Category: Freedom

Becoming Whole

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Dark night, Evolution, Freedom, Love, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

For if we cannot bear our own brokenness
And the brokenness of the world
We are doomed to deny it
And from our denial we will create a monster
Born of the shadows, of shame and rage,
Projected outwards in its desperation to be seen

And a world will be created in our image
But it will be a false world built on lies and fear
Its structures made of the sand of ignorance
Everything will be dominated by division
And we will forget who we are

Without bearing our brokenness
We are ghosts that haunt the earth
Trying to get home

So we must turn towards our wounds
Bear our grief and our shame
Embrace our mortality and our shadows
And begin the process
Of becoming whole

This is the only way home
There are no shortcuts.

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Cry the World

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Dark night, Divine, emptiness, Freedom, Love, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

Today there is a need for tenderness
A soft warm loving kindness
That heals all sorrow and division
I am tired of the world
And its relentless argument
Weary of those who seek power for its own sake

I am drawn back to childhood memories
Of England’s green pastures of the sixties
My life lived in wonderment and innocence
And then wrenched from that innocence
By those I thought infallible and god-like

Everything seems so far away now
As I sit here in the enchanted land

So many have I known
All disappeared into the beyond
Young and old alike
Some lived a short and troubled life
Others aged well like a mature wine
All now wrapped up in this tender heart

And here we are in these days
When meeting each other openly
In freedom, face to face,
Reading the subtle movement of lips
Seems already a distant memory

My friend, my beautiful friend
I wish we could sit together
Just sit together in the silence that heals
Just sit and cry the world
Back to its natural intelligence
And let this heavy heart surrender its weight
Into the openness that can hold everything.

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The Existential Abyss of Freedom

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Dark night, Death, Divine, Existentialism, Freedom, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

Yes, you must recognize your aloneness
And fall into the existential void
Yes, it may be terrifying
And bring you face to face with all that has been avoided
Yes, you will meet meaninglessness
And be forced to become intimate with death
But this is not the end of you
Only the end of the dream of you
There is a big difference
This dream we imagine to be so real
Must be seen all the way
Not sort of, some of the way,
But all the way
And only then will it be fully released
And therein lies the peace and equanimity
It is powerful, it takes willingness and great courage
But I have not met one person
Who does not have the capacity to do it.

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The Freedom You Seek

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Freedom, metaphor, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

The freedom you seek
Is right here inside everything
Now and always,
But you are not
You are lost in a dream of yourself
Allegiance given to the imaginary one
Who claims ownership of all that is

Let go of the ropes
And see that imagined one
Fly off into space
And know that which remains
Is the freedom being sought.

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Dance of Courtship

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Death, Divine, Ecstatic Poetry, Freedom, Love, metaphor, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

It is simple
Each of us is a moth
The flame we circle
Carries within it
The freedom we seek
But we must fly around
And around and around
In an ecstatic dance
Of courtship
Before the moment,
When the dance is at its wildest,
We yield to the inevitable
Pull of that burning

God is us, the flame, the freedom
And the dance of courtship.

Mind Bows Down

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Freedom, Non Duality, Nonduality, Philosophy, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

You cannot work it out with your mind
Because it is not conceptual

You must live it fully from your heart
Because it is in the visceral reality, the lived experience,
That the natural intelligence comes

When the heart is finally purged of its trauma
And released from its captivity
Even the mind bows down
And offers itself in service.

Eden Inside

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Freedom, Garden, Love, metaphor, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

There is no garden outside of us
It is a metaphor that speaks to our deepest
Eden is our innocence, our inner sense
A place that dwells in the heart of each of us
Our wholeness and truth

We fell out of that place
And we continue to fall out of that place
Each time we lunge into judgement and projection
Each time we see and feel separation
And of course all the time we are in fear

For fear is the vibration upon which
The illusory world is built

To return to our inner eden
That place of innocence and truth
We must meet fear and find out if it is real
We must transcend our judgement and projection
Without bypassing it
We must dissolve this illusion of separation
And upon our titanic meeting with fear itself
We must look it in the eye, stand firm and still
And say ‘no, no more tyranny, I am no longer available for you.’

Upon those words, if said with profound conviction,
The world of form, the world of the separate self
The whole thing
Will dissolve before our very eyes
And it will be as though nothing ever happened
For we will be returned to an innocent state
Of natural intelligence and wisdom
At one with the cosmos and each other and ourselves

This is the time of the healing
That allows us to return home to that eden.

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Living Cell in a Global Body

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Dark night, Divine, Evolution, Existentialism, Freedom, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

As we fall deeper into the rabbit hole of dissolution
And the future becomes increasingly uncertain
We are each called to choose between two very different paths

Everything depends on the inner vibrations we choose from here on
We can choose to stay with our default vibration, and resonate
At disempowered, fear based, shame based and cut off from source
Which is all we have been taught and learned through our conditioning
Through our religions and our personal wounding

Or we can make courageous, warrior-like decisions,
To throw off these shackles of limitation as no longer needed
And step naked into our authority, our innocent wisdom
And our communion with natural intelligence, which is our birthright

The turning of the ages is calling us, and it is not settled how it will be
The new age could herald a metamorphosis of human consciousness
And human relating, an evolutionary shift that brings extraordinary freedom and peace
Or it could bring a kind of top down tyranny of oppressive globalization
That all but enslaves humanity in a psychic and physical prison

We, you and I, need to make decisions within ourselves
About our own frequencies and vibration
Is it love, and all the courage it takes to let go of the old ways?
Or is it fear, that familiar, hateful, prison that is the current paradigm?

Don’t imagine it doesn’t matter
Everyone is a living cell in the global body
And each cell counts towards the whole
Resonating at wellbeing and light
Or toxicity and darkness

Yes, we are in those times.

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Cathedral Heart

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Freedom, Love, metaphor, poetry, Spirituality2 Comments

The heart is a cathedral
In which everything and everyone
Is allowed
The doors may seem shut
But they are not locked

We must use whatever keys we have
Whatever intention and persistence
Whatever softness and grace
Whatever resolve and earnestness
To simply open the door

How magnificent is the sight
When that happens
‘Oh my tender and sweet heart!’
You will sigh as gratitude
Pours out its love
An unstoppable stream of goodness
No longer tethered by mind’s righteousness.

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