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#2145 - Monday, May 16, 2005 - Editor: Gloria
Love is the fulcrum
On which all pairs teeter.
Stop your childish kicking
And sit in the middle.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
by Mark Otter
Prayer
Arriving like the bees.
into this unnamed place,
In love of beauty all is spent.
Here's no obstruction to the view,
but up and down and to the sides,
the wall of forms is coloured red.
Pray may we stay in gratitude.
Not spread our wings in vain,
at pulsing edge without a cent.
Please tell, about the dream,
sweet spinning spell,
what lies ahead,
why dawn's a scheme
with drops of dew upon the thread?
Half asleep, I ask again
Is it too much in this dark night?
To have a taste of life
without the sting.
And then so loud and clear
I hear the Robin sing;
Now wake and rise, come close, come tight
Inside each note is every sorrow.
This beam of light is shining on the morrow.
~ Alan Larus ~
poem and photos by Alan Larus http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/prayer.htm
Two Poems by Lalla
By the highway I came,
But by the highway I return not.
And so I find me still on the embarkment,
not having gone even half the way,
And the day is done, the light has failed.
I search my pockets but not a cowrie find:
What shall I pay for the ferry fee ?
_____________
With a rope of loose-spun thread am I towing
my boat upon the sea.
Would that God heard my prayer
and brought me safe across!
Like water in cups of unbaked clay
I run to waste.
Would God I were to reach my home!
posted by Alan Larus to nondualnow
Mystery
In order to acquire spiritual knowledge, receive
inspiration, prepare one's heart for inner revelation,
one must try to make one's mentality pliable like
water rather than like a rock. For the further along
the path of life's mystery a person will journey, the
more subtle he will have to become in order to perceive
and to express the mystery of life. God is a mystery;
His knowledge is a mystery; life is a mystery; human
nature is a mystery: in short, the depth of all knowledge
is a mystery, even that of science or art.
All that is more mysterious is more deep. What all the
prophets and masters have done in all ages is to express
that mystery in words, in deeds, in thoughts, in feelings.
But most of the mystery is expressed by them in silence,
for then the mystery is in its place. To bring the mystery
down to earth is like pulling a king down onto the ground
from his throne; but allowing the mystery to remain in its
own place, in the silent spheres, is like giving homage to the
King to whom all homage is due.
From 'The Art of Being and Becoming'
Hazrat Inayat Khan
_____________________
As the cleansing of a metal object produces a
shine
on it, so does the cleansing of the heart, especially its
cleansing from feelings that produce humiliation. When
a person thinks, "I have been wrong by acting in a
certain way, by saying a certain thing, or by having
thought something that should not have crossed my
mind," he loses so to speak a radiance that even beams
out through his countenance and that is called in Persian
aab-e ruh, meaning, "the radiance of the soul." Every
person shows from his expression his condition of heart.
Therefore innocence of expression is a sign of purity of
heart. A person may be clever, learned, qualified, most
able; he may be strong physically or even mentally, he
may be wealthy or of high rank, but none of these outside
things helps him to retain that glow of the countenance
which depends only upon the purity of the heart.
From 'The Art of Being and Becoming'
Hazrat Inayat Khan
posted by Gill Eardley
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For Christiana
“
- Mary Kittredge
posted to AlphaWorld
What you need will
come to you, if you
do not ask for what
you do not need. Yet
only few people reach
this state of com-
plete dispassion and
detachment. It is
a very high state, the
very threshold of
liberation.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
posted to Along the Way
”A certain wandering light comes to
me which
and
- Ralph W. Emerson
posted to AlphaWorld
"The moon's the same old moon,
The flowers exactly as they were,
Yet I've become the thingness
Of all the things I see!"
~ Bunan
posted to Daily Dharma
Self inside
self, You are nothing but me.
Self inside self, I am only
You.
What we are together
will never die.
The why and how of this?
What does it matter?
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
posted to Along the Way