Abstain from Bigger Minds

Have you taken this Love and parsed it into letters?

Spoken strings, musing the point?

We can't stop comparing this moment,

Or asking Rilke or Rumi to speak for us.

Though beautiful expressions of truth

remind us of our timeless wandering,

Nothing satisfies like the tide of being.

Whether mere focus or streaming action.

Know when to abstain from big minds
And follow the gossamer thread
Of your own path.
That instance of living that you only can know.

Speak to yourself like a teacher clapping for attention.

Don't go home and think about it.

An exalted mind is a troubled mind.

Fearful and wanting to wander away.

An arrogant mind believes in its own highest value.

But who gave you that mind?

To lead by proofing from confusion

is to insulate yourself from the portal.

We arrive on sufferance not on scholarship.

Live in the "half-empty" space.

Come with an inch or two of hollowness.

Allow the truth to wedge in between lofty ideas.

Make room to notice your own Self.

You can not NOT be what you are,

but you can THINK otherwise.

How can you sing if your mouth is full?

Wit is delightful
and as good as gold in any bar.

But this quest is for dissolution.

Cherish your compound analysis
and you will be standing alone.

The same with comparative unraveling.

If you want to strive, go to the gym.

To this place, bring anticipation.

Bring childlike curiosity.

Come like a sleeping child to a campfire meeting.

Be quieted by the crackling of the flames.

Be filled with the dancing light.

Be comforted by warm bodies in a circle.

Feel the inner quiet in these lovers.

Your inner life will come out to play.
Pray that a spark of recognition will leave the fire 

and shoot your way.