THE ONLY WAY HOME

If I can add just one drop of beauty and love to this world, and if I can remember and live from the integrity of my deepest truth, that will be enough.

A few poems for you.

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Everything that hurts
The wounds and the grievances
The shame and the sorrows
Are all standing at the door
Waiting to be welcomed home
To an open heart
The deeper love goes
The more it lets in
So that, eventually, if the heart 
Has no more conditions holding it back
Everything falls in
Because 
Everything wants to come home
And the only real way home
Is through the openness of the heart.

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There is a beauty that radiates
Even in the brokenness and suffering
Through the darkness
When we find a way to carry pain
With a kind of dignity and nobility
A light shines from us
That others see and hold dear

This is a blessing to the human condition.

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It’s hard to find the true one
For they may be sitting quietly
And you are bombarded by those
Who shout their gifts
And their shiny tantalizing offers
While the true one cannot enter that game
And just sits waiting for an invitation
Or not.

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There is a longing the soul has
That can only be satisfied by God.

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Every moment is holy
But we are blinkered
And see through mundane eyes
The divine is in all creation
Yet we see it in nothing
Pull back the curtains
And there it is
As it always was
But you were ignoring it.

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The heart opens
All of existence pours in

We become a conduit
For the divine

The defended self
Dies into this
And begins to serve it

We are no longer
The person we imagined we were

We have become
An emissary of love.

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Remember, my fellow traveler,
Remember your true self
We come from the stars
We are innocent and free
Beautiful and wild
And that’s what is calling us
In these collapsing times.

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Someone asked if I prayed
I said it’s all prayer now
For it is all God.

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Surrounded by drama
Seek refuge
In silence
And presence

When the pull of 
The storm is strong
Remember to stay
Where you are

Become unshakeable
The world needs this.

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The voice of the divine is everywhere
To one who listens from silence.