Reawakening your Greatness
We suit up to battle injustice. We gather strength to confront liars. We stand taller to confront charlatans, narcissists and fools.
Then one day we realize… all that was just child’s play. What we’re really doing is building up the courage, day after day, to confront the real, hidden enemy… our well-worn illusions, limitations and certainties… our stories, fears and regrets; our limited self-definitions. Our sense of being perfect, our meticulously crafted suit of armor.
In short… Ourselves.
You can do it. You can face it. You can hit rock bottom All by your lonesome. Not because you’re strong enough. No one is.Continue Reading
You are being given the choice In every moment of your life To receive Grace Raining like Inexhaustible Rose petals Cascading endlessly Over your entireContinue Reading
Please don’t ask me To prop you up To call the Light of others That you hide behind And display as your own As YOURSContinue Reading
We built the walls But now we are learning To embrace the space The emptiness The peaceful Freedom from hurry From thinking From making plansContinue Reading
Talking with friends lately, I hear a lot of grief… a lot of suffering. One cried for all the dying children, another for abandoned animals…Continue Reading
It was I Who fed you All these years I kept you alive You were the center The constant The polestar But I have noContinue Reading
For a long time, we treat our bodies as if they’re who we are. We love their shape, their color, their softness. We feed themContinue Reading
Until I say no I will be enraptured Distracted Yanked at by A world full of Gimmicks and ploys Vying for my attention Until IContinue Reading
Your life isn’t yours Until you take it back Until you sit in it Wear it Let it flow Let it sing inside you LetContinue Reading
Nothing knows Nothing. Somethings always get in the way. Sitting in The Nothing Is something only Nothing and Nobody can do. And the more youContinue Reading
You did it You were the one Who separated the world Into pieces Into colors People Races Countries Good and bad OK, Sure… School ParentsContinue Reading
A talented gardener friend showed me how to prune an olive tree last year. And it was amazing. You see, gardeners see trees differently fromContinue Reading
Patience Trust Stillness Calm Are the Hardest Things You’ll Ever Have To Learn … Especially In The Heat Of The Moment … Until You DiscoverContinue Reading
We ask the mind to comfort us, and it does so by repeatedly affirming to us what it thinks of as facts. We inherit thisContinue Reading
Don’t grab at the world Don’t let your ego Lift a single finger Don’t believe it when it Tells you it knows What you “need”Continue Reading
Pain, if not called Suffering If not labeled Wrong Unfair Unnecessary If just allowed Doesn’t hurt Doesn’t distract It’s just A teacher A readjustment AContinue Reading
Ready for my mission Not getting distracted by What didn’t come Who didn’t call Who left me out in the cold No more regrets ImaginedContinue Reading
We’re all aware that there are people who try to manipulate us… for their own ends. They may be our government, our boss, our spouse,Continue Reading
Lately, my brain has been getting super-excited by simply watching the wave reflections on the wall, right above the swimming pool, here at the Y.Continue Reading
You are silence, immoveable stillness. You are forever in stealth mode, hiding in the interspaces between things and thoughts. You are before words. Before concepts.Continue Reading
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