“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
Tag Archives: Uplifting Words
Melting into Music
“The snow is melting into music.”
-John Muir
Driven by the Spheres
“I saw eternity the other night,
like a ring of pure and endless light,
All calm as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driv’n by the spheres…”
-Henry Vaughan
Not Goodbye
For Paul
Thank you for allowing me to say goodbye,
But it isn’t.
I’ll miss knowing you’re on the planet,
But I’ll feel you on the evening breeze
And always hear you in my Heart.
Saying it out loud.
Soul endures.
And eternity is eternal.
Energy is not destroyed, only and always transformed.
Here’s to your transformation!
Teach me from the other side.
And know I will hold you close.
I celebrate your Life and your New Beginning.
I will always celebrate You.
Light the Way for Love
LIGHT THE WAY FOR LOVE by Susan Frybort (from Open Passages: Doors and Windows to the Soul)
They say beauty comes from a spirit that has weathered many hardships in life and somehow continues with resilience. Grace can be found in a soul who ages softly, even amid the tempest.
I think the loveliest by far is the one whose gentle heart bears
a hundred scars from caring, yet still finds a way to pick up the lamp, one more time, to light the way for love.
Fiery Kiss to the Night
“O setting sun! though the time has come, I still warble after you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.”
-Walt Whitman
“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
-Jo Walton
“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.”
-Crystal Woods
The Miracle in Everything
“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”
~ Mark Nepo
Within My Heart
“I looked in temples, churches and
mosques; but I found the Divine within
my heart.”~ Rumi
Between Voice and Presence
In Winter it is easier to find the way between voice and presence where information flows. Ah … the disciplined silence found in the world of snow…
“There is a way between voice and presence
where information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.”
-Rumi
One Vast Awakened Thing
“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night.
It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect.”
-Jack Kerouac
