Book Review of Nancy Neithercut’s book: To Kiss What Cannot be Kissed… Love Songs from the Canyon
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Book Review: To Kiss What Cannot Be Kissed
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Emptiness, The Missing Piece
Emptiness is the missing piece that brings clarity about our dream reality and the nature of our mind.
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The Doubting Betsy
After I saw that I was aware, I was expecting a big shift in my perception and a change in the brain. But after enough days had passed, it seemed this wasn’t happening, and then the doubt arose…
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Swallowed by the Sea
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Navigating Without A Compass
How can one navigate in the unknown, without a story or personality to give one a sense of security of the known?
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Is There a Soul?
Pondering the big life questions, what is Enlightenment, what is the soul, is there an after life…
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I Am Aware
Seeing through the charade of the brain, that there is nothing to get, that one is innately aware.
Poem: There is No Separation
A poem about reality that there is no separate self or separation, it just appears that way.
Book Review: Waking from the Dream
Waking From the Dream: “A Wealth of Practical Information Relating to the Buddhist Path to Enlightenment.” by Detong ChoYin “Waking from the Dream presents a very precise view of the Buddhist path to enlightenment. It offers profound insights into the…
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You Must Come Back to The Source
The message in MoojiJi’s video was exactly what I needed to hear today. What struck a chord were these statements: “All this beauty is always here and the reason we don’t see it is because we are not interested…
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The Me is The Striver
“What is not PERMANENT is not worth striving for.” ~ Ramana Maharshi My Comment: What is NOT permanent is not worth striving for and what IS permanent needs no striving — it already IS. Indeed striving only takes one further…
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Awakening Help, Guidance & Support
Awakening Help, Guidance & Support The awakening process is accelerating with everyone and it known by several names but is all the same thing and is due to an increase in awareness level which has the side-effect to change the…
Erase programs to expand awareness
An Energy Block is A Program Question: “What are the typical symptoms of an Energy Block? I want to determine whether I have had any in the past.” I understand an energy block to be an area of the body…
Spiritual Disrobement
Solstice - June 21, 2024 For the Solstice, I went to Warner Park in Madison, Wisconsin for the Make Music Madison Event. Make Music Madison is an annual one-day citywide, free, outdoor day of music to be held on the…
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The Circle Comes Together
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. - Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota DUMPSTER DIVING SYNCRONCITY I had…
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Too Young to Die
Too Young to Die ? Yesterday, I felt compelled to write an article entitled: Ascension & Autoimmune disorder to help other people. I stayed up late to get it written. After I…
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‘Ascension Peak’ Guidance
‘Ascension Peak’ Guidance, a co-creation from BeiYin & Betsy Yes, I’m currently in a period of high vibration which I have given the name of ‘Ascension Peak’ to this phenomenon. And what what always happens is my deep unconscious ‘soul’…
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My Scientific Viewpoint of Ascension
My Scientific Viewpoint of Ascension This article is my attempt to look at the ascension process from the viewpoint of our physical universe. Around the 17th century on average, many people on the planet thought the Earth was flat and…
Posted in Changing Our Habits, Kundalini Awakening, Self-realization, Sustainability Tagged with: ACC, andromeda, ascension, galaxy merging, kundalini awakening, milky way, POE, precession of the equinoxes, self-realization, vibration
Complete Surrender?
Can you do a Complete Surrender to the Guru? “If you are with two people and you both totally accept the other, the two become like one being. Even for one moment, if you experience something as part of yourself,…
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You Can’t Make Sense of Love
There is something in common between Love & God. You cannot make sense of either; both totally defy logic. If you try to make sense of it, you only move further away from them. Being Love is a feeling that…
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Poem: Letting Go
L E T T I N G G O . . . A moment of stillness and simply SEEING that there is: No Past No Future No Birth No Death No Inside No Outside No Up No Down No Thing…
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Fighting with Oneself
Question: As soon as a state of peace or pain arises in myself, I feel I have identified with it and get lost in that reaction. How can I detach from this state and get free from it? How can…
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Healing Our Wounded Past
Picture shared from Native American’s Online Website Healing Our Wounded Past It has been a few days of confusion, as I process information that is coming from me on all sides. This morning while reflecting, that thought came to me…
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Haiku: Aligned With Nature
Aligned with nature embracing one’s unfolding being one with life. Betsy Summer Solstice: June 21, 2024 – 1:00 PM
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Accepting Your Role in Life
Accepting your role as being part of the One living being is necessary, so you can live it out and add experience to your collective lifetimes and allow you to let go of all you past.
