A few Self Calibrations of books that were lying around (subject to error as I'm just starting to get the hang of the technique):

Robcore:

965 - Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, by David R. Hawkins
722 - The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi w/ Foreword by C.G.Jung
720 - I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
715 - The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi, edited by Arthur Osborne
710 - Prayer: Seeking the Heart of God, by Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Brother Roger of Taize
700 - God is Love Alone, by Brother Roger of Taize
588 - Praying Our Goodbyes: Understanding the Spirituality of Change in Our Lives, by Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.
579 - Serenity: A Companion for Twelve Step Recovery - Complete with New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs, by Dr. Robert Hemfelt and Dr. Richard Fowler
560 - A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson
556 - The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
553 - All For Her, by Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C.
552 - One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, by the Al-Anon Family Group
549 - Transitions - Prayers and Declarations for a Changing Life, by Julia Cameron
546 - You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise L. Hay
539 - Letter To Families, from Pope John Paul II
525 - Love, by Leo Buscaglia
521 - Dreams and Healing: A Succinct and Lively Interpretation of Dreams, by John A. Sanford
520 - Called to be Friends, by Paula Ripple, FSPA
520 - Confessions of St. Augustine, Translated by F.J. Sheed
517 - Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III, by Jack Canfield
512 - Meditations from the Road, by M. Scott Peck
511 - The Monastic Journey, by Thomas Merton
511 - Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul, by Jack Canfield
510 - The Road Less Traveled-25th Anniversary Edition, by M. Scott Peck
505 - Chicken Soup for the Soul, by Jack Canfield
505 - The Image of His Maker, by Robert Edward Brennan, O.P.
501 - Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
500 - Beyond Codependency - And Getting Better All the Time, by Melody Beattie
499 - Plato's Theaetetus, Trans. by M.J. Levett, Edited by Bernard Williams, Revised by Myles Burnyeat
498 - The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents, by Deepak Chopra
494 - Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide, by Deepak Chopra
494 - The Pain and the Possibility: Divorce & Separation Among Catholics, by Paula Ripple, FSPA
492 - Now For Something Totally Different: A Study of The Sermon on the Mount, by Stuart Briscoe
490 - We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love, by Robert A. Johnson
490 - On Death and Dying, by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
490 - Descartes' Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 4th Ed., Translated by Donald A. Cress
489 - Gray's Anatomy, by Henry Gray
485 - When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold S. Kushner
483 - The Journeys of Socrates, by Dan Millman
480 - The Purpose Driven Life, by Rick Warren
480 - Plato's Republic, translated by G.M.A. Grube and Revised by C.D.C. Reeve
480 - A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle
478 - The Wisdom of Healing: A Natural Mind Body Program for Optimal Wellness, by David Simon
477 - The Man Who Wrestled with God: Light from the Old Testament on the Psychology of Individuation(Revised and updated), by John A. Sanford
475 - Plato's Gorgias, Translated by Donald J. Zeyl
475 - Feminist Issues: Race, Class, and Sexuality 4th Ed. edited by Nancy Mandell
473 - Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 6th Ed., by Brooke Noel Moore and Kenneth Bruder
470 - How to Enjoy Your Life in Spite of it All, by Ken Keyes, Jr.
469 - Philosophy of Education: An Anthology, Edited by Randall Curren
465 - Plato's Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo 2nd Ed., Translated by G.M.A. Grube
465 - Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, by George Berkeley
463 - The Great Philosophers, by Jeremy Stangroom and James Garvey
462 - Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, by Deepak Chopra
460 - The Essential Ken Wilber, by Ken Wilber
458 - Dynamic Anatomy, by Burne Hogarth
458 - Constructive Anatomy, by George B. Bridgman
457 - Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life, by George B. Bridgman
455 - Allison DuBois: Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye, by Allison DuBois
453 - The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, by Norman Doigde
450 - The Sedona Method, by Hale Dwoskin
450 - The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
450 - Utilitarianism and the 1868 Speech on Capital Punishment 2nd Ed., by John Stuart Mill
450 - The Question of God, by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.
450 - An Introduction to Brain and Behavior, 2nd Ed., by Bryan Kolb and Ian Q. Whishaw
446 - Atlas of Anatomy, Giunti Editorial Group
444 - The Seat of the Soul, by Gary Zukav
440 - The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Philosophy of Education, edited by Wilfred Carr
440 - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding with A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh and Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
437 - You & Your Adolescent: A Parent's Guide for Ages 10-20, by Laurence Steinberg, PhD., & Ann Levine
437 - Social Psychology: Unravelling the Mystery, 3rd Ed., by Douglas T. Kenrick, Steven L. Neuberg, Robert B. Cialdini
430 - The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell
423 - Guilty, O Lord: Yes I Still Go to Confession, by Bernard Basset, S.J/Meditations: Reflections on the Incarnation, by Ladislaus Boros (Two books in one volume)
420 - Yielding to Courage: The Spiritual Path to Overcoming Fear, by Judith C. Lechman
420 - My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity, by Nancy Friday
420 - Good Business, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
418 - The Greatest Salesman in the World, by Og Mandino
412 - Little Visits with God: Devotions for Families with Grade School Children, by Allan Hart Jahsmann and Martin P. Simon
412 - Feng Shui: The Traditional Oriental Way to Enhance Your Life, by Stephen Skinner
410 - The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom
400 - Philosophy of Natural Science, by Carl Hempel
394 - How to Raise Your Self-Eseem, by Nathaniel Branden
392 - The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho
376 - Unequal Relations: An Introduction to Race, Ethnic, and Aboriginal Dynamics in Canada 5th Ed., by Augie Fleras and Jean Leonard Elliott
356 - Beckoning Lights, by Monica Hughes
340 - Irish Red, by Jim Kjelgaard
340 - Beardance, by Will Hobbs
330 - Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
305 - The Agent's Secret Child, by B.J. Daniels
290 - Poems for Pleasure: An Anthology (Book II), by A.F. Scott
288 - The Rapture of Canaan, by Sheri Reynolds
244 - The Prayer of Jabez, by Bruce Wilkinson
239 - Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World, by Karen Armstrong
225 - Underground to Canada, by Barbara Smucker
215 - The White Mountains, by John Christopher
212 - Race Against Time 2nd Ed., by Stephen Lewis
210 - Leaving Home, by David French
205 - The First Nations of British Columbia 2nd Ed., by Robert J. Muckle
177 - A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey
85 - Sacrifice of Isaac, by Neil Gordon

