the journey towards our heart

This is
how blessed we are –
we are given the wings
to move beyond what is
acceptable and unacceptable,
what is good and bad –
and by fully smelling and tasting
and feeling and being with
what is happening now,
and we can truly start
the journey towards
our heart.

the only question

at the end of the
day, when all
is said and done
the only question
that is worth asking is
not what religion
you practice nor how much
you earn nor what countries
you have visited –
it is rather how liberated
are you from human suffering.

blindness

Blindness
is not the absence
of eyes -
it is to follow the crowd
because you are afraid
of walking alone -
to do something because
everybody else is doing it.

like the sea

this can take
your entire life -
explaining and researching
and translating
what true love is
until one day you
fall inside its mysterious
depth, melt
and become still
like the sea.

infinite clarity

as human family
we've not come here
to learn a new survival
strategy or to gather
and archive information.
we are here to open
up further into our
timeless and infinite
clariry

Seed inside everyone

you may be a passionate storyteller
or a great thinker
and yet you cannot describe the
true nature of your being -
you can talk about it but
you cannot touch it with thinking.
even the combination of seven
thousand languages in the world
cannot have a grip on it because
being has no handles.
it is has no inside or outside.
it is has no beginning or end -
it has no shape or form.
it is the vast ocean that
bottomless and floorless
and it holds
everyone and everything.
it is the seed inside
everyone.

Happy people

Happy people are the ones
Who don’t reject whatever
emerges in their life
for acceptance is the perfume
of love –
in its presence, worry
and conflict cannot survive.

we wander around

we wander around
for a while and on our
way, we may suffer so much
until one day, we find the courage
to meet with our authentic self -
this is when our difficulties and
ordeals become our gifts
and treasures.
and we are no more afraid of darkness
because we begin to realize
that she is only the other side
of light and she has shown us deeply
how to sit down quietly and watch
the stars burning
with gratitude.

original self

a true
companion
is not the one
that expects you to be
superhuman -
It is the one that
encourages you
to be true to your
original self.

comparing and competing

The world is busy
comparing and competing,
trying to prove something
to someone -
If you can only
dissolve
Into the fire of love -
If you become
rooted in your wholeness,
your perfume can support
the planet.
the world is busy
comparing and competing,
trying to prove something
to someone -
If you can only
dissolve
Into the fire of love -
If you become
rooted in your wholeness,
your perfume can support
the planet.

if you've faith

Every time love touches us
we are expanding and deepening
and we are never the same next minute.
Be touched my dear friend.
Let infinite tenderness
of your very being penetrate you. 
I don’t watch news more often and 
last night I watched BBC in a long time
and this poem came forth –
if you’ve have faith and you
go out in the street to
hurt another person
and yourself in the name of
your faith, then you are
not different from the
one who has no faith.

the time has come for you

first life
whispers to you
softly –
You don't hear it
because you are
busy somewhere.
She whispers to you
again –
She whispers to you
for thirty thousand times–
you are not available at all.
then she starts speaking 
louder to you because
the time as come for
you to wake up.

Those who know love

Those
Who’ve known love
with every cell
In their body,
are no longer
Interested in intellectual
discussions.
Their smile contains
galaxies and their
silence holds eternity.

Your very nature

Your very nature is
a rainbow and 
the sun and wild stars
and a meadow
bursting with flowers -
but fear emerges and  says;
you are too small
for this job. 
it is not safe to be
a rainbow or the
the sun or the moon -
that is a dangerous commitment.
May be it is better
for you to be a
cabbage, curl up
and hide inside
your skin,

your attachments

Greatness
does not come from
knowing so much.
It comes from being
simple and ordinary.
Simplicity and total freedom
come from giving up
all your attachments.

a rose

A rose
never seeks
approval from
anyone.
that is why
she is always
in love.

deep blossom

When you show the slightest
sign of compassion and
genuine goodness to yourself
and other beings, 
the universe starts to blush
and giggle because you’ve
touched her electric elegance,
her deep blossom and seeds -
the regions of her that are
sensitive, tender and delicious.

light inside light

for the one
who has seen
light inside light -
for the one
who has smelled a flower
blooming in his/her heart –
for the one 
who has experienced
love directly -
books and scriptures and 
old saying and quotes
are not necessary.
He/she is free.

saving joy

every hour
and every minute
and every day
comes with its own depth
and music –
stop saving joy
for a special occasion
in the future.
Spill all of it.
don’t be bothered
at what others are
going to say.
let God and your heart
hold hands and dance
In the street barefoot –
when love takes over
the ego becomes idle.

wounded planet.

