Daily Bit Of Beauty

a poem by Pablo Neruda

2012-01-10T21:40:00.000-08:00

A poem by Pablo Neruda:All night I have slept with you next to the sea, on the island.Wild and sweet you were between pleasure and sleep,between fire and water.Perhaps very lateour dreams joinedat the top or at the bottom,Up above like branches moved by a common wind,down below like red roots that touch.Perhaps your dreamdrifted from mineand through the dark seawas seeking meas before,when you

"The Danger of Living Seriously" by Thomas Merton

2010-12-11T14:39:00.000-08:00

By Thomas MertonA great deal of virtue and piety is simply the easy price we pay in order to justify a life that is essentially trifling. Nothing is so cheap as the evasion purchased by just enough good conduct to make one pass as a ’serious person.’And when you come to look more deeply into our present condition you find that many forms of ’seriousness’ and ‘achievement’ come to this in the end.

Beautiful video: Deftones "Sextape"

2010-09-05T06:22:00.000-07:00

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educational emails

2010-09-04T09:46:00.000-07:00

As we approach the end of another month - I want to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past year. I am totally screwed up now and have little chance of recovery.I no longer open a bathroom door without using a paper towel, or have the waitress put lemon slices in my ice water without worrying about the bacteria on the lemon peel. I can’t use the remote in a hotel room because

:) We love our animals

2010-09-03T14:17:00.001-07:00

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"Instants" by Jorge Luis Borges

2010-08-22T16:21:00.003-07:00

InstantsIf I could live again my life,In the next - I'll try,- to make more mistakes,I won't try to be so perfect,I'll be more relaxed,I'll be more full - than I am now,In fact, I'll take fewer things seriously,I'll be less hygenic,I'll take more risks,I'll take more trips,I'll watch more sunsets,I'll climb more mountains,I'll swim more rivers,I'll go to more places - I've never been,I'll eat

Christopher Walken - The Angel of Death sketch

2010-08-16T10:42:00.000-07:00

Rube Goldberg the comic artist

2010-08-11T11:56:00.000-07:00

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How To Be Alone

2010-08-11T10:04:00.000-07:00

A bunch of wildflowers

2010-07-22T15:48:00.000-07:00

You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the Dharma.So many long days in the archives, copying, copying.The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sungmake heavy baggage.Here! I've picked you a bunch of wildflowers.Their meaning is the samebut they're much easier to carry. -Master Hsu YunShare this on Facebook: Share

LOVELY VIDEO: The One Flaw In Women

2010-07-20T12:23:00.000-07:00

For Women: A Wonderful Reminder of How Awesome You Are:http://www.theoneflawinwomen.com/movie/1914Share this on Facebook: Share

The Highest Sadhana -Mooji

2010-07-17T16:55:00.000-07:00

Mechtild of Magdeburg on prayer

2010-07-16T08:24:00.000-07:00

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and

Reminder of an incredible woman: PEACE PILGRIM

2010-07-16T08:10:00.000-07:00

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Robert Macfarlane, from "The Wild Places"

2010-07-13T17:44:00.000-07:00

Robert Macfarlane, from The Wild Places (Penguin Original)That winter hour, though, up on the summit ridge with the stars falling plainly far above, it seemd to me that our estrangement from the dark was a great and serious loss. We are, as a species, finding it increasingly hard to imagine that we are part of something which is larger than our own capacity. We have come to accept a heresy of

evening

2010-07-13T15:23:00.001-07:00

evening--he wipes horse shit off his handwith a chrysanthemumIssatranslated by David G. LanoueShare this on Facebook: Share

Do be silly :)

2010-07-09T06:40:00.000-07:00

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Christ Love

2010-07-07T17:28:00.000-07:00

Christ is not to be believed in, not followed or obeyed, but felt to the bone, down to the marrow and through the atoms, as a vibration of love so intimate yet all-pervading, that it dissolves every distinction between spirit and matter, God and Man.We may call this stream of love by the name of Christ, Krishna, Buddha, Ishq, or Shakti. What is truly alive exists not through its definition

Forgiveness

2010-07-07T16:16:00.000-07:00

Photographed by me on Floyd Ave, Modesto, CA. Matt 18:18-20. Forgiveness of one another is the most important thing. Share this on Facebook: Share

Robert Heinlein - "I am free"

