Breath More Life Than You Swallow

If it turned around and it made you smile,
Would you say it was all OK ?
Or would you change your mind,
Take your place in time and wait for another wave ?
If I was to say infinity,
Would you believe in the word itself ?
Or would you wait for a sign,
From the depths of your mind,
To remind that it means something else.
What if you said the word happiness,
And smile as you say it out loud,
Would it lift the weight ?
Could it change the fate of this feeling you have in you now ?
What makes you happy ?
Is it strength in numbers ?
Is it a quietness of mind ?
Is it making love under the moonlit sky ?
Is it running with horses ?
Is it bathing in wine ?
Whatever “it” is just give “it “ it’s time,
And then a smile will follow.
Whatever it is just give it it’s rhyme –
And breath more life than you swallow.
I know that it is hard not to point the blame,
It’s in our nature to complain.
I feel your pain – cause mine’s the same –
But if you were asked , could you give it a name ?
Or is it changed by time, like any good whine,
and forgotten the very next day.
Whatever the case – it’s a part of this place,
So I guess we all have to deal.
How you choose to let go,
Only you can know –
Only you decide what is real.

By Shamiren Carroll

Spring

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

Percy Bysshe Shelley ~ " The Sensitive Plant "

Let Life Come

To Live

Is

To

Let Life Come

When Love Matters Most

There is always something left to love.
And if you ain't learned that,
You ain't learned nothing.
When do you think is the time
To love somebody the most;
When they done good
And made things easy for everybody?
Well then, you ain't through learning --
Because that ain't the time at all.
It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself
'Cause the world done whipped him so.
When you starts measuring somebody,
Measure him right child, measure him right.
Make sure you done taken into account
What hills and valleys he come through
Before he got to wherever he is.

Lorraine Hansberry

Because You Loved Me

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An Open Message

On the surface of the world right now there is
war and violence and things seem dark.
But calmly and quietly, at the same time,
something else is happening underground
An inner revolution is taking place
and certain individuals are being called to a higher light.
It is a silent revolution.
From the inside out. From the ground up.
This is a Global operation.
A Spiritual Conspiracy.
There are sleeper cells in every nation on the planet.
You wont see us on the T.V.
You wont read about us in the newspaper
You wont hear about us on the radio
We don’t seek any glory
We don’t wear any uniform
We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles
Most of us work anonymously
We are quietly working behind the scenes
in every country and culture of the world
Cities big and small, mountains and valleys,
in farms and villages, tribes and remote islands
You could pass by one of us on the street and not even notice
We go undercover
We remain behind the scenes
It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done
Occasionally we spot each other in the street
We give a quiet nod and continue on our way
During the day many of us pretend we have normal jobs
But behind the false storefront at night
is where the real work takes a place
Some call us the Conscious Army
We are slowly creating a new world
with the power of our minds and hearts
We follow, with passion and joy
Our orders come from from the Central Spiritual Intelligence
We are dropping soft, secret love bombs when no one is looking
Poems ~ Hugs ~ Music ~ Photography ~ Movies ~ Kind words ~
Smiles ~ Meditation and prayer ~ Dance ~ Social activism ~ Websites ~ Blogs ~ Random acts of kindness…
We each express ourselves in our own unique ways
with our own unique gifts and talents
Be the change you choose to see in the world
That is the motto that fills our hearts
We know it is the only way real transformation takes place
We know that quietly and humbly we have the
power of all the oceans combined
Our work is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains
It is not even visible at first glance
And yet with it entire tectonic plates
shall be moved in the centuries to come
Love is the new religion of the 21st century
You don’t have to be a highly educated person
Or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it
It comes from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings
Be the change you choose to see in the world
Nobody else can do it for you
We are now recruiting
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have.
All are welcome
The door is open.

