Author: Manisha

You are reading poetry. I am living poetry. We are not the same.

Things that really matter that make their way into any expression or invention can’t be measured and are in fact beyond common logic. It’s never the thing or for the thing itself, it’s the experience and expression of being alive that naturally takes a form.
It’s Life meeting itself again and again. It’s love.
One could have all this far removed from their immediate perception, but it’s never for too long because how could it be for too long?
You are never too far away from yourself, for you could never be.
Every piece of the seeming puzzle is life meeting itself uninterruptedly.
Every poem is you meeting yourself.
Act like it.

Life is not a utilitarian affair. Though it’s the most useless thing for those who sadly take to a distorted view and turn Everything into a ‘thing’ of gain and loss, it’s challenging for the Ego in us after all to fully accept that we cannot possibly give anything to Life, for all that we have is borrowed, even our Egoic activities. The best chance we have is to ‘give’ up our ‘ideas’ of ourselves (and of everything) and live radically as Life itself, not at a distance from it, which, by the way, essentially means distance from who we are.

We are Everything when we are Nothing, which we essentially are (without knowing).

Things resigned to Time do not happen and only lead to fooling oneself.Understand this technically. When you place your bets on time in the context of a human being, what are you exactly hoping will change?
Linear processes such as progress or development have their place, but the Intention to Act today precedes all such processes that might then stretch themselves to reality.
What you can’t intend to do or be sure of today, you will not have an intention for or clarity about tomorrow. Why, you might ask?
Simply because we don’t understand this exact ‘simple’ thing here and now.
We don’t act or intend to act where we are, which is ‘Now’. We hope to act tomorrow, which brings the same unresolved predicament in that stretched ‘Now’—tomorrow.
Get out of your head.
Just act already. It’s quite alright to do so.
Start. And things will happen.

If everything is impermanent, it becomes all the more urgent to live and love extremely well, staying true to the heart.

If you don’t really exist in the way you ‘thought’ you did, it becomes all the easier to be Life itself. Simply TAKE YOUR CHANCES at everything your heart sincerely yearns for, for that is the key! You never know how great a love story you could have unless you take your chances. Be bold and stupid.

This here and now is precious. This here and now exists to be experienced openly. Neither chase nor resist. Include. Be one with all that is.

Impermanence doesn’t mean dead or that we have to eliminate it. Be touched, transformed, and annihilated by it all. Abandon excuses. Live. Become open to it all.

Everything is inherently good and sacred. Everyone is intrinsically good and sacred.  The ‘bad’ and the ‘ugly’ are just conditioning acquired by the Egoic Mind in the absence of awareness. It just takes unwavering faith and commitment to return to our inherent nature which is always here.  Homecoming is inevitable. 

To do something for love is enough. To do it for the love of it is enough. No other goals or purposes are necessary.

Don’t complicate unnecessarily.  Live. Love. With all your heart. All the way. Moment to moment. That is enough. That will be enough. Now. Always.

You have tried being smart all this time often struggling against Life. From now on, try radical dumbness, know that you don’t know. And go from there. Start afresh. Every moment. Resist nothing, which is to say, include the resistance’s. Let life live you, because you cannot live It. You cannot live it because you are It.

Witness.

Don’t bother being either a skeptic or a believer. Don’t bother doubting or trusting. There are no solutions and remedies in extremes and in divisions. All right action springs from seeing the Wholeness even as you recognize the parts, to see deeper and beyond what meets the eye, with inclusion beyond preferences, and with a trust that is rooted in the vision of the heart.

Bother only with the naked obvious Truth here and now and let your actions be guided by that and do it all with sensitivity.

The heart stays open to all. It rarely makes distinctions. Heart has eyes Mind doesn’t understand, for Mind is just busyness with Thought.

The heart sees beauty that is yet to recognize itself. Heart knows. Heart doesn’t place trust in the stories a Mind creates and believes in. It doesn’t trust anything in particular, for it doesn’t need to. It welcomes all and everything and sees it as it is. It loves anyway.

Those who say love is blind clearly don’t see or love yet. Love, if really love, sees everything and loves anyway.