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Christ Love

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 but through its Presence. 'Ekam Sat vipra, bahuda vedantahi' says the Veda: 'Truth is One, the wise have called it by many names.'

This Christ-love is not a theological abstraction, but an organic sensation, awakened by the grace of a living Master. Then the Holy Spirit breathes us, and becomes our own Holy Breath, now, in this world.

Jai Shri Shri Guru Dev

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Poem - Derek Walcott - "Love after Love"

Derek Walcott says:

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LOVE AFTER LOVE
The 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 knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

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Characteristics of Higher and Lower Self

As Par Doreen Virtues Divine Guidance book page 73

Higher self / Lower Self

Loving / Jealous

Fulfilled / Believes in Lacking

Urges you to fulfill Divine Purpose / Wants you to delay Life's Purpose


Interested in Win/win / Believes in Win/Lose -- Competitive

Secure in Relationships / Fears Abandonment

Has a clear Conscious/ Feels Guilty

Is guided in its actions by love/ Schemes and Manipulates

Focused on the present moment Consistent / Impulsive and inconsistent

Makes you feel warm and protected/ Makes you feel cold and prickly

Has a positive voice, even when warning or danger / Has an abusive or Demanding Voice

Generous/ Greedy

Surefooted/ Clumsy

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - "The World's Need"

The World's Need

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is 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 hear
The cry of the wordless weak.
From street, from cage and from kennel,
From jungle and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.

For love is the true religion,
And love is the law sublime;
And all that is wrought, where love is not
Will die at the touch of time.
Oh, shame on the mothers of mortals
Who have not stopped to teach
Of the sorrow that lies in dear, dumb eyes,
The sorrow that has no speech.

The same Power that formed the sparrow
That fashioned man--the King;
The God of the whole gave a living soul
To furred and feathered thing.
And I am my brother's keeper,
And I will fight his fight;
And speak the word for beast and bird
Till the world shall set things right.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Meister Eckhart - "Love Does That"

LOVE DOES THAT

All day long a little burro labors, sometimes
with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries
about things that bother only
burros.

And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting
than physical labor.

Once in a while a kind monk comes
to her stable and brings
a pear, but more
than that,

he looks into the burro's eyes and touches her ears

and for a few seconds the burro is free
and even seems to laugh,

because love does
that.

Love Frees.

~ Meister Eckhart ~

quoted in Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West

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Decrees of Light (authors unknown)

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 MANIFEST!

May each accept his source within the heart of God,
And know that all who live are God expressed,
And know the power of the real shall have dominion;
And that which we decree SHALL MANIFEST!

In Love, in Power, and in Wisdom balanced,
May all the work be done with Truth its test,
Outpicturing the Master's plan through this clear channel;
And that which we decree SHALL MANIFEST!

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The Great Invocation

From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let Light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.

From the Centre where the Will of God is known
Let Purpose guide the little wills of men -
The Purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the Centre which we call the Race of Men
Let the plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

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Affirmation of the Disciple

I am a Point of Light, within a Greater Light.

I am a Strand of Loving Energy, within the Stream of Love Divine.

I am a Point of Sacrificial Fire

Focused within the fiery Will of God

And thus I stand!

I am a Way by which men may achieve.

I am a Source of Strength, enabling them to stand.

I am a Beam of Light,

Shining upon their Way.

And thus I stand!

And standing thus, revolve;

And tread this way, the ways of men,

And know the ways of God.

And thus I stand!

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The Souls of Men

The Souls of men are one

And I am one with them.

I seek to Love, not Hate;

I seek to Serve, and not exact due service;

I seek to Heal, not Hurt.

Let pain bring due reward of Light and Love.

Let the Soul control the outer form

And life and all events,

And bring to light the Love

That underlies the happenings of the time.

Let vision come and insight.

Let the future stand revealed.

Let inner union demonstrate

And outer cleavages be gone.

Let Love prevail.

Let all Souls Love.

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Affirmation of Will I am the Will that knows the way. I am the Love that holds the line. I am the Christ that lives in my heart. I am the Whole of all my parts. I am the Teacher and the Pupil. I am the Seeker and the Sought. I am the One and also the All. I am You and Me and We. We are All and We are One. We are Separate and We are Not. I live in You and You in Me. Together we strive and reach and grow. Until there is only God.

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I Am the Light of God

I Am the Light of God that never fails.

I Am the rebirth of all into God.

I am the transmutation of all that has been misqualified in my world.

I am perfect Love

And in my Love, all that I am is Bathed, Healed, Reborn

In the Heart of God, I am the Heart of God.