2010-07-07T16:09:00.000-07:00

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find themtolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, Ibreak them. I am free because I know that I alone am morallyresponsible for everything I do. Robert Heinlein, visionary, author, “science fiction” writer,born on thus date, 1907Share this on Facebook: Share

Bats in the belfry

2010-07-07T16:03:00.000-07:00

viaWe do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.)Share this on Facebook: Share

Poem - Wendell Berry - The Peace of Wild Things

2010-06-19T13:48:00.000-07:00

The Peace of Wild Things— Wendell Berry 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 children's lives may be, I go 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

Poem - Derek Walcott - "Love after Love"

2010-06-19T13:37:00.000-07:00

Derek Walcott says:=====LOVE AFTER LOVEThe day will come when, with elation,you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror,and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say,sit here, eat.You will love again the stranger who was yourself.Give wine, give bread.Give back your heart to itself,to the stranger who has loved you all your life,whom you ignored for another,who

Prayer to honor the Gulf

2010-06-18T14:28:00.000-07:00

This prayer is a lovely (and powerful) example of the Hawaiian healing practice known as Ho'oponopono.Much love, and I hope we can all join hearts and love in praying for the ocean animals, plants, waters, .....(Thank you so much Nina)Love, LalitaSubject: Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the GulfI'm participating in Earth Healings for our Oceans. Dr. Masaru Emoto, whomany of you will

Honoring Others - Eckhart Tolle - www.eckharttolle.com

2010-06-17T09:11:00.000-07:00

Characteristics of Higher and Lower Self

2010-06-08T12:17:00.000-07:00

As Par Doreen Virtues Divine Guidance book page 73Higher self / Lower SelfLoving / JealousFulfilled / Believes in LackingUrges you to fulfill Divine Purpose / Wants you to delay Life's PurposeInterested in Win/win / Believes in Win/Lose -- CompetitiveSecure in Relationships / Fears AbandonmentHas a clear Conscious/ Feels GuiltyIs guided in its actions by love/ Schemes and ManipulatesFocused on

Pele's Revenge: Ohi'a Lehua

2010-05-17T10:39:00.000-07:00

Source: http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ha2Pele's Revengeretold byS. E. Schlosser Ohi'a and Lehua loved each other from the moment they first saw each other at a village dance. Ohi'a was a tall strong man with a handsome face and lithe form. He was something of a trickster and was first in all the sports played by all the young men. Lehua was gentle and sweet and as

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - "The World's Need"

2010-05-12T09:48:00.000-07:00

The World's Need So many gods, so many creeds,So many paths that wind and wind,While just the art of being kindIs all the sad world needs. I am the voice of the voiceless;Through me, the dumb shall speak;Till the deaf world's ear be made to hearThe cry of the wordless weak. From street, from cage and from kennel, From jungle and stall, the wailOf my tortured kin proclaims the sinOf the

The Poet’s Journal: Uses, Benefits, and Tips for Journal Writing

2010-05-11T11:42:00.000-07:00

The Poet’s Journal: Uses, Benefits, and Tips for Journal Writing Written by Ami Mattison on May 9, 2010 http://poetrynprogress.com/2010/05/09/the-poet%E2%80%99s-journal-uses-benefits-and-tips-for-journal-writing/

Pablo Neruda - "Ode with a lament"

2010-05-11T11:38:00.000-07:00

Ode with a Lament by Pablo NerudaOh child among the roses, oh pressure of doves,oh jail of fish and rosebushes,your soul is a bottle full of thirsting saltand a bell of grapes, your skin.Unfortunately, I’ve nothing to give you exceptthe nails of my fingersor eyelashes, or pianos melted by loveor dreams that pour from my heart in torrents,dreams covered with dust that gallop like black

"Monja Blanca" by Clive James

2010-05-04T18:49:00.001-07:00

The wild White Nun, rarest and loveliestOf all her kind, takes form in the green shadeDeep in the forest. Streams of filtered lightAre tapped, distilled, and lavishly expressedAs petals. Her sweet hunger is displayedBy the labellum, set for bees in flightTo land on. In her well, the viscin gleams:Mesmeric nectar, sticky stuff of dreams. This orchid’s sexual commerce is confinedTo flowers of her

Meister Eckhart - "Love Does That"

2010-04-30T12:22:00.001-07:00

LOVE DOES THATAll day long a little burro labors, sometimeswith heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worriesabout things that bother onlyburros.And worries, as we know, can be more exhaustingthan physical labor.Once in a while a kind monk comesto her stable and bringsa pear, but morethan that,he looks into the burro's eyes and touches her earsand for a few seconds the burro is

Love in the open hand, nothing for that...

