Poetry Chaikhana Blog

The deepest mystery
is in the mirror.

Each day should be approached
with amazement, wonder, gratitude.
After all, what have you done
to earn the inconceivable gift of life?

The awakened heart
is the true church.

Love and compassion are effortless.
The soul is exhausted by the effort
to stop this natural outpouring
of the living heart.

An empathic heart
is what keeps us alive
and on the spiritual path.

Find a new way each day
to let love pour
through your being.

Each day
magically unfolds possibility
into reality.

Religion is not to close your mind,
but to open your heart.

Gratitude opens us daily.

Encounter every instant
entirely as it is,
in pure wonder.

It’s not that we have to find the right place to look.
It’s that we have to find the right way to look.

In two, there is only One.
In “you” and “I,” there are not two, but One.
In delusion, only One; in recollection, only One.
What work remains but to know?

We don’t float to heaven.
Like a tree, we sink roots deep into the rocky soil,
and so, year-by-year, reach higher into the heavens.

The world is pregnant with miracles.
All it takes is for us to approach with quiet and awe,
and the most mundane things open themselves
into infinities.

What we really want
is to discover
the most fulfilling ways
to give ourselves away.

Forget the rest.
What’s important is that you love
and that you act upon that love.

See everything
with a fierce eye
and a gentle heart.