The Path

Peter on February 2nd, 2011

We are always changing,
But only to become ourselves.
What we leave behind was not ours.
What we carry forward is,
     if only for the moment.

Sometimes a backward glance clarifies
     what was,
          what remains,
               what will be.

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Peter on September 12th, 2010

Questions Answers Words
The spiritual quest begins
With simple questions:
Who…?
What…?
How…?
Why…?
The quest leads always
To one simple answer:
While answers can be known,
They cannot be put into words.

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Peter on September 1st, 2010

I commented on a post that I’d post this song.
I’ve been holding onto it, because there are a number of other connotations for it — one of those is a woman, one woman in particular, a soul-mate. But I’m not ready to tell that story, or is it the story that’s not ready to [...]

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Peter on August 14th, 2010

A note about these poems…
I don’t so much write poems as tease the words out of a notion. A poem may begin with a couplet or no more than a few words and partial lines, but I sense a fuller form and know this form’s intention is a poem. Often, I’ll churn the kernel [...]

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Peter on May 25th, 2009

Some random thoughts on truth and being true…
I no longer put much stock in "the truth". That phrase predisposes us to notions of an objective reality (one that exists without imagination , one that is permanent, unchanging, eternal. Truth is a fiction established as fact through reason.
On the other hand, i put all my [...]

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Staci on May 22nd, 2009

Glad you understood and appreciate The Butterfly , Peter. I found this today on the 11:11 site, perhaps its timing is as pertinent

THE PATH OF EMERGENCY
If we continue walking on the crumbling road of duality, we will experience a continual state of emergency. If we are still working at a job we hate, it [...]

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Tweet on April 15th, 2009

We are not sinful, shameful human creatures who have to somehow earn Spirituality. We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience.
~ Robert Burney

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