"The child blames the external and focuses his energies there, the warrior conquers the realms within and becomes gifted."
- St. Teresa of Avila | The Servant of Unity
"May you see what is hidden in you as a place of hospitality and shadowed shelter,"
- David Whyte | Easter Blessing
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
- Rabindranath Tagore | Fireflies
"The water in the stream has changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same . . ."
- Mathnawi VI: 3172-78, 83
"Every day is a fresh beginning Every morn is the world made new"
- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
"He dreamed of a wild land where his mother was once born and where beasts still roamed,"
- David Karchere | The Other Side of the World
"The joy of Creation rises through the great heart of humanity,"
- David Karchere | The Joy of Creation
"In total joy, And in unquenchable celebration With you, my Lord, my King, my friend."
- David Karchere | My Love Is Long
"Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out."
- Rumi | “Where Everything is Music”
"A hundred years from now Who could you be Reading my poem curiously A hundred years from now!"
- Rabindranath Tagore | Aaji Hote Shata Barsha Pare, from Chitra, translated by Fakrul Alam
"Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time."
- D.H. Lawrence | Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
"With every delighted breath, she was entering more deeply into the wildness and wonder that was her life."
- David Karchere | Into the Forest
"It was cleansing him through and through, cooling his thirsty soul down to the marrow of his bones."
- David Karchere | Waterfall
"If I could lift this long, black veil from off your exposed heart, and take from you that childhood hurt which you guard like an injured dog guards a hurt leg, I would set you free,"
- David Karchere | Lifting the Long, Black Veil
"For now, come night Not only has he lost all his fear, Now he goes out Just looking for trouble."
- Hafiz | Looking for Trouble
"The whole moon and the entire sky Are reflected in one dewdrop On the grass."
- Dogen | Enlightenment is Like the Moon
"The only One I meet Is God, - the only street, Existence"
- Emily Dickinson | The Only News I Know
"If you don’t become the ocean You’ll be seasick every day."
- Leonard Cohen
"Now let's get down to the real reason Why we sit together and breathe And begin the laughing, the divine laughing"
- Hafiz | Who Wrote All the Music?
"In caring for others and serving heaven, There is nothing like using restraint. Restraint begins with giving up one’s own ideas."
- Lao Tzu | Jane English translation of Tao Te Ching, Chapter Eight
"Vine-leaves tap at the window, Dew-drops sing to the garden stones, The robin chirps in the chinaberry tree Repeating three clear tones."
- Conrad Aiken | Morning Song From "Senlin"
"Like the sailboats drifting out the harbor on the ebb of the morning tide, so our lives sail on, carried by the ebb and flow of Your solar wind, O, Great God of Creation."
- David Karchere | On the Tide
"“I am osprey! King of the air! And prince of winged flight! I am home, And I am free.”"
- David Karchere | Osprey
"The sure, steady footprints of the coming winter appear among the leaves still burning with the fire of the summer sun."
- David Karchere | His Footsteps
"I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy, the evolutionary intelligence, the lift, and the falling away. What is, and what isn't."
- Rumi | Say I Am You
"Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul, I would be a good fountain, a good well-head, Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression."
"I am filled with a mist pouring out of my pores into this space around me,"
- David Karchere | The Holy Ghost Enters
"“Will you open now To that spirit who you are? Will you forsake now your hardened ways? Will you now embrace With your every cell and gland and tissue, That power who made you,"
- David Karchere | We Will Open
"thoughts flowing as a river of dark water down the mountain of my soul. I am now alive and strong and vast like I’ve never known myself to be in this life."
- David Karchere | Look, It’s Raining!
"I rain Because your meadows call For God."
- Hafiz | I Rain
"The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao. No fight; No blame."
- Lao Tzu, Eight | Jane English translation of Tao Te Ching
"It is morning, I stand by the mirror And surprise my soul once more; The blue air rushes above my ceiling, There are suns beneath my floor...."
"This feast is for You. This day, this hour, this glory ascends to You in hallowed flame."
- David Karchere | Your Presence
"To seek Your wisdom, and the sunlit embrace of Your love. Upon Your holy mountain, I will rest my soul, always held in the vastness of Your spirit."
- David Karchere | Upon Your Holy Mountain
"Love, in all its glory reveals itself to the tranquil mind and thankful heart."
- David Karchere | Love in All Its Glory
"I Have Learned So much from God That I can no longer Call Myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew."
- Hafiz | I Have Learned So Much
"The Supreme undivided, complete in himself, Embracing past and present, Dwells in Man. Within Him I shall find myself – The ‘I’ that reaches everywhere."
- Rabindranath Tagore | I Wonder if I Know Him
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