Posts tagged "poem"
Everything passes, everything changes~
"Shut softly your watery eyes... The pangs of your sadness shall pass as your senses will rise..."
Let dreams be your law~
"I cannot be born on solid ground, only where everything flows.
To enter my dawn you must be unbound from how the fixed world goes. Leave behind
your maps and losses, let dreams be all your law...
Everything is waiting for you~
"Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink...
Stand in good relation to the Earth~
"I am an eagle playing with the wind, I am a cluster of bright beads, I am the farthest star, I am the cold of the dawn, I am the roaring of the rain..."
Feel the change~
"And when the blue heron, breaking his long breast feathers, sees one feather fall, does he know I will find it? Will he see me holding it in my hand?
Growth is just seeing it sooner~
"The turnaround is the most important part of the flight path. When you make it, you move the whole world forward...
Dance when the wind blows~
"I wonder if the sun debates dawn some mornings not wanting to rise out of bed from under the down-feather horizon. If the sky grows tired of being everywhere at once...
Observe~
"Forever Oneness, Who sings to us in silence, Who teaches us through each other, Guide my steps with strength and wisdom. May I see the lessons as I walk, Honor the purpose of all things.Help me touch with respect, Always...
Behind naming, beneath words is an existence unnamable~
"Behind naming, beneath words, is something else. An existence named unnamed and unnameable. We give the grass a name, and earth a name. We say grass and earth are separate...
Even in the struggle, you are loved~
"Even in the struggle, you are loved. You are being loved not in spite of the hardship, but through it. The thing you see as wrenching, intolerable, life's attack on you, is an expression of love..."
Feel the quiet power~
"I ended thought, and I ended story. I stopped designing, and arguing, and sculpting a happy life. I didn't die. I didn't turn to dust. Instead I chopped vegetables, and made a calm lake inside me where the water was...
