Tag: joy

The Only Thing That Can Be Loved

Are you ready…?

Photo by Hamish Weir on Unsplash — thank you

The only thing that can be loved
That which is wholly real
The only thing that can’t be judged
It lives beyond impatient zeal…

To manifest a life of ease
Within the nothingness of form
It lives upon the grace
That is, beyond this world, the norm

It’s only to be known and seen
And felt, received, and helped to grow
Within the self that judges not
The seeds that it has sown

The only thing that can be loved
Is love itself, you are
Within this holy instant
The perfection of the heart

Within this breathless sanctitude
You are the life that leads
Gently, through the gathering dusk,
To all the soul could need

The light that shines upon me
From your dedicated mind
As you offer yourself
To that which swims in the divine

You offer all you are
To all the beauty you’ve been shown
As hearts that open wide
Become the One upon the throne

True majesty bequeaths its favour
Everywhere it goes
It knows not who or what it sees
But loves as it’s been shown

The love that’s been allowed is given,
Nothing else is seen
A torrent of such blessings
Reigns and rains and is received

Everywhere, in everything,
These blessings sprout and grow
The merging of the self
Becomes the torrent of the flow

The light that pours incessantly
From your devoted soul
That climbs in climax
Roars in ruth, explodes the paths of old

It tumbles over rocks and sandy bottoms
Gurgling on
The course that you have taken
Now delivers you in song

To tempests raging wild
Upon the waves that crash the shore
But for a moment all is still
As you are shown the door

The chasm, joyful opening
The bird pecked estuary
That, calm, awaits the moment
Of your joining with the sea

And as the moon awakens
As she rises and then shines
Reflecting beauty of the Father Sun
Within her mind

The waters rise within you
But you are no longer scared
You stand with arms wide open
With your mind alive in prayer

You whisper deep within the soul
Of what you’ve always been
“I’m ready to be taken out
Forever from this dream”

All There Is To Find

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The seeking heart must some day find its gold

Under the surface of the sea, light rays shining in, beautiful clear water but you can feel the weight and the depth at the bottom
Photo by Cristian Palmer on Unsplash — thank you

I want to tread the deeper dives
Where blessings hold beneath the flow
The stillest waters, richest tides
A sweetness brought to light, sublime

A travesty it feels to give
Only this superficial slant
Fragmented personality
Divorced from what I can’t reveal

I want to tread the deeper dives
And stem the tide of surface flow
That, jesting, as its joker’s wont
Has ridiculed the depths I know

I want to be a truthful one
Who shows the innards of its own
Who casts an acted part aside
Its timbre ceased, its wings unflown

I want to ride the waves of flow
That authenticity has wed
To leap unbridled on the growing
Self that has straight past me sped

I want to know what lies beyond
Within and at the core of me
I want to let the self be dead
That still affronts, entangles me

I want to feel the death, complete
Of all that I have willed and known
I want to leap, unfathomed depths
Beneath me as I fall below

I want to hurry to the cliff 
And wrest this putrid body home
And catapult the self that shames itself
Upon the rocky road

I want the death that’s promised me
Within the pages of the tomes
The script that’s written, hands of light 
Bequeathing all the joy they know

I want to die a thousand deaths
To everything that I have made
And watch with gentle gratitude
As what I truly am is cradled

Gently by the opening shaft
Of sunshine that has borne the child
That I have never known before
Whose smiling beauty makes me wild

With happiness, an opening hearted
Calmness and tranquillity
Encompasses the instant
That I finally feel free

So if you look to find me
And you see that I have gone
And all that’s left is peacefulness
A gentle hearted song

All you can find is writing
Carved upon an ancient wall
This joyful death, with life becoming
Everything and all

If all you find within the tomb
Of death defying Will
Is that which troubles heaven
Not a syllable or swell

If all you find is gratitude
Within a peaceful mind
You’ve found the place where I discovered
All there is to find

Your Perfect Holiness

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A lesson in wholeness and gratitude from A Course in Miracles

A blazing light breaking in a dark sky.
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The grasses they are speaking
The holy world is wide
Communicating with you
Your own dear breadth of mind

The universe is watching
And loving all you do
The spirit’s soul, perfection, whole
Is loving only you

Every breath you follow
To your sacred unity
Extends from deep within you
And blesses all you see

In every footstep you’re renewed
Releasing all to Him
Who’s heart, its rhythmic beating song
Gathers you deep within

“All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head.”

