Advice From A Tree
Live your life grounded in the Earth, but always stretching toward the LIGHT. When all is calm, rest quietly and learn: the soil will give you strength,…
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Bridge Of Light
Do you remember crossing the Bridge Of Light, held in pure mindful experience? When you knew who was calling before the ring. You finished another’s thought. That chill up the…
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Work
Let it be my precious work: to care for every thought, to let each step, each breath, each softly spoken word, become a deed of light; a feat of unadorned desire. Let it be my…
Silence
Golden silence, envelope me, that the light of my soul may descend and comfort. Deftly spread your wings and lift me into all corners of Truth and knowing. Reveal and lay rest awhile…
Aperture Of Beauty
I hold before me a single moment in the life of this world and realize that I have no word pure enough to contain its beauty.…
All Is Already Known
My guide’s voice dipped into conscience and told me clear that All is already known. The moon spins, the stars explode, the blood of the universe…
The Lake Speaks Softly
Dear One, come to me and leave the past behind–it is safe enough. Stretch your mind across the water and know that you have always been…
Will, Was and Is
Angels know will, was, and is—as One, and resting above this arc of time, their love seeks to guide us. Spirit exists beyond Time, though human life…
Dawn’s Mercy
Dawn spills midnight blue across the Oneness of sky as sunlight again creates the shadows of Earth in hues of gold, now red. I, from the…
The Narrowed Way
When gleamed line and luster pulls at the edge of our sense, its feigned glow bathes our belief in security: we look for safety in its idea.…
Whisper
Before this muddy Earth, in joy and immensity, I thought myself satisfied, but I was undone by the thrill of a new vision, of a being…
The Artist
The idea of a random nature has no place here, for beauty happens not by chance but by careful persuasion, no less than by a composer’s quill,…
The Last Person
Hold this image in your mind: The very last person you met, standing within a whisper’s distance has about her shoulder the deepest love of her life, glowing in purest white; maybe a long…
Time
Time, old friend— again, you help me find myself in forgetting, to trace each fault and treasure in my own reflection, that which I seek as…
Love Knows Only Life
When you truly love someone and that person dies, it hurts so much that you cannot breathe… that is the contract. Yet it is plain to…
Decision And Discovery
Maybe in heaven there is no conflict, no adversity, only a life of perfect peace and certainty, but would we not then stagnate, for what would compel…
Mansion: Part 3
The Light knew the mansion well, and the spark of light contained therein, for the turning Earth presented the mansion to its gaze anew each day.…
Mansion: Part 2
His stockade was strong, even elegant, but having lost the capacity to yield he had become ensnared by his own conviction. As he paced along its…
Mansion: Part 1
There was once a man who sat alone in a fine mansion. It was as secure a place as he could imagine and he considered it…
Strata
Some people talk about the dimensions of space and time as if they were the only aspects of the universe, but there are many more dimensions…
Homeward
On this side of the door lies opportunity, growth. Billions of souls scurrying about, learning of loneliness, pride; experiencing isolation, jealousy, HUMILITY and joy, slowly realizing the immutable…
Twelve Little Boats to God
by James Fielden A narrative of penetrating beauty and deep introspection, Twelve Little Boats to God follows the journey of Benjamin Forrester after the sudden death of his…
The Soul
Wherein kneels the Soul? Behind the eye? Behind the ear? From where stir Its tremors of love ~ From a softened heart Or behind a tear?…
Exploration
When we look at a scene our eyes automatically evaluate what we see in terms of our senses. In this way we define the world in…
Dimension
Long ago the Earth was flat in the minds of men Now we walk upon its curve and wonder at their primitive belief. Of course, we…
Ring Of Light
I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time…
Winter’s Husk
Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is kindness. When kindness is lost, there is justice. When justice is lost,…
Among The Trees
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow…
Teddy (2003-2013)
They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; A smile as small as mine might be Precisely their…
Heaven’s Shadow
“What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to each other like, more than on earth is thought?” John Milton (1608 –…
The Preaching Tree
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning…
Night Light
Now, that Light which shines beyond this heaven, beyond the whole of creation, beyond everything, in the highest worlds which are unsurpassingly good, it is certainly…
Wire
I know that Justice holds in store, Reprisals for those days of gore; Not for the blood, but for the sin Of stifling mercy’s voice within.…
Converging Lines
“All things, as they rise from a unity, come back to unity by a sheer need of nature; differences unfold themselves, contraries are produced, but all…
Mountain
The mountain sat upon the plain In his eternal chair, His observation omnifold, His inquest everywhere. The seasons prayed around his knees, Like children round a…
The Gates Of Heaven
Dear God ~ Describe to me The Gates Of Heaven Are they wide? Are they tall? Do they shine? Do they weep? Upon whose order do…
The Flow Of Truth
“Truth is simply one in the divine mind, but many truths flow thence into the human mind, as one face may be mirrored with variety.” St.…
Nows
Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time – Except for Infiniteness – And Latitude of Home – From this – experienced…
A Dream
“I dream’d in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dream’d that was…
Pride
“Of all the marvelous works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.” Charles Caleb Colton,…
A Turning Light
I watched her turn. I watched her spin. I watched her joyful soul whirl so fast that light glimmered and shot from her shoulders. Her eyes…
Curiously
I have always been led to look curiously within And SEARCH beyond myself. In brief moments across THE divide Drifts the simple call. KINDLY, without language,…
Reverence
Though mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust, yet reverence– That angel of the world–doth make distinction Of place ‘tween high and low. Shakespeare, Cymbeline.…
Perception
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” William Blake (1757-1827) The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
The Dancing Tree
“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do,…
The Heart Of Stone
They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as…
A Lasting Impression
“The task is…not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”…
