Poetry Chaikhana Blog

Everything is an exercise
in awareness.

Yield
into fullness.

Your most secret wound

is the doorway.

There is something fierce
in every saint and sage.
How else could they free love
from its cage?

The heart, to be whole,
must break a thousand times
and be ready to break again.

Blessings work
both ways.

It is not a journey of years,
it is a journey of one full moment

Words aren’t inherently meaningful;
they are the ornaments
that accompany the flow of awareness.

We must be open-minded, open-hearted,
curious, courageous, quiet, poised…
and humble enough to not notice
our own sweet melting.

Let every experience
be fuel for the fire
of love.

Right action heals
in ways that even “success” cannot match.

What can one do but stand
in silent awe of the vision that emerges,
showing us how much bigger we are
than even our best stories?

No story can contain you.

Innocence is not naiveté.
Naiveté must be carefully removed.
Innocence is our true nature.

We become what we love.

Everything else is just movement.

Stillness is
the real praise, and prayer, and presence.

Discover how big the life is
hidden in the small places
that populate each day.