The search
for happiness is not
about looking at life through
rose-colored glasses or blinding oneself
to the pain and imperfections of the world.
Nor is happiness a state of exultation
to be perpetuated at all costs; it is
the purging of mental toxins,
such as hatred and
obsession.
these days
down here beneath the solar sea
the tidal flow of light etching the edges
of the continents we conjugate the colors
and the distances consult the oracles
decipher shadows dream the moment
when this sunken world
will rise
My heart has
become capable of every form:
It is a pasture for gazelles and a cloister
for Christian monks, a temple for idols and
the pilgrim’s Ka’ba, and the tables of
the torah and the book of
the Qur’an.
I follow
the religion of love:
whatever way love’s camels take,
that is my religion and
my faith.
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Cogitation,
making judgements,
following patterns, firing arrows,
engaging in endless ideation and emotional
behavior — all these are to be abandoned
and transcended on the
Way.
Be still.
Do non doing.
A clear and open
state of freedom
will appear.
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Don’t try to
escape from the movements of the
world. Remain in the midst of everything,
focused into the empty space at the
center of your self.
Pouring your
whole being there without pause,
alert, quietly smiling, you detach from clamor
and chaos and become independent and
free. From here you can teach
yourself everything.
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