Life begins now — right now — not tomorrow or the next day or the next. Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins anew. That means everything can change in an instant. It also means you can have a new beginning whenever you want. Why put off for one day that decision…
Learning from Nature Haiku: “Like Trees” (Aprendiendo de la naturaleza Haiku: “Como los árboles”)
Learning from Nature Haiku: “Like Trees” Deep roots underground, Stretching branches to the sky… Reaching to the Light! Teaches: Like trees, go within, The fertile soil of the Soul, Your vision set on the Light! Amira (Poem inspired by Susana) Aprendiendo de la naturaleza Haiku: “ Como los árboles”…
SHORT ZEN POEMS: “Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn”
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
SHORT MYSTICAL POEMS: “Just for a moment, flowers appear”
“Just for a moment, flowers appear” Just for a moment, flowers appear on the empty, nearly-spring tree. Just for a second, wind through the wild thicket thorns. Self inside self, You are nothing but me. Self inside self, I am only You. What we are together will never die. The why and how of…
HAIKU POEMS: “SPRING” (Haiku de Primavera)
Spring Haiku Joyful birds’ chirps & songs Snow-white blooms cover branches New Hope fills the heart! Amira Haiku de Primavera Chirridos y canciones de alegres pájaros Flores blancas como nieve cubren ramas ¡Nueva esperanza llena el corazón! Amira
MYSTIC POEMS: “Don’t Make Lists”
“Don’t Make Lists” Every day a new flower rises from your body’s fresh soil. Don’t go around looking for fallen petals in a fairy tale, when you’ve got the golden plant right here, now, shooting forth in light from your eyes, your awakening crown. Don’t make lists, or explore ancient accounts. Forget everything you…
VISIONARY POEMS: “Ascending The Fun-Fair Of Life” by Trina Graves
Ascending The Fun-Fair Of Life April 14, 2019 Trina GravesLeave a comment It was in December 2012 Everywhere was Ascension talk A few days before the 21st I wondered what path we’d walk Questioning, ‘What is Ascension?’ I went to find answers in my mind A visit with James on the beach And…
POEMS: “STARGAZING” (MIRANDO A LAS ESTRELLAS)
“Stargazing” When was the last time We looked at the stars? When was the last time We sat in silence Technologies apart? Our minds engaged Immersed, obsessed Zombie-like stares To virtual images While the Cosmos awaits… Let’s leave our distractions For an hour each day Let us practice the ancient art Of…
MYSTIC POEMS: “For a New Beginning”
“For a New Beginning” In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire, Feeling the emptiness growing inside you, Noticing how you willed yourself on, Still unable to…
SPANISH SONGS: “Seeds of Peace” by Mintaka group (song in Spanish, lyrics in English) “Semillas de Paz” por Mintaka: Ricardo González & Sol Sanfelice
“Seeds of Peace” was composed by Mintaka as the official theme of the world meeting for peace organized in Córdoba, Argentina (January 2015). Lyrics: “Seeds of peace” Strong winds from a storm They hit you, they tell you to get out of here It’s a rain that does not let…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Seed thoughts” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Semillas” – pensamientos)
Seed Thoughts I plant positive seed thoughts and watch my blessings grow. When I keep my thoughts positive and my words affirmative, I create an environment that produces positive action. I become the fertile ground for abundant good to manifest. Into the matrix of spiritual substance, I plant seed thoughts. Thoughts of abundance produce…
(Learning from Nature) MYSTICAL POEMS: “Camas Lillies”
“Camas Lillies” Consider the lilies of the field, the blue banks of camas opening into acres of sky along the road. Would the longing to lie down and be washed by that beauty abate if you knew their usefulness, how the natives ground their bulbs for flour, how the settlers’ hogs uprooted them, grunting…
MYSTIC POEMS: “At last I shall listen” by Sri Chinmoy (Chinmoy Kumar Ghose)
“At last I shall listen” My past is heavy with The lifeless Meaning. A frightened thought My fast-approaching future Is. I have the body and soul Of hope completely in my Thoughts. I shout at the top of my lungs. My soul embodies the weight of Despair. At last I am now learning the…
Music: Mantras of the Solar discs by Ricardo Gonzalez & his wife Sol Sanfelice, Group Mintaka (7 minutes)
The music that precedes this text is the mantra of the solar discs, interpreted by Mintaka, musical duo composed by Ricardo González, and the singer Sol Sanfelice, both residents in Argentina . La música que precede a este texto es el mantra de los discos solares, interpretado por Mintaka, dúo musical…
On “Self-Knowledge” by Kahlil Gibran
“Self-Knowledge” And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge. And he answered saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch…
A quote from Neale Donald Walsch: “Choose Love”
“Choose Love” “In life, we have a choice between a thought of love or a thought of fear. “Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals. “Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us…
MYSTIC POEMS: “Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing” by Kabir
“Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing” Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing: all earth creatures, even the supernovas, sway between these two trees, and it never winds down. Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million, also the wheeling sun and…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “I touch God in my song” by Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough.
