Like a great film or play everyone should see BEHOLD THYSELF Hints of your beauty the mountains have. The enchanting complexions of the coral reefs are pale to a golden candle in our heart. What moves in any ocean moves through us. A thousand kinds of music play every...
A Good Day
Winnie the Pooh: "What day is it?" "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh
First he looked confused…
I couldn't lie anymore so I started calling my dog "God" First he looked confused Then he started smiling Then he even Danced I kept it up Now he doesn't even bite. I'm wondering if this might work on people. ---Tukaram...
You can have everything…
You can have have everything if you only know how to ask. The essence of the desired object is already within yourself. Be aware that the fruit is already in the seed. Formulate your images and ask. Your seed of thought will bud,blossom and bear fruit. Everything that...
This is a perfect moment.
This is a perfect moment. It's a perfect moment for many reasons, but especially because you and I are waking up from our sleepwalking, thumb-sucking, dumb-clucking collusion with the masters of illusion and destruction. Thanks to them, from whom the painful blessings...
Don’t Go Back to Sleep
The Breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill Where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep...
All Paths, No paths
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the east or the west, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an...
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its...
Silk Worm
I stood before a silk worm one day And that night my heart said to me, "I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my...