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Healing Repressed Memories
What is a repressed memory? When a stressful situation is prolonged or intense, a chemical is released in the mind, which causes recording of conscious memory to turn off, and information is stored unconsciously, creating a form of amnesia about…
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Poem: Coming to Life
Coming to Life Bombarded with information from every angle. One part of me says: I want to take a nap. Another part responds: Wake up and smell the roses, this is exactly what you asked for! Energy increases, the more…
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When Pushing IS NOT Effective
“The thoughts we generate based on our choices and perspectives can either block or facilitate the energy flow. The choice is ours. Thoughts that block or make us more closed not only repel people, events and actions we desire…
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Doubt Can be Positive or Negative
The word DOUBT has eight different meanings depending upon the context. For this article I will only focus on two of them which have nearly opposite meanings: 1. A feeling of uncertainty about the truth, reality, or nature of something.…
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Benefits of Coming Together
Vivbala: “Wow! I just accepted most of the changes and re-read the second chapter, it feels like the chapter is elevated.” This morning I realized the importance of collaborating with other awakening people and sharing our wisdom with each other.…
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Why Do We Lie or Exaggerate?
Why do we Lie or Exaggerate? “How you see yourself is a key because that is what shapes and governs your reality. Not what other people think.” ~ Ralph Smart Question: Is my pretending or false self a cause of…
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Life is Binary Book, Best information on awakening - Just read it!
Life Is Binary: The Choice to Live Love or Limitation by Vivbala This is the most enlightening and insightful book I have read so far in my life. The author who wrote it said that his intention with the book…
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Poem: The World I Experience
Poem: The World I Experience The world I experience is only my mind a wave in the ocean of consciousness a momentary expression of ONE. “I am” only an appearance this “I” has never existed. Letting go of clinging to…
Longing for Love
Longing for Love I had an experience a few months ago after understanding that “I” as an individual do not exist, that the reality is all is One: I AM THAT I AM. Every being and everything alive has the…
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Knowing Gives Feeling of Security
Knowing Gives Feeling of Security It becomes clearer that the reason we are so drawn to obtaining knowledge is that it gives us the feeling that we know what is happening in the world around us. From our perception of…
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The Grand Illusion
The Grand Illusion In the beginning there was ONE creator, neither male nor female, who was pure energy and wanted to make other creators. From hir vast experience hir came up with an inspiration or unique idea how to do…
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How Can We Stop the Mind-Chatter?
How Can the Mind-Chatter Phenomena be Stopped? Luke 9:58, Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” This quote came to mind today as I was looking…
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Three Times I AM
The first time I saw my true self and realized I AM, it seemed to be at the level in my mind, and happened the first time I let go of identity with being the thinker. Then passed about 7…
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What is Personality?
What is Personality and How can we go beyond it - A Dialog with Betsy & BeiYin BeiYin: What is personality? Is personality an illusion? Betsy: personality is due to the organization of the current human brain/body, so it produces…
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Why do We Resist Change?
Why Do We Resist Change? For a real change to happen there must be a transformation of energy, from the old form to the new form. This process, of the old dying and of the new forming, is perceived by…
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Healing the Pain Body
There are several levels of consciousness in human beings. As Eckhart Tolle calls them they are unconsciousness, consciousness and deep unconsciousness. Most people on the planet today are deeply unconscious. This means that they are never aware of their true…
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Transmuting Emotions
Around six years ago I was at a point of complete despair, not feeling any reason to live, everything around me seemed like it was taken away. At this moment I surrendered completely and when I did, a different worldview…
How Can I Return to Blissful Feeling of Oneness?
Question: I had a very intense experience with a woman half way across the globe from where I live. It all happened in a magical way. I had published a short article on being still. A number of readers responded…
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Are Instincts the Best Guide to Follow?
Question: Are Instincts the Best guide to follow? I think when you ask this question you are really asking is your ‘gut feeling’ your best guide to follow. For me a ‘gut feeling’ is not the same as the survival…
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Is It the Philosopher’s Task to Change the World?
