i've just ventured to the water's edge
and there's a sea to cross
...a sea to cross

with consciousness we begin to awaken
to our own inner worlds
yet we are only half awake
to who and what we really are
only half awake to our deeper needs
and how to attain them

most of us would like to avoid
pain and suffering
but we believe that how we feel
inside
depends on external circumstances

when we are awakened to our
true nature
we are freed from dependence on
the external world
both for our sense of self
and our inner well-being

we become free to act with
more intelligence and compassion
attending to the needs of the situation
at hand
rather than the needs of ego

once advanced we realize
that the world of matter is not real
and that time and space
are not ultimate reality

this state is known as Christogenesis
the birth of Christ consciousness

the spiritual birth of humanity as a whole

Peter Russel, WAKING UP in TIME

Did you not know
but then
you have always known
haven't you
I have been waiting
deep in the place of your dreams
when you called
was I not there, at once
by your side
in this place
us, where we are, who we are
remains eternal
only time changes
flowing like a river
in which we stand
ankle-deep

JILL

I saw the look
again
caught it in your eye
just a flash
a moment gone by
but...
you can't hide
what's in your soul
you can't deny
that over which you have no control
when you are loved by someone
deep and true
when your souls connect, merge
its really not up to you
anyway
I love you
beyond all time
beyond all rules

I love you
because I've seen your soul
looking out at me
when it gathered itself
in your eyes

musings, Crzy Hrse

All matter
is destined to dissolve
into that Great Energy
that is Love
dissolve the hardness of ego
into pliable accommodating Love

Oh My Sisters
My Beloved Sisters of the world
Beyond whatever physical pleasures
we may share
lies Spiritual Bliss
the foundation of our lives

For we are spirits
enmeshed in physical form
but it is out of body
that our true Natures are known
then and there are we home

"And the soldiers likewise demanded of him
saying, And what shall we do?
And he said unto them,
Do violence to no man..."

Luke 3: 14

listen ye to Nature all Creation
knowledge and wisdom she imparts
cultivate openness and receptivity
yield rather than dominate

all time occurs
concurrently
it is only the rational mind that divides
time: past present future
the heart penetrates the universal
thus we can chose among categories if we get above them
plot alternative courses, further diversify
if this-then-that

time is an unending circle upon a circle

once again i find myself startin over
as in the "seven year itch"
be it seven years, months, days
or just moment-to-moment

we all need periodic renewal

the remnants of past gone by
like old coffee dregs the day after
must be cast aside
on the Dawn of a New Morn

the Cherokee have a ceremony for such occasion
the Green Corn Ceremony
it was to start life fresh
to erase past mistakes
and to be forgiven for wrong-doing

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth
where moth and rust do corrupt
and where thieves break thru and steal
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt
and where thieves do not break thru nor steal

For where your treasure is
there will be your heart also

No one can serve two masters
for either he will hate the one
and love the other
or else he will be devoted to one
and despise the other

You cannot serve both God and Mammon
Matthew 6: 19-21, 24

Mammon: the false god of riches and avarice

we live in God's Kingdom
the GARDEN of EDEN
but blinded, unaware
of the Kingdom that surrounds us

awaken to consciousness
let that blind-spot
fall away...rejoice

don't take synchronicity
for granted
it is a strong primal message
saying:

"I [Spirit} am here"

synchonistic events are attempts
to awaken consciousness
a calling to Spiritual Life
lest we forget:
that first and foremost we are Spiritual beings
in physical form

moisture-saturates dew so thick
you could cut it with a knife
but only scattered showers fall
only dew materializes

then and only when we entreat it
does it rain in our consciousness
imbuing it with transformation
then inner consciousness
transforms the world...
and finally... it truly rains

like ZOMBIES seeking creature-comforts
we trod the earth

solemnly we plod along
caught up in our own daily delusions
ego-consumption threatens to swallow us

unaware of the KINGDOM that surrounds us

apply equal portions
of RIGHT to ANXIETY

the suffering that i am experiencing now
is no-more no-less
than that which i imposed on others
in times past

the LOVE for which i now yearn
is that which i did not GIVE

in the quiet security of heart
i rest my cares ambitions and sorrows
the fullness of this moment
leaves no time nor space
for yesterdays or tomorrows

never have i seen
such a day as beautiful as this
punctuated with sky-blue-clarity

even the rustle of autumn leaves
prodded by a warm Southern breeze
did seem to sing out in celestial harmony

on special days like these
Heaven comes to meet Earth
and in Divine copulation
lays down the foundations
of a New Earth and a New Dawn

miles from nowhere
guess i'll take my time'
oh yeah, to reach there

lord my body has been a good friend
but i won't need it
when i reach the end

miles from nowhere
guess i'll take my time
oh yeah, to reach there

cat stevens

the same friend i referred to earlier
(2 men and a mack truck)
according to his wife
would awaken in the middle of the nite
with extreme panic disorder
he dreamed he was still in 'nam
perched in a tree maintaining a nightly vigilance for charlie

i too have had my share of Night Terrors
the dark night of the soul
maybe our experience has not been that different
after all we were... teammates