Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Let Life Happen to You...


Let Life Happen to you. 
What should I say about your tendency to doubt your struggle 
or to harmonize your inner and outer life? 
My wish is ever strong that you find enough patience within you 
and enough simplicity to have faith. 
May you gain more and more trust in what is challenging 
and confidence in the solitude you bear. 
Let Life Happen to you. Believe Me: life is in the right in any case.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Monday, April 24, 2017

In the Beginning...


Henry Meynell Rheam

In the beginning we receive help for free, 
let us say, but at some point, 
we will be asked to make some big effort. 
We will have to go beyond feminine dominance and inner considering, 
and DO what the school, 
the teaching or Spirit asks of us and maybe then we will reconcile..... 
and be one with our human form and Soul..... 
Integrate our higher and lower parts. 
Then we will marry the soul and we will live be happily ever after.

Friday, April 21, 2017

And Once You Have Tasted Flight...


And once you have tasted flight, 
you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, 
for there you have been and there you long to return.

~Leonardo Da Vinci


Monday, April 17, 2017

Love Means...


"Love means to reach for the sky 
and with every breath to tear a hundred veils. 
Love means to step away from the ego, 
to open the eyes of inner vision 
and not to take this world so seriously." 
~Rumi 


Friday, April 14, 2017

Yesterday I Was in Contact...



Yesterday I was in contact with so many students, 
and with each my state was given a lift. 
Until at the end of the day I suddenly received a gift
 of REMEMBERING the single most important thing to me ... 
the necessity of surrender.
The importance of having faith in the benevolence, 
and the mysterious plan of the divine. 
When my I's are like acrobats, 
making a show of all my fears and worst case scenarios, 
it seems necessary time and time to re-learn surrender. 
And yesterday, several students helped me get there. 
~J

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The Work is Constant...



The work is constant, 
we cannot take a break from it. 
Our fellow students are the guardian angels of our work. 
~S

Monday, April 10, 2017

I Really Love This Image...


 I really Love this image of the hands 
very gently coming together, 
it really evokes the tenderness 
of giving up ones will to something higher, 
which I feel prayer really represents.
~C

Friday, April 7, 2017

The Spirit Lives in Eternity...



The spirit lives in eternity and truth. 
The soul must unite the two. 
So all that is certainty belongs to the spirit, 
all that is struggle belongs to the soul.
The spirit knows God, 
the soul has faith; the spirit knows God, 
the soul has hope; the spirit knows God, 
the soul has charity.
This is how the soul is made to vibrate,
 and man becomes one, becomes himself.
~Rodney Collin

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Sometimes My Machine...


John William Waterhouse

Sometimes my machine tries so hard 
to say something wise in a meeting 
realizing that the soul is enough. 
Just being here with you all is enough, 
the words will come and the soul will find a true place to speak.
~S

Monday, April 3, 2017

School of Truth...


School of Truth

O fool, do something, 
so you won't just stand there looking dumb.
If you are not traveling and on the road, 
how can you call yourself a guide?

In the School of Truth, 
one sits at the feet of the Master of Love.
So listen, son, 
so that one day you may be an old father, too!

All this eating and sleeping 
has made you ignorant and fat;
By denying yourself food and sleep, 
you may still have a chance.

Know this: 
If God should shine His lovelight on your heart,
I promise you'll shine brighter than a dozen suns.

And I say: 
wash the tarnished copper of your life from your hands;
To be Love's alchemist, 
you should be working with gold.

Don't sit there thinking; 
go out and immerse yourself in God's sea.
Having only one hair wet 
with water will not put knowledge in that head.

For those who see only God, their vision
Is pure, and not a doubt remains.

Even if our world is turned upside down 
and blown over by the wind,
If you are doubtless, 
you won't lose a thing.

O Hafiz, if it is union with the Beloved that you seek,
Be the dust at the Wise One's door, and speak! 
~Hafiz
Translated by Thomas Rain Crowe