2010-04-28T16:13:00.000-07:00

Love in the open hand, nothing but that,Ungemmed, unhidden, wishing not to hurt,As one should bring you cowslips in a hatSwung from the hand, or apples in her skirt,I bring you, calling out as children do:"Look what I have! - And these are all for you."- Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)Share this on Facebook: Share

Decrees of Light (authors unknown)

2010-04-28T15:46:00.000-07:00

Preamble to Decrees May all that is involved in Human speech be cleansed,Our tongues and throats be washed with Light and blessed,Our minds and hearts clear channels for the God's expression;And that which we decree SHALL MANIFEST! May consciousness hold strong in full awareness,All inner turbulence be laid to rest,All personal desire be bowed in joyful service;And that which we decree SHALL

the Twelve Pathways to Unconditional Love and Happiness

2010-04-28T15:14:00.000-07:00

The following is from the higher consciousness classic, Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes, Jr. which explains the Living Love system to higher consciousness. T H E T W E L V E P A T H W A Y S To the Higher Consciousness Planes of Unconditional Love and Oneness FREEING MYSELF 1. I am freeing myself

We become the bird we contemplate...

2010-04-28T14:03:00.000-07:00

• “For aesthetic appreciation, always a little time.” • “Burials and births--one linked to the other, the great circle of life.” • “I like to keep variety--always looking for the new experience. • “People get upset because they feel they have a hold on to things. I’m just here as a reminder: Here today, gone tomorrow, so don’t hold

Don't Quit...

2010-04-22T15:47:00.000-07:00

Don't QuitWhen things go wrong, as they sometimes willWhen the road you're trudging seems all uphillWhen the funds are low and the debts are highAnd you want to smile, but you have to sighWhen care is pressing you down a bitRest if you must, but don't you quit.Life is queer with its twists and turnsAs every one of us sometimes learnsAnd many a fellow turns aboutWhen he might have won, had he

HOW TO BUILD COMMUNITY

2010-04-22T15:39:00.000-07:00

Turn off your TVLeave your house Know your neighborsLook up when you are walkingGreet peopleSit on your stoopPlant FlowersUse your libraryPlay togetherBuy from local merchantsShare what you haveHelp a lost dogTake children to the parkGarden TogetherSupport Neighborhood SchoolsFix it even if you didn't break itHave Pot LucksHonor EldersPick Up LitterRead Stories AloudDance in the StreetTalk to the

To Live The Life - By Abdu'l-Baha

2010-04-22T15:24:00.000-07:00

TO LIVE THE LIFEBe no cause of grief to any one.Be kind to all people and love them with a pure spirit.Should opposition or injury happen to us bear it; be as kind as ever we can be, and through all, love the people.Should calamity exist in the greatest degree, rejoice, for these things are the gifts and favors of God.Be silent concerning the faults of others; pray for them, and help them,

I have stilled my restless heart...

2010-04-20T00:43:00.000-07:00

I have stilled my restless mind, and my heart isradiant: for in That-ness I have seen beyondThat-ness, in company I have seen the ComradeHimself.Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I havebroken away from the clutch of all narrowness.Kabir says: "I have attained the unattainable,and my heart is coloured with the colour of love." - Kabir Share this on Facebook: Share

The Tipi is much better to live in...

2010-04-19T15:13:00.000-07:00

"The tipi is much better to live in; always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer, easy to move. The white man builds big house, cost much money, like big cage, shut out sun, can never move; always sick. Indians and animals know better how to live than white ma; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine and good water. If the Great spirit wanted men to

May we learn how to honor Earth from Native American teachings...

