Poetry Chaikhana Blog

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

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

Regardless of belief or faith,
everyone is agnostic
until gnosis.

Psychic stillness is so difficult because it makes us naked
to ourselves.
This is why self-acceptance is essential.
Otherwise, we never give ourselves permission to be still.

The slow realization
of a lifetime lived with attention:
the satisfaction of simple moments.

Even in our stumblings,
in our rebellions and unconsciousness,
there is a smoldering nugget of awareness
that calls out for remembrance.

Absolutism is not an expression of faith,
it is a symptom of a lack of faith.

Find the joy
that quietly glows in your chest,
the joy that glows with brazen disregard
for your lurching tears and laughter.

Being a pacifist
does not mean being a passivist.

Meditation is not what you do,
it is what you are.

We are always doing the best we can imagine.
The problem is that we aren’t always doing
the best we can.

Unleash the imagination!

Don’t mistake information for knowledge.

Information is important,
but knowledge is the stuff of life.

All objects, all people
that tug at your desire:
unzip them.
See what tumbles out.

Be just selfish enough
to insist on what is
spiritually important to you.

Don’t resent the work.
It gives you the strength to stand
whole and silent
before the Mystery.

How can you settle into yourself
without
self-acceptance?

We are always in trance.
The trick is to shift
from low trance
to high trance.