An Exploration of Human and Divine
Don’t be deceived by the material world
It is only half of the truth
There is an invisible world
Inside the material one
Natural, Intelligent and benevolent
Remember this even in the midst of trouble
After living in full acceptance
Of this invisible intelligence
For some time
It becomes more real than the material one
And you realize everything has changed
Some call this awakening
I call it falling into what is natural.
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Spirituality is ‘of the spirit’
No more than that
Spirit is that essence within us
Unnamable and unknowable
But without which we are nothing
To develop indomitable spirit
Means to keep going
To keep walking
No matter what
With a dignity and humility
To walk through it all
As the stories, the tragedies and dramas slip by
As the days ebb away
As life’s spring
Becomes death’s fall
To walk willingly
With an indomitable spirit
Noble of heart even in brokenness
Neither higher nor lower
Neither more than or less than
But with the grace
Of a zen master
In presence
And openness
Until there is no more you.
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Throw away all this politeness
And speak up for beauty
And love!
Declare yourself a radical
Don’t hold your tongue any longer
Speak what is deepest in your heart
Serve your soul’s loving
What is there to lose?
You have been holding it back
Fitting in, keeping quiet,
Trying to find the middle ground
Not rocking the boat
Enough!
Rock the boat beautifully
Declare yourself to the world
Show your hand
Daunt your friends with your love
And with your honesty
Speak up for kindness and tenderness
The way those who laud hatred so proudly do
Serve beauty with all your heart
And something mysterious will happen
Beauty will see and hear you
And start serving you…not your false self
But the true and authentic you
Jump in, let’s go!
There’s not a moment to lose…
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Overwhelmed by all this human insanity
Did he sit in such a silence
That the world stopped all movement
And in that bitter sweet moment
The sky opened its heart
The moon shed its tears
And the sun offered its light
He lifted his weary head
And beheld a beauty
Of such heavenly wonder
That even the stars bowed down
And the universe stopped breathing
From that divine pause
Did time itself come
Dripping like nectar
Precious moment upon precious moment
Creating all this we see and know
Life is more vast than we can imagine
We live on the surface of something
So huge it would overwhelm us if we could see it
Our five senses allow us to navigate life here
But do not mistake perception for reality
They are not the same thing
In a certain enlightened experience once
I saw something with my inner eye
I saw time dripping into reality
Beyond mind, beyond our perceptive senses
I saw something so extraordinary it brought me to my knees
And I understood that we can never understand
Something changed in me forever that day
And I began to serve the divine that animates all things.
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Oh! how much I adore these words
Surrender
Kindness
Grace
Beauty
Tenderness
Vulnerability
Innocence
All of them
The arms and the legs of love
All of them underpinning
Our humanity
When the fighting is done
We return to these qualities
Without them we are not human
They are the holy waters we swim in
I see people struggle in their lives
Because they have forgotten
To dive into the only ocean that matters.
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Let the grit of our suffering
Become the pearl of our offering
There is always a purpose to our pain
It can feed our hate and resentment
Or, with great stealth and much grace,
It can feed a love so deep, so powerful,
It touches others and transforms them
Let wounds, trauma and suffering
Not be wasted on more negativity
But let it feed us and grow us
So we become something new
Something powerful and noble
Something worthy and beautiful
And let us carry ourselves
With humble magnificence
Even with all that has been broken.
– Kavi Jezzie Hockaday
Image by Elias Sch. from Pixabay
There is a world inside this one
Its language is beauty
To talk to that world
You must learn to speak
In a different way
The way of the heart
When the relationship
Between the inner world
And the surface world
Is remembered and honored
Harmony returns
First there must be a shedding
Of the old self, the outer skin
The layers of protection
Built up by the illusory need
To live inside walls
You must be willing
To become wild again
To awaken wildness within
To awaken vulnerability
To awaken innocence
And fearlessness
It’s not as terrifying as it sounds
It’s a hair’s breadth away
As close as your skin
And it wants you
As much as you want it
It’s in your willingness to surrender
And then, when you begin to understand
The language of beauty
The world opens its gates to you
And, even though it may look like hell,
You will only see heaven
Not as a delusion
But as a reality.
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