Poetry For latest poetry see here
Isn't this peace enough?
Friend,
Why so many questions?
Why so much drama?
All this talk of enlightenment....
When did sitting here quietly together become so complicated?
Isn't this peace enough?
When you are empty
You are happy
When you are empty
You are at peace
When you are empty
'you' are not here
When you are empty
'You' are truly here
I can't find myself
And in this non-finding
I find the greatest happiness
The greatest peace
The greatest stillness
I find all the things
That I was so long seeking
They appear effortlessly
In my absence
Beloved
To the sensitive beings
To those who struggle with trauma
To those without answers
To those who feel misunderstood
To those who haven't given up
The Lord's words come
Find strength in me
Find strength in the spirit
Find strength in Heart Presence
Find strength in God
Whilst the world
is fascinated
with all that is moving.
The sage knows herself
to be the unmoving.
In this knowing
she is silent,
she is still
she is steady.
She is effortlessly immersed
in that which immerses all.
"you cant get away from who you are"
This is true in so many ways.....
When you know who you are ultimately, you know you cant get away from it.
When you know who you are ultimately, you see the perfection in the relative.
You know that all is well.
If any improvements are to be made,
they will happen within that space which is beyond improvement.
They will happen with your blessing.
For everything is ultimately blessed by that.
You are that which kisses every moment.
I am not the love guru
The hugging guru
The healing guru
The holy guru
I am the ordinary guru
And in that,
I am not a guru at all
I am just a reminder
that truth is to be found
in the ordinary,
the natural, the simple, the ever-present
In watching a game
In drinking a tea
In walking in the woods
In holding a child’s hand
In laughing with a friend
In driving the car
In meeting your beloved
In sitting quietly
In letting go of specialness
Truth is everywhere and in everything
When you find it in the ordinary
You will find it everywhere.
If you have experienced strong emotional pain and trauma, and you have tried everything to heal it, the only thing left to do now is to surrender to your own presence. It is to stop trying to change anything for a moment and come to rest as the naked 'I am'. It is to give all of your troubles to God and be one with the source itself. It is to see that your pain has forced you into the deepest surrender, the deepest longing, and the deepest 'yes' to your own indwelling spirit.
You must be willing to die for this;
You must die to specialness
And be reborn into naturalness
You must die to grasping
And be reborn into resting
You must die to past and future
And be reborn into now
You must die to personal identity
And be reborn as Presence
You must die to all you've learnt
And be reborn as that which cannot be learnt
You must die to time
And be reborn as the timeless
You must die to the Mr
And be reborn as the Master
.
The cosmic mask is being removed by God
for some its taken little by little
for others its ripped without warning
It is not your job to question the timing or the method of removal
the wisest move then is to say yes to that grace which removes all thats not yours
Say yes to that power which is moving within you
which yearns to be born through you as undivided Presence.
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