I’m Not Easy to Love

I’m not easy to love
for I demand integrity
in a relationship–
yours and mine.

Sometimes we both fail to
keep the gold standard,
leaving us struggling to
love unconditionally,
but feeling disappointed.

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I Am Not

There is an endless list
of what I am not
but for now, I am going
to look only at
what I am
starting with
grateful

I want the glass to be
half full so
do not tell me what
I am not
only
what I am
that makes
you happy
to know me

And I will do
the same for you

Có một danh sách dài
những điều mình không có
nhưng từ giờ, tôi sẽ
chỉ thấy
những gì tôi có
bắt đầu bằng
biết ơn

Tôi hài lòng với cốc nước
đầy một nửa, vì thế
đừng nói với tôi những gì
tôi không có
chỉ là
dù tôi có hiện hữu như thế nào
thì bạn
cũng cảm thấy vui
khi biết tôi

Và tôi sẽ làm
điều tương tự với bạn.

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Unheard Prayers

Your prayer falls unheard
for it is not within its time.
First you must make yourself
ready. How can a drowning man
be rescued before he goes
into the water?

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Time to Go

It’s time to go
I’m ready, Lord
when you call
me home

It’s been a good life
with a mixture
ups and downs
teaching me how to love
through all eternity

When You call me home
I’ll have no regrets
I’ll be coming home, Lord
to the land of Eternal Sun

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Words

 

Words, more words
even more words
until only silence
can be understood

Be quiet
still
listen to the silence
with your heart
for it is in silence
that we know the truth

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Permission to Be

I give myself permission to be
who I am meant to be, without
restraint from others or from
my own fears. The Light of Source
fills me and pours through me.
I Am
You are
We are
One

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Glass Slippers

How does the impossible become
possible? What alchemy transforms
Cinderella with her coach of gold
and glass slippers upon her feet?

How you wear your cloak of
unworthiness, like a badge
of humility. He who brags
about his humility is the
court jester.

The Creator, alone, transforms,
not because you’ve earned it.
No, never. It is only through
grace that you are summoned to
serve the Light. Step forward
with joy, with reverence, with
gratitude that you are invited
to the court. Sit at the most
humble place, honored to be at
the table…home at last.

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Seems like truth
should always be true
it should be the same
for both me and you

“Thou shalt not kill”
yet we do it all the time
slaughter animals, go to war
pass out death penalties
with righteous indignation

Cultural taboos vary
greatly, too
some say, “Do this”
others say, “That will not do”

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Humility Versus Self-Respect

 

Putting one’s self down
is not humility.
Self-respect is often
confused with arrogance
doing for others at the cost
of denying our own needs
is not righteousness

How often we forgive another
yet cannot forgive ourselves.
God does not expect us to be perfect
nor does He value one over another.

If we understand our true value
the preciousness of all life
including our own
then it is easier to
love and care for others
while still caring for ourselves
as well.

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No Advice

I cannot tell you what to do
for your dreams lie within.
Seek not fortune tellers for
the Creator waits to guide
you. Put aside your doubts and
fears. Listen to your inner voice
and follow one step at a time
what your heart shows is true for you.

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Not Prepared

We can never be fully
prepared for life’s unexpected
twists and turns. We plan,
contrive, control and in the end,
must simply surrender, living
each moment as it comes with
grace and gratitude for the
lesson we are given.

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Being True

Let that which we love.
be what we do.
Do not live other people’s dreams,
A rock is not water.
Be true to your essence.
Only you is you.

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Just Try

T hankfulness is the oil that makes life run smoothly.
R egrets are a foolish waste of time.  
Y ou are the one who ultimately decides what your life will be.

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Breathing In and Out

In and out goes the breath.
Thump, thump goes the beat of the heart. Life is just this simple.
The more you add, the harder it gets.
Simplify your life. Breath. Be.

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I Am My Choices

Today is mine to shape,
to live each moment with
deliberateness, to choose
what to do, how I want to
feel, who will be part of
this day. Will I design and
live each moment as I choose,
or will I let circumstances
determine how this day unfolds?
Will I turn my power over to
others or remain firm in my
decision to live my life on
my own terms?

I am my choices.
I am my dreams.
I AM

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Above Reason

Some truths are above reason.
When we think with only our
mind and ignore the guidance
of our heart, we will fail to
perceive ancient wisdom that
is above the logic of our limited
reality and senses. These truths
can be warped by men through
ignorance and greed, but when
we access them through the
Light within, they ring with
crystal clarity.

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Yellow Brick Road

Receiving vessel knows only how
to be open to receive. It does so
with a moment of pleasure, followed
by a longing for more. Nothing can
fill this vessel for it is made to receive,
thus its nature is to always need more.

Then one day, it observed a bestowing
vessel happily pouring bounty everywhere.
“Are you happy?” the receiver asked, “or
would you sometimes like to receive?”
The bestower looked startled, “Why, it’s
true that I sometimes wonder what it is like
to receive. But how can one change one’s
nature?” The receiver nods, “I, too, wonder
what it would be like to bestow.”

Thus they decided to walk
the yellow brick road
to find the answer.

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Deep Prayer

There is a prayer that
is so profound that words,
supplications are not needed.
Deep prayer is a firm connection
that takes us directly to the
heart of Source. As we become
immersed in the pure love energy,
our “I” becomes so totally “we”
that no conscious communication
is necessary. We are the words,
the prayer, that which we seek.
We are the Thou.

  

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Flower of Wisdom

The flower of wisdom
opens in silence.
In aimless talk, it closes.
In knowing when not to speak
is the greatest wisdom.

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Hope

Discovering Hope
Hope makes the next step possible.
Without hope, we stand frozen in fear,
Not knowing where hope lies.
We search many places
Hope remains illusive, but we know Hope makes the next step possible.
We try many remedies
Run to escape, but Without hope, we stand frozen in fear.
Unless I look to my Creator,
I will spend my whole life searching, Not knowing were hope lies.
 
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Helpless
Opening  
Praying  
Evolving
 
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Five Steps to Hope
Help others  
Open to new possibilities  
Purge doubt and fear  
Enjoy each moment of life
 
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Five Barriers to Hope
Hatred  
Obsessive thinking  
Perniciousness  
Envy

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