If we make our bodies pure and clean,
More balanced, whole—just as they’re meant to be seen,
No sickness thrives where care is sown,
Through mindful steps, our health has grown.
We strive for strength, for lives made whole,
For wellness dwelling in body and soul,
To ease the weight of pain and strife,
And lessen the burdens that trouble life.
For we are human, flawed within,
Touched by the heavy hand of sin,
Yet called to rise, to stand anew,
With hearts made strong and spirits true.
So we surrender, we choose His way,
Let God’s own will in us hold sway,
Becoming more like Christ each day,
With the power to keep temptation at bay.
For though the enemy seeks to destroy,
To steal our peace and rob our joy,
Through Jesus’ strength we stand our ground,
And send him fleeing when faith is found.
So let us cleanse both flesh and soul,
Make broken spirits restored and whole,
I choose this path—both strong and true…
To live renewed—now what about you?
Appearances
of difficulty
pain and sorrow
may seem as a
win for separation
in a story which
can only be told
by an expressing
Wholeness~~
Wholeness
appears as
separation~
As a thought
can appear as
dogma~or
As no thing
appearing as wholeness
appearing as separation~
No guarantees
Apparently~~
Wholeness
no definition~
Separation
no definition~
No-definition
appearances
of separation
of wholeness~~
Wholeness
indefinable
presents as
Separation
definable~
Wholeness is
definable and
not~as is
Separation~~
If I ask you once to shower thyself
Would you choose to be my heart or soul of yourself?
If I permit you my innocence to manifest oneself
Would you decorate it with the flowers or pant with itself?
If you are blessed to mold your figure
Would you choose to be my thought or muse of yourself?
If I edict your radiation to the garden of life
Will you breathe like a blushing rose or the petals of your own self?
If I insist on the wholeness of your being
Would you choose to be a dove or your own love ?
If you are ever visible for once
Will you be after the world or the world itself?
Ps: PalwashaSharif
pink pearls and peach dandelions
silently showing out with tiny slivers of fluff
winged faeries never looked more pretty
dripping opalescent wholeness
showing the world goodness
instilling hope, joy, and peace
Significance
In a tiny space,
Words are full of meaning; joy.
Capturing the heart.
Haply I think on thee
The lark of wholeness
At break of a new day
Wipes away separation's grip
And rises in recognition of
The sullen stories which
Separate me and thee...CC
Interpreting:
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
~~William Shakespeare..Sonnet 29
The wholeness questions..
Most apparently see life
As disconnected..separate..
Talk of illusion
Is quickly dismissed..
A few may pause
When questioned thus:
How might wholeness seem..with
No time and space
No autonomous persons
No locations
No "others"
No happenings..
These questions stall the mind
And spontaneously
Not-knowing may be
Paradoxically flash
For no-one..
Freedom
Illuminated...
I
Humpty Trump-ty scaled a wall
Humpty Trump-ty had a great fall
He blamed it on Dem and others
Dems held off cussing; US family, brothers
Did Humpty Trump-ty think Eden, First Fall?
II
We all ought to learn to take
Intermission, even at election, that break
To center ourselves, anchor with soul
Ponder space, our place, become Whole
Or repeat Humpty Trump-ty's mistake
Switch off the daylight, please, rescind the wind
outside the creaky window, draw the blinds
and take your clothes off, so our twinned
lovehungry shadows, souls, hearts and minds
could be a single entity again.
Oh, how I love when your aloneness finds
my loneliness in darkness, or, say, when
your timid kiss meets mine, the vigorous…
Alas, your wristwatch says it’s almost ten
o’clock and you should leave. I’m eager as
I never was before to know why
two lonelinesses cannot coalesce.
- Well, how’s about Friday?
- I’ll come by.
STRIVING FOR WHOLENESS
I wish
Wish for
More of
Of the
The whole
I am
Half of
Whole just
Broken
Just two
Two halves
Striving
for whole
Striving
for
wholeness
1/22/18
by James Edward Lee Sr.
Be bold of heart with mind at peace;
Be as faith starts hope in love's ease.
Be as one whole with poise as proof;
Be pure of soul with lovely truth.
Be perfect then with mind and heart;
Be as you can with each new start.
Be strong in peace with joy that styles;
Be as you please with cheer that smiles.
Be power here with focus right;
Be bright and clear with affluent light.
Be love's pure voice with easy pace;
Be kind by poise with touch of grace.
Be harmonious with ample zest;
Be not anxious with journey quest.
Be happy Here with that clear Now;
Be without fear as love endows.
Be of good cheer in time and space;
Be wise my dear and walk with grace.
Be a being of grand living;
Be fond growing in becoming.
Leon Enriquez
12 September 2016
Singapore
Lilt in rhythm giving high and low
High and low with own rhythms go
Bifurcation to an endless end
Fast moving and slow!
Yield with what is
Bend, to what you do not know!
Blow your own whistle at last
Before it is too late to blow!
Michael
The body is precious
a vehicle for
awakening
treat it with care,
said Buddha
I love its stillness
beauty and sanctity
here and now
sink into its calm
to hear the whispers
in all
its ebbs and flows
erect, penetrate
the edge of life and
loss
return to wholeness
Life and a living being
can never be separated
See one and you see
the other
Destroy one and you destroy
the other
Pluck a flower from a tree
and dissect it
to understand it
You no longer have that flower
as it existed
on the tree
You may have an understanding
of the relationship
between the components
of a dead flower
but you will have forever lost
the totality of the experience
of the LIVING flower
To see the flower in
its completeness
BECOME THE FLOWER
and understand a reality
that can only be experienced
but can never be put into words
for the whole is more than
the sum of its parts
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