Things with meaning
Gratitude
Be grateful for your life,
Every detail of it
And your face will come to
Shine like the sun
And everyone who sees is will
Be made glad and peaceful
Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly
Become one with the Sun of Love,
And Love will shine through you
In all its healing joy
This path of gratitude is not for children;
It is the path of tender heroes
Of the heroes of tenderness
Whatever happens keep burning on the
Altar of their hearts
The flame of adoration
- Rumi
Oneness
One matter, one energy, one
Light one Light-mind,
Endlessley emanating all things
One turning and burning diamond
One, one, one
Ground yourself, strip yourself down
To blind loving silence
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes
- Rumi
Grace
There doesn’t exist a being
Your grace cannot transfigure
And the Lover you choose
Lives in joy forever
What atom could Your Grace
Even for a moment come near
Without makin g it more
Magnificent than a thousand suns?
- Rumi
O Spirit of Light
O Spirit of Light
Who art both infinite and eternal,
Illumine our lives and the lives
Of those who love and have loved
With the healing power of they divine radiance
Grant us the faith to remember thy promise
That we are never alone
That hope is our closest and most helpful guide
May we be transformed by love in light
May we be grateful for every detail of our lives
May our suffering conceal mercies
May we know that you are
Guiding us by the hand
May we speak with tenderness
May we live in joy
May we experience grace
Help us return to our essence
Experience oneness
Illuminate us to light up the world
- Rumi
Kent Keith in 1968 and titled "The Paradoxical Commandments."..on the walls of Calcutta
People are often unreasonable, illogical,
and self centered
Forgive them anyway ...
What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight
Build anyway ...
The good you do today, people will
often forget tomorrow
Do good anyway.
Joy
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
And where there is sadness, joy:
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned
And it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.
-St. Francis of Assisi
Essence
You think we are earthly beings,
but we have been kneaded from the Light of Certainty.
We are the guardians of God’s Light,
So come, return to the root of your own self.
- Rumi
Trust - I am Guided
What I long for, you know would kill me
What I think will kill me, you know will heal me
Loving you, I enter a darkness where I can’t see anything
“You do not need to, I am guiding you by the hand”
- Rumi
Be grateful for your life,
Every detail of it
And your face will come to
Shine like the sun
And everyone who sees is will
Be made glad and peaceful
Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly
Become one with the Sun of Love,
And Love will shine through you
In all its healing joy
This path of gratitude is not for children;
It is the path of tender heroes
Of the heroes of tenderness
Whatever happens keep burning on the
Altar of their hearts
The flame of adoration
- Rumi
Oneness
One matter, one energy, one
Light one Light-mind,
Endlessley emanating all things
One turning and burning diamond
One, one, one
Ground yourself, strip yourself down
To blind loving silence
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes
- Rumi
Grace
There doesn’t exist a being
Your grace cannot transfigure
And the Lover you choose
Lives in joy forever
What atom could Your Grace
Even for a moment come near
Without makin g it more
Magnificent than a thousand suns?
- Rumi
O Spirit of Light
O Spirit of Light
Who art both infinite and eternal,
Illumine our lives and the lives
Of those who love and have loved
With the healing power of they divine radiance
Grant us the faith to remember thy promise
That we are never alone
That hope is our closest and most helpful guide
May we be transformed by love in light
May we be grateful for every detail of our lives
May our suffering conceal mercies
May we know that you are
Guiding us by the hand
May we speak with tenderness
May we live in joy
May we experience grace
Help us return to our essence
Experience oneness
Illuminate us to light up the world
- Rumi
Kent Keith in 1968 and titled "The Paradoxical Commandments."..on the walls of Calcutta
People are often unreasonable, illogical,
and self centered
Forgive them anyway ...
What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight
Build anyway ...
The good you do today, people will
often forget tomorrow
Do good anyway.
Joy
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
And where there is sadness, joy:
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned
And it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.
-St. Francis of Assisi
Essence
You think we are earthly beings,
but we have been kneaded from the Light of Certainty.
We are the guardians of God’s Light,
So come, return to the root of your own self.
- Rumi
Trust - I am Guided
What I long for, you know would kill me
What I think will kill me, you know will heal me
Loving you, I enter a darkness where I can’t see anything
“You do not need to, I am guiding you by the hand”
- Rumi