Utopia
Island where all becomes clear.
Solid ground beneath your feet.
The only roads are those that offer access.
Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs.
The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here
with branches disentangled since time immermorial.
The Tree of Understanding, dazzling staight and simple.
sprouts by the spring called Now I Get It.
The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista:
the Valley of Obviously.
If any doubts arise, the wind dispels them instantly.
Echoes stir unsummoned
and eagerly explain all the secrets of the worlds.
On the right a cave where Meaning lies.
On the left the Lake of Deep Conviction.
Truth breaks from the bottom and bobs to the surface.
Unshakable Confidence towers over the valley.
Its peak offers an excellent view of the Essence of Things.
For all its charms, the island is uninhabited,
and the faint footprints scattered on its beaches
turn without exception to the sea.
As if all you can do here is leave
and plunge, never to return, into the depths.
Into unfathomable life.
Wislawa Szymborska
Yes, I am far from flawless, but I am now truly one with the world. For like the earth hold the marks of the life I keep. I am no longer a maiden, so pure; I am the warrior mother, whose armor tells a story of true love.
~ The Lifehouse (Tanya)
I am afraid that if I get rid of my devils, my angles will choose to leave as well.
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion- Lin-Chi
Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.
- Kobi Yamada
" Our Life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music" Nietzsche
"The soul, like the moon, is new and always new again. And I have seen the ocean continuoulsy creating. Since I scoured my mind and my body, I too am new, each moment new. I heard one thing: LIVE IN THE SOUL. When that was so, I began to go naked and dance." Lala
If you are lucky, your experience will be so profound
that it will result in your complete destruction
Ultimately, all you have to do is be willing to
respond to the truth without hesitation.
Andrew Cohen
You have to trust your own journey, and
struggle through the process. It is the dying and the
birthing and the battle and surrender in which we
eventually find ourselves. Gary Mueller
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
" It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection" Bhagavad Gita
"Perfectionism is resistance to the Divine in the form of human brokenness" Sufi saying
"The rock that hit you could not have missed you, and the rock that missed you could not have hit you" Sufi saying
FULLY ALIVE
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
--Dawna Markova
