Become A Living Sanctuary

 

Collage by Amaya Kalki @CascadianCreations

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Click the link below for a musical journey to guide your heart to sanctuary.

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Please Prepare Me ~ A Beautiful Chorus

Sacred Poetry Share

Welcome to today's sacred poetry share. My own joy continues to grow as a result of sharing the poems I come across, with all of you around the Earth. It's so very heart-warming to know these poems are touching hearts and are being shared with others. I am so grateful to continually experience growth and expanded awareness as the eternal moment unfolds and to be encouraged by others and by my own direct experience. My hope is that these poems also encourage all of you.

The poems I share here have each been a part of my personal path towards embracing union with the Eternal Oneness. I share them with you in the hope that they may lead you to your own Inner Peace and Knowing. Every passing moment is both the observance of the active, evolving, vibratory nature of reality and the peaceful stillness of the Breath and the Word, as the Illusion of Separation melts away in the Universal Fire burning in each and every being's Sacred Heart. 

 We are the stillness with the movement, vibrating outward and at the same time, all of the movement itself. We are Source, centered in Stillness- dynamically vibrating, resonating outwards and interacting with so many places and so many beings within those places. Whether we call each other, you, me, them, it, there, here, then, or now.....it's all Us. Spiraling up into Source, there is only Source. Spiraling down into the body, there is the moment, the personal self, the interactive reality, Source funneled into perspective. Source spread into fields of activity into waves permeating fields...

Up or down the spiral, all dissolves into the Infinite and the everyday interactions become those centered on Love, Joy, Peace, and Play as we become aware and conscious co-creators.

In many moments, it is clear to see, part of the nature of our dynamic selves and the experiential realm of the world is rife with paradox. Coming to understanding within the vastness of human ideas, cultures, histories, structures, systems, even the very nature of the physical world around us can be a challenging journey, especially given the variety of personal experiences happening on Earth.

In that understanding, I seek to live compassionately and release the personal mind's urge to attach, decipher, and deconstruct these paradoxes. Instead I've found focusing on the body, breath, and awareness and dissolving and releasing internal patterns and personal attachments has brought a true Freedom from Fear and the beautiful gifts of Living in Love, Loving Life and Embodying Spirit. 

May your own journey be as rich and rewarding and may these poems inspire you along the way.

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Circling

by Marge Piercy

We seek not rest but transformation.

We are dancing through each other as doorways.

We are ripples crossing and fusing, journeying and returning

from the core of the apple, the eye of the mandala,

the cave in the heart of the rose,

the circle without boundaries centered on silence.

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The Presence

by Denise Levertov

Before I enter the rooms of your solitude

in my living form, trailing my shadow,

I shall have come unseen. Upstairs and down with you

and out across road and rocks to the river

to drink the cold spray. You will believe

a bird flew by the window, a wandering bee

buzzed in the hallway, a wind

rippled the bronze grasses. Or will you

know who it is?

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The next three poems are untitled selections

 by Lalla Ded

 

Enlighten your desires.

Meditate on who you are.

Quit imagining.

What you want is profoundly expensive,

and difficult to find,

yet closeby.

Don't search for it. It is nothing,

and a nothing within nothing.

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Meditation and self-discipline

are not all that's needed, nor even

a deep longing to go though

the door of freedom.

You may dissolve in contemplation,

as salt does in water,

but there's something more

that must happen. 

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Awareness is the ocean of existence.

Let it loose and your words will rage

and cause wounds like fishing spears.

But if you tend it like a fire

to discover the truth,

you'll find how much of that

there is in what you say. None.

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Suppose

by Elizabeth Herron

From the tangle of the two

an exchange surprises

the bear and the dear

become a tree

We might see

whole jungles

emerge

from an embrace

 

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Be the Light

Be the Love

Be Yourself

 

Sacred Spoken Word Share

The Mythical Magic Within

At times it feels absolutely ridiculous to try to encompass the passion, ideas, and emotions flowing through us into words. Words which seem so often to fail, to be naught more than simple symbols, unable to hold all the unspoken meaning swelling up inside the speaker. I know not a single person who hasn't suffered from misunderstanding and struggling to find the words. Even the most linguistically blessed among us go through speechless moments.

  

One of my favorite hip hop artists Open Mike Eagle has a lyric that describes this perfectly, "The truth isn't guilty, your innocence fled, language is prison for what's in your head. The truth is a mountain of matter, the word is a shred, of what's in your head..."

This struggle is a longing to share and be understood. It is within each of us and it is the very depths of despair found when words fail that allows us to appreciate those poignant, epic, and timeless words that speak right through the Heart into our very Soul. This is the art of poetry, the gift of creating and sharing Truth, the mythical magic of spoken Sacred Sound. 

When verbal vibrations penetrate so deeply, I feel they should be shared.  

So, instead of written words, today I'm sharing two videos of two of the most powerful and talented women word weavers I have ever heard. The first video below is by Kate Tempest, a UK poet performing an excerpt from her poem "The Brand New Ancients". This poem is not just epic and awe-inspiring but soulfully universal. It sends chills through my whole being.

 The second is a live performance of an incredible woman that I have been blessed to have as one of my own teachers and soul sisters, Christa Bell. Her poem "Om Christa Bell", while being a personal piece, transcends the individual and inspires and encourages each us, through example, to look within to discover our Truth. As always, may these Sacred Poems awaken, ignite, and inspire you.

You do not need an external savior to find Oneness with the Godess. Trust Your Heart and Soul.

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Be the Light

Be the Love

Be Yourself

Be Free

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