EMBARRASSMENT

A "Boo!",
An orgasm,
And the moment we realise
"I've just made a complete dickhead of myself."....
These are the only times we're truly and utterly alive.
Then we muck the moment up
By thinking about it.

Why are we so eager to avoid embarrassment?
It's a lovely emotion.
It brings a flush of colour to your face
And a sparkle to your eyes.
It is a rare moment of being totally human
And alive.
It is a moment of vulnerability
When we could discover how fully loved and protected we are --
If only we'd surrender to it.

WHO WE ARE....

One day.....
That-Which-Is contemplated the nature of it's Is-ness,
That is, It asked itself "What am I?"........

BANG!!!!

It fractured into numberless shards of matter.
Nothing "mattered".

Like a holograph,
Each sliver of matter contained the complete pattern,
The content and image
Of the whole.

As far as I know, humans are one of only three beings
Capable of self-awareness,
(the others being chimpanzees and orang-utans).
And we are probably the ONLY species that is capable (theoretically)
Of recognising our wholeness and divinity.
Certainly we are the only species to reject
The awareness of our godness ,
To lament the imagined loss of, and separation from what we already are
And to go looking for it elsewhere
Outside of our selves.

How sad is that?

SPIRITUALITY & RELIGION

Religion  was useful to me --
It reminded me of myself as Spirit,
And there is more......

Religion is a successful attempt
To limit and control
An experience of awakening and freeing.

Spirituality opens
And possibilizes;
Religion closes
And limits.

The love of Godness is not a limited resource
To be withheld at whim
Or doled out by some priest.
The love of godness
Is what we already are,
Thinking that we need some system to hang onto.

FAITH & CERTAINTY

Absolute certainty is not an expression of faith --
It is a symptom of a lack of faith.
My father lived his entire life projecting an aura of iron-willed certainty -- about everything.
A few days before I last saw him, he had a near-death experience.
It shattered him.
I watched him dying in utter bewilderment and fear,
Drowning in his hitherto unacknowledged doubts.
It was terrible to behold.

The dictum "You can't take it with you"
Applies to righteous certainty.
The mind cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.

The ultimate certainty,
The portal to heaven,
Is the Certainty of Not-Knowing.