2010-04-19T15:09:00.000-07:00

"My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams.You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.You ask me to cut grass and make hay and

prayer for compassion - lovely

2010-04-19T11:50:00.000-07:00

WONDERFUL PRAYERHeavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off intraffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that dayand is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundryand spend a few precious moments with her children.Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young manwho can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith - assorted videos

2010-04-16T09:55:00.000-07:00

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selections from Uttering Her Name, by Gabriel Rosenstock

2010-04-15T13:47:00.000-07:00

Dar Óma what speeded them on their way? what distances did they travel? the sky was full of falling stars ... You draw down too much light - soon the heavens will all be bare 2 Dar Óma yesterday I went looking for You and found You everywhere particularly in the flight of

Quotes by Native Americans

2010-04-14T18:51:00.000-07:00

"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." Ancient Indian Proverb "A Mile in His Moccasins" by Lisa Danielle "One does not sell the land people walk on." ... Crazy Horse, Sept. 23, 1875

meditate on God - may your heart fill with God's Light

2010-04-13T09:28:00.000-07:00

"Meditate on Kali! Why be anxious? The night of delusion is over; it's almost dawn. The sun is rising, dispelling thick nets of darkness, and lotuses are blooming thanks to Siva at the top of your head." -ramprasad senShare this on Facebook: Share

LIFE IS A GIFT - POEM BY LALLA

2010-04-13T06:26:00.000-07:00

Life is given.Nothing is earned,so learn to serve others,not your own desire and greedand ego. They steal your energies,whereas devotion builds your strengthand protects the intelligent flamethat leads to the truth within. - Lalla 14th Century North Indian mysticFrom Naked SongVersions by Coleman Barks=====================Share this on Facebook

it was good for his skin to touch the earth...a beautiful quote

2010-04-09T12:17:00.000-07:00

The character of the Indian's emotion left little room in his heart for antagonism toward his fellow creatures .... For the Lakota (one of the three branches of the Sioux Nation), mountains, lakes, rivers, springs, valleys, and the woods were all in finished beauty. Winds, rain, snow, sunshine, day, night, and change of seasons were endlessly fascinating. Birds, insects, and animals filled the

In the life of the Indian...there is prayer...

2010-04-09T11:45:00.000-07:00

In the life of the Indian, there was only one inevitable duty – the duty of prayer – the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. His daily devotions were more necessary to him than daily food. He wakes at daybreak, puts on his moccasins and steps down to the water’s edge. Here he throws handfuls of clear, cold water into his face, or plunges in bodily. After

Top Ten Funny Spiritual Quotes

2010-04-09T09:07:00.000-07:00

Top Ten Funny Spiritual Quotes 1. "Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one." --Albert Einstein2. "Why is it when we talk to God, we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?" --Lily Tomlin3. "If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. " --Mark Twain4."You have to stay in shape. My grandmother started

How to tell if a Catholic is driving too fast :)

2010-04-08T17:40:00.000-07:00

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Love is a life - quote by Richard Rolle

2010-03-30T08:10:00.000-07:00

Love is a life, a coupling together the loving and the loved. For meekness maketh us sweet to God; purity joins us to God; love makes us one with God. Love is fairhead [beauty] of all virtues. Love is [the] thing through the which God loves us, and we God, and each one of us other. Love is [the] desire of the heart, ever thinking to that that it loves; and when it has that it loves, then

I made up my mind to find my own destiny

2010-03-29T14:32:00.000-07:00

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill My world it moves so fast todayThe past it seems so far awayAnd I squeeze it so tight, I can't breatheAnd every time I try to beWhat someone has thought of meSo caught up, I wasn't able to acheiveBut deep in my heart the answer it was in meAnd I made up my mind to find my own destinyI look at my environmentAnd wonder where the fire wentWhat

Jane Goodall - "The Old Wisdom"

2010-03-19T18:22:00.000-07:00

The Old Wisdom by Jane Goodall When the night wind makes the pine trees creakAnd the pale clouds glide across the dark sky,Go out, my child, go out and seekYour soul: the eternal I.For all the grasses rustling at your feetAnd every flaming star that glitters highAbove you, close up and meetIn you: the Eternal I.Yes, my child, go out into the world; walk

Love - a higher Love - quote by Daphne Rose Klingma

2010-03-19T14:56:00.000-07:00

The future of love is true love, a great, sweet love that isn’t pain but joy, not small, but vast, not personal but spiritual. This is where we are going; this is our true destination. Our relationships are creating themselves in wild, new, beautiful, and terribly upsetting forms. They are creating demanding experience...s that are necessary for us to expand as human beings and as spirits.

