Clean Your Heart...

 

Clean Your Heart

Hoopoe: Why aren't you asleep, tiny bird?

We all need our rest.

Tiny bird: I'm never sure of myself.

One day I'm confident and the next day I'm uncertain.

One day I despair, 

the next day I soar. 

I'm weak. 

I'm frail. 

I just...never...fit.

Hoopee:

Everyone has ups and downs little bird.

Fly, clean your heart.

~Farid ud-Din Attar

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That Beautiful Flow...

 

That beautiful flow of presence, 

it seems much more within reach now, 

after 20 years. 

Not so far away, 

instead much more predictably accessible. 

And yet, 

I am seeing much more strongly 

the deeper obstacles to going higher, 

and the necessity to bring focus to them, 

with persistent compassion. 

This, when I can do it with self-remembering, 

has recently been yielding surprising results. 

I am beginning to see more clearly 

and start to “separate” 

from what truly holds me back. 

In moments, 

I am beginning to experience 

an unusual freedom as a result.

~J

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Love Possesses Not...

 

     

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

     For love is sufficient unto love.

     When you love you should not say, 

“God is in my heart,” but rather, 

“I am in the heart of God.”

     And think not you can direct the course of love, 

for love, 

if it finds you worthy, 

directs your course.

     Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

     But if you love and must needs have desires, 

let these be your desires:

     To melt and be like a running brook 

that sings its melody to the night.

     To know the pain of too much tenderness.

     To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

     And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

     To wake at dawn with a winged heart 

and give thanks for another day of loving;

     To rest at the noon hour 

and meditate love’s ecstasy;

     To return home at eventide with gratitude;

     And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved 

in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

~Kahlil Gibran

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If You Can't Fly...

 

Andrew Wyeth

"If you can't fly then run, 

if you can't run then walk, 

if you can't walk then crawl, 

but whatever you do 

you have to keep moving forward.”

~Martin Luther King Jr.

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He Who Works...

 

Frida Kahlo

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.

He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands 

and his head and his heart is an artist.” 

~ Saint Francis of Assisi

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