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Grateful Spirit

My heart is filled

With gratitude

For struggle ends

In spirits plenitude

Stumbling through life

Listening to intuition

Guide me through dark

Until spirits fruition

Each test a chance

Strength gains sight

Contemplating meaning

Into spirits insight

Life embracing this

Arms reach out

Dissolving into bliss

The absence of doubt.

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Creative Power-my new book to be released in July!

I am very excited-and a little tired I have been very busy finishing my new book! I just wrote a little blog post on my website about it. Basically it’s about discovering your true potential by tapping into that fountain of inspiration inside of you. I never thought I would write a book about the creative process-it just sort of poured out of me! I have learned so much from this project and I want to thank all my followers for your inspiring comments. They came in real handy through the rough moments of this process- I couldn’t have done it without you-Thank you with all my heart!

Click Here to read about Creative Power

 

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Learning to love

We find it so difficult to comprehend

The nature of love, and so we pretend.

We do not show where we are weak

We hide our differences, we constantly seek.

So lost we become by our way

We feel so much with little to say

This suffering will only continue to grow

Unless we admit that we don’t really know

The essence of life running through our veins

Will not be seen when fear is at the reins

The answer is clear but so hard to know

Letting go is the only way we will ever grow.

Open yourself up to all that you are

We feel that God is something afar

Though the heart is ready to receive,

While we look the other way to believe

We are not a thing to be controlled

We cannot understand by being told

Eventually we must come to that place

Where nothing remains but divines grace

Freedom is the closest word to describe

That space remaining when by heart, we abide.

Our care is our gift to life

We abstain for the game of strife

That which we fear is only an illusion

Though we continue to create this confusion

Avoiding the responsibility of being free

There is only truth, only heart, only one to see

Separation is the disease of the mind

Seek not gain but spirit & you will find

This merry go round is self propelled

By the ideas to which you’ve held

Freedom is not something we create

It is already the case-just open the gate

Certainly there is work to be done before

Imaginary we only need open the door

The process is without effort but will ask

For a most difficult & effortless task

To love and learn with others at your side,

Relationship is the space where the heart abides.

 

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Beastie Boy Lyrics in honor of MCA

Adam Yauch

Adam Yauch past away last week better known as MCA from the Beastie Boys. I grew up listening to their music which was surprisingly deep for a punk/rap group. I saw them live twice, both amazing experiences. They have a special ability to inject love and consciousness into music that while harsh or strange to some, the Beastie Boys led the way in so many genres. Standing out from the Rap scene, the grunge era and leading the way in electronic, alternative and staying true to their message along the way. While their brand of music may not be to your personal style you have to admire their intelligence, integrity in a harsh industry and particularly that they have lasted in a way that only legends can.

I am posting some lyrics in honor of these fantastic musicians. My heart goes out to Adam’s friends and family he was a bright light that spread much love all around the world.

“I Don’t Know”

What’s pleasing to the eye
In the delusion of my sight
Is not what I find when I reach into the light
I have lost my mind
I’m walking through time
Deluded as the next guy
Pretending and hoping to find
That distant peace of mindI don’t know
Who does know
There is no
Where to go

It’s not so simple as I try to wish
But then again what is?
There is no other worthy quest
So on I go

I don’t know
Who does know
There is no
Where to go

“Remote Control”

Things get hectic quick
From the satellite dish to your joy stick
It’s the night of the living cable box
Wires coming up from around the block
Remote control to change the station
But that won’t change your situation
Have you seen what I mean
I’m the little gnome that’s in your dreams
So I say this rhyme built by design
To take you beyond space and time
Said who is the man making diamonds out of coal
The man pushing buttons on remote controlRemote I want Control
Remote I want Control

