Where Awareness meets Trust

Artwork by Corey Wolfe

"Faith makes us feel good even about not feeling good."
Robert Augustus Masters

The Kosmos arises in your awareness moment to moment, speaking to you; carressing you. She tells you everything you need to know even when you imagine that you know not. This tension or that fear is a message, nothing more & wu-wei is the answer & then not the answer at all & no answer is not the answer required. How does one descibe this inexplicable knowing in a method seemingly unequiped to contain Her Mystery? But, She shines forth, nonetheless. Yes! You see Her! It matters not the messiness of my grammer & sloppy writing style. Nothing can keep Her from you. I am petting this dog.

Love is the Wine

Artwork by Shakkal Designs

"To really get into this, we have to get naked, showing up in (and as) undressed Being, allowing ourselves a second innocence, an awakened innocence that strips us of our knowledge and automated certainties and deposits us in the Open Secret of the hyperbole-transcending Mystery of our existence. If our mouth drops open, so be it; if our buttoned-up case of mistaken identity starts to give up the ghost, so be it; if we’re brought to our knees, and prayer becomes not something we do but are, so be it."
Robert Augustus Masters

A white-blazed gazelle
Is an amazing sight,
Red-dye signaling,
Eyelids hinting,
Pasture between breastbones
And innards.
Marvel,
A garden among the flames!
My heart can take on
Any form:
Gazelles in a meadow,
A cloister for monks,
For the idols, sacred ground,
Kaaba for the circling pilgrim,
The tables of the Torah,
The scrolls of the Qur'an
I profess the religion of love;
Wherever its caravan turns
Along the way, that is the belief,
The faith I keep.
Like Bishr,
Hind and her sister,
Love-mad Qays and the lost Layla,
Mayya and her lover Ghaylan.

Poem by Ibn 'Arabi

I'm speechless.

Depth Beyond Depth

Artwork by Luke Brown

When cracks appear in reality
Admitting slivers of another locality
Injecting you with dark unfamiliarity
And reaching for another drink
Or changing how you think
Doesn’t help to get you back
You’ve a chance to ride a truer track
If you don’t get so zealous
Behind the wheel of ambition’s megabus
That you run over what’s always already here
Already more electrifying than fear
So let the cracks widen, let them spread
Let curiosity get the better of dread
Let the unknown dissolve in a deeper unknown
Let yourself see more than what is shown
The undoing that you fear is already here
The mystery of mysteries closer than near
Beyond all familiarity we eventually must go
This we fight, and this we know
When cracks appear in reality
Admitting slices of another locality
You may seem to be near insanity
But the light that streams through
The light that holds every view
Is none other than you

Poem by Robert Augustus Masters


I am sitting here at the edge of the fractal unfolding. It is so simple and so calm. I've spent hours planning & visualizing the future. And now there is just the sweet relaxation of releasing everything, like a Kosmic Orgasm. No-thing-ness. I bow at the feet of my dearest Sarasvati.

Into the Heart of Fear

“It is our mission . . . to walk out on the stage of this world and reveal to all earth and heaven that the music is not in conditions, not in things, not in externals; that the music of life is in our own soul, our spirit.”
Anonymous

"When we are in doubt and difficulty, when many voices urge this course or the other, when prudence utters one advice and faith another, then let us be still, hushing each intruder, calming ourselves in the sacred hush of the Divine's Presence; in an attitude of devout attention, let us be eager only to know what God shall determine. If we will only get alone, where the lights and shadows of earth cannot interfere and if we can dare to wait there silent and expectant, ere long a very distinct impression will be made and the Will of the Divine made clear"
Quoted from The Practice of Integral Yoga


It is very interesting how much we fear fear. Lean in a little closer and we might discover our own prejudice against the negative. If we are ever to avert real war in the world, we may need to dig deep into our own hearts & see clearly the internal war against all of our dark & shadowy aspects.

Some words from one of my teachers Robert Augustus Masters

I invite you to read Into the Heart of Fear