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

Clear And Uncluttered

r

This mind cannot be transmitted
But can only be experienced in oneself
And understood in oneself.
When you get to the point
Where there is

Neither delusion nor enlightenment,
You simply dress and eat as normal,
Without a bunch of arcane interpretations
And lines of doctrine
Jamming your chest,
So you're clear
And uncluttered.

Ying-an (d. 1163)

One

When one realizes oneself,
One realizes the essential nature of the universe.
The existence of duality is only an illusion
And when the illusion is undone,
The primordial unity of one's own nature
And the nature of the universe
Is realized,
Or made real.

Namkhai Norbu

Your Happiness Is In Your Hand

Perceive and rejoice
That life is abundant,
That beauty and goodness
Are amply available . . .
That your happiness
Is in your hands.

Paul Hodges

In Love With Love

To be in love with love
Is to gain a soul,
To sit on the throne of hearts.

Yunus Emre

Love Is

Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud.
It is the Morning and the Evening Star.
It shines upon the cradle of the babe,
And sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
It is the mother of Art,
Inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home,
kindler of every fire on every hearth.
It was the first to dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody,
For Music is the voice of Love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter,
That changes worthless things to joy,
And makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
It is the perfume of the wondrous flower -- the Heart
And without that sacred passion, that divine swoon,
We are less than beasts;
But with it,
Earth is heaven
And we are gods.

Robert G Ingersoll

Us And This Universe

A human being is part of a whole,
Called by us the Universe,
A part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself,
His thoughts and feelings,
As something separated from the rest
A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
Restricting us to our personal desires
And to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
By widening our circles of compassion
To embrace all living creatures
And the whole of nature
In its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Only Love

When we believe that there is only love
And when one feels love for anyone
We understand that everything was meant to be.
AS we all watch the same moon tonight
And the feel the warmth of the same sun,
We are One as close as was meant to be.

Our Mission , Our Prayer

You and I and everything in the universe
Exist as a part of the endless flow of God's Love.
Realizing this,
We recognize that all creation
Is bound together with the same benevolence.
To harmonize with life is to come into accord
With that part of God which flows through all things.
To foster and protect all life
Is both our mission
And our prayer.

Morehei Ueshiba

A New Day

So in this Quickening Light,
With the Dawn of each New Day,
Let us look for Love…
Let us ever Become who we most want to Be.
As we begin to Be who We Truly Are,
The World will be a Better Place.

John Denver