Tag: spiritual
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Lost pilgrims
Gentle breeze Temple bell Mighty earthquake We swallow a cloud Of incense smoke It brings tears to our eyes Tour guide Spewing out facts In shrieking voice Old man calling His wife back home Girls taking selfies We’re all Lost pilgrims In search of What’s already there
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Symphony
Imagine. Just imagine. Imagine you’ve been deaf all your life. Then after a few decades of living in a silent world, you receive an experimental hearing implant. The person who gave it to you insists you go to a symphonic concert together… The concert starts, and you’re immediately taken aback at the array of exotic […]
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Our own sacred space
A few days ago I married the most fascinating person I know. A lot of people came to me after the ceremony and said “I’ve never seen anything like this. I never thought it is possible.” In Poland, humanist, secular, or non-dogmatic wedding ceremonies aren’t really a thing. Most people get married in a church. […]
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Splattered brains
It Happened Again lastNight: LovePopped the cork on itself–Splattered my brainsAcross theSky Hafez, The Gift
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Jungle drum
Take off your shoes And expectations Let your hair And baggage down The jungle drum will guide you You and I The fire And the night The fine sand humming softly Under our feet The city lights Blinking to the rhythm From afar We’re all in this together
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Grandmother
Grandmother The kids are running amok Scared of every twig snap Every flickering shadow They’d set the jungle on fire Just so that they would never Fear of darkness again Grandmother Take all your kids back home Before one cuts off the branch We are all growing on
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Sacred space is wherever you make it
Is there anything or anyone you hold as sacred? Unless you subscribe to one of the major religions, there answer is often no. Some people might hold a special reverence for their family, nation, or local football team, but to many it’s not even that. Sacredness has little space in the postmodern world that pulled […]
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Serendipity
What a coincidence It must have been The Cosmos To send you here Just when we needed you I heard you say to me With awe And relief Well I just– I just really hope The Cosmos knows What They’re doing Cause I haven’t The slightest idea Myself
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Things you can learn from traditional folk music
You know what’s the least cool thing on Earth when you’re a teenager in Poland? Traditional folk music, that’s what. Only village grandmas would perform it when I was a kid, they sang in regional dialect which sounded weird and archaic, and the lyrics never made any sense. A rose grew in my garden, tell […]
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The Cathedral
I planned to add a few details on an old painting and ended up reworking it completely from scratch. Looks like a little bit too much, but it’s okay, I can always paint it from scratch again another time. Now that I discovered that glitter sticks pretty well to oil paint, my life will never […]
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