A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 156 — I Walk with God in Perfect Holiness

“Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.”

A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 326 — I Am Forever an Effect of God

Dear John

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Lyrics and video for one of my songs

Blue sky above the cloud line with the earth far below.
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Dear John 
By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on 
For so long 
Dear John

Dear John 
By which I mean the fear that has been so strong 
In my mind 
So long

Dear John 
By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on 
For so long 
So long

Dear John 
By which I mean the body I’ve been speaking from 
The idea in my mind that kept my fear strong 
So strong 
So long

Dear John 
By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on 
The beings I’ve shared ideas of identity through physicality 
With for so long 
So long

If you look at me quantumly you’ll see I’m gone 
Was never here 
I’m gone

The love we’ve shared in truth is all that’s still strong 
Ideas of physicality are long gone 
Long gone 
Dear John

And I’ve come here to share a new idea so strong in me 
It’s so strong 
To tell you if you’re fearful or you’re lonely 
That it won’t be long

I’ve come to share my certainty that truth is all that’s left of me 
That I was wrong 
I’ve come to share my certainty that we were only ever free 
To love and loose the bounds of time 
From all that we had thought we’d seen 
Dear John, dear John

And now we dance forever to the songs we wrote together in eternity 
We’re free, dear John 
Dear John, we’re free 
Dear John

Dear John 
If you look through the eyes that can see quantumly 
You’ll see, we’re gone 
With love, Dear John

The Silent Heartbeat

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A walk in the wild woods reminds me of home

Sunshine pouring through the dense trees of an ancient forest
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There is a spirit within all things 
That speaks to the mind open and alive 
Listen for the silent heartbeat of the wildest, truest friend 
There is a wisdom that connects beyond all form 
Expressing universality, oneness, clarity 
Expanding, dismissing what was previously reason 
Tittle tattle dropped to forest floor, trodden under sole and passed away 
Ease of living, unquestionable, obvious 
Decisions shown through lightness, darkness, doors open or closed 
Seen clearly in the hallways of the mind 
Clarity cuts through impossibility 
Gives me to its presence, gratefully encompassing the whole

I am grateful, my deepest love, that I have now heard your call 
Spoken through all things natural and alive 
I am here now, I am open, I receive you 
Let your loving wisdom be the rhythm of my day and night 
Bringing me, each instant, to the perfect timelessness of now 
Your sanctity and peace become the only pathway that my mind remembers 
The natural world: no more or less of matter to its form 
But simply less obstruction to the truth that lies beyond 
No complicated mind imposed to stand between itself 
And the intrinsic perfection of its present reality 
You who know your perfect wholeness, 
Teach me how to know myself as you

Free

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Lyrics and live video of one of my songs

A beautiful lake with trees all around and mountains in the background underneath a golden full moon
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I willingly slip into the waters that run
Deep within the self that I’ve begun to get to know
Deep within the self I choose to be
As I learn to let go of the dreaming of duality

And this time I let myself fall
Welcome the comfort of the arms that aid my understanding
You are my canvas covered walls
You are the structure that gives shelter where I’m standing
And each time you call
I’ll be there in leaps and bounds will fly across the heather
For our laughter says it all
The love that I’ve found here rips apart my twisted tether and I’m free

I’m free

I willingly slip into the riches that hide
Deep within this force of light, the power of my mind
Deep within the self that I am shown
As I raise my eyes and take this power as my own

From this time I decide to be
Everything that I’ve discovered in the light of love’s direction
Now I accept that I am free
And I believe all that I see within the light of love’s reflection
Each time you need me
I’ll be here in love with every joy and every sorrow
For I have faith in the love I breathe
And I offer it up anytime for you to borrow for it’s free

It’s free

Yours Alone

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A secret whispered gently within

