LXXXVI
Storms
blow into sunshine,
And
sunshine into storms.
The
stillness is ever constant.
The
matrix creates a dreamscape
That
neither word nor form can contain.
* * * *
It is a
very private existence
Proclaimed
only to those
Who see
no intrusion.
* * * *
Without
the word, nothing could be.
* * * *
What is
it like to walk without desire or fear,
An
observer only, without the bounds of time?
* * * *
Are you
friend or foe to yourself.
Are you
your greatest love?
* * * *
See
that wall up ahead? Go ahead,
Push
the pedal down all the way...
* * * *
Awareness
is the purity of all creation.
* * * *
You are
given an entire universe
That
you might discern your Self its origin.
* * * *
Some
will not empower themselves
Because
they lack the spirit wild enough
To be
unique, untamed by an illusion
Fashioned
by the bounds of time.
* * * *
End the
travesty of the absurdity of organized religion.
* * * *
Life
motivates each of us very differently.
And, of
course, you’ve gotta get out of Dodge
Cuz
this universe ain’t big enough for both of us.
* * * *
Be
cautious who you allow into your innermost life.
It only
takes one vampire to plunge you into hell.
* * * *
You’d
stick around to protect the innocence,
But my
presence would likely take it away.
* * * *
Look at
the short in the long of it,
And the
long in the short of it.
* * * *
Objectivity
is a ruse of the mind
Pretending
it can get past its subjectivity.
* * * *
What
ignorance does with a little philosophy
Can
sometimes make one wish s/he had kept silent.
* * * *
You
have yet to discern the reality of any concept.
* * * *
Embrace
the insecurity.
* * * *
Witnessing
is enough.
* * * *
You are
a will of godness.
* * * *
What an
incredible freedom, almost pleasure,
Comes
from not wanting anything born of illusion.
* * * *
The
insatiability of desire can easily dominate a life.
* * * *
What is
the quality of a mind
Which
knows all, sees all , owns all, is all?
* * * *
Do not
cower before your own imagination.
* * * *
Try to
get your own life together before
You
play too many trips on everyone else.
* * * *
All
value is in the eye of the beholder.
* * * *
Science
is as fallible as any other paradigm.
* * * *
All
objectivity is subjective, and visa-versa.
* * * *
The
further we separate from the nature,
The
harsher will be our fall.
* * * *
Belief
says it all.
* * * *
Eternity
marches on with nary a step taken.
* * * *
Fragmentation
ceases as tributaries merge
Into
the river into the ocean.
* * * *
The
acknowledgement of duality
Sets unicity
as its obvious origin.
* * * *
What
existence can there be
Without
one vehicle or another?
* * * *
Knowing
and believing are very different processes.
* * * *
Without
identity who would be
Walking,
talking and all the rest?
* * * *
What is
the point of a philosophy that is only words?
* * * *
What’s
the point of talking about other worlds
When
you have yet to figure out this one?
* * * *
May as
well surrender to your fate.
Ain’t
gonna do no good to resist no how.
* * * *
If you
must hope for something,
Then
pray for a painless death.
* * * *
Snicker,
chortle, giggle, laugh.
* * * *
What a
joke this game of life.
* * * *
Is
there a center to reality?
* * * *
You
want, therefore you are.
* * * *
What
point to philosophy
If the
words do not match the life?
* * * *
The
Christian claim that Jesus died that you might live is true
Only in
that history has played out in such a way
That
your parents met, merged seeds,
And
here, voila, you are.
* * * *
Alienation
is a symptom of the world we have created
With
our ability to manipulate everything and everyone.
* * * *
How
ridiculous to think some god is measuring
Every
act and thought of every creature ever created.
As if
this theater is some school constantly graded.
* * * *
How
many ways to discern the one mind.
* * * *
How
much the deep fear of not surviving rules our actions.
What
would you do if there were no limiting factors?
* * * *
You
must choose to empower yourself.
* * * *
Are you
hero or villain?
Perhaps
a bit of both.
* * * *
Who needs
a plan?
* * * *
Vanity
and common sense
Rarely
the twain meet.
* * * *
Is a
good enemy better than a bad friend?
* * * *
There
could be no contrast without the differences.
* * * *
Freedom
is in the embracing the constant changing,
Flowing
in the tailwind of eternity’s thunderous pause.
* * * *
Tragedy
or comedy?
A bit
of both, but really neither.
All
imagined.
