Half A Life

 

Do not love half lovers

Do not entertain half friends

Do not live half a life

and do not die a half death

If you choose silence, then be silent

When you speak, do so until you are finished

Do not silence yourself to say something

And do not speak to be silent

If you accept, then express it bluntly

Do not mask it

If you refuse then be clear about it

for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance

Do not accept half a solution

Do not believe half truths

Do not dream half a dream

Do not fantasize about half hopes

Half the way will get you no where

Half an idea will bear you no results

Half a life is a life you didn't live,

A word you have not said

A smile you postponed

A love you have not had

A friendship you did not know

The half is a mere moment of inability

but you are able for you are not half a being

You are a whole that exists to live a life

not half a life. 

~ Khalil Gibran

    

The Power of Stillness

 "Stillness is vital to the world of the soul. If as you age you become more still, you will discover that. 

The fragments of your life will have time to unify, and the places where your soul-shelter is wounded or broken will have time to knit and heal. You will be able to return to yourself. In this stillness, you will engage your soul. 

Many people miss out on themselves completely as they journey through life. They know others, they know places, they know skills, they know their work, but tragically, they do not know themselves at all. 

Aging can be a lovely time of ripening when you actually meet yourself, indeed maybe for the first time. There are beautiful lines from T. S. Eliot that say:

'And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.'

~John O'Donohue

I Am Here For You

 

He dropped her off at the bus stop one morning

She waited for him to come home
She was nine
He never did
Disappointment set in
She grew up and married at 27
Thought She'd finally be seen, valued, cherished as a wife
But he never did
Disappointment set in
She sat down at 41
And wrote a letter
To the love of her life
After her husband left
She hoped he'd respond
But he never did
Disappointment set in
She met a guy at 44
And he promised her
Everything
But he never did
Like much about her
Disappointment set in
After years and years of disappointments
She made a resolution
To be there for herself
To show up every day
And declare
"I am here for you!"
When the men in her past
Never did

Man’s Roots are Invisible

 

Love is the Earth Where One Needs to be Rooted~~

If you are rooted in love, you are rooted. There is no other way to be rooted. You can have money, you can have a house, you can have security, you can have a bank balance; that will not give you rootedness. That is just a substitute, a poor substitute for love. It may increase your anxiety even more, because once you have physical securities, money, a social status, you become more and more afraid that these things may be taken from you, or you become more and more worried about having more and more of these things, because discontent knows no limit, and your basic need was of being rooted.

Love is the earth where one needs to be rooted. Just as trees are rooted in the earth, man is rooted in love.

Man’s roots are invisible, so anything visible is not going to help. Money is very visible, a house is very visible, social status is very visible. Man’s roots are invisible. Man is a tree with invisible roots. You will have to find some invisible earth – call it love, call it God, prayer – but it is going to be something like that…invisible, intangible, elusive, mysterious. You cannot catch hold of it. On the contrary, you will have to allow it to catch hold of you. You cannot have any grip on it.

On money you can have your grip; you can catch it in your hands – but then it cannot become your earth. That which you can possess will never become your earth. Only that which possesses you can become your earth.

Love possesses you. That is the attraction and that is the repulsion also. That is the paradox of love. It possesses you. It gives you life on the one hand, on another it kills you completely, utterly; it destroys you. On one hand there is the cross and on the other it gives you resurrection. But first one has to face the cross, then only is one reborn.

Love is your need as it is everybody’s need, and nobody can avoid it. Everybody has to come to settle accounts with the energy called love. So remember it. You can misinterpret it and can think, ‘If I have some bank balance, some security in the world, some physical way to live comfortably, no fear of the future…. Then you will be misinterpreting it. And if you waste a few years in this misinterpretation, those years are gone; you cannot get them back. And with those years, many possibilities of love, many opportunities of love, disappear.

~Osho

Excerpt from A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose, Chapter 23

Don’t Take It Personally

 “Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind. They are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements that they have in their own minds.”

~Don Miguel Ruiz

The Depths of Sadness

 

She found joy in the saddest places.

Alone, and often, she felt her way through to the other side of pain.

And every time she did her awareness enlarged itself..

Of her world, her soul, her heart. 

Sadness is meant to be felt and expressed.

So much knowledge we gain about ourselves by allowing and experiencing it's depths.

When you do get through it,

And in time you will,

You'll see the beauty of your sadness.

You'll recognize that no matter what state your mind is in or the condition of your heart,

You'll notice the beauty because that's what life is..

A beautiful drama unfolding moment by moment of your soul's never-ending journey with all of it's highs and lows.

Dig Holes

 

let’s all

make a promise 

to ourselves 

to dig holes

inside of ourselves 

so we may

discover

new truths

about ourselves 

and evolve

from a star

into a galaxy 

full of lights

so deep

in a darkness

of no beginning or end