I’m so lucky
To have tasted love
Straight out of a fairytale
With magic
And journeys
And characters so rich
We dreamed
And found each other
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Someday Nun
I saw a hummingbird
And
A thousand butterflies left my stomach
I guessed you felt it too
Cuz we are both anxious
I’m loud about it
And you stay silent
Your love is a thousand thank yous
Are you my Teacher? Lover? Friend?
The signs say stay
But you feel like my mortal enemy
Your water keeps putting out my fire
And I only light up for you
I’m at the DNA lounge
Devastated again
I keep inviting you in
And your life keeps leaving me
I need your hands on my body
Your voice in my ears
Your scent in my air
Because you’re so much more tangible
Than my God
When
In four years
I all but forgot how to have fun
I thought free time was a luxury I couldn’t afford
Friends were an afterthought
Pleasure meant I wasn’t working hard enough
Or late enough
I would be happy when…
When…
When?
A New View
I turned the corner
And the sky opened up
The world was so large
The views so stunning
My heart so free
It fluttered its wings
Balance and the Future
Sometimes we see the signs more clearly
But we always have the future
Sometimes God’s voice is firm
Other times we are lost and call to him
We hear what we want to hear
We can go from No Love to Love Train
In one decision
There’s no Secret
What you want is given to you
Wishing is for shallow wells
Desire moves through you
Like the seasons
Is it intelligent?
It’s intelligent as an ant colony
Or the flight of birds down south
It is balance
A balance our fragmenting minds cannot compute
And therefore cannot rationalize
And we call it God’s Will
Swami Vivekananda
“Each soul is potentially divine.
The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal.
Do this either by work, or worship or psychic control, or philosophy-by one, or more, or all of these-and be free.
This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.”
Raja-Yoga
More Gibran
Contradiction is a lower degree of intelligence.
I did not love man-made laws and I abhor the traditions that our ancestors left us.
Most men with delicate feelings hasten to hurt your feelings lest you precede them and hurt theirs.
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Souls are fires whose ashes are the bodies.
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
Gibran Quotes
That which we call intelligence in the mind of some people is but a local inflammation.
We are all practical in our own interest and idealists when it concerns others.
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
Among intelligent people the surest basis for marriage is friendship-the sharing of real interests-the ability to fight out ideas together and understand each other's thoughts and dreams.
-1923
Marriage doesn't give one any rights in another person except such rights as that person gives-nor any freedom except the freedom which that person gives.
The idea of God is different in every man, and one can never give another his own religion. -Mary Haskell
Find out the best in a person and tell him about it. We all need that. I have grown up on praise-and it has made me humble. It will always make a person long to deserve the praise. And any real consciousness is aware of something much greater than itself. Praise means understanding. We all are fine and great, fundamentally; overestimation of one another is impossible. Learn to see the greatness and the loveliness in one another–and to tell one another of it when we see it.
I realized, that all the trouble I ever had about you came from some smallness or fear in myself.
From "I care about your Happiness"
Hypothesis
I’m in the middle of a fun experiment
No really, a happy experiment
I want to know if a disciplined person
Can simply chase her pleasures
And attract the life of her dreams
Her dormant, closeted dreams
Which lack a bridge from the now
The test is whether joy lights the paths
That the heart desires
Since the mind gets stuck in the mud
Letting Go
Sinking into the mystery
Watching it all like a traveler
I’ve given up
On feeling bad
Life is too short
For pain the mind creates
My ego swells when problems arise
I turn inward
Close my eyes
Let go of your hand
All I see are my faults
Shortcomings
Dispair
I imagine deep holes to fall into
But I’ve learned
I’m horribly
Allergic to fear
It makes me break out
It makes me ugly
Fat
Frozen
And sick
And delusional
Life must always be joyful
The sun never cries
What’s done is done
And what will be
Will be amazing
Cuz it always is
We’ll get through it together
Because we’re all in this ocean
We don’t have time to stall
Swim the currents without fear