* * * *
Forgive
yourself for being born.
* * * *
It all
becomes quite small.
* * * *
Concepts
arise, overlap, intertwine and choke off
The
host with their craving to dominate.
* * * *
You
want for more from god
Than
god could ever want from you.
* * * *
Your
lesson will haunt you until it is learned.
* * * *
Tempt
fate and fate may well nip you.
* * * *
You are
not here to survive.
Why not
be fearless?
* * * *
So much
expertise in every field.
Too
incredible how well we have
Learned
to manipulate our world.
And now
how to incorporate it
Into
surviving ourselves.
* * * *
If the
powers that be only knew
What
you have attempted to set in motion,
Some
would destroy every trace of your existence.
* * * *
Be wary
of curses which lurk in describable places.
* * * *
How can
so many embrace such limited views of religion
In the
face of such indelible evidence of its unlimited nature?
* * * *
Without
every point of the history of all creation ever manifest,
Including
every torment, every bliss, you would not be here now.
* * * *
Eternal
salvation is discerning
You are
the immortal one in all and all in one.
What
fate can possibly contain you?
* * * *
So many
schools of thought to divvy up
One’s
contemplation of a mystery
Beyond
all vain contexts.
* * * *
Take
these words
As the
wild raving of a madman
Or the
wandering soliloquy of a god man,
Or both
if you are a courier of paradox.
* * * *
Jesus
was an antichrist as is anyone
Who
envisions that which creates
And
destroys all exteriors.
* * * *
What
lunacy.
* * * *
Read
each aphorism alone
Or try
to piece them all together.
Your
reality will dissolve either way.
* * * *
Loving
is opening up to choicelessness.
* * * *
Give no
room for doubt to breed its insidious cancer.
* * * *
Both
male and female are delusional
Each in
their own unique ways.
* * * *
The
devil may care more than you realize.
* * * *
Shall
you harvest what it is,
Or deride
what it is not.
* * * *
So many
horrendous things,
But
what is even more amazing
Is our
unwillingness to let them go.
* * * *
Keep
stepping back until your vision
Becomes
so expansive as to see oblivion.
* * * *
How
fortunate, how rare those who
Never
learn how cruel existence can be.
* * * *
Has it
ever really been any different your whole life?
* * * *
The
ambitious in this world drag everyone else in their wake.
* * * *
Through
the tales of others, you live so many lives.
* * * *
The
leap is closer than you think.
* * * *
Perhaps
a time will come,
But it
is not this one.
* * * *
Stop
the clock.
* * * *
Creator,
preserver, destroyer.
This
you are.
* * * *
What a
blessing to scribe this vision.
* * * *
Judge
and you will be judged.
Measure
and you will be measured.
* * * *
Just
another object of limitation.
* * * *
Home is
the great merger of all duality.
* * * *
Who
wants to know?
Who
wants to be saved?
Who
asks all these questions?
Who,
who, who but you.
* * * *
There’s
something redeeming about Mother Nature’s ability
To wash
away humanity’s vain pretension with a mere shrug.
* * * *
In the
purity of aloneness you are not alone.
* * * *
Sometimes
you wonder
If your
aren’t an alien planted here
Like a
mole in a plot even you don’t know about.
* * * *
The end
to suffering lies in the end to all.
* * * *
Technology
has opened up our world,
Yet
ironically alienates so many so deeply
Because
few can deal with the inane versatility
Of the
no bounds nature of consciousness.
* * * *
When
your soul is at peace,
You
will be firmly, utterly grounded
In the
vastness of eternity’s
Non-existent
rainbow.
* * * *
A
vision shared, and if you are wrong,
You
can’t imagine how.
* * * *
And you
still want more.
You
just don’t get it, do you?
* * * *
Get a
grip.
* * * *
Transcend
your pattern.
* * * *
What an
amazing delusion faith requires.
* * * *
Can you
be simple in such a careening world?
* * * *
Why is
one piece of dust more sacred than any other?
* * * *
All
those who don’t understand
Fight
about their version of god.
* * * *
You
will do what you must do to survive,
Or you
will die.
* * * *
Of
course earth is not the only Eden.
The
whole universe is.
* * * *
Do you
really think it hasn’t been done before?
* * * *
How
much of our fragmentation,
Of our
hatred, is genetic.
* * * *
What
makes us believe any alien
Would be more alien than we?
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The
Stillness Before Time (Compendium)
©
Michael J. Holshouser 2009
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