Beyond the world of discovery that music has been for me, there was always the bigger world, the universe of questions about what we’re a part of, how it works, and how to best fit into the larger whole.
My love of words, a fascination with scientific, philosophical, and spiritual inquiry, and a quiet determination to learn how to be a better human (and a happier man) have led me on a path of shaping my experience, breath by breath, into poems.
Here are some of them.
October 30, 2015
Enlightenment is the sky
behind our cloudy thoughts.
It is always there,
but often obscured.
To catch a glimpse of it
is to know what we already are,
not something to become.
October 27, 2015
here is a place
of calm
and peace
within us.
We need not
FEEL calm
to get there.
We need only
to be the observer
of whatever feelings
come and go.
Standing in that space,
we have all the calm,
and all the peace,
we need.
October 25, 2015
The moon
is a place,
rocky and deserted.
How magical,
that it hangs in the sky,
beckoning for us to visit,
again.
How strange to know
that we were there,
and left.
How strange it must have seemed,
eons ago,
to the first of us
who looked up in wonder.
How magical it must have been,
how magical it remains.
October 25, 2015
Living
is not
what happens,
but
what we do.
We are either
running,
out of the past,
into the future,
or dancing,
in the present.
October 24, 2015
You are not your mind,
and you are not your body.
You are not your feelings,
nor your history.
Find the place
where all this
is observed,
and stand there.
Feel the peace
and openness there,
and remind yourself,
“I am This!”
October 22, 2015
Truth
is simple.
Words
are complicated.
Beings without words
do not understand the Truth.
They simply live it.
October 22, 2015
Life has no meaning
except what we create
in our own thoughts.
A life well-lived
is made of thoughts
well-chosen.
October 20, 2015
Thoughts and feelings
float past,
like clouds
in the sky.
I am not the clouds.
I am the sky.
October 19, 2015
Resistance
is the barrier to acceptance.
Acceptance
is the gateway to love.
October 13, 2015
True magic
is hidden
everywhere
in the ordinary.
Seen clearly,
EVERYTHING
is extraordinary!
There is no myth
more magnificent
than What Is.