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the spirit of life awakened me to an early morning serenity stroll thru wetgrass... watch a startled deer pass bounding into the deepdeep woods i breathe deep this fragrance of pine bid farewell to sleep & seek to find the entrance to morning to feel, again, a full sense of freedom i wander with the dawnwind wondering... wending with its frolicking peeping into shadowed nooks that tempt me in -- to look... at one with wavering shadows, awaiting the rising sun it is a silent time & i find that i'm happy to be so distant from the dissonant wranglings of man(un)kind... i listen... & the silence sings to me a mystic melody... listen! the Spirit of the Earth is singing her welcome song to the sun & the music of the Light replies with a hope that brightens the skies as the world begins to wake to the day trees whisper in the morning mist with a soft shush-shish... i look to the hills beyond these hills -- those distant hills that call to me (silently... so silently...) with the alluring voice of the wilderness offering no more than this: all that back country, unexplored... |
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follow the butterfly (where did it go?) seek... seek... the pure white stones (sparkling like snow in the noontide sun...) run, son, run... & in awe i see all these trees: eartharms reaching into the sky roots... reach deep bedrocked to sup upon Earth's sweet breast -- whose wondrous intricacy still begets the infinitely complex tissue of life stumble-stones, pine cones follow the deer trail up up up dead fallen pine tree wilder & wilder -- this heart's country as i branch my way up the watercourse way to penetrate deeper the big backyard over the hills & far... far... far... the shadows of the morning fade & the sun brightens towards noon i walk amidst this bliss of day with the grace of light shining upon me with the face of life green around me with a song of praise singing my heart into harmony with the greengreen world all these shades of green... & the miracle of eyeballs & light thru which they are seen... nothing definite is before me all possibility opens to me the future is an open door & we only close it upon ourselves when we cease to dream as far as we can i climb a new hill and from its crest see new country & further sky sunlight is dashing upon my path flashing -- sparkling me full of zest dazzling me into a deeper joy with all its shifting colors under the sun i come to feel my spirit ripening... wings of fire extend about me multiforms of energy come alive to dance before my delighting eyes son of Earth & Heaven am i enraptured into sweet communion with the sun, the earth, the sky... i enter, again, the cool pines to settle into stillness amidst a gift of flowers fugitive fragrances play my senses sensuous in the freshening winds coming & going, gently caressing my cheek, my hair, my everywhere, capriciously frisking with a drifting leaf tickling others into lightly dancing upon the tips of their stiffened stems swaying sinuous rhythms of grace dallying with the breeze's embrace & this day of grace extends... until a sense of the largeness of the whole of this utterly unutterable world impinges upon my being -- enormous complexity & minutest delicacy in a fusion beyond man's ability to grasp... pine trees listen in a stilling of wind as if to the deep pulsations of the heart of a breathing Nature & i come to see that we are all branches of a single tree -- whose span is infinity -- whose roots tap divinity & the tides of life are the waves of we while the goal of life is discovery... & our destiny (thus it comes to me) is to transmute (thru a transformed energy) the hard flinty substance of our world to the softness of life-learning-love |
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it is twilight time... avenues beneath the trees are wreathed in darkness looking up, thru tall darkpines i see a corridor of stars the shadow of night descends upon me as i ascend the crest of the mountain of vision stumbling in darkness to stare at stars enwrapped in that darkness rapt beneath these intricate patterns of coherent light blink-beaming messages that only the imagination of man can interpret -- in awed delight fragments of the night fall upon my sight like moondust... & it is a marvellous madness to be alive & *see*ing these gleams from far stars trembling upon the lyre of my being sounding an unearthly melody that almost begins to transport me with peaceful strains of harmony to spheres beyond our own -- some distant celestial home we long to return to... it is the music of the spheres playing upon the silences of an inner-inner ear deepening my sense of wonder before the mystery of the universe calling me... calling me... COME my spirit reaches forth into the deepdeepvoid & timeless in eternity i stand alone with the universe & the universal mystery... silently i commune with it as one mysterious Presence with another entering these deeper spaces to take the greater journey i see deep into the infinite & my consciousness is an island of awareness leaping across its vastness i steer a shoreless sea -- wide as vision -- deep as infinity yet even here -- upon a boundless frontier -- i see the river of life is streaming to explore still deeper courses & the tides of life flow on, flow on, growing like hope to reach with hands of celestial light towards a boundless future -- o life! -- life that is love & laughter & wonder & hope & boundless imagination... in that imagination is our growth our potentiality is limitless our thoughts are our dreams our dreams are the portal to infinity & infinity is our ultimate possibility in the face of this expanding infinity our questing spirit sings songs of miracle & mystery perceiving in the quietude of the light of distant stars that the heart of the mystery is the heart of love |
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love was the first movement of the universe love is the energy generating & regenerating life love makes love to love thru matter's delight flourishing into all live things that grow to laugh & deeply feel into the heart of the living real love is the seed of its own potent growth love is the deep stuff of all living flowing in tune with celestial harmonies growing with music & light dancing our consciousness into unutterable delight love is life's deepest mystery blossoming its own eternity love of life & a life of love uplift the spirit of man -- to reach as far as ever he can to expand his view of the long vista ahead to ascend from the earth to the beckoning stars & extend still further beyond... & beyond... to finally find the crown of his destiny reaching the fulfillment of his longest strivings: REALizing the ultimate dignity of the species expanding life's meaning beyond all finalities: manifesting a universal love, into reality & this Love that woo/man he/rself beCOMEs -- flesh & spirit, fused into one is the full incarnation of divinity ~~norman e. masters |
