11-22-20
To love quietly,
To cherish memories,
To see the grace in everything.
To match the tear in my eye with the smile on my face,
To show up do my best and yet loose every race.
For the truth is always moving, it doesn’t stand still,
My faith is ever-changing, and I hope it always will.
Yes the master is right “all things go away”,
So let me be at peace with myself, if just for today.
11-15-20
Arriving at my inspiration destination today, to discover it is being torn up to
make room for a new building. How can I even comprehend such a thing?
I have been going there for years. It’s where I have done most of my writing.
I watch the geese rising, struggling against the storm; angry wind and cold rain.
They move on – no decisions – no complaints – they move on.
11-1-20
To find inspiration in an ordinary place,
To know that life itself is all a state of grace.
To know stillness as the winds of time pass over me.
To believe the moment is sacred even when I cannot see.
To know the farthest point is always the best direction.
And to know that I am at my very best when I am farthest from perfection.
To live a simple life without notice or acclaim.
To dissolve into life’s ocean just another drop of rain.
9-21-20
The pre-dawn, I walk along now, the silence of the stars is my only companion, how wonderful.
To greet fear, it is usually the first to join me,
To embrace loneliness when it arrives.
To laugh with anger, it is never far behind.
To be present, to be at one with ourselves.
To be a part of everything, and everything is a part of me.
Never without
Always within.
So imperceptibly small in this perfect universe.
9-13-20
The world of accomplishment and satisfaction, such hollow rewards,
No refuge there, just more to accomplish.
Stillness: that is our refuge.
To be at peace with my body, my mind, my time, and my place,
Just the nowness of it all
Only this.
8-12-20
I pray that I will be filled with your Spirit to direct my thoughts.
5-17-20
To reach my heart, let it be a familiar place.
The life of thinking is so hard.
To stop, to listen, to feel, to see, connecting to this moment,
No judgement only presence.
It makes the day so much easier,
My struggles seem much less important.
People are not “them”, they are human;
Singular in their beauty.
5-31-20
The cool days in summer, and the warm days in winter,
It’s the oddities that we love the most.
Learning to live with ourselves,
Let me embrace the oddities that make me, me.
Learning to live with others,
Let me embrace the oddities that make you, you.
8-9-20
To give up judgement.
To live in the Way, present to all things.
Eckhart Tolle taught,”non-resistance, non-judgement, non-attachment”.
I want to go where I don’t feel safe.
I want to sit with fear and anxiety until it dissolves.
I want to sit with my burning anger,
Holding it, feeling it slowly loosing heat.
I want to sit with my shame until my tears have carried me into the present.
What else do we have but ourselves?
6-14-20
My need to belong has always been a small betrayal of myself.
There is always a part of me that I feel I must keep hidden.
It has meant that every relationship is based on suspicion.
Are you safe, am I going to get hurt?
Meditation has helped me to see:
Relationship? Of course I am going to get hurt.
That is not a problem, what other people say or do is not my problem.
When I accept every part of me, other opinions won’t matter.
Getting hurt doesn’t hurt very much anymore.
Thank you for bringing me closer to this truth,
so that I may trust others more, love them more fully.
7-7-20
To be a part of creation, the smaller the better,
This is where peace is found.
To know my place in life, finding purchase between sky and ground.
A quiet moment, to see beauty in the past, the present and the future.
All time is ever-present, the universe is a benevolent place,
It only waits to be discovered.
5-24-20
I am faced with beauty, and yet my mind only creates worry.
That’s o k , let me slow down with the realization, there is very
little that I can change.
Sometimes just reaching this moment is an arduous journey,
always worth it though.
I can always be grateful for awareness, to know that I create worry.
To know that I am creating my day whether I admit it or not.
I think one of the benefits of meditation is getting better at knowing
which feelings to believe and which feelings to question-
It helps to have friends too.
5-31-20
We are all just ways for nature to express herself.
I get so lost in self-importance when I stray too far from nature.
I mean actual physical presence in some wilderness.
There must be something that frightens me,
That actually threatens my physical safety.
That is what humbles me and reduces my self-importance.
To be a part of the food chain instead of a consumer.
Thank You God for making me so not special.
Let’s go hiking.
5-8-20
The impermanence of all things reaches me today.
It beautifies everything, it silences me,
It gives me reason to pause.
To join the dance because it will not return
To love quietly, so much left to learn.
5-13-20
Let me not hide from the rhythm of life,
Let me enjoy the ever-changing everything,
The stillness and the storm
The peace and the conflict
The wealth and the poverty
The courage and the fear
The brokenness and the health
The growth and the reduction
The coming together and the falling apart
The loneliness and the embrace
The excitement and the calm
The certainty and the confusion
The understanding and the misunderstood
The being and the becoming.
Only This.
