Stop and Pause Here With Me
wholeness
encompasses all
circumscribing songs of the inexpressible
circumnavigating myself
flowing, rushing
it is soft and gentle
yet, ungraspable and unrestrained
its face
lies in all
it is the ecology of interdependency
the breath of change
yet it is still and timeless
it is the paradox
and the unknown
without caring
or knowing why,
i play and play
i feel presence
slip her hand
from its intangible
i feel presence
plunge me
within the depths
of its universe
as i seep
into its incomprehensible
here i stand
in the vision of creation
in the embers of destruction
in the home that is myself
for wherever i go
love raptures me
But what would happen if we could stop and listen without the distortion of thought? What if we began to stop rushing, let our thoughts die down, and really listen in?
Awareness is here, ready to rush outward, waiting in the quiet mind. To see one another, another creature, an eco-system, the oneness of what is, then just be, stop rushing, and stop trying to be somebody.
It is not about pushing down thoughts or fighting against them. It is simply in listening and seeing that they are not you. I am not this, I am not that. You are only present. You can’t arrive there, nor is it about time. Time is measurement. It is in stopping and listening in without trying. It is accepting what is. That acceptance is seeing what is right here. In that is a listening that is beyond thought.
Here, trust, let go and let the light of awareness flood into all that is and discover in that wonder — an integration into wholeness…
This is how we can fundamentally change the world and culture, for the world and culture is in us. If we come back to see that we are interconnected and whole, we would interact from that place. That is where right action flows.
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i
sit still
listening to the warm colors
bloom over the rugged valley
this early morning
into the tides of what is
flowing into its ebbs
soft golden petals
inflame the sky
here all is welcome
here one
doesn’t need
to go anywhere
to be free
to be whole
i am rooted
in this solitude
here
all is clear
in the quiet
immeasurable
there is a beautiful simplicity in action
there is no effort
do there is nothing
to own or gain
there is no higher or lower
all are included
and love flows through
light as air
i have nowhere to go
nowhere to be
but present and alive
here i embrace all i come across
again and again
flowing like a river
whole like the ocean
in the community of friends
in the community of wildness
i need no nation
no state to indoctrinate
or keep me safe
i need no artifice
to fulfill or turn me towards
something else
here lies a vision beyond heaven
a place more beautiful and free
beyond any riches
a place that holds
no discrimination
no hatred
no imprisonment
a place that lies in the
solitude of awareness
in the quiet of the mind
in the wholeness of love
Thank you for taking time to read.
What do you think?
