secrets

#1 - laughter keeps us young. the key to not growing old is knowing how to laugh at ourselves

#2 - children know everything we need to know. they hold the secrets of the universe.

#3 - when in doubt, first shut up.

#4 - we want to own things, we want things to belong to us. we own nothing. whatever is, is.

#5 - to seek truth is the first phase of truth.

#6 - when something happens and we find ourselves exasperatedly saying - i don't UNDERSTAND! -  you're right, you probably don't. Dig deeper. there is much more to learn.

#7 - in the act of seeking truth, your mind, heart, and being expands.

#8 - bitterness feeds bitterness. harping on how we have been wronged or hurt is like rehearsing negativity. Let it go. The past, whatever we desire, whatever we failed, however we have been wronged - none of these matter. it is what it is.

#9 - to fail to practice gratefulness, contentment, for what we have is the most basic way we fail to define reality fairly, in proportion.

i had forgotten to write

i had forgotten
the shapes of the words that swirl
the swirls of the world that shapes
at the back of my head
as shadows of the things i see but do not believe in
in the material world.

i had forgotten this is how i breathe
i see
i live
i had forgotten i can feel nothing without this breath
no word, no sight, no sound
no desires,
no
dreams

and that is why,
i have been
merely an outline
a shadow
a cloud
a dark breath
wisping in the in betweens.

2.

...

becoming solid
by layers
one, love
two, anger
three, truth
four, a deep substance that always lay deep within, waiting to be ignited.

now i implode in bursts
the sudden explosion of flowers blooming in a field
after the storm settles
i will no longer be like the wind
but like the tree with strong roots, reaching arms, trembling leaves
that grows both inward and onward
and is
indestructible
i will be like that tree
the best friend of my childhood days

1.

like a ghost i arrived
into this world
a shadow born of another shadow
ephemeral

slowly, i realise

that i am a force

immovable

separate from the things i do,

the uncertain things i feel

i am a force

steadfast

all on my own.

i am distinct

incomparable

unique

yet it is not me

just someone i am still getting to know everyday

someone i am

learning to love.

what i have learnt about love

I've learnt that it expands

it is the warmth that envelopes

not the orphaned gift detached

not the empty chill that goes into your bones

I've learnt that it doesn't always give us what we want

but it makes us strong

I've learnt that it does not need conditions

does not need reciprocations

because like a tree well tended

its roots are strong

it grows up tall

becomes the overarching force that protects you and me in its shade

I've learn that it is painful

but that it is worth it

like the blindness we must tear away

for a glimpse of heaven

when that light touches the deep

we are never the same again.

Quran 5

"O people of the Book! Exceed not in your religion the bounds (of what is proper), trespassing beyond the truth, nor follow the vain desires of people who went wrong in times gone by― who misled many, and strayed (themselves) from the even Way. ..."

"...they change the words from their (right) places and forget a good part of the Message that was sent them, nor wilt thou cease to find them,― barring a few-ever bent on (new) deceits: but forgive them, and overlook (their misdeeds): for Allah loveth those who are kind.