When I'm sad

I like to think of the sky

It's so open

When I feel weighed down

I like to think of a plant

It knows how to just be

Just be in whatever arrives

Like the sky

Blue

Like the plant

Green

Lovely

Simplicity

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It's 2 a.m. and sleep eludes,

the thinking brain twirls,

the breath moves softly,

the heart expands,

sending peace, 

to the tired ones

who stretch the dollar,

who give thanks for each penny,

to the old ones (the old old dog at son's house yesterday lying quietly on the floor looking at me with gentle watery eyes)

who take each breath

with little left,

energy shifti...

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I lay on my bed

worrying,

what good has this done me?

None.

I lay on my bed

relaxing,

what good has this done me?

It changes everything.

Letting go

creates power, 

creates well-being,

makes us smile with ease.

There is nothing to fix

because nothing is broken.

What appears to be broken

is but an experience

with a pearl inside.

Find the pearl

an...

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Wake up and remember,

there is nothing you need to do but be--

be curious,

be relaxed,

be happy.

Let everything else go--

go to God,

go to good,

go to creation.

You are creation's reflection--

bask in its beauty

and let everything create 

unto itself.

This is joy!

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Fall into bliss.

Melt into bliss.

Everything is perfect.

Everything is wonderful.

These words have power.

The thinking mind thinks

no, no, no, this is not so.

Catastrophes loom, tragedies arrive, 

so very far from perfect or wonderful.

But...

the being mind--

freed from thought,

tuned to eternity,

walking with spirit...

perfection and wonder exist in the r...

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