Book of Verse: The Quieting of a Mind

By Jaime A. Pineda

Such moments of creativity are often accompanied by great emotion occasioned by great joy, beauty, pain, sadness, or depression. In sum, his poetry reflects a process in which the silence and quietness of the mind leads to insight and appreciation of the subtlety, meaningfulness, and depth of the lives we live.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524694142

Jaime A. Pineda

J. Pineda uses poetry to describe what is complex, beautiful, indescribable, and sometimes ineffable. Writing poetry has taught him that truly seeing, hearing, feeling, and thinking leads to a quieting of the mind, from which a new mind can emerge. This new mind has an intrinsic joy in being; a deep and uncompromising dedication to what is true and real; exudes love and empathy towards plants, animals, humans, the planet; glimpses the unity of being; does no harm; desires to help others; feels noncompetitive; experiences joy in the good fortune of others; has an enhanced appreciation for pleasure, beauty, rest, life, this moment; shows unbounded gratitude; has no desire to stand out, to obtain things; no desire to do what is expected; shows no fear; has an approach as opposed to an avoidance impulse; shows an eagerness to experience the world and human psychological reactions. This is the poet’s mind.

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Published by AuthorHouse 05/26/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5246-9415-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-9414-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017908377

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Contents

Love

What Love Is

God’s Love

Falling in Love

A First Love

Soul Savior

I Walk My Life in Love

Marriage

The Love Letter

Lovers

Women

Being

The Tapestry of Me

The Stillness of Being

The Fragility of Being

Dreams

Red Light, Blue Sky

Searching in Darkness

Nothing

Mortality

It’s Not a Problem Unless You Think It

Knowing What Is Past and Never Brought

Sentinels Facing the Light

Fetters of the Mind

Man Is Not Understood by Man

Separating

What We Think Is Not

The Choice to Be

The Unavoidability of Living and the Avoidability of Dying

I Walk My Life

The Immediacy of the Present

Seer

Above Uncertainty

Edge of Impossibility

Adaptive Consciousness

Knowing

The Scream

This Moment

What Is Truth?

What Is Wisdom?

The Wise View

The Joy of Being

Emptiness

The Unsayable

Why Is It Not Enough?

Not a Dream, Edgar

Trying to Be More Than What I Am

God’s Will

The Unchanging

Within and Without

Non-Conceptual Mind

Lessons from the Sea

Freedom

Homo Sapiens

Solitude

Truth

When I Am Not

No Self

The Perfume of the Present Moment

Nature

The Forgotten Hallelujah

Yosemite

Being at Squaw Valley

This Moment

Emerald Bay: An Ode to Longfellow

Spring

Good and Evil

Hope

God Spoke in Unmeasured Tones

Moonlight Serenade

Sentinels of the Sun

Led by a Field Mouse

Autumn in California

The Misty Blue Mountains

From the Backyard

Rose Canyon Creek

The Droplet

Bird Sitting on a Snow-Encrusted Branch

Existence

Incognito

Love and Beauty in Unexpected Places

Golden Sand

Agitation at the Edge of the Universe

Today I Saved My Soul

Rage, Rage

The Ocean Wave

Our Home

Beauty

Attuned to the Whispered Voice

As the World Turns

To My Friend Palo

Our Bodies

What Is Brain? What Is Mind?

The Winds of Thought

Neural Ballet

Life

Hearing

   Mind-Brain

Reflections on a Cognitive Event

Aboriginal

Spinning Thoughts

Slim Bodies

Surprise

Cold

Il Bambino

The Open Wound

Life

What is Life?

No Way Out

The Symphony of Life

Church

A Miracle Upon Miracles

Meeting Minds

Edges

Celebration

Flips and Flops

Ups and Downs

Tavern on the Green

We the People: A Government Overture

The Heart Spring

The Resonance of Life Ending to Sustain Itself

A Momentary Life

Life

Field of Love

What Life Affords

Water Carriers of Oslo

Oslo

The Tyranny of Now

Light

Life

The Universe in a Grain of Sand

The Cicadas of Parma, Part I

The Cicadas of Parma, Part II

The Illusion of Imperfection

The Future

Quieting of a Mind

I have placed thee at the center of the world, that from there thou mayest more conveniently look around and see whatsoever is in the world. Neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal have We made thee. Thou, like a judge appointed for being honorable, art the molder and the maker