Roshi Leonard Cohen I never really understood what he said but every now and then I find myself barking with the dog or bending with the irises or helping out in other little ways
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translation by Edward Fitzgerald 5 Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows.
We must wholly forsake love for Love; He who forsakes love for Love is wise. It is all one whether we die or live: To die for Love's sake is to have lived enough. Alas, Love! You have long driven me to extremity; But in this very extremity to which you have driven me, I will keep vigil, Love, in service of your love. ~HADEWIJCH of Antwerp
Gitanjali - Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore 13. The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart. The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house. The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor; but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house. I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.
No Matter What Boyzone Andrew Lloyd Webber (music)/Jim Steinman(lyrics) No matter what they tell us No matter what they do No matter what they teach us What we believe is true No matter what they call us However they attack No matter where they take us We'll find our own way back I can't deny what I believe I can't be what I'm not I know I'll love forever I know, no matter what If only tears were laughter If only night was day If only prayers were answered Then we would hear God say No matter what they tell you No matter what they do No matter what they teach you What you believe is true And I will keep you safe and strong And sheltered from the storm No matter where it's barren A dream is being born No matter who they follow No matter where they lead No matter how they judge us I'll be everyone you need No matter if the sun don't shine Or if the skies are blue No matter what the end is My life began with you I can't deny what I believe I can't be what I'm not I know, I know I know this love's forever That's all that matters now No matter what
The Gospel of Thomas Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer 73. Jesus said, "The crop is huge but the workers are few, so beg the harvest boss to dispatch workers to the fields."
The Book of Life:
Daily Meditations with J. Krishnamurti
October 24
Knowledge is a detriment to change
This requires a great deal of insight, inquiry. Don't agree with me, but
go into it, meditate, tear your mind apart to find out the truth or the
falseness of all this. Does knowledge, which is the known, bring about
change? I must have knowledge to build a bridge; but must my mind know
towards what it is changing? Surely, if I know what the state of the mind
will be when it is changed, it is no longer change. Such knowledge is a
detriment to change because it becomes a means of satisfaction, and as
long as there is a center seeking satisfaction, reward, or security, there
is no change at all. And all our efforts are based on that center of
reward, punishment, success, gain, are they not? That is all most of us
are concerned with, and if it will help us get what we want, we will
change; but such change is no change at all. So the mind that wishes to be
fundamentally, deeply in a state of change, in a state of revolution, must
be free from the known. Then the mind becomes astonishingly still, and
only such a mind will experience the radical transformation which is so
necessary.
Satisfaction (a meditation by Thomas Traherne) Not all the crowns; not all the heaps of gold On earth; not all the tales that can be told, Will satisfaction yield to me: Nor tree, Nor shade, nor sun, nor Eden, be A joy; nor gems in gold (be 't pearl or precious stone), nor spring, nor flowers, Answer my craving powers, Nor anything that eyes behold. from "Insatiableness"
This is from Gaspara Stampa, the Renaissance poet Rilke refers to in the
first of his 'Duino Elegies'.
*CCCIII*
When that soul whose inflamed desire
forever bore the purest virtue ended
its coursing through time and ascended
(as her mortal lights did transpire),
the Eternal King of the chosen multitude
in all His majesty to her came
and in fullness the hosts did proclaim
with wondrous harmony their beatitude:
"Come, beloved virgin, ever pure,"
the sweetest singing was heard, "pluck the fruit
of your chastity, happy and secure.
Come, in your faith you've tapped the root
of nature's miracles, you, so demure
in this desert of thorns, such a tender shoot.
~Gaspara Stampa
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translation by Edward Fitzgerald 6 And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Pehleví, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!''--the Nightingale cries to the Rose That yellow Cheek of her's to incarnadine.
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