the awake
and the
dormant
two states
when I’m
awake
I know
no fear
I’m at
peace
I’m in
love
with life
and filled
with gratitude
when I’m
dormant
life
appears
on a
tainted
screen
confusion
sorrow
pain
in varying
degrees
dominate
the scene
that talks
about past
or future
the moment
of now
is the place
to awake
to return
to what is
which
in its inherent
nature
is Love
expressed
as life
there will
always
be more
life is
expansion
the seeming
end
of something
is only
the beginning
the allowing
of newness
this constant
movement
of transformation
does not
know
stagnation
in stillness
I can witness
the cosmic
dance
and again
and again
I am
invited
to surrender
to that
what is
moving
in and
around me
I’ve been creative around the appearance of my poems.
As much as I like simplicity and clarity, I also like to combine words with images to enhance, amplify or envelop their expression.
So here is the result of my recent creative phase – two eBooks with poems in colour:
BEAUTY expressed …
a collection of English poems, combined with stunning images
SILENT WORDS – STILLE WORTE
a collection of poems in English some in German combined with intriguing images
The good news is that you can buy these beauties! The price for each eBook is £5 – payments can be made via paypal
If you are interested in buying one or more of my eBooks, please get in touch with me via email: christinefindhorn@gmail.com
I have samples for online preview and will send you the purchased publication as pdf with high resolution images. Just let me know.
I’ve been enjoying the process of creating those ebooks – I wish you the same joy in reading and browsing through the poems and images.
undo me
unwind
my structures
let them drop
like loose
ends
I am
full
and
empty
like a
balloon
wanting to
burst
at the
seams
that are
not
untangle
the net
that ties
and wants
to hold
it all
together
let each
of them
have
their
own
gravity
I feel
like
taking
off
let
me
fly
…
Abide in the Now *
Be with what is *
Celebrate being alive *
Draw from stillness *
Emanate your uniqueness *
Feel inside *
Go deeper *
Honour your soul *
I AM *
Joy lifts your spirit *
Kindness softens your gaze *
Listen to life *
Meet your fears *
Nobody can take your place *
Offer time to yourself *
Pray and allow *
Question your beliefs *
Rest in the not knowing *
Speak from your heart *
Trust in your being *
Undo instead of doing *
Value life in all forms *
Wonder like a child *
X-ray your identity *
You are meant to be here *
Zero in to LOVE *
Once upon a time there was beautiful bird – his feathers shimmering in the sunlight in a fluorescent and mother-of-pearl glow. He came from the realms where there is eternal light and a lightness of being.
One day he decided to enter the realms of planet earth and went on his journey through the universe. He was full of excitement about this adventure. At the same time he knew that this would be a time of meeting many old, old friends to embark on a new era of exploration and experimentation.
He also was aware that entering the realms of planet earth would mean an adjustment to different levels of light, energy and gravity. He knew that he would join a long line of generations, re-living all range of emotions that human beings are capable of. His wish was to bridge the worlds, to make a connection from the place he came from, to planet earth and its inhabitants.
So he flew towards the blue planet, and the closer he came he marveled at its incredible beauty, surrounded it a few times whilst singing a song that spoke of gratitude, joy and Love.
The moment he permeated the ozone layer of earth, an incredible heaviness and fogginess came over the bird – an intense force pulled him towards the ground and he needed all his strength to not crash immediately. At first he could not comprehend how this could have happened. He flapped with his wings trying to gain height again, but the more he tried the more he lost strength and with this further altitude. For a long time he felt trapped, helpless, and a big sadness came over him. He missed the freedom to soar high in the sky to fly in the sunlight that so reminded him of the place he came from.
After a long time the panic and emotional waves became less, the bird’s depression shifted into a wish to know more about this heaviness that pulled him down. In this moment he looked down and noticed that there was something attached to his legs. It was a piece of string with a box dangling at the other end. It dawned on him that this box, hanging in the air, was the source of his heaviness as it was continuously pulling on his leg.
He then had the insight that it might help to lower his altitude even more and to come closer to the ground of planet earth. He did so and at some point noticed that the box touched the soil. In this instant the pull on his leg was gone. He took a deep breath, relieved that he now didn’t have to try so hard any more to stay up in the air. With the box on the ground he could at least move effortlessly back and forth or in circles as far as the string was allowing him to. Compared to his struggle before, this seemed a pleasurable solution and he was content with this configuration for a quite a while.
Yet, whenever the sun arose and went up, higher and higher in the sky, he felt his longing to join the sun’s movement. For him the sun was the light and the box down on the ground was the darkness. His inclination was to face the sun, his beloved light, and at the same time the tug of the string, whenever he went a bit too far up, reminded him of the attached box.
