Fear driven by circumstance, we seem to walk a thin line between the thin skinned narcosis of belief, and each moment, wings open, being sliced throat-to-belly opened to the cosmos. We seem to vacillate, lukewarm, between a false (an understandably human) hope (for some future relief from the raging present) and a fierce resistance to…
“We Don’t Have to Save the World, We Just Have to Belong to it More Fully” (anonymous)
The world is not an object in front of us, it is the whole of us, we are it, and it is us, and no disentanglement is possible. The world is as much us as we are it. It cannot be changed from a burning hell to a cooling heaven without fully over hauling our…
Going Beyond Circumstance
Most of us seek what we think we need out there, in the world. We seem not to know that all that we would seek can only be found within. So how does this insight impact our relationship to the hard bound circumstances of our lives? It is said that the circumstances of our lives…
Stillness
Deeper than sound, deeper than the absence of sound, Beyond birthing and dying, beyond hope and despair, It is ever true, ever free, ever full, ever perfect, Even as It expresses through the imperfect conditional, Its unconditionality cannot be compromised. We are ever 2 things, Mortal and Immortal, Both dying to live & living to die,…
Intensity and Serenity
It is easy to coast through each day, managing a mild form of acceptably "normal" anguish.
