We grow accustomed to the Dark – When light is put away – As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Goodbye – A Moment – We uncertain step For newness of the night – Then – fit our Vision to the Dark – And meet the Road – erect – And so…
Category: going within
A quote from Ramana Maharshi on “Grace”
Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you. —Ramana Maharshi
MYSTICAL POEMS: “I traveled a long way seeking God” by Lalla
“I traveled a long way seeking God” I traveled a long way seeking God, but when I finally gave up and turned back, there He was, within me! O Lalli! Now why do you wander like a beggar? Make some effort, and He will grant you a vision of Himself in the form of…
POEMS: “The Work of Happiness” by May Sarton
The Work of Happiness I thought of happiness, how it is woven Out of the silence in the empty house each day And how it is not sudden and it is not given But is creation itself like the growth of a tree. No one has seen it happen, but inside the bark Another circle…
POEMS: “Turn inward” by Mystic Meandering
Turn Inward… Turn… inward, toward “The Silence;” The Light in your Heart; the space of Pure Awareness… Turn from the voices of an unconscious world; the voices of confusion, hatred, and ignorance; the ones who distract you from *knowing* the Truth of who you are… ~ Turn ~ Turn and Listen in the deep Silence,…
A wisdom quote from Herman Hesse on the things we see…
“The things we see,” Pistorius said softly, “are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can…
Short Poems: “Listen” by Kabir
Listen Listen Hiding in this cage of visible matter is the invisible lifebird pay attention she is singing your song Kabir Sushil Rao version
Wisdom quote: about “the center of our being” by Dag Hammarskjöld
In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it…
POEMS: “The spirit is the bouquet of nature” by Joseph Campbell
art by Bridget Voth “The spirit is the bouquet of nature” The divine manifestation is ubiquitous, our eyes are not open to it. Awe is what moves us forward. Live from your own center. The divine lives within you. The separateness apparent in the world is secondary. Beyond the world of opposites is an…
POEMS: “Beyond spirituality” by Mystic Meandering
“Beyond spirituality” Beyond the “cloak of spirituality” that we wear, in its many guises, is the unconditioned Nature of our own Being – the “Genuine Self”, the “Authentic Self”, the “Precious Pearl” at the depths of Beingness; not the super-imposed conditioning of belief systems, but the pure state of Being from deep within the Quietness…
POEMS: “When I am not present to myself” by Thomas Merton
“When I am not present to myself” When I am not present to myself, then I am only aware of that half of me, that mode of my being which turns outward to created things. And then it is possible for me to lose myself among them. Then I no longer feel the deep…
“Oneness in Troubled Times” (re-blogged)
https://elquanah.com/2020/03/31/oneness-in-troubled-times/ “Oneness in Troubled Times” We are living in a tumultuous time. The result is a low vibration, increasing tension, fears, and hardships. As we mature in life, through our spiritual growth we learn its not about controlling what we experience, but how we respond to the experience. Today we find ourselves being forced to…
