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Traveller: stop a moment (from Anamnesis)

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(Contemporary) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic
Contemporary

Traveller: stop a moment.
It is time to stop time, to step inside.
Come into this house of quiet
and let it take your mind. Can you ?
The hardest thing. To stop thinking.
So you can start really seeing
and enter the silent mind
that waits in the stillness, and your breathing.

Can you sit still ? Can you let
everything be around you?
Then you will find new eyes
and the rose in your heart will open.
Then you will know what is true
infinitely made for you, in each moment;
this dew drop, this day's pearl
this grit irritating deep in your being
where everything is reflected to you.

Traveller, who are you? Under your name
your occupation and your clothes
you are formless consciousness living in time
with a strange disposition to love.
Dear naked soul, come home.

 

 

 

Themes

  Heart
  Lover and Beloved
  Rose
  Silence
  Stillness


Recommended Books


Kingdom of the Edge: Poems for the Spirit, by Jay Ramsay
Out of Time, by Jay Ramsay
Places of Truth: Journeys into Sacred Wilderness, by Jay Ramsay
The Poet in You, by Jay Ramsay
Transmissions, by Jay Ramsay

 

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