Month: November 2024

Life In Expansion

NASA/ESA/Hubble

I imagine the vast universe
in flow, color,
swirls of energy, 
calling, reminding me: 
life is everywhere,
teeming with possibility,
pulsing with joy,
expanding in love.

It is said, 
what is out, is in. 
Is this the sight of
my internal being—
in expansion,
in evolution,
in every cell, vibrating
within this experience called life.

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”

-Buddha

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

-Stephen Hawking

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

-Albert Einstein

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It Is Now

Drift into the morning light
that beckons you forward.
Drift into the dew of a reality
that moistens your heart.
Draw into the path of being
that guides you into love.
For what is hope but the desire
for what we are born for.
What is hope but the knowledge
that something is there—
that we are not alone, not forgotten.
Move from hope to is.
It is now.
It is all within you in this moment.
Your future is your present.
Hope is found when we allow.
Live in your now to open the door
to your desire.
You are your hope.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

– Vaclav Havel

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

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After The Count

After the count and the claim,
I wake to dense morning fog.
Buried in a cloud,
I surmise through memory
what is before me,
as what is now present does
not reflect my vision.

Confusion, wonderment,
and disbelief fill me, while
the soft glow of morning light 
cuts through the haze into
the beauty of the trees,
the sky, and the rough shadows
of a day touched with mystery.

I do not need to understand.
I do need to love, laugh, 
and live in beauty. One reality 
does not abolish the other. 
They merely dance out of step,
as I polish my heart to get
a clear view.

“One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.”

-Mother Meera

“You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.”

-Margaret Atwood

“Dear friend, your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.”

-Al-Ghazali

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One Crazy Ride

When we arrive at the door of sorrow,
our hearts grieve what is lost and
awaken to what is before us as we 
sit in the narrow wedge we call home.

Let us come alive to all life, all being,
as we navigate rough waters, and
wish to enter morning dawn unharmed.

Let go of safety to be in the stream.
Let go of secure to ride the wave.
The risk is before us with the choice
to sit safe or move into form.

Let go, let life arise.
It is our choice.
Our hearts response. 
Our one crazy ride.

Image is mine

“Taking risks doesn’t mean shirking responsibility but embracing possibilities.”

-Vick Hope

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

-Hermann Hesse

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

-Golda Meir

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