Thursday, December 7, 2017

The Space Between


Try feeling inside that place
Between
Where one breath touches another.

Where time loses is its influence, and
Space loses it boundaries.

What then becomes of the dance
Of cause and Effect,
Attraction and Repulsion,
Birth and death,
I and Thou?

Oh Baz, oh Wayfarer,
Know this
And Soar beyond the Heavens.






Monday, September 11, 2017

The Embrace of Divine Shattering


There is wisdom in insecurity,
Protection in fear,
Knowledge in regret,
Awakening in suffering.

If you are being shattered,
is there really any way to stop it?
Yet there is always a way of return.
It resides in a knowing
deep at the root of our being.

If you have not been shattered,
you cannot find this 'way' to awakening,
to be reborn from the chains
of limitation and conditioning.

In shattering
The breath stops,
The heart cracks open,
Through the openings a breeze arises
as the breath of Allah.

Now is the time to let go!
It is the way to give a broken heart
the promise of healing by this blessed Breath.

Let yourself be empty now and simply present
to this new life as it heals and enfolds you in nearness,
where one step spans a thousand years in the way.

Oh lover,
Know that when your heart is shattered
it brings intimacy, and then,
though you may not see the face of the Beloved,
you certainly feel Her longing embrace.



Sunday, August 13, 2017

Seeking the Beloveds Kiss



This frustration –

Seeking, seeking, seeking

And not one curl of my beloved do I see.



Hiding behind your veil,

I know you are fanning my desire beloved

My deep longing burns,

Ignited by separation and love.



Longing, burning, melting,

Pain of separation, limitation, blindness –


I surrender Beloved, I give up!

So tired, no longer can I continue such endless seeking;
Heart Bereft, lost, a failure to your love -

I lay down myself - darkness comes.

Gently, a kiss

upon the lips of my heart,

A rose scented breeze caressing my face.
What, what is this awakening?


No, not for I, I am gone, but yet do I live?
Rising, dusting off ashes from my heart,

So softly I call: Is it you Beloved ?

and find the answer in my tears.


Longing for the Beloved



This barren longing,

This lack of capacity

to feel Thy embrace Beloved,

Is breaking my heart.



My longing for thy kiss,

has turned my heart into barren soil longing for rain,

it has made deep cracks and

in the cracks some cold flame is kindled on

the bone dry tinder of myself.



I wail,

I know it is wailing because I’ve heard it before,

with the Friends who’ve mingled love with separation,

and like those friends, on calloused feet I too 
irresistibly begin to turn - 

It is the only thing that seems to give the pain a home, 
like red-hot iron quenched in some all-pervading ocean of love.



As my heart turns, it calls out this song:

Longing the fuel,
Love the flame,
I will burn `til morning
when nothing remains 
but YOU.


Sunday, April 10, 2016

No Reaction

Walking city streets
No reaction
Just a Clear Stillness
And from the stillness - Wonder!

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Your Heart is the Light of Two Worlds




Within your heart is the light lit from two worlds

Inner and outer, Heaven and Earth.

There is no other unto its likeness

For it burns with the life essence of these two worlds.

 

It is a ‘brightly furbished lamp’ shining light from two worlds

Which is no ordinary light for it can not be extinguished:

In the world, the light of heaven keeps it radiant, and

In the heavens, the light of manifestation fuels its illumination.

 

The heart is a mystery of light;

Light within light, ‘a light upon a light’.

In this mystery of light there is no real darkness,

But only layers and veils, such that

Each layer grows dark by virtue of your gaze into a greater sun,

With each veil as a luminous shadow of self yet to be known.

 

These veils give us the mystery of light and love, of existence itself!

They entice us into their mystery through a lover’s desire hidden in our soul

And ignite a burning which alone can integrate the veils of Being.

Without this mystery there would be no existence,

Nor return to union and the beloved.

 

Your heart is the seeker and knower

Of the eternal mysteries of light.

It is an un-veiler, a sun

Inevitably unveiling the way of life’s path

As a luminous glance unveils ‘that which transpires behind that which appears’.

The heart indeed has eyes to see and ears to hear far beyond

What appears shrouded in past and future.

 

Your heart is a lovers hearth alive with the warmth and illumination

of love’s fire.

Not only your love of others but God’s love of you:

‘For you were loved ever before you loved’.

This love is never apart nor un-present in your heart.

 

Feel your heart,

Breathing and beating with light and love.

Become present to its life so it can become present in your life.

Breathe with your whole heart – let your breath flow as light through each chamber, each subtle center,

soothing, opening, connecting, deepening and expanding.

 

Let your heart become the growing light of dawn,

an all-encompassing, rising force of Love and Truth

Uniting heaven and earth in your undivided, wholly luminous being.



Thursday, August 13, 2015

Manifestation


It really is so incomprehensible,
Words make a mockery of it;
In silence perchance
We grasp an atom of it's truth
and feast on that beauty our whole lives.


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