Howard McQueen's Blog – October 2012 Archive (2)

© 2012 Howard McQueen

 

Everything made of love

 and everything made of fear

 is alive,

 incubated and harbored in the human mind.

 

Ours is a journey of discernment,

 of recognizing where love has gone astray

 and escaped in the forms of anger,

 distrust, sadness, depression  …

 

Ours is both an inward journey,

 As well as an outward journey.

We may try to cloister ourselves from the external…

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© 2012 Howard McQueen 

 

All the inner voices,

calling out for attention;

some of them advocating for discord.

And yet,

quietly,

patiently,

there is also a soft voice calling forth from a simple wholeness.

It is not the loudest.

It lacks the drama carried by the other voices.

And, yes, even when you clearly hear it,

you still sometimes clam up into a forced silence,

denying yourself your own…

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