take it in

Don't throw it out (resist) judgment,

Take it in,

consider it.

There are no accidents.

It is for you,
get close,
closer...
look into every crack, cranny, crevice

this is you
you are looking at,
bringing the light to

enlightenment is precisely for
the dark places,
the mold,
the dirt,
the scum

just like a dirty floor
in the dark
is hard to clean

only light will show you
where the dirt is

now it is much easier
to clean up your act

trying to clean in the dark
could take a very,
very,
very
 long
 time

take it in,
consider...
could it be right?

prior-ity

prior to this thought,
prior to any thought

prior to this world,

perfect purity,
sinlessness

prior to the first sunbeam,
prior to time,
prior to the most ancient story,
the most ancient people,
civilization

prior to Genesis

prior to One

prior to zero

prior to all words

that's where you are

hell or high water...

do you see
how "i don't know"
removes
your whole world?!

literally
anything is possible now,
including nothing

without the label
of "death",
perhaps its "hell or high water..."

good place to float a boat,
plenty of room for the fish to swim,
water to drink,
build a new town,
be a river boat queen,
a mermaid fair,
great irrigation, this flood of the Nile,
the baptism of every mighty monument,
a monumental cleansing,
the flood down this street...

where else could we get so much water for this?

spring cleaning,
renewal:
what is really important/valuable in my life?

not my records,
not my house,
not my file cabinet full of "important papers"

but This
Experience
right now.
Life

to see
to see
to See
and feel

claymation
activation
inspiration

all for free,
irreplaceable,
unharmable
safe
for ever
come hell
or high water

do you see
how "i don't know"
removes your whole world
from you?

literally,
anything
is possible

priceless

one cold and wintry night
in the dead
of winter

perfect stillness
silence
all things frozen

no motion
needs no space

priceless

Absolute Stillness

Eternal Rest

where the mind can rest,

it's just looking for This Place
to rest,
to stop
running from guilt,
for cover,
to become,
to make up
for its shortcomings,
to be redeemed,
innocent

the world stood still,
in the dead
of winter,
no need to run

Stillness all around

This,
the priceless
Gift
every lifetime
has sought

gypsies jingle,
the caravan is watched
from a far,
laughter and singing is heard,
passes through
this
Absolute Stillness
on silent wings,
not one grain of sand is touched,
not one trace to be found

Absolutely Frictionless

no "world"
ever intervened

Absolute Stillness

Origin

the dead
of winter

prior to "birth"

prior to "birth"

oh happy day

how about a happy prior to birth day!@#

i remain
at Home
safe
and sound

never left Joy,
no identity of such a fragile life
hanging on a thread,
in a constant state of
of working to protect itself,
every moment one step closer
to death

yes, let's celebrate
life prior to "birth" has not shifted,
not altered one bit

let's honor this creative space
out of which all arises and subsides

the wave ing

oh how i love light to shine
on the alleys,
the dark cracks
i thought bred germs and disease,
only to see
their loving existence is my own,
my merry feast
of delinquency
that never was!

dear momma cried and i believed,
but never for a moment
was there anything
but grace

oh Love Divine that shows me
such truth

i've never been my name.
how amazing is that!

this universe
did not stop
with any label
ever put on it

it remains forever
the great mystery,
forever unspoken
open
wild
free

prior to "birth"

basking

pre mortal

prior to temporary,
finite,
ending,
limits,

prior to "death" of eternity

prior to goof balls,
non sense,
putting fear into the heart/love?

is it possible
to live 
out of fear?

to love
out of fear?

prior to the story/label of mortal:

basking

in glory,
glory rains upon me

surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of life--eternally

basking
from the inside out...

no inside,
no outside,
just basking

all that is
basking
in glory

without mortality...
bones,
gender,
age?

isn't this truer
when you close your eyes to the world?

isn't it truer that the 5 year old and the 58 year old body
with the same name
is not these two completely different bodies,
but is the invisible and changeless?

that if you lost both arms and legs and vision and hearing
you remain whole
and unchanged?

prior to mortal
the honey flows

it remains in all there is,
this sweetness,
this wholeness
this release

basking

the bees come and go
and I remain at Home

basking
in the Love
of God

dancing eyes

she found herself
on top of a cloud one day,
and she watched as
all the ladders to the ground
fell away

there she was,
up so high,
from now on
she would have to fly,
to trust the wings
she came with,
wings of pure joy

what else ever held more power,
more fuel than this?

just look how many smiles
she keeps "producing" every day--
barrels and barrels
just shining
and flashing
in every moment,
one to another,
only giving increase

that's the way the world
really works

nothing else in the world
can light up another human being
like your smile,
your eyes dancing with glee!

it's ok,
they say,
it's really, really all
ok