Commitment

Commitment. I am.
Sitting through the pain, the pain...
this is better pain...

Determination.
Discipline. Courage. Spirit.
Death. Life. Choice. The Truth.

Healing pain...
now, now, now!
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Inspiration is
a necessary guide to my motivation
and long may she bless me with her light.

But
commitment is
the only force in the universe
that will propel forward my motivation
into the realization of my dreams.

I commit
because I now understand
I will never be content with inspiration alone
unless her light becomes forever mine
and we become one reality.

As every heart
must take this journey,
so should mine.

So I must and I will. 

For me,
this is commitment.

It is
the I must 
and
the I will
for me.

The Loan

All knowledge is borrowed that we might obtain to the Truth
and work out in ourselves an understanding of all things.
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The mind is a cup
and with knowledge it is filled
until it is full.

It becomes useless.
Not because it is a cup.
Do you understand?

When you know,
you let go...

(...until the cup knows it is a cup.)

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Knowledge that is kept like a treasure rots,
cursing with blindness instead of blessing with sight

But knowledge that is given, in word, deed, and prayer,
instead of impoverishing the giver, multiplies the gifts.



For truth once gained is possessed forever
and understanding once obtained is forever endowed.

But all knowledge returns again and again to the LORD;
like a river, it runs; like a stream, it flows,
keeping all things, teaching all things,
bearing all things in hope.



So when you think about something, let go.

Let go, let go, and let go.

Let go until it all comes back to you by your letting go.

Then you will always have understanding.
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Seeking the Seeker

I seek the seeker;
the one who I am seeking;
the one of the One.

I am to my self
when self is empty of me -
I become my self.

Many, few.
Few, then one.
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Coming into your own sunrise -

What is
most important

is self.

Knowing this,
one knows we are many.

What is
most important to self
is true self.

Knowing this,
one knows we are one.
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Simplicity

Our firmament - is -

as vast as the dreaming - that -

gives it form and shape.

Each life is a piece

of this heaven from within;

one star in the sky.

And you work to gain

from the LORD above - a piece -

of heaven on earth.

So you dream a dream

in the midst of all these dreams...

a star among stars.

And you set a course

to bridge thy heaven and earth

to make thy dream true.

Adrift in the sky

- you gaze at a million suns -

all of them not yours.

And in the darkness

- set afire by thy hunger -

you find yourself lost.

Life is a big place!

It is easy to get lost.

And to get lost fast...

Simplicity - is -

A return to thy own truth.

It is thy anchor.

"A piece of my dream -

it does not have to be big...

somewhere to return."

It guards thee

from excess.

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Simplicity is giving my Anne the most expensive bar of dark chocolate I can find - in the whole of the universe. Because seeing my Miyang happy is a significant piece of my own sky.

This thought gives me a very real sense of joy. It is a treasure I know I'll always have.

I am familiar with it, it is familiar with me.

So when life gets too complicated for me, I use these as my anchor. For I have more than one.

And it never fails to leads me back to my own better, clearer, truer self.

Alleluia, God is good!

The First Cause -

What causes the motion of all things (and the mystery in all things) in the visible universe IS the longing that lives within ourselves.

Each of us is a dreaming that exists within the greater dreaming of God.

Indeed, the motion of the stars and the galaxies mirror the motion of our love; for everything here is engaged in a vast and inescapable journey of return -

everything here is like - life longing for God,

everything here is like - love longing for Itself.

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To Thine Own Self Be True

There's a million ways
to live and a million ways
to die, O my soul!

But the way of Truth
is one and the lie that kills
is one, O my soul!

To thine own
self be true.
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There is only one nearness and it ascends to the Truth.

There is only one distance and it descends to the void.

Celebrity

(This haiku is also for my Kuya and for my Ate -

who are real stars,

y

ou know who you are...)

O celebrity!

Thy fashions, they fade and flee!

What becomes of thee?

Thy world is fickle.

Hold on to thy happiness

before it runs out.

Fame, fortune...

Trust it not.

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Do not live for other people's lights.

Be the source of your own starlight.

That way hold your strength secure

against the rush of these bright lights.

For your world shall soon betray you

if to thine own self you fail to be true.

Fickle is the golden flame of celebrity.

So guard thee well your inner identity.

Lest these bright lights consume you.

And leave you restless without a clue.

O Grizabella, Grizabella, you cat...

Grizabella, you Glamour Cat...

Light Up the World

Being a Christian

is not a definition,

not just static words...

Our strength is the Word!

Let seep into thy marrow:

We are what we act!

Express it

like the light!

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"If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!"

- St. Catherine of Siena

"You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.

Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father."

- Mat 5: 14-16

Jesus Christ is True Light!

Equanimity

Do not be hasty

and in your judgments, be sure -
lest you should be judged...

Be even-minded
and in the steps of your heart,
neither rise nor fall.

Keep your pace
with God's grace.
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Lucidity of Spirit

Spirit like water -

clear as crystal, undisturbed...

True Light shining through.

Sin contaminates:

murky, fetid, stinking -

who can see through it?

Less and less...

more and more.

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Self-Possession

Know to overcome -
others - know to overcome -
all - it is the same.

Know to overcome -
self - know to overcome
thy overcoming.

Break thy self,
to know peace.
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Christian Fasting

Fast and hold vigil,
in the quiet of the soul,
accept the hunger.

Longing hearts, they fast -
with many things not just food,
denying the self...

...to uproot
vanity.
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Now, there are two pains -

hunger and overeating.

Go, forget them both.

Mission

Envision the dream

and live for the becoming:

I am my mission!

Seize the day, O heart!

Come work the work of winning:

Launch into the deep!

Believe. Trust.

Be fearless.

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Anger

Anger is evil.
But only if it remains!
Emotions don't think.

Anger is a brute -

a passion that must be tamed -

else it shall run wild.

When angry

rein it in.

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