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Plus highly collectable Erratum on Pg 50: ‘SouLutions’ – Last four lines should read:
‘Just more layers of self-importance
Corrupting the mind
Emotional attachments and addictions
Quick-fix short-cuts and personality afflictions.’
Another day, a new dawn
Loving kindness is the mature way
Of the evolved human spirit
Advanced soul
Warrior angel of peace
Achieve the art of Zen in a Westernised world
Simply by listening
And responding
Without desires
Means without the need for control
No need to manipulate for preconsceived outcomes
Simply affirm ones highest intention and allow
And if you can find someone to share that with
Before one gets too old
Hand in hand into the sunset
Off you both shall run
Congratulations
On getting it right
Fair play
Fluxus to the nexus my darling
If you want to experience Peace in the world
Begin with visualising what peace might look like, feel like, be like
Familiarise oneself with the feeling of peacefulness and harmony
And the concept that it can exist
All around the world
All at the same time
Sit with it, breathe it into the heart
Allow it to feel normal, natural, wonderful
And then when one feels comfortable
With ones own sense of personal peace
Elevate that feeling up into the crown chakra
To be transformed into universal peace
Allow it, bathe in it
And once this concept appears like a natural step
In the process of human evolution
Own it
Embody it
Step into it
Make it yours
Claim ones divine birth right
To exercise the freedom to be at peace in the world
Where ever you are
No matter what is going on around
For being the change that you want to see in life
Is the first step towards co-creating a shared reality
Like the domino effect
A viral infection of positivity
Simply allow Peace to Be
Become Peace.
The only way to appreciate what you’ve got
Taken for-granted for so long, already, damn!
Is by experiencing Contrast
Witnessing first-hand
What it means to be grateful
Hard-wired into ones memory bank
For future reservoirs of humility
Overflowing to the brim full
Men and women alike
All depends upon ones mental agility
Levels of emotional availability
Make like a rubber band
And str-e-e-e-tch, expand
Express gratitude daily
Even in the face of adversity
The expanding rubber band is a metaphor for the soul’s elastic capacity to embrace and encompass the concept of humility, to come from a place of heart-centered gratitude, on a daily basis. In fact I believe that expressing gratitude on a regular basis is actually necessary for the healthy maintenance of ones inner Joy and also for reclaiming a sense of connection with ones innocence (inner sense). If one is grateful for absolutely everything in ones life, in spite of pitfalls or perceived set backs, without taking good fortune for-granted, then there is no room for depression or negativity, for existing in a state of daily gratitude takes the focus away from becoming overly absorbed with the self, or from being overly concerned with the lives of other people. It is the secret to regaining a natural state of harmony and balance attributed to nature, animals and children, a state of awe and wonder, joy and playfulness, love and acceptance. Ignorance takes beauty, subtlety and abundance for-granted where as gratitude and innocence beholds it.
Mirror Mirror / Bread and Honey
Let me break your narcissistic mirror for you
Shatter your self absorbed reflection into tiny little pieces
Who do you think you are eating your bread and honey
With one hand
And with the other
Counting out your money
Into neatly arranged paper piles
Smoothing out the creases, whiling away the hours
Did it buy you true love and emotional fulfillment?
Did it buy you soul purpose and spiritual enlightenment?
Alone in your counting house
Like a burrow and a mouse
After all these years and so many miles
Still counting, counting, counting
Into carefully stacked coin towers
And neatly arranged paper piles
People frequently confuse love with possession
Ownership pollutes love with issues of control
Games of manipulation
Defense mechanisms
To disguise insecurity
Ways of saving face
Triggers that threaten
Ones sense of identity
Springing into place
Love from the heart and not from the ego
‘Cause if it’s not from the heart
Then it isn’t really love anyhow
So do yourself a favour
Wish others the happiness one would wish for ones self
And just let it go…
(When I speak of love here I refer to all forms of emotional attachment, not necessarily romantic love).
Life’s too short to drown ones sorrows
In an ocean of regret
For whole shorelines of years
Entire coastal regions of life
Can get swept away, lost
In the salt winds of time
Though to have gained a broken heart along the way
Means that once you believed enough to try
That you championed someone
And in today’s modern world
That is indeed
A most worthy qualification
For to be able to share ones love for the world
With the world
Is a rare and special gift
It is a unique path
Of service to humanity
And an invitation
To the dance of Life
Seize the moment