SHORT ZEN POEMS: “This body’s lifetime is like a bubble’s” (impermanence)
This body’s lifetime is like a bubble’s
may as well let things go
plans and events seldom agree
who can step back doesn’t worry
SHORT MYSTICAL POEMS: “My heart searched for your fragrance”
“My heart searched for your fragrance” My heart searched for your fragrance in the breeze moving at dawn, my eyes searched for the flower of your face in the garden of creation. Neither could lead me to your abode — contemplation alone showed me the way. by Sarmad English version by Isaac A….
SHORT MYSTICAL POEMS: “He and I are One”
“He and I are one” He and I are one, like the word and its meaning. Behold union in separation, like the eye and vision. Not for a moment is He separate from me — Behold us together everywhere, like flower and fragrance. by Sarmad English version by Isaac A. Ezekiel Original Language Persian/Farsi…
ADVICE FROM A MOUNTAIN LION (from a previous post) by Ilan Shamir (CONSEJOS DE UN PUMA)
Put your best foot forward
Climb to new heights
Find your inner strength
POEMS: “Hey my friend”… by Tarchin Hearn
Auckland, March/01 (In response to a young man dropping out of an urban retreat) Hey my friend . . . What are you doing that’s meaningful with your life? Are you birthing beautiful thoughts into the world? Hey my friend . . .Are you awake? Is the fire of passion lighting your way,…
“ADVICE FROM A RESCUE” by Ilan Shamir (from an older post) “Consejos de un rescatado”
Learn patience
Stay hopeful
Get a new “leash” on life
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Nonresistance” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “No resistencia”)
Nonresistance When I practice nonresistance, I find peace. Nonresistance is the expression of trust and faith in divine, perfect wisdom. It is also a choice I make, not with a sense of regret, but in gratitude that I can set aside my human ego and allow my higher self to assess situations from a nonreactive…
ROMANTIC POEMS: “A white rose” (from a previous post)
A White Rose THE red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. But I send you a cream-white rosebud With a flush on its petal tips; For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss…
POEMS FOR MOTHERS: “In The Arms Of An Angel” by Trina Graves
In The Arms Of An Angel April 3, 2019Trina Graves1 Comment An Angel is a Spiritual Being A Messenger of God, His Agent Working Divinely with love Around us, or when needed, sent Some people get to see them Magnificent, powerful, bright With pure white wings of feather A truly life-enhancing sight But most just know…
POEMS: “The path”
The Path We follow the path however hard it can be over hills and mountains in rain and shine and often in silence not speaking as we walk where the days seem long in this season of our lives until we remember how precious it is to be alive that every moment matters in the…
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “In perfect time”
“In perfect time” In the light behind the light where everything is held safer than human hands than any building in the exact distance between stars and planets in their orbiting and the low hum you cannot hear that is the music of the spheres and the earth’s own note, answering is what holds…
“The Spirit of Poetry” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -Happy National Poetry Month in April!
