A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its lov’liness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
LOVE POEMS FROM BRAZIL: “Sonnet of Fidelity” “Soneto de Fidelidade”
Above all, to my love I’ll be attentive First and always, with care
BEAUTIFUL POEMS: “Wood notes” Pastoral interlude by Arthur Symons (from “Days and Nights”)
Come into the close shadow of the wood. Here is cool quiet born of solitude, Cool leafy caverns, murmurous as the sea’s,
POEMS: “Do not say: It Might Have Been” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Tell me not Of adverse storms that kept thee from the height. What eagle ever missed the peak he sought?
He always climbs who might.
BEE-UTIFUL BEE PRAYER
Teach me the ways of hope,
reminding me that what seems impossible,
may yet be achieved.
POEMS: “The flowers have tender little souls” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The flowers have tender little souls. That love, rejoice, aspire.
WISDOM & VISION QUOTES FROM NIKOLA TESLA
“All people everywhere should have free energy sources”
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Journey home”
My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said `Here art thou!’
POEMS FROM CHINA: “Look it cannot be seen” by Lao Tzu
Look, it cannot be seen – it is beyond form.
Listen, it cannot be heard – it is beyond sound.
I visited an enchanted 800 year old forest…
It is magical, with giant ferns and moss growing on old branches, and trees so wide you could not hug with both arms opened, and so tall that touched the sky.
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “Who packed your parachute?”
Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important.
“Platero and I” by Juan Ramon Jimenez “Platero y yo” For poetry and pet lovers: Excerpt from the most beautiful book for children and the young at heart.
Platero is a small , downy, smooth and hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, appearing to have no bones.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “The garden of my heart” by J. Krishnamurti (From darkness to light)
I am the scented flower That beautifies thy garden, The honey thereof, The delight of thy heart.
LOVE POEMS FROM SPAIN: “How blue your eyes are” “Tu pupila es azul” by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Rhyme XIII
How blue your eyes are, and when you laugh
How their soft clarity reminds me, Of the tremulous shine of morning, The sea reflects upon its waters.
POEMS: “Come and sit beside me by, open & free” by J. Krishnamurti (From darkness to Light)
Ah, come sit beside me by the sea, open and free.
I will tell thee of that inward calmness
As of the still deep;
POEMS FROM INDIA: “I see a Mountain” by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (Yoga, compassion)
So many trees and so many flowers
They plunder the mountain all the time.
It’s attention is not disturbed.
ANCIENT SUFI PRAYER with the swirling dancers & whirling dervishes
I offer you peace.
I offer you joy.
I offer you friendship.
I hear your needs.
I see your beauty.
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “Smile” (and see the magic unfold)
She smiled at a sorrowful stranger.
The smile seemed to make him feel better.
He remembered past kindness of a friend
And wrote him a thank you letter.
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “Seasons Of Life”
How like the seasons is our life,
We face the sunshine, storms and strife;
As seasons come, so they must go,
We are enjoined within that flow.
CLASSIC POEMS: “For whom the bell tolls”
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
POEMS: “The clock of Life”
The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just where the hands will stop,
At late or early hour.
“Life’s little instructions” (by a 95 year old man)
Sing in the shower
Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated
Watch a sunrise at least once a year
Never refuse homemade brownies
SUMMER POEMS: “A something in a Summer’s day” by Emily Dickinson
A something in a summer’s noon, — An azure depth, a wordless tune,Transcending ecstasy.
POEMS: “I am all”
I am the blue firmament and the black cloud, I am the waterfall and the sound thereof, I am the graven image and the stone by the wayside,
“ON BUYING AND SELLING” by Kahlil Gibran
Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
“ON LOVE” (Spirituality) by Kahlil Gibran
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Spring of life” (beauty of life everywhere)
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “I’m only human”
Dear Self,
You are only human.
You are not perfect,
and really if you were,
ADVICE FROM A LAKE (Consejos de un lago)
Make positive ripples
Look beneath the surface
Stay calm,
Shore up friendships
WISE SHORT STORIES WITH A LESSON: “The echo” (about your life)
There is a story about a father and his young son who were walking through the mountains.
SHORT POEMS: “Learn to fly” by Rumi
You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings.
“ON TEACHING” by Kahlil Gibran
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
“The journey of a mother”
She is your first love, your first friend, and nothing on earth can separate you,
“ON TALKING” by Kahlil Gibran
When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.
FUNNY POEMS: “A new puppy”
Don’t eat those peas! Don’t touch that bush!
Don’t chew my shoes … What IS that mush?
SUMMER POEMS FROM CHILE: “The sea” by Pablo Neruda “El mar”
I need the sea because it teaches me,
I don’t know if I learn music or awareness,
if it’s a single wave or its vast existence,
“ON GIVING” by Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
“ADVICE FROM A WHALE”(“Consejos de una ballena”) + whale songs (cantos de ballenas)
Explore the depths of your true nature
Think big
Keep a song in your heart
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BEAUTIFUL POEMS: “Friends along the way”
To face life’s problems one most surely must
Hold fast to friends acquired along the way;
QUOTES ABOUT FOLLOWING YOUR INTUITION & TRUSTING YOUR HEART
“Intuition literally means: learning from within”
POEMS: “things work out” by Edgar Guest
Because it rains when we wish it wouldn’t,
Because men do what they often shouldn’t,
Because crops fail, and plans go wrong-
PERSIAN POEMS: “All the hemispheres” by Hafez (Spirituality, excitement, love, Happiness, giving)
Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills.
“ON HOUSES” by Kahlil Gibran
But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast.
POEMS: “Yesterday’s door”
I’ve shut the door on Yesterday,
It’s sorrows and mistakes.
I’ve locked within its gloomy walls
Past failures and heartaches.
THE EIGHT FOLD PATH: “teachings of the Buddha”
1. Right understanding using our intelligence for reflection & contemplation of things & discriminating with wisdom
POEMS: “The quitter” (advice on facing life’s challenges) by Edgar A. Guest
Don’t pity yourself and talk over your woes
Don’t think up excuses for dodging the blows
But stick to the battle and see the thing through
POEMS: “A true friend” (Spirituality)
When the roses lose their fragrance,
and the world seems at an end, When the day has lost its gladness, what a blessing is a Friend.
POEMS : “A tear and a smile” by KAHLIL GIBRAN (Lebanese poet)
A tear to unite me with those of broken heart;
A smile to be a sign of my joy in existence.
“ON RELIGION” by Kahlil Gibran
Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.
You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.
POEMS: “What is a Mother’s worth?”
I humbly appraise my mother’s worth,
It began with pain to give me birth,
Which triggered off a love so strong,
Blossoming into a life-long bond.
“Love one another” by Kahlil Gibran
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
LOVE POEMS: “You who never arrived” (to a love that could have been) by Rainer Maria Rilke
You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don’t even know what songs would please you.
POEMS: “Winning” (about life’s challenges)
It takes a little courage
And a little self-control
And some grim determination,
If you want to reach the goal.
SHORT POEMS: “Evening Love song” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Ornamental clouds
compose an evening love song;
POEMS: “Somewhere , down the road” (struggle with cancer & loss of a loved one) by Joseph Anderson
If somewhere down this road of life
Our paths should cross again
I’ll know you’ve come to spread your brand
Of sadness, fear and pain.
LONG CLASSIC POEMS: “The garden”
My soul into the boughs does glide:
There like a bird it sits and sings,
POEMS: “The best thing in the world” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What’s the best thing in the world? June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
