Posted in A Course in Miracles, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love, Spirituality, tagged Beliefs, Consciousness, Imagine, Inspire on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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Imagine a world where
“not one illusion is accorded faith”
If it isn’t the voice of strength,
if it isn’t the voice of love,
if it isn’t the voice of confidence,
it is the voice of illusion.
Imagine according your faith only
to the voice of strength, love and confidence.
Imagine withdrawing your consent,
your agreement with all else.
Imagine paying all else [...]
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love, tagged Grace, Harmony, Inspire, Peace, Well Being on February 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Pain Is Inevitable. Suffering is Optional.” (Zen Aphorism)
It’s a very famous quote that I’ve heard many, many times but only recently began to get a sense of what I think it really means. Life happens, stuff happens — this is inevitable and responding with pure, genuine, heart felt pain is what is natural. Or said [...]
Posted in Life, Love, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged Found Poem, Poems on February 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »
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Here is another “found” poem I have created. This time I’ve brought Rumi and Rilke together. No small task! Great poets they were but not contemporaries as are Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry in my previous found poem. This particular found poem starts with two lines from a Rumi poem and then alternates with [...]
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love, Spirituality, tagged Consciousness, Dreams, God, Inbetween, The Lovely Bones on February 3, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been thinking lately that night dreams are my final frontier in consciousness. They fascinate me and I wonder if they might be a link for us between the physical world and the non-physical, Spirit world. Or as Susie called it in The Lovely Bones, the Inbetween.
I dream every night vividly. Last night before I [...]
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love, Music, Spirituality, tagged Divine Love, Self Love, Truth, Youtube on January 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Following on the heels of yesterday’s post, A Good Day, I wanted to write more on the theme of self love. True, wholehearted self love is rooted in a fidelity with yourself. It requires a commitment, a faithfulness and a willingness to not just know your truth but to live up to it. This means [...]
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love, tagged Cherish, Moments on January 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Cherish the moments of your day today
and yourself in it.
Moments which, one by one, will be strung together
flanked by your waking moment and the instant
you give yourself to sleep tonight.
Each moment infused with what only you can bring to it.
Love to all ♥ Beth
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Love, Poetry, tagged Existence, Poems, Truth on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Truth is
when the heart grows cold enough
everything disappears. Even the self
is invisible (though the mind
would prefer a word like “detained”).
If you can’t feel anything
the whole world is “detained” —
our lives happening and unhappening
at what seems a safe distance.
But that
is all a seeming, an apparition.
There is only one
distance, which is love, one real
choice, and if we [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Love, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged God, Inspire, Poems on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Who can find a trace of you?
There isn’t even a bit of dust from your track.
Who could find your home?
You have no home.
How can I praise you?
What can I say about you?
Foam is the only form in the sea of meaning.
A great, unseen town
lies just behind that curtain
Our world is nothing compared to that.
Don’t [...]
