spiritual poetry

  • What We Sat With This Past Week In The Meditation Classes

    What We Sat With This Past Week In The Meditation Classes

    Pema Chodron: “Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation…

  • Mindfulness—Heartfulness

    Mindfulness—Heartfulness

    Ram Dass: “We are all just walking each other home.” In my lifetime, mindfulness—in its multitude of forms—has become one…

  • A New Life

    A New Life

    Solon (with nods of gratitude to Ken Wilber and Kim Stanley Robinson) closing your eyes, lightly and gently,…

  • 12-13-15

    12-13-15

    the back story is…in the early sunday morning, i am dreaming— i am with a community, am speaking in the…

  • A Place To Be

    A Place To Be

    you may be closing your eyes, a way of turning off the lights. now you may be seeing more clearly,…

  • For A Moment

    For A Moment

    i imagined: one day i will be me. today, i am me. what i imagined is who i am, now.…

  • NYC Writings

    NYC Writings

    am the one who is awake, early. am the one who begins to read Wondering Who You Are (by Sonya…

  • Benevolence

    Benevolence

    there is a Benevolence on the life journey, on the spiritual path. spirit does have your back. spirit always has…

  • Those Who Have Ears

    Those Who Have Ears

    each day a journey. each day a walking of the path. each day a new beginning. each day an ending…

  • Disposable

    Disposable

    sitting…with the seeing…with the feeling… all the thoughts, all these thoughts…are nonsensical, all the beliefs, all these beliefs…are nonsensical, all…

  • Periscope View

    Periscope View

    sitting, with an unfolding to a wider view, to a larger, broader, more extensive perspective of landscape, of mindscape. sitting…rising…

  • The Miracle of the Actual

    The Miracle of the Actual

    he is more interested in science. perhaps. i am more interested in people. perhaps. we are the same. he dropped…