your own pride and fear

What is really hurting you, my friend,

 is your own pride and  fear.

Once you are willing to declare

That they are just faking to be real

once you are aware they are not you

They will  start  to fall away,

fall away and  shatter.

the way I love you

The way

I love you is like this -

I will keep singing and singing for you

Until my throat aches –

Until my voice fades -

until you wake up and see with your own eyes

everything and everyone is incomprehensibly

divine.

the daily race

It is not the daily race

To prove each other right or wrong

Nor the stories  making the news headlines

That heal the deep wounds of human suffering.

It is when all the puddles choose to surrender

The last droplet of their identity

to the cosmic sea.

a garden

A garden

Never identifies herself with her sweet herbs and

Fragrant flowers and lush grass….

She watches them while they come and go.

When they come, she is not overjoyed

And when they leave she does not grieve.

That is why can move through

All the seasons with so much elegance

temporary enchantment

Dear friend -
why do you go so far away
chasing a temporary enchantment?
In front of you,
the source is dancing inside
the speckle of dust.

a place of resting

I know.

You will find this searching

Tiresome at the end of the day.

That is when you consider with all your being

Coming to a place of resting….

Where love, the lover and

The beloved are one.

poetry of the inner harmony

Go anywhere, do anything.

Life is not challenge-free

Until you  accept the challenge

as your dear companion with whom you

Want to snuggle and  laugh and share

poetry of the inner harmony.

Without resisting

Without resisting,
when you are ready
to vibrate and pulsate
with the frequency of life ----
That is the most divine dance.

My name is love

A friend tapped on the door
and woke me up a little after three in the morning.
My name is love. Can you sit with me
just for seconds? she said.
I sat with her for hours and  hours  and we spoke
without words. We did not only sit together.
we joined in one heart and made wild love
and totally disappeared.

scent of a thousand sunrises

when the scent of a thousand sunrises

overflows your heart,
what else is there to do
other than kissing the beloved so hard
or bursting into a sublime poetry.

If the world ends today

If the world ends today

does that worry you?

if the ego melts today,

does that frighten you?

If your job is only to care deeply for what

really is,

on your entry into your  very heart,

you will touch the field from which

all things emerge.

when you see the moon

when you see the moon

wandering in the night sky.

Be kind, stop and ask her where she is going

and what her plans are.

She probably is looking for a room

iin your heart.

a gift and a giver

When

You choose to be here,

You’re being.

You’re fully offering yourself

To existence. You’re existence.

You’re

A sacred gift and a giver

As well.

without waiting for something

without waiting for something

sit with silence.

sit in silence.

You can hear 

the bird of innocence  singing.

absolute tyranny

The obsessive need

To be right all the time

Is an  indication of a very strong egoic mind pattern.

Unless it is observed very closely and consciously,

 it can turn itself into an absolute tyranny.

dance of grace

Your beauty

Is bottomless and fathomless

When you are willing to embrace

Whatever wants to arise

Because you synchronize

With the language of love

and the dance of grace.

Commotion

Despite the commotion and deep darkness
the world is moving through each day,
everyone we see around us is the reminder of light
and this clear seeing is the return to the
original seed.

Deep truth

Don't tell me this, dear one.
Deep truth cannot be told. It only can be felt
and experienced. 
A thousand dawns and sunrises keep
gravitating to your eyes. 
I know what that means.
A single sip from your joy
can intoxicate the entire
world hungry for love.

love moves in

       Love moves in and the snow thaws
Frogs sing in the pond no matter how cold it is.
Break the horse’s reins. Calm the mind and listen.
move beyond senses. Everything flows. everywhere is light.
And the beauty you see is your own heart's awakening.

moment by moment

moment by moment,
If you know this much,
Not too much but this much....
You are love who knows itself as love.
That is your song, your sweet responsibility....

everyone likes to advise you

everyone likes

to advice you ---

to follow your heart.

I tell you, dear friend,

 be your heart.

Just  be your heart.

free from memories

When you struggle

When you really struggle

You cannot be here with me

At this moment

Because you probably
 take yourself Seriously.

Or you just forgot who you are.

If you  stop and look  for a moment

If you look with clear eyes free

From memories, free from stories,

You can see the sun

Wanting to turn herself

Into you.

white laughter

in minnesota

the sky heard a sweet poetry yesterday

and opened its heart and started pouring

a divine secret  called snow.

If you look around, a white laughter

and fragrant  songs hang down

From tree branches and old

Electric wires wanting to kneel

 And hug the ground.

storage in your compound

If you’ve a storage

 In your compound

Fill it with nothing

but sweet light.

Then you can hear

Innocence laughing.

gaze into your eye

Don't go far. gaze into your eyes.
There is sunrise and a budding rose
and a sweet breeze
and there is a fire in the heart
rising to dance with the wind.
Don't go far. gaze into your eyes.
There is the ocean wanting to swim
inside your kindness.

the ocean roars in the desert

Sometimes
the ocean roars in the Desert.
sometimes the moon rises in the day
and the sun at night.
This is because the roaring
and the rising is from inside.

in the world

In the world
that is always looking, looking, looking
and cannot see,
where shouting is venerated than  listening;
The world that has long forgotten how to smile..
I feel immensely grateful because
I am still moved beyond description
by the beauty that wants to burst
and makes itself fully available.

when we gather for a dance

when we gather for a dance
in the guest house of life
we're no longer guests and
 no introduction is needed
because life knows herself
with sharp precision.

The mind

The mind

that is addicted to fault-finding and labeling

will not find peace until it is willing

to break open to light.

awaken the light

Each day before you do anything,

Before you brush your teeth or have coffee,
Remember to awaken the light within you
So that your entire day will be filled
with sweet songs.

the heart does not mark calendars

The heart

does not mark calendars.

It does not make announcements

 in advance.

It just blossoms spontaneously awakening

the entire winter skies.

where poetry can grow

Just like singing or kissing,

laughter has the ability to diminish conflict,

reduce pain and create a  lush space

inside us where poetry can grow and flourish.

the real wild one

I came to your door

dear friend, to wake you up

from the memory of your past love-making

Because when you wake up

you will make love to the  real wild one.

illuminated one

The illuminated one has always been

madly in love with you!

He sees with the very eyes you see.

 He goes everywhere you go.

He laughs at the jokes you tell.

He is the air your breath in

And out.

He never blames or judges you

Even when you  throw him in the

Garbage can or pretend he never

Existed  because true love

 is nonjudgmental.