VonBegg:

550 - The Tibetan Book of The Dead (trans. Gyurme Dorje)
530 - I and Thou, by Martin Buber
490 - The Abundance Book, by Lawrence Cane
490 - The Heart of Philosophy, by Jacob Needleman
470 - Thresholds of the Mind, by Bill Harris
470 - The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis
465 - The Power of Letting Go, by Patricia Carrington
450 - Fear and Trembling, by Soren Kierkegaard
440 - The Dark Side of The Light Chasers, by Debbie Ford
440 - A Moth to the Flame, by Connie Zweig
420 - The Prophet's Way, by Thom Hartmann
420 - Coming Back to Life, by Joanna Macy
420 - From Dawn to Decadence, by Jacques Barzan
410 - Boomeritis, by Ken Wilber
400 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
400 - The Three Theban Plays, by Sophocles (Hawkins has calibrated the author at 465)
400 - The Power of Partnership, by Riane Eisler
(somewhere in) 400’s - Everyday Grace, by Marianne Williamson (see Stargazer)
380 - Getting Things Done, by David Allen
365 - Master Key System by Charles F Haanel (see Stargazer)
360 - Flow, by Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi
350 - Architects of the Culture of Death, by Donald De Marco and Benjamin Wiker
320 - 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help, by Benjamin Wiker
320 - Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers
no permission - Notes to Myself, by Hugh Prather - no permission
no permission - Aquarian Gospel [of Jesus the Christ, by Levi & Eva Dowling]

Stargazer:

