God is not a thing.

God is the essence
that permeates
ALL things.

I do not believe in God,
and I do not believe in air.

Yet,
I trust that there are things
I cannot see and hear
which shape the world around me.

Many teachers,
scientists and mystics,
have pointed the way,
and, at times,
my own senses
have confirmed their wisdom.

I do not believe in air,
yet that is the sea
I live and swim in.

So it is with Spirit,
which some call God,
always with us,
around us,
in us,
whatever it is called.

Happiness
is a natural state.

It arises spontaneously
when we get out of our own way.

Everything dances.

Order dances with disorder,
Light dances with dark.

Form dances with emptiness,
Life dances with death.

Everything
is a dance.

The contents of the mind
are not the mind,
Just as clouds
Are not the sky.

Our thoughts
will float freely
through our awareness,
when we let them go,
drifting,
like clouds,
evanescent
against an endless blue sky.

I am not
who I think I am
(that is only thinking).

I am not
the dream of my life -
I am the dreamer.

To be diligently open
Is the simplest path
to wisdom.

All my life,
I have been trying
to see who I am.

But,
beyond the eyes that see,
who I am
is the sea
I swim in.

I can not see it
because I AM it,
and it is me.

I can only feel
the fulness of it,
the gift of it,
floating
in its completeness.

Each life
is like a drop of water,
flowing from its source,
condensed into being,
and soon to evaporate,
or merge with the sea.

It is a precious jewel,
in its moment of existence,
in an infinite chain
of precious jewels.

Each one
is a universe itself,
a reflection,
in its moment,
of the Whole.

Learning is a choice.
No one can never teach anyone anything!
We can only point toward what another
may be willing or able to learn.