If it can be refined further, why stop? If there is a little bit more, why not? Not that now is not its best, since it is always at its best But if it can be perfected some more why not clean it up anyway? To give up means not given up before. To forgive […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Jul 30th, 2011
Intimacy during communication can only occur with honesty, authenticity and clarity. What I mean by honesty here is being totally naked in expressing one’s vulnerability; authenticity as in not covering up what is being expressed to make it sound ‘nicer’ or ‘beautiful’ or even ‘kinder’ to the ears of the other; and clarity as in, […]
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Dark night, dark night La de dum dum How often you visit La de dum dum dum Here you come and off you go Totally uninvited La de dum dum dum What am I to do with you Except to welcome you once more La de dum dum dum dum dum Am I dark or […]
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There is really nothing I can do about it. When it comes, it just comes. And all that I can do is to be with it, stay with it. Because there’s really no way out of it until some light appears. And that really isn’t my call at all, it somehow just has its own […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Poems on Jul 24th, 2011
Expression not expressed becomes Suppression. Suppression further suppressed becomes Repression. Repression not addressed becomes Depression. Depression with added ajbetness becomes Oppression. Oppression not forgiven becomes Death – as in, the living dead. Are you one of them?
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Jul 21st, 2011
Mind needs to tap into the unseen polarities of itself to realize for itself its own inner truth which results freedom and delight as its end. When inquiry is carried out on the validity of its story, the outcome is not really that simple. And if mind can go all the way, it can really […]
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Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Jul 20th, 2011
Pain in separation is really just something misunderstood. The ancient thoughts carried forward up till today of ‘I am in pain’ either because of I am leaving him/her, he/she is leaving me, or we are leaving each other is always targeted at a person out there or myself. As I looked deeper into the abyss […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Jul 19th, 2011
Someone asked me the other day what I thought of people who stays in their jobs for money and yet resents the job they do. I pondered for a moment and answered him, “it’s their choice.” Some people may agree and some may not, and that too, is their choice. Yet as long as they […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Jul 17th, 2011
Respect went up a notch for a beloved friend recently. His honesty about his current reality which was a past fear arising once again. Although at the back of the mind already knowing that it is unreal, my reminder did not alter his groundedness. He told me, “G, I cannot lie to myself. Even I […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Poems on Jul 4th, 2011
Isn’t it madness that I have to do something for you or you have to do something for me in order for you to love me or for me to love you. As if if there is nothing done from or for either one of us suddenly Love has gone out of the door *poof* […]
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