we run
we hide
we ignore
there is another option
though it is hot, stay
what is old shall fall away
you are born from love
~j
#stay #StayPresent #StayWoke #presence #MeditateAndResist #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #meditation #love #LoveWins #haiku #poetry #JMWpoetry
though darkness may come
open hearts will light the night
shine on, dear friends, shine
~j
this evening, a #haiku for you 😌🙏🏻📿
happy 1st night of #Hanukkah 😌🙏🏻🕎
& thank you #Alabama voters 😌🙏🏻👍🏻
#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #LoveWins #shine #light#Enso #JMWart
tears flow
laughter sings
just be
~j
09.08.17
be mindful. be discerning. be awake.
~j
it is all right here
wind dancing through sleeping trees
birds singing, “Wake up!”
~j
02.26.17
there is reason to hope.
~j
in darkness and light
nowhere to run, stay open
not knowing answers
just this.
~j
12.20.16
a thought on my birthday:
“Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.”
~
Huang Po
and so i shall breathe
in gratitude for this life
precious and fleeting
~j
here, we own nothing
here, there is nothing to hold
be free and let go
~j
#LetGo #LetGoAndFlow #NothingToHoldOnto #NothingToOwn #BeFree #wisdom
…a note I wrote after listening to a talk by Pema Chodron. life is full of ups and downs, good times and hard times. both of these are fleeting, arising and passing away as is all life. non-suffering comes from our capacity to fully live each moment and then let go of that moment.
it’s so easy to let go of the hard times – no need to talk us into that! but even our good times can be filled with suffering if we are afraid to lose them. wouldn’t it be better – more enjoyable, knowing that we will lose them, to just really – fully enjoy them while they are present? then when it is time to say goodbye, we let go in gratitude for the joy we had in that moment.
~j
#impermanence #nonattachment #life #gratitude #suffering #PemaChodron
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