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Eating The Stars
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.”
~ Thomas Merton, Anglo-American writer, poet, mystic, author, social activist. (1915–1968)
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“The whole planet is one giant, living, breathing cell, with all its working parts linked in symbiosis.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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The patriarchal spiritualists have been telling us that ‘meditation’ and ‘contemplation’ and ‘reflection’ are the path to a calm mind for centuries, and most of them are still crazy in their personal lives. Nothing changed. They dance in the witness- essentially a mind function- and addict to meditative practice, like a drug. And the moment they have to really deal with the world, their madness re-emerges, always present.
— Jeff Brown
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ANTIDOTES TO FEAR OF DEATH
Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars.
Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck them from the quenching dark
Til they are all, all inside me,
Pepper hot and sharp.
