If Only We’d Know

Letting in the life that is waiting to grow

The sun breaking through the clouds,  shining on different layers of worlds
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A space in the sunshine of dreams
Has opened, responding to calling for more
A grip on the life that held meaning for me
Is released as desire cracks open a core
That was dark with defences, its surface rock hard
The light that pours through makes me choke for a moment
As breath enters in where before it was barred
And a blue swirling centre is unlocked, unsown

Now I can see you 
And breathe my inheritance
Though I’m restricted 
By thoughts of intelligence
Wisdom and pride
That will anger my core
If they’re questioned or queried
Held up to abhor

But within the catastrophe of how I’ve failed
To begin to be happy through telling my tales
With this rushing of energy into the void
Comes life unabashed, unrelenting, devoid
Of the suffering, long underpinning a woe
That releases each instant if only we’d know
That this deep precious moment, the centre of mind
Our attention can pierce, our presence can find

It can only be known, it can only be seen
Through the eyes of a dreamer who ceases to dream
Through the heart of a speaker who ceases to speak
Through the might of a thinker refusing to think
For themselves, who lets heavenly thoughts cast their moors
Within their deep harbours, upon their bleak shores
And lets in the life that is waiting to grow
Within us each moment, if only we’d know

When I Choose to Be Free

When the show is over

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When I choose to find the present
The arrow aimed directly at the centre of my mind
I rest in the blissful solitude of completeness

When my mind, full of nothingness 
Becomes the mind of emptiness
Then the fullness of everything steps up to take its bow

The credits roll up the curtain 
And timelessness, its breathtaking power
Reminds me to relax into its majesty

When I choose to be free
In the silent centre of myself
Where the self is acknowledged as a story past and gone

Set upon the stage, acted by 8 billion
Released into eternity’s beneficent refrain

I discover a deepening connection with the wholeness that I am
I recognise a truth I was defending with my separateness
And for this grateful instant out of time
Within your peaceful promise
I am at home

Your Tranquillity Glade

The beauty of finding your own glade of tranquillity deep within

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Deep in the heart of the oldest tree
In the forest that borders the grassy lea
At the centre, edging the light-filled glade
Lies a richness that, beyond time, was made

Deep in the heart of the oldest mind
That knows itself as one with all time
Lies gentle and humble, quiet and true
A beauty that rises to shape your view

How rich and full is time stood still
At the centre of your heart and will
A clarity that you couldn’t have made
You find your peace, your tranquillity glade

Of Sound, and of Silence

A moment of recognising wholeness and peace, with complete gratitude

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The help is more available than the pain
This strikes me as I listen today
After spending some time letting words flow onto the page
The fearful mind has been exposed and witnessed to, and now it can be still
The help appears: available to me in my mind
Perfect in its simplicity, glorious in its breadth
Its breath moves through me and I recognise its melody
Resting in each pause with a true master’s understanding
Of sound, and of silence

Rest — internal, graceful
What is my lesson today?
What do I need to understand? 
Where in my mind, in your mind, will you take me today?
This fiction is a classroom for the evolution of my soul
The rest appears; the help is the rest
The peace that passeth understanding every instant but now
I open into gratitude as the past is released into half-remembered patterns
Of sound, and of silence

The world itself is opening within my heart
There is nothing outside of the self I am in you
Everything is releasing and everything is available
All help, all rest, all peace, it is available to me now
You are the master that knows only giving all to all
You the one with perfect grace, perfect understanding
You the only path worth walking in the dreaming of this world
In the dreaming of colour and of darkness
Of sound, and of silence

Drenched in Peace

Saturated to the gentle depths of an endless love

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I whisper on the seeds of an open, wild night to my dearest love, far beyond the body of this form.

He welcomes and engulfs me, circling above before diving within, taking root in the deepest nature of my being.

Here I am, mysterious generosity that gives me to myself in you.

I am a whole part of your belonging. I inherently become my own deepest need, fulfilled.

Palpable presence, the physical becomes vibration, body form dissolved.

The richness of your gratitude embalms my ancient grievance and releases the mind that had been desperately waiting to be released.

Explosions of gently unfolding magnificence. I am saturated, drenched in peace beyond conceptual thought, beyond the world of time.

I will see you here again, my perfect love of wholesome gratitude; the Self that is but singular yet never alone.

I will see you here, beyond my forms of solitude, and I will love you every moment in between, see your perfect translation of perception, and feel the perfect comfort of your course, your onward river’s flow.

I will love you, infinitely, eternally, with the love that in this moment of gentle surrender you have given to me.

You are my one, true, perfect, joyful, all-encompassing, love.

Home

Thank you for being with me
In great depths
And endless openings

Thank you for being with me
Clarity of mind and depth of spirit
There is no deeper place that could be touched
Beyond where you touch me
And yet, at each touch, that place is deeper still

Thank you for being with me
Your presence, iridescent in my mind
Cuts through contradiction
And simultaneously comforts, without exception

Take me into the depths of your soul
Somehow, I can open finally to you

Every mind could teach the beauty that you teach
But somehow, I let in in from you
There is a desperation, a longing, a burning desire
For the truth

It is the chrysalis in which I am digesting myself
To awaken fresh into the blessed Spirit’s air
Comfort me, oh depths of limitless being

Behold, the glorious simplicity of Self-knowledge,
Self-acceptance, self released

Behold my burgeoning beauty
Far beyond the devious flesh

The helm of love awakens
And directs its secretly joyful journey
Home

Be Nothing

Be nothing
Being nothing
Is being Everything

Be nothing here
If you are something in a place of nothing
You are nothing in a place of Everything

How to be nothing?
Well, don’t be something!
Divest yourself momentarily of the need to be something
Divest yourself entirely of the need to be anything

Be nothing
Let Everything show you what you are
How can Everything show you One-thing
If you’re already something (that is nothing?)

You are already Everything!
Beyond That is nothing!
Outside That is nothing.

You, here, now, divested of everything
Be Nothing
Know Nothing
See Nothing
Let yourself be shown Something

Doing Nothing

Forgiveness is
Doing nothing

Standing or sitting still
And waiting
For the energetic release that empties you of everything
That empties you of the world
That shows you the world is nothing
That empties you of you
That shows you you are the world
That shows you you are nothing

Forgiveness is
Releasing everythingre

No specifics exist
For you to hold onto

Forgiveness is holy, non-specific
Whole mind, wholly, non-locality
Experienced in mind and body
Felt as resurrecting cells

This is a physical resurrection
Your awakening to wholeness
You ARE a body
If not, why do you need the lesson:
“I am not a body, I am free?”
But that you believe that you are bodily,
Physical, limited, contained

Forgiveness is
The release of location to non-locality
You, literally, disappearing

So does the world really disappear?
It already did
In one holy instant of forgiveness

You discover you are nothing
God is everything
And you are God