In Nomine – The Lotus Land

Your smile goes so deep,
it makes me happy and I wonder
if I can ever find a star
that matches the brightness of your eyes.
The curve of your lips hides nothing,
everything is there in plain sight.
It is all so simple, yet a beauty beyond compare.
How can I protect that smile of yours?
When I lay the moon and stars at your feet,
will you keep smiling for me?
Or is it better to leave them in the sky above,
so I can catch their reflection in your eyes
as you move ever closer and closer and closer…

There are no clouds of boredom in my living sky,
no lack of purpose as time passes by.
I grasp the moment with all my soul,
firm, yet gentle, of my own destiny I take control.
Shaping, like a potter, form from naught,
organically grown, the shape at end matters not
for it is the experience itself, the path I took
that writes the chapters of life in my book.

I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere.

I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either.

I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding.

I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him; He was nowhere else to be found.

Often misattributed to Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.

Currently pretty busy on getting everything sorted for my own house again. Got my eyes on a cute appartment. Talking with the real estate agent tomorrow.

Borrowing the title from an online novel written by Sundroid that deals with the suffering of Tibetan exiles.

Please see:

http://losangelesnow.blogspot.com/

Edit 2007-05-19: Link is gone.

After taking http://web.tickle.com/tests/esp/index.jsp I get:

Jeroen, you have an unusually strong psychic talent in the area of Precognition

This means you have an uncanny ability to look into the future and anticipate what is going to happen. By knowing something’s going to occur, you can even change the outcome of events for the better.

Jeroen, our in-depth analysis also shows you have other hidden psychic strengths including retrocognition (the ability to know what has happened in the past), telepathy (the ability to sense people’s true thoughts) and clairvoyance (the ability to see the unknown).

Well, that makes a lot of sense to me, since I do sense people, have a lot of déjà vus, et cetera…

Apparently my body didn’t quite like the trip back and resulting sleep.

Went to bed at like 22:00 Sunday evening and woke up at 01:45 or so. Fully awake. Took until 03:30 or so before I finally fell asleep again. Woke up a bit at 06:30 and fell asleep again. Lovely the way your body adjusts to differing timezones.

This quote from Frank Herbert’s Dune is a litany against fear from the Bene Gesserit. I find the litany quite a good way to deal with the unexpected things in life. People so easily succumb to fear, whereas the human mind can conquer a lot of issues encountered in life and the universe.

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see it’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

Funny how you as a human being can remain mesmerised all your life by the simple gliding of the clouds in a relatively clear sky. Finding yourself dream away as you gaze upon the drifting clouds…

From Uzumaki Naruto (うずまきナルト):

Uzumaki Naruto: “Iruka-sensei (うみのイルカ), why do people risk their lives for others?”

Iruka-sensei: “When someone dies, they disappear. Their past and present, along with their future. A lot of people die on missions and in wars, surprisingly quickly and easily. Hayate (月光ハヤテ) was one of them. The one who dies has his own dreams, but there are people who are treasured like those dreams. Parents, siblings, friends, and lovers, people who are important… They all believe in and help each other. People who were there since birth took care of them… And those bonds grow even stronger as time passes. It’s not just a saying. It will be so for the ones who are connected, because it is precious.”