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2024-06-01 – Circling

Sunday, June 2nd, 2024

Let me try
to draw a circle around it
and start from anywhere
to explain it.

And we will always arrive with
only a partial picture.
Because it can never be
less than it is.

It is without beginning or end;
One.

Only by arbitrarily breaking in
at some point
can we begin a description
that can never finish.

We are a tool that understands
only pieces
working on that which
cannot be divided.

There is no ‘getting it’
in any classical sense.
Any such understanding
would simply be an
re-expression of the problem
itself.

Oh, Ouroboros, come around
and whisper your secrets to me
again.

gallagher
Toronto
01Jun24

2024-07-23 – Pebbles

Wednesday, July 24th, 2024

We are creatures 
spawned from change;
in the never ending churn
of an existence in motion.

Temporary, transient 
and small,
like pebbles of awareness.

Existent ,for but moments,
in the endless deluge.

We catch our breath…
and then we are gone.

The transient 
is all we have
in this moving 
eternity. 

A momentary awareness 
is all we are
in the great flow
of unknowing.

We try
to freeze and name
its passing
with our words.

But those are only
arbitrary gestures.
Irrelevant,
before they are swept away
in the endless changing.

Sometimes, 
if we are very quiet,
we can sense 
the infinite
unity of it…
before 
another thought 
arises in us
and we are lost again
in the small pebble’s 
forlorn dream 
of understanding.

Gallagher
23 July 24
Christchurch

  • After an on-line Enlightened Living meeting

2024-08-14 – All

Wednesday, August 14th, 2024

If all the things
that you believe are true
cannot be true all at once,
then you have a problem.

Gallagher
14Aug24
Christchurch