620 - Marianne Williamson's "Everyday Grace" (see VonBegg)
?580? - The "Master Key System" by Charles F Haanel (unsure; wanted confirmation – see VonBegg)

TimD:

750's - Perfect Wisdom - The Short Prajnaparamita Texts (trans. Edward Conze)
560 - Philosophical Texts, by St. Thomas Aquinas
550's - The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon
511-519 - The Philosophic Basis of Mysticism, by T.H. Hughes
501-509 - The Breath of God, by Swami Chetanananda
480's - Cosmic Consciousness edited, by R.M. Bucke
466 - A Brief History of Everything, by Ken Wilber
440's - The Hidden Gospel, by Neil Douglas-Klotz
430 - The Ragamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning
420's - Out of My Later Years (compiled writings by Einstein, mainly from the 1930's and 40's)

Greymagus:

799 – "Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism"
795 – Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev – "Encounter the Enlightened"
780 – The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda translation copyright 1978, 1984, 1990 Integral Yoga Publications)
770 – Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev – "Mystic's Musings"
740 – Harish Johari – "Chakras: Energy Centers of Transformation"
740 – Paramahamsa Yogananda – "Autobiography of a Yogi"
700 – Richard Smoley – "Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition"
700 – Elaine Pagels – "The Origin of Satan"
675 – Thom Hartmann – "The Prophet's Way"
655 – Andreas Moritz – "Lifting the Veil of Duality"
625 – Masaru Emoto – "The Hidden Messages in Water"
615 – Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney – "Hidden Wisdom"
599 – Fritjof Capra – "The Tao of Physics"
595 – Elaine Pagels – "Adam, Eve, and the Serpent"
570 – Mantak Chia – "Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao"
565 – Marianne Williamson – "Illuminata: A Return to Prayer"
560 – Elaine Pagels – "The Gnostic Gospels"
560 – Caroline Myss, Ph.D. – "Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can"
540 – Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D. - "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality"
535 – "From the Ashes: A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America" (a compilation of essays by spiritual authors/teachers in response to 9/11)
500 – Christian de la Huerta – "Coming Out Spiritually: the next step"
500 – Thom Hartmann – "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight"
499 – Graham Hancock – "Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization"
485 – Barbara Honegger – "October Surprise"
480 - Elaine Pagels – "Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas"
475 – Thom Hartmann – "We The People: A Call to Take Back America"
445 – Thom Hartmann - "Unequal Protection"
400 - Paul Devereux – "Places of Power: Measuring the secret energy of ancient sites"
135 – David Ray Griffin – "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11" (author calibrates at 445)
90 - Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler


And here are book calibrations from other sources:

