Happy are you if you can appreciate a smile and forget a frown;
you will walk on the sunny side of the street.
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Month: May 2018
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 ….
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 …
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.
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.
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
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
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
