poetry moment...
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
By Ibn Ata' Illah (1250 - 1309) - English version by Victor Danner

How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One who is manifest by everything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One who is made manifest in everything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One who is manifest to everything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He was the One who was Manifest before there was anything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is more manifest than anything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One with whom there is nothing else?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One who is nearer to you than anything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when if it had not been for Him, there would not have been anything?

A marvel!
See how existence becomes manifest in non-existence!
How the in-time holds firm alongside Him whose attribute is eternal!

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The pleasures of life are blinding; it is love alone that clears the rust from the heart, the mirror of the soul. - Bowl of Saki, January 31, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see." -
From A Course In Miracles

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The heart is not living until it has experienced pain. - Bowl of Saki, January 30, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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poetry moment...
The Sowing of Meanings By Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)

See the high birds! Is their's the song
That dies among the wood-light
Wounding the listener with such bright arrows?
Or do they play in wheeling silences
Defining in the perfect sky
The bounds of (here below) our solitude,

Where spring has generated lights of green
To glow in clouds upon the sombre branches?
Ponds full of sky and stillnesses
What heavy summer songs still sleep
Under the tawny rushes at your brim?

More than a season will be born here, nature,
In your world of gravid mirrors!
The quiet air awaits one note,
One light, one ray and it will be the angels' spring:
One flash, one glance upon the shiny pond, and then
Asperges me! sweet wilderness, and lo! we are redeemed!

For, like a grain of fire
Smouldering in the heart of every living essence
God plants His undivided power --
Buries His thought too vast for worlds
In seed and root and blade and flower,

Until, in the amazing light of April,
Surcharging the religious silence of the spring,
Creation finds the pressure of His everlasting secret
Too terrible to bear.

Then every way we look, lo! rocks and trees
Pastures and hills and streams and birds and firmament
And our own souls within us flash, and shower us with light,
While the wild countryside, unknown, unvisited of men,
Bears sheaves of clean, transforming fire.

And then, oh then the written image, schooled in sacrifice,
The deep united threeness printed in our being,
Shot by the brilliant syllable of such an intuition, turns within,
And plants that light far down into the heart of darkness and oblivion,
Dives after, and discovers flame.

Self-pity is the worst poverty; it overwhelms man until he sees nothing but illness, trouble and pain.
- Bowl of Saki, January 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in the
state of presence rather than in time. It
means saying yes to what is. - Eckhart Tolle

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer. - Bowl of Saki, January 27, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right"... - T.H. Huxley, 1825-1895, Biologist and Author

The waters of joy By Basava (1134 - 1196)
English version by A. K. Ramanujan

When
like a hailstone crystal
like a waxwork image
the flesh melts in pleasure
how can I tell you?

The waters of joy
broke the banks
and ran out of my eyes.

I touched and joined
my lord of the meeting rivers.
How can I talk to anyone
of that?

The brain speaks through words; the heart in the glance of the eyes; and the soul through a radiance that charges the atmosphere, magnetizing all. - Bowl of Saki, January 26, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Because you're human, it is your nature to journey, to discover that what you've been looking for is all around you. Very often the grassy spot you seek is right under your feet. You just need to awaken to that knowledge that's hidden from your conscious mind. Yes, you're wearing ruby slippers and can go home anytime you like. For now, embrace this grand adventure." - Colette Baron-Reid, Author of The MAP: Finding The Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life

He who thinks against his own desire is his own enemy. - Bowl of Saki, January 25, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day." - David Lynch,
Filmmaker and Television Director

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There is an answer to every call; those who call on God, to them God comes. - Bowl of Saki, January 24, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." - Erich Fromm, 1900-1980, Psychologist

Success comes when reason, the store of experience, surrenders to will. - Bowl of Saki, January 23, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Failure comes when will surrenders to reason. - Bowl of Saki, January 22, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

poetry moment...

Never forget By Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828)
English version by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto

Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.

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The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken. - Bowl of Saki, January 21, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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To treat every human being as a shrine of God is to fulfill all religion. - Bowl of Saki, January 20, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." - Thomas H. Huxley, 1825-1895, Biologist

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. - zen saying

While I was waiting eagerly for him By Nammalvar
(8th Century) English version by A. K. Ramanujan

While I was waiting eagerly for him
saying to myself,

"If I see you anywhere
I'll gather you
and eat you up,"

he beat me to it
and devoured me entire,

my lord dark as raincloud,
my lord self-seeking and unfair.

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A king is ever a king, be he crowned with a jeweled crown or clad in beggar's garb. - Bowl of Saki, January 19, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals." - Robert Conklin, Teacher, Author and Speaker

Misbelief alone misleads; single-mindedness always leads to the goal. - Bowl of Saki, January 18, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires." -J. Paul Getty, 1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon

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Thought draws the line of fate. - Bowl of Saki, January 17, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings." -Andre Maurois, 1885-1967, Writer

To learn to adopt the standard of God, and to cease to wish to make the world conform to one's own standard of good, is the chief lesson of religion. - Bowl of Saki, January 16, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Yes, teach your principles of good, but do not think to limit God within them. The goodness of each man is peculiar to himself. - Bowl of Saki, January 15, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken
By Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875 - 1926) English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for

may for once spring clear
without my contriving.

If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,

streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.

Once you recognize that you are part of the infinite universal life, you will know that you cannot hurt anything - any part of God's creation - without hurting yourself... - White Eagle

We are all flowers in the Great Spirit's garden.
We share a common root and the root is Mother Earth - Grandfather David Monongye - Hopi

A man's inclination is the root of the tree of his life. - Bowl of Saki, January 14, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. - Saadi, a medieval Persian poet

Do not limit God to your virtue. He is beyond your virtues, O pious ones! - Bowl of Saki, January 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." - Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, Author

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Peace is perfected activity; that is perfect which is complete in all its aspects, balanced in each direction and under complete control of the will. - Bowl of Saki, January 12, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams,
1835-1902, Professor of History and Author

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"The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them." - Marci Shimoff, Author of Love For No Reason

Where the flame of love rises, the knowledge of God unfolds of itself. - Bowl of Saki, January 11, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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