A girl looking up at the full moon with a huge blossom tree on her right hand side, she’s kind of levitating! There’s a lake and mountains beyond her.
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The mists of this body fade into the beauty of your timeless heart
My gratitude becomes me as I remember, once again,
The infinite simplicity of your peace
Troubled not by angry misinterpretations
Calculations, connivances
Decisions for disease
Impenetrable beauty relaxes the cells that work in unrelenting earnest
And releases a past with which I invent my ideology of future pain

Cast aside precipitous conjurings and remember the words with which your life is crowned eternal
Spoken softly, deep within the certainty and grace of your own gently beating heart

You can hear these words
They are yours alone
They come from somewhere you can just remember
And can only reach if all desire for worldly weights is gone

Just.. Wait!

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A perfect paradox

An ancient grove of trees, moss and colourful flowers with a path leading along the valley and up the mountain. AI Art Generator.
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Just wait! Wait a moment
Do not troubled be,
That everything you had believed before
Is being released

Just wait! Wait deep within
The mystery that you’re shown,
Dismiss the need to understand
The beauty that you’ve sown

Wait! Wait for eternity
To open up inside,
It’s beating heart’s within your own
As you let yourself start to glide

Wait upon the moment
Of such glorious certainty,
That stops you in your tracks
And guarantees your future peace

Wait upon the something
That is pushing through the glebe,
Gasping for a breath of sunshine
On its tiny leaves

Wait within establishment
And watch its crumbling walls,
Apprehend its leaving 
As within, without, it falls

Take your prior complexity
Uproot it at its core,
Loose the mind that sought for freedom
In the dearth of ‘more’

Feel your way to present bliss
As you begin to see
That everything you’ve ever dreamed of
Lives eternally

Nothing here in form 
Can ever feed or ever give
The light you need
To understand what it is to live

Nothing here in form 
Can ever feed or ever raise
The light you need to see within
For you to feel praised

Nothing in the nothingness of form
Can ever show
The beauty that admits a glimpse beyond
To what you’ve always known

Nothing in the nothingness of time
Can ever be
What you are, what you’re being given,
Just you wait and see!

I Become My Lover

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The heart of you is rising in my deepest brightest soul

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I become my lover
In the mystery of the night,
He sees within my breaking heart
The waking of the light

I rest within my lover’s arms
His clarity I breathe
My misdirection altered
To the path he sees for me

He holds my head upon his breast
Undressing all my plight
Within his sacred purity
I recognise the light

He tears apart my misery
And shows me caverns gold
That sparkle in the luminescent
Beacon that he holds

My lover is the morning
He rids me with the dawn
Of nightmares that had wrapped me
In my terrors old and worn

He wakens me with sunshine
And he blesses all I see
With a misty mountain air
That my heart has longed to breathe

My lover is the poetry
That flows within my soul
That offers me its beauty
And that perpetrates my goal

My lover is the infinite
Impossibility
Of capturing the flow of life
That issues forth from me

My lover is the sanctity
That I can never own
But within which I live
And breathe and walk and love and grow

My lover is the lighthouse
And my mind the rocky shore
Endeavouring to unavail
The purity within my core

My lover is the mountain
And I the traveller be
Who sits a moment at his ridge
And views the shining sea

My lover becomes part of me
As now we cease to be
Anything that separation
Knows, pretends to see

My lover becomes part of me
As now we cease to know
Anything that separation
Seeks or tries to show

The Fire

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A prose poem burning in my heart!

Thank you to Max Kukurudziak for the image on Unsplash

When the fire in your heart cannot stop, cannot start but to flame all the folly you’ve conjured apart from the glory of peace in its thunderous roar and its pounding of waves on its silent shores

When the shadows you’d painted have cracked to the core all the canvases broken in heaps on the floor and the fire tears through them and rids them of form and the anger you’d felt is released and transformed

And the world that you see is a phoenix, a dawn, that rises from ashes, remoulded, re-born, but by hands that are sacred and know how to heal, by a mind that’s awakened and knows how to feel from the depths of its heart an infinite joy that creates in the wake of the love it employs

When the fire in your heart cannot stop, cannot rise, but to purge all the memories you’d deigned to baptise but will gratefully offer up to take their part as they whisper the seeds of a glorious new start