Following Your Bliss
Following Your Bliss
c 2008
Close your eyes
Visualize
Observe as your dreams
And realities coincide
Dive the depths
Into the ocean
Far from all the senseless commotion
Into the sweetest of silence inside
We just need to remember this day
Remember it this way always
When we went to a place full of love
A space where there was nowhere else to go
Go see the world
You will never regret it
But don’t forget that
the limitlessness you seek
exists
inside
Read MoreA Discourse on the Heart
A couple of days ago I was visiting the campus of a just completed junior college not far from my home to see some people and as I was walking thru the buildings noticing all the brand new stuff that had been installed – furniture, windows, water fountains, stair railings, vending machines it struck me that every class room and office also had a shiny new computer. I started thinking about it – how ubiquitous computers have become in our lives. They’re basically another appliance like a refrigerator or a dishwasher, it occurred to me, but instead of keeping the milk cool or washing the dishes this appliance “thinks”.
It also occurred to me that the computer is essentially a model of our own brain – that we have invented it to enhance and enlarge what goes on inside our own noggin – we instruct it to remember, calculate, send and receive data and do a myriad of tasks quickly and accurately.
In fact the argument could be made that our mind too is a digital device. It operates by comparing and contrasting. There are always two things – life and death, yes and no, light and dark, day and night and of course all the shades of conditionality in between.
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Breath Within Breath
awesome sun
you cradle my brow
your soften my face
you breathe my name
majestic sky
you whisper my shape
you extend my vision
you guide my arms
you hug my heart
soft rain
you drench my skin
you fill my thirsty heart
you drown me in music
you moisten my parched smile
breath within breath
you guide me, ride me
inside me you slide me
along this majestic
tunnel of time
this tunnel of love
this surreal rainbow
that blesses my life
from above….
Step of Faith
Step of Faith
By Melissa Gordon Rhine c September 2008
You never know
the countless angles
waiting to be shown
Frequently you cannot see the path
that will take you
exactly where you need to go
Chorus:
Just take just take just take
one small step of faith
You may be afraid
Aware of past and potential mistakes
that could be made
You’re more than a sinner or a saint
Relax your head and contemplate
the next breath’s best for you to take
Chorus
Bridge
There’s always the factor of fear
the shadow of failure lurking near
But if you never make the try
you’ll never come to know
the places only you are destined to roam..
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Time Will Say
Time Will Say
By Melissa Gordon Rhine c September 2008
Time will say
the words
that neither you nor I
communicate
You know that love must win
either way
whether we decide this is the end..
or we find the inner strength to begin again..
time will say
Chorus
Patience has its own private toll road
History’s the price paid as the truth unfolds
in the natural order of living things
while changes spring in everything
Love won’t be intellectualized
in the fiery looks from familiar eyes
Love’s been there since my first sight of you
Since.. my first.. sight of you..
Bridge
Time has a language all its own
with dedicated lines we learn to follow it home
I hear the answers in the beating of my heart
I’d follow the road where we’d never part
This can go either way…
only time will say