Tag: opening

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”

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
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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

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

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

The Veil

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That perfect moment in the depths of the full moon when you realise that everything is alive

A startlingly beautiful, powerful full moon behind a half mist-soaked mountain, reflecting in glistening water
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Times when the veil is thin
And all of life breaks open within
The light in the sky is a thunderous din
As she wakes me from slumber to welcome her in

All is wild and alive
The attributes of an opening mind
The raining of stars in a heart that’s revived
From deep tender longing to finally arrive

Solid, beating, tranquil, true
Right in the centre that forms the root
From which the highest certainty rules
Directing the mind that inherently values

Her pulsing, gentle, articulate beat
The accompanying tide at her moonlit feet
That gives and receives through her rhythmic, sweet
Impossibly powerful, full, mystique

The heart of heaven is felt within
Her rising, beautiful, star-filled brim
Expanding as the enchanted sing
The angels’ chorus, enlightened, begins

I wake and feel the thinning veil
Rent and ripped in tatters and tails
Spinning useless upon the gales
Of an open mind, released from its trails

I wake and feel the parted seams
Releasing me to beyond my dreams
As the wildest gentlest shining gleams
Reflect within my heart as it beams

Stemming the Tide

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A futile attempt!

A beautiful, gentle stream, bubbling over rocks, winding between wooded banks
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All I can tell you is that I’ve tried
To quell this energy, to stem this tide
I’ve spent a lifetime alone with these words
Wondering if they’ll be written or heard

All I can tell you, all that I know
Is that these shoots have been dying to grow
And now their trouble is quelled and dismayed
Shelved and uprooted, dismissed and betrayed

All I can tell you, all that I see
Now I’m allowing this water to bleed
Stream through the cracks of my travestied crimes
Soulful expressions of opening mind

All I can tell you is that I’m free
From my desires and grave inconsistencies
All that I’ve misunderstood and denied
Previous decisions, washed out with the tide

All I can tell you, all that I know
Is that the seeds have already been sown
There’s no returning, there’s no going on 
To a life I have lived many times and is done

All I am learning now, through this dismay
Is that the form of things is my delay
All I’ve discovered is all that I need
A space beyond time that is welcoming me

All that is opening, all I can tell
Is that this newness will counter the spell
Of the becoming that I tried to be
In the dark depths of illusory dreams

All I can tell you about where I’ve gone
In the deep spaces, discovering my songs
Is the magnificence, far beyond words
Finding the phrases that want to be heard

All I can tell you is that I’ve tried
To quell the certainty swelling inside
But I have failed, it has risen right through
Every expression of wholehearted truth

With my decision to be who I am
All that I wanted before is closed down
All that I wanted and all that I’ll be
Is right here right now in this instant with me

Tsunami Rising

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On being washed away forever

A very stormy sea with one enormous wave, a moody sky behind with the sun breaking through
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The depths of life that spring from me
As I decide, within your freedom
Now, to let these mysteries
Evolve within your certainty

I witness to the rising of the tide
Upon a swelling sea,
A wave ascending in my breadth
Encompassing all I have been

Then bursting forth through troubled seams
That tried to hold and held no more,
Exploding past the girth 
That I had tightened till my sides were sore

And as I seek to cast my net
In wider climes than heretofore,
I’m tumbled from the vessel 
I’d been sailing to the shore

A vast arising wells below,
Upsetting all the plans I’d laid
Within my static grieving woe:
A desperate heart resolved to hide

With windows shaken to their soul
And shattered glass upon the floor,
I’m hurled into reality
A course I’ve never known before

I feel the wakings of a mind
That’s never let the love of souls
Interpolate, become at once
A dazzling faultless star filled whole

And in these dreams where memory
Had held itself so fast and sure,
Capitulation bows to freedom
Devastation rules no more

I wake into the breathless air
The sunshine beating on my skin,
I rise as from the depths of care
To claim what life is nourishing

I’m reconfigured from the old
Interpreted all fresh and new,
The language that I spoke before
Has been released, replaced, renewed

And as I cry humility
Comes rolling ‘cross the pummelled sands,
Approaching ever closer 
To the place in which I stand

And as I laugh and let my mind
Be raised unto these heightened views,
I witness to the depths of life
Arising in myself in you