what a way to be    
 Redemption
category picture19 Sep 2003 @ 03:20
I have been many things. I have seen many things. I have hopes and aspirations. I have vision. but i have so many questions. and too many answers. how are you supposed to decide when you are given such a big menu? most people stick with the classics. "Number 1, with a Coke." but life is realy nothing like fast food. the quick fix is never the answer. so when you roll up in the Cosmic Drive-Thru of the Realization of Your Own Life, you start to realize that burgers just arent doin it. but what else is there? i mean realy? chicken? tacos? what about some pasta? or what ever happened to a good ol banana? and some cheerios? are you realy even hungry? take your eyes from the menu and see what more there is in life that might fill that hole. just a thought...

so any way, things are great. I am completely lost and without hope. I have no direction or sense of purpose, nor the balls to accomplish such a level understanding. standing here, at the threshold of my very "ME", i can only cry. whatever i was is dead. whatever skin was there is shead. naked and affraid, my fear is naked. and i am no more. yet I stand tall. and what stands here is me- ME. "Hello world, this is Me" it is completely unlike anything i have ever felt, yet so comfortably familiar. it feels like... Me... just me. i had forgotten that I was a scared little man in a dark corner screaming into his pillow, praying for all of it to be over. not understanding why the world I lived in had to be so backasswards and dramatized and exagerated to the point of everthing being a battle. and everyone telling me whats important, all the while trying to hold to what I feel is important, and figuring out what is universally important. and who knows what else...

so in awakening and cralling out from under my rock, the light is no longer at the end of the tunnel, its Everywhere. Everything is illuminated by it, brought to my focus. my senses naked, my conscious empty, i am overwhelmed with a flood of regret of all the things ive done. no... No. frustration with all the things i know i should have done, and Still dont do. its so much easier to just go get a burger. Biggie Size... with a Coke- and uh... throw in some extra fries, the perfect woman, a house, a grant, a side of ranch, and make sure we get plenty of napkins. but they never get it right. "Hey this is Pepsi!"

so where do we go? how do we now cultivate that witch is important in our new lives? what tools do we have? what skills have we gained? what weaknesses must we avoid? how do you smile now that you dont have a smiley mask to put on? what is it now to be angry? what is there to fear? and why fear it? fear is pushing away- the opposite of accepting, learning, and undersatnding, the father of anger and frustration, mother of self pity and capitolism. Ruler of the Entire World. not money... not power... not logic, wisdom, or love.

Fear controls almost everything that we do in this modern world. at the very core of civilization. our "Culture", our society and world view, our history, health, and relationships are all so tainted with Fear Almighty, that no one realy remembers whats important. we have built our entire outlook on the fear of not being happy. happiness is now all that is important. so all we realy know about anything is how it relates to our happiness. how do we cultivate and feed this happiness? what gets the quickest results? the biggest rush? the most passion? the most gain, reputation, quantity? and how do we keep it safe? "What callenges my happines?" suspition, scandal, conspiracy. Where is my happiness? What does it need? What could go wrong? as simple as that.

there is suffering in this world and there will always be. if we devote all our energy to avoiding all suffering at any cost, we start to find suffering in so many places that all we can do is fit ourselves into patterns and routines and categories of: This is what I like. This is what i dont like. but when This is more like That, well That changes everything.

so just think about whats realy important. and who you realy are. how much of what you are is what you are because you keep telling yourself you are what you are, and you are whatever this world and your parents and teachers and friends and enemys and health and choices have forced you to be. you are what you are because you have chosen to be that. every step of the way you decided how to react, to push or to accept, to destroy or to join forces. to react or respond. the choice has always been yours. you are your own fault, only you can save yourself. and you can only save yourself.

everybody else is just as lost as me, and I am just as lost as you. so look to your Self for the answers, youll be suprised to find out just how much you have to learn from yourself.

You are the ultimate source of redemption.

 The River
category picture20 Aug 2003 @ 02:03
The world is not as it seems. Water, wind, skin and rocks, breath and thought and love and God are all the one thing, nothing is separate, and there is nothing else. All your eyes can see is patterns of light, and light cannot show you, give you, connect you to the energy of this reality. Your inspirations, euphoria, satisfaction, and love are all reactions to the connection to, and communion with this energy- with your true self, and the true nature of the entire world and all the things that make it work. Life is a continuous flow of energy, ancient and yet forever new. Like a river. The water is energy on but one path of its cycle, flowing powerfully, but subtly to the ocean. Upon reaching the ocean this energy is dispersed into the vast "sea", where it is combined with all other energies of that kind. It is then called up into the sky, in a new form- yet not, as a new energy- yet not, and again dispersed through the sky as clouds. This energy is then returned to the earth- in the mountains, where the forces of nature and synchronicity take it eventually to its own kind again on that same sacred journey to the sea.

So it is in life. With thought, love, and wisdom being the energy that passes through this river of life. As old as life itself, but as new as newborn baby. Life and nature and time are all just words. You are the Earth through witch the rivers of life, nature and time, of thought, love, and wisdom, are traveling. You are the sea where it all converges, you are the clouds that enlighten and free them, the mountains that bring them together and use them and ground them. And you are the river itself, through witch these energies flow and are actualized. You need only to become aware of this to really make it work for you.

row row row your boat

 Butterfly
category picture7 Jul 2002 @ 17:54
she dances on the breeze
like a candle in my mind
as a glittering drop of light
of a star upon the water

her heart is light and bounces
on waves of summer air
with the wings of timeless subtlety
in the field of my eyes

mistress of mortallity
embodiment of hope
reminder of eternity
the silent voice of light

she dances like a child
in the ballet of my life
through waves of shimmering consiousness
and echoes in my mind...

Butterfly

what soft and simple ellegance
she sails through the sky
as light as sunset clouds
on the river of my dreams

 The River
category picture4 Nov 2001 @ 21:31
The world is not as it seems. Water, wind, skin and rocks, breath and thought and love and God are all the one thing, nothing is seperate, and there is nothing else. All your eyes can see is paterns of light, and light cannot show you, give you, connect you to the energy of this reality. Your inspirations, euphoria, satisfaction, and love are all reactions to the connection to, and communion with this energy- with your true self, and the true nature of the entire world and all the things that make it work. Life is a continuous flow of energy, ancient and yet forever new. Like a river. The water is energy on but one path of its cycle, flowing powerfully, but subtly to the ocean. Upon reaching the ocean this energy is dispersed into the vast "sea", where it is combined with all other energies of that kind. It is then called up into the sky, in a new form- yet not, as a new energy- yet not, and again dispersed through the sky as clouds. This energy is then returned to the earth- in the mountains, where the forces of nature and sinchronicity take it eventually to its own kind again on that same sacred journey to the sea.

So it is in life. With thought, love, and wisdom being the energy that passes through this river of life. As old as life itself, but as new as newborn baby. Life and nature and time are all just words. You are the Earth through witch the rivers of life, nature and time, of thought, love, and wisdom, are travelling. You are the sea where it all converges, you are the clouds that enlighten and free them, the mountains that bring them together and use them and ground them, and the river through witch these energies flow and are actualized. You need only to become aware of this process to apply it to your life, and thats what we are all about.


Enjoy the journey.

row row row your boat


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