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BEYOND

Today let us stretch our imaginations

    beyond the parameters of our current

lives, expanding the capacity, exploring

    the possibilities until we realize that

whatever limitations we now experience

    are self-created.

 

Today let our imaginations take flight,

    soaring above and beyond, allowing

the dimensions to shift and alter at will,

    summoning the powers of the mind -

as new worlds form, flourish, and

    at times subside.

 

Today let us realize we are truly

    creative beings empowered with fertile

imaginations, to dream and conceive

    the details and plans of an ever

expanding existence – first in desires,

    then in visions, and then with faith

into tangible life.

AT BY G. 8.17.2013

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

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INTENDED COURSE

Today refuse to allow circumstance

or suggestion to throw you off your

intended course – clearly focusing on

the path ahead, knowing what has been

set in motion must be propelled to

its expected destination.

 

Today set concern or second-guessing

aside reminding all involved of promises

made, and the foundations previously

etched in strong consensus – relaying

to all, that fear is a weak excuse for

infringing on forward progress.

 

Today be bold, clear, and directive,

unwavering in your confidence,

unmoved by rough seas – proceeding

with a sense of duly ordained providence,

well entrenched in your expectation of

success and lasting contribution,

complete with gratitude for both.

AT BY G. 6.10.2013

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

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For the mystics through the ages, spiritual joy

and Divine love seems to represent the state of

being lost in the love of God. I find poetry 

the perfect medium to express spiritual sentiments

such as joy and Divine love, as in my poem

below titled Divine Light.  Note that these

poems often sound like traditional love poems

and seem to reference what seems like romantic

love to describe the spiritual experience.

 

DIVINE LIGHT

The sun shines brightly on my soul

     full of love and joy, waiting

      to burst forth on this day

             and on humanity

 warm – enticing –  penetrating

    like a lover in full ecstasy –

    I am alive within the Divine

       within the energy of life

                  refreshed.

 

Rumi, the Sufi mystic and poet, was born

in Afghanistan in 1207, wrote many poems

that focused on spiritual love and ecstasy, and

only after a few readings do you realize he is

referring to God, not some overpowering

romantic love. This type of love is described

by the Sufis as “full fana,” which represents 

annihilation in God.

 

Here is the poem O Love by Rumi.

 

                             O LOVE 

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now

       Be all – worlds dissolve into your

              Stainless endless radiance,

Frail living leaves burn with your brighter

                        Than cold stares

Take me your servant, your breath, your core.

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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ordeal (noun) – any extremely severe

or trying test, experience, or trial.

 

adversity (noun) 1. adverse or unfavorable

fortune or fate; a condition marked by

misfortune, calamity, or distress.

2. a diffiult or unfortunate event or

circumstance.

 

ORDEAL UNWARRANTED

Ordeal unwarranted – solid, steelish, toxic, obtrusive,

singular – requiring full heart and soul, muscular

response from weak appendages exhausted, limp,

atrophied, no longer willing or wanting or able

to respond: yet, even as the dust accumulates,

as shovelfuls of fate suck the very air from clogged

nostrils and dried throat, something dormant –

displaced, put aside and almost forgotten stirs,

flinches, finds life once more worth agonizingly

grasping, as “fight” shakes off a long sleep, pulse

explodes mind ignites, true potential summoned

to overcome, to triumph.

POEM BY G. 5.11.2016

 

TURBULENT MOMENTS

In the face of adversity,

            let us proceed with clear

commitment and unwavering

confidence, knowing the path

            has been prepared, the way

forward will be, is, and was

            always solidly constructed

for our deliverance.

 

Realize these turbulent moments,

            these times of worldly suffering

will fail to touch the worthy

            essence forming our core

strength and fortitude, as we

            proceed through the power

of will, with worthy purpose

            founded in universal truth

and presence.

 

Yet, even so, with equal and

            opposing force, we stand

our ground without hesitation

            or question, presenting

a wall of resistance incapable

            of penetration, immovable,

fixed, firm, in place, unequivocal;

            until our adversaries capitulate.  

AT BY G. 5.4.2016

 

Ordeals – often appear in our lives

unplanned, and unwelcomed: usually

when some adversity we are facing

or avoiding is not readily resolved,

will not go away, or carries with it

dire consequences.  

