A friend is one who takes your hand
And talks a speech you understand
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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,
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “The flame of love”
“I can master it”, said the Ax. His blows fell heavy on the hard, strong steel.
But each blow only made his edge
more blunt until he ceased to strike.
INSPIRATIONAL BEAUTY TIPS: from an old lady (about kindness)
A dear old lady was asked what she used to make her complexion so beautiful and her whole being so bright and attractive.
ONE WISDOM QUOTE TO PONDER… By Heraclitus
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts…
The 13 virtues from Benjamin Franklin
In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin created a system to develop his character.
SHORT ZEN STORIES: “Going with the flow”
A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall.
NATURE POEMS: “The First Flowers” by John Greenleaf Whittier
They break the spell of cold and darkness,
The weary watch of sleepless pain;
And from my heart, as from the river,
The ice of winter melts again.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Soul Gardening”
Plant three rows of peas:
Peace of mind
Peace of heart
Peace of soul
One Poetic quote “on sorrow” by Omar Khayyam
One Poetic quote “on sorrow” by Omar Khayyam: “When you are so full of sorrow that you can’t walk, can’t cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child.”…
PET POEMS: “One by One” (about rescuing older pets)
One by One, they pass by my cage,
Too old, too worn, too broken, no way.
Way past his time, he can’t run and play.
WISDOM QUOTES ON FORGIVENESS
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Louis B. Smedes
ZEN STORIES: “There is no objective world”
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
POEMS: “As You Go Through Life” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Don’t look for the flaws as you go through life;
And even when you find them,
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The four magic words” (to cope in life)
Long ago an Eastern monarch called his wise men together and asked them to invent a motto,
POEMS: “A Plain Life” by William Henry Davies
No prescious stones — since these green mornings show,
Without a charge, their pearls where’er I go.
POEMS: “My Home” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This is the place that I love the best, A little brown house, like a ground-bird’s nest,
WISDOM QUOTES FROM Thich Nhat Hanh
“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”
TRUE STORY: The lady called “Peace Pilgrim”
a silver haired woman calling herself only “Peace Pilgrim” walked more than 25,000 miles on a personal pilgrimage for peace.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “A Service of Song” by Emily Dickinson
Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome.
Thoughts to ponder (about relationships) excerpt from the book “Steps toward inner peace”
You do not posses any other human being,
no matter how
closely related that other may be.
NATURE POEMS: “The Blue Jay” by Emily Dickinson
No brigadier throughout the year
So civic as the jay.
A neighbor and a warrior too, With shrill felicity
SHORT POEMS: “A BOOK”
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page, Of prancing poetry.
“THE STONE”… “LA PIEDRA”…(about self growth)
The entrepreneur built with it. The pedestrian, being tired, used it as a seat,
For the kids, it was a toy
POEMS: “Life Is A Privilege” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days
Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays. To live, to breathe, to wonder and desire,
SHORT POEM: “THE RULE OF LIFE” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IF thou wouldst live unruffled by care,
Let not the past torment thee e’er;
POEMS: “A Song Of Life” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In the rapture of life and of living,
I lift up my head and rejoice,
And I thank the great Giver for giving
The soul of my gladness a voice.
RECOMMENDED DOCUMENTARIES and internet WEBSITES
RECOMMENDED DOCUMENTARIES and internet WEBSITES: Bruce Lipton about “The Biology of Belief” available in You Tube: https://youtu.be/jjj0xVM4x1I (March 16, 2016) movie “What the bleep do we know” Published on Jul 29, 2013 https://youtu.be/gFTTrYRNV_; (March 16, 2016) Happy: “HAPPY” the movie, takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata…
A ZEN MOMENT: Mantra for a challenging day (anxiety, stress, crisis, sorrow, etc)
“I don’t have to take this day all at once, but rather, one step, one breath, one moment at a time”
STORIES: (Learning from my dog about life) “It’s a dog’s life”
So I’m trying to imitate my dog. I’m trying to find wonder in the everyday. After all, when you think about it, it is pretty remarkable that you open your eyes each morning.
POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN: “At dawn” by Edgar Albert Guest
They come to my room at the break of the day,
With their faces all smiles and their minds full of play;
POEMS: “From the Chrysalis” by Emily Dickinson
My cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I’m feeling for the air;
A dim capacity for wings, Degrades the dress I wear.
POEMS: “Change” by James Dillet Freeman
I have resisted change with all my will …
Cried out to life, “Pass by life and leave me still.”
NATURE POEMS: “Blossom” by Cate (re-blogged)
Offering your lithe and silken
palm to the unscrupulous air, the
sum of your long, invisible efforts
emerged from winter’s sleep:
POEMS: “The lanes of Memory” by Edgar Albert Guest
Adown the lanes of memory bloom all the flowers of yesteryear,
And looking back we smile to see life’s bright red roses reappear,
POEMS: “The traveler” By James Dillet Freeman (loss of a loved one)
He [She] has put on invisibility.
Dear Lord, I cannot see—But this I know, although the road ascends And passes from my sight, That there will be no night;
POEMS: “What I call living” by Edgar Albert Guest
But I hold to the opinion, as I walk my way along,
That living’s made of laughter and good-fellowship and song.
POEMS: “Blessing for a Marriage” by James Dillet Freeman
and may life grant you also patience,
tolerance, and understanding.
May you always need one another –
not so much to fill your emptiness
as to help you to know your fullness.
ADVICE FROM A MOUNTAIN LION by Ilan Shamir (CONSEJOS DE UN PUMA)
Put your best foot forward
Climb to new heights
Find your inner strength
FUNNY ZEN STORIES: “Reciting Sutras”(about kindness to all living beings)
A farmer requested a Tendai priest to recite sutras for his wife, who had died.
