LOVE by Bhante Wimala When your mind becomes motionless and the brilliant eyes of the peaceful mind take a straight look down into the depth of your heart you will see the life-force pulsating and thriving in the warmth of pure love. As you experience this pure love what we all call “heart” beams of light will begin to … Read More
Duino Elegy – Rilke
9th Duino Elegy Why, if it’s possible to come into existence as laurel, say, a little darker green than other trees, with ripples edging each leaf (like a wind, smiling): why then do we have to be human, and keep running from the fate we are made for and long for? Oh, not because of Happiness – that fleeting gift before the … Read More
Sonnets from Rilke
Does time, as it passes, really destroy? Part Two, Sonnet XXVII RILKE Does Time, as it passes, really destroy? It may rip the fortress from its rock; but can this heart, that belongs to God, be torn from Him by circumstance? Are we as fearfully fragile as fate would have us believe? Can we ever be severed from childhood’s deep promise? Ah, the knowledge … Read More
Poems by Rilke
Poems by Rilke , April 22nd.2012 Personal Guidelines for the Great Turning Come from Gratitude To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe–to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it–is a wonder beyond words. Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all … Read More
Go Deeper than Love -D H Lawrence
Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself. And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved. Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors. … Read More
The way wings should -Rumi
What will our children do in the morning? Will they wake with their hearts wanting to play, the way wings should? Will they have dreamed the needed flights and gathered the strength from the planets that all men and women need to balance the wonderful charms of the earth so that her power and beauty does not make us … Read More
On a day when the wind is perfect ~ Rumi ~
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. My eyes are like the sun that makes promises; the promise of life that it always keeps each morning. The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere the sun, both … Read More