Tired of this struggle, he finally decided, not without reluctance, to descend even further and to land on the box to have a closer look. He had a sense that getting in touch with the box could give him possible insights as to how it came to this whole situation.
The moment he got in touch with the box something interesting happened, the surface of the object ever so slightly shifted from being hard and edgy into something more soft. When he looked closer, he realized that the surface resembled a woven texture from which the string arose which was attached to his leg. In this process of inspection he felt a growing connection to this box, strangely it seemed to him as if this entity was actually part of himself. What a revelation!
Now, what to do with this new insight, he wondered. He got more and more curious and that sense of adventure, which compelled him in the first place to undertake this journey to planet earth, seemed to return to him. With this arising energy in him, he decided to take off again. Yet, this time he started very gently and carefully, always with the attached box in his awareness. With this approach he wanted to avoid the experience of another confrontation with the hard pull down when the string has reached its limit of expansion.
So he ascended gradually, gaining height, step by step, and to his surprise he noticed that the feared pull down or stop of his movement didn’t happen. Instead he felt a little tug at some point which then lost force and instead he realized that he could fly even a bit higher until there was another slight tugging, only to disappear again and giving space for more ascension.
This was interesting – the bird looked down to get a sense what was happening with his attached box. He was amazed to see the scenario that presented itself. It appeared that the box more and more lost its edgy shape, it looked like the string was getting longer and longer through an unraveling or undoing of the box-structure. With each tug another layer of string was freeing itself from the woven texture and the bird could soar higher.
By now the bird was very, very high up in the sky. He then became aware that the box had come undone completely and there was only the string, following the bird wherever he went, like soft tail or a flag, dancing in the wind.
And at this point the bird decided to venture out into the universe again. He flew through the ozone layer and to his joy the string still remained attached to his leg. He would have been sad to let go of the string, also because it now became clear to the bird that everything that confronted him with the heaviness upon entering earth, the box and the string, was nothing else but his own parcel of human history with all its experiences on earth, all its emotions, its pain and its joy that he had planned to find and to unpack.
He only had forgotten the moment he went through the ozone layers of this beautiful blue planet.
It was also in this moment that he remembered his initial wish to build a bridge between the place he came from and planet earth. So there he was, with his nearly endless string; and the further he flew into the universe towards his ‘home’, the place of eternal light, the string was winding like a rainbow-coloured, silver and golden line through space and at the same time swirling through the sky of planet earth, meandering along the ground and from time to time winding around beings, touching hearts and weaving more and more souls into a net that was birthing a new, breathing structure in the realm of all life.
what you
feel
you feel
for others
who can’t
your permission
to feel
to be
to live
allows
everyone
else
to do
the same
your being
matters
more than
you think
every experience
every movement
is part of
existence
and therefore
has a
place
whatever
you hold
back
can’t be
experienced
in this
moment
your showing
up
is wanted
and needed
the world
is a
lonely
place
without
your
being
here
is the title of a new exhibition and book, the second collaboration between Naomi Ojima and me. My poetry and Naomi’s visual art are of contemporary nature and beautifully complementary in their simplicity and subtleness.
Our artwork is a conversation between word – form and colour. It aims to describe the experience of the present moment – what arises and wants to be expressed when awareness and stillness meets creativity.
We believe that the source of all movements is Love. It is what inspired us both to collaborate and create a collection of present moment-expressions, inviting our readers to pause and to enter the multidimensionality of Now, to feel Love at its core.
The exhibition is currently on display at the Bakehouse in Findhorn and can be seen until 29th of October.
Our book with the same title is on sale there as well and can be ordered online via the following link:
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/8947455-multidimensional-moment
There is a preview into the book where you can see some of Naomi’s artwork and read some of my poems.
On Culture Day (29 September) during the Findhorn Bay Festival I was giving two poetry readings in the Pop Up Cafe in Forres Town-Hall. Thank you to everyone who came to listen and to see me. It was a beautiful experience, speaking to a friendly and open audience and noticing how words can touch and leave an imprint.
… feeling a bit like a celebrity whilst signing our books, thank you David Janes for having been the bookseller!
Here is one more excerpt from the book – as a taster:
Life
has no
safety net
no
guarantee
for
happiness
instead it
offers
a constant
invitation
to become
present
a door
to freedom
challenge
and
joy
to Love
revealed
as core
and standing ground
–
when being
fully here
–
the question
of
safety
disappears
To see more of Naomi’s artwork, please go to:
