The  past few  years  may or
may not, have been easy, if
they have not been easy,
they have taught you how
strong you are.

Make 2023 the best year of
your life so far, whether you
are old or young.

Let your wounds be healed,
your apologies be accepted,
your generosity expanded,
your love educated.

May your desires be clarified,
your untold stories be heard,
your insight heightened,
your load lightened.

See your wildness rejuvenated,
your courage stoked,
your fears dissolved,
in the year of 2023.    
Happy new year.                                                            ­                
                                                                ­                              Jon York  2022

Somewhere in the world is a treasure
that has no value to anyone but you,
and a secret that is meaningless to
everyone except you, and a frontier
that possesses a revelation that only
you know how to exploit.

Search for those things.

Somewhere in the world is a  person
who could ask you that precise question
that you need to hear in order to catalyze
the next phase of your evolution.

Do what's necessary to come face to face
with that person and listen to what they
have to say.

Feel empowered if you use your power
to empower others.

There's a reason why the rear view mirror
is so small and the windshield is so big.

It is because where you're headed is much
more important than what you've left
behind and it allows you to search for those
things.                                                         ­                          Jon York 2022

Have  the  power  to
exorcise  ghosts  and
demons that  are still
lingering from the old
days and your old ways.

Be able to transform the
way your history affects
you.

Knot by knot untie yourself
from your past and let it
rise away from you like
a ballon.  

Become adept at the process
of  self-inquiry and symbolic
insight, leading to the growth
of faith in yourself.
                                                                                                Jon York  2022

Enjoy your problems.

Solving problems is one
of the highest and most
sensual of all  the  brain
functions.

We  define  ourselves
through  the puzzling
dilemmas  we  attract
and  solve.

We should not search
for happiness because
it always lets us down.

As soon as we achieve
what we wanted, we
always want something
new that we don't have.

Instead we should focus
on finding joy. The biggest
flaw of the heart is that it
needs love to feel better.                                                   Jon York  2022

Every  time  I open  my  eyes  I  unlock
a world of wonder. Sometimes  I'm
an angel, sometimes I'm a devil, sometimes
I'm in-between.

Sometimes I'm as bad as it can get and
sometimes as good as it can be. Sometimes
I'm a million colors, sometimes I'm black
and white and sometimes I'm all extremes.

Try to figure me out you never can.
There are so many things I am.

I have lived a thousand lives, I have
loved a thousand loves.

I have walked on many different worlds
and seen the end of time, seen life and
death so horrific that it defies description.

In small matters I trust the mind. In
large matters I trust the heart.

For important decisions I empower my
mind to do what it does best and my
heart to do what it does best.                                           Jon York  2022

You and I were  just an almost  time and time
and time again. I begged the world to stop so
for  once, even  for a moment we could be  so
much more than a possibility.

A million possibilities we could have been but
in the end we were just stardust and magic inside
this vast space because the universe craved us.

If I close my eyes I can feel you upon my flesh, inside
the depths of my soul. I could feel you in every breath
that filled my lungs and in every beat of my heart.

I used to write you into my poetry and I'd let every
curve of your body fill my fingertips and lust became
my ink. I would lay you down gently across my blank
pages so you would be mine for eternity.

The most beautiful words aren't just written but traced
upon delicate flesh and hummed gently into the soul.
You were the poetry that spilled from my pen and satisfied
those blank pages but now I listen as silence fills my lungs,
waiting for time to softly whisper and fill my flesh with memories.
                                                      
                                                                                             Jon York  2022

"When  you  do  not  seek or
need  approval  you  are  at  
your  most  powerful."
          ­         Caroline Myss

To   love  oneself   is  hard
work, but it becomes harder
when you realize that you're
actually  required  to  love
multiple versions of yourself
that show up without warning
throughout  the day, throughout
the week, throughout the month,
throughout your life.

Refine, deepen, and invigorate
your love for all of yourselves.

It  may  be  hard  work, but  it
will also  be  fun  and exhilarating.

                                                  ­                                        Jon York   2022