Until your back’s up against the wall
You never know yourself that much at all
So you’ve got to share your love with a friend
That’s all that you’ve got left in the end
Living in this city of pure confusion
People misled by their own illusion
All this action, no satisfaction
We’re all linked together like a chain reaction
Play or fold, love is bold
What is the future that will unfold?
Some like it hot, others like it cold
But we all want to hold the remote control

Remote I want Control
Remote I want Control
Remote I want Control
Remote I want Control

Things get hectic quick
All of the sudden I’m in the thick
Too much drama all around
Distractions booming in sensuround
Like a rainy day’s Earth won’t sit still
Sliding on down a hill
Sometimes life it seems to stall
So never be ungrateful y’all
So I got a little something for your pay per view
Like Don King I’ve got the crazy hair do
We’ve got cameras on Mars on space patrol
Controlled on Earth by remote control

R.I.P  MCA

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Despite it all….enjoy the ride

Sometimes it takes life falling apart

Before we realize the way of the heart

Just when life couldn’t get much worse

And you believe you’re the victim of a curse

No hope in sight, nothing left to lose

Then you realize what’s left to amuse

Friends, love, purpose and spirit all remain

Those things that come to relieve the pain

Perhaps not in the way we thought

But life is not about the things we sought

Once facing darkness we see clear

Life can’t begin until were without fear

Perfect never, but we are free to decide

To run away or enjoy the ride.

 

 

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Breaking through the darkness

This world crushes

Like the waves upon rock

Splitting to pieces

All we have in stock

Diverting our attention

Smashing apart hope

Breaking the spirit

Until unable to cope

In the darkness of a cave

Find comfort and rest

Fears wash away

This is only a test

Lost alone feeling weak

Afraid to dive once more

Rest assured the dark space

Hides the heart’s door.

What’s broken mends

What’s lost untrue

The strength gained

Earned by few.

 

 

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The fighting heart

October 2008 224

Forced to move beyond this place

Broken by life’s artful play

Avoiding what I’m asked to face

Though life won’t let it sit that way.

Everything arising gets pushed aside

Matters exploding settle down

Running out of places to hide

Forced to smile through the frown.

Slowing gritting the pains in time

Shifting about in discomfort

Buried below layers of grime

Afraid to come up short.

Getting tired of this game

Exhausted by the grueling drill

Everything remaining the same

Every ride losing its thrill

At the point where hope fades

When the light finally dims

That is when the truth invades

 The waters of which I skim

Diving deep into the loneliness

Lost without a trace of step

Scared to death I must confess

Treading where my strength crept

Darkness all around no sight

Not even Earth below my feet

Nothing in my heart to fight

So far from being complete

The darkness followed everywhere

Lurking around every step I took

All that was once so fair

  had a shadow with every look.

The truth is never what we want

Or we would embrace it always

 desires leave truth left to haunt

avoiding what reality conveys.

When we run darkness finds us

When we hide we bring down fear

Interrupting causes such fuss

When truth is always crystal clear.

To stand before the light

Letting it in with open heart

Provides us with everlasting insight

Through the dark course we chart.

No path is easy all entail

Illusions trance and tainted spell

We fear to tread in fear to fail

We never will when life’s lived well.

Set off into the wanderlust of life

Never dissuaded by the dark night

Words cut through like sharpened knife

Life was made for hearts to fight.

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Love or Control?

There are two worlds coming into being

One of total control the other of true love

One that condemns and the other freeing

No pity from either below or above

A choice we each must make alone.

To care without prejudice or judgment

Our own remorse we must Atone

A decision to determine a life spent

The higher road the hardest to bare

The lower one is only easy at first

The only question is how much you care

Or would you rather satisfy your thirst.

We can’t run from who we are

Right or wrong we learn either way

Our reflection never strays very far

No matter the mask we might display

Be sure to know what you serve

What ends are made from grand plans

In the end we all get what we deserve

we all learn where our heart stands.

Those with fear must face it someday

to finally relinquish their attachment

Those who care, fearlessly lead the way

Giving it all away is a life well spent.