XXVII
Your
life is an opportunity to own it all,
If you
have the courage, desire, and discernment
To know
and own your absolute nature.
* * * *
Both
sexes can be equally violent.
The
only differences are in the subtlety.
* * * *
Weep
for your brothers and sisters
Their
suffering is no different from your own.
* * * *
Through
any form you may journey home.
The
fare is ever the same.
* * * *
You are
the clarity before light and form.
* * * *
The
true church is your consciousness
In the
most still sense.
* * * *
Do not
suppress your life force.
Harness
it.
* * * *
The
sameness is essential,
But
nothing ever appears the same.
* * * *
The
oblivion awareness in reality is
Is the
pool in which all manifestation swims.
* * * *
Who
among you would wear ornate necklaces
With
electric chairs, guillotines or hangmen's knots
Representing
the martyrs you vainly worship?
* * * *
Be wary
lest pride lead you down undiscerning byways.
* * * *
Even
the most lowly know they are gold.
None
are unworthy if they open their hearts
To the
grand mystery in which all reside.
* * * *
Feel
sensations without naming them.
Sharp
or dull, hot or cold, painful or pleasurable,
Without
words there is a timeless sameness.
* * * *
We are
really all fools in our own minds.
* * * *
There
will be no messiah coming
For it
is you who must awaken you,
And it
is your hand which rests on the helm.
* * * *
You
will only be as free as you discern.
* * * *
If a
butterfly remained attached
To its
previous incarnation,
It
would never fly.
* * * *
Is your
soul worthy
To be
the repast of worms?
* * * *
Citizens
are cogs of the state.
Human
beings are flowers of the earth.
* * * *
In
every breath there is the potential for surrender.
* * * *
The
ripening of consciousness is a subtle fine-tuning.
* * * *
Less
and less are the constraints of personality important.
* * * *
Who can
more than speculate why so few so clearly see,
While
others cannot even begin to fathom the question?
* * * *
Merely
repeating the thoughts others have written
Is
nothing compared to finding them in your own voice.
* * * *
It is
like being in your lover's arms without the other.
* * * *
Give
back what was never yours in the first place.
* * * *
It is
up to you to reclaim your birthright.
Until
it is your greatest soul desire,
The
gate to heaven will not open.
* * * *
Who
created god?
You
did.
You are
the mystery
Unfolding
within its Self.
* * * *
Avoid
confusing love with lust.
* * * *
Give
your whole mind-heart body to it.
* * * *
Bearing
your own cross without complaint
Is
life's challenge.
* * * *
Suffering
is relative to circumstance.
One
child born to wealth and extravagance
Wails
when the pacifier is taken away.
Another
when his mother's nursing
Is
halted by a soldier's bayonet.
* * * *
Do
fire, wind and waves hold back
When
the current of totality is their very nature?
This
writings are not about another inane belief system,
But
simply being with everything you have got.
* * * *
From
the part, extrapolate the whole.
* * * *
Without
even that one grain of sand or drop of water
The
beach or ocean could not be.
* * * *
Expand
your inner vision as far as you will.
It is
ever you.
* * * *
Without
the sculpted, there is no sculptor.
* * * *
Wild
things are never as beautiful
Penned,
chained, potted or stuffed.
* * * *
The
mind as receiver is open, receptive, vulnerable.
* * * *
If you
accept no premise, no authority, nothing can stand.
* * * *
Ignorance
is the confused identification with limitation and denial.
* * * *
You are
herein challenged to become godness,
To
gather tokens of wisdom as they fall before you.
* * * *
Your
body is the vessel of consciousness.
Are
you?
* * * *
You
must be simple to see simple.
* * * *
You
need prove nothing.
You
just know.
* * * *
Take a
chance.
Melt
into Self.
* * * *
Who
knows you
But
they who know themselves?
* * * *
Leave
Sodom without looking back,
For it
will suffer the fate of its own free will.
* * * *
What
can these words do without your own insight?
* * * *
Has all
that pain in your life ever really touched you?
Or just
your sense of attachment?
* * * *
You
cannot own it until you can face death eye to eye.
* * * *
Many
believe anger, sorrow, jealousy, guilt, envy and hate,
Emotional
passion with every imaginable twist
Is what
makes life worth living.
How so?
* * * *
Everyone
should get an acting award.
We are
all playing our parts incredibly well.
* * * *
Your
body is doomed.
It is
not that which these words aim to heal.
* * * *
Sharpen
that introspection
Which
leads to real self-destruction
In the
flowering sense.
* * * *
Every
facet is required for the jewel to be.
* * * *
Step
behind any mask.
They
are all your own.
* * * *
Let god
play god.
Just be
your Self.
* * * *
These
words seek those
Who
possess the eyes to see
And the
ears to hear.