Question: “I observed that the phrase ‘changing the world’ is too general or an exaggeration; or it could be a product of a delusion of grandeur based on the illusion that once a person become a philosopher he has the…
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All is Vibration, All is Alive
All is vibration. All is alive. The spirit is the highest level of vibration. Being alive as a human, we have the capability to detect vibrations inside and outside of ourselves, due to our sensory apparatus, nervous system and brain.…
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Why Is Internal Dialog So Persistent? (Part 4 of 4)
Why Is Internal Dialog So Persistent? (Part 4 of 4): The reason underlying my persistent internal dialog. I found out the answer to my question a few days ago. A friend of mine said he had some tapes, which covered…
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Why Is Internal Dialog So Persistent? (Part 3 of 4)
Why Is Internal Dialog So Persistent? (Part 3 of 4): How to Resolve the dialog. I don’t think I was clear enough in my previous articles regarding this subject about what kind of reaction I am observing. To make it…
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Why is Internal Dialog so Persistent (Part 2 of 4)
Why is Internal Dialog so Persistent (Part 2 of 4): Why do we engage in Internal Dialogs? There is no doubt for me that these internal dialogs are the arising of the ego. There is also no doubt for me that…
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Why Is Internal Dialog So Persistent? (Part 1 of 4)
Why Is Internal Dialog So Persistent? (Part 1 of 4) If your meditation has brought you to the point of being aware of your thinking process, then probably you have also noticed the ‘internal dialogs’ that go on inside your…
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What Is A Spiritual Path?
To me a spiritual path is a quest to find something better than what you feel you currently have. I believe people are driven along these lines to different degrees depending on their past experiences. Some are driven to such…
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Empathy
Comment: “I would like you to point out specifically where you think I was unduly harsh in my response.” Today I was walking in the forest with my dogs and I came across an elderly Ibicencan woman whom I know…
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How to Stop Pretending to Be Alive
How to Stop Pretending to Be Alive BeiYin: “Yes, one can learn to withdraw energy from emotional reactions, but reactions are a symptom for an underlying cause. It’s more effective & creative to change the root cause. Not by manipulation.…
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Everything in the Cosmic Drama is Perfect
“In my opinion, everything in the cosmic drama is perfect, going exactly as planned and there is no ‘problem’ other than our personal inability to see that everything is okay.” To attach the quality of ‘perfect’ to what is the…
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Am I Crazy?
The Result of 24 Hours of Intense Questioning: “Am I Crazy?” Since I last wrote, I have been questioning the possibility that the ‘I’ might still be hanging in there in a split way. The questioning went on for many…
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Why Is It So Difficult to Remain Present?
Question: “Even though we know the benefits of Being Present, why do you think our attention is constantly pulled out of the Now and into the Mind?” From my observation it is because I’m not tired enough yet of the…
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Why are we strongly affected when we lose something we own?
BeiYin: “Why are we strongly affected when we lose something we own, being that much identified with it? It’s because what had filled them up leaves now an empty space and so a lack of existence. This even happens with…
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Are You Feeling the Magic?
Comment: So even though I have had a lot of these awakening bursts, you think there’s a bigger one coming? My SE practitioner is very helpful but she cannot speak this language, and her goal is to minimize the kundalini…
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Your Awakening Vision
Your Awakening Vision When you truly detach from your physical world you will awaken. Your true self will be revealed, a whole new world will open up before you and you will receive your vision in four parts, each of…
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Story of My First Step
The Story of My First Step I had the normal life of most Americans, working to build career and family and obtain the American Dream with all the things one could ever need. The strange thing is once I had…
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The Four Steps of Awakening
The Four Steps of Awakening There are four levels of energetic form that keep our individual identity intact. The first level is our body the physical form itself and being alive. The second level is our mind, with ability to…
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Epigenetics & Spirituality
Last night on PBS I saw the NOVA episode called Ghost in Your Genes. It is about epigenetics and the current findings coming out of that research. From this show I discovered that the science of epigenetics is finding out…
Posted in General Healing, Healing, Kundalini Awakening Tagged with: awareness, DNA, DNA Activation, epigenetics, epigenome, genes, kundalini awakening, self-realization, spirituality
Poem: Old Bubbles Rising to the Surface
Poem: Old bubbles rising to the surface Old bubbles rising to the surface clarity of identity, old one fading away. For now i just want to shut up I will see you later. ~ Betsy ~ 10/25/13 10:55 am
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Poem: What You Focus On Manifests
Poem: What You Focus On Manifests What you focus on manifests created reality gives validation of knowing and being alive. Confusion - going out of focus letting go of focus ability giving space for no-thing to manifest. ~ Betsy ~…
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Poem: The Four Rewards
The Four Rewards of Spiritual Attainment When you let go of your physical world, my eyes will replace your eyes. You will see the world with my eyes and receive clarity and abundance. When you let go of your ability…
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Poem: Who wants to look into a bright mirror?
