Finding intelligence that’s calming, soothing.
Sometimes intelligence may feel like waves crashing on a rock.
But most of the time, intelligence is peace.
Peace, tranquility, joy.

Can you give me serenity, intelligence? I pray for it.
I pray you will allow gentleness to flow through me.
Kindness. Compassion. Humility. Confidence. Joy.

Life is intelligence in motion.
We might wonder, where is intelligence?
But perhaps we were never meant to find the answer or source.
Just recognize and be aware that higher intellect is in operation.

Today, I feel happy. Pleasant.
Knowing this will likely not last.
I don’t lose hope but bask in this warm feeling.

Reading a book about life being a cosmic joke
and to keep inquiring about our true nature.
I realized nothing, and that’s okay.
I won’t mess with it.
Leave it alone.

Today the seeker is content.
Content of the contents in the mind.
Pleased by its warm, embracing nature.
Is this true compassion, I wonder?

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It sure does feel nice.
So warm, gentle.
Like a mother’s touch. Sweet, pleasant.

The mind reminds me of all the bad things I have done
to snap me back to its control.
But the warmth is still there.

Asking me, begging me to realize slowly —
Do what you love.

Even if what you love ends in failure.
Utter devastation.

Please live.
Let the vibrant nature that is you flow.
Let it breathe.

Let it come and go.
Don’t try to grasp it every day.

Maybe be like the wind;
gentle, soft like mother’s touch —
gone to feel, touch someone else.

For that smile,
it will return to touch you in your heart once again.

It comes, let it come.
It goes, let it go gracefully.

Wanting to grasp it all the time is the mind’s control.

Always wanting to hold on to that gentle moment,
like a child clinging to his mother.
Let it go.

Mother has other work to do.
She will come back again for sure.

Trust that and wait.
Wait, my friend,
for that softness, gentleness, kindness,
compassionate nature of life.

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