"I AM ANOTHER YOURSELF"

Only Breath
Not Christian or Jew
or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen.
Not any religion
or cultural system.

I am not from the East
or the West,
not out of the ocean
or up from the ground,
not natural or ethereal,
not composed of
elements at all.

I do not exist,
am not an entity
in this world or the next,
did not descend
from Adam and Eve
or any origin story.

My place is placeless,
a trace of the traceless.
Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved,
have seen the two worlds
as one
and that one call to
and know,
first, last, outer, inner,
only that
breath breathing
human being

~ Rumi

"For we men have one book in common which points to God. Each has it within himself, which is the priceless Name of God. Its letters are the flames of His Love, which He out of His heart in the priceless Name of Jesus has revealed in us. Read these letters in your hearts and spirits and you have books enough. All the writings of the children of God direct you unto that one book, for therein lie all the treasures of wisdom. This book is Christ in you." jakob böhme

I don’t know what to say
All my thoughts,
blown away
The beauty
and the terror
of this moment

Once in your life you’ll find
That all your life
has been a lie
A self-delusional
story
excuses from soaring
soaring

(dance)

Once in your life
you’ll find you’ve been
dreaming
All of a sudden
you’re not believing
I never knew the secret
in me
How could I know
I didn’t know!

But now
there is there is
this chance
now, here,
this voice at last

“This, and more
you will do”

Is what it said to me
Through me

Once in your life
you’ll find yourself
bleeding
Walking between
the worlds
you’ve been dreaming
Lightly upon the
shores of my soul

But now I know
Now I know

The river is deep
rising within me
I’m flying above
Waves
trying to hear me
I wanna dive in
Dive in!

It’s calling me,

IAN!

"Love is a mystery, sleep is a mystery, and all that we see around us is a mystery. Trying to understand this is confusion. Living it fully is called enlightenment."
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

when in doubt, just love

“All of the past is but the beginning of a beginning; all that the human mind has accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.” H.G. Wells

...having your heart broken can be an amazing gift...
if you're lucky,
art and compassion will pour forth...

i am compelled to create beauty,
endeavor to be present,
and love as much as possible.

I love

creating gardens that speak to the soul,
the celebration, revelation and exploration of consciousness & human potential...
soulutions, evolution, revolution

turns me on.


friends....
music,
Rumi, Hafiz, Rilke,
cats,
flowers,
hummingbirds.....

((( love)))

warm embraces

"Now is when it is. Here is where it is. You are what it is. Celebrate!"
Werner Erhardt