* * * *
These
words have always found
Those
who seek and welcome it.
* * * *
Living
for tradition and ritual,
For
what was said and done historically,
Is
second-hand, repetitious, mundane and binding.
* * * *
Never
apologize for being what you are.
Never
hesitate to play you to the best of your ability.
* * * *
No
nation will stand, no fortune will hold,
No fame
will be more than fleeting.
All are
puppets of the changing.
All
fates are as dice eternally cast.
* * * *
Do what
they may to the body,
No
caesar has ever had dominion over a free soul.
* * * *
To the
players in the play, the play is consuming.
But to
the faceless, it is just another show.
* * * *
Close
your eyes to see the balance.
* * * *
Are you
a human … being?
* * * *
We are
all faking it.
Some
just do it better.
* * * *
Free
will bears hidden costs,
A debt
few can pay in just one lifetime.
* * * *
Find
the faceless behind your mask,
And
know it the same for every grain of sand.
* * * *
From
oblivion to life and then back again.
The
suffering of consciousness is a temporary identity crisis.
* * * *
Social
change cannot truly happen until we become social.
* * * *
At
least be true to yourself
About
your lying, cheating, thieving, murdering ways.
Hypocrisy
is the most foul dishonesty.
* * * *
Your
manifest fear of oblivion,
Your
attachment to a fabricated identity,
Creates
so much unnecessary mischief and turmoil.
* * * *
All the
masks you have ever or will ever weave
Are
your own imagined creation.
* * * *
God as
a word implies a static state.
Godness
more accurately depicts
Its
dynamic unfolding nature.
* * * *
No
mythos will set you free.
It is
up to you and you alone.
Relish
the challenge before you.
* * * *
When
scriptures talk of god creating you in its image,
It is
as godness, not persona.
* * * *
All
your magic and mystery is born of the eternal dust,
The
thread of all patterns.
* * * *
To
believe you are just individual consciousness
Misses
the wonder of embracing the whole jewel.
* * * *
You
have been given the gift of imagination.
With it
you have created the eve of life's destruction.
Can you
save yourselves in this garden?
Or will
you will upon the future
A web
of suffering as yet unwitnessed
By any
prior seed in this vain human drama?
* * * *
Socialism
and communism fail because they are ideals
Without
the enlightened surrender necessary.
They
are isms and ists destined to fail
As long
as me, myself and I
Carries
the day in the human psyche.
* * * *
Over
and over again, history teaches lessons
We are
not adept enough to learn.
* * * *
But for
the lack of insight into its true nature,
What a
world this could be.
* * * *
Is it
possible that each can maintain a sovereignty,
Wild
and free, without trespassing on another's?
* * * *
Through
you godness experiences mortality.
You are
eternally gold.
* * * *
I can
never physically touch the you that is me.
* * * *
Our
ability to pack concepts into words
Is
equally matched by our inability
To
discern they are not what they describe.
* * * *
Suicide
is the last selfish act
In a
lifetime chock-full of self-absorption.
* * * *
The
promise of eternal life
Has
nothing to do with life as you know it.
* * * *
Since
civilization's beginning the haves,
Through
both voluntary and involuntary means,
Have
enslaved the have-nots in every way imaginable.
Whether
slave, servant or worker, it is all to the same end.
* * * *
That we
require scientific data regarding our negligent impact
Is
proof enough that any wisdom, common sense and sanity
Have
been cast aside along with concern for life's survival.
* * * *
Understanding
the impossible nature of duality
In any
form or level of this diverse manifest arena,
Is key
to discerning and reunifying within.
* * * *
Time is
a concept born of linear, cyclical thinking,
Separated
from experiencing by a dualistic mindset.
* * * *
You
think hell is some afterlife future place,
But,
alas, it is now as conceived by the human race.
* * * *
Intuition
is in reality
The
purest, most rationally logical reason.
* * * *
Just
because you don’t want to hear bad news
Doesn’t mean there is
no bad news.
* * * *
Godness
is the ever-present moment
Played out in
consciousness
Of the given witness.
* * * *
To
understand the world,
You must understand
what it is,
And what it is not.
* * * *
Oh,
what wouldn’t most us give for a rewind button.
* * * *
Consciousness
is consciousness.
All histories are
ultimately created
Of the same divine
imaginary process.
* * * *
You
get back what you play.
* * * *
Once
anything becomes about power and control,
Equity is out the door,
and all hope lost.
* * * *
And,
in their everlasting denial, they continue believing
The good old days will
continue forever.
Good luck with that.
* * * *
The
dilemmas of balance and moderation
Is that they are not
always easy to maintain.
* * * *
In
reality, you are but a three-dimensional dreaming.
All identity is
fabricated by the industry of imagination.
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The
Stillness Before Time (Compendium)
©
Michael J. Holshouser 2009
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