We have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.
And there are things to be considered. Where are you living? What are
you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in the right relation?
Where is your water? Know your garden.
It is [...]
Archive for November, 2006
The Great River….
Posted in Poetics, Quotes, Spirit on November 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
How to Teach….
Posted in Quotes, Spirit on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Ancient Masters
didn’t try to educate the people,
but kindly taught them to not-know.
When they think that they know the answers,
people are difficult to guide.
When they know that they don’t know,
people can find their own way.
The Tao Te Ching, 65
Stephen Mitchell
Biography of an Abuser….
Posted in Poetics, Spirit on November 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Chapter I
He carried his anger like a trophy
raining words like shooting stars
stinging
then stretching like and old cat
in the mid-afternoon sun.
He could turn buckets of sunshine
into sleepy question marks of regret.
Hate bubbling up from the drama
that hid in the carpet of fear
that bound his chest.
I saw the fear as another star
falling, driven like crystal shards
deep [...]
Another gem from Hafiz –
Posted in Poetics, Spirit on November 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Pouring Light
God
pours light
into every cup,
quenching darkness.
The proudly pious
stuff their cups with parchment
and critique the taste of ink
while God pours light
and the trees lift their limbs
without worry of redemption,
every blossom a chalice.
Hafiz, seduce those withered souls
with words that wet their parched lips
as light
pours like rain
into every empty cup
set adrift on the Infinite Ocean.
~ Hafiz ~
