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IT LOOKS LIKE DISASTER

It looks like disaster
It feels like an angel slain.

Yet through cracks and ruptures
in all she should have been
beauty is breaking out,
like a holy flame.

Bliss sparkles where bodies break
and ecstasy, sister of the bitter,
Can you hear her singing
within heart shards of shame?

Give me a moment of your emptiness
Let me into that secret place
where fear, anger and destroyer’s rage
are infinite passports to joy;
and freedom that can not be slain
in the heart of she who is anyway here.

Let us un-scroll together
the promise of this living majesty
in she who will rise again.

(In the picture: Pakistani woman stoned to death for owning a cell-phone).

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The passion to serve the 'other' in the relief of suffering through processes of awakening is born out of the simple truth that it makes me feel better. Your welfare is my welfare. We never were divided. The love we share is the love we experience. So it is with peace.

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