Rough Diamonds

I write a bunch of stuff – sometimes the content is useful, sometimes not so much.

In order to process my spiritual and psychological insights I like to create some sort of poetry from time to time. Sometimes it’s just a few words, sometimes it’s a letter and sometimes it’s a whole story.

‘Rough Diamonds’ describes the current state of these snippets of text.

by Uli on Rough Diamonds

Deceleration

Witness your slow down. 
Witness your deceleration.
Witness silence.

Stand in awe – silently. 

In the slowing down the vastness of life is unfolding. 

You find what you are looking for only in the deceleration. 

If you rush, you miss the whole point. 

Devote yourself to slowness.

To decelerate means to sharpen the eye for the details.

All of a sudden you will discover resources you didn’t even know existed.

You see the beauty of your life unfolding in front of your eyes. 

Reduce the pollution of your senses.

Find bliss.

 
by Uli on Rough Diamonds

The Hidden Cave

A crisis is like a hidden cave.

First you don’t recognize it. 

Then, as soon as you get a glimpse, you can’t look away. 

Curiousity is seeping into your whole being. Something is pulling you inward.

At some point you can’t resist.

You make the leap into the pitch black. 

Initially you see nothing.

Darkness takes you by surprise.

You are tiptoeing your way into the unknown.

After a while you begin to see.

Shapes form.
A path emerges.

Are you brave enough to keep walking?

 
by Uli on Rough Diamonds

Names of Love

love is caring
love is cheerful
love is exuberant
love is overflowing joy
love is compassionate

love is silent
love is listening
love is touching
love is grasping
love is clinging
love is anxiously attached

love is suppressed
love is indifferent
love is blinded
love is dormant
love is impatient

love is distracted
love is furious
love is explosive
love is angry

love hurts
love hates
love loves
love lives forever

love guides us

 
by Uli on Rough Diamonds

Change Your Rhythm, Change Your Vibration

I had a realization about frequency.

A lot of us talk about raising our vibration.

But what does it really mean to higher our vibration?
Is it really about our ability to spread light?
Or do we want to higher our output?

Sometimes it seems to me that we are really talking about highering our productivity.

To me this is the insanity.

We seem to be driven by achieving more and more and more.

We want to create more impact, more content, more momentum.

And in the meantime? Do we actually achieve more? Do we do what we want to do? Do we create what we really want to create?

For my part, the answer is a clear: no!

I am actually achieving less while trying to achieve more.

Only by slowing down I begin to activate the doer.
Only by slowing down I’m starting to think clearly.

By consciously softening the pendulum swing I move towards my natural rhythm.

By tuning into a slow and dark tone, I’m starting to feel myself, steadily.

This is where I find the home of my creation.