Poetry
Did you ever wonder? by Meister EckhartDid you ever wonder
what the greatest gift is? It is this: mercy If you wonder what this means, practice mercy and your questions will fade. Live in mercy, and you will become what you love, for love unites us in our loving, not in our being. So give yourself to love, and love yourself in giving. The rest will follow of its own. A Field Beyond Right and Wrong by RumiOut 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. Thanksgiving by RumiThanksgiving is sweeter than bounty itself. One who cherishes gratitude does not cling to the gift! Thanksgiving is the true meat of God’s bounty; the bounty is its shell, For thanksgiving carries you to the hearth of the Beloved.
Abundance alone brings heedlessness, thanksgiving gives birth to alertness. The bounty of thanksgiving will satisfy and elevate you, and you will bestow a hundred bounties in return. Eat your fill of God’s delicacies, and you will be freed from hunger and begging. When I'm Among the Trees by Mary OliverWhen I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment, and never hurry through the world but walk slowly, and bow often. Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, ”Stay awhile.” The light flows from their branches. And they call again, ”It's simple,” they say, ”and you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” You Reading This, Be Ready
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Forgiveness
Is the mightiest sword Forgiveness of those you fear Is the highest reward When they bruise you with words When they make you feel small When it’s hardest to take You must do nothing at all… I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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