Category — Self-Knowledge

we are not our thoughts

yet we become bound by them

we are not our actions

yet we can be described by them

we are not our beliefs

yet we can be shaped by them

we are not our emotions

yet we can experience our emotions as

being all that there is

we are and we are not

our thoughts

we are

responsible one for the other

and yet we are not our thoughts

we are responsible for what another thinks

and its effect upon the world

just as a raindrop contains all the water of the world

so one thought holds the entire planet

in balance

vision

can be

without

light

vision

generates

its own

light

by its nature

light is made

and directed

light

is

consciousness

on every level

of materialism

and

is the beginning

middle and end

light and vision

are who we

are and shall

be

those who engage in

persecution

act out their own inner pain

 by their actions

they lose themselves

to anger and self-deception

when

death

draws

near

will you hold on to fear or love?

will there be confusion

or the stillness of the awakening heart

for in death

there is renewal if you hold your mind clear

and let the natural order

find its way

when death draws near

love reveals its breath

if your life was a landscape through which you walked

how much of the scenery would you recall as it really was?

would you listen to the voice in each footstep

and the stories that they could tell ?

would you understand the journey

and accept

the dust

and

the sweat?

mortality is the

cold light

of life

as life

washes through us

it is not chill

but cool

for mortality

is the material expression

of a deeper wisdom

and a greater

Love

release from that which binds you

starts with acceptance

and the

inner dialogue

that reveals

wisdom

lie on your back

and gaze into the

sky

blue expanse

reveals

the rythymn of the mind

which fades away

to

clarity

which fades

away into being

there are always blue skies

regardless of the clouds around you

gaze upward

and what is within you

appears on the ground

in front of your feet

you need to kneel down

and be humble

to see

time

is not

to be found in straight lines

or regulated beliefs

it moves in cycles

and tatty chaos

it is the

flipside of gravity

as space is of light

to be trapped by the belief of time

is to be trapped in habitual thinking

yet time is a tool to be used

for the nature of creation,intention and liberation

Look to the times of renewal

to the beating of your drum

full of life’s chatter

look to times of famine

when your bowl is an empty mouth

look to the times of renewal

and embrace

the path