Peace Be With You

PEACEFUL NEW YEAR

“The one who lacks peace, with all his possessions, the property of this earth or quality of mind, is poor even with both. ... True wisdom is to be found in the peaceful, for peacefulness is the sign of wisdom. It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.
To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being. It is just like the sea: the surface of the sea is ever moving; the depth of the sea is still. And so it is with our life. If our life is thrown into the sea of activity, it is on the surface. We still live in the profound depths, in that peace. But the thing is to become conscious of that peace which can be found within ourselves. ... the first thing is to seek the kingdom of God within ourselves, in which there is our peace. As soon as we have found that, we have found our support, we have found our self. And in spite of all the activity and movement on the surface, we shall be able to keep that peace undisturbed if only we hold it fast by becoming conscious of it.”
Hazarat Inayat Khan

May this perfect peace be yours – now, this year, for all eternity.

May your heart blossom with love, may your gut feel the magic, may your spirit shine in this 2012 and light up this our Universe.

Peace be with you.


Love,

Mickey

Listen!

Listen well, my brother, to the secret whisper in your heart, the endless singing in your blood, the deep rhythm in your bones.
O sister, can you hear the voice of the wind, the silent music of the flowers, the faint hum of joy all around?
The universe speaks to you every moment- you just forgot how to listen.
Let every cell in your body be a ear.
Hold your breath- stay perfectly still.
Traffic and bird-song, dogs barking and the laughter of children,
The plaintive cry of a vendor in perfect rhythm with the whistling of the kites in the sky..
All speaking without words of a wisdom beyond thought,
All held together by the weave of the gaps between the sounds,
Until darkness brings peace
And the high sweet notes of silence.

Be

In a story written by a madman,
Illusion creates new worlds every moment, every day.
When the rainbow bubble bursts, who is to blame?
There are no answers or explanations, all dogma disappears-
Only emptiness and silence remain:
This has lost its tongue and forgotten its name.

Beneath dust and leaf and river and sky
Suddenly the sacred bones of eternity shine bright:

What a sparkle in this wordless bliss!
Mind still like a mirror lake
Breathless wonder overflows
How can anything begin to describe this?

Be.
This is all there is.

Journey's End

Older than time,am I the Ancient of Days?
I have been stone and metal, microbe and plant, mountain and planet and sea, bird and beast  and reptile.
Driven before the storm of illusion, I have passed through countless wombs ; pursued by the furies of fear and desire, I have changed shapes and forms a trillion times, never finding my rest.
Yet, who am I that persists down the canyons of the ages?
Nothing but gathered information, dregs of the dreamtime, faded files on the magnetic field of the information layer, flotsam and jetsam accumulated on the invisible shore.
I cannot remember all the bodies I have used and discarded in my desperate and never-ending quest.
Today, in weary exhaustion, I choose to halt this senseless wandering through the worlds.
I let go and dissolve, format my drive, erase all the slates once and for all.
This drop returns irrevocably to the ocean.
The 4 billion years end now.
At last, I am at peace.
At last, I am free.

A Miracle

It’s a miracle… a perfect miracle,
All around me I see magic in the air…love’s ecstasy just blooming everywhere….
All I do each day is simply sit and stare -

Yes it’s a miracle..truly a miracle
Trees know it, clouds feel it, the birds and the beasts and the fishes live it,
The earth sings it, lightning brings it, children play it, wise men say it
Oh it’s a miracle – right here and now for any eye to see.
A miracle – embracing all there is and you and me.


Candlelight and mirrors, starshine in the skies,
Reflections on the water like the sparkle in your eyes
My heart plays an old guitar that’s sometimes out of key
But all it takes is one deep breath and she sounds good again to me…


To sing the miracle- the timeless miracle,
Just close my eyes and dance inside so deep…who is it who dreams this waking sleep?
Nothing to hang on to, nothing at all to keep
For it’s a miracle..a simple miracle
Stars display it, atoms pray it, cells and bones and blood all stay it,
Nothing holds it, everything unfolds it, time and space are born inside it-
Ah such a miracle – so awesome it just takes my breath away!
Enchanting miracle.. infinite delightful goddess-play!

Secret dreams and visions, serpent fire rising high,
Closer than a heartbeat yet further than the sky,
I laugh out loud at the whole go-round and how it came to be
That all of creation is dancing right here inside me!

This sweet miracle…rest right here, there is no place to go
For it’s a miracle – just drop your mind and you will know

The Miracle.

PERFECTION

This is perfect. That is perfect.

I am perfect. You are perfect.

The land and the Sea and the heavens are perfect.

The birds and the beasts and the insects are perfect.

Atoms and cells , stars and galaxies, clouds and trees, lives and deaths, rebirths and resurrections are perfect.

Subtract the perfect from the perfect – only the perfect remains.

Divide the perfect by the perfect – only the perfect remains.

Create the perfect,transform the perfect, destroy the perfect - only the perfect remains.

Have a perfect New Year!