Hidden

Hidden

A person can emigrate to commit murder;
a person can emigrate to commit marriage.
Motive lies hidden from forms,
and often from the informer.


After

After a crisis comes understanding…patience.
Awareness gives distance and clarity.
People are our mirrors.


What is Beautry?

Today three black women
passed my way.
One was short and wide;
one was tall and broad;
one was medium and narrow.

Normally I am wired to believe
only one of these to possess beauty.
However as they passed,
all three had an air of beauty.
The thing is they were
all similarly well dressed.

Normally (or so often) a women
of wide proportion dresses down:
in accordance with her low self-image –
because of being fat. In response,
there is a movement of people
who follow ‘big is beautiful’;
there is a movement of people
who follow ‘the biggest loser’.

What is this opposition
between acceptance and change?
It is that some people
who are naturally not so wide
are wide because food is their comfort
to avoid difficulties,
or to help them through difficulties.
These people will be wide,
have low self-image,
and dress accordingly.

Other people are naturally wide,
have an image, and dress accordingly.
However most people are lost in the confusion!!
The answer is a journey through
acceptance and change.


Scope

Those in need seek help,
and if help is not forthcoming,
or worse if ill-advice is forthcoming,
the frightening is all but inevitable.

Where then lies individual responsibility?
If the inner battle waged be left alone,
does evil always triumph over good?

In part the growth in power of weapons
makes the anger of one go to many:
war not waged with bows and arrows.
Yet the anger remains so blinding.
Indeed a troubling time: global terror.


Clarity

Those who know much know little;
and those who know nothing know all.
Fill your hearts with the infinite,
and you shall come to know
that which you are,
and that which you are not.


Truth

Seek and you will find;
find and you will know;
the way will unfold
as wings on high:
such heights.
Dreams are not dreams,
revelation.


Fly Away

You shall not leave the nest unsupported.
Your wings are my wings…
this sky is your sky.
Take flight thou friend of freedom;
for by day or night,
you shall know the eternal silence
that lie limitless and waiting.
When you take that precious journey
take courage, and, take flight.


Steps

The mind sees what it wants to see;
yet the mind cannot see.
Do not be bothered by such travails;
for one day the meandering steps
will wonder their way back home


True Self

To know thy ego is
to know the false as false.
Self-ish partitions so apparently real
fade away into folly.

Yet to know the Self
is to know truth as truth.
You will lose nothing;
on the contrary,
such richness awaits;
for you will gain all.
Your true Self, your soul,
is the soul of all,
past, present, and future.


Possession

In trying to become big –
controlling the worldly –
we become small.

That which we are
cannot be belittled;
nor can it become grand.

The sanctity of life
is not at the mercy
of the prevailing winds.

The world gives us,
and takes away from us,
nothing.


The Martyr

How can those who fight
know that which they fight for?
They are blind to their inner fight
that hides their inner beauty.


The Fool

How can you conquer your self,
when you are busy conquering somone else?

That which is the highest
you seek through that which is the lowest.

Unfortunate are those who look out
at the world with angry eyes.

Foolish are those who act out this rage.


Love

It be said know thy self.
Yet for some this solitary path not suit.
It be said thy become known
through the other…the path of love;
for in knowing the other,
one sees further and further
into the beyond that is
thy self.


Faith

Whether the path be
towards God or the Godless,
it be found by the believer.


Hot Action

If you commit an act of aggression,
and it be in the name of God or God-willing,
and if there is anger in your being,
then let it be said that you are a fool.
If by the will of god you are moved to action,
then their be a powerful force with you,
yet such power will not consume your being
in an inferno of rage.


Tired

Most wars only end after exhaustion.
Cannot this energy be transformed –
even if a trench be dug
only to be filled in?


Self Infliction

You who fight,
fight for your own slavery.
Your soul will wear the scar
of the suffering to others.
Their suffering is not as deep
as yours of your own doing.
You do not realise that in hurting others,
you cut yourself more deeply;
nor shall a short life grant you mercy.
And even if your body be worn away by age,
you shall still bear the burden of your mistakes –
if they be great enough.