I am the bird that knocks at your window in the morningand your companion, whom you cannot know,the blossoms that light up for the blind. I am the glacier’s crest above the forests, the dazzling one and the brass voices from cathedral towers. The thought that suddenly comes over you at midday and fills you…
Category: I AM
Spiritual poems: “The quiet search” by Melanie White
Rushing through life leaves me unsatisfied. Where is peace? In the stillness where struggle ends and I surrender to the Oneness. Here, my breath guides me back to my self in the present, God’s holy creation with infinite possibilities Be still, and Know I AM. by Melanie White Posted with permission from Unity @…
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “The I Am Prayer” by Trina Graves
Affirming The Classics / Spiritual Poem The I Am Prayer September 22, 2020 Trina Graves2 Comments Affirming The Classics: The Lord’s Prayer All-That-Is, God, The I AM Energy,Known by many names: All One Source…Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent.Physical and non-physical dimensions are United in Oneness. I Am thankful for the abundance You eternally provide.I…
A quote from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj on who you are…
In reality, time and space exist in you; you do not exist in them. They are modes of perception, but they are not the only ones. Time and space are like words written on paper; the paper is real, the words merely a convention. Discard all you are not and go ever deeper. Just as…
MYSTIC POEMS: “The perfume of lucid sight” by Wu Xin (Wu Hsin, 无心)
“The perfume of lucid sight” “It is understood that Sleep is the desire for A period of rest For the body. It is less understood that Sleep is the desire for A period of rest Away from the body.” “What constitutes the sense of ‘I am this’ is Constantly changing while What constitutes the…
A wisdom quote from Fr. Richard Rohr about prayer and the Oneness with God
Prayer is something that happens to you (Romans 8:26-27), much more than anything you privately do. It is an allowing of the Big Self more than an assertion of the small self. Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, “Prayer happened, and I was there” more than “I prayed today.” All you know is…
“Say I am” by Nisargadatta
Learn to distinguish the immovable in the movable, the unchanging in the changing, till you realize that all differences are in appearance only and oneness is a fact. This basic identity—you may call God, or Brahman, or the matrix (Prakriti), the words matter little—is only the realization that all is one. Once you can say…
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “The Nameless” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“The Nameless” Unnumbered gods may unremembered die; A thousand creeds may perish and pass by; Yet do I lift mine eyes to ONE on high. Unnamed be HE from whom creation came; There is no word whereby to speak His name But petty men have mouthed it into shame. I lift mine eyes, and with…
ZEN POEMS: “For Síle: When the beetle sees”…by Wei Wu Wei (Alias: Terence James Stannus Gray)
When the beetle sees, it is I that am looking,
When the nightingale sings, it is I that am singing,
When the lion roars, it is I that am roaring.
POEMS: “Walking the Labyrinth of Life” Amira (“Caminando el laberinto de la vida”)
“Walking the Labyrinth of Life” Walking the labyrinth of Life Meandering back and forth, Going through the outer path… From lesson to lesson, repeating patterns at times, Shifting directions, and going backwards at other times? Time is not linear in the Great Circle of Life! New experiences with each step, Changing perspectives,…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Hope” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Esperanza”)
Hope The spirit of God dwells in me, and I am made perfect. The Gospels tell a story of Jesus entering Jerusalem riding on a donkey, welcomed by crowds spreading palm branches and even their cloaks in his path. His followers found hope of liberation from oppression. Today a new order of things begins in…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “Knowing”
Knowing What is this Exquisite Presence, Shining Radiant in The Heart, This Dissolution of duality, This Wellspring of Ecstasy, This Fullness and Completion, In which time, space, and myself, Dissolve in Formless Rapture? I don’t know. Is it not “Consciousness”? I don’t know. Is it not “God”? I don’t know. Is it not the “Soul”?…
