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Guru

I have been looking for a Guru for over a year now. I am finding it hard to make that connection and it is slightly frustrating though I believe that it will happen when it is supposed to happen. In the process I came across this truly wonderful website and though I would pass it on.

Writespirit

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Rabindranath Tagore

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

Haiti

If you can donate:

HopeforHaitiNow

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund

Causes on Facebook

Donate by Buying the HopeforHaitiNow Album of the music from the benefit. It was awesome especially JayZ, Bono, The Edge and Rihanna. It is available on ITunes.

Shizen

To be human
to deny the need
to surpass our supercilious expectations
and revel in the organic purpose of our breed
how to smell the earth
praise the sky
get dirty and get exhausted
while our senses still survive
breathe deep like Zen Masters
breathe shallow in pants and gasps
run full out        crawl on your knees
feel being human
while you can

Rebecca Ragland

Early this morning I heard the announcement. Like so many who supported Obama for President I felt enormous pride and hope. I hesitate to write here about politics, but I do not see this as politic. I see this as a sign that peace is actually on people’s minds in a pro-active way.

It is wonderful to have an inspiring President again. I hope that we as a nation see this as an award to us too. For so long we have been know worldwide as a people who choose to solve problems with violence. I am not just talking about the wars we have engaged in, but the violence in our streets, homes, towns and cities. It is not enough to hope for peace. It is indeed a call to action. In our everyday lives we can begin each interaction with the goal of peace. When we pass someone on the street we can think of them with peaceful thoughts. We can do so when we are driving, when we are waiting in line and when we are breathing. Breathe in peace-breathe out peace. In inspiring ourselves we will inspire others.

We are Transmitters

D.H Lawrence

D.H Lawrence

This is an excerpt from the poem…                     

                    
Give, and it shall be given unto you
is still the truth about life.

But giving life is not so easy.
It doesn’t mean handing it out to some mean fool, or letting the living dead eat you up.
It means kindling the life-quality where it was not,
even if it’s only in the whiteness of a washed pocket-handkerchief.

D.H. Lawrence

When I first arrived in Los Angeles in 1996 from a 2 year sabbatical traveling the world, I was struck by the madness that is living in a big city. It was particularly overwhelming as I had spent considerable time in extreme wilderness situations where I had educated my eye to appreciate the beauty of Mother Nature. However and as a consequence, living here I had blunted my perception of her finesses in this newly discovered city life.

I could not see and I struggled daily with my perceived absence of her – the concrete, the noise, the acrid smells of car fumes and chemicals, the shabby, the dirt and the forgotten left on the sidewalk like unwanted trash. Furthermore, with what seemed like so much anger all around me and artificial time eroding the spaces between life’s articulation, I thought Nature had obviously abandoned me in this lost cause that is the City of Angels. My life felt empty without her seductive display enfolding me. As I started to despair, a chance encounter, as so often happens, sent me a message from Socrates reminding me that walking was the natural pace of thought.

So I started to walk and a whole new world of possibilities emerged – I began to hear the sing-song chatter of migrating birds, from the parrot to the humming bird, I noticed the tropical greens and exotic colors of the flowers in every landscaped garden, the rich abundance of wildlife from skunks, raccoons and possums to coyotes, mountain lions and deer. I was simply stunned by the rich diversity of life around me, accomplices to nature’s design living invisibly in every oasis across this expansive concrete desert. It was a truly remarkable revelation. I shrugged off my despair as I returned to her delight.

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