12 Guidelines to help you Shift from Fear to Love

2010-03-18T11:22:00.000-07:00

Twelve Guidelines to help you Shift from Fear to Lovefrom www.paulferrini.com1. Learn to bless your own experience and that of others. If you find yourself judging or condemning yourself or others, hold that awareness with compassion until you find that you are able to shift into acceptance of self and other. 2. Be aware of your fear and move through it by

Prayer for you & your relaxation

2010-03-12T07:21:00.000-08:00

Dearest One,Catch yourself when you are doing, doing, doingin a frenzied state.Calm your nervous, panicked energy . . .for all is well in your world.Just because, in the moment,you don’t truly know what to do, which causes pressure,that’s ok.Remember you have a whole squadronof angels and divine helpersready to assist in any way you request.Tune into your Divine Intelligence for the

from "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood

2010-03-12T05:48:00.000-08:00

Think about itthere must be higher loveDown in the heart or hidden in the stars above.Without it life is wasted timeLook inside your heartI'll look inside mine.Things look so bad everywhere in this whole worldwhat is fair?We walk blind and we try to seefalling behind in what could be.Bring me a higher love

you say you love animals...

2010-03-10T15:22:00.000-08:00

You say you love animals,but you eat them..You say you love birds,but you cage them in..You say you love trees,but you chop them down..You say you love flowers,but you pick them..Now I am afraid, that you will say.. "I love you"..-Mango, http://www.fruitnut.net/index2.htm?PAG=25BreathMoore,REF=

from Saint Gertrude's Spiritual Exercises, p. 40-41

2010-03-10T11:52:00.000-08:00

The voice of Christ to the soul:Look upon me, my dove, at who I am: I am Jesus, your dulcet friend. Open to me the penetralia of your heart.I am, indeed, from the land of angels, an exemplar fo radiance.I am myself the splendor of the divine sun.I am the most fulgent spring day, the only one that grows ever bright and knows no waning. The majesty of my superessential glory whose extent is

"In Gertrude's heart you will find Me"

2010-03-10T11:17:00.000-08:00

Saint Gertrude is portrayed here iwth the Sacred Heart of Jesus resting within her own chest, and the inscription around it reads "In Gertrude's heart you will find Me."Saint Gertrude:"My lover, my lover, give me your blessing; flow out and let me in. From my heart, from my heart, I long for you, and I beg you, beloved of my heart, that I may be your own. Ah! That in your living love I may

Removal of burdens

2010-03-09T13:19:00.000-08:00

Abhinavagupta:Here, bliss is not like the intoxication of wine or wealth, or even like union with a lover. The emergence of the light of consciousness is not like the light produced by a lamp, by the sun, or by the moon. The happiness of release from accumulated differentiation is a joy like the removal of a burden. The emergence of the light of consciousness is the recovery of a forgotten

Love, by Lalita

2010-03-09T07:44:00.000-08:00

"In love there is no need or absence of anything. Love radiates, gives, relieves, uplifts, cares, shares, and is grateful. Love spreads joy. It does not seek self-glorification or pleasure fulfillment. Love is a state of being within your own heart - not something to attain from others, like approval or attention. May your heart be filled with love today, and may that bring joy to those around

Saint Gertrude the Great

2010-03-07T10:36:00.000-08:00

At Lauds, pray that you be taught the art of love (292ff.);at Prime, that you be led into the school of love with God as teacher and master (311ff.);at Terce, that you learn the alphabet with which the Spirit writes his law of love on your heart (330ff.);at Sext, that you laern to know the Lord not only by syllables but also by theory (356ff.);at None, that you be accepted into the militia of

Confessions of nuns :)

2010-03-07T10:26:00.001-08:00

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."- Archbishop Fulton Sheen

a few christian quotes

2010-03-06T12:03:00.000-08:00

I wish all this nation knew how sweet His breath is; it is little to see Christ in a book, as men do the world in a card; they talk of Christ by the book and the tongue, and no more; but to come nigh Christ and have Him, and embrace Him is another thing. — Samuel Rutherford, Presbyterian, 1600-1661 Infinite love must needs be a mystery to a finite capacity. — Richard Baxter, Puritan, 1615-1691

Anne Sexton - "Us"

2010-03-03T16:48:00.001-08:00

"Us"I was wrapped in blackfur and white fur andyou undid me and thenyou placed me in gold lightand then you crowned me,while snow fell outsidethe door in diagonal darts.While a ten-inch snowcame down like starsin small calcium fragments,we were in our own bodies(that room that will bury us)and you were in my body(that room that will outlive us)and at first I rubbed yourfeet dry with a

