HEARTH
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FRANGIPANI – The World Within A Tree
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense. Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks...
RAINBOWS AND ROBINS
Timeless wisdom is always nearby.
The Park – living together
Tranquil our paths When your hand rests in mine in joy. Your voice gives life, like nectar. To see you, is more than food or drink. Egyptian Wisdom Trans. by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock As I sat on a park bench the other day, I appreciated the sound of laughter...
HIBISCUS – gentle beauty
In the hibiscus, there is a wholeness and completeness.
BIRD’S EYE VIEW
The weight of arrogance is such that no bird can fly carrying it. And the man who feels superior to others, that man cannot dance, the real dance when the soul takes God into its arms and you both fall onto your knees in gratitude, a blessed gratitude for life. St....
PALMS – grounded perspective
The great sea has set me in motion, set me adrift, moving me like a weed in a river. The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy. Uvavnuk In a recent storm of wind and rain, I watched some trees bow...
EARLY MORNING – Peaceful Benevolence
The natural graciousness of early morning gently and lovingly envelopes the earth and all beings.
SKY – forever home
Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner — what is it? if not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming. Rainer Maria Rilke As a child, I felt the sky was home. ...
MIST
What Is the Root of all these Words? One thing: love. But a love so deep and sweet It needed to express itself With scents, sounds, colors That never before Existed. Hafiz Trans. by Daniel Landinsky The morning sky has been grey and misty this past week. People...
FALL LIGHT – elemental meeting
I went everywhere with longing in my eyes, until here in my own house I felt truth filling my sight. Lalla Translated by Coleman Barks As I stepped outside the front door this morning, I was immediately reminded of the elemental liveliness of the fall...
WEB – glimmers of self
What has risen from the tangled web of thought and sinew now shines with jubilation through the eyes of angels and shouts of Infinite existence itself. Hafiz Translated by Daniel Ladinsky It seems that everywhere there are signs of being in the heart of the fall...
MOUSE – unshakable humility
A reminder to humbly notice the subtle, the spurned and the small.
