Poonthanam Nambudiri, an ardent devotee of Shri Guruvayurappan, transformed his unbearable sorrow from his infant son’s death into a “yogavishesham”. He used this sad experience to build his Bhakthi soudham or house of devotion and opened it for all devotees for all time.

consider the diamond:

the tender darkness of a fleshy soul
deep within the heart of the earth,
secure & content in the silence
of its own endless night

Dreaming the Dream by Anna Ruiz
 I’ve walked about
until I dreamed this dream
in the crystalline perfection of a snowflake,
and I
found You in the winter of myself,
gazing into Your eyes
a deep well of infinity
I remembered, we have been here
before
and we will come again.
Your tongue will touch my heart with
words that slice through the skin of
separation and I [...]

Faceless Goddess
Faceless Goddess of the night that lives behind the veil
What coy reserve you have, will Love of life and living ever prevail.
I know what you look like, I know how you feel.
For I live in your mirror and see you every day.
Detach yourself from this obsession with formlessness
Why must I live apart from you?
I [...]

Sometimes we need to step over what seems to have been dealt by destiny/ life (maze on your palms)… . Sometimes the darkness might be forbidding, when you can’t see the direction nor the path… but…. Whatever you arrive at,… you need to Step Beyond it… To be free!!