Tag: light

The Only Thing That Can Be Loved

Are you ready…?

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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”

The Spirit’s Sight

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Bearing witness to the light beyond the dream

The sun blazing out on the horizon above trees on a gently sloping hill, opening up into a gloriously blue sky
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I know how to do it
It’s the simplest thing I’ve learned
To set you free from your misery
To witness you rise and turn

I know how to do it
It’s the simplest thing I know
To watch you free, in the heart of peace
Your roots reaching down as you grow

I know how to find you
In your happiest place of cheer
Alive with hope, descending the stopes
Of a lifetime forgiven and dear

I know how to meet you
Happy, alive and free
Released from the past, the heavens at last
Joyfully opening

I know how to free you
And how to see you now
It’s the simplest thing I could ever bring
To the moment I fully allow

I know how to witness
Your perfect liberty
I can see in my mind, pure present and kind
Your gentle majesty

I know how to be present
With the truth that lives in you
I see through the veil, torn, rented, assailed
To the light that’s shining through

I know how to love you
Wholly, impeccably
It’s the only way I can love what I made
If I see it as part of me

I know how to love you
The only way is to see
The shining light that clarifies sight
Beyond the dark body

The only way to know you
The only way to find
The love that you are in my deepest of hearts
Is to see you in light in my mind

I know how to do it
I know how to be free
I’ve witnessed the truth of His gentle ruth
In the light I know as me

I know how to do it
In happiness I’m home
I witness your light in His perfect sight
And totality is my throne

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

I Entered In

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The gifts that greet the grateful soul

Pink centred sun, womb, fire, abstract beauty
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I entered in the womb of God
It was your body, opened wide
From base to crown an opening of light
Arose before my eyes

It beckoned me to enter in
And taste the pleasures of the soul
And feel the glorious pressure 
Of the mind becoming whole

I entered in the womb of God
And at your heart that opened wide
A blessing to consume me
As I stripped to bare and dived

A flow, innate, of gratitude
Did humble me wherein I knew
The love of God surrounding me:
Synonymous with you

The walls were lush and turgid
As between them I did glide
Ever moving inward to the
Sacred space inside

A space where I am nourished
To the essence of my core
A comfort of such density
Aliveness, gentle warmth

The walls they hold me centred
Their pressure meets my need
For comfort and security
My everlasting greed

Insatiable desire
To be held, to feel at home
To lie and rest in certainty
That I am not alone

I feel the grateful rhythms
Of a heart that’s guiding true
Every mind that comes to him
For comfort and for ruth

I rest within a body
That body is your mind
I have a cord that feeds me
Without forage or find

I rest within your gentleness
Your peace is all I know
I rest within your certainty
Within your peace I grow

I enter in your kingdom
To rest a while from form
Till I’m released from density
Then from this place I’m born

Beyond the Boundaries

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Surrendering it all

Nebula clouds, space, beautiful colours, textures
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I give every moment 
Of this life I’ve made to you
Take it, hold it, mould me
To the truth I am in you

I’ll no longer listen 
To the obstacles I’ve made
Deep within the mind 
That wanted only to betray

Open me with blessings
Or with scalpels, as you need
Take a wrecking ball
And smash apart the games I’ve played

Tear off masks of hopelessness
My folly and my woe
And bring me to the memory
Of the beauty that you sow

In the recognition
Of the heart that holds the prize
Waking in the centre
Of the mind ceasing to try

Lies the joyful mystery
That is finally opened wide
Clear to see, impeccable
In light within my mind

Here’s the burning passion
Of the one that cries to know
Anguished heart that rises far
Beyond its stories sown

Reaching past the quandary
Of the self it chose to be
Out into the universe
Of breathtaking simplicity

Out into the widest breadth of mind 
That it can go
Taken far beyond itself
As now it seeks to know

All that it has hidden from
And all that it can be
Out beyond the boundaries
Of a faded, hopeless dream

Dear John

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Lyrics and video for one of my songs

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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

Always

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In gratitude for those who’ve walked this way before

A path between grassy verges, trees and mountains
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There’ll always be poems for you
The one who has held me, encouraged me through 
A myriad distractions, a myriad of days
On paths that felt stony although they were paved
With the certainty of those who’d walked them before
And left in each footstep a beautiful star

There’ll always be poems for you
The one who has stood still and shone your light through
The darkest of terrors, the stormiest nights
Your beam ever present and clear in its sight

There’ll always be poems, there’ll always be stars
For those who have loved me while I fell apart 
And cradled my soul as I crashed to the floor
And welcomed me, whole, as I rose, as I soared

There’ll always be poems of love in my heart
For the brothers that know me beyond where I start
For those who are centred, their clarity breathes
The verdure of life in my heavenly leas

A corner’s been turned in the misty air’d fall
I believe I feel life, I believe I see dawn 
Up ahead breaking into the heart that has learned
Finally to give away all it earns

There’ll always be poems for you
In beauty and power and infinite truth
They well up inside me and break their way through
All troubles are quenched as their river runs true

Yours are the hearts that have shown me the way
Intrinsically fearless as love takes its place
In the mind that was hoping but couldn’t be sure 
Now your light is my clarity, happiness, law

There’ll always be poems and deep gratitude
For the ones who have voyaged before me to truth
Who’ve conquered their demons and wrested their scars 
From the jaws of the tempters and lifted their hearts

To the ones who’ll devour them until you stand
Vulnerable. Beating, it rests in your hand
Peaceable, strong, in the knowledge so clear
That the only thing left to attack you is fear

They’ve stood at the altar and laid themselves down
And discovered the sword was dismissed with the crown
They’ve torn down their statues again and again
Stepped into the fire of the purging of men

There’ll always be poems, there’ll always be songs
For the ones who’ve discovered as they marched along
In the discipline of their surrendering minds
The peace that surpasses the self they’ve declined

There’ll always be poems for all that you are
As evolved revolutions of wakening hearts
Are roused at their centre, welcomed and hugged
The poems that flow through for you are my love

“And left in each footstep a beautiful star” — This is an idea taken from the Course.

“His step is light, and as he lifts his foot to stride ahead a star is left behind, to point the way to those who follow him.“

A Course in Miracles, Lesson 134

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

In My Desire to be Free

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An instant of loving communication

A person meditating on a rug with lanterns either side of them, overlooking a beautiful lake and mountains
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A silent smile within the heart
A grace that lets the waters start to run
An opening upon my brow
And my body is alive again
With the pulsing energy of your release

A gentle opening within,
The centre breaking open
To admit an aurora of heavenly sensations

Light fills my body
Drenching my heart, my throat, my bodily mind
Deposing my form and loosening binds to all that I believed myself attached to
Just one instant before

Vibrations become me
My whole experience
My whole identity
Relieved from the suffering of separate responses
And separate forms

Breathe in gratitude
Breath becomes light
Energy dethroning form
Visceral, thick, flowing through extremities
Expanding their walls
Searing within
Revealing depths of unhidden space

I can meet you here
I can invite you deep into this circumstance
Deep into this sphere of relief, of releasing mind
I can see you, vivid and alive, shining within the greater mind that we share
Shining upon me, in all the glory misinterpreted through separate mind 
As distinct from what I am

It is in our shared mind,
The mind that encompasses the whole,
That is the whole
The mind that, in singularity, is my mind
This is where I find you
This is where I receive you
And this is where I adore you,
Forever, in this timeless instant of eternal communication
In my desire to be free

Just.. Wait!

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A perfect paradox

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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!