FRIDAY SHORTS

Hi, Here is a short selection of poems and insights, most of them appeared on Twitter this week:

There are jewels
Of illumination
In the darkness
To discover them
You must journey
Into the dark places within
When you stumble upon
Those jewels
Your surroundings
Will no longer be dark
And your inner eye
Will open to the beauty
And truth
You are searching for.

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Many gardens lie barren
Deserted and overrun 
With weeds and garbage
Self neglect is an effect
Of trauma and bad conditioning 
Yet there is a way back

Know this inner garden 
Tend to it, love it
Plant beautiful flowers
And water them daily 
Watch it grow
No garden is dead.

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To journey far enough inside
That you find equanimity 
As a place to live from

And to bring that equanimity 
Back to the surface world
And offer to the surface dwellers
So deceived by the pull to judgment

Is a blessing to yourself
And to that divided world.

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Be above no-one 
And below no-one

Ego lives on comparison 
Above or below
Better or worse
Good or bad

Be above no-one
And below no-one

Simply be
Stop feeding the hungry ghost.

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Offer others your presence
And your openness
Not your opinion.

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Become unshakeable
Not just sometimes
When things are good
But always

Rest so deeply 
In the silence of being

That this unshakability 
Is an entirely natural occurrence.

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The cultural you must die
If you are to truly know yourself

The cultural you
Is the imagined self
Built of conditioning 

And ultimately
Is but a shadow
Of the light of who 
And what you are.

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I will stop there. There are scores of them!
Thank you for reading. Be well.