If You’re Going To Try…
August 9, 2010
A poem that has inspired me to carrying on doing what I do… Regardless of the cost. Trust me… I’m not here for the money. Experience is what speaks to me.
When you’ve won the lottery of existence, as we all have, and you’re basking in the starry light of being, here on a planet that is situated in a ‘sweet’ spot precluding Life, orbiting around a friendly star… A planet which we have called Earth… Well… You might just be able to see how fortunate you really are. ‘This’ experience is reality… Whether drunk or sober… Poor or rich… Ugly or beautiful. Amazement flows everyday… Whether painful or joyous… Peaceful of agitating… Happy or sad.
And the glory is ours… If only we dare to claim it…
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don’t even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery–isolation.
Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it.
And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds.
And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It’s the only good fight there is.
by Heinrich Karl Bukowski
To find out more about the poet and writer Charles Bukowski, please click here.
i like the spirit of it
and i have lived it
there are some things
that force of will
cause self-defeat
and in this regard
i accept the failure of
“going all the way”
whereas we know of bukowski
what of the thousand others who travelled his path
and we know not of…?
where are their voices…?
and what would they say nearing the end of their lives….?
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Bliss Consciousness
People seem to be threatened by the idea of bliss, trying to corral the ineffable with definitions.
How can I put words around without restricting open-ended bliss?
Have they no faith in their loving Creator?
Have I no faith in my co-creating higher Muse?
The suffering, disappointments, traumas, desolation — these are not the gifts of deities
demanding or displeased. These are natural consequences of forces set in motion
impervious to prayer, blind to persons, unaware of our individual sad stories.
Meaningless happenstance we give greater power by attributions of guilt, blame,
bitter condemnation.
Take a little turn, I tell me, into a new truer dimension to perception.
Bliss is the source condition that surrounds us, is the essence of,
all that space in, around, between.
This is the Creator’s plan, Eden’s blueprint, paradise here and hereafter.
This is Christ’s salvation, Buddha’s enlightenment, Mohammed’s dream,
Zarathustra’s revelation. This is the holy secret Great Goddess whispers
in her cradling lullaby.
All of consciousness, all that life can give, is an option to open eternally
into completion as full awareness of bliss. Breathe in the healing.
Breathe out the stale pain.
Laugh in the chilling rain, yes, even as the tsunami hits, the Earth quakes,
erupting ash burns, take my hand, my word, my promise.
A universe of bliss is yours for the accepting. It costs nothing but your sins,
your misconceptions, your resistance to true unfettered life, your immortal soul.
(c) March 2007 Laurie Corzett/libramoon