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Unweighting

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Here is the great unweighting  –
all the relative values, all the tallies,
every burden of things done and left undone,
all the verdicts and the sentences,
from outside and from within,
now gone

We are not weighed down,
we were never so defined  –
we fly up like light
(which is exactly true,
since light is instant, and what flew
was maybe our perception
(though we then find
that our awareness was always there))

We are not defined
by anything that can fall –
we are unweighted
and our consciousness
is filled with light.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 21, 2023

“A great sacrifice of material things …”

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Not teapots and sofas,
but estimates of cause and effect,
anticipation of results,
calculations
of triumph and regret

I’m asked to give up
thinking my feeling
reflects what someone else
has said or done,
give up believing
that my well-being
is something to be given or withheld

I’m asked to grasp the solidness of Spirit,
the all inclusive scope of comprehensive Mind,
how my well-being rests
on everpresent Soul alone,
how this All-seeing graciously
calls me its own.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 19, 2023

Holy

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Pre-dawn encounter with holiness
had me walking thoughtful  –
each of these steps,
the realm in which they fall,
the course where I am led –
a wholly different world
from what I thought,
but which has been here all along,
and I’ve been walking in it
though I didn’t know

What changes with this shift?
It is a new land, or more,
it is remembering  –
it’s how my feet proclaim
this is their always home –
they find the balance
comforting, empowering,
something the world could never
make them forget how to do.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 9, 2022

True Gifts

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When freed from their shells
the gifts course through you,
providing structure
responsive as trees,
springing with their corded light
to bud as life,
remaining in your memory
as part of who you are

These gifts can’t miss or fade –
they will multiply
in what you are
and what you give in turn.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 8, 2022

In Kinship

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I give myself permission
to find myself lighter –
composed of elements
that sparkle and stream,
and mingle with the stream of
what floats in the air,
what circles and kindles tingles,
life leaping in molecules,
sending joy in rolling curves
up along the skin

I give myself permission
to be weighty, propelled by breath into
solid pushback against the floor,
finding the mountain stance
where I will not be moved

It is the same breath
in both cases, the same Spirit  –
I walk in kinship with the air and earth.

©Wendy Mulhern
December 25, 2021

First Flight

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I may not yet be a fledgling
but I feel I’m being nudged  –
nudged to pry my feet out from the nest hold,
nudged to see what these wings
may be able to do

What would it be to let go
of all these dependences  –
what would it be to learn to lean
on other ones – the principles of flight,
the currents in the air,
the still untested nature
of my design?

Great parent of us all,
You who know and own
the heart of all of us –
guide me in my tiniest of hops
from branch to branch and upward,
till I find the sky.

©Wendy Mulhern
July 6, 2021

Vantage Point

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From this vantage point,
Look. The wondrous still point
of present perfection.
Here you sit royal, here you command
the whole realm of your consciousness,
all you can perceive

From this vantage point you see
you have no need to flail
amid the scramblings of the world,
no need to quaver (strong but small)
against colossal evil

Notice the power of your focus:
Your insistence
that only what is true
can be played out
in this realm that you command
does so much more
than steps to fix what tells you it is wrong  –
a different, a more potent kind of strong.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 5 2021


Emerge Gently

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There’s a reason
to approach all progress
with a gentle grace

There’s a logic to the structure  –
though a building may rise high,
it never grows beyond the need
for its foundation

Though I gain a lofty view,
there’s no outgrowing kindness,
and the love that grounds me
must always be the first thing,
and must shine through
whatever I attain.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 22, 2021

I take my shoes off

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Once again, I settle in to Soul,
the home that dwells in every moment
waiting to support, affirm,
waiting to release me

I take my shoes off.
I breathe deep. No longer
out of breath from sweating,
I can find the rhythm
of the full cycle. No longer pinned
under conflicting propositions,
I feel myself float. I let myself expand

It’s so freeing to remember
I am not enslaved. I owe no consequence,
have no indebtedness,
no fear, no shame —
my life is here in Soul,
and Soul knows my name.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 28, 2019

Rise By Fire

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Hold your body to the flame —
you will phoenix-rise again,
this is nothing you can name —
these are your essences made plain

The burning bush is not consumed,
the burning life is fueled by learning,
steady down the steps of days
to your eternity returning

Set your sight on what you are,
glimpsed beneath your deepest hope —
the guiding lights you see afar
are nearer than you’re told

Hold your body to the flame
of all that lights and fuels your being —
this will now define your days,
becoming all you’re seeing.

©Wendy Mulhern
August 14, 2019