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Worries and agendas

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The little minds may rush around,
leaving trails like worm tracks under bark,
trying to figure out
how to get the best
and how to keep away from what would harm

The one Mind never joins the frenzy.
That which fills all space
has no need to move.
That which loves infinitely
with no conditions
has no need to keep track
of wins or losses

The little minds may yearn and sigh for calm,
the calm they only find within the All-knowing
whose omnipresence circles them so fully
they let their worries and agendas go.

©Wendy Mulhern
August 20,  2021

In Essence

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We are thoughts of the infinite Mind,
we are loves of the infinite Love,
we are. verbs in the motion of Spirit,
we are joys in the shining of Soul

There is no way to fall from approval –
we can’t be forgotten or dropped,
since our being is integral
to that which holds us,
the Life that can never be stopped.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 21, 2021

Demons be gone

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There is no dark council of judges
hunched in your mind,
proclaiming you worthless, helpless, lost,
viewing your actions with scorn,
offering snide comments,
leaving you to squirm
in the pain of their eyes
towards the light

There is no desperate toolbox,
things you can use
as protections from them,
things to lash out with,
maps of avoidance,
haphazard lines of defense

You are the light! Your being
has never depended on others’ approval,
never depended on them.
Your limitless brightness
outshines their shadow,
proving they never had power

Look – the whole room of your mind
is clear and free – there are no judges there.
And now you know it
they never can come back,
and you can love your life
as who you are.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 1, 2021

Journey of the Mind

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I am not alone,
for in this journey of the mind,
I bring you all with me –
you who I have known a long time,
you I see in these most recent days,
you I knew before but lost contact,
you I’ve never met

I bring you all with me
because, in truth, 
there’s no way I could go alone.
My mind and yours,
like one fish seen as two
in the refraction of the glass
must move together

I can’t go there alone,
for we are one,
and will rejoice together
in every glimpse of truth and beauty
all along the way.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 27, 2021

In the order of things

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I’ve given up the fear
of things going wrong on the inside,
now that I have glimpsed
how deep the mind force goes,
how there is no scale
at which it abdicates its power
and leaves a role for mindlessness

Electrons hum in harmony
and systems for which they are suns
hum,.too. Who am I to think
the song could pixelate, or end,
who am I to doubt
the care with which I’m held –

Who am I,  after all,
in the order of Infinity?
– where my presence is the basis
for my trust.

©Wendy Mulhern
December 25, 2020

Reason

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“Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord”

I’ll show you reason –
I’ll show you the wild flight of Mind,
in which you soar and dive like a kite,
in which you fly right at the edge of
all you’re discovering, right now,
that you can know, and do, and be

I’ll show you reason –
this is the reason you’re here,
this is the Allness eclipsing every
exception, every fear of not
being included, every niggling thought
of being unable or unworthy

This is the life –
the one you came here for.
I’ll show you reason –
There is none other
but the truth of what you are.

©Wendy Mulhern
October 4, 2020

Rethink

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It’s not too late to turn around –
the voice that says you’ve come too far
along this path, you’ve made your choice,
there is no turning back –
that voice is not your own,
and it’s not true

It’s not too late to change your mind,
change it completely, change the way it thinks –
you are not bound to have the same reactions,
however many times
you have before

It’s not too late,
for you are just beginning, really.
We all are very young, very new
at this art of being –
we have eternity in which to learn.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 22, 2020

Citadel

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I’m not waiting
for something to happen
(nothing ever comes about that way)

I’m coming back instead
to guard my citadel
(which, before this, I didn’t even know I had)

A citadel that I can furnish
with warm lights
and soft corners to inhabit,
with knowledge of the truth imparting sacred peace

And when it’s set, and when it’s centered,
when it’s clear,
I can invite others in,
I can bring them in to share
this all transforming calm.

©Wendy Mulhern
January 23, 2020

Everyday Epiphanies

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You wake up and remember
what you know —
you may have to reach for it,
coming up from dream,
batting back the thoughts
that fall on you
as you break the surface

You may have to spend more time,
may need to diligently focus,
but it comes in — new each morning,
different from yesterday,
full of its own promise

Sometimes it’s a steady fire within,
able to incinerate anything untrue,
sometimes it’s a sunrise seen afar,
overwhelming with its gift of beauty

And sometimes the old lines
of you and me, us and them,
are totally confounded
in the unity of Mind’s purpose,
working out the calculus
of universal good.

©Wendy Mulhern
December 7, 2019

Everything

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Everything comes when we need it —
help, visitors, time on our own,
and someday we may learn to trust
the Principle which brings this all in line

Someday we may understand
that what is given
is not the things that meet our needs,
but our identity, our heritage
as ones who are provided for
with richness and bright whimsey,
with thoughtfulness and boundless generosity —
given this place in Mind where
we sing and delight and are loved and delighted in,
just like everything is.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 22, 2019