This is Wealth…
On Being Healthy, Wealthy, Compassionate, & Wise
I would like to have the deepest/a limitless well of wealth in all its forms.
Let me be as rich in experience and spiritual depth as my ancestors and progeny could imagine or wish.
Let me use my wealth to increase play and reduce suffering within our existence.
Part of what caused me to take a leap and join a mystery school was to explore my kinetic and potential energy and to build a greater store of personal and professional wealth. When I say wealth I’m not generally talking about money.
My grandparents were the richest people I knew. They were not, nor would they have ever been, featured on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. That’s not the kind of wealth I’m talking about. Their lives were well-balanced. They knew themselves and knew what they wanted from life. They knew their own power and they worked together effectively — professionally, personally, spiritually.
Growing up watching them, they embodied true wealth to me.
They sought education, they were physically and socially active. They worked hard to make the world a better place for children and their parents. They volunteered and they traveled around the world helping others. They learned. They played hard and loved deeply. They were compassionate and gentle, and they contained a force of will that I am still in awe of when I remember them today. They left a legacy that impacted thousands upon thousands of people’s lives.
Make Love Do Love Be Love
Make love to the world.
Fall in love with existence.
Every moment a sacred prayer
Empty and quiet
Every moment filled
With bubbling laughter
Erupting unbidden from your lips
Your soul
With tears dripping from your eyes
With rage against the dying of the light
Feel it now.
Feel it here.
Make love
To the books you read,
The people you’re with,
To what you find
Within your heart
The earth
The sea
The sky
And all you encounter
Emptiful
Beautiful
Ugly and Ashamed
Dark
Light
Free
Let it be Love
Let it be Loved
Let it be Lover
Dance
Dance
Dance
Dance
Dance
Dance until you are home
Fancy
Dance
Sing
Until you are home
Until you are home
Until you are home
Until you are home
My Love
Until you are hungry
Into your hurting
Stretching
Starving
Needing
Thirsty
Sing
Into your heart bearing
Breaking
Beating
Thump
Thumps
Thinks
Strums
Strikes
Strings
Staining
Stinking
Drinking
Swimming
Drumming
Strumming
You missed the starting gun
Fun
Hunting
Running
Holding
Letting Go
For your life
Your love
My love
Thou Art God!
Oh!
I’m a Fool for your pageantry