"All spiritual maturity is about
letting go."
- Richard Rohr
"You admire the man who
pushes his way
to the top in any walk of life,
while we admire one who
abandons his ego."
- Seven Years in Tibet . H. Harrier
"The spiritual journey is non- denominational."
- a Jesuit priest
Inspiration:
During certain times of the year the public
submits to
an avalanche of college and professional athletic
"playoffs." Winning is everything!
Winners receive the honor , rewards and crowns
of olive leaves.Losers are left in the cold
with crowns of thorns.
The global culture promotes hard work
and success with awards and recognition and
those who qualify are adored regardless
of their integrity and morality. Chapels and
cathedrals honor the divine mystery
promoted by the self made witch doctors dictating
dogma, canons and dance steps
for pillaged pilgrims to subscribe to without questions.
Confused, one potential pilgrim lost as to what candle
to light and what course to chart hears that
whispering wind lifts a voice from ancient theater
where a player could be heard
"You don't choose a life. You live it."
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The Writing:
Surrender : 27,740 days
Almost 27,740 days on the worn out
overcrowded Camino,
the seeker carried collected maps and
books by mystics
and soothsayers charting the course
to discover the great promised treasure.
How many revolutions on the great circle
does it take before an anxious meandering
Bedouin wakes up to the truth
about his passage?
Scholars say that Homer's Odyssey
was a fable about the search
for one's soul. Disguised teachers dressed
in sherpas rags lift the baggage carried
by pirate pilgrims and just like that
a great burden weight evaporates.
Why didn't the solo seeker learn from
Bosch's "Death of the Miser"
or from his part-time partner who
practiced at emulating
the actions of Richard Cory
who lived on the hill?
It was that old salt who
anchored in a lost cove
while mentoring the seeker secretly on
all things of the great sea,
Including the ins and outs of
sailing by rigorously
having the seeker practice the art of
letting go of the tiller
when confronting rolling rough waters.
The vessel somehow rights herself
as she heads into the wind.
Some imperfect learners are slower
in letting go of their worldly attachments ,
their desire for control,
... refusing to surrender ,
but somehow they remain completely loved .
- JF Sobecki
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The Poems and Such:
"Poetry is a gateway into intuitive
consciousness.
It knocks on the doors
of the heart and the heart opens"
- Mirabai Starr
"Poetry is an Act of Peace .
Peace goes into the making of a poet
as flour goes into the making of bread."
- Pablo Neruda
When you are Old - WB Yeats
( read C. Murphy)
https://youtu.be/dEHjBPS21A8?si=k6OIo82cNUVIyaLc
My Wish - R W Emerson
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