‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many – they are few.’
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Archive for September, 2006
Rise like Lions
Posted in favorite things on September 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
stonecutter
Posted in favorite things on September 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter
hammering away at a rock
perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundredth and first blow it will spit in two,
and I know it was not that blow that did it
but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis
the sea
Posted in favorite things on September 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
live spelled backwards
Posted in favorite things on September 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a [...]
with the heart
Posted in favorite things on September 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential
is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Thanks for your comment, Karen.
These are my “treasures” – things that I’ve copied in my notebooks over the years.
Here’s one you might like:
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much [...]
a field
Posted in Islam, Sufi, favorite things on September 14, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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.
mevlana jelaluddin rumi – 13th century
Infinite
Posted in favorite things on September 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If the doors of perception were cleansed
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
Earth’s crammed with heaven
Posted in favorite things on September 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
St. Theresa’s Prayer
Posted in favorite things on September 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are [...]
A condition of complete simplicity
Posted in favorite things on September 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
T.S. Eliot
