They took offense
To the symbols my spirit
impressed upon itself
During its battle.
They didn’t feel
Our journey worthy.
The Most High
Corrected them.

The journey
Requires no defense
No explanation

It is personal
This walk with God

Others may scoff
Ridicule
Deny the right of

But did they pray
Before they condemned?

Were they of Unity Consciousness
Or were they laying out rules
Deeming another insufficient
Or faulty, or unworthy of?

What are you supporting
With your vital force?

What are you earning
Taking
Interrupting?

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I am almost home now,
And you, you are always waiting
beyond that horizon
I must make for myself
again and again.
My old body and my young
body, in one body,
greeting and meeting, half aware
and half unaware
of going or returning.
The door opening to a new light,
an astonishment of welcomes,
a surprise party.
The true dream beneath
the first dream.
~~From the book “Everything is Waiting for You, by David Whyte

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I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid, more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as a seed
goes to the next as a blossom
and that which came to me as a blossom,
goes on as fruit.
~ Dawna Markova

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All limitless beings, without exception. Human life is like a stream swiftly flowing down a steep mountain. This body is subject to destruction. You will attain bountiful happiness. There is no permanent circumstance. We fear not, but remain undaunted. Bless us that we may be mindful of impermanence.
~~Natural Liberation, Translated by Alan Wallace

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wildflower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

• William Blake

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The further you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.