Image Locale You must look into the face of vulnerability to find joy. You cannot find a joy unless you accept vulnerability. Even the gods know vulnerability—and that is why they live. And because I have known vulnerability, I am still alive. I give you then all the peace and joy that you can hold. [...]
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The Friend
Posted in Love, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged God, Inspire, Poems, Surrender on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image Locale Today, I recognized that the jewel-like beauty is the Presence, Our loving confusion the glow in which watery clay gets brighter than fire, the One we call the Friend. I begged, “Is there a way into you, a ladder?” “Your head is the ladder, bring it down under your feet.” The mind, this [...]
Validation
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, tagged Inspire, Poignant, Youtube on May 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Normally I wouldn’t even consider putting a 16 minute youtube video on my blog. If you have found this post and don’t have the time to watch this video, bookmark it and come back to it. I promise you, you will feel better for it and it’s for free! This is such an inspiring, touching [...]
It Felt Love
Posted in Hafiz, Inspiration, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Inspire, Love, Poems on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image Locale How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened. ~Hafiz~ The Gift: Poems by Hafiz Translations by Daniel Ladinsky
Maybe All This
Posted in Life, Poetry, tagged Existence, Poems on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe all this is happening in some lab? Under one lamp by day and billions by night? Maybe we’re experimental generations? Poured from one vial to the next, shaken in test tubes, not scrutinized by eyes alone, each of us separately plucked up by tweezers in the end? Or maybe it’s more like this: No [...]
Run to the Beloved
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Beloved, God, Poems, Trust on May 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Rassouli how do you say Live to one who is backstage rehearsing their lines how do you say Take flight when you no longer dream of flying how do you say Dive to one who is afraid of drowning how do you say Heal this heart even as it wails in tender grief how do [...]
The Question
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Existence, Poems, Poignant on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“We are what is missing from the world” ~Fernando Pessoa Some questions have no answer. Raised, they hang there in the mind Like open mouths, full of something missing. The great Portuguese poet, Pessoa, Said that the idea of happiness Is what makes men permanently sad. The body, imagining the soul, [...]
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