Tag: poetry

ON HUMILITY

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Freedom, Love, metaphor, Nature, Nonduality, peace, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

Only the humble man or woman
Can know the deepest peace

The righteous ego, built on its pridefulness,
Has no capacity to know humility

For true humility is the sacrifice
Of the righteous ego itself

And the righteous ego
Will do everything in its power
To maintain its own existence

Ironically, while the ego tells the world
That humility is the greatest weakness there is,
The truth is the opposite
And humility opens the door
To the miraculous natural power of the universe

While the ego is busy trying to acquisition
All the power for itself.

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5)
Blessed = Happy and peaceful
Meek = Gentle of spirit, humble and true
Inherit the earth = Become natural

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The Life Long Journey of Surrender

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, emptiness, Existentialism, Freedom, Love, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, Spirituality1 Comment

The only freedom is within
It cannot be found
In some future destination
Or some well devised method of attainment
Freedom has nothing to do with attainment

The most powerful human being
Is one who is free
Of the constraints of the world
Not by wielding force
Or through money or fame
Not through any egoic value at all

But one who is capable of unconditional love

To develop the capacity of surrender of the willful self
Is a life long journey
Whose destination is always here and now
Never there and then

The true warrior fails their way to love
For that very failure brings the humility necessary.

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THE WAVES OF PHENOMENA

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Existentialism, Freedom, Inspiration, metaphor, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, Sea, SpiritualityLeave a comment

We are all thrown around
And buffeted by the same waves
It never stops, this movement,
Until we depart these shores

Sometimes it seems
We have tamed the waves
Or learned to surf them
With dexterity and grace
And then we turn our backs
Or slip into arrogance

And a mighty thunderous
Wall of water engulfs us
Half drowns us
And turns us upside down
We cough, splutter and cry
Rail against the water
Rage against the ocean itself

Then we dry ourselves off
And begin again

In many ways
That’s all there is.

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All Our Ancestors

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Death, Evolution, Freedom, Inspiration, Love, metaphor, Non Duality, Nonduality, peace, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

To a certain extent
Ancestral heritage
Is the passing on
Of unresolved wounds
Hardship and pain
Survivalism and suffering

That which our ancestors
Could not meet and transform
Is passed on like a hot coal
To the next generation
On and on it goes
Even on the cellular level

We are vibrationally and energetically
The carriers of our ancestors
Some of our deepest unknowable movements
May have the fragrance
Of countless generations in them

And now you and I are here
With the opportunity
To end the ancestral passing on
Of unmet wounds

You and I
Are where the buck stops
And the resolution, forgiveness and love
We can find in ourselves
Will be passed on, not just to future generations,
But even on some mysterious level
To those ancestors who played some part
In bringing us here

That’s how important our transformation is.

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SAY YES TO IT ALL

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Death, Divine, emptiness, Existentialism, Freedom, Inspiration, Love, Nature, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

There is a light
That shines through you
Even on the darkest of days
When the clouds hang heavy
And the storm is close at hand

Friend, do not fight the storm
When it approaches
But surrender into it
Let it drench you and cleanse you
Let it blow through you
Like a wild and healing force

Storms come and storms go
Clouds arise as if from nowhere
Suddenly the sky darkens
Lightning forks from the heavens
And crashes into the earth
The clouds let loose their tears
Without holding anything back

The earth says yes to it all

There is a light
That shines through you
Even in the darkest of times.

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WELCOME THE WORLD HOME

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

The world of your experience
Wants to come home
And it can only do it through you

You are the way
That the world becomes purified
And you can only do this
By opening so wide
Into the deepest acceptance
That everything is allowed
To find its true resting place

This itself is profound
And is how the world is healed.

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The Door of Sadness

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn artist, Divine, emptiness, Freedom, Love, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

The door of personal sadness and grief
When embraced and opened to fully
May lead to the palace of realization
Of universal suffering
And the nature of temporariness

The one who can live from broken heartedness
Can walk through the valley of desolation
With equanimity and the greatest acceptance
Of the way things are

That one may be a healer
A homeopathic remedy
For the collective body
That struggles so much
As it constantly turns away
From the painful truth of life

The bitter sweet path
Brings depth and richness
To all it touches.

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