Howard Nemerov

2010-02-24T21:25:00.000-08:00

A peels an apple, while B kneels to God,C telephones to D, who has a handOn E's knee, F coughs, G turns up the sodFor H's grave, I do not understandBut J is bringing one clay pigeon downWhile K brings down a nightstick on L's head,And M takes mustard, N drives into town,O goes to bed with P, and Q drops dead,R lies to S, but happens to be heardBy T, who tells U not to fire VFor having to give W

Yellow

2010-02-23T19:42:00.000-08:00

YellowThere is the heaven we enterthrough institutional graceand there are the yellow finches bathing and singingin the lowly puddle.- Mary Oliver, from Evidence: Poems

service & signs of God - a quote by Auden

2010-02-22T08:31:00.000-08:00

The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to the religiosity of the mob. A woman might spend twenty years nursing lepers without having any notice taken of her, but let her once exhibit the stigmata or live for long periods on nothing but the

Poem - e.e.cummings and Gerard Manly Hopkins

2010-02-19T10:42:00.000-08:00

- this is a poem that is parts of two poems bye.e.cummings (1st half) and Gerard Manley Hopkins (2nd half).I thank you God for this most amazingday: for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand for a blue true dream of skyfor all things counter, original, spare, strange:whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)with swift, slow; sweet, sour; a dazzle, dim;He fathers-forth whose beauty is past

Poetry is a calling (quote by Edward Hirsch)

2010-02-19T10:02:00.000-08:00

"Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. For as long as I can remember, I have associated that calling, my life's work, with walking. I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it, setting out and taking off. You cross a threshold and you're on your way. Time is suspended. Writing

Poem - "Flowering Eucalypt In Autumn" by Les Murray

2010-02-19T09:48:00.000-08:00

Flowering Eucalypt In Autumn by Les MurrayThat slim creek out of the skythe dried-blood western gum treeis all stir in its high reaches:its strung haze-blue foliage is dancingpoints down in breezy mobs, swappingpace and place in an all-over swayretarded en masse by crimson blossom.Bees still at work up there tackaround their exploded furry likenessand the lawn underneath's a napped rugof eyelash

"Grace" by Ronni Sweet

2010-02-17T13:48:00.000-08:00

"Grace" by Ronni SweetTwilight begins.The embrace of stars. I attend to softening edges, Watch the unassuming beauty of Horses as they bow their heads Over sweet, sun-dried grasses. This is the most peaceful time I know. Paced by clover-scented, rhythmic

Dance And Be Free :)

2010-02-17T05:51:00.000-08:00

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. -- Alan Cohen

Create joy for others, and know true joy yourself :)

2010-02-16T17:54:00.000-08:00

“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”—Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998); author, professor of special education

Happy Valentines Day from Peace Through Kindness

2010-02-14T09:25:00.001-08:00

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Poem - "White Flowers" - by Mary Oliver

2010-02-13T09:00:00.000-08:00

White FlowersBy Mary Oliver Last nightin the fieldsI lay down in the darknessto think about death,but instead I fell asleep,as if in a vast and sloping roomfilled with those white flowersthat open all summer,sticky and untidy,in the warm fields.When I wokethe morning light was just slippingin front of the stars,and I was coveredwith blossoms.I don’t knowhow it happened—I don’t knowif my body went

simplicity

2010-02-13T07:40:00.000-08:00

Instead of spending money on fancy clothes, haircuts, material belongings, and so on, save that money for a child's education, or use it to plant trees that will feed people. Please think of the bigger picture. The more simple we are, the happier we are. Think of the earth, and others who need more than we do. Give back to life. Love, Lalita

Do what you love to do

2010-02-12T09:02:00.000-08:00

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you love to do, in order to have what you want." -- Margaret Young

Love & devotion

2010-02-09T06:24:00.000-08:00

“I was reading in the library from a book about Sri Ramakrishna, and I stumbled upon a story about a seeker who once came to see the great master and admitted to him that she feared she was not a good enough devotee, feared that she did not love God enough. And the saint said, ‘Is there nothing you love?’ The woman admitted that she adored her young nephew more than anything on earth. The

resistance

2010-02-07T09:00:00.001-08:00

There are many ways to resist change throughout adult life…. Apart from the pathological effects of trauma and abuse, most resistance has to do with fantasies about how the world and others should treat us. It is rooted in ideals―for perfection, beauty, love, security―that turn into … suffering or negativity, when they are held to tightly or are too exaggerated and grandiose. Great expectations,