Who wants to look into a bright mirror? In every being I see, my face is being reflected back to me. My face is your face and your face is mine. Every being can be my teacher, a mirror to…
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Poem: Nice to Meet You!
Poem: Nice to Meet You! I don’t know how you arrived HERE so fast but I see the path you took is not important that you are here now is all that matters. While reading your poetic expression I felt…
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Poem: Communication
Poem: Communication Wholeness of being heart connected to the mind seeing and asking. Inspired answer made into words spirit transported to world. Words received through mind vibration felt – thinking starts ego is alive. Unknown source is frightening reaction as…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: being present, communication, poem, poetry, self-realization, spiritual poetry, tanka, watcher
Poem: Balance Happens By Itself
Poem: Balance Happens By Itself Balance existed while simply riding the bike euphoria arose when one forgot oneself like this, the bike and the rider are one. Attaching to sensation of euphoria wanting it to last forever – oneness dissolves…
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Poem: Transformation II
Transformation II A low vibration can’t see high vibration thought silence rarely is. Constant chatter weaves the dream locking one in world of mind. Extreme suffering turning point – asking questions ear tuned to high pitch. Listen – intent for…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: metamorphosis, poem, poetry, self-realization, spiritual poetry, transformation
Poem: What’s It Like to Be Aware?
Poem: What’s it like to be aware and how does it happen? There is no internal chatter thinking is totally silent knowing is instant and direct. There is no emotion one’s body is totally relaxed filled with blissful tingling. Sound…
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Poem: In a Clear Blue Sky
Poem: In a Clear Blue Sky In a clear blue sky mountains become visible revealing our smallness. Relating to encounters one’s walking makes the pathway. Distant peaks invite challenges urge us onward goals set intention. Boulder’s block our direction frustration…
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Poem: Question What You can SEE
Poem: Question What You can SEE Question what you can SEE inside and outside of yourself. Senses make the unseen tangible and visible. Thought is visible consciousness tracing the passage of your invisible self. Asking ‘Who Am I?’ is a…
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Poem: Reflections on Nature
Poem: Reflections on Nature Bamboo stalks swaying song erupts from clacking leaves being one with wind. Recalling what one has seen the past stays alive inside. Has one ever seen a still bamboo in the wind refusing to sway? Human’s…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: being, nature, oneness, poem, poetry, presence, self-realization, spiritual poetry, stillness
Poem: Walking Down My Road
Poem: Walking Down My Road Walking down my road I hear and see a person they reflect within. Contact - consciousness thinking gives sense of knowing. Lost in inside world making sense of images connecting the dots. Isolated bubble views…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: enlightenment, going with the flow, koan, poem, poetry, self-realization, spiritual poetry, walking the talk
Poem: Ending Your Loneliness
Poem: Ending Your Loneliness If you are feeling alienated and alone in this world, then where is your passion to end this feeling? If you are feeling united with the whole, then where is your rejoicing and sharing with all?…
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Poem: The First Day of Fall
The First Day of Fall Isolation, all alone, me and my best friend. Drunken splendors, revelry, drunken illusion. Through the fog a voice was heard calling in the night. Clear as a bell I heard it say, “Go to AA”…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: 1st step, AA, alcoholics anonymous, poem, poetry, recovery, self-realization, spiritual poetry, surrender
Poem: My Life is On Hold
Poem: My Life is On Hold My life is on hold desperately seeking key finding frustration. This fake one is relentless doesn’t give up easily. The sun is shining the flowers are opening bird song fills the air. Expression is…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: change, koan, letting go, poem, poetry, self-realization, spiritual poetry, surrender
Poem: Passing Time…
Poem: Passing Time… A year and a half reversing massive buildup that was choking all. Maniacal abundance receiving just what we need. Endless useless works tending to material that no one will want Orphaned kittens needing love not enough hands…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: change, growth, healing, poem, poetry, recycling, seasons, self-realization, spiritual poetry, transformation
Poem: Polish the Mirror of Our Heart
“If you are an enlightened soul why are you not with your enlightened soul? If you have no enlightened soul, why don’t you become an enlightened soul, meaning to polish the mirror of your heart?” - Anonymous Poem: How to…
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Poem: My Thoughts with Michelle
The following are poems written during my friendship with Michelle Moan, who at 35 years old was battling breast cancer. She fought so hard and the circumstances of her life, didn’t make it any easier. When I first met her…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: breast cancer, death, life, michelle moan, poetry, self-realization, spiritual poetry, surrender, transition
Poem: Vigilance
Poem: Vigilance For years I’ve been vigilant noticing when I’m suffering knowing these are moments to see my identification. But what has been fooling me for so long, are those moments when I’m not suffering being happy with my program.…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: confirmation, mask of personality, poetry, self-realization, spiritual poetry, validation of personality
Poem: Rocks on the Railway Bed
Rocks on the Railway Bed As I walk along the tracks, I feel the rocks under my feet. I notice how each rock has found a home among all the other rocks. The geometric pattern of the rocks together make…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: change, eternity, poem, poetry, randomness, self-realization, spiritual poetry
Poem: Fear is Not Present
Poem: Fear is Not Present Fear, the master of my emotions. Forgetting the present, being self-centered. Time wasted, fearful of the future and events that rarely happen. Events are stressful because of what I expect. Vivid imaginings of how they…
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Poem: Who’s watching?