Author Unknown

Let Your Own Light Shine

There is nothing enlightened
About shrinking
So that other people
Won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God
That is within us.
It is not just in some of us,
It is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously
Give other people permission
to do the same.
As we are liberated
From our own fear,
Our presence automatically
Liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

Of Love And Souls

What can the love in my soul

Be compared to another wonderful soul

Which is so far and yet so close of my self ?
What can this symbiosis between two souls can be ?
What can love be

When you feel you cannot sleep at night,

That every drop of dew becomes a crystal in your heart,

When every breeze of wind has magical meanings ?
What can love be

When you feel that you want nothing more in this world

That to be with the soul you love ?
But what can love be

In other transcendental realities?

What about our souls ?
Are our souls a waterfall,

A true Niagara or a smile,

A flirt of an angel ?

Are our souls a mere mood of a fairy

Or a lightening in a summer rain ?
Our souls could be all of this

And much more.

But what really happens

In that transcendental reality

When we feel we are truly in love,

That we love so much that it hurts ?

That the air in the room is unbreathable,

That the sentimental,

Spiritual or physical distances kill us ?

What happens when dawn find us sadder than ever,

Looking for an excuse or an argument

For the person we love so much,

Our Great Love ?

What are all these ?

What are the looks lost

In the desert horizons of unfulfilment

Or those in the eyes

That deeply loose each other

In the others

Inside

The souls ?

Sorin Cerin

When You're Young And In Love

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And In Time , Let Go

For this is Wisdom;
To love,
To live
To take what fate,
Or the Gods may give.
To ask no question,
To make no prayer,
To kiss the lips
And caress the hair,
Speed passion's ebb
As you greet

Its flow,
To have,
To hold,
And
In time,
Let go.

Laurence Hope

Lover Inside Us

I fell in love
With the thought
That
A human life
Could be a priestly conduit,
A connecting link
Between earth and sky.
As I grew and stumbled
And,
Most important,
As I began
To love
And be loved,
I realized that
The ultimate priest
Is the
Lover inside us.

Marianne Williamson

Life Die When Love Is Done

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.


Francis W. Bourdillon

Year Round Valentine

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Love Is All Around

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'Cause You're .... My Friend

Through good times and bad,
Through happy and sad,
Beside me you stand,
Beside me you walk,
You're there to listen,
You're there to talk,
With happiness,
With smiles,
With pain and tears,
I know you'll be there,
Throughout the years.
We are the circle,
There is no end.
'Cause you're ....
My Friend.

The Guest House

This being human 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're a crowd of sorrows,
Who violently sweep your house
Empty of its furniture,
Still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing 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.

From Essential Rumi
by Coleman Barks

Let The Beauty We Love Be What We Do

Today, like every other day,
We wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study
And begin reading.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
You must ask for what you really want.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
Where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Take down a musical instrument.
All day and night, music,
A quiet, bright reedsong.
If it fades, we fade.
I would love to kiss you.
Daylight, full of small dancing particles
And the one great turning, our souls
Are dancing with you.
Can you see them when I whisper in your ear ?
Don't go back to sleep.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
You must ask for what you really want.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Adapted from a poem from Rumi

The Garden Of Love

The garden of
Love
Is green without
Limit
And yields many
Fruits
Other than sorrow
And joy.
Love is beyond either
Condition:
Without spring,
Without autumn,
It is

Always fresh.

Jelaluddin Rumi

Love Is In The Air

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The Nature Of Mind

The nature of
Mind
Is the background
To the

Whole of

Life and death,
Like the

Sky,
Which enfolds
The whole universe
In its

Embrace.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Labour Of Love

When you work
You fulfil a part of

Earth's furthest dream,
Assigned to you

When that dream was born.
And in keeping yourself

With labour
You are in truth

Loving life,
And to love

Life

Through labour
Is to be intimate

With life's inmost

Secret.

Kahlil Gibran

The Calling

The heart has a voice and a music,
The same ones
Your spirit have

Recognized for many ages.
The voice of

Your Heart
Is the voice of Freedom.
Through it
You’ll be able to find yourself
And
Find your inner God.
Let that voice

Be heard,
Recognize yourself
As the

Creator of

Your own reality.
Put aside

All the masks
They have made you wear
In order to belong

To the illusions they created.
Don’t waste your life

Living them.
Be what you are
Born to be.

