Let yourself be silently drawn to what you love.
Rumi
When despair for the world grows in
me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my childrens life may be,
I go off and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still waters
And I feel above me the day-blind starts
waiting with their light.
For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
When the mind is still, tranquil, not seeking any
answer or solution even, neither resisting or avoiding,
it is only then there can be a regeneration, because
only then is the mind capable of perceiving what is true,
and it is the truth that liberates, not our effort to be free.
Krishnamurti
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn’t make any sense.
Rumi
I know of no better subject than the subject of love,
as a matter of fact,
there is no better subject for tomorrow and the day after that,
and the day after that as well...
Hafiz
SHIPS EAST AND WEST
One ship drives East, another
drives West
With the self-same winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale
That bids them where to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate
As we journey along through life,
'Tis the set of the soul that decides the goal
And not the calm nor the strife.
Ella
Wheeler Wilcox
We are all faced with great possibilities, brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
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This human being is a guest house,
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
Some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all,
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows
Who violently sweep your house
Of all its' furniture.
Still treat each guest honorably.
She may be cleaning you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
Meet them at the door laughing, And invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
Because each has been sent
As a guide from beyond.
Rumi
If you do not change your direction, you are likely to end up where you are headed.
Ancient Chinese Proverb
An excerpt from Deena Metzger's prayer:
"Let us learn the secret language
of light again. Also the letters of
the dark. Learn the flight patterns of birds, the syllables of wolf
howl
and bird song, the moving pantomime of branch and leaf, valleys and
peaks of
whale calls, the long sentences of ants moving in unison, the
combinations and recombinations of clouds, the codices of stars. Let
us, thus, reconstitute the world, sign by sign and melody by melody.
"Let us sing the world back into the very Heart of the Holy Name
of God."
—
Deena Metzger, *Prayers for a Thousand Years,*
edited by Elizabeth
Roberts and Elias Amidon
The One you are looking for
Is the One who is looking.
St. Francis of Assisi