Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, maybe, with the speed of light, at times, again, so slowly that for ages and ages it seems to stay, passing through processes…
Quote: “Judge Not Today” by Deepak Chopra
Judgment creates turbulence in our mind. When there is turbulence in our mind, then it interferes with the creativity of our soul. Creativity and judgment don’t go together. Judgment also means that letting go of the need to classify things, to call them either right or wrong, to label, to define, to describe, to evaluate,…
3 interesting quotes on: the nature of matter and the Universe by Einstein, Michio Kaku and Max Planck
1.- Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. —Albert Einstein…
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “In the realm of the passing away” by Stephen Levine
In the realm of the passing away… This is the realm of the passing away. All that exists does not for long. Whatever comes into this world never stops sliding toward the edge of eternity. Form arises from formlessness and passes back, arising and dissolving in a few dance steps between creation and…
POEMS ON KINDNESS: “At set of sun” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
AT SET OF SUN If we sit down at set of sun, And count the things that we have done, And counting, find One self-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him who heard, One glance, most kind, That fell like sunshine where it went— Then we may count that day well…
A wonderful short video (3 minutes) to celebrate “respect for fish Day” the story of a lasting friendship under the sea
The amazing story of a lasting friendship under the sea Scuba diver Hiroyuki Arakawa and Yoriko are the unlikeliest of friends. While they both share a love for the sea, Yoriko’s gills and tail make her a little more aquatically inclined. Nearly every day for the past 25 years, Arakawa has been diving into…
A quote from Richard Rohr on aboriginal wisdom and our interconectedness
“Karl Jaspers calls the primal connection that the first people had with the universe Pre-Axial Consciousness. David Suzuki finds this Pre-Axial Consciousness among aboriginal people today as well. “Aboriginal people do not believe they end at their skin or fingertips. The earth as mother is real to them, and their history, culture and purpose are…
Love Poems: “Unending Love” by Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever. Whenever…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “Be kind to yourself, dear” by Rumi
“Be kind to yourself, dear” If you put your hands on this oar with me, they will never harm another, and they will come to find they hold everything you want. If you put your hands on this oar with me, they would no longer lift anything to your mouth that might wound your precious…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “I have come into this world to see this” by Hafiz
I have come into this world to see this: the sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of anger because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound and it is the Beloved’s. I have come into this world to see this: all creatures hold hands as…
Poems on ageing: “Now I become myself” by May Sarton
Now I become myself Now I become myself. It’s taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people’s faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, “Hurry, you will be dead before—” (What? Before you reach the morning? Or the end of the poem…
A quote from Ursula K. Le Guin “On every act the balance of the whole depends”
“On every act the balance of the whole depends” Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that’s the end of it? When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it…
POEMS: “To learn from animal being”
“To learn from animal being” Nearer to the earth’s heart, Deeper within its silence: Animals know this world In a way we never will. We who are ever Distanced and distracted By the parade of bright Windows thought opens: Their seamless presence Is not fractured thus. Stranded between time Gone and time emerging, We…
Spiritual Nature Poems: “Little things” by M. Linda Steffey
A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. LITTLE THINGS Little things like smiles on faces Butterflies and hushed wild places Moonbeams on a summer night A waking earth is dim twilight These I love to see… The laughter of a little…
DOG POEMS: “DHARMA” Billy Collins
The way the dog trots out the front door every morning without a hat or an umbrella, without any money or the keys to her doghouse never fails to fill the saucer of my heart with milky admiration. Who provides a finer example of a life without encumbrance— Thoreau in his curtainless hut with a…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “You where the heart begins” by Rainer Maria Rilke
“You where the heart begins” You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks as it divides and rejoins beside you. Blessed ones, whole ones, you where the heart begins: You are the bow that shoots the arrows and you are the target. Fear not…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “He Who Knows Love” by Elsa Barker
He Who Knows Love He who knows Love–becomes Love, and his eyes Behold Love in the heart of everyone, Even the loveless: as the light of the sun Is one with all it touches. He is wise With undivided wisdom, for he lies In Wisdom’s arms. His wanderings are done, For he has found the…
NATURE POEMS: “Roses and Jasmine” by Amira (Rosas y jazmín)
Roses and jasmine In the garden I visited the rose tree I wish I could be a bee To go deep into the scented roses With their proboscis as their noses They must be drunk from these large fragrant blooms, I decided to make a small bouquet And could not dismiss the jasmine’s perfume Dainty…
First Nations peoples’ poems: “Like a hawk” by M. Linda Steffey