Patricia Ariel

Hour Glass

Consider

The

Hour glass;
There is nothing
To be

Accomplished
By rattling or shaking;
You have to wait

Patiently

Until

The sand,
Grain by grain,
Has run

From one funnel

Into

The other.

John Christian Morgenstern

Beautiful

You've got to get up
Every morning
With a smile on your face
And show the world
All the love
In your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find,
Yes,
You will
That you're Beautiful
As you feel

Carol King

Indulge In Affections

The moment
We indulge our affections,
The earth
Is
Metamorphosed,
There is
No winter
And
No night;
All tragedies, all ennuis,
Vanish,
All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sadness

Sadness
Is
But

a

Wall
Between
Two gardens.

Kahlil Gibran

In Each Moment

We have
More possibilities
Available
In each moment
Than
We realize.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Make Our Love Felt

The majority of us lead quiet,unheralded lives
As we pass through this world.
There will most likely be
No ticker-tape parades for us,
No monuments created in our honor.
But that does not lessen our possible Impact,
For there are scores of people
Waiting for Someone just like Us
To come along;
People who will appreciate
Our compassion,
Our unique talents.
Someone who will live a happier life
Merely because we took the Time
To share what we had to Give.
Too often we underestimate
The power of a Touch,
A Smile,
A kind word a listening ear,
An honest compliment,
Or the smallest act of Caring,
All of which have a Potential
To turn a Life around.
It's overwhelming to consider
The continuous Opportunities
There are
To make our Love felt.

Leo Buscaglia

Morning Has Broken

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The Story

There is a way
That Nature speaks,
That Land speaks.
Most of the time
We are simply
Not patient enough,
Quiet enough,
To pay attention
To
The Story.

Linda Hogan

Return To Innocence

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Listen

The reality

Of the other person
Lies not in

What he reveals to you,
But what

He cannot reveal

To you.
Therefore,
If you would

Understand him,
Listen not to

What he says,
But rather

To

What he

Does not say.


Kahlil Gibran

An Oasis In The Heart

Faith
Is an Oasis
In the Heart
Which will
Never
Be Reached
By
The Caravan
Of
Thinking.

Kahlil Gibran

Nothingness To Infinity

Man is equally incapable of
Seeing the nothingness
From which he emerges
And the infinity
In which he is engulfed.

Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

Look To This Day

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life,
The very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Kalidasa

Give Your Dreams All You've Got

Most people
Never run far enough
On their first wind
To find out
They've got a second.
Give your dreams
All you've got
And you'll be amazed
At the energy that
Comes out of you.

William James

Content

Beyond ambition,
Beyond attainment,
Is home.
Contentment,
Without content;
Peace,
Uncaused.

A. H. Almaas

Life Is To Be Grateful

Life is ...

The more
We are aware of
To be grateful for,
The happier we become.

Ezra Taft Benson

Heart In Its Tears

Only three things are infinite:
The sky in its stars,
The sea in its drops of water,
And the heart in its tears.

Gustav Flaubert (1821-1880)

The Paradox Of The Journey

All major mystical traditions
Have recognized
That there is a paradox
At the heart of the journey
Of return to Origin.
Put simply,
This is that
We are already what we seek,
And that what we are looking for on the Path
With such an intensity of striving
And passion
And discipline
Is already within and around us
At all moments.

The journey and all its different ordeals
Are all emanations of the One Spirit
That is manifesting everything
In all dimensions;
Every rung of the ladder we climb
Toward final awareness
Is made of the divine stuff of awareness itself;
Divine Consciousness is at once
Creating and manifesting all things
And acting in and as all things
In various states of self-disguise
Throughout all the different levels
And dimensions
Of the universe.