I am the Love and Forgiveness of all that I have created.

I am Divine Gentleness

And in this Gentleness, all resistances will melt away.

I am a Child of the Light.

I am the perfect Child of God.

To that which doubts and resists

I give unyielding Love and unfaltering Forgiveness.

I am Divine Faith, which does not yield.

I am Divine Light, which does not fade.

I am Divine Wisdom, which does not wander form the Truth.

I am Divine Power, which does not know limitation.

I am Divine Harmony, which does not reject what is.

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I Am Divine Love

I am Divine Love, which has no blame.

I am Divine Forgiveness, which never turns away.

I am Divine Gratitude, which does not cling to misery.

I am Divine Reality, which does not wander from what is honest and true.

I am God incarnate.

I speak with the Voice of God incarnate.

I move with the Will of God incarnate.

I Love all that is.

I am Pure Love.

I am the Victory of the Light.

I am the God Within -

And all that is not a true expression of the God I am - I shall forgive.

I am God incarnate -

And all that I have created, I can change.

I am the Victory of Love in my world.

I am the Victory of Wisdom in my world.

I am the Victory of Power in my world.

I am the Victory of God's Love, Wisdom, and Power

Over all that is less than God.

I am the Balance of all that I am.

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I am a Channel

I am a Channel of Love, Will, and Service.

I am a Gatekeeper of Universal Energy.

I stand with the Masters of Light -

Against the forces of darkness.

Amen

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I Am Life

I am without beginning, without end.

I, who watch personal selves come and go,

Am more than my personal self.

I reach beyond time and space.

I am one part of one Whole - that Whole is God.

I, the offspring of that Whole, have great potential

Through: Trial and Error,

Interaction with others,

Cause and Effect,

And the Law of Rebirth.

I learn to Create, Love, and Blend with the Whole.

I affirm my oneness with all that exists:

Life eternal, unending and triumphant.

I am that Life, now and forever. Amen

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Clearing & Cleansing

I call for a clear Mind,

Free from illusions of duality,

Receptive to Divine ideals,

Intuitively hearing the Soul.

I call for a clear Heart,

Free from the bonds of separation,

Shining with the Light of the Christ,

Ready to show God's Love.

I call for a clear Body,

Free from the desires of earth,

Cleansed in the fire of truth,

Ready to do God's Will.

I call for the Angel of the Presence

To command my earthly vessel,

To steer me on the lighted way,

To know God's will and but obey.

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Divine Opulence

I call for the Opulence of the Father's Light To permeate my Soul, And sound the Tone of the God Within To ring the opposite pole

I Am the Light of the God Within And the bubbling joy in me. I know the peace that comes from Him And feel His harmony.

I have the wisdom to be real And the freedom to be free With the Father’s covenant I now seal The power of victory.

I am grateful, Father, for opening the gates So my love can flow again. And for guiding me through the narrow straits, To the heart of the God Within.

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I Call Upon the God Within

I call upon the God within.

I call for the joy that I Am

To permeate all things -

My Consciousness,

My Being,

My World.

I have all of time.

A whole eternity exists in the Now,

And there just isn't any rush.

I have an abundance of time

And the opulence of God.

SOUL MANTRAM

I AM THE SOUL

I AM THE LIGHT DIVINE

I AM LOVE

I AM WILL

I AM FIXED DESIGN

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THE GREAT INVOCATION

FROM THE POINT OF LIGHT WITHIN THE MIND OF GOD

LET LIGHT STREAM FORTH INTO THE MIND OF MAN

LET LIGHT DESCEND ON EARTH

FROM THE POINT OF LOVE WITHIN THE HEART OF GOD

LET LOVE STREAM FORTH INTO THE HEART OF MAN

MAY CHRIST RETURN TO EARTH

FROM THE CENTER WHERE THE WILL OF GOD IS KNOWN

LET PURPOSE GUIDE THE LITTLE WILL OF MAN

THE PURPOSE WHICH THE MASTERS KNOW AND SERVE

FROM THE CENTER WHICH WE CALL THE RACE OF MAN

LET THE PLAN OF LOVE AND LIGHT WORK OUT

AND MAY IT SEAL THE DOOR WHERE EVIL DWELLS

LET LIGHT AND LOVE AND POWER RESTORE THE PLAN ON EARTH

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MANTRAM OF UNIFICATION

THE SONS OF MEN ARE ONE, AND I AM ONE WITH THEM

I SEEK TO LOVE, NOT HATE

I SEEK TO SERVE AND NOT EXACT DUE SERVICE

I SEEK TO HEAL, NOT HURT

LET PAIN BRING DUE REWARD OF LIGHT AND LOVE

LET THE SOUL CONTROL THE OUTER FORM AND LIFE AND ALL EVENTS

AND BRING TO LIGHT THE LOVE THAT UNDERLIES THE HAPPENINGS OF THE TIME

LET VISION COME AND INSIGHT

LET THE FUTURE STAND REVEALED

LET INNER UNION DEMONSTRATE AND OUTER CLEAVAGES BE GONE

LET LOVE PREVAIL

LET ALL MEN LOVE

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Disciples' Mantra
(One Life, One Soul, One Work

also referred to as 5 o'clock Attunement)