People might
agree with you or not –
but do what tickles your
most inner being and opens the door
of your creative energy –
You are healing a wounded
planet.

cosmetics and make-up

decoration
is fine with me -
cosmetics and make-up are
fine with me ---
as long as they don't hide
your natural radiance that
can dazzle our eyes.
Remember that you are
the extension of God
and a divine mystery.

why hurry up

Why hurry up
to contradict your true nature?
In your heart there lies
Endless source of joy -
a monument of great mystery
and chasing trickles of
happiness out there
is the waste of energy.
When worry arise,
When fear emerges
When doubt moves in,
they have a message for you –
Be still and look inside -

the most beautiful thing

the most beautiful thing
that can ever happen to you
is to wake up one day and realize
that you are not what
you think you are
because your true essence
cannot be touched by thought.

what has been hidden

As soon as
you are ready
to know yourself,
as soon as you are
awake -
what has been hidden
from you forever
reveals itself fully
like the sun and moon
and flowers that burst open
suddenly-

fever of the Planet

When love
springs from
the heart of
togetherness,
It is like a soft, sweet rain
falling in the spring -
It brings down
the fever of the
Planet -

What is next?

the ego, we can also say,
your false identity or
the conditioned self
is never satisfied with
the flavor of now
and it keeps badgering you -
What is next? What is next?
Be courageous. Live
as if there is no Next.
melt into the pulse
of your heart-fire
and disappear like mist.

diving deeper

It is not
by coming closer to me
you know me better
but by diving deeper
into your own heart that
you realize you
and I are one.

instead of arguing with life

instead
of arguing with life,
It is better for you
to flirt with her –
This makes you fertile and
flexible like earth
turning all your worries
into fragrant trees.

be lost in love

You are the same
as light.
Stop seeking and
be lost in love
like Jesus -
Take that mask off
your face
so that I can see
your eloquence clearly.

your mind's stubbornness

Let go of your mind's
stubbornness
and start living
whole-heartedly
today -
there is no time
for disappointment or dismay.
Look how
love can scatter a cloud gathering
around your eyes
and you glow like a freshly lit candle!
even what seems a great
obstacle can become
a companion
on the path of transformation.

number one in the list

If you are looking at your lengthy
to-do-list this morning,
be reminded to make
happiness number one
in the list
for the quality and
depth of everything
you perform today
depends on how happy
you are.

diamonds and rubies

When a person
finally awakes from illusion -
She/he is no longer
a person –
She is heart and bright mirror
and a ground filled with
diamonds and rubies -

time for forgiveness

Let’s be done
with the era of memory
storage, preservation and consumption.
It is time to be in love with what
Is true, to ignite holy fire that
polishes the part of us
that does not shine.
time for forgiveness
and making rooms for inner
blossoming
time to stop leaning on the wall
that is on the verge of falling down
and no more watering the grass
when there is already enough rain.
time to find a new strength
to see what can purify our
eyes and our hearts.

particles swirl around you

What arises
in your life
is not your life –
particles are
swirling and dancing
around you
because you
are wine and
they want intoxication.
you are a magnet
for them.

being with what is happening now

This is
how blessed we are –
we are given the wings
to move beyond what is
acceptable and unacceptable,
what is good and bad –
and by fully smelling and tasting
and feeling and being with
what is happening now,
and we can truly start
the journey towards
our heart.

flower in spring

With the desolation and
falling away
of your little biography
called me, you or she ---
you will discover a deep
freshness
through which
your authentic and higher self
is allowed to burst forth
like a flower in spring.

how liberated are you

at the end of the
day, when all
is said and done
the only question
that is worth asking is
not what religion
you practice nor how much
you earn nor what countries
you have visited –
it is rather how liberated
are you from human suffering.

