What if you knew you would not be alive today except that someone you cannot remember holds you in their heart who will not let you go. That you owe. A vital debt you can never repay? One thing that is true of a whooper swan-and this is wonderful to know- is that we do not look for anyone who is not interested. We seek only those who are, and yet, that can change and always it does.
Added next morning: One lacks the proper emphasis. The difference between a focus upon the source of the daily bread and relishing the bread itself is vast. Certainly, the difference is major between the source of it and the store which sells the bread to me. Likewise, the source of it and the career at which one labors to get the money to buy the bread from the store that sells it to me are galaxies apart, speaking in terms of physics, that is. But, they are even more distant in terms of the heart which nobody can locate because it has no locus in physical terms. It exists all right; but in its refusal to stay put lie its sparkling wonders...its usefulness to hearts on fire.
Added next morning: Although
some would say that when building a civilization it will be observed
that remnants of the wild, unregulated situation being eradicated
will expose the worst of natural man's indecencies which must be met
with stiff rules and sharp punishments in order to progress the herd
along the road to a utopian decency, even requiring death sentences
to be carried out before the eyes of loved ones...all to be viewed
publicly by means of electronic devices in living rooms and bedrooms
and bars, and everywhere else civilized people are to be found,
I
see it otherwise,
in
truth the impressment of the pattern of a society made by the hands
of man against the body corporate brings a tremendously painful
distress to the hearts of those individuals not yet deadened by the
anesthesia of its schools which are designed to prepare them to
become as lobotomized citizens obedient to mental imprisonment in a
most narrow world to which natural man is unaccustomed and in which
unfit to live. The two views oppose one another diabolically. The
focuses are in entirely different directions. When the same person
who is hired to tend a garden sneaks into it under cover of darkness
to damage it so as to keep his job, how can the garden be expected to
grow?
The
horrors of election campaigns alone contribute to the troubles
politicians feed upon, like vultures to carrion-it's enough to make
you puke. And, all the candidates are mere pawns in the game of how
a few are to make losers of the millions. Ordinary citizens of a
society, captured pawns off the board and out of play, are not a real
concern. Blind office-seeking pawns argue with one another the
obvious failings of their profession and the voting but
nonparticipating pawns are asked to select one of them to drive the
runaway train, which, lost and long off its assigned track, barreling
toward oblivion, must forever fail to correct itself.
In
Nature, groups act as one without hesitation and thrive. The emphasis
is the proper one. It sets the course all parts follow. We, the
people of the world, are like that and have been called by wise men
The Salt of the Earth. How much further of course can anything be?
The
good news: the answer is present, is within us, and is with us and
is us. A perfect collaboration of man and the Divine is nearer than
near. It is not to be built...it is present. Let go. Listen to the heart.
Added two days later: In my own life it was when I came to the crossroads that it happened. Someone asked when I took the road less traveled, "What will you do now?" I replied in joy " I really have no clue what will come as I walk this way for it is a new way I have not tried and all I know is "I will not go back to what I just left behind me no matter what!"
Experience has shown me that no existing system can be changed from within that system. It is not possible for someone inside to change it since that one is always performing as a part of the existing system. When in the course of human events it becomes intolerable for a human being to go on in the same way it means the existing system has become an intolerable system so one must throw off its unnatural chains in favor of freedom.
Added next morning: Bob Dylan, a pretty good poet, once told that "just because you are supporting somebody who is struggling for something doesn't mean you're being political". To see that saves a whole lot of frustration, agony, and failure which can lead to bitterness. Never expect anything from anybody or any group that tells you they exist so you can expect something from them. If you get help in life you bring it out of the other(s) with a light from your eyes. For example, when your Mama fixes you a lunch to take with you to school. Realize this.
Added next morning: In any system of authority, no matter its nature, there will never be found fairness. Think about this. So, you are told that perfect fairness is impossible, we do the best we can, but we must have bosses. And yet, I tell you that it happens to be so that perfect fairness does exist, is closer than the veins in your neck are close to you and me, and belongs to us by a merciful gift from the giver of life. All we need do is align ourselves with the source of breath then allow love and mercy to flow through us like water flowing to the Sea. Could we be farther off course as a species? Let us correct that error by placing the emphasis properly where it belongs to free ourselves from tragedy unnecessary.
Added Tuesday November 1: What if you believed there is but one life long commitment you need to make...only one...in order to solve all your problems...all of them at once? And what if that commitment amounts to a full allegiance to your true Self? I tell that it is so. But you should not believe me. Find out for yourself. Why? You can.
Added two days later: In my own life it was when I came to the crossroads that it happened. Someone asked when I took the road less traveled, "What will you do now?" I replied in joy " I really have no clue what will come as I walk this way for it is a new way I have not tried and all I know is "I will not go back to what I just left behind me no matter what!"