999.8 - I: Reality and Subjectivity, by David R. Hawkins
980 - The Eye of the I - From Which Nothing Is Hidden, by David R. Hawkins
970 - The Upanishads
910 - The Bhagavad Gita
905 - The Zohar
895 - Nicene Creed
880 - Lamsa Bible(minus the OT, Revelation, but incl. Gen, Psalms, Proverbs)
850 - Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour, by David R. Hawkins
840 - Dhammapada
810 - Ramayana, by Valmiki
795 - Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma
790 - New Testament(King James Version minus Book of Revelation)
780 - Lotus Sutra
780 - Heart Sutra
740 - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
720 - The Koran
705 - The Cloud of Unknowing
710 - Shankara
705 - Rig Veda, by Krishna
700 - The Diamond Sutra
699 - Gospel of St. Luke
665 - Midrash
665 - Mishna, by Yeduha Ha-Nasi
660 - Genesis(Lamsa Bible)
660 - Gospel of St. Thomas
650 - Psalms(Lamsa Bible)
645 - Aggadah
640 - New Testament(King James Version from the Greek)
640 - The Flowing Light of the Godhead, by Mechthild of Magdeburg
635 - Vijnana Bhairava
610 - Tao te Ching
605 - The Dark Night of the Soul, by Saint John of the Cross
600 - A Course in Miracles(Workbook)
600 - Omniology: Secret of Cosmos, by Yang Hee Lee
595 - Talmud
595 - Saved by the Light, by Dannion Brinkley (neardeather), Paul Perry, and Raymond A. Moody
595 - Embraced By The Light, by Bettie Eadie
595 - Chuang Tsu
575 - The Practise of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
570 - The Book of Kells, by Keltic monks, R.A. MacAvoy [editor]
560 - Glamour: A World Problem, by Alice Ann Bailey (channelled by Djwhal Khul)
550 - A Course in Miracles(textbook)
540 - Conversations with God (Trilogy), by Neale Donald Walsch
505 - Kundalini: Psychosis or Transcendence, by Dr. Lee Sannella
505 - Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
495 - Lamsa Bible(From the Aramaic)
480 - Tractatus theologico-politicus, Baruch Spinoza
475 - King James Bible(From the Greek)
430 - I Ching
420 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
405 - The Book of Mormon
400 - Gnostic Gospels
350 - Proverbs(Lamsa Bible)
320 - Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers
265 - The Keys of Enoch, by Professor J.J. Hurtak
265 - The Dead Sea Scrolls
260 - Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowlings
190 - The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
190 - The God Gene, by Dean Hammer
160 - The Skeptic's Dictionary, by Robert T. Carroll
150 - The Urantia Book, by the Urantia Foundation
130 - Stupid White Men, by Michael Moore
130 - The Capital and Manifest of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx
70 - The Book of Revelation(New Testament)


-Rob

Way back when I first joined zaadz, I made an entry with a bunch of poetry that I'd written, which I periodically updated. Since I last updated it, I've written a lot more, and figured that I might as well make a new thread since it's not likely that people will go back and check the old one at this point. Soooo, here are most of the poems that I've written over the course of my life. Enjoy!
(I hope the formatting works in the posting here...a lot of blog sites automatically align everything to the left...and there are a few that have some different sorts of formatting in the originals, so if it doesn't work, I apologize in advance!)

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attatchment

Humbly Waiting
Ego Blazing
I Know it will go away.
Patient with me, for one day I'll be ready
to be unready

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nonconditional

experiencing the soft warmth of a flesh I have never touched
looking into the eyes of one with whom I've never spoke.
knowing the love intimately without having the love.
or do I?
Am I living the love, or is it passing me by?
It's no less real when it's no more shared.
or am I wrong.
I can't say I'm scared.
If it is meant to be there's no point to it anyways.
It's meant to be good, meant for a certain way.
If it's not meant to be, it's still meant to be right.
Freedom is not 'yes I will' it's 'I might'.
A love with no bounds,
A love that may never happen,
has happened.
A love that is perfect
is happy
whatever the outcome.

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acceptance

Smiling at praise.
Nod at criticism.
hold my thoughts still.
Wonder about things.
Bold my stance
Firm my stability
With silence and heavy eyes
gently my heart sings.

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How to Say Nothing, and Mean It

a point without a premise.
a premise without a point.
the intent has been set forth,
but the path is out of joint.

a premise without a point.
a point without a premise.
a shot without a target,
yields a hit that marks a miss.

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Awareness

Silence
The song that needn't be played
Melody
In notes that can't be made
Beauty
As voices haven't sung
Peace
As It and I are One

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Terminus

a river of love
ebbs and flows
float with the current
wherever it goes
twisting and turning
effortlessly
in every direction
timeless beauty

with eloquent rhythm
softly it calls
lowering gently
over the falls

the current slows down
the river wide-opens
back to it's source
One with the Ocean

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One

What fortune found
To have a friend
Whereupon this journey
We could spend
A moment here
Seeing clear
The Silence

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Surrender to Grace

gazing, full with wonder
aesthetic fluence in the world around
as a boat on the ocean
with waves the soul bounds
caress of the heavens
fills hearts of space
cognitive efforts
surrender to grace

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Love Poem

This feeling fills
It doth persist
A healing warmth
Vague as mist

Betroths this heart
A radiant field
All wants and needs
The feeler yields

He gives up All
So to embrace
A higher Truth
To bathe in Grace

He loves her not
It's not from him
Veritably
He feels on a whim

No, this Love subsists
Even when disaligned
It encompasses souls
So that they're combined

The caring endures
Glowing forth from his chest
By no will of his own
This union impressed

Her joy is his own
As hers is in he
Entangled by Love
Two drops meet in the sea.

