Blind for good
The sun can not give light at night
So all evil will be out of its sight,
But now day and night evil patrols
Thats why i can’t see beyond my brows.
Now is not forever
“The concept and fact of ‘now’ or immediacy often oppresses people. Every ruling class in history has made people respond to the immediacy as if it were forever…We are trapped by immediacy. The ruling class cultivates such an idea. But ‘now’ is the shortest period of time. While [you are reading this] now is going out of existence. What we have here is three basic concepts: reality, actuality, and potentiality. And people confuse the three. Actuality is what is; potentiality is what can be and reality is what the thing ought to be in its fullness. People often confuse reality with actuality. They say face ‘reality’, but what they really mean is submit to actuality, i.e. to what is now. In a word accept things as they are. But we are not supposed to do that. Human nature is human possibility and thus what we must do is cultivate the human potential in us and dare turn actuality into reality. Again, actuality is what is, but reality is what ought to be to be when a thing or person realises his or her fullness…” Dr Maulana Karenga.
And therein lies the rub. A boil might grow, but it will eventually fester and burst. And heal. But in its “now” it causes such untold pain that its bearer thinks will never end. So too, this state of limbo, days of uncertain hope in which you are not sure whether the light you see at the end of the tunnel is really the opening you crave, or a train coming to squash you into a stain. Read more
To my dear brother
looking back in my mind’s eye
it’s all a haze now like a
flurry of feathers on a cloudy morning
the days we spent together
careening in the corridors of this life
are now lost and locked
in deep, dark sockets of time
and just outside you’re
entombed in the greatest
mother of all: earth Read more
my humble friend
my humble friend
the dust that gathers at your feet
is sweet perfume to my nostrils
its an essence of virtue and goodness
which is cleansing and provides
a treasure of excellence
steeping you in the deep waters
of God-consciousness
leading you up on the steps of
eternity, out of the transient clutches of being
abandon not humbleness, my friend
for it is the secret doctrine
lo, confess, you’ve a special gift my friend
unpraised by men yet seen by the gods - humbleness
is the mother of all rivers
it is the sweet nectar upon
whose wings you can fly across
the rubicon into the land of
everlasting light
Transcending our deepest fear
• More Excerpts from Spirit Talk: The Wisdom of Stone Revisited
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people
won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine as children do.
We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And when we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson, “Our Deepest Fear”, A Return to Life Read more
