Poetry 🪷
I take a Nietzschean approach: embracing the chaos, accepting there is no perfect. The Poetic Self is our embodied story that drives us toward meaning, beauty, morality, authenticity, and connection.
It requires walking the poetic path.
Finding the beauty in the chaos.
The poetic path isn’t always comfortable.
It demands full, emotional honesty.
It asks... See more
It requires walking the poetic path.
Finding the beauty in the chaos.
The poetic path isn’t always comfortable.
It demands full, emotional honesty.
It asks... See more
The Poetic Path
There’s a collective, almost spiritual outcry for more creativity, meaning, and humanity in our lives. We live in a global society so coercively mechanised and commoditised that many of us feel crushed, burnt out, and more disconnected than ever.
The world feels like it’s accelerated in recent years. The individualist, capitalist dream is in its pri... See more
The world feels like it’s accelerated in recent years. The individualist, capitalist dream is in its pri... See more
The Poetic Path
It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go... See more
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go... See more
Awakin.org • Problem in the Now?
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? You feel the separation from the Beloved ... ~ Rumi
Patricia Albere • Evolutionary Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Mutual Awakening
A Garden Beyond Paradise
by Rumi
Everything you see has its roots
in the unseen world.
The forms may change,
yet the essence remains the same.
Every wondrous sight will vanish,
every sweet word will fade.
But do not be disheartened,
The Source they come from is eternal--
growing, branching out,
giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?--
That Source is wit... See more
by Rumi
Everything you see has its roots
in the unseen world.
The forms may change,
yet the essence remains the same.
Every wondrous sight will vanish,
every sweet word will fade.
But do not be disheartened,
The Source they come from is eternal--
growing, branching out,
giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?--
That Source is wit... See more
A Garden Beyond Paradise, by Rumi
May the Source be with you.
— August Aalstad
he Source
Source
Alas my Muslim friends
I do not know myself
I am not Christian
I am not Jewish
I am not Zoroastrian
I am not Muslim either
am not of the earth
I am not of the wind
I am not of the water
I am not of the fire
I have seen both worlds
And call them one
My place is the placeless
A trace of traceless
I am not the body
I am not the mind
I am the source of... See more
Source
Alas my Muslim friends
I do not know myself
I am not Christian
I am not Jewish
I am not Zoroastrian
I am not Muslim either
am not of the earth
I am not of the wind
I am not of the water
I am not of the fire
I have seen both worlds
And call them one
My place is the placeless
A trace of traceless
I am not the body
I am not the mind
I am the source of... See more