October 15th, 2017
Affirmation: I will give myself the care and attention I need.
Today I dare to openly express my needs and find healthy ways to get them met.
I am open and willing today to take a step forward in a new direction.
Word of the Day: stelliferous (adj):
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Affirmation: I will give myself the care and attention I need.
Today I dare to openly express my needs and find healthy ways to get them met.
I am open and willing today to take a step forward in a new direction.
Word of the Day: stelliferous (adj):
having or abounding
with stars.
probity (n):
integrity and
uprightness; honesty
clinquant (adj):
1. glittering,
especially with tinsel; decked with garish finery.
2. imitation gold
leaf; tinsel; false glitter.
No Room to Form (1)
On the night when you cross the street
from your shop and your house to the cemetery,
You will hear me hailing you from inside
the open grave, and you will realize
how we have always been together.
I am the clear consciousness-core
of your being, the same in ecstasy
as in self-hating fatigue.
That night, when you escape the fear of snakebite
and all irritation with the ants,
you will hear my familiar voice,
see the candle being lit,
smell the incense, the surprise meal
fixed by the lover inside all your other lovers.
This heart-tumult is my signal
to you igniting in the tomb.
So don't fuss with the shroud
and the graveyard road dust.
Those get ripped open and washed away
in the music of our finally meeting.
No Room for Form (2)
And don't look for me in a human shape.
I am inside your looking. No room
for form with love this strong.
Beat the drum and let the poets speak.
This is a day of purification for those
who are already mature and initiated
into what love is.
No need to wait until we die.
There is more to want here than money
and being famous and bites of roasted meat.
Now, what shall we call this new sort of gazing-house
that has opened in our town where people sit
quietly and pour out their glancing
like light, like answering?
Out Beyond
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.
Hoping to Be More Alive
You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.
What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?
Life Is All In The Coming Back
Life is all in the coming back. We lose our way, deviate off course, and find ourselves in places and in situations that aren't in line with where we want to be and who we are. This is normal and happens to everyone. Just as we get lost in our thoughts in a meditation and have to gently guide our attention back, so too must we be aware and patient with ourselves when we depart from our intended paths. Life in many ways, then, is a living meditation. It is about committing and recommitting. It is about ebbing and flowing our way back into recalibration, into equilibrium, into balance and intention.