Experience has shown me that no existing system can be changed from within that system. It is not possible for someone inside to change it since that one is always performing as a part of the existing system. When in the course of human events it becomes intolerable for a human being to go on in the same way it means the existing system has become an intolerable system so one must throw off its unnatural chains in favor of freedom.
Added next morning: Bob Dylan, a pretty good poet, once told that "just because you are supporting somebody who is struggling for something doesn't mean you're being political". To see that saves a whole lot of frustration, agony, and failure which can lead to bitterness. Never expect anything from anybody or any group that tells you they exist so you can expect something from them. If you get help in life you bring it out of the other(s) with a light from your eyes. For example, when your Mama fixes you a lunch to take with you to school. Realize this.
Added next morning: In any system of authority, no matter its nature, there will never be found fairness. Think about this. So, you are told that perfect fairness is impossible, we do the best we can, but we must have bosses. And yet, I tell you that it happens to be so that perfect fairness does exist, is closer than the veins in your neck are close to you and me, and belongs to us by a merciful gift from the giver of life. All we need do is align ourselves with the source of breath then allow love and mercy to flow through us like water flowing to the Sea. Could we be farther off course as a species? Let us correct that error by placing the emphasis properly where it belongs to free ourselves from tragedy unnecessary.
Added Tuesday November 1: What if you believed there is but one life long commitment you need to make...only one...in order to solve all your problems...all of them at once? And what if that commitment amounts to a full allegiance to your true Self? I tell that it is so. But you should not believe me. Find out for yourself. Why? You can.
Added Thursday, November 3: The present of the present is the presence. To know of a presence that is unnamed and fresh and new and unblemished who is its own authority moment to moment should not be missed. Why? Because you can.
Added Friday morning, November 4: Why are the people indigenous to America imprisoned on reservations to this day? And why do the rest of us take more and more of it back every time we have a reason? Because we can...because we write and we rewrite the laws that define and enforce the treaties we forced them to sign on threat of annihilation? meaning we can change the treaties anytime in any way that suits our greedy appetites? Can we not do better by them...and ourselves? Will we ever change?
Added Monday November 7: Humans are not limited to the ground or below it. We can arise and we should be about it. It's taken so long to do nothing but talk about it. Time to rise up!
At
the bottom there is politics. Politics demands leadership. Followers
and leaders of followers is at the lowest rung of the human ladder.
Nobody with any sand will lead somebody who will agree to follow.
Step up. There are no followers at the first rung. Step up. That
first step everybody takes for himself. After that, leaders will be
forgotten forever. A human free soul is invited to Heaven now. Step
up.
Humans
are not limited to the ground or below it. We can arise and we should
be about it. It's taken so long to do nothing but talk about it.
Time to rise up!
Up
to now, people who only talk have been willing to pass laws demanding
compliance on the broken theory that people will be so afraid to be
punished they will be good. All talk. Nothing changes. We still
fall so short of our dreams we disgrace the whole tree of life. Even
rocks are disgusted. Monkeys laugh at our politics. And our
philosophers? Baboons fart in the faces of them all. Philosophers
write only to each other. Nothing changes.
Humans
are not limited to the ground or below it. We can arise and we should
be about it. It's taken so long to do nothing but talk about it.
Time to rise up!
Don't
be fooled by celebrity for it is manufactured by the money grinch who
crawls in the real dark world underground and do not seek the
autograph of anyone, it lessens you to do that. Nobody worth his
autograph will stoop to give it nor sign his name for anyone who
thinks he is better off with it.
Humans
are not limited to the ground or below it. We can arise and we should
be about it. It's taken so long to do nothing but talk about it.
Time to rise up!
Added Tuesday, November 8: Swimming in the Ocean of All Knowledge and not knowing is enough to make you laugh.
Added Tuesday, November 8: Swimming in the Ocean of All Knowledge and not knowing is enough to make you laugh.
Added
a few minutes later:
When
you touch
someuniversaltruth
it
is beyond you.
What
does that mean? Ask nobody.
There is within a human being's heart A Great Reality. It shines a bright light to the world. The Light attracts all that has been prepared for the human sojourn on Earth, about 25,000 days worth of supplies, more or less. Your stay here has been impeccably arranged and you lost the key. Funny, the key you lost, nothing has it.
Added Sunday, November 13: Leonard Cohen wrote that a saint "rides the drifts like an escaped ski".
Added Thursday November 17: "The subject tonight is love, and for tomorrow night as well.
As a matter of fact, I know of no better topic for us to discuss until we all die!"
-Hafez
ENOUGH SAID