 

An ordeal often leaves us unsteady,

reeling, angry, and more than a bit

hopeless, as it, initially, sucks the

life out of us, leaving us existentially

exhausted, in search of the fastest

possible resolution.

 

Yet, with this said, the Poem and

Affirmative Note featured above remind

us that we human beings are masters at

reaching deep within to find the strength,

creativity, determination, faith, and sheer

grit to marshal even the most caustic

adversities: to get up, dust ourselves off,

and go on to be triumphant.

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

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COMPLETE OPTIMISM

Hold firm to your positive perspective today,

refusing to allow anyone or any event to change

your view of the world, your life, or your

approach knowing that only through clear,

affirmative intention do you lay a foundation

of strength and on-going growth.

 

Hold firm to your positive purpose today,

dodging any circumstance or happenstance

that would alter your course -  knowing the

way is clear for you and the ingredients

for success are already within you –

understanding all that is required is your

forward motion.

 

Hold firm to your positive attitude today,

avoiding those who would instill you with

fear, doubt, or dismay – knowing only

complete optimism will prepare you with

the mindset needed to attract and receive

your waiting good and propel you closer

to your magnificence and complete

prosperity.

 AT BY G. 11.6.2012

 

WITH LOVE, G.

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I believe we are here now with greater

and more profound purpose than mere

existence. A motive has been molded into

our very spiritual DNA - by God, the Universe,

emergent consciousness, or possibly by just 

the combined awareness of all existence

desiring a continued existence: honestly, 

it matters not what we recognize as the source.

A motive that cries for our recognition,

a communal calling asking each of us 

individually, as well as all of us collectively,

to reframe the frightening and debilitating 

parameters of human life now on earth.

The first step is the true realization of this

destiny, waking to our mission to create,

tell, and share a new story of humankind – 

a story of possibility, transcendence,

of becoming and being more.

Let us each pound in our own way!

 

POUND

Pound, pound, pound at the door of destiny,

know this is the very moment of salvation revealed,

awake the slumbering Soul within, waiting there,

drunk from the intoxications of existence,

no time for niceties, slap it into cognizance,

at least enough for it to remember the reason,

the calling, long forgotten by other pursuits,

pushed aside, then shoved into rough spaces

behind any worthy memory; so set the challenge

up enough to appear balanced and with a mirror

in hand, fall together toward the inevitable moment

of hazy awareness; where you and you meet,

scared and secular intertwined! 

POEM BY G 2.1.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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PIECES OF GOD

Everywhere I go

there are little pieces of God,

by gathering them together,

perhaps, I will see

the whole picture,

or at least,

like a puzzle partially

completed,

a rough outline will appear,

and I, with a little patience,

can imagine the rest.

POEM BY G. 3.26.2014

 

In my opinion, a key to a viable spiritual

quest requires the tenacity to find our

own unique perspective of God, which, in 

the end may sync with a traditional concept,

or be something altogether distinctly

different, as indicated by the note below

titled, The Origin.

 

This Meditation Note is the answer to

my direct question during meditation,

regarding the origin of God. Now,

this response may be impacted by an idea

I have been considering, or better put,

fixating on lately  – what if God-Conscious-

ness was not the originator of all existence,

but evolved out of the very consciousness

of all existence - formed out of evolving life

itself. What if God is, basically, all existing

consciousness - plus, all awareness - plus,

everything awake - plus.  

 

THE ORIGIN 

I want to say - look beyond the horizons

and into the life, breath, and pulse of man.

 

Here, within, exists the beat of a living God,

the anointed desires of all existence, made

manifest by a single intention: this sliver

of purpose formed from a consciousness

combined with being something more than

the sum of its parts; a primal force realizing

random exist0rs would not transmit a

greater destiny than mere being.

 

Here is the transcendence into an organized

being a conscious entity formed and fed

from the totality of each thought, sense,

feeling, aliveness, and in turn, growing its

beingness, reaching out to foster well-

being of all nature, striving to navigate

the parts towards a more viable, pertinent,

and self-sustaining existence.

 

Here is the origin of everything awake.

NOE BY G. 4.19.2014 

 

WITH LOVE, G.