ENTER NAKED INTO YOUR KNOWINGNESS

So. You think we have come together to find out who we really are?
Yes. To discover that part of us, not us at all, here,
waiting in the wings, just off stage.
It has come to find and meet us.
Silly us! Did we think we were in charge?

It needs us… to find Itself.
Like great lovers, we all need each other
to manifest the tenderness of true living.
For the heights and the depths and the ecstasy of perfect life,
long standing in the shadows,
we need our True Lover… now waiting in the wings.
Disrobe, and enter naked into your knowingness.
This was the time we had arranged to meet.
Disrobe, and enter naked into your knowingness.
This was the time we had arranged to meet.

Go, melt into the arms of your Lover and breathe the new world of the One, now here!

KISSED BY THE DIVINE AT SUNRISE

I stub my toes climbing the steps to you.
Joyfully I bruise them.
Even when I put on my finest dancing moccasins,
I scuff the toes.
Am I not lifting my feet high enough?
How high are you, really?
When I part the drapery to witness the sunrise
and feel the light-fire-heat,
I cannot look or I would go blind,
such radiant Life!
But I feel your touch through the window,
and I hear you whisper:
Your attempt to move towards me,
is moving you away.
Be still.
Hold your breath for a moment.
Feel me.
My Beloved.
You whisper … that I AM you!
I need not look for you.
So, I let you place your morning sunlight kisses on my cheeks,
and my heart yields… to the glow of our oneness.

THE PATHLESS PATH

As I went wandering in the forest today, not following any path, but knowing to go home is north, I thought: Truth is like this. The way to truth is pathless. Ultimately, no one and no course of study will get me there. There comes a time to leave the path and wander. The North Star will always guide me back.
No, my friend, I did not fall apart because you weren’t here to care about me. I fell apart easily when I decided to dismantle myself; I just don’t need or want it anymore. So much about it keeps me separate from Source. It’s like I’m buried under way too many covers on a cold night that grows warm as the clouds roll in.
I’m simply throwing off the covers now.
God will have mercy on me,
and cover me up
if I begin to freeze.
I’m taking off my seeker’s shoes; it seems I’ve been wearing them my entire life.
I’m placing them reverently on the window’s ledge, along with my empty pot; it’s yet again empty. I filled it many times, and then consumed the food within. Empty is its natural, sacred state.
I’m climbing through to the other side of that window, and heading across the desert with no shoes and no canteen. The waters of life flow there continually, and I have no need to plan for my sustenance, or plan for anything. No plans. I’m just going.
I’m sailing away, no mooring left, anchor thrown overboard.
Without a rudder, I find the freedom I have always longed for,
and the love I never had, until now.
Take my hand for these final steps, my Love.
For you have had my heart all along…

THE EMBODIMENT

When you have cast out the clutter from your temple,
and scrubbed the floors,
and polished clean the mirrors and windows
that you may see deep within the soul through the eyes and far into infinity through the skies,
then, it is time to sit in the stillness and wait,
for the Guest to arrive.
And in that waiting, you find,
that you are the Guest,
and you have finally, come home.
Welcome!

ECSTATIC VERSE BY KARIMA

Several times over the last 10 years, I awoke in the wee hours in a conversation with God, who I experience in endless ways, and who guided me to write these reflections. This flow or stream of consciousness now fills several journals, and this is the year I have decided to “come out of the closet” with these timeless inspirations.
And so, I begin.

Dearest Friends on the Journey:

I realize, waking up in the middle of the night, I have loved you, loved everyone, forever …
My complete and simple realization is that the full-blown reality I AM, is Love …
I AM THAT and always have been.
This brings tears to my eyes.
I have never been more awake in my life …

God is kissing me with my eyes wide open.
In this sublime moment, Love is seeing through me,
And seeing Itself everywhere.
This is true Oneness …
The most powerful transforming force in existence.
Wherever Love is seeing Itself …
The Kingdom is made,
the pure goodness vibrating in life is restored to its natural state.
Radiant wholeness assumes its eternal nature…
And all time stops.
NOW.
And all forms dissolve;
and only the pulse of Creation Love exists,
rebirthing…
forever…
a Shiva Bliss Dance!

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Most beloved One.
Our hearts are like magnets.
We meet in that place, where I am losing myself in you,
and you are losing yourself in me,
and only One of us is doing this Dance,
and it doesn’t matter who.
Joy has no name,
and no boundaries.