(MANTRAM OF THE NEW GROUP OF WORLD SERVERS)

MAY THE POWER OF THE ONE LIFE POUR

THROUGH THE GROUP OF ALL TRUE SERVERS

MAY THE LOVE OF THE ONE SOUL CHARACTERIZE THE LIVES

OF ALL WHO SEEK TO AID THE GREAT ONES

MAY WE FULFILL OUR PART IN THE ONE WORK THROUGH

SELF-FORGETFULNESS, HARMLESSNESS, AND RIGHT SPEECH

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AFFIRMATION OF A DISCIPLE

I AM A POINT OF LIGHT WITHIN A GREATER LIGHT

I AM A STRAND OF LOVING ENERGY WITHIN THE STREAM OF LOVE DIVINE

I AM A POINT OF SACRIFICIAL FIRE FOCUSED WITHIN THE FIERY WILL OF GOD

AND THUS I STAND

I AM A WAY BY WHICH MEN MAY ACHIEVE

I AM A SOURCE OF STRENGTH, ENABLING THEM TO STAND

I AM A BEAM OF LIGHT, SHINING UPON THEIR WAY

AND THUS I STAND

AND STANDING THUS REVOLVE

AND TREAD THIS WAY THE WAYS OF MEN

AND KNOW THE WAYS OF GOD

AND THUS I STAND

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TRIANGLES

IN THE CENTER OF THE WILL OF GOD I STAND

NAUGHT SHALL DEFLECT MY WILL FROM HIS

I IMPLEMENT THAT WILL BY LOVE

I TURN TOWARDS THE FIELD OF SERVICE

THE TRIANGLE DIVINE, WORK OUT THAT WILL

WITHIN THE SQUARE AND SERVE MY FELLOWMAN

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FORCES OF LIGHT

MAY THE FORCES OF LIGHT BRING ILLUMINATION TO MANKIND

MAY THE SPIRIT OF PEACE BE SPREAD ABROAD

MAY MEN OF GOODWILL EVERYWHERE

MEET IN A SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION

MAY FORGIVENESS ON THE PART OF ALL MEN

BE THE KEYNOTE AT THIS TIME

SO LET IT BE

AND HELP US TO DO OUR PART

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THE GAYATRI

O THOU WHO GIVEST SUSTENANCE TO THE UNIVERSE

FROM WHOM ALL THINGS PROCEED

TO WHOM ALL THINGS RETURN

UNVEIL TO US THE FACE OF THE TRUE SPIRITUAL SUN

HIDDEN BY A DISC OF GOLDEN LIGHT

THAT WE MAY KNOW THE TRUTH

AND DO OUR PART AND WHOLE DUTY

AS WE JOURNEY TO THY SACRED FEET

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Wordsworth - Intimations of Immortality

Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore -
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose;
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath past away a glory from the earth.

Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song,
And while the young lambs bound
As to the tabor's sound,
To me alone there came a thought of grief:
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,
And I again am strong.
The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep;
No more shall grief of mine the season wrong;
I hear the echoes through the mountains throng,
The winds come to me from the fields of sleep,
And all the earth is gay;
Land and sea
Give themselves up to jollity,
And with the heart of May
Doth every beast keep holiday -
Thou child of joy
Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy shepherd-boy!

Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call
Ye to each other make; I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;
My heart is at your festival,
My head hath its coronal,
The fullness of your bliss, I feel -I feel it all.
O evil day! if I were sullen
While Earth herselfis adorning
This sweet May-morning;
And the children are culling
On every side
In a thousand valleys far and wide
Fresh flowers; while the sun shines warm,
And the Babe leaps up on his Mother's arm: -
I hear, I hear, with joy I hear!
- But there's a tree, of many, one,
A single field which I have looked upon,
Both of them speak of something that is gone:
The pansy at my feet
Doth the same tale repeat:
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
But he beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy;
The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.

Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
And, even with something of a mother's mind
And no unworthy aim,
The homely nurse doth all she can
To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man,
Forget the glories he hath known,
And that imperial palace whence he came.

Behold the Child among his new-born blisses,
A six years' darling of a pigmy size!
See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,
Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,
With light upon him from his father's eyes!
See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,
Some fragment from his dream of human life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learned art;
A wedding or a festival,
A mourning or a funeral;
And this hath now his heart,
And unto this he frames his song:
Then will he fit his tongue
To dialogues of business, love, or strife;
But it will not be long
Ere this be thrown aside,
And with new joy and pride
The little actor cons another part;
Filling from time to time his `humorous stage'
With all the Persons, down to palsied Age,
That life brings with her in her equipage;
As if his whole vocation
Were endless imitation.

Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie
Thy soul's immensity;
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep
Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind,
That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,
Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, -
Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!
On whom those truths do rest
Which we are toiling all our lives to find,
In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;
Thou, over whom thy Immortality
Broods like a day, a master o'er a slave,
A Presence which is not to be put by;
Thou little child, yet glorious in the might
Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,
Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke
The years to bring the inevitable yoke,
Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?
Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,
And custom lies upon thee with a weight
Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!

O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live,
That Nature yet remembers
What was so fugitive!
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction: not indeed
For that which is most worthy to be blest,
Delight and liberty, the simple creed
Of childhood, whether busy or at rest,
With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: -
Not for these I raise
The song of thanks and praise;
But for those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings,
Blank misgivings of a creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
High instincts, before which our mortal nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
But for those first affections,
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may,
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,
Are yet a master-light of all our seeing;
Uphold us -cherish -and have power to make
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake,
To perish never;
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,
Nor man nor boy,
Nor all that is at enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Hence, in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither;
Can in a moment travel thither -
And see the children sport upon the shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

Then, sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
And let the young lambs bound
As to the tabor's sound!
We, in thought, will join your throng
Ye that pipe and ye that play,
Ye that through your hearts today
Feel the gladness of the May!
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

And O ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves,
Forbode not any severing of our loves!
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquished one delight
To live beneath your more habitual sway;
I love the brooks which down their channels fret
Even more than when I tripped lightly as they;
The innocent brightness of a new-born day
Is lovely yet;
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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To Live The Life - By Abdu'l-Baha

TO LIVE THE LIFE

Be 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, through kindness, to correct their faults.

Look always at the good and not at the bad.

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, look at the ten and forget the one.

And if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, look at the one and forget the ten.

Never allow ourselves to speak one unkind word about another, even though that other be our enemy.

Do all our deeds in kindness.

Cut our hearts from ourselves and from the world.

Be humble.

Be servants of each other, and know that we are less than any one else.

Be as one soul in many bodies; for the more we love each other, the nearer we shall be to God; but know that our love, our unity, our obedience must not be by confession, but of reality.

Act with cautiousness and wisdom.

Be truthful.

Be hospitable.

Be reverent.

Be a cause of healing for every sick one, a comforter for every sorrowful one, a pleasant water for every thirsty one, a heavenly table for every hungry one, a star to every horizon, a light for every lamp, a herald to every one who yearns for the kingdom of God. – Abdul Baha


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I have stilled my restless heart...

I have stilled my restless mind, and my heart is
radiant: for in That-ness I have seen beyond
That-ness, in company I have seen the Comrade
Himself.

Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I have
broken 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

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selections from Uttering Her Name, by Gabriel Rosenstock

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 swallows
innumerable
in the darkening air

it seemed they wished
to fan the dying sun
to flame

3

Dar Óma

look at this full fruit

falling for You every time

unconsciously

this tree

its limbs Yours

oozing sap

its roots

its perfume Yours

lichen clings to bark

hold me

deep deep down You are always there

awaiting my blossoming in You

kirtana of singing leaves

4

Dar Óma
holding Your image before me
on a screen
increasing percentages
until You disintegrate
like some forgotten galaxy
calling You back again
a retrieval
a respite from senseless oblivion

I know that stars are born
only to die
we see the light
of heavenly bodies
long since gone

this also I know:
Your light shines in me
the universe holds no terror

25

Dar Óma

snake unwinding

from a lightning-blasted tree

I’ve spotted You

why should I flee?