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Involvement

So involved in desire
So involved in the pain
So involved in the story of the hero once again

So involved we compete
So involved we show pride
So involved in the view that we have from outside

So we just let it in
So we just let it go
So we know that the mind is the screen for the show

So we bend with the wind
So we go with the flow
So we follow the plot that continues to grow

So the reel nears it's end
So the credits start to roll
So we find all along that we watched from the soul

So we've learned who we are
So we aren't what we see
So we're not so involved
So in truth we are free

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Heart Chakra

A fire without sound
let spirit abound
pouring forth from the chest
by love at last found
thru the door of the soul
enter into the whole
as inside, all around
what the heavens extol

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Portrait

A dancer and her dance
Existence as one with her essence
Though it may not be apparent

Figuratively perfect
Since she does well not to realize it
of the moment she is fervent

Her mind is ripe
Humility makes her bold
her honesty the root component

She’s on the edge
Of discovering herself in this perspective
Seeing herself in the moment

Above and beyond
She’s all this and less
Words can’t relay what’s inherent

The paragon of woman
The epitome of God’s grace
Divinity’s crowning adornment

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This Love

As it comes
Loving you by loving the world
Yeah this love is what hearts are made for
Escaping eloquence gripping us tight

When it holds you it holds every child
When you breathe it’s what fills you inside
It’s the spirit that carries
the will that subsides
It’s the depth of your soul
And the light for your eyes
It’s the malleable stone
Soft hands work to the bone

Sculpting links in a chain that can lead us back home

It’s the wind in the forest
The sound of your voice
It’s the driver beside you
Your freedom of choice

And it flows
And it fills
Sometimes pushes
Sometimes gives
As it comes
Loving you by loving the world

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What to Bring to Work

An arbitrary assertion
'this is hard'
lame as can be
defeated at once by the force I call 'me'
is the puzzle inherently tough?
the Truth shall set me free
a prisoner of my impressions
is the honeycomb so complex to the bee?
why should this be such a challenging feat?
as easy as moving my arms
walking on my legs
turning a wrench
hauling kegs
no task is stronger than my mind
all work is as difficult as I find
when I bring it joy
it brings me peace
and when I bring love
the work loves me back.

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Flo and I

"Nothing real can be threatened."
A phrase seared in my mind.
How it was so easy to accept, after the first time I saw her,
That we might never meet again.

Talk about impressions burned in the mind though!
Her love.

Her warmth.

Her kindness.

Radiant like the glow of the sun.

Something about her...
This encounter would change the course of my life.

I knew.

~

Almost a year later we met again.

"Wow. She is just..."

It seemed impossible that I let her go the first time.
Her Joy is now my soul's desire. My Self is hers.

A deep sense of living completeness...
Perhaps due to the way my spirit is reflected so clearly in hers;
Perhaps in the way our reciprocal strengths and hurdles compliment.

A nurturing wholeness.

Her heart has opened parts of me I never knew.
The journey into her soul and the road to mine are a singular path.

When once, the edge of my being was marked by a Mind,

Now it seems difficult to distinguish where I end and where she begins.

~

Freedom in the uncertainty of Life.

Anchored in the Truth of our Love

A phrase comes to mind...

"Nothing real can be threatened."

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Nondual

The indivisible totality of existence

as viewed through pinholes in the fabric of time.

A timeless, changeless, limitless whole

seems constrained – to the temporal, changing, limited mind.

Like frames on a film strip passing by...

The illusion. The excitement. The interest.

What’s to come? What’s to find?

Cassette in hand; the whole plot fulfilled.

listen,

as pa,

after par,

after part,

is spilled.

O Perception: the Great Constraint.

What of the Truth is there left to paint?

