The Kiss

Top of the mountain

Wind, sky and sight

Dried of the ocean

Drowned by the night

Breath of open windows

Breeze against my skin

Broken false dreams

Covered with sharp sin

It was your mirror

Fear and unwilling to see

It was not in vain

I left just to be

Sharp were the edges

Cuts to save me

Suitcases full of illusion

Taken outside to see

Seclusion of the winter

Sleeping in my bed

Seeing the damage

Clearing of my head

A shard of your mirror

Looking at my reflection

Given a blessing

Understanding without deception

Bruised and battered

I saw you fall

Now on the mountain

The gift I recall

Your sacred ghosts

Plunged me into the abyss

Never would I have leaped

If not for your kiss

Raven

Tea Pots

My morning was beautiful

On the cover of the book

Dust covered pages, no one would look

Tea pot on the stove

Polished stainless steel

Waiting for fire to heal

Encounters were proof

Of the unworthy prayer

No one can care, no one can care

Shoved in their faces

Damage was done

By the self loaded gun

Perfection of nothing

An unholy quest

Gift from someone else's mess

Kneeling to the naked ground

dried flowers fall from the pages

demons let out of cages

Darkness covered the water

Fear began to decay

Leaving only the way

Broken damaged goods

A holy Bible's page

Turned to dust in the truth of rage

No longer part of your shadow

I dance in the sunlight

In the darkness of night

I dance in the sunlight, In the darkness of night

Raven

Woman of a New Season Workshop

The Woman of a New Season Workshop will be held at Spirit Wind West on September 13, 15, 20 & 22, 2010. The time is 6:00pm to 8:30pm.  Contact for information Barb Matteri @ 360-731-1331.  Tell a friend.

Graditude

Each day our lives seem to be overwhelmed with everything that is happening around us.  We filter out most of the input so we can deal with it but what we don't realize is that it still goes in and effects our subconscious mind.  Thousands of bits of information enters our subconscious every second of the day.  No wonder it is hard for us to find the peace we need.  There are several things we can do to turn the volume of the chaos down and give ourselves a break.  One is to quiet our mind and be still.  Doing this slows the chatter of our thoughts and our body to a point where we can hear our soul talk to us.  This way we can know what we truly need.  Another thing is to be grateful for what is truly important in our lives.  This is another way of quieting the mind and focusing on the gifts that have been given to us that we take for granted.  It is important to stop the chatter, bring yourself back to stillness and be present, so that you don't miss the magic and the miracles that the universe has placed in our world. 

Precious moments

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. -Horace Mann-

Ego

I was reading "Still Here"  by Ram Dass this morning and came across this section about Ego.  I think that the ego has gotten a bad rap because we just don't understand it.  To me it is part of what makes us a complete person.  It is when it is untamed and controling that creates the problem.  See what you think.
"The wisdom of age is more a matter of being than of role playing.  It's not a matter of trying to fulfill a social role; it's a matter of becoming wisdom itself.  Yes, it is a role for the Ego to play, but here we need a deeper understanding of the Ego. The Ego is the program that runs personality, the body, and interactions with others on the physical plane.  It can be a very useful tool.  The Ego only becomes destructive when a person identifies the Ego as her or his whole being.  That brings tremendous suffering, because the Ego is full of desires the fulfillment of which will never bring lasting happiness.  Such a person becomes trapped in time and desires.  If you take the perspective of the Ego, then there is suffering as the Ego struggles to preserve its identity in the face of the Soul's desire to merge with God.  I tried to go the renunciate's way, to forget the needs of the body in order to avoid the suffering of the Ego.  But the Soul depends on the Ego's drama for its teachings.  We have to be in the world to learn from it."  (Still Here by Ram Dass)

Opportunity

Age is opportunity no less

Than youth itself, though in another dress,

And as the evening twilight fades away

The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.

-Longfellow

Quieting

Candle is lit

Spark becomes light

Body surrenders

Finds a place

Silence is wanted

Rain settles in

Shade covered windows

Cats left outside

Breath Finds wave

We become I

Expectation lost

Nothing dances

Let it be

Already is

                                                                                        Raven

Oneness

Manifesting is a interesting thing.  It starts with you, inside you.  It is planted into the mind, where it gestates and grows until it is ready to be born.  Then when the time is right you bring it out of your mind into the world.  It is you going from the inside to the outside.  Everything that you manifest is you.  Now take this one step further.  The Divine Consciousness manifesting.  It starts with the Divine, inside the Divine.  Where it gestates and grows until it is ready to be born. Then when the time is right the Divine brings it out of the consciousness into the world. It is the Divine going from the inside to the outside.  Everything that is created is the Divine.  Now ponder this, you, everyone else and everything else, including your manifestations are actually a manifestation of the Divine.  Which in turn means that it is all the Divine.  That is the Oneness.

Today

Today is a beautiful day.  I wake up each morning grateful for the abundance in my life.  The prayers and thoughts that I am giving to the universe this morning are for lifting my vibration of light higher, so that it will lift the vibrations of many, many others.  Love, Peace and Bliss be with you this beautiful day.

The Shadow Effect

I am reading the "Shadow Effect" by Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford and Marianne Williamson.  It is one of the best I've read on the shadow.  Here is a part of the book written by Debbie Ford, it will make you think about how you see yourself and others for that matter.

"We possess every human characteristic and emotion, whether active or dormat, whether conscious or unconscious.  There is nothing we can conceive of that we are not.  We are everything - that which we consider good and that which we consider bad.  How could we know courage if we have never known fear?  How could we know happiness if we never experienced sadness?  How could we know light if we never knew dark?

All these pairs of opposites exist within us because we are dualistic beings made up of opposing forces.  This means that every quality we can see in another exists within ourselves.  We are the microcosm of the macrocosm, meaning within our DNA structure we have the imprint of every characteristic.  We are capable of both the greatest acts of selflessness and the most destructive, self-punishing crimes.  When viewed in the full light of our awareness, our shadow exposes the duality and the truth of both our human self and our divine self, as they both prove to be essential ingredients of a whole authentic human being."

East West Bookstore

I recently had the pleasure to go to the East West book store in Seattle to listen to Don Jose Ruiz talk about his new book,"The Fifth Agreement. What an inspiring young man. I find the Tolec wisdom very interesting. It shines a light on what we have come to believe is true and what really is the truth.