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Re: first paragraph.  I need this today, and on many other days.

The Standing "My Time Has Come ( Read more... )

Bring all of yourself to his door:
brink only a part,
and you've brought nothing at all.

-- from The Walled Garden of Truth, by Hakim Sanai / Translated by David Pendlebury
Poetry Chaikhana | Hakim Sanai - Bring all of yourself to his door

My friend, everything existing ( Read more... )

A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed ( Read more... )

The grapes of my body can only become wine ( Read more... )

" We do grow and increase, but by a far different path than the ego would ever imagine.  Only the soul knows and understands." == Richard Rohr, Falling Upward.

The road you must take has no particular name.
It's the one composed of your own sighing
and giving up. What you've been doing
is not devotion. Your hoping and worrying
are like donkeys wandering loose,
sometimes docile, or suddenly mean.

Your face looks wise at times,
and ashamed at others.

Poetry Chaikhana | Hakim Sanai - Naked in the Bee-House

"1. Give up your need to always be right.... Whenever you feel the “urgent” need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question: “Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?” asks Wayne Dyer. What difference will that even make? Is your ego really that big?

2. Give up your need for control. Be willing to ( Read more... )

silent lotus: There Dwells an Innocence