OUR ECSTATIC RETREAT

My apologies for not publishing any substack poems for the last couple of weeks. We went to the Hudson Valley to run our 7 day retreat. We came back last night and are slowly trying to regroup, tidy up and move on.

But it wouldn’t be right of me to ignore the utter beauty and depth of what just happened. It is almost impossible to put into words how exquisite it was. The retreat center, our team, and most of all those people who gave themselves to the invitation so totally, combined to create a breakthrough event for us all.

There were tears, laughter, breakthroughs, music, poetry, an eagle, goats, fireflies, natural beauty, 20 acres of gorgeous ancient land, and just this willingness to fall into the deepest surrender. We touched grace, and I would say that we have all, in some way or another, carried that grace with us back into the world.

There is no greater blessing. And Amoda and I are filled with such gratitude it is worth all the work and the behind the scenes stuff to sit for a while in the field of love.

With great love, Kavi

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You are the doorway
Through which love 
Arrives in the world

No more waiting for it
To arrive from somewhere else
As if by magic

It is up to each of us 
To walk in this world
As though love were 
Pouring through us.

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Eternity is the tapestry
Upon which time hangs
We are tethered to time
In body and mind
But spirit is eternal.

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If your intention is true
And your heart is pure
The way will unfold with grace.

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This life
Is a constant playing out
Of seeming shadows
A dance of duality
In which we play our part
Until our shadow has lifted
And duality no longer rules us
And is but a wave
On our vast oceanic nature of union.

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We swim in a vast ocean of love
Surrounded by eternity
Held by some unseen hand
But we forget
As we are carved into identity
And told we are someone separate

So we wander this place
With amnesia
Wondering why we feel so unfulfilled.
Home is just a realization away.

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When you return to yourself
You realize
You never left yourself
You were distracted
And believed in things
That weren't true.

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Touch experience lightly
Like a feather
Dusting across the sky.

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When love hears its true name
It comes racing across the universe
Like a vast and beautiful
Wild mustang
Of light.

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Look behind you
With soft gaze
You have the wings of grace
There to lift you up
To the heavens.

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TEN THOUSAND BUTTERFLIES

When you open your inner pandora’s box
Expecting a thousand ghosts and ghouls
And all manner of horrors to be released

You discover ten thousand butterflies
That have been trapped in a cage
And all you ever felt
Was the flapping of their fragile wings
As they begged for their release. 

TEN THOUSAND BUTTERFLIES.

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