If someone you love is mentally ill and miserable beyond words...

If someone you love is so depressed they can't get out of bed...

If someone you love is addicted and living on the streets...

And on and on...

Where is the line between choice and incapacity to choose?

Is linear cause and effect at times a fruitless inquiry?

Does help arise from interior transformation?

Does hel...

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"I love you."

We all yearn to hear those words,

but have you ever said them to yourself?

Who, then, is the one speaking when you say this to yourself?

Yourself to yourself?

It appears there is something more.

The words "I love you" (to yourself!) open up the gates of heaven:

out dance the angels, the saints, the guides, the seraphim and cherubim, and on and on,

all the bein...

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Writing poetry

for me

is prayer dancing on the page,

melodies pouring out of my heart,

emotions wrapped in exquisite paper,

ecstasy and sorrow holding hands.

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There is a man who lives in the sky,

well, actually, he lives in my mind's eye.

He has no teeth.

He loves to throw his head back and laugh.

He has kind eyes.

His hair is long and wild

and very white,

like he's lived alot or maybe seen a ghost.

He is happy and wise.

He counsels me:

be happy.

He cheers me up.

Does all this stuff down here on earth matter?

Of co...

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