January 2011
12 posts
If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!
-Shel Silverstein
I have wrapped my laughter like a birthday gift And left it beside your bed. I have planted the wisdom in my heart Next to every signpost in the sky. A wealthy man Often becomes eccentric, A divine crazed soul Is transformed into infinite generosity Tying gold sacks of gratuity To the dangling feet of moons, planets, ecstatic Midair dervishes, and singing birds. I speak Because every cell in...
The soul, like the moon, is now, and always new again. And I have seen the ocean continuously creating. Since I scoured my mind and my body, I too, Lalla, am new, each moment new. My teacher told me one thing, live in the soul. When that was so, I began to go naked, and dance.
-Lalla
Martin Luther King’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. I...
if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing near my (swaying over her silent) with eyes which are really petals and see nothing with the face of a poet really which is a flower and not a face with...
“Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Think of your ordinary emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice or a slab of butter left out in the sun. If you are feeling hard and cold, let this aggression melt away in the sunlight of your meditation. Let...
Some Things the World Gave
1 Times in the morning early when it rained and the long gray buildings came forward from darkness offering their windows for light. 2 Evenings out there on the plains when sunset donated farms that yearned so far to the west that the world centered there and bowed down. 3 A teacher at a country school walking home past a great marsh where ducks came gliding in...
Refuge in the Buddha. Refuge in the Dharma. Refuge in the Sangha..