Only
Can know sorrow and triumph
we pass through time
water poring out of a glass

Inspiration rears its head 
always at our lowest point
if we will receive it 
lights up the dark parts of the soul
leads one to new solutions
yield slowly
as your heart tells you to
each second passing 
never judge yourself 
only change course 
when you are inwardly guided

only use your resources 
for the benefit
of all beings

calmly face what irritates you
what you react to
that really disturbs you
throws you off center
how does your reaction
try to over take you

only you can initiate 
the transformation 
verses resonate within you
of an unsung chorus
a time that has not yet been
where peace and harmony reign
rule 
govern
remain silent
only work with those
who inspire you
and are kind
you need
no more criticism correction
let them clean up
there own mess first
people who do not bring out
your highest qualities
are not worthy of your time
do not be a people fixer
a care taker
be kind to yourself
first
be happy within
and then move forward
only when you are moved
inspired

all saints will fall
all Thoughts will cease 
and all will be known
these earthly
pursuits
will seem so trivial 
when we feel
the glory
that is ours

yours is a fragile world
so much deceit 
so much jealousy 
resentment 
Now is the day
of listening 
for you are ignorant know nothing

today i wept for the world
but you dried my tears
and shared your living truths 
that speak a silent language 
hold on they say
your use 
will become manifest
your reason for living 
ghosts will no longer haunt you.
. I am
is all that remains.

societies since the beginning of time perish
one after another 
what brings them down?
the earth groans 
people become hateful 
grace is
foreign to these souls
align yourself 
with the angels 
of this world
few and far between
not sought by mortals
l reduce my ambition 
to touch hearts 
at your bottom
help will come

healing

the Holy spirit
penetrates your dull sense
of the good
you
have arrived at the gate 
light will break 
into the dark chamber
of your soul 
a light like
you have never witnessed
like the shimmer of translucent
colours on the canals of
Venice
italy
on a warm Italian 
evening in 1986
going for a gelato
it strikes you cold
you shiver
as you experience
in your flesh
the resurrection
what Jesus felt like
when he was crucified
the nail is driven into you
you cry but the pain
turns into rejoicing
miracles occur
you emerge a new creature
in which
old things have passed away

mind can reveal nothing 
earth has no hope
except in transformation
earth can reveal 
all that you knew before
is unimportant
dangles for an instant
and is consumed
A new
kindness is shown to you

you have become 
part of the sacrament 
the blood and the body 
you are renewed

You stand on mountains 
you are truly alive
for the first time

a wonder fills you
that you have never known
personal sense vanishes
and spirit lives in you as you
you become the all
the river of Love
becomes your blood
and you triumph
over your adversity. 

I take myself seriously
life is a serious Art
greed attacks the nervous system
and makes us lowly creatures
greed will leave us 
wanting more
starving
for some hunger
that can never be filled 
thirsting for cool waters
of living streams
unattainable
without radical rearranging 
of perspective and motive

I feel the brush of skin
the rush of greatness 
in my own breath
for that is where love resides
under all the problems
and anxieties
the one
that was there
before the stars
one that i could
collapse into
who heals all my diseases
rectifies my aberrations
restores my upright dignity
embraces me
and all who wait
who wait where
no one waits
in the corridors of space
in the frozen caves
of glaciers
long forgotten

it is the ever present 
in the present
Unknown 
yet dormant in all things
. 
the all knowing 
throbbing aliveness
since before the world 
was formed
This
benevolent being
that is our natural inclination
each treacherous ordeal we face 
can be overcome 
muted 
no illness 
can withstand 
the the Love
that melts indifference

wisdom is there 
in each cell

yield slowly 
even in uncertainty
face the rigid belied
the resistance
that blocks your forward thrust
Let lack
end there.
In Cornwall
friends dance
hold hands 
around the fire

I have tasted the bitter 
and the sweet
I have never seen the total glory
but I have felt its dance 
experienced its surging in my members
tasted its urging in my bones
and deepest flesh
the foretaste
of its elation

to the oppressed 
to the unfortunate 
for sanity

to go to underworld
and wrestle 
with the spirits of the possessed
and wicked
to witness
the victory in ones own self

is a mighty 
soothing salve 
a lotion for the soul 
a tonic for the meek
strength for the weak 
and crumbled
I we an us
bursting out of 
a me 
things turning 
into grand ideas

I half walk
up the hill 
look back
and see 
how far we have come

always grandeur in front of me
new places to go
in consciousness
where what is
wanted 
is good for all
to share 
do this one thing it says
Be the bliss you seek
be the giving
give to life 
do not beg
do not request or ask
for we stand among the miracles
Maybe today we will see the evidence
of grace
everywhere
and we will stop
pursuing
what can not be

you have the unique 
abundant 
first hand account
within your self

of creation 
limitations fall away 
and
uncovered 
blessings will flow

I walk in illness
bare all burdens 
through the love
that lets me be
that gives me sustenance
and breath
that shows me how
get there.
To the somewhere 
over the rainbow

Tolerate only 
what holds your thought in line
with your highest purpose
ask for nothing 
expect nothing 
life knows what you need
if you surrender
to the universal rhythm

against no man
for all souls everywhere 
i proclaim
for everyone 
for everything
I have received
I am grateful.

Listen to 
one who says little but
loves silently
in action,
Judge no one
yesterday demands 
today be better

Stephen John Kalinich
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