Andrew Harvey

You

What you whisper in my ear
Cannot become a book
What you breathe into my being
Cannot become a religion.
If anyone has seen you
And I'm sure they have,
If anyone has heard you,
And I'm sure they have,
Then they'd also know
That the notion of you is
So ethereal, so changeable,
So paradox and so unknown
That they cannot trap you
In man-made notions.
No, you cannot be defined
And no, your whispers
Have a different tune for
Different souls.

Hydeh Aubon

The Highest Gift

A billion times God has turned man
Into Himself

You stand in line for the
Highest gift
For his generosity cannot end.

But best to bring an instrument along
While waiting in the cold desert

And make some dulcet sounds
To accompany the palms' swaying arms
That are casting silhouettes
Against the sky's curtain
From our fire

Remind the Friend of your desire
And great patience.

A billion times God has turned man
Back into Herself.

We all stand in line
For the highest
Gift.

Hafiz

God Is Everything

I BELIEVE God is everything. . .
Everything that is or ever was or ever will be.
And when you can feel that,
And be happy to feel that,
You've found It...
My first step from the old white man
Was trees.
Then air.
Then birds.
Then other people.
But one day when I was sitting quiet
And feeling like a motherless child,
Which I was,
It come to me:
That feeling of being part of everything,
Not separate at all.
I knew that if I cut a tree,
My arm would bleed.
And I laughed and I cried
And I run all round the house.
I knew just what it was.
In fact,
When it happen,
You can't miss it.

ALICE WALKER

Self Is What You Are

Self is what you are.
You are That Fathomlessness
In which experience and concepts appear.
Self is the Moment that has no coming or going.
It is the Heart, Atman, Emptiness.
It shines to Itself, by Itself, in Itself.

Self is what gives breath to Life.
You need not search for It, It is Here.
You are That through which you would search.
You are what you are looking for!
And That is All it is.

Only Self is.

Papaji

To Love The World Is To Be Afficted

To love the world
Is to be afflicted.
Later the secrets
Start to make sense.

Yunus Emre

There Is Only One Power

Good is near Truth but is not yet Truth.
After learning not to be disturbed by evil,
We have to learn not to be made happy by good.
We must find that we are beyond both evil and good.
We must study their adjustment and
See that they are both necessary.
Really good and evil are one and are in our mind.
When the mind is self-poised,
Neither good nor bad affects it.
Be perfectly free - then neither can affect you,
And you will enjoy freedom and bliss.
Evil is the iron chain, good is the gold one:
Both are chains.
The thorn of evil is in our flesh.
Take another thorn from the same bush and
Extract the first thorn,
Then throw away both
And be free.
There is only one Power,
Whether manifesting as evil or good.
God and the devil are the same river
With the water flowing
In opposite directions.

Swami Vivekananda

All Is Equal

The particular is born and reborn,
Changing name and shape,
The gnani is the Changeless Reality,
Which makes the changeful possible.
The entire universe is his body,
All life is his life.
As in a city of lights,
When one bulb burns out,
It does not affect the network,
So the death of a body
Does not affect the whole.
With me,
All is one,
All is equal.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We And All Of Life

When we learn to move
Beyond mistaken concepts
And see clearly,
We no longer solidify reality.
We see waves coming and going,
Arising and passing.
We see that life,
Composed of this mind and body,
Is in a state of continual,
Constant transformation and flux.
There is always the possibility of radical change.
Every moment -
Not just poetically or figuratively,
But literally -
Every moment we are dying
And being reborn,
We and all of life.

Sharon Salzberg

Reality Is An Ocean

Those who became complete
Didn't live this life in hypocrisy,
Didn't learn the meaning of things
By reading commentaries.

Reality is an ocean;
The Law is a ship.
Many have never left the ship,
Never jumped into the sea.

Yunus Emre

Simply Be

You are the unchangeable Awareness
In which all activity takes place.
Always rest in peace.
You are eternal Being,
Unbounded and undivided.
Just keep Quiet.
All is well.
Keep Quiet Here and Now.
You are Happiness,
You are Peace,
You are Freedom.
Do not entertain any notions
That you are in trouble.
Be kind to yourself.
Open to your Heart
And
Simply
Be.

Papaji