Peace

 Nanne Nyander

Peace by Nanne Nyander

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I’m trying to orchestrate the world, 
so that I can be at peace.
It’s too overwhelming.
I have to find my own peace. 

-Nanne Nyander



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I’m the warrior. I’m the peacekeeper, 

I’m the one that pretends that I’m lost. 

I’m the seeker who thinks she has lost the 

only thing she can’t ever lose. 

I’m the finder of truth,

the truth that was always here. 

I’m going nowhere.

I’m here. 

-Nanne Nyander

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It’s time to wake up

 Nanne Nyander

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What can I do,
when the planet is going to pieces?
What can I do?
What can I do,
when the world is going crazy?
What can I do?
How can I resist going to pieces,
how can I resist going crazy?
I’m grabbing for some sanity in an insane world,
to not add more insanity,
to stay in the light.
WAKE UP!

It’s time to wake up.

-Nanne Nyander

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Am I here to find the truth, 

or is the truth here to find me, 

or are we one and the same? 

-Nanne Nyander

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Books

When the world has gone to pieces

 Nanne Nyander

We slumber by the fire of life

when dawn comes upon us.

Stranger there, 

speak to me, 

how did we become two? 

-Nanne Nyander

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What am I,


if not a sign that everything is ok?


What am I, 

if nothing is real?


What am I, 

when the world has gone to pieces, 

what am I?


I’m everything, 

I’m nothing,


I’m the good and the bad.


What am I, 

when nothing is left to fight for, 

what am I?


I am one,


I am one as everything,


I’m nothing.


I am. 

-Nanne Nyander

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The Way Back Home

Autumn

 

The autumn leaves,
leave me breathless.
I’m falling,
uncontrollable,
there’s no bottom,
there is just empty space.
Moving,
moving through space with no mind,
I don’t mind.
The autumn leaves are falling.
Catch me.
There’s just emptiness,
no words, no thoughts,
no reality in the mind of the doer.
Stay, empty, space, let me fall,
keep falling, empty, silence.
Exhale, exhaustion,
no more holding on,
emptiness, stay.
No thoughts can catch me here.
I’m empty, empty, empty.
I’m the autumn leaves 

lost in space waiting to be found. 

Not waiting anymore.
I’m not a leaf,
I’m the space in which it is all happening, 

without anything happening.
I am, I am. 

-from " The Struggle of Going Nowhere"

BOOKSHOP

Whispers

 

I can hear a distant whisper, 

a whisper beyond time.

It whispers not to the mind, 

but to itself.

I listen and think I know what it’s saying, 

but I’m just in the way. 

Listen, be silent, don’t think.

It speaks not to the mind, 

but to the silence itself.

The silence that I am.

-Nanne Nyander

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Life

 

Am I avoiding life, 

or is life avoiding me?  

"The Way Back Home"

Mind is fine with being bored, 

desperate, confused, fed up.

It likes being the one who is sad and depressed. 

This is not what I want,

but the mind doesn’t mind.

I want to be free and happy.

Mind doesn’t mind either way. 

Mind is holding me in a tight grip, 

wanting me to stay.

"The Way Back Home"

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Unconditional Love

 Nanne Nyander

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Silence will take me there. 

There is nothing but silence, 

noise can’t interrupt the silence, 

and neither can thoughts. 

No matter how loud my mind is, 

there is still silence. 

-Nanne Nyander "The Way Back Home"

Unconditional Love by Nanne Nyander

All I can think of is you.
When will I be reunited with my true love? 

There is no when, 

there is no then, 

there is only now. 

See, feel, don’t think.
No thought can take me there,
no amount of thinking can take me there. 

Thought keeps the distance visible 

between me and my beloved. 

-Nanne Nyander "The Way Back Home"

Night Sky

 Nanne Nyander

Sailing through the night sky, 

looking for you.
Are you still dreaming, 

or are you awake, awake to reality, 

awake to the truth?
Sail with me, through the sky, 

till we reach the end of time. 

We are going nowhere, 

and it’s a beautiful journey. 

- Nanne Nyander

What is me?
There is nothing left to hold me together. 

Everything is not me.
What is left, when nothing is me?
But still, something continues looking.
What are you looking for?
Sounds bouncing around in my head and disappear. 

New ones come and replace the old ones, 

some seem to come back,
again and again.
But back to what? 

- Nanne Nyander

Hope

 Nanne Nyander

Rain washes away my tears,
washes away the frustrating feeling of being lost.

-Nanne Nyander

"Hope" by Nanne Nyander

Thoughts are like leaves in the autumn, 

don’t get attached to them,

let them do their dance,

let them do their intriguing dance 

and move on. 

-Nanne Nyander

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My soulmate is not some distant lover far away. 

My soulmate is within me and without me, 

being aware of my soul calling out for help, 

not understanding why I’m struggling and crying. 

“I am right here, and so are you,” she says.


I let my guard down and let her in. 

Everything vanishes. 

It’s quiet, peaceful, silent. 

I’m calm, I’m weightless, 

was it all a dream? 

Or is this a dream? 

-Nanne Nyander

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