I am here where everything is as it is. I am free without owning anything, not even myself. I am without labels, without résumés, without titles, accomplishments and therefore I do not perfectly fit into this world where everything - even the spiritual - is measured, weighed, analyzed and evaluated. I am what I am and I express that every second of the day, in every breath, as breathing, living and constantly dying. This is the truth. This is the enormous grace of being.
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Yes, it's time for another book! The third book in my poetry trilogy is here and soon available for purchase! It has a beautiful yellow cover. And I think it is my best book by far. (Shhh! Don't tell the other books or they might get jealous and think that I have a favorite child.)

Isn't it beautiful? I am absolutely thrilled. In this baby, sorry, book, I go even deeper into the exploration of life and the mystery of existence. And when you go really deep, what you find is a true simplicity that you can only reach on the other side och complexity. 

I hope you will enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Sharing my ink painting/writing. 

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​Book release party at Tea&Poets for my book Midnight Transit took place last Saturday. It was a lovely, friendly evening with warmth and love, much needed in these times. Music and poetry and friends and strangers coming together to celebrate life and the possibility of peace, inside and outside. 

Midnight Transit is finally out and available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes&Noble and Etsy. As with As Silence Is Your Witness I have created a scent for this book as well. It is hot, sweet and sensuous like a tropical night! The ingredients are almond oil and a blend of black pepper, patchouli, vetiver, benzoin, copabaiba, ylang ylang, cardamom, ginger, coriander, bergamott, grapefruit and clove essential oils. 

The book with fragrant oil is available on Etsy. The book alone is sold on Amazon and Barnes&Noble, where it is also available as e-book.
 
Midnight Transit is the second book of poems in The Golden Passage,a poetry trilogy. In this collection, I continue exploring human emotion and the deeper spiritual realms. Again I invite the reader to safely travel beyond the boundaries of our minds and into our true being. Midnight Transit is a continued journey into the mystery of life. It offers a constant reminder that the capacity for love is within each of us and that the obstacles on our path are simply imaginary even though they seem so real.

​After a brief visit in heaven, I left and walked into hell. I had no idea this would happen. The scriptures never bothered to explain. I was blind in hell and kept walking through the fire. I knew I had to keep on walking, walking. I was completely lost but kept on walking, my eyes fixed on nothing but the walk. There was no question of belief. There was no question of doubt. There was necessisity, a burning force that wasn’t mine but acted as if it was. There was no question of giving up  because there was nothing to give up. The resilience wasn’t mine. The resolve wasn’t mine. There was trust. There was never any choice. The madness wasn’t mine. The failure wasn’t mine. The success wasn’t mine.
 
A voice kept calling me; the voice that is not a voice. Love kept calling me; the love that is more than love. The love that falls outside of every characterization, the love that goes beyond relationship, the love that is not about two, nor many, nor a lonely one. The love that doesn’t have a name, the love that never begins nor ends. Freedom kept calling me; the freedom that is more than freedom – and peace whispered my name.
 
Illusion after illusion fell like torn out pages from a book; the story of my life. I learned you don’t clean up in hell, you keep on moving even though you don’t know up from down, right from left. You keep on moving, keep on losing, because that is the only way to heaven. It goes through hell.
 
Heaven is an open invitation. I know the travel there isn’t very tempting and not many will accept. But if you are handed the invitation by that voice, by that love, by that freedom and that peace, you won’t be able to decline.
 
Important people will promise you can win. Don’t believe them. Not in this game will you ever win. This game is set up for losing, only you must know that losing isn’t what it seems and winning isn’t either.
 
I’m a hero in this story, a fallen soldier, a disoriented captain. I extend my hand, I’ll keep you company on this journey where you will be your own imperfect guide. You will learn to avoid the downfalls on your own, how to jump over the abyss, grab onto branches and find the resting place. If you decide to make the journey I’m right here where I can always see you. You are my love, my heart, my hero. Now jump! You have everything to lose and that is the point! The winning is in the losing. 

When on Earth we are subject to gravity.
When in a body we are subject to our humanness.
A human life means relationship to self, things and others.
Love is where humanness and divinity secretely meet as one.
Relationship is not the same as love.
Love is not the same as relationship.
Love is never a problem.
Relationship is sometimes a problem.
Sometimes love can help transcend differencies and the differencies be accepted, softened or even disappear.
Differences are not a problem in themselves.
It only becomes a problem if we feel threatened by the other’s difference or by misunderstanding the other.
Sometimes differences and misunderstandings need to be looked at.
Listen, try to understand.
When you listen don’t just listen with your ears.
Listen with your whole body.
Be the other person for a while.
Repeat what they have said with your own words.
Seek and give emotional support.
This gives rise to intimacy and closeness.
It builds trust and security.
Don’t try to be perfect.
Don’t expect the other to be perfect. 
Allow yourself and the other to make mistakes.
Be honest with yourself.
Be honest with the other person.
Everything will be resolved in truth.
Don’t be afraid of truth.
Look deep in yourself to find it.
Give the other the benefit of the doubt.
Ask questions.
Give time.
Give space. 
This goes both ways.
Both parties need to listen and be listened to.
Both parties need to seek and give emotional support.
Both parties need to ask questions and be interested in the answer.
Everything will be resolved in truth.
Go wherever truth takes you.
Don’t let fear dictate what you see as true.
Be patient.
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.