When I see your face, the stones start spinning!
You appear; all studying wanders.
I lose my place.
Water turns pearly.
Fire dies down and doesn’t destroy.
In your presence I don’t want what I thought
I wanted, those three little hanging lamps.
Inside your face the ancient manuscripts
Seem like rusty mirrors.
You breathe; new shapes appear,
and the music of a desire as widespread
as Spring begins to move
like a great wagon.
Drive slowly.
Some of us walking alongside
are lame!
~
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
~
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
I would love to kiss you.
The price of kissing is your life.
Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,
What a bargain, let’s buy it.
~
Daylight, full of small dancing particles
and the one great turning, our souls
are dancing with you, without feet, they dance.
Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?
~
They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual?
They wonder about Solomon and all his wives.
In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul
and you are that.
But we have ways within each other
that will never be said by anyone.
~
Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts
in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter.
― Rumi
A new guided meditation is now available:
For the ‘Meditation for Chakra Harmonization and Relaxation‘, please click here.
This guided meditation can be used as part of a daily meditation practice or before any other guided meditation of your choice. The purpose of this meditation is to release energies that no longer serve you, to help you feel grounded, centred and connected, and to fill yourself with positive energies and light that support you during your day. As the light travels in your body, it opens and balances all your chakras from your root chakra to your crown chakra. Chakras are energy centres that are found in your aura, the energy field around you. This meditation helps to cleanse and harmonize the chakras while explaining the significance of each chakra.
I hope you will be enjoying this meditation. More free guided meditations and other spiritual resources are available on my website, here.
All guided meditations are also now available on the meditation app and website, Insight Timer, at insighttimer.com.
The dates for the fall Spirit Circle are:
September 28th,
October 26th,
November 23rd.
Our start time is 6:00 pm.
Please let me know if you are interested in coming to any of the meditation sessions. My address is 2100 Granite Street in Oak Bay.
If you would like to learn more about the Circle, please click here.
The pictures in this newsletter were taken at Thetis Lake in August.
If you had any questions or comments, I would be happy to hear from you as always.
Warmest regards,
Anita
