CLOSER THAN BREATHING

 

I am here.

Breathing as you.
Laughing as you.
Crying as you.
Dancing as you.

Shouting as you.

Grieving as you.

Meditating as you.

Being unholy as you.

Singing as you.

Losing the way as you.

Getting found as you.

There is no need to make a special pilgrimage
To the Holy of Holies.
Just leave your shoes
At the door of your Heart.

I am here.

Closer than breathing,
Nearer than hands and feet
I am.

~goldenflower

(Source of photo unknown)

IT IS TIME

The Call is Here. Now.  
Time to hand in the scripts, the costumes,
The hypnotic trance of this 
Paradigm of separation and division.
Instead, may we allow the Divine to reveal Itself 
Moment by moment as this Interconnected Love 
That expresses Itself as absolutely everything.  
Everything. 
Here. Now.  
As Joni sings...
"We are stardust 
We are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the Garden."

(Art by Jamal M Azaiz)

Just Past the Threshold

 

I am the Call 
That beckons 
From beyond name and form.

I am the invitation
To relax amidst the dissolution 

Of  your carefully constructed life.

I am Here 
Just past the threshold

That exists at the edge of reason,

Dancing

In the Emptiness 

that is...

Everything.

OM Sat Chit Ananda

I am This.

(image from OSHO Tarot deck)

HOLY COMMUNION

 

There is a river that runs
Just below the surface of our everyday focus,
Where the forest mushrooms chant praises to Gaia
Across a luminous network of Love,
And Monarchs find their way south
Without compass or protection.
Where bees dance in sacred geometry,
And whales chant the names of god
in ways that only our hearts can recognize.

Whenever you feel lost or alone,
Be still for just a moment,
And listen. 
Listen underneath...
Listen to the Song that Love is singing.
 

(Image - Evening Song Joe Gilronan))

It is Here

 

The invitation
To remember
Your Original face,
Your eternal nature,
Is right here
In your present circumstance.

Just say Yes.

(Photo - Crab Nebula M1)

Guardian at the Gate

 

What if Fear is your Ally?

And Love's midwife?

The messenger from the worlds "beyond"?

The One who says, "Come here...right here, this is your edge.

Here is the limit you have put on your own existence.

Stand here with me. Feel this shakiness, this tension, this twisting in your gut. Allow yourself to be in this tension for awhile.

Open to the Mystery that is right here.

And I will show you the door to Freedom."

(Image of "Guardian of the Buddha" at Todai-Ji temple in Japan. This statue has the mouth open and represents “birth”, or “the beginning”.)

She Rises

 

Sometimes she swallows me whole,
This goddess who rises up
Within me
When the moon is full
And I disappear
into Her 
Mystery.

(source of image unknown)