the sea of forgetfulness plunge yourself into these warm waters where all mistakes yours and mine are honored as the path of evolving souls trembling hearts are forever soothed here minds and bodies restored to its original perfection drink from its ancient wisdom let her sweep you into her tide pulling you in deep, then [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Poems’
Sea of Forgetfulness
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged Inspire, Poems on November 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Remembering 9/11:A Walk
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, tagged Poems on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My eyes already touch the sunny hill, going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has its inner light, even from a distance— and changes us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a [...]
Desire
Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Poems on March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Image locale grief came courting me during the night her fields so soft and fragile I buried myself in the whole of her unbroken darkness until a tiny beacon of light cut through the night: sorrow has its inner light, murmured the new day in the arc of stillness, it burns away [...]
Unstained
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Mindfulness, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Korean Literature, Korean Poetry, Poems on March 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A dash of rain upon The lotus leaves. But the leaves Remain unmarked, no matter How hard the raindrops beat. Mind, be like the lotus leaves, Unstained by the world. ~Chong Ch’ol~ Music of the Sky An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry Yes, mind be like the lotus leaves, untainted by outer events. As in the [...]
A Cushion For Your Head
Posted in Hafiz, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Poems on February 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Just sit there right now Don’t do a thing Just rest. For your separation from God, From love, Is the hardest work In this World. Let me bring you trays of food And something That you like to Drink. You can use my soft words As a cushion For your Head. ~Hafiz~ The Gift: Poems [...]
Good Night
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, tagged Czeslaw Milosz, Inspire, Poems on February 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Image Locale No duties. I don’t have to be profound. I don’t have to be artistically perfect. Or sublime. Or edifying. I just wander. I say: “You were running, That’s fine. It was the thing to do.” And now the music of the worlds transforms me. My planet enters a different house. Trees and lawns [...]
Vertigo
Posted in Inspiration, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged Heaven, Poems, Truth on January 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Really only Rumi could say so much in so few words … Image Locale And this is love— The vertigo of Heaven Beyond the cage of words, Suddenly to be naked In the searchlight of truth . . . ~Rumi~ Music of the Sky: An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry
Free
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Free, God, Poems on December 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Image Locale set this heart free that I may blaze a path to thee swept flawless and clean into all that is unseen no more fear to guide nor love to hide tremulous and blindly I shall blaze a path to thee ©heartsdeesire