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SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Liberation” by Sri Aurobindo
I have thrown from me the whirling dance of mind
And stand now in the spirit’s silence free,
Timeless and deathless beyond creature-kind,
The centre of my own eternity.
SHORT SPIRITUAL POEMS: “GRATEFUL”
For the moon and the stars and deep rolling sea
For beauties of nature, where e’er they may be…
For the handclasp of friends, so firm and so true
LOVE POEMS: “In a Garden” by Amy Lowell
Gushing from the mouths of stone men To spread at ease under the sky In granite-lipped basins,
Where iris dabble their feet
POEMS: Why Did You Come Here? by Trina Graves (about our life’s Purpose)
Why did you come here? ‘ I asked the daisy
As I lay on the grass feeling dreamy and lazy.
The answer just appeared in my mind
‘I came to add to the beauty you’d find.’
POEMS: “Alone Yet Never Quite Alone” (loss of a loved one)
Alone yet never quite alone
I face an empty chair
But sometimes in the silence I imagine you are there
CUTE PET POEMS: “Tom’s Little Dog” by Walter de la Mare
Tom told his dog called Tim to beg, And up at once he sat, His two clear amber eyes fixed fast,
You are Worthy!
Do not run through life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The little wave”
The story is abut a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time.
“You can control your own thoughts”
You cannot always control your circumstances. But you can control your own thoughts. Either good or bad, your thinking can makes it so.
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “It’s the journey that’s important”
“Is the journey so important
Or the getting there?”
A KOREAN FABLE with a lesson: “The tiger’s whisker”
Once upon a time, a young wife named Yun Ok was at her wit’s end. Her husband had always been a tender and loving soulmate before he had left for the wars but
SHORT INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The pair of shoes” (re-printed)
As Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track.
FUNNY PET POEMS: “Verse For A Certain Dog”
Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes,
Dear little friend of mine, I never knew.
All-innocent are you, and yet all-wise.
WISDOM QUOTES FROM THE MYSTICAL POET SAADI
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
SPIRITUAL QUOTES TO NURTURE YOUR SOUL:
“You don’t have a Soul.
You ARE a Soul.. You have a body.” C. S. Lewis
BEAUTIFUL SPRING NATURE POEMS: “Picture Books” by Edgar Albert Guest
I HOLD the finest picture-books
Are woods an’ fields an’ runnin’ brooks;
An’ when the month o’ May has done
Her paintin’, an’ the mornin’ sun
“ADVICE FROM A CHICKADEE” by Ilan Shamir (“CONSEJOS DE UN CARBONERO”)
Sing a cheerful tune
Be full of life
Learn to adapt
One quote for today by Kahlil Gibran
One quote for today: I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers. Kahlil Gibran
“Live in Joy” by Buddha
Live in Joy, In love,
Even among those who hate.
NATURE POEMS: “A simple life”
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk
or an evening saunter;
NATURE POEMS: “Lovely as a tree”
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.
3 CONSECUTIVE DAYS QUOTE CHALLENGE NOMINATION (DAY 2)
The EGO is the image we have of ourselves, body-mind self, our social mask, the face we put on for the world.
3 CONSECUTIVE DAYS “QUOTE CHALLENGE”: DAY ONE (nominated by Didi)
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. ..Albert Einstein
SHORT POEMS: “A friend” by Edgar Albert Guest
A friend is one who takes your hand
And talks a speech you understand
POEMS: “Does it pay?” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (about kindness)
If we can show one troubled heart the gain,
That lies always in loss,
“PRAYER FOR PROTECTION” by James Dillet Freeman
The Light of God surrounds me.
The Love of God enfolds me.
The Power of God protects me.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Reality” by Rabia
In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing,
POEMS: “A Father To His Son” by Carl Sandburg
A father sees his son nearing manhood.
What shall he tell that son?
ANCIENT WISDOM QUOTES FROM THE GREAT PYTHAGORAS
“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”
POEMS: “Sadness And Joy” by William Henry Davies
I pray you, Sadness, leave me soon,
In sweet invention thou art poor!
Thy sister, Joy can make ten songs
While thou art making four.
POEMS: “Have You Earned Your Tomorrow?”By Edgar Guest
Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
APRIL SPRING POEMS FROM SPAIN: “Yellow Spring” (Primavera amarilla) by Juan Ramón Jiménez
April came, all
filled with yellow flowers.
EASTER POEMS: “The Easter Flower” by Claude McKay
Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily
Soft-scented in the air for yards around;
“To give” by Amado Nervo “Dar”
In how many hours you have in a day, do you give, even a smile, even a handshake, even a word of encouragement!
EASTER POEMS: “An Easter Prayer” by Helen Steiner Rice
The Hand that rules the universe
with gentleness and power – And may this Easter grandeur
ZEN STORIES & LESSONS: “An useless life”
A farmer got so old that he couldn’t work the fields anymore. So he would spend the day just sitting on the porch. His son, still working the farm, would look up from time to time and see his father sitting there.
“Fill it with love” by Amado Nervo (Llénalo de amor)
Whenever there is a gap in your life, fill it with love.
Easter is a time for renewal & inspiration…
Here are some ideas on how to get inspired during this beautiful time:
INSPIRATIONAL SONGS & Lyrics: ‘Love Song to the Earth’
Tomorrow’s in our hands now
Find the words that matter
Say them out loud
And make it better somehow
INSPIRATIONAL SONGS & LYRICS : “A prayer for the Earth” text by Pope Francis (pass it forward)
You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters,
From Mexico: “The secret is within you” by Amado Nervo (“Dentro de tí está el secreto”)
The secret is within you.
Search within you for the solution of all problems
SPIRITUAL POEMS FROM SPAIN: “I Am Not I” By Juan Ramón Jiménez (“Yo no soy yo”)
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
The Five Reiki Principles or Gokai (for happiness, healing and self-change)
Usui Sensei taught five simple principles to support Reiki healing
A quote by Wayne Dyer (on contemplation and gratitude)
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you.
POEMS: “This Quiet Dust Was Gentlemen And Ladies” by Emily Dickinson (about death & impermanence)
This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies
And lads and girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
SPIRITUALITY: “The small Beatitudes” by Joseph Folliet “Les Petites béatitudes”
Happy are you if you can appreciate a smile and forget a frown;
you will walk on the sunny side of the street.
LONG POEMS: “We and You” by Kahlil Gibran (about poets, prophets and musicians)
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets
And the prophets and the musicians.
SHORT POEMS: “Birds” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
O birds, your perfect virtues bring,
Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,
Your manners for your heart’s delight,
POEMS: “The tone of voice”
It’s not so much what your say
As the manner in which you say it;
It’s not so much the language you use
As the tone in which you convey it;
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The seeker of truth”
After years of searching, the seeker was told to go to a cave, in which he would find …
LONG PET POEMS: “To Flush, My Dog” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pleasures wag on in thy tail —
Hands of gentle motion fail
Nevermore, to pat thee!
Wisdom thoughts from Christian D. Larson
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger,
too strong for fear
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
POEMS: “Let The Dreams That Are Gone” (loss of a loved one)
Let the tears that you shed fall sweet, my love
For the pain goes and rainbows come without warning
