A Traveler's Unreasonable True Dream
From Mother Poems and A Crack in Time by Shambhavi Sarasvati at Kindred 108.
I am one in the form of the endless travel, and I manifest in many forms as well. ~ Anandamayi Ma
You might be happier if you immediately turn in your attachments to endings and beginnings origins and destinations. God is a recycler. Everything perpetually turns into everything else. Call that one the plane of becoming or the absolute. No difference. Just toss your beginnings and endings anywhere into space. Nothing is ever truly lost. We are all always on the move— travelers with so many arrivals and departures they amount only to the beauty of traveling and the tenderness of sharing stories of traveling. Various travelers however have not learned these simple facts We call them colonizers or conquerors or collectors. If we all learned the art of traveling of hosting and guesting we could live anywhere in a borderless land. Our bodies do not end at our skin. Our streets and lands have no names that remain. The host and the guest are inseparable. All plants are native, along with all that appears here. I want to grow kindness instead of timelines. I want to live among gardeners and servants and friends not landlords or conquerers. C’mon! Let’s rename this place Café Earth and just laze around without contrivances or convictions. If we just relax a little more we’ll discover we belong everywhere.
from Crack in Time, poems by Shambhavi Sarasvati
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C’mon!
“Let’s rename this place Café Earth and
just laze around
without contrivances or
convictions.
If we just relax a little more deeply,
we’ll discover we belong
everywhere”.
Sounds Great ! ❤️