Dearest one
I am sharing with you one of my most favorite poems today. It’s by Thich Nhat Hanh. May it help you leave behind the feelings that you are somewhat separate from the whole. Let it assist you in letting go of the thoughts that you are superior to some people and inferior to others. When you remember that you are one with all, such things like superiority and inferiority simply cease to exist.
We all know it on one level yet sometimes we forget to experience it directly. So, may this poem serve you as a sacred reminder.
Leave your analytical mind behind, and let your heart feel the truth ofthe words below. I am overwhelmed with beauty, humility and compassion every time I read it. It is my deep prayer that you feel the same.
With love,
Julia
PS: As always, please leave your comments below. I love reading them.
Call Me by My True Names
Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.
Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.
I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.
I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to
Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea
pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and
loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my
hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his “debt of blood” to, my
people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.
My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all
walks of life.
My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.
PS: Thanks to many of your requests to set up an additional Your Next Level of Liberation immersion this year, I am happy to announce that we have created one for Nov 6-7 in Marin, CA. In this immersion you will let go of the worries, fears and struggles that keep you from living Freely in true joy, oneness and abundance. Let go of all boxes and stand freely in the center of your True Being. Learn to appreciate and feel blessed by all feelings and qualities of this amazing thing we call life. Anger or joy, sadness or exhilaration, failure or success — here is a way to stay centered and Free in the midst of all of them.
http://breathoflove.org/Immersion.php
Dr. Emoto prayer for the gulf:
I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings.To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae, and all living creatures . . .
I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.”
(So quickly do I want to deny the pain.)
Thanks for this reminder, Julia. One of my favorite poems as well. Got my tears of joy AND pain going just now. How easy it is to place blame and be self righteous. Meanwhile, we continue to drive the cars that need the gas that needs the BPs of the world to supply it. And in this deeper sense, we ARE those BP execs choosing to burn the sea turtles or whatever other horrors are happening. I pray that the tears of our pain over this, fills the four oceans until the oil is purged and the waters pure again. I own my part, I am sorry, I ask forgiveness of the sea creatures and gulf residents. I also forgive myself and move on to make better choices in this moment. Peace, Wayne
Wow, I hope that I can have this much love, compassion and oneness with all that is. Thay’s poetry and work is amazing. To have experienced all the darkness, violence, and ignorance that he has and to be able to be one with it all, moves me to tears.
Thanks Julia thy poetry is so..so touching.God Bless
thank you for that poem. it touched my soul. i have not heard of this poet.
i feel very fortunate to have been exposed to it. sometime i forget about the positive and negative the ying & yang that opposite attract and why there is collective consciousness. my actions are causing so much that goes on in the world i/we live. i know i live in a web of energy that is spinning in the wrong direction sometimes. but, i also relize when i wake up i believe i am trying to move into a place were my life will be simply. less is so much more!
i love mother nature and marine/wild life. they are so precious to me because my art is inspired by all three. GOD BLESS USE AND RAISE ALL OF MANKINDS CONSCIOUNESS SO WE MAY EXIST IN PEACE TOGETHER ON OUR MOTHER EARTH.
LOVE, JOY
I am the sound and the thought, the mother and father birthing, I AM. I have collided and amidst the collision is the sonic boom of awakening taking place. Who so ever dies here is reborn and all is well…all is well.