A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. LIKE A HAWK My heart soars like a hawk When I dream of past moons Drifting through my mind Like waves in blue lagoons… My people were once proud And lived with Nature’s ways…
MYSTIC POEMS: “The Mystic Rose” by Elsa Barker
The Mystic Rose I, woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King. In all the world there is no lovelier thing, And the learned stars no secret can disclose Deeper than mine–that almost no one knows. The perfume of my petals in the spring Is inspiration to all bards that…
ANIMAL POEMS: “Earth’s child” by M. Linda Steffey
A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. EARTH’S CHILD I am a Child of Earth For my Flesh is of Dust And my Brothers are like me And together we must… Live! So many are shot for money Slaughtered out of…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “Bliss” by May Sarton
Bliss In the middle of the night, My bedroom washed in moonlight And outside The faint hush-husing Of an ebbing tide, I see Venus Close to The waning moon. I hear the bubbling hoot Of a playful owl. Pierrot’s purrs Ripple under my hand, And all this is bathed In the scent of roses…
“10 things to consider when you are born in 3D”
1. You will receive a body; 2. You will be presented with lessons; 3. There are no mistakes, only experiences; 4. Experiences are repeated until learned; 5. Learning does not end; 6. There is no better place than here; 7. Others are only mirrors of yourself; 8. What you make of your life is…
POEMS: “The real virus” by Mystic Meandering (re-blogged)
“The real virus” In the first minutes of dawn, at the edge of the dark night, she awakes… Inexplicable dread overtakes her… … a dream? …or the zeitgeist of our time… ~ In the dark hours of time, a “virus” slipped in; a failing, narcissistic system; a divisive ideology, resurrected from former shadow minds of…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “Love frees” by Meister Eckhart (and 1 minute video of pet donkey cryes as he reunites with his guardian)
“Love frees” All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only burros. And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting than physical labor. Once in a while a kind monk comes to her stable and brings…
ANIMAL & NATURE POEMS: “I am, we are” by M. Linda Steffey
A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. I AM, WE ARE I am one with trees and flowers The grasses of the plains The snowstorms and the sunshine The thunder when it rains.. I am part of mountains, deserts The mighty…
A spiritual quote from Shunryu Suzuki on “oneness”
Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear. —Shunryu Suzuki
NATURE POEMS: “The clematis flower” by Amira (La flor de clemátide)
The clematis flower Delicate little tendrils, like soft hands Reaching up as if in prayer, up and up they expand Searching for the light… They sense their path, they have foresight Their inner compass is their guidance While they grow in silence Until they reach the perfect height To blossom like open hearts…
ANIMAL POEMS: “Creatures all” by M. Linda Steffey
Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. “CREATURES ALL” Bless the Creatures all The large, the tiny, tall.. The colors, spots and flecks Some with long, thin necks Those with scale, with fin All with worth….all kin.. Those who fly up high Across Thy blue of sky And…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “When I was the forest” by Meister Eckhart
When I was the forest When I was the stream, when I was the forest, when I was still the field, when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing, when I was the sky itself, no one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever wondered was there anything I might…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “The story of love can never be told” by Rumi
“The story of love can never be told” When I calmed my mind And entered my heart, The Love of the Lord Leapt like a flame within me. All my old ideas and beliefs Just blew away like chaff in the wind. It wasn’t because of anything I am; It wasn’t because of anything I…
A spiritual quote from Thomas Merton from “Shining like the Sun”
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at…
SPIRITUAL POEMS ABOUT ANIMALS AND NATURE: “IN ALL THINGS” by M. Linda Steffey
A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. IN ALL THINGS I find Peacefulness in winter wood And Joy in forests green Magic in all Creatures lives Those visible and unseen… God whispers through the pines to me His gentleness in bird’s…
Animals’ poems: “All Creatures Great And Small” By Shell
All Creatures Great And Small Precious are all creatures great and small One of God’s little mysteries. The glorious colors of the winged ones And the swimmers of the sea Are a beautiful and wondrous thing to me. Then why all the suffering and inhumanity? Are we really superior or just arrogant? There’s an easier…
Spiritual and animal poems: “IN ALL THINGS” by M. Linda Steffey
A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. IN ALL THINGS I find Peacefulness in winter wood And Joy in forests green Magic in all Creatures lives Those visible and unseen… God whispers through the pines to me His gentleness in bird’s…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Positive” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Positivismo”)
Positive I am positive in all my thoughts and actions. It is easy to feel overwhelmed by what seems like a never-ending stream of distressing news. When people around me are caught up in fearful, anxious, or agitated states, I remain determined to not be swept up in negativity. I choose instead to take a…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “A Deeper Intelligence” – Amoda Maa
