Selections (2020 - 2025)
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As music is an art of sound,
deception is an art of mind.
But why deceive,
unless there is something to hide?
Mind might keep us trapped for a lifetime,
lest we stop to wonder -
what lies behind the veil?
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We must first acknowledge,
the sacredness of the individual -
their undeniably true experience.
But we must also see too,
that the trees need water and sunlight.
Just as humans, need love and connection.
When the self holds on too tight,
to the notion that it is ‘different.’
We must investigate further.
For if we become our our self-image,
then we are nothing but an idea.
And we sease to be,
Alive.
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Is deceit behind the wall,
of the one who’s hands were trembling?
In order to construct,
a foundation worth assembling.
Or so does it hide,
behind the one who could not carry -
The roof and the windows,
to a life that one could marry?
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The one who is hard to please,
will always be haunted.
To please himself,
almost will he have thwarted.
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Art is not about the quality of materials,
For then the best poets would write on the best paper.
Art is in the harvest of one’s presence,
in the innermost corners of their own soul.
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I feel life moving so clearly through me again. And all is well in the world. To be free of the confines, and unbridled by the constraints of man. I am come home. I do not need much. Last night I dreamt of the animals. They are so beautiful in their shamelessness!
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Reflections on that sense one might have as a child, of not knowing. Whilst playing in the fields, of not understanding the bigger picture. The parents drink and talk of sophisticated things, they organise meals, and understand the world. But we cannot hope to. Can this sense be maintained as an adult? Can we feel as though there is so much more that is going on, and that we only comprehend a small portion? This is how imagination might begin. The games we play as the adults talk and drink, and we bond with the other children and explore the fascination of life itself.
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Kindness is born of a deep respect for self and other, built in the understanding that everyone suffers. There is no judgement, and we can see that if we would be in their shoes, we would be just the same. Kindness knows that our true nature is happiness, that we are fundamentally good, not that we are negative or selfish. Kindness knows these other qualities come out of fear and self-centeredness. Ego is control, and control is anxiety, anxiety is avoidance of pain. Pain needs love, love is presence/awareness, and we are awareness, we are not ego. Kindness is loving even to ego.
Humility is in the recognition that if we were anyone else, we would be exactly as they are, and so can take no responsibility for what we achieve. To consider ourselves lucky. It is born out of love and not ego. It sees that even the most neglected of things or people are beautiful, and thus, lovable. Humility feels more love for the neglected. It wants to give its love to those who have not received so much of it.
