”  You have to have, at your access, in the midst of writing, all of your memories, all of your knowledge, all of your beliefs. And all of those things could get turned on their head — that what you thought was most valuable comes into question, and you have to be willing to go there while you’re writing a poem.

It’s a very dangerous place to be. It’s the reason why, if I’m on an airplane and somebody asks me what I do for a living, I very quickly tell them I’m a poet. Then I don’t have to worry about them talking to me anymore.

Do you know what I’m saying? Because people intuitively or instinctively, people know, “Oh, you’re dangerous. You’re hugely problematic. You’re asking yourself questions that I’ve been avoiding my whole life, and you think that’s a good time.” Do you understand what I’m saying? “

Jericho Brown

“the bravest thing you will ever do is love again.”   Madalyn Beck

in your heart is a
heavenly treasure
undefinable
beyond knowing
or telling
or dreaming
only your own heart
wishes, your own
heart knows – is this: Read More

 

I do some small things that are right,
and some big that are wrong.

and then I do some big things that are right,
and some small that are wrong.

and then
beyond “small” or “big”
or “right” or “wrong”

there is life,

and just the joy of being.

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“Sometimes when I’m going somewhere and I wait,
a somewhere comes to me.”       – Winnie The Pooh

 

which voices bring you home
silence the noise
and find you still and calm
loving the parts you forgot existed Read More

how? and why? and what? and where? and when? and who? and how?
now.  and now.  and now.   and now.     and now.    and now.  and now.

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Reason says, the world is limited in six directions.
There is no way out.
Love says, there is a way,
And I have traveled it many times.

~Rumi

Freedom redefined, maybe, as:

the response-ability to Now with conscious choice –

not independent from but co-existing peacefully with each other in divine flow,
eternal embodied in the now of infinite parallel timelines representing choice,
releasing the limitations from the known, embracing the possibilities of the unknown,
listening to presence – pure action in truth of the now moment,

Now presence allows freedom to choose from Authentic Truth.

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