“A Deeper Intelligence” There’s an intelligence that’s deeper than thought and more intimate than concept. There’s an intelligence that weaves together the substance of your body, the tapestry of your life, and the majesty of your light. It’s the same intelligence that makes the stars shine, the planets dance, and new suns to be…
“Now is the time” by Hafiz
Now is the time for the world to know That every thought and action is sacred. This is the time For you to compute the impossibility That there is anything But Grace. Now is the season to know That everything you do Is sacred. —Hafiz
ANIMAL POEMS: “All Creatures” By M. Linda Steffey
All of God’s creatures have rights, a fact that most people don’t seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves. All Creatures I love all Creatures living, Lord… The smallest of Thy beast The great Animals…the powerful And those called “Thy least”… They are…
A personal letter from Neale Donald Walsch
My companions of the Journey… We’re hearing enough at every turn about all that is going “wrong” in our world today, so we don’t need another summary from me. But what I would like to offer is a small suggestion on one way we might all deal, from an emotional point of view, with what’s…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “The best gift” by Janice Salois
“The best gift” What’s the best gift given to me? It took only a moment for me to see It’s my one and only precious life Mostly happy, sometimes strife there are highs and lows for sure but each one opens a different door some twists and turns along the way yest always thankful…
POEMS ABOUT ANIMALS: “A hunter’s poem” By Lemuel T. Ward
A Hunter’s Poem A Hunter’s Poem By Lemuel T. Ward A hunter shot at a flock of geese That flew within his reach. Two were stopped in their rapid flight And fell on the sandy beach. The male bird lay at the water’s edge And just before he died He faintly called to his wounded…
June 22nd: “World Rain forest Day” (2 minutes video)
Take a breath, thank a rainforest. This World Rainforest Day, take a moment to think about the many ways in which rainforests positively affect our lives. They provide us with food, medicine, climate regulation, and so much more. The benefits of rainforests are innumerable. Essential to our survival, rainforests are responsible for more than 25%…
When you have some time: Watch the documentary “Planet of the humans” (1 and 1/2 hours). It’s time to wake up!
When you have some time: Watch the documentary “Planet of the humans”. It’s time to wake up!
“This is the time” by The Hopi Nation Elders
You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered: Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden….
SHORT WISDOM EXCERPT FROM: “The Prophet’s candle” by Daniel
“Rather measure yourself by the amount of love you freely give, by the light that you bring into the darkened world;…”
POEMS: “Journey to become honest and pure” by Didis Art Design (re-blogged)
Originally posted on Didis Art Design:
To be honest Is a matter of consciousness To know our own mistakes A process – walking into the depth It is easy to say: “I am honest” How many things we have overseen Have not considered as honesty, dishonesty In our daily life? Yes, I am honest according…
POEMS: “Preaching vs. Practice” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Preaching vs. Practice IT is easy to sit in the sunshine And talk to the man in the shade; It is easy to float in a well-trimmed boat, And point out the places to wade. But once we pass into the shadows, We murmur and fret and frown, And, our length from the bank, we…
Spiritual Poems: “Divine Timing” by Trina Graves
Divine Timing August 4, 2020 Trina Graves2 Comments Our physical lives are linear Is evidently, plainly true With many stages of our growth Counting years all the way through Baby, child, teen, adult Some years fast, some are slow Always in a set linear pattern Is the physical life we know But we are…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “The search” by Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Search I have been a wanderer long In this world of transient things. I have known the passing pleasures thereof. As the rainbow is beautiful But soon vanishes into nothingness, So have I known, From the very foundation of the world, The passing away of all things Beautiful, joyous and pleasurable. As the moon…
“Self remembrance” by Damodar Das @ Spirit Meaning – Vedic lifestyle for happiness in your life (re-blogged)
Self-Remembrance The act of remembrance is commonly associated with memory. Moreover, although remembrance has conscious elements, most of it is rather unconscious or sub conscious. The act of driving, cycling or swimming is subconscious. The act of some of the habits developed, are conscious. One unconsciously takes out a cigarette, in times of stress. Our…
“Mother Earth” by Kinge from Temet Nosce (re-blogged)
We are one with earth and not separate from it. It took me a while to get around this statement, understand it, and live it. I can imagine you are now struggling with it. No? Over the years, we have been furthering the disconnect. Between us- the people and the environment around us. Working very…
MYSTIC POEMS: “The Marriage of the Soul” by Mahmud Shabistari (from The Secret Rose Garden)
The Marriage of the Soul Descending to the earth, that strange intoxicating beauty of the unseen world lurks in the elements of nature. And the soul of man, who has attained the rightful balance, becoming aware of this hidden joy, straightaway is enamored and bewitched. And from this mystic marriage are born the poets’…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “The essence of every human being” by Rumi
The essence of every human being An ant hurries along a threshing floor with its wheat grain, moving between huge stacks of wheat, not knowing the abundance all around. It thinks its one grain is all there is to love. So we choose a tiny seed to be devoted to. This body, one path, one…