“The Spirit of Poetry” There is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where’er the gentle south-wind blows; Where, underneath the white-thorn, in the glade, The wild flowers bloom, or, kissing the soft air, The leaves above their sunny palms outspread. With what a tender and impassioned voice It fills the nice and delicate…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Perspective” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Perspectiva”)
Perspective My answers are revealed from a higher, spiritual perspective. When I rise into spiritual understanding, I gain a different perspective. From a lower, limited viewpoint, it may seem I do not know how to solve a problem. But from a higher point of view, I can always see a way around it. I need…
POEMS: “Seeds of Light” -The end of Darkness (“Semillas de luz”- El fin de la obscuridad)
“Seeds of Light” Darkness is all around… The seeds of Light live in the heart When touched by the Sun The seeds begin to sprout! No one can stop the sacred Nature of Light Despite the madness of this world There is a Divine Plan, working behind the scenes. Despite the wars…
SPIRITUAL POEMS FROM GERMANY: “I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all” by Rainer Maria Rilke
“I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all” I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all my fellow creatures, pulsing with your life; as a tiny seed you sleep in what is small and in the vast you vastly yield yourself. The wondrous game that power plays with Things is…
POEMS: “Traveller: stop a moment (from Anamnesis)”
“Traveller: stop a moment (from Anamnesis)” Traveller: stop a moment. It is time to stop time, to step inside. Come into this house of quiet and let it take your mind. Can you ? The hardest thing. To stop thinking. So you can start really seeing and enter the silent mind that waits in…
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “I smile like a flower not only with my lips” by Rumi
“I smile like a flower not only with my lips” I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being for I am alone with the King and have lost myself in him. At dawn your flame seized my heart but left behind my body. I will shout and…
SHORT POEMS: “For the Children (from In the Unknown)” about poetry…
“For the Children (from In the Unknown)” Pavement side, a mother and child and a poet’s footsteps exactly coincide: she’s saying to him ‘birds live in trees, and squirrels…’ as we pass, and I can’t resist ‘…and poets’, I add, as her sentence hangs still deep in my one-handed text to you about how…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “The Word of The Silence” by Aurobindo
“The Word of The Silence” A bare impersonal hush is now my mind, A world of sight clear and inimitable, A volume of silence by a Godhead signed, A greatness pure, virgin of will. Once on its pages Ignorance could write In a scribble of intellect the blind guess of Time And cast gleam-messages of…
SPRING POEMS: “The Sowing of Meanings” by Thomas Merton
“The Sowing of Meanings” See the high birds! Is their’s the song That dies among the wood-light Wounding the listener with such bright arrows? Or do they play in wheeling silences Defining in the perfect sky The bounds of (here below) our solitude, Where spring has generated lights of green To glow in clouds upon…
POEMS: “Sow flowers” by Rahman Baba
“Sow flowers” Sow flowers to make a garden bloom around you, The thorns you sow will prick your own feet. Arrows shot at others Will return to hit you as they fall. You yourself will come to teeter on the lip Of a well dug to undermine another. Though you look at others with…
SPRING POEMS: “Against the gently flowing spring morning” by Shih Shu
“Against the gently flowing spring morning” Against the gently flowing spring morning the arrogant rattle of a passing coach peach blossoms beckon from the distant village willow branches caress the shoulder of my pond as bream and carp flash their golden scales and mated ducks link embroidered wings the poet stares about: this way,…
SPRING POEMS: “Spring”
“Spring” Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring � down the mountain. All night in the brisk and shallow restlessness of early spring � I think of her, her four black fists flicking the gravel, her tongue � like a red fire touching the grass, the cold water. There is…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Life” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Vida”)
Life I bless the life I have been given. Every fiber of my being exudes a life force. There is a divine intelligence within me. If I cut my finger, I do not need to tell the various blood cells and platelets what to do to bring about healing. The brilliance of life accommodates…
POEMS: “How to Be a Poet” by Wendell Berry
“How to Be a Poet” (To remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill — more of each than you have — inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Forgiveness” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Perdón”)
Forgiveness The restorative love of God opens the way to forgiveness. I know that forgiveness benefits myself first and foremost. If I face a situation that seems unforgivable, I remind myself to focus on the situation and not the person or people involved. Forgiveness begins with me. Today I hold a mirror up to…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Faith” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Fe”)
Faith With courage, I step out in faith to embrace new opportunities and experiences. Comfort can be found in the familiar—whether where I live or work, with family and friends, even routines that are commonplace provide a sense of relief. But is that sense of comfort restricting me—keeping me from reaching out and growing…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Divine Order” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria:”Orden Divino”)
Divine Order I embrace the Divine unfolding in all things! Today I choose to move through my day in spiritually centered ways. If I am challenged by things I feel I must accomplish, I pause and take a deep, cleansing breath before I even attempt the first item on my to-do list. My heart opens…
“Spiritual lessons learned from Nature” by Susana @ Holistica2be (re-blogged)
Originally posted on Holistica2be:
Contemplating Nature is being present in the classroom of life. Each day, the teacherprovides deep spiritual insights and many universal truths, all invaluable for an awakened state and balanced life. Here I list some of the spiritual lessons learned so far: Be patient – beautiful things take time. From seed…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Transformation” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Transformación”)
Transformation I am a beacon of light in this world! If I want to change my life, to create new meaning and purpose, I must open my mind to transformative thoughts. I must be open and willing to make adjustments to what I think, say, and do as I move ever onward toward realizing…