Blindness

Blindness
is not the absence
of eyes -
it is to follow the crowd
because you are afraid
of walking alone -
to do something because
everybody else is doing it.

endless depth

This can take
your entire life -
explaining and researching
and translating
what true love is
until one day you
fall inside its mysterious and
endless depth, melt
and become still
like the sea.

infinite clariry

as human family
we've not come here
to learn a new survival
strategy or to gather
and archive information.
we are here to open, each day,
up further into our
timeless and infinite
clariry

great thinker

you may be a passionate storyteller
or a great thinker
and yet you cannot describe the
true nature of your being -
you can talk about it but
you cannot touch it with thinking.
even the combination of seven
thousand languages in the world
cannot have a grip on it because
being has no handles.
it is has no inside or outside.
it is has no beginning or end -
it has no shape or form.
it is the vast ocean that
bottomless and floorless
and it holds
everone and everything.
it is the seed inside
everyone.

Happy people

Happy people are the ones
Who don’t reject whatever
emerges in their life
for acceptance is the perfume
of love –
in its presence, worry
and conflict cannot survive.

we wander around

we wander around
for a while and on our
way, we may suffer so much
until one day, we find the courage
to meet with our authentic self -
this is when our difficulties and
ordeals become our gifts
and treasures.
and we are no more afraid of darkness
because we begin to realize
that she is only the other side
of light and she has shown us deeply
how to sit down quietly and watch
the stars burning
with gratitude.

new state of consciousness

in the world that is getting
noisier and more tensioned
and more isolated and more medicated ---
where the inner child continues to scream
for attention and safety ---
I am still grateful for there
are countless human beings
who are ready to wake up
from dream state, to break out of collective
mind pattern because it has become terribly
clear that they have already
suffered enough –
The time has come from the
new state of consciousness
to emerge , the time to leave a smoky,
stifling mental-cocoon and cages
and become butterflies and birds-
the time has come, to let go of resistance
and to return to the source.

gratitude

when you remember
to start your day with gratitude
and when you end it
with gratitude -
that is a living poem
we recite everyday.
that is what the bees do
while making honey out of
naked joy.

meditation

People ask me more often
whether I practice
meditation or not.
I would say –
Anything that is done
with your whole heart
is meditation –
you are being
tender to yourself
and to everyone else -

elevate the world

the precious gift
that continues
to nourish and elevate the world
Is not actually what you have -
It is what you are.

the eternal delight.

Surrender to
The Absolute beauty
of what is.
It takes you into
the heart and satisfies
your deepest needs.
It melts your pride
and dissolves your
questions and every
object and every being
becomes pregnant
with the eternal delight.

your needs to be loved

your needs to
be loved or
your constant urge
to be in a relationship
says that you are not enough.
Be courageous to
drop all of them.
let go of any identification
or belief until you are
a clear sky and a fragrant
flower -
be ripped open and distilled
like wine
until all your pain evaporate
and you become free.

kiss the beloved

your capacity
to shine
every day and night
depends on
how often you come home
to yourself
and kiss the beloved.

when you look in the mirror

when you look
in the mirror and cannot
see yourself,
don't criticize the mirror
nor yourself.
Jesus and Buddha did not
come here to teach religions.
they came here to show
us a goldmine hiding
right beneath our chest
so that we will never
starve again.

this is poetry

this is poetry-
not to give advice
when not asked -
not to do anything
nor to say a word
when not moved -
to realize that
no matter how your
mind is filled with ideas
and concepts,
your ultimate self
is emptiness,

you are lucky

you are lucky 
if you’ve married
a great person who fully
accepts who you are -
who is loving and caring -
when you are married
to the flame of the sky
and the wild earth
that continues to burst
with freshness and 
sweet roar of the
ocean ---
if you are married
to life itself - -
you are ten thousand
times blessed.

the cloud

What is real
does not need
a support group.
or a hand-clapping
It shines
on its own.
Be brave today
to come out of the
cloud
that is hiding your
true face.

our taste for food

Like our taste
for food –
and the colors of our garments,
our outer life might be
different
but our inner life
is filled with the same
radiance and wine
and music.
our longing
has the taste of water
and our joy smells
like a flowering tree.
a drop of kindness
we receive from
someone we have not
met before can arouse
every single atom
in our body.