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- Within you is the whole world
- You are surrounded
- By the whole world
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- Treat these worlds
- Within and without
- With great care, respect
- Consideration and love
- To experience the total joy
- Of everlasting life
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- For this is your unique gift
- And this is what our worlds need
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- Faith Carter ©
- Freedom
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- Tripping through life on gossamer wings
- I flow lightly
- Joyfully, enquiringly, softly
- With gay abandon and great love
- In celebration of these priceless lives of mine
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- I melt with the universe
- Soar through the sky
- Bricks are no barriers
- Glass windows do not shatter
- Return through those carefree spaces
- To the invisible room on the top of the hill
- Enveloped within the heavens' cloak
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- I am dancing in silent ecstasy
- Like a child in a flower filled meadow
- Pausing to rest under the trees
- That hang suspended from the heavens
- Sipping from the springs eternal
- In remembrance
- Through the illusion of time
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- Faith Carter ©
- Life's Illusion
- It is not the illusion
- That holds us entrapped
- It is the very thought of fantasy
- Entwined with that which we dread
- That leads us to the inner sanctuaries of immortality
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- No ordinary quest this
- To be entwined in the never ending circle
- Is to be truly encased and entrapped
- Within the transient mind
- To find escape is valour true
- If to the illusive kingdom we will come
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- Entrapped are we
- Within the enmeshed illusion
- That grips our sanity with iron clad mastery
- Neither release nor escape is in sight
- Within the struggle is the key
- For to escape into this unreal world
- Is no escape at all
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- Our destiny is clear
- To forge through each illusion
- With steadfast heart and mind
- Is to continue the quest true
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- This eternal quest
- Waits not for the skeptics to laugh
- In their fathomless anxiety
- For the tests yet to come
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- Faith Carter ©
- Silence
- Like soft rain
- The silence is falling
- Through my heart
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- It dances
- Within the whole
- Of my being
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- Like a leaf
- In the wind
- It playfully rises and falls
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- I see simplicity
- I experience
- The empty spaces
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- The shine
- On the brass doorknob
- Jumps out to greet me
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- The timeless ocean
- Of silence
- Rolls to hidden shores
- .
- I experience my true essence
- My thirst for life
- Is re-awakened
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- In the silence
- I am the silence
- I am
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- Faith Carter ©
- The Luminous Quest
- Who am I?
- Where am I?
- Why am I?
- A speck of consciousness
- Floating in the universal stream
- Lost
- Perplexed
- Bewildered
- .
- Light years pass by
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- Who am I?
- Where am I?
- Why am I?
- Swaying to and fro
- Tumbling
- Rolling
- Turning
- Firmly grasped in the hands of destiny am I
- Peeping through the doors of iniquity
- Trembling
- Fumbling
- Yearning
- .
- Light years pass by
- .
- Who am I?
- Where am I?
- Why am I?
- Frantically searching higher and thither
- Melting
- Sinking
- Burning
- Seeds of desire break through
- The sweet earth of my being
- Reaching
- Swaying
- Growing
- Bursting into the formless crucible
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- Light years pass by
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- Who am I?
- Where am I?
- Why am I?
- A seeker true am I
- Sitting
- Chanting
- Grounding
- Flowing gently in the oceans' soft light
- Nurtured
- Held
- Floating
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- Light years pass by
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- Who am I?
- Where am I?
- Why am I?
- The quest it leads me still
- Yet within my soul's depths
- I know I am love
- Simply being
- Here now
- Eternally
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- And light years pass by
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- Faith Carter ©
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- Ananda Kutir Ashrama, Cape Town, South Africa
- Silver Jubilee Yoga and Meditation Retreat
- "Cave of the Heart"
- 12 December 2007
- Aum
- Music of the universe
- You sing to my soul
- From Aum to Aum you reverberate
- Through the whole of my being
- Within everything are you contained
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- From the full rainbow
- To the desert sands
- Do you flow in sweet mystery
- I am the instrument
- On which you play
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- Yet is not the orchestra
- Within the liquid desires
- Of my inner cosmic consciousness
- And will I not for ever sip
- From the eternal nectar of your Source?
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- Faith Carter ©
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- Ananda Kutir Ashrama, Cape Town, South Africa
- Silver Jubilee Yoga and Meditation Retreat
- "Cave of the Heart"
- 12 December 2007
- Twenty-four Hours
- Soft night
- City empty
- Blues drifting
- Sax mellow
- Couples entwined
- Lights neon
- Dawn misty
- .
- Liberty rising
- Trains commuting
- Footsteps scurrying
- 9 to 5
- Brokers shouting
- Cabs yellow
- Horns blaring
- .
- Sidewalks steamy
- Bagels hot
- Chestnuts roasting
- Birds feeding
- Harlem ghetto
- Bullets spraying
- Shadows melting
- .
- Sirens wailing
- Bag-ladies staggering
- Pairs skating
- Trees electric
- Brightly shining
- Mothers shopping
- Fur coats laden
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- Children laughing
- Snow falling
- Trains commuting
- Footsteps scurrying
- .
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- Soft night
- City empty
- Blues drifting
- Big Apple
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- Faith Carter ©