Poem: Who’s watching? Meditation, going deeper into the recesses of my mind. I find it amusing watching myself, but who is it that’s watching anyway? ~ Betsy ~ July 14, 2024
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Poem: Many times I feel alone
Poem: Many times I feel alone I see that this mainly happens when that which I desire isn’t given to me from things on the outside, whether this is a person, place or thing. For sure I have the urge…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: alone, lonely, lonliness, poem, poetry, self-realization, spiritual poetry
Poem: Mind Voice
Mind Voice Separate thinking mind-voice created defensive world grown from my reactions so that I could see myself. These days I see you clearly going on by yourself, thinking that you’re alive turning around and around. Reacting chained thoughts triggering…
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual Poetry Tagged with: false-self, head-talk, internal dialog, mind-chatter, poem, poetry, self-realization, spiritual poetry
Haiku: Cicada Forest
Haiku: Cicada Forest Cicada forest memories brought to the surface completed cycle. ~ Betsy ~ August 24, 2024
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Poem: Response to September 11, 2024
Poetic Response to September 11, 2024 Silence of sadness no bird sings in burned forest cold ash covers soil. Hiroshima still present human’s omni ignorance. BeiYin Desolate landscape money filling holes of loss paper substitute. Opportunity…
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Poem: The Politician
The Politician Telling us what he thinks we want to know. Steering our lives by his judgments and beliefs. Not representing – but presenting his own view of himself. The ultimate, actor on the stage false face, false views lying…
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Tanka: Summer Solstice
Tanka: Summer Solstice Summer solstice walking down a new road my heart in my hands. Trusting that life provides and gives me what I need. ~ Betsy ~ June 20, 2024
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Tanka: Smokey
Tanka: Smokey Smokey is leaving holding him in my arms hands are going numb. Light collecting as vortex preparing to fly away. ~ Betsy ~ July 14, 2024
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Tanka: Reliving My Dream
Tanka: Reliving My Dream Reliving my dream fast track journey through past lives exhausting myself. This vivid experience persuades me to let it go. ~ Betsy ~ December 14, 2023 – 10 pm
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Haiku: Winter’s Healing Frost
Haiku: Winter’s Healing Frost Winter’s healing frost transforming fruit of branches new life comes from old. ~ Betsy ~ December 21, 2023 Happy Winter Solstice!
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Haiku: Howling wind
Haiku: Howling wind Howling wind and snow wild cats keep me up all night adapting to cold. ~ Betsy ~ December 13, 2023
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Haiku: Hens Burst Into Song
Haiku: Hens Burst Into Song Hen’s burst into song gusty winds announcing Spring warm egg in my hand. ~ Betsy ~ February 22, 2024
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Tanka: Polyp On Coral
Tanka: Polyp On Coral Polyp on coral frantic propulsion’s outward stretching cord of old. Growing force crescendo jellyfish enters ocean. ~ Betsy ~ November 27, 2023
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Tanka: Promise of Pleasure
Tanka: Promise of Pleasure Promise of pleasure keeps me coming back for more I’ll face any pain. Merging with your warm embrace I am alive on earth. ~ Betsy ~ November 28, 2023
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