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My Concerns

My concerns changed after I saw your face. Concerns about money and time are bothersome, toiless thoughts. My concerns about what others think about me, or if I have offended another, seems irrelevant now. Concerns about my beauty fading just are useless concerns. My only concern is getting another glimpse of your face that dissolved away all of my other concerns.

Brave the Unknown

As I take a look inside, I see in a corner a little girl afraid of the unknown and all the uncertainties that lie ahead.  She is full of fear.  It steals her breath.  She can not move- movement terrifies her.  The future is vast and it's territory wide and barren like a desert.  Nothing much can grow in such a hostile environment. The little girl ponders the stillness of the desert.  It provides a comfort familiar to her soul.  She remembers a sacred place that is only spirit.   She remembers how life teaches her beingness and expands her heart. A gentle wind sweeps across the desert.  She submits to its wisdom.  The heat from the desert sets a fire in her heart creating a path of new beginnings.  I comfort the little girl and together we brave the unknown.

Four Elements

Within your nature is every element, so listen to some sage advice: You are demon and wild beast and angel and human- Whatever you cultivate, that you will be. Reference~ Baba Afdal Kashani

Bare The Ache

What do I do with this ache deep inside of me? It begs for my attention. It begs for open space. It wants love in the raw. It begs to venture out and explore the landscape. It wishes to bridge the present with eternity. It insists the only way is to bare the ache and reflect on the loneliness. One must bare the ache until something new emerges within it.

The Murder of Hypatia: The Pagan Noblewoman

Hypatia was the daughter of Theon of Alexandria, the last known teacher of the Mystery Schools.   She is thought to of been born in 370 C.E.   Theon was headmaster at the Museum of Alexandria .   The place was dedicated to a higher education of learning, embodying a “sacred art” of astronomy, lyric poetry, history and diverse subjects such as:   geometry, sacred dance, herbology, engineering, and medicine. In the year 400, Hypatia assumed the chair of mathematics at the university school.   This was a salaried position, equivalent to professorship in a modern university.   She was known for her skill in theurgy, literally “god-working.”   When it came to debating ideas about the divine, “Hypatia eclipsed in argument every proponent of the Christian doctrines in Northern Egypt .   Her expertise in theology typified the Pagan intellectual class of Gnostics, “those who understand divine matters, knowing as the gods know.”   Her openness w...

The Wind's Mindfulness

Man's forgetfulness of God is like the wind.  When it blows you feel it but pay no attention to it.  The wind is invisible and belongs to the invisible world.  Here in the visible world it's essence is felt.  This is how God is-  His being is all around us.  If man could just become forgetful of this world and let the wind carry him, he would become the wind's mindfulness.  The wind's mindfulness is the veil of God.

A Baby In The Womb

How can a man grasp the inner world with landscapes colored by nothing seen by the human eye?  A baby in the womb would call you a liar if you told him there are mountains, streams, blue skies, and green grass with four legged animals walking on land; and even more wonders in the sea.  The baby would dismiss your flights of fancy and deem you mad.  A blind man is content with his state and does not wish to attain to higher spiritual grades.