to gazing at the ocean.
It is said the ocean provides
a closer reflection of who
we are than any mirror.
- R. Rubin
I want to run, I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside.
- Where the Streets have No Name, U2
The Inspiration :
( There is something to be said when one is present to breaking
waves especially on the beach at dawn.)
The Writing:
(Sometimes an inspiration surfaces from the most unusual and surprising
events and situations. Sometimes it is the sun peaking over the horizon
casting its glow across the waves, or a chorus in a song or line in a poem.
Sometimes some unexplainable presence casts a light making the darkness
less intimidating if not neutralizing it altogether. )
Of Mornings, Breaking Waves and Purpose
Isn't it enough that we have the sea,
The sand, the shore and the eternal sanctuary
Where the soul can be perfectly present?
The dramatic arrival of that consecrating illumination
Brings light, color and consolation to the exterior and
Interior without prejudice.
How are we surprised by the sanctification,
The soul - filled serenity always available ,
Where no cover and no minimum charges are required?
The self imposed busy-ness keeps us distracted
And fooled just long enough to think we
Just might be in control enough to give birth
To a great universal cosmic peace within and without.
Shamans indicate that infants and children
Know the secret and even maybe some like minded
spirits will also know the essence of the truth.
What is it that fuels the spark
Initiating our hearts to pump and circulate
The life giving force through the 60,000 miles
Of superhighway blood vessels?
And, who planted those magical thoughts
Finally flowing seeping words into the space
Between us or between the lines on some virgin journal
Awaiting patiently to be filled with
Wisdom , hope , love and gratitude?
What is it that causes silence to
Transform tones in music?
Where is that magnificent warehouse of creativity
That inspires a tortured artist to carve stone
Or wood into iconic statues or mix chemical pastes painting
The colors of the universe into waterlilies on canvas?
Gamblers, no matter their motivation,
Know why they show up everyday.
Hungry sailors and shipwrecked souls sometimes have that sixth sense
About the tides and the waves.
Time will tell , that unknown source of the wind
And the holy point of the coastal hills and
Their sister sacramental dunes, uncovering the absoluteness of the truth.
Hissing rolling surf washes away footprints
Of beach combing wanderers , seekers and sandpipers .
Pilgrim reflections of sacred instances when
The morning light shinning on the breaking waves
Lifted the fog clarifying
That the purpose for us is not to make a living...
It is letting go and letting our life be who we are ...
That is our purpose.
- JF Sobecki
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The Poems and Such:
( Poetry etc Reflections on the inspiration)
Equanimity means profound
stability, like trees planted by the water
That shall not be moved.
That's the fierce equanimity that
Comes from an open heart, open
mind, and a clear direction of our energy
toward changing the direct
trajectory of history.
- L. Ward , Awakening to the Apocalypse
Why I wake early - M. Oliver
"For Whatever we lose
( like a you or a me )
It's always ourselves
We Find in the sea."
- e e cummings
