What is the difference
Between your experience of Existence
And that of a Saint?
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FATHER’S DAY POEMS: “A father’s wish” by Edgar Albert Guest
What do I want my boy to be?
Oft is the question asked of me, And oft I ask it of myself–
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “The wing’s shadow” by Amado Nervo “La sombra del ala”
you can’t imagine how I long,
I thirst, I hunger for God.
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “Don’t Die With Your Music Still In You”
You came here with a message
You came here with a plan
Somehow you would contribute
To elevate your fellow man
Everyone of us is unique
No two are ever the same
Your exclusive inner calling
Is your Souls indelible aim…
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “Heaven and Hell, the parable of the long spoons”
I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.”
“ADVICE FROM A RESCUE” by Ilan Shamir “Consejos de un rescatado”
Learn patience
Stay hopeful
Get a new “leash” on life
SHORT INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “UBUNTU”
An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe.
“ADVICE FROM A PALM TREE” by Ilan Shamir (“Consejos de una palmera”)
Be flexible
Find your oasis
Weather life’s storms…
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Deity” by Amado Nervo (“Deidad”)
As a spark sleeps in the pebble
and a statue in the clay,
so in you, divinity sleeps.
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose”
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.
I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.
SHORT POEMS: “The rose” by Hafiz
How did the rose ever open its heart
And give to this world all of its beauty?
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Beauty making” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Methinks there is no greater work in life
Than making beauty. Can the mind conceive
One little corner in celestial realms
Unbeautiful, or dull or commonplace?
Or picture ugly angels, illy clad?
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “Dare to be”
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
“SHALLOW WATERS” song & lyrics for protecting the environment by 10 year old Ta’Kaiya Blaney from the First Nations in Canada
In shallow waters, I can’t see
Your clear waves lapping at my feet , The lifeless ocean, black not blue , I didn’t help, but deep down I knew
POEMS: “Don’t Bother With A Funeral”
Don’t bother with a funeral
It is a ceremony of old
The one we’ve clung to longest It’s so hard to break the mould
SHORT WISDOM POEMS: “Silence” by Pablo Neruda (“Silencio”)
“Silence” I, who grew up inside a tree, I had a lot to tell the world, But surrounded by silence I learnt, That I had a lot to keep quiet. And this one gets to know by growing Without other joy but to grow Without more passion than substance Without more action than innocence. And…
POEMS: “Keeping quiet” by Pablo Neruda (“A callarse”)
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language;
POEMS TO CELEBRATE TODAY’S OCEAN’S DAY: “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,…
POEMS: “Radiate An Energy Of Serenity & Peace” by Trina Graves
We all radiate our energy
Although our eyes do not see
Its presence, everywhere we go, Is yours dull, or do you glow?
One more Quote from Neale Donald Walsch (Author of “Conversations with God”)
“Every day is a new beginning, and that nothing
from yesterday has to affect who you are today.”
POEMS: “The Art Of Marriage” by Wilferd Arlan Peterson
It is not looking for perfection in each other.
It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor.
“Thoughts in Solitude” by Thomas Merton
In solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of things. And yet we find that…
One Spiritual Quote from John Muir
We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.
SPIRITUAL & NATURE POEMS: “Beauty” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I have sought hungrily with heart and mind,
And open eyes for beauty, everywhere.
Lo! I have found the world is very fair.
The search for beauty is the search for God.
“SPIRITUAL WISDOM QUOTES” by Thomas Merton from “No man is an island”
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likene
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS FROM URUGUAY: “Don’t give up” by Mario Benedetti (“No te rindas”)
Don’t give up, you still have time
to reach up and start anew,
Accept your shadows,
Bury your fears,
Free your burdens,
SHORT POEMS: “Dancing with the Universe” by Osho
“Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
BEAUTIFUL POEMS: “Ode on 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 , Apparell’d in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “I am so glad” by Hafiz
Who can you tell in this world, That when a dog runs up to you, Wagging its ecstatic tail,
“The Majesty of Calmness” by William Jordan
Calmness comes from within. It is the peace and restfulness of the depths of our nature.
POEMS: “I Am Standing Upon The Seashore” (loss of a loved one)
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
Inspirational excerpt about poetic memories: “Childhood and Poetry” by Pablo Neruda (“Infancia y poesía”)
One time, investigating in the backyard of our house …
“Be careful what you water your dreams with”… by Lao Tzu
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them
with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke
the life from your dream
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “The Kingdom Within”
There is a kingdom of the spirit’s ease. It is not in this helpless swirl of thought,
Tales of Zen wisdom: “Where is the umbrella?” by PAULO COELHO
At the end of ten years of apprenticeship, Zenno thought he should be elevated to the category of Zen master. One rainy day, he went to visit the famous professor Nan-in.
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “Life” by Charlotte Bronte
LIFE, believe, is not a dream So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Through The Eyes Of Source”
My physical eyes have limited sight
Filters of thought and belief blur my view
But if I look Through The Eyes Of Source
I will see everything clearly and true
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The butterfly” (about life’s struggles)
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “Big Mud Puddles and Sunny Yellow Dandelions” (Learning from children)
When I look at a patch of dandelions, I see a bunch of ….
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?”
“Kill the enmity not the enemy” (re-blogged)
Originally posted on Inspiring Stories:
Two countries were at war for the last so many days. Many soldiers had died in both the armies. The border areas were scenes of death and destruction. Each night the soldiers would return to their barracks, some wounded, some disillusioned and some vengeful. Others were dead and never did…
“Failure, is just the first step”… (re-blogged)
Originally posted on Inspiring Stories:
Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven. Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” Isaac Newton never did well in school. Thomas Edison’s teachers told him that he was “too stupid to learn anything.”……
ROSES AND THORNS (inspirational story re-blogged)
Originally posted on Inspiring Stories:
A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully, and before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw the bud that would soon blossom and also the thorns. And he thought, How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with so many sharp thorns Saddened by this…
POEMS: “Joy and sorrow” by Kahlil Gibran
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
POEMS: “What is a dad?”
A dad is someone who
wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off you up, and lets you try again.
“ADVICE FROM A UNICORN” by Ilan Shamir “Consejos de un Unicornio”
Spend time in the forest
It’s OK to be a little mysterious
Create your own fairytale