Do we think that we’re painters,

when in fact we’re the brush?

Do we think that we’re brushes,

when in fact we’re the push?

From the Artist’s hand,

to the Artist’s mind.

We step forth through the gate

then look back just to find,

That no gate e’er was there;

that before we were blind.

But who was blind?
With eternity found,

we are set free from time.

Where unending Silence,

is the stage for all sound.

Where from infinite Stillness,

is all movement found.

Where on eternal absence,

doth Light shine its face.

Where the world of form,

dwells in l-i-m-i-t-l-e-s-s Space .

Moving.

Changing.

Growing.

Learning.

Aging.

Appearing.

Artefacts of Totality nearing,

a realization of its true Self.

Nondual.

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Who Am I?

Perception the Bridge,
Or perception the Wall?
Which stands between me and the world.

Or is it a mirror,
Reflecting at me
My Self come completely unfurled?

Could I be an illusion?
A thoughtless conclusion?
A something which stands clear apart?

Or am I a question?
Pre-answer digestion,
A mystery from bottom to top?

Am I a persona?
Which stands quite alone?
A window to all that's outside?

Or am I a vessel
For something that's more?
Or have I just come for the ride?

Perhaps I'm a fish?
Could I be the water?
Or could I be both as a whole?

I might be a tooth,
Which can't bite itself.
A something that never may know.

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Squish. Hmm. Ha. Ahh. Good Karma.

Squish.
A life ends at the sole of my shoe.
No thought for its life.
No thought for its soul.
No thought for the life which once made the world whole.

Hmm.
Is there anything I can do?
Can I remedy this?
Can I pay for my crime?
Can I bring back its life? Can I go back in time?

Ha.
I could hold a bug funeral!
Would it ease my mind?
Would it please the bug?
Would it hold off the wrath that I'm due from above?

Ahh.
There's a lesson in this.
Thank-you bug.
Thank-you life.
Thank-you universe, for setting me right!

Wow.
Two lives begin at the soul of my being.
Reborn with awareness.
Reborn to care.
Reborn with a spider I was meant to meet there.

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Letting Go

Drop what's in my hand,

without a second thought.

But with layers

layers

layers of frustration,

hold on with all I've got.

Take the anger.

Grip it tighter.

Grip it tighter yet.

This feeling of discomfort;

Closed as a fist can get.

I open up my sweaty palm

and roll the object 'round.

Notice that it's not attached;

that I'm not tied or bound.

I am it,

or I have it.

Why struggle to hold on?

If I could only let it go,

my hurting would be...                G  o  n  e.

Find my comfort.

Focus Inward.

Live with open hand.

I needn't grip things any longer,

blown away like sand.

At core I'm silent,

I'm at Peace.

Air in a bubble,

finds  r  e  l  e  a  s  e.

No more with pain or darkness,

no longer hurt by lies.

No longer blinded by scales,

which once covered my eyes.

This is what the wind feels like.

Unhindered by confine.

Set free all my frustrations;

they're here

but they're not mine.

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A Perfect Tree

A sapling
guided up through soil by the sun
from its source in the ground to its source in the sky
to a spire from a seed, it becomes

In infancy the tree endures
over storm, step and struggle, life is won
recorded in the rings of time
trials help the tree to grow tall and strong

As it ages it seeks space to grow
solidly established it climbs on
ever longing to hug heaven's light
it opens up its arms one branch by one

It reaches up and reaches out
does not deny its shade to anyone
though not the tallest, thickest, or most picturesque
its service to the world is not undone

A perfect vision of itself
through birth and life and death goes Nature's son
an everlasting gesture of Her wealth
for in its wake we find new life begun

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A Simple Life

V1
If you remember how love put the beat in your step
and how the rain never got your heart wet
you can go back to a time when we all got along
If you remember that love is the breath of this living song...
you can put all your pain in the past

and we'll carry on

V2
So open on up and let the love shine in
I know we've done it before-we're gonna do it again
Come on and live your peace, go on and shine that light
With just a little faith, we find that things go alright
I know that life is good for the soul

as we all grow on

Chorus
Just look at where we've come
Take your time
and understand
it's a simple life

