The weather is changeable, the politics are unstable, everything seems to be wobbling on its axis. But that axis itself was never fixed. Everything is in motion, evolving and devolving. The one who stands outside and inside at the same time sees the coming and going, the changing, the instability, the wobbling, and the illusory axis upon which everything stands, with a kind of loving detachment that says, ‘I am all this and none of it. I am in the world but not of the world.’
Presence without narration is the only freedom I have found.
Some poems for you. May these words find your innermost heart.
To be humbled is a beautiful thing Many people could do with experiencing The ego self falls from its perch And just for a moment loses its footing A doorway opens to a deeper reality Most scramble back And slam the door shut Yet there is often one who Steps through. -------------------------------- Come home Come home to love Your truest nature The secret place hidden In full view Invisible to all But the discerning eye Come home to The deepest rest Where finally everything Is accepted An abiding in a vast peace That passeth the mind’s understanding. ---------------------------------- it is simple i am eternity arising as form destined to return to eternity while here as form i am still eternity the wave is the ocean and the ocean is the wave there is no separation. --------------------------------- The cost of freedom Is the attachment To thinking. ------------------------------- Don’t turn away from the world Because it's too intense or painful Or too delusional or tyrannical Turn towards it with compassionate detached love With a way of saying, 'I see you clearly, but I will not play that game, for I have seen something more true and benevolent.' -------------------------------- Friend, once the heart has truly softened It doesn’t harden again It just stays open And life is lived in a different way With a tender grace. --------------------------------- The veil is thinner friend And all this radical sensitivity you feel Is the awakening from a deep sleep That has captivated us for centuries But is now drawing to a close Everything is in an evolutionary state And there is a great opportunity To remember the truth of ourselves. ----------------------------------- We must walk through the valley alone Facing ourselves deeper and deeper with each step Although this is, in some ways, perilous and challenging The walking itself forges something true in us And eventually we become unshakeable. ------------------------------------ I spent most of this life Wandering lost Searching for the spirit I didn’t know was calling me Yearning to remember My own indomitable fire Without knowing it When I found it I knew it was always there But I was distracted By the world Now all I can do is spread that fire. ----------------------------------- And in the deepest of places I discovered these things to be self evident The tenderness to hold life gently The kindness to allow things to be The grace to see I and life are one And the wisdom to know There is a secret intelligence To which we all bow down. ------------------------------------ Thanks for reading my uprising.
Thank you so much Kavi. Your words are very timely for me this week. I love the pic too. xx
Thanks Kavi, as always