What secrets do your dreams try to speak?

What do you know when you are asleep
that you can't remember when you are awake?

How do you know the difference?

Wake up......

© Sandra Hughes May 2014

You seek enlightenment?

You yearn to be at peace
Feel purpose, passion and intent
that goes beyond the you that you display

You want to stop the constant searching
Feel contentment and be able to accept and rest
knowing that all is as it should be and that this is enough
Oneness with all

Be warned.  Enlightenment promises all of this and more
Presenting the illusion for you to understand and adapt
But if you seek a restful destination,  then stop.  
Before you cross the threshold know this:

You cannot unknow
You cannot return to blissful distortion
You cannot go back and disconnect from the boundless connection you have found

You will replace 'this shouldn't be' with 'this is' and all the rapture and agony that brings is yours to hold

You will share and feel the joy and pain of everything in the universe
You will love all
Including yourself

You will glimpse the mystery and it will stop your breath in awe and depthless knowing that it is yours to own and always has been

You will be infinitely connected in your moments of awareness
infinitely alone in your moments of illusion
No one without the other

Non-duality

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I do not care for him

I do not lose my breath
When he speaks
My heart does not stop
When I meet his gaze

I do not ache for his touch

I do not care for him

Much


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I know so well that prison of which you speak
The safety to be found behind the walls
And the loneliness and longing that they bring

I know so well the visitors you shun
Watching them from behind a screen
Refusing the gift they bring for fear of the cost of acceptance

I know so well the bitter comfort of the shackles that you wear
The familiar weight of desires and need
That lovingly embrace you while you weep

I know so well the protector that you are
The bravery you need to stand him down

And watch your prison fall

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Ah - and so we are here

Now at the last fading moments
Before my real life begins

Don't be sad for me
I have been waiting
It is time this time

I'm going home

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Courage does not speak of how brave it is; does not seek empathy for its woes.  
It holds no space for heroism and fanfare.
  
Courage does not stand against its fears attempting to defeat them.  It has no desire to beat its chest and roar with daring victory.

Courage is speaking what is in your heart; knowing that your truth’s own voice is louder than legions of doubters.  

Courage is standing brazen, terrified, quivering joyously with the beauty and danger of reckless offering until suddenly, in a divine moment of discovery you are willing and you are seen

and you are enough.

And your heart begins to beat

gently,

surely,

with the joy and peace you have always sought.

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