Bridge
I know that you've got your handful of troubles
and you know that I've got mine
But when you look out for me, I can look out for you
Just got to trust in people, not much else we can do
'cuz when it all falls down, I'm gonna pick you up
you know that we're all brothers and that's more than enough
we'll just lean on each other as life

keeps on moving on

Chorus
Just look at where we've come
Take your time
and understand
it's a simple life

Take your time
and understand
it's a simple life
and things will work out right

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Emergence

Elementary particles
Created; not coloured
All alone they have nothing to show
But arranged as an atom
Bombarded by light
We witness a glorious glow

A single Molecule
Water; not wet
A pair of 'H' with a unit of 'O'
Limited.

Finite.

Alone.

So little to it
This lone unit
Some traits, only union bestows

An endless vacuum
There; not here
A volume without a divide
But fill it with objects

and orbits

and light

Then a context connects all inside
Though the vacuum has not a locale of its own
Its contents are spatially tied

Then what of Love?
Unconditional; under the right conditions
An emerging property too?
Does it only appear, between me and you?
Or is it always here?
Though it's not always clear?
Is emergence its coming to view?

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Death and Loss

all the data of the holographic universe
stored in the quantum computer
whether it's accessed or not
though I know not all,
it is yet known,
just not by me

therein lies my bias
since I can't imagine death
to imagine the hollow;
the empty...
takes awareness

I just can't manage to smother the Self
long enough to allow
for the possibility of nothing

an after life?
after what?
can I ever evade the Now?

how?

even Loss,
I can't quite grasp
though fear of loss has made me gasp

if I say goodnight, is your love not mine?
how far apart, in space and time,
must someone be?

can we ever lose what we've set free?

as sure as I am that I can't lose you
you were never mine, this much is true
can I try the same on my Self too?

if I set me free
will I not be lost?
I do not know.

when did life even begin?
Now?
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Peace

Simple kindness has no backlash
never leads to loss or despair
If I'm to be the change
it's kindness
that my world should get to wear

I can't just dream about it
it's something I must be
like the flame of a candle
lights another
to give myself
does not hurt me

To live with Peace does not consume
nor overwhelm
it does illume
it paints the world with Love and Light
does not divide the wrong and right

It ends all conflicts with forgiveness
melts all worry
caters to bliss
complete and perfect; life benign
in every moment – yours and mine

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Hey, Love!

V1
Hey, Tree! Come on and shine your shade
Give rest and comfort by your design
Let me hang from your branches
Let me roll in your leaves
Let me live life with freedom
Cherish the breeze

Chorus
...these are expressions, of Her embrace
Caress of the heavens, surrender to Grace
Hey, Love!
You're the silence in sound
The cure to my worries
You're all that's around

V2
Hey, Wind! Come on and give your touch
Lift up my spirits with your gentle push
Let me roar in your streams
Let me ride on your waves
Let me go your direction
Feel like I'm safe

V3
Hey, Rain! Come on and drip your scent
Wash me clean with refreshing descent
Let me be free of anger
Let me be free of pain
Set me free from resistance
And I'll be pure again

Bridge
The rain, it doesn't just fall on the bad
And the rose when she smiles...

It doesn't matter who you are
Or what your trial is

Just live Love
'Cuz that's what life is

V4
Hey, Sun! Come on and wrap that warmth
Blanket the world with nurturing arms
Let us comfort each other
Let us heal in your light
Let us change our direction
Live for what's right

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And there you have it! Enjoy!

-Rob

The realization that everything is the perfect expression of that which it is. A rosebud is not an imperfect rose. It is a perfect rosebud. So it is with the present and the future. There is hope, because the future is inevitably the perfect expression of that which it is as well. 'Future' is but another name for a rose - which, as you know, smells just as sweet by any name we would like to call it!

-Rob

a perfect world is the world as it is, from an enlightened perspective.