Saigyo Hoshi - Dove

2010-02-04T11:32:00.001-08:00

Deep in a ravine,in a tree on the old farm,a single dove singsout, searching for a friend,lonely voice in the evening. Saigyō Hōshi (1118-1190), Japanese poet; image: vintageprintable.com

Beloved

2010-02-04T11:30:00.000-08:00

The Beloved is not a noun. It is a verb, it is being-ness constantly unfolding. It is am-ness itself. In this same way, at this same level, you too are not a noun but a process unfolding. You too are the Beloved, the energetic such-ness to which so much devotional literature, poetry, and scripture refer when attempting to express personal experiences of the sacred. Stephen & Ondrea Levine. (1995)

Pilgrimage

2010-02-04T11:29:00.000-08:00

Master Dizang asked monk Fayan, “Where are you going?”Fayan said, “On a pilgrimage.”Dizang, ”What is the purpose of pilgrimage?”Fayan, ”I don’t know.”Dizang, “Not knowing is most intimate.”

To live like a tree

2010-01-16T07:24:00.000-08:00

"To live like tree, unique and free, like a forest in harmony." ~ Nazim HikmetControversial Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet Ran (1902-1963) was born on this day in Salonika, Ottoman Empire, which is now Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece. The son of a government official, Hikmet wrote his first poem at age 11."Some people know the names of stars by heart," he said. "I recite absences."With

"Planet Earth" by P.K. Page

2010-01-15T14:32:00.001-08:00

It has to be spread out, the skin of this planet,has to be ironed, the sea in its whiteness; and the hands keep on moving, smoothing the holy surfaces. -from In Praise of Ironing by Pablo Neruda It has to be loved the way a laundress loves her linens,the way she moves her hands caressing the fine muslinsknowing their warp and woof,like a lover coaxing, or a

On the Funny Side

2010-01-12T09:00:00.000-08:00

Joy Harjo - "She Had Some Horses"

2010-01-12T08:47:00.000-08:00

She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo I She Had Some Horses She had some horses. She had horses who were bodies of sand. She had horses who were maps drawn of blood. She had horses who were skins of ocean water. She had horses who were the blue air of sky. She had horses who were fur and teeth. She had horses who were clay and would break. She had horses who were splintered red

Anatomy of a Rose - excerpt from a Beautiful book by Sharman Apt Russell

2010-01-12T06:59:00.000-08:00

excerpt from Anatomy of a Rose p.175-176:We may need to be cured by flowers. We may need to strip naked and let the petals fall on our shoulders, down our bellies, against our thighs. We may need to lie naked in fields of wildflowers. We may need to walk naked through beauty. We may need to walk naked through color. We may need to walk naked through scent. We may need to walk naked through sex

Bulletin by Diane Di Prima

2010-01-12T05:30:00.000-08:00

Jai Ma - Thank God for Ma - for teaching us to serve and to use energy of pain for fuel in the seva.This is an awesome poem - warning: graphic - but shows the obvious need forcompassionate action and care.With love, LalitaBULLETIN by Diane Di Prima It is happening even as you read this page. By the time you finish reading this it will be over. She will have left the hotel

Luminescent (poem by Terry Song)

2010-01-11T16:53:00.000-08:00

LuminescentI walk with women, a high desertpath along the gorge, throughsweetgrass, threadgrass,peppergrass and blue gramma,four miles through chamisa and sage.We sit on the rim in silence,dangle our legs from a rock ledgeabove the winding river.Silence settles over the land.The sun slips behind uslike a lover out the back door,leaves the canyon flushed rose.Evening tucks its lavender and

Some Inspiring Videos

2010-01-11T06:58:00.001-08:00

Beyond King of the Mountain -http://vimeo.com/8369687"I would say it's idealistic and naive that we can continue to organize human governance through this contest of power and expect it to start solving our problems." - Michael KarlburgWiring a Web for Global Good - http://www.ted.com/talks/gordon_brown.htmlWe're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use

Hookers For Jesus - "The world throws us away...We had nowhere else to turn."

2010-01-10T19:03:00.001-08:00