Consider the ocean…

Consider the ocean…

… as if it is the whole of It, only with no end…

And each wave expressing It… 

with surging and frothiness… 

rising in vengeance or gentleness… 

unbounded…

The constancy, the perpetual rolling in…

The play of them, against each other…

It is impossible not to notice the interrelatedness of them, each wave and swell…

Each within the whole… each the whole… giving all that is given to it…

The wave… arises (is created from the whole of It, because of the whole of It) and rolls back into the whole of It, to reform and begin anew…

It is never the same wave that forms again, or if a wave were to linger on the shore… How utterly impossible!

Yet the ocean is constantly there, always, extending forever…

Gently or violently allowing, giving the waves their waving…

Being each wave… unendingly…

Not Knowing…

Liberation is the aliveness beyond belief, the aliveness of awareness itself. Liberation is when all the answers, explanations and positions disappear, and you’re left with the open mind of not knowing.    ~ Joan Tollifson

“To know that you do not know is the dawn of knowing.” ~ Vernon Howard

What is ‘It’?

“The experience of stillness is not it. The experience of silence is not it. The experience of complete peace is not it. The experiencing is it.”
— Wu Hsin

When you fully accept that you don’t know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

“Wisdom begins when a man finds out that he does not know what he thinks he knows.” – Plato

Am I Willing To Become Aware?

Am I willing to become aware,

And let go of that which brings me suffering?

To see the writhing

In the dream

Without a journey to regret?

To notice it all

And see it as a gift?

No distinctions

or angles of fear —

No evasions

or propelling toward change —

Just pure

clear

acceptance…

Am I willing to become aware,

and live from there?

Seeing Your Light

It’s not important

that you are broken

or where…

It is only important

that I love you.

Your light is always there

if I remember to see it.

Seeing your light

lets my light

shine brighter.

And when I see your light

I remember everyone’s light

is the same light…

never not there,

truly held,

always real.

Love is

In all the dark places

waiting to be seen.

Just look.

What Comes Before?

What comes before

all thoughts that cause suffering?

What comes before

all suffering that hides love?

What comes before

a need to make things different?

What comes before

this journey of the soul?

What comes before

this stance that lives in consequence?

What comes before

all knowing that subsides?

What comes before

A celebration of glory?

What comes before

all these beliefs that hide?

What lies below, above and over

when all is said and done?

what turns my face in solitude

when all restless journeys are done?

Arrogance

This arrogance

is insecurity in disguise.

Yet, this insecurity

comes from arrogance.

The arrogance of believing

I am that which I am not.

There is no “me”

separate from “you.”

The jig is up

when this becomes clear.