Poetry Chaikhana Blog

We all feel it, a gentle prodding
to let the heart open,
to know ourselves truly, to be present
and radiate ourselves into the world.

The deepest mystery
is in the mirror.

Theory and debate can never satisfy
the seeking heart.

Every person: God.
Every animal, every plant: God.
Everything: God, God!
The slightest contact is worship.

It’s the questions that awaken the soul.
Certainty is the end of growth.

Ideas of this and not that
cannot approach the open field of what is.

We don’t actually have histories.
We make up stories about ourselves
to connect our memories and discover meaning.
We can change those stories at any time.

Problems cannot be solved
at the same psychic level
that created them.

bliss heals

Come to that confrontation
with yourself on all sides.
Come unarmed.
The secret: Embrace everything you find.

We need to retrain our eyes to see
the spaces between and the secrets behind.

Ask: “What does the Eternal One
want to experience
through me?”

Faith is recognizing that we are always, irrevocably
being drawn into the Divine Embrace.

Grace is what occurs
when we stop obstructing that natural process.

Anything that is beyond question
should immediately be questioned.

The great burden in life
is the false self.
Drop it and see
how limitless you are.

The mystic’s awareness
does not sift reality,
it bathes in it.

The space of uncertainty
is where magic happens.