Magical thinking is Bright and Brilliant! The very Height of Brilliance with all the magnificence, colour and gloss of amazing Success and
Gold bars showering good Fortune, obvious Fame, thousands of Abilities and unending Drive on Goals and Plans and Dreams.
Until
The Creeping Tarnish
of dark magical thinking
waves its broken wand
over the energy of this brilliance
to reveal, with absolute certainty,
the unreality of luck, definitely no ability, and
living in unhappy shadows while drive and energy
drain and dribble away.
Until
both are revealed as untamed thoughts without solid grounding
in belief of one’s own worthiness to commit ~
- to dreams and goals imbedded in the glare of magical thinking
- to avoiding the crumbling edges of dark magical thinking.
- to humbly participate in life, mindful of the true flow of abilities, energy and peace.
“What makes life so frightening is that we let ourselves be carried away
in the garbage of our whirling minds. We don’t have to do that.”
~ Joko Beck, Zen teacher 1917- 2011
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