This is about the spiritual observation in achieving harmony with all things in the journey to life.
Start Where You Are
Symphony of a Soul Through Words
By Lida AbramianBalboa Press
Copyright © 2017 Lida Abramian
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-5043-8787-3Contents
Decide, 1,
Lili and Me, 2,
Yesterday and Today, 3,
Fear, 4,
When I Met Me, 5,
Guide, 6,
I Lived, 7,
Soul's Journey, 8,
Quiet Music, 9,
Exhale, 10,
Breaking the Mold, 11,
Echoes, 12,
Life is a Stream, 13,
Busy Thoughts, 14,
Interlock of Lies, 15,
Music, 16,
Floating Heart, 17,
Confabulate, 18,
Beloved, 19,
Truth of Love, 20,
If I Let Go, 21,
Live from Heart, 22,
Remember Love, 23,
Footprint, 24,
Thoughts, 25,
This Body, 26,
I Spoke, 27,
Conversation, 28,
God's Fun, 29,
No Fear, 30,
Admission, 31,
Call Back, 32,
Asleep as in Awake, 33,
Teardrop, 34,
Love and Ego, 35,
Be Me, 36,
Seed, 37,
I Fear Not, 38,
Relationship with Mind, 39,
In Meeting Him, 40,
Duality, 41,
Trouble Within, 42,
Forgotten How To Be, 43,
Our Spirit, 44,
Room Full of Love, 45,
Dervish's Song, 46,
Ordinary, 47,
Be Free, 48,
Rise, 49,
Ancestor Love Dance, 50,
Rite of Passage, 51,
How do I, 52,
Inward Look, 53,
For Love I Give, 54,
Universe, 55,
Eyes, 56,
Fragrance of Life, 57,
Time, 58,
Home, 59,
All that I Know, 60,
Fact, 61,
I Cried Today, 62,
Fearless, 63,
The One, 64,
Life on Earth, 65,
Prayer, 66,
Vision, 67,
When I Feel, 68,
Center, 69,
Sun is Gone, 70,
If I was God, 71,
He Said, 72,
Woe, 73,
When I Die, 74,
Open Eyes, 75,
Invitation, 76,
Question, 77,
To See "I", 78,
I May, 79,
Quest for Life, 80,
Blessing, 81,
Hear Me, 82,
The Work, 83,
Why I Begged, 84,
Let Go, 85,
No Matter, 86,
Lose, 87,
Searching for Self, 88,
Memories, 89,
Light of Life, 90,
Mirror of Love, 91,
Stray, 92,
Elements and Me, 93,
Show Me the Way, 94,
Sign, 95,
Debt We Pay, 96,
Jewel Thief, 97,
Never Tell, 98,
Self, 99,
Not Alone, 100,
Earth. Sun. Moon, 101,
Salvation, 102,
Tapestry of Love, 103,
Anything and Nothing, 104,
The Game, 105,
Play, 106,
Inside Look, 107,
Me Myself and I, 108,
Goodbye Friend, 109,
Traveler, 110,
Sea of Sorrow, 111,
Proposition, 112,
Light, 113,
Journey to Mind, 114,
Immortality, 115,
To See, 116,
In the Bubble, 117,
Road to Life, 118,
Sea, 119,
House of God, 120,
Keep it Real, 121,
One, 122,
Let's Go Home, 123,
Heart's Desire, 124,
What to Say, 125,
Our Love and Trust, 126,
Let it Be, 127,
Death, 128,
Space, 129,
Conscious Attention, 130,
Pain, 131,
Dancing Spirit, 132,
Heaven, 133,
Earth, 134,
Heaven Can Wait, 135,
Prison, 136,
Departed, 137,
Guide Me Home, 138,
My Suffering, 139,
Love Poems, 140,
One with All, 141,
Metamorphosis, 142,
About the Author, 143,
CHAPTER 1
Decide
I have been told
To select my thoughts
As I select my shoes
To decide and choose
The words I have to use
Thoughts that come to mind
Be the master and in control
Memory will no longer be memory
I will choose it to be part of me
Should I leave or should I keep
I will have no duality
Choosing a path to the mind
Will no longer hold me back
Lili and Me
When God said to Lili
Open your heart of beauty
Lili smiled and opened
All of her petals fully
As I look at the Lili
My heart opens automatically
I smile for Lili and I
Share the life of possibility
Yesterday and Today
I lit a fire to the bridge that connected me to yesterday
What lived yesterday is gone and has an end today
Paradise lost, only imagined in memories of yesterday
All I have learned, memory can't repeat again today
The garment of obligation that I wore yesterday
It is the mark of my humility that I wear today
My suffering is for what could have been yesterday
In sixty years of struggle, I see "in now" only today
When my body is no longer as young as yesterday
My life is on the water, yet I breathe the air today
Quest for freedom, I suffered unnecessarily yesterday
Until I realized it was necessary to carry me to today
Invitation of possibility to find greater self in yesterday
Willingness to look deep within by finding me today
Fear
I fell and fell again
Till I saw the fear
Left the fear in mind
And I got free again
When I Met Me
I have mapped the world
I have learned its language
I have attained positions
Life was not signed over to me
I weep for perfection
I look for awareness
I meet with others
No one handed me the key
I am in need of Love
I am weary to love
I am here for Love
Love came when I met me
Guide
Blind eye master played with my spirit
As if he was playing with mala or keys
He prepared, and he dropped the music
With strength of the note, my heart stood still
I saw the image of all that I dote and adore
He said, mind will always be on the move
Boundless freedom, in vain you seek
Experience your life for it is your music
Soul without a body, is devoid of meaning
Truth, you have been sent out to seek
I Lived
I thought if I achieve detachment from
I thought if I yearn liberation within
I thought if I devote all to my needs
I thought I have lived
I heard a voice from the sea
I am born liberated you see
I have no needs
I am not attached
I know I lived
Soul's Journey
I turn the dial to stop on my grandfather's clock
Taking a journey to world I do not understand
How long will this last, how would I find out
It is a miracle that I am starting out
I know in my mind, greed and anger reside
Without journey into soul, even shadows follow along
I got all tangled inside when I believed my mind
It is calling me, I hear, let's stop, let's depart
Loving your mind is not the journey, its wind apart
Graveyard of the past was the traveling mind
Understanding wind as it dances all around
It always turns to rest in the firmament vast
Abandoning my attachment, even to my mighty mind
In this journey that I am on, there is no end in sight
Inquisitive, is not the soul, requests are none
Such an equanimity of success or failure will not bind
The journey to my soul, the immeasurable light to life
Devotion with love, truth of oneself, the journey I am on
Quiet Music
Tranquility of life is sleeping with open sky
It is when the music plays and tree sways
When the garden snake tangos gracefully with earth
Rejoice knowing the hidden jewel inside your heart
The greatest teacher, penetrates inside out
And the lessons we learn are in the trembling
Wrinkling faces of the mirrors passing by
Listen to the music from the world we live in
You may even hear mountain sing standing tall
United we...
