Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

This is love: 
To fly toward a secret sky.
To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. 
First to let go of life. 
Finally, to take a step without feet.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christina G. Rossetti

“Love came down at Christmas; 
love all lovely, love divine; 
love was born at Christmas, 
stars and angels gave the sign.”

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


"Love alone
can unite living beings
so as to complete and fulfill them,
for it alone joins them
by what is deepest in themselves."
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Dante

The love of God, unutterable and perfect 
Flows into a pure soul 
The way that light rushes into a transparent object.
The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself
So that as we grow clear and open,
The more complete the joy of heaven is.
And the more souls that resonate together,
The greater the intensity of their love
And, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

-- Dante

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Marcus Aurelius

" When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, 
revert at once to yourself, 
and don't loose the rhythm more than you can help.
You'll have a better grasp of the harmony 
if you keep on going back to it."


-- Marcus Aurelius

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Rodney Collin


Sometimes, by letting go.
we allow some grace to enter
by another channel,
which all our mental efforts
have hitherto kept out.
Stillness is a quality of the heart.
We must not expect to find it
among the doubts of the mind.
It is the mind which must make way for it.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; 
what is essential is invisible to the eye."

An Arabic Poem

                                               "Fill life with yourself, do not let boredom smash it on the rocks of oblivion. ...