Happy Diwali - more quotes (Diwali is Tues, Oct 28)

Life is a festival only to the wise. ~ Diwali Quotes

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed. ~ Diwali Quotes

Let this diwali burn all your bad times and enter you in good times. ~ Diwali Quotes

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ~ Diwali Quotes

The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival...because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around. ~ Diwali Quotes

O Ram! The light of lights, the self-luminous inner light of the Self is ever shining steadily in the chamber of your heart. Sit quietly. Close your eyes. Withdraw the senses. Fix the mind on this supreme light and enjoy the real Deepavali, by attaining illumination of the soul. ~ Diwali Quotes

He who Himself sees all but whom no one beholds, who illumines the intellect, the sun, the moon and the stars and the whole universe but whom they cannot illumine, He indeed is Brahman, He is the inner Self. Celebrate the real Deepavali by living in Brahman, and enjoy the eternal bliss of the soul. ~ Diwali Quotes

"Luminous beings are we - not this crude matter." Yoda

into something better

Sleeping in the Forest

I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

from Sleeping In The Forest by Mary Oliver
© Mary Oliver