surprised that when the sun rose it penetrated the cloud of despondency that had been hanging thick in the valleys of my mind. How often nature rescues me from the quicksand of despair hidden behind the world’s mirage of rainbow dreams and promises.