Your speech is simple, my Master, but not theirs who talk of you.
I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.
I know that my heart would open like a flower;
that my life has filled itself at a hidden fountain.
Your songs, like birds from the lonely land of snow,
are winging to build their nests in my heart against the warmth of its April, and I am content to wait for the merry season.
Rabindranath Tagore
Blessing the boats
by Lucille Clifton
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
The Soul’s Prayer
Sarojini Naidu
In childhood’s pride I said to Thee:
O Thou, who mad’st me of Thy breath,
Speak, Master, and reveal to me
Thine inmost laws of life and death.
Give me to drink each joy and pain
Which Thine eternal hand can mete,
For my insatiate soul can drain
Earth’s utmost bitter, utmost sweet.
Spare me no bliss, no pang of strife,
Withhold no gift or grief I crave,
The intricate lore of love and life
And mystic knowledge of the grave.
Lord, Thou didst answer stern and low:
Child, I will hearken to thy prayer,
And thy unconquered soul shall know
All passionate rapture and despair.
Thou shalt drink deep of joy and fame,
And love shall burn thee like a fire,
And pain shall cleanse thee like a flame,
To purge the dross from thy desire.
So shall thy chastened spirit yearn
To seek from its blind prayer release,
And spent and pardoned, sue to learn
The simple secret of My peace.
I, bending from my sevenfold height,
Will teach thee of My quickening grace,
Life is a prism of My light,
And Death the shadow of My face.
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There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity,
a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.
This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother
of us all, “natura naturans.”
There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity,
a silence that is a fountain of action and joy.
It rises up in wordless gentleness,and flows out to me from
the unseen roots of all created being.
Thomas Merton
Art by Daniel Gerhatz
But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk;in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,-“Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature,
or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
My lord! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not
awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking
from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
Soren Kierkegaard
DREAM OF A BLESSED SPIRIT
by: W.B. Yeats
ALL the heavy days are over;
Leave the body’s coloured pride
Underneath the grass and clover,
With the feet laid side by side.
One with her are mirth and duty;
Bear the gold-embroidered dress,
For she needs not her sad beauty,
To the scented oaken press.
Hers the kiss of Mother Mary,
The long hair is on her face;
Still she goes with footsteps wary
Full of earth’s old timid grace.
With white feet of angels seven
Her white feet go glimmering;
And above the deep of heaven,
Flame on flame, and wing on wing.
Art by vladimir volegov
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
DON’T RUSH
Linda Fallen
You have eternity in front of you
And it’s also close behind
Don’t rush the spiritual pathway
When there’s much for you to find
You don’t have to be led by others
You already know the way
All your thoughts and feelings
Are the lessons of the day
You were the first breath of life
You will also be the last
You were the Ancient Wise Ones
In the echoes of the past
Search for simple values
As you find the pot of gold
The Source of all that is
Will help you to unfold
You are your own Captain
You are standing at the helm
Let Spirit steer your rudder
From the purest Highest Realm
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