“Both poetry and planting were increasingly truer expressions of the same thing: reaching for the unknown & being in relationship to the world.”
— William Stanley Merwin
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-poet-and-the-palm-tree/
555 — trust that divinely guided changes are unfolding for you
poems of hope + resilience
full moon lunar eclipse in saggitarius
In what ways can we speak from our experience like elders, like our grandmothers and grandfathers, with compassion but with strength that illuminates another facet to be taken into account?
Like Einsten said “we cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”
on clearing
you are emitting a vibrational frequency at all times. we are energy and we live in a vibrational universe — all things come through vibrational form first. this is why the spiritual work, the work of attuning to spirit, is crucial in our liberation work. now is the time to align with our highest selves. it is time fully embody the medicine we were called here to manifest. “now is the time for you to stop playing small. get brave. get courageous. stop complacency, stop making excuses. go deeper.” (natoya hall)
the magic words
as I kill off
the dull decayed shock
that blocks me
from finding and speaking
the magic words
that got lost
inside my old misunderstanding
of death.
creation energy — the power of the linglingo
The Linglingo is an ancient Philippine symbol for fertility and virility. ‘Linglingo’ means “lingo that serves the act of creation”, “lingo that issues the thought of manifestation”, “lingo that conjures the power to bring forth”.
the wave is the wave
the buddha said, ‘when conditions are sufficient, the things manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden.’
interbeing
“Our entire western civilizational tradition prevented us from recognizing that any damage that we did to the outer world of nature would be a damage to our own inner life.”
compassion
If we don’t care for others, we can never know our own minds.
concentration
Little by little you must train yourself for life, for happiness. You have to realize happiness is not something found at the end of a road. You have to understand that it is here, now. Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness.
in gratitude
Earth collapses into water, water into fire, fire into air. Air to pure consciousness.
on reverence
“Humxn’s are highly creative forces in physical forms. You are meant to create and design with your hands, with gratitude.” - Maria Montejo