That small voice of doubt thst whispers, ever so softly, just enough to make you hesitate. It disguises itself as care but it doesn't have your best interests at heart. It isn't your friend. It doesn't want you to experience or grow. It is the voice of the devil on your shoulder. The very fact you can hear it means you are on the verge of something great. Pay it no heed and walk confidently on.
THE EDGE YOU CARRY WITH YOU
What is this
beguiling reluctance
to be happy?
This quickness
in turning away
the moment
you might
arrive?
The felt sense,
that a moment's
unguarded joy
might after all,
just kill you?
You know
so very well
the edge
of darkness
you have
always
carried with you.
You know
so very well,
your childhood legacy:
that particular,
inherited
sense of hurt,
given to you
so freely
by the world
you entered.
And you know
too well
by now
the body's
hesitation
at the invitation
to undo
everything
others seemed
to want to
make you learn.
But your edge
of darkness
has always
made
its own definition
secretly
as an edge of light
and the door
you closed
might,
by its very nature
be
one just waiting
to be leant against
and opened.
And happiness
might just
be a single step away,
on the other side
of that next
unhelpful
and undeserving
thought.
Your way home,
understood now,
not as an achievement,
but as a giving up,
a blessed undoing,
an arrival
in the body
and a full rest
in the give
and take
of the breath.
This living
breathing body
always waiting
to greet you
at the door,
always
no matter
the long years
you've been
away,
still
wanting you
to come home.
For my friend - “Every soul, when its time on this earthly plane ends, is like a drop returning to the ocean—becoming one with the vast expanse of spiritual energy.” – Deepak Chopra
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The horoscope of the Persian Timurid ruler Iskandar Sultan, 1411. This is the only surviving individual illuminated horoscope from medieval Islam.
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