Bending Rivers

Pain has a way of healing us.
Suffering helps to make us whole.

Happiness is never permanent.
Contentment accepts what is.

Every life is a bending river,
flowing over rocks to the sea.

One Point

Your life is
the one-pointedness
of the Divine.

You are the beginning
and the end
of God's attention.

Tao sees as you see.
You are Tao focused on
the ten-thousandth thing.

Carried Away

We grow where we are planted,
unless a wind carries us somewhere else. 

Light to Light

We travel from
light to light
even in darkness.

The darkness
is our blindness
to these lights.

The cure
for our blindness
is simply to wake up.

I Hate You

I hate you because
you have stringy hair.

I hate you because
you have yellow teeth.

I hate you because
you smell like old clothes.

I hate you because
you need so much help.

I hate you because
you remind me you and I are One.

The Different One

The different one
is a most important one
because the different one
is the one who helps
the other ones question
their sameness.

The different one
is the one who opens a door
to a different way of seeing.
This is not good or bad.
Just another way to see.

The more ways we see,
the more wise we become.
The different one
helps us bring this about.

Daily Bread

To be thankful
for our daily bread
is to be thankful
for an awareness
of our own hungers.

Our hungers help us
discover who we are,
and who we are not.

True daily bread is that 
which feeds our true selves.

Passages

No dark passage
ends without light.

No bright passage
ends without dark.

Light or dark,
every passage leads
deeper into Tao.

When We Think

When we think about boundaries
more than we think about community,
we travel deeper into loneliness.

When we think about community
more than we think about boundaries,
we scatter power among many.

How You Use It

Power flows
to those who know
how to use it.

True power flows
to those who know
how not to misuse it.

Where

Where we are in our journey
has little to do with distance.

Engraved

No matter how deeply we engrave
the boundaries that separate us,
there is always common ground.