Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“They are saying in the Flock that if you are not the Son of the Great Gull Himself”, Fletcher told Jonathan one morning after Advanced Speed Practice, “then you are a thousand years ahead of your time.”
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. “What do you think, Fletch? Are we ahead of our time?”
A long silence, “Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anyone who wanted to discover it; that’s got nothing to do with time. We’re ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way that most gulls fly.”“That’s something,” Jonathan said, rolling to glide inverted for a while. “That’s not half as bad as being ahead of our time”.
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

The Seagull Speaks Creative Commons Copyright

Monday, January 11, 2010

Frozen Spirits

 The mournful sound of the fog horn out in the bay,
A sad sigh for humanity’s failings,
Snow flakes falling,
Frozen tears,
As eerie as they are beautiful.

Like their spirits,
Locked,
Imprisoned,
Hidden within,
Yearning for freedom,
And Truth.

This is the beginning of great change,
Amidst the silence,
Snatched out of the freezing air,
By the snow.
 
Warm words will come,
To fill the whole of humanity with joy,
And the frozen landscape will thaw.

You will heal this Earth of yours,
And the shoots will rise again from the snow,
Bringing hope to all mankind,
And the recognition of love and the truth always.


Dark winter days can be difficult can't they, but there is something beautiful about the snow. I wrote this poem in January 2010. I was walking to the DART (railway) station in Glenageary, South Dublin and the fog horn sounded from Dublin Bay so clearly - this gave me the first line of the poem as the snow flakes fell down. I had an overwhelming feeling of stillness and a sense of pristine beauty, as well as a feeling that things are changing and that there is a lot of hope for the future because now is the time when the true spirit of humanity will begin to reveal itself.



With Each Person You Meet

''To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction: or the forces of two bodies on each other are always equal and are directed in opposite directions''.
Newton's 3rd law of motion


With each Person You meet,
Each precious Person You interact with Day by precious Day,
Take Time,
Look into Their Eyes and touch Their Spirits,
Each time You do this,
A spark of Delight will ignite,
This spark will reproduce itself and evolve,
Throughout the body of the Person with whom you interact,
The spark is the Truth of Life,
And it is utterly knowable.

It will take Time,
But sooner than You would think,
The flames of innumerable candles will be lit like stars,
And the Person will begin to know Joy for the first Time in their Life,
True Joy, unencumbered by the restrictions of worry and fear and doubt.

Then,
As Time goes by,
The candles will move closer to each other,
The flames will meet,
And Energy will be released,
Seemingly from nowhere.
Pure Love, pure Consciousness, pure Creation!

The Spirit swells within the chest,
And is so joyous to know itself for the first time in this Life,
That it cannot be restrained and never will be again,
For Creation has to know itself.

The Spirit is released and begins to explore its temple the Body,
And the Body knows this and begins to Heal.

Realisation dawns,
Life is appreciated,
Life is Loved.

The person,
Body and Spirit joins the eternal chain,
And Creation Evolves,
On and On and On……..

 

Infinity

The boy sits on the rocks,
As the waves crash in,
Aware of Infinity,
Staring in to his own Soul.

Raindrops


Watch out for pearls of Wisdom,
That fall on You throughout the day,
Like raindrops,
Filling Your Spirit with joy,
Enabling You to experience the Truth,
Appreciating the beauty of Creation,
Maintaining Your Mind and easing Your Body,
Allowing You to let go
And just Be.
A fragment of all Eternity.



The Truth

Know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.

Believe in Love and all it holds,
Believe in Creation,
And Learn to Love,
To truly Live.

Believe in Beauty for it nourishes the Spirit,
Believe in Life for it is a gift cut from the diamond of Creation,

Know that there is a Spirit within You,
Your Spirit,
Yours alone to Evolve through countless lifetimes,
Eternal and Divine,
To learn and Love,
To Grow.

A gift from the omnipresent, eternal Master who is Creation.

Beyond Space, Beyond Time,
Beyond comprehension,
But essential for fulfillment and enlightenment,
In this material life.

Only through each of Us,
Through each individual spirit can Creation know itself.

We are each precious,
The Truth lies within us waiting to be found.




Intelligence

The Universe teems with Life,
All kinds of Life,
Including Human life.

Inspired and knowledgeable of the Truth,
They are there for Us always,
Guardians watching over Us,
Guiding Us,
Helping Us from afar.

Wake up Humans of Earth.
Listen!

Heavens

You look up at the Heavens,
Because that is where Your future lies,
Where You will reside.

Diamond

Your Soul is a diamond being etched,
Which Soul did You receive little one?
Who lived before You?
Who helped You Evolve in past lives?

Beauty

A full moon shining in on us through our bedroom window. Frosty, cold, snowy.

Beauty,
Believe in Beauty,
And Love,
And the Truth.