Monday, May 27, 2013

A Conspiracy of Love



Frida Kahlo - Two Nudes in the Forest (1939)
There is so much love in the world; if only it would conspire with itself. 

Love IS intelligence, love IS will, love IS conscience. 

Love does not dispel darkness, it reveals darkness as the flesh of the Goddess. 

Hate and evil are not dark, and good is not light. 

Hate and evil are utterly colorless, void of hue, and also void of the positive and negative polarity of black (Yin) and white (Yang). Hate and evil are anti-life. 

They exist outside of nature. 

Good is all life, including the mysterious alchemical process called "death." 

There is so much love in the world; if only it would fall for itself.

-- Richard Power

Power's eighth book,  Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality in an Era of Global Peril , is available now in soft cover and Kindle versions, from Amazon and elsewhere.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Fierce Simplicity


Leonor Fini - La Passagere
The beauty of life shares the same root system with the difficulty of life. Indeed, the deeper your embrace of life's beauty, the greater the difficulties that rise up all around you.

But it is NOT the truly human choice to rip out that whole root system, i.e., to sacrifice the beauty in order to eradicate the difficulty.

The bitter irony is that those who choose to attempt it end up killing out the beauty, and being left to contend with even more virulent strains of difficulty.

The truly human choice is to utterly embrace the beauty, in all of its vulnerability and transitoriness, and with eyes wide open to the greater difficulty that arrives in the same moment. From this brave choice arises a poignancy, a powerful poignancy, in which both the beauty and the difficulty are held perfectly, as if by the hands of some invisible goddess.

Turning to face difficulty from inside of this great poignancy, one is witness to yet another miracle: from inside of the difficulty itself, a fierce simplicity arises.

The difficulty is still difficulty, but from here it is translucent, and it carries within it this mysterious simplicity. So now, stepping toward the difficulty instead of away from it, you are also stepping toward the fierce simplicity inside of it.

And with each step forward, the fierce simplicity invites you in ever deeper, until you are moving from inside of the fierce simplicity itself, and the very nature of difficulty has changed forever. All the while, you have held beauty in your arms.

-- Richard Power

Power's eighth book,  Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality in an Era of Global Peril , is available now in soft cover and Kindle versions, from Amazon and elsewhere.

Small Beautiful Creatures Suspended in Amber

Kay Sage - The Hidden Letter (1943)
No regrets? Really?

I have regrets. They are sacred to me.

They inform my character. They bear witness to my evolution.

Glimpses of lost love and treasure are held inside of them;
like small beautiful creatures suspended in amber.

Do not avoid your regrets. Do not discard them.

If you deny their existence, you cheapen your experience.

Embrace them. Listen to their stories.

Wrap them in tattered prayer flags and place them on the altar of your life.

Hold them to your heart when you want to remember the price you paid to become who you truly are.

-- Richard Power

Power's eighth book,  Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality in an Era of Global Peril , is available now in soft cover and Kindle versions, from Amazon and elsewhere.


Thursday, May 09, 2013

Unspeakable Holiness (New Moon. Solar Eclipse. May 9th, 2013.)


There is a cynicism that is profoundly spiritual, and a sarcasm that is sacred.

Within the shadow, there is an unspeakable holiness.

Do not turn away from this truth.

It will save you from much that does not serve you on your journey, and lead you to the "high, wild places" where too few ever worship.

-- Richard Power

Power's eighth book,  Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality in an Era of Global Peril , is available now in soft cover and Kindle versions, from Amazon and elsewhere.