Eyes So Soft

Don't
Surrender
Your loneliness so quickly.
Let it cut more
Deep

Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.

Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice so tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear

Holy Fallout

We are often in battle.
So often defending every side of the fort,
It may seem, all alone.

Sit down, my dear,
Take a few deep breaths,
Think about a loyal friend.
Where is your music,
Your pet,
a brush?

Surely one who has lasted as long as you
Knows some avenue or place inside
That can give a sweet respite.

If you cannot slay your panic,
Them say within
As convincingly as you can,
"It is all God's will!"

Now pick up your life again.
Let whatever is out there
Come charging in,
Laugh and spit into the air,
There could be a holy fallout.

Throw those ladders like tiny match sticks
With "just" phantoms upon them
Who might be trying to scale your heart.

Your love has an eloquent tone.
The sky and I want to hear it!
If you still feel helpless
Give our battle cry again

Hafiz
Has shouted it a myriad times,

"It is all, It is all the Beloved's will!"

What is that luminous rain I see
All around you in the future
Sweeping in from the east plain?

It looks like, O it looks like
Holy Fallout
Filling your mouth and plams
With Joy!

Hafiz.

Effort

"As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain freefall, and float into Creator Spirit’s deep embrace, knowing no effort... earns that all-surrounding grace." --Denise Levertov

Letting Go

"Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if ...you let go completely you will have complete peace."  –Ajahn Chah

Grief

"Grief brings us closest to life's great paradoxes; to live in order to be able to die; to be helpless and therefore be guided; to surrender to the unknown so as to know."  Inayat Khan

Surrender

"If we must surrender a close bond,
we need to learn
to sacrifice the relationship
without sacrificing the love."

Christina Baldwin

Essence

‎"You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather." Pema Chondron

Purpose

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."   Rilke

Surrender

"Let life happen to you.   Believe me; life is in the right, always."   Rilke

Letting Go

"Sooner or later when we surrender what we cannot control we have to hold still and let the demons we have been running from catch us.   There is no greater terror.   But there can be no greater liberation than to face those, held in the arms of your own compassionate nature and that which is larger than yourself."   Oriah