yes, but can you live it?

Well –

if you’ve had a peek into
wild wideawakeness –

if the jigsaw pieces of
a lifetime’s seeking
have grouped themselves
into an apperception
that’s savaged
all your ideas about
what this IS
and knocked both your
feely fantasies and your
intellectual understanding
clear out of mind –

if you’ve fallen
head-first into this
simple suchness,
there’s no longer a
question of “embodying it” or
“living it.”

 

So my answer is no.

How can you

live the Reality

that lives You?

And yes.

How can You not?

 

– miriam louisa


find out what thyself is not

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when ‘my’ intellect saw for itself
what it is
and what it isn’t,
it spontaneously retreated
and assumed its proper place.

its functioning was unimpaired.
rather, it seems heightened, sharpened.

the ‘thinker’ saw itself as nothing
more nor less than its thoughts,
and both found their place in the order of appearances.

“Know thyself,” we’re advised.
says I, “Easier to first find out what thyself is not.”

 
~ miriam louisa
echoes from emptiness