-Rob

'I: Reality and Subjectivity' by David R. Hawkins. Before reading the book I only thought I knew what my life was...the book perhaps did not change life itself...though it revealed what this life truly is...and in that sense, though nothing appears to have changed, nothing has remained the same either.

-Rob

A paintbrush. A paintbrush is happy to be a paintbrush. A paintbrush is not concerned with painting, nor with art...it is concerned only with being that which it is.
Plus, 'The Painter' is the best boss in the universe.
When one knows who one is, appropriate action follows automatically. 'Be the change' means just that. What do I want to BE when I grow up, is not the same as what do I want to DO when I grow up. What I want to do, is to act appropriately according to what I am. Whatever form that action takes is inconsequential, and ever changing, so long as what I am is anything less than the infinite totality of existece.

-Rob

Absolutely nothing. Everything would be allowed to unfold perfectly without the constraints of expectation. It is fear that keeps the doer in the deed. With no fear, there is only love, nothing else.

-Rob

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Suppose you are writing a multiple choice exam.

1. You want to choose the correct answer.
2. The correct answer is (a)
3. You think the correct answer is (d)

Suppose you chose (d). Did you get what you wanted?
This is the basic gist of the argument that Socrates makes against Polus in Plato's Gorgias.

The gist is, that all we want is what is good for us, and so, though we may think that we want one thing, we may in fact want something else.

Consider the example of knowledge. It is possible to believe something that is false, though it is not possible to know something that is false.
eg:
One can believe that Los Angeles is in the province of Quebec, but one cannot know that Los Angeles is in the province of Quebec.

If we apply the same principle to 'wanting', it seems understandable that one can think he desires something which he truly does not.

(Note: Aristotle had some very good criticisms of Socrates' approach to this, but primarily the difference in views arises from a preference for a different context and a different set of definitions)

It appears as though the main thing which interferes with our acting upon our true wants is the problem of thinkingness. Our thoughts simply are not trustworthy when it comes to discerning these differences.
In the absence of thinkingness reality as-it-is, is self-evident. We often seem to be of the persuasion that within our thoughts is contained our humanity, when the case seems to be just the opposite - that in thinkingness we are trapped in a state of oblivion; where we can know about a great many things, only by virtue of the dualistic view, we're never quite able to truly know such things. We fear that if we surrender our dreams, and our thoughts and our ideas, that we will somehow surrender something which is real in the process.
What we call our dreams are really what we think our dreams and ambitions are.
What we call good ideas are merely those things that we think are good ideas.

Having understood these principles it seems as though the way to truth dwells in the silencing of the mind...and since we are not the mind, the task of silencing it is no easy task...it does not succumb to our will(just try and predict your next thought! impossible!).
The mind is like a tiny tv screen in a massive arena. We give it so much attention that it seems to occupy the whole of our being...but the stadium is over 99% empty.
All we need do is disengage from the mind...thinking will come to rest on its own.

"Truth is verifiable only by identity with it, not by knowing about it." -David R. Hawkins

-Rob

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"...as a paintbrush in God's hand...my service to God is complete...my service to God is completely in God's hands."

-Rob

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"It is actually impossible to forsake our own spiritual development in favor of someone else's." -M. Scott Peck, from 'The Road Less Traveled' "If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway." -Mother Teresa "To give and to receive are one in truth." -A Course in Miracles, lesson 108 ...in making the distinction between giving and receiving we often deny ourselves a considerable opportunity to rejoice in one aspect of the process or the other. When we give, we receive. When we receive, we give. In both cases humility plays a prominent role. In both cases we serve. In regard to nonduality and nonattatchment, breathing is an excellent metaphor. To breathe in and to breathe out are essential. Attatchment to one's breath inhibits breathing. Detatchment to air inhibits breathing. So it is with giving and receiving. In truth they are one; service of the whole. The key is to remain focused on God, from which all that can be given or received arises; to live as a vessel for Divine Love. Be God's paintbrush. To the paintbrush, there is no greater significance or blessing to picking up more paint than there is to spread it over a canvas. Love, -Rob

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