I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.- Jean-Francois Cope
We never know who we are
( this is strange , isn’t it?)
or what vows we made
or who we knew
or what we hoped for
or where we were
when the world’s dreams
were seeded.
Until the day just one of us
sighs a gentle longing
and we all feel the change.
One of us calls a name
and we all know to be there.
One of us tells a dream
and we all breathe life into it.
One of us asks “why?”
and we all know the answer.
It is very strange
We never know who we are.
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We never know who we are by Margaret Wheatley
I’m not perfect
Far far from it
Im so far from perfect
It’s really not necessary
for me to make that announcement
You’re not perfect either
I’m not holding either
Of us to that standard
That comes with way to high
A price to pay
I’m human
So are you
no real surprise
I embrace our humanity
And the delicate balance
Of our chemistry of imperfection
Wrapped in choices
Choices move us in one direction
or another
In one direction is the path
which brings peace love joy
connection
life
Blossoming, flowering with joy
The other path is where lives
greed lust ego
emptiness that destroys peace
isolation
death
Stealing the joy from our living
Our very humanity
The quality of our living
hangs in the balance of our choices
The choices are never completely one direction,
we roam the depths of both paths,
always becoming more,
discovering,
uncovering,
new pieces of ourselves.
It’s all important,
it’s also important to know, for sure, what we want our lives to be about,
in order not to end up stuck in a life we don’t want.
Each of us have free will
Each of us are responsible only for our own lives.
I made my choice to continue moving towards the light,
imperfectly but steadily,
years ago
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Amy Lloyd (AL)
My birds arrive from tropics
and glaciers I can’t imagine.
My river sparkles into a distance
I’ve never seen.
Some days the volcano trembles
and all I can do is wonder.
When my Beloved finds wild animals in me
should I be alarmed or merely startled?
I thought I understood, looked
in the mirror enough to recognize me,
but now you have re-created me entirely
and I must start over. Again.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
life: acoustic & amplified 