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	<title>Padma's Words &#187; Looking Higher</title>
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	<description>Spirtual Poetry Under the Influence of God</description>
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		<title>Behold the Watcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>padma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Higher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nirvana]]></category>
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Image by Naturelover 2007
While you sleep, he waits&#8230;
when you speak, he listens&#8230;
Your thoughts do not entertain him, he smiles as if watching the clouds
There is no action that moves him&#8230;
No words consume him
He simply waits, and watches

When you meditate, you see his reflection in you
When you are quiet, you feel him
Like a shell covering you [...]]]></description>
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<h6 style="text-align: center;">Image by Naturelover 2007</h6>
<p style="text-align: center;">While you sleep, he waits&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">when you speak, he listens&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Your thoughts do not entertain him, he smiles as if watching the clouds</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">There is no action that moves him&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">No words consume him</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He simply waits, and watches</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<p style="text-align: center;">When you meditate, you see his reflection in you</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When you are quiet, you feel him</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Like a shell covering you exist to be broken through</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Your task is to let him emerge through you</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You are an empty shell&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He is true being</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God sits silently waiting&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">When you focus upon that you will feel his purity</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The kindness of an eternal soul looks upon you with great compassion</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You are bound by your purpose&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the only way is to lose yourself&#8230;and free the God within</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Behold the Watcher</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><em>You Do Not Exist&#8230;</em></h5>
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		<title>Mercy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>padma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Higher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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A host of colors inside of my head, she smiled&#8230;I felt it
Swirling like butterflies, the sounds echo
There is no turning back now
She smiled at me; in the end I saw it
Letters go unwritten, goodbyes are never said
What&#8217;s gone is gone&#8230;I feel their thoughts
I&#8217;m traveling alone
The past is a mirror, reflecting the now
Mirages are plenty, like [...]]]></description>
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<p>A host of colors inside of my head, she smiled&#8230;I felt it</p>
<p>Swirling like butterflies, the sounds echo</p>
<p>There is no turning back now</p>
<p>She smiled at me; in the end I saw it</p>
<p>Letters go unwritten, goodbyes are never said</p>
<p>What&#8217;s gone is gone&#8230;I feel their thoughts</p>
<p>I&#8217;m traveling alone</p>
<p>The past is a mirror, reflecting the now</p>
<p>Mirages are plenty, like the sun&#8217;s rays</p>
<p>bouncing across the sea, I hear the waves</p>
<p>30 years ago, we sat together</p>
<p>Children laughing, butterfly kisses</p>
<p>The music plays so softly&#8230;it echoes</p>
<p>I worry too much, I shouldn&#8217;t have</p>
<p>You were right all along my friend</p>
<p>A merry go round, my mother&#8217;s kiss</p>
<p>a dog chases a squirrel&#8230;flowers open</p>
<p>Even the dirt is precious, the stars never die</p>
<p>Our lives are a minute</p>
<p>So here I am, I&#8217;ve waited for this</p>
<p>I knew you were coming, just around the bend</p>
<p>She smiled&#8230;they cried, &#8220;it&#8217;s ok&#8221;</p>
<p>I said, here we are, its just the end.</p>
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		<title>I Wish You Would Feel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>padma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looking Higher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walking the Path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eternity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soul]]></category>

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A man knocked on my door late one evening and looked at me in pity
&#8220;I wish you could feel,&#8221; he said, and then he walked away.
Sometimes he comes back, each time his eyes full of hope, but each time he smiles and walks away. He seems to be waiting for me to do something, but [...]]]></description>
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<p>A man knocked on my door late one evening and looked at me in pity</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish you could feel,&#8221; he said, and then he walked away.</p>
<p>Sometimes he comes back, each time his eyes full of hope, but each time he smiles and walks away. He seems to be waiting for me to do something, but I can&#8217;t figure it out.</p>
<p>One day I waited in meditation and called to him with the mantra: &#8220;I am ready.&#8221; They never saw me again.</p>
<p>Just like that man, your eternal soul is waiting for you to remove the veil of shadow from the eyes of your soul. When you believe and seek awakening with 100% of your being, then the old man will take you home. He is lonely and waiting.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve seen enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>padma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Higher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walking the Path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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I&#8217;ve seen enough of this world the way that it is
Man is unkind and suffering hurts, people have lost their way
There is nowhere to go here but pain, this must stop
There is no other option but change
We live in ignorance and wait for someone else
There is no someone else
We are all tied to our fates [...]]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve seen enough of this world the way that it is</p>
<p>Man is unkind and suffering hurts, people have lost their way</p>
<p>There is nowhere to go here but pain, this must stop</p>
<p>There is no other option but change</p>
<p>We live in ignorance and wait for someone else</p>
<p>There is no someone else</p>
<p>We are all tied to our fates and so we tie ourselves to death</p>
<p>We should tie ourselves to hope instead</p>
<p>Everyone is waiting for you</p>
<p>Your heart is waiting for you</p>
<p>God is waiting for you</p>
<p>I know you feel it&#8230;</p>
<p>Do what you feel must be done, regardless of the consequences</p>
<p>The hand of God will bless your lonesome path</p>
<p>There is no place to look but up anyway</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t you focus on that?</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>padma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Higher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walking the Path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living the dharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[path]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the sun into my life
and the clouds began to show
I felt the fire of those before
but was snuffed out in the snow
The search for hope is an exhausting task
Resolve is not enough
when so many others are eager to crash
It takes a little love
With devotion I look into the eyes of masters gone before [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote the sun into my life</p>
<p>and the clouds began to show</p>
<p>I felt the fire of those before</p>
<p>but was snuffed out in the snow</p>
<p>The search for hope is an exhausting task</p>
<p>Resolve is not enough</p>
<p>when so many others are eager to crash</p>
<p>It takes a little love</p>
<p>With devotion I look into the eyes of masters gone before me</p>
<p>I pray to see the path they left and ask their light shone on me</p>
<p>Breathe into me your life and help me walk my path</p>
<p>To serve the earth and all dimensions, my passions left in back</p>
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