Acquired knowledge

Acquired knowledge
can be very useful
when needed but it is
the divine knowing, the
direct experience with the
beloved that can shatter 
your prison door and make
you free and this freedom is 
more precious than gold and 
sweeter than honey and 
brighter than a ten thousand
suns.

how we've come here

Because how
we’ve come here
is a great mystery,
how we are going to
leave too will be
a divine invocation

that can transform

all things
into pure light.

the echo

In the deepest
part of you
there is hidden music –
when you listen,
its generosity and wildness
will take you
to the place of 
true liberation –
this is the sound of
the beloved –
Everything else
is the echo.

this road

this road is endless.
it is not a road. it is life.
it is your breath.
it is an immaculate light.
it has no destination.
it is a wanderer.
it starts from beneath
your breast and flows 
like the Nile cutting through
cities filled with people
who are busy planning for the
future ---
it whispers sweetly as it moves effortlessly -
My friends, don't be afraid,
lose yourself to this love.
Drop all your plans 
and dissolve into this light.
I've a bigger plan for you,
bigger than the universe -
the one who has tasted
this honey won't be tempted
by sugar again.

heaven and earth

We are
in the world
that is identified
with so much commotion,
the world that tries hard
to understand itself
through definitions and 
tired vocabularies.
My friend, I remind
you again and again -
return to your innocence
and be still for just
one minute –
Your beauty can
move heaven and 
earth.

a great illusion

a culture
that does not embrace
its poets and mystics
has missed an opportunity
to be in harmony with the
force of life where everyone
worries so much about his material safety.
If there is any growth,
It is the one that happens only outwardly
and the outward growth without
the inner perfume is simply the swelling
of the false image and thus a great illusion.

immense splendor

The very moment you
accept your true essence.
You’ve returned to nature and
the force of life begins 
to speak through you –
and the flame in your heart
Ignites itself and radiates infinitely
with immense splendor.

a golden leopard

I spent

the first half

of my years looking

for a true friend.

Love arrived one day and

said -

 my  dear companion, look

in the mirror and tell me -

you have been looking

for yourself.

I wanted to be like everyone else

in the neighborhood

I went on my business

wearing a veil  and hiding

the moon and the sun  in my chest

until a golden

Leopard from the near by

forest came and tore me

open.

I woke up from deep

sleep and looked around.

The sky poured honey

and fresh milk.

everything sparkles like

a new born.

For a very long time

I could not say what I felt

in that moment.

light inside the heart

Our capacity

to see grace everywhere

depends one how ready  we

 are to experience this moment –

without rejection or judging,

how open our heart is

and if the heart is  ripped open,

the light inside the

heart shines on everything

we come in touch with.

 

finding the divine

Finding

the divine not only within you

but within all things is the ultimate

and most transforming mystical

experience.

This is because the center

of infinite bliss or the kingdom of

Heaven is deep in your heart.

In fact when you talk like this

It feels strange to many people and

you can offend religious

organizations but your true purpose

here on earth is not actually

to please someone but to know

yourself fully.