I am already deep in Your eyes

come

take all of me

mercifully

let me assist You

here’s my head firmly in Your jaws

do not use Your fangs

to stun me

let me live

this death in You now

inch by slow inch

35

Dar Óma

I can never forget the yellowhammers

I saw as a child

tiny chicks nesting in a stone wall

such clamour from their throats

such hunger

nearby was a dark Protestant church

it was taboo to enter

God manifested that day in yellow

the colour I see You in now

dust of buttercups

primrose glance

You are the yellowhammer

ensconced in a mossy stone wall

we see each other

from different worlds

for the first time

41

Dar Óma

I went to my excellent physician

author of Addiction Replacement Therapy

he put me on heroin

and monitored my progress steadily

greater than your craving for the drug?>

I nodded, sagely

he put me on LSD

orbiting one another

their beams are peacock feathers

showering on crab-apple trees

in the Isle of the Blest

their taste is dry>

the doctor is perplexed

the universe perplexed

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These have been selections from Uttering Her Name, by Gabriel Rosenstock. There are over a hundred more poems in the book.

Uttering Her Name consists of spontaneous, ecstatic utterances in what the author calls a neo-bhakti style, that is to say a modern slant on those poems of intense devotion which are still read and sung in India today.

Gabriel is considered the greatest living Irish lyric poet.

For more information about Uttering Her Name, please visit

http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=175&a=163

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Love is a life - quote by Richard Rolle

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 it joys, and nothing may make it sorry. Love is yearning between two, with lastingness of thought. Love is a stirring of the soul, for to love God for himself and all other thing for God; the which love, when it is ordained in God, it does away all inordinate love in anything that is not good. But all deadly sin is inordinate love in a thing that it naught; then love puts out all deadly sin. Love is a virtue that is rightest affection of man's soul. Truth may be without love, but it may naught help without it. Love is perfection of letters, virtue of prophecy, fruit of truth, help of sacraments, stabling of with and cunning [knowledge], riches of poor men, live of dying men. See how good love is.

Richard Rolle: The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises [ 1910 ]

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Love - a higher Love - quote by Daphne Rose Klingma

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. All our relationships are in the process of melting, if not from without – as the form of marriage itself is dissolving – then from within, where we ourselves are melting down. The soul is shifting our relationship focus from form to content, from rigidity to flexibility, from containment to expansiveness, from our emotional needs to love. -Daphne Rose Kingma

12 Guidelines to help you Shift from Fear to Love

Twelve Guidelines to help you Shift from Fear to Love
from www.paulferrini.com

1. 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 breathing deeply and being present with your experience in that moment. By so doing, you take total responsibility for understanding and healing your fear and unworthiness so that you do not project them onto others.

3. Experience your equality with every person you meet. If you think or feel that you are "less than" or "more than" another person, understand that fear is present. Take a deep breath and be aware of the fear and the unworthiness behind it. Then bring love and compassion to yourself.

4. Do not take more than you need to live simply and actively share the rest with others. Freely give to others the resources and encouragement they need to be self-sufficient and to know that they are worthy of love and respect.

5. Every day connect with your Spiritual Essence, feel God's love in your heart and ask to be an instrument of love and peace.

6. Every day, pray for your loved ones.

7. Every day, pray for your enemies.

8. Every day, pray for the leaders of the world that they may open to love and work together to create understanding, cooperation and peace between all races, religions and governments.

9. Every day, pray for the earth and the creatures who live on it. Spend time in nature. Feel the embrace of the earth, her ground and her skies, her waters and her winds. Let every action you take honor her and sing her praises.

10. Know that peace is possible right now in your heart. Know that you are the bringer of love right now in this moment, wherever you are, whatever you are doing.

11. Join willingly with others in the above practices and share in the group energy and intention. Let the shared power of your love vibrate at its full intensity and extend outward to embrace your community, your country, and our planetary home.

12. Know that all minds, all hearts, and all physical bodies can come into alignment and resonance with the power of love. Trust and live in this as a moment-to-moment awareness

If you are willing to live in alignment with these guidelines, please email us at info@heartwayspress.com and we will help you connect with others who are joining in these intentions. Together will build a consciousness of love that will be so powerful it will hold our entire planet in its compassionate embrace.

Namaste,

Paul Ferrini

from "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood

Think about it
there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above.
Without it life is wasted time

Look inside your heart
I'll look inside mine.

Things look so bad everywhere in this whole world

what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see

falling behind in what could be.
Bring me a higher love

you say you love animals...

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=

"In Gertrude's heart you will find Me"

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 sprout out like a new spirituality like the lilies taht enjoy the water and the valley."

from II:12-17 in her Spiritual Exercises

Love, by Lalita

"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 you."

- Lalita

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Love & devotion

“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 saint said, ‘There, then. He is your Krishna, your beloved. In your service to your nephew, you are serving God.’ ”

Eat, Pray, and Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, pp. 169, 170

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