Be helpless, dumbfounded

Zero Circle

Be helpless, dumbfounded,
Unable to say yes or no.
Then a stretcher will come from grace
To gather us up.

We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty
If we say we can, we’re lying.
If we say No, we don’t see it,
That No will behead us
And shut tight our window onto spirit.

So let us rather not be sure of anything,
Besides ourselves, and only that, so
Miraculous beings come running to help.
Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute,
We shall be saying finally,
With tremendous eloquence, Lead us.
When we have totally surrendered to that beauty,
We shall be a mighty kindness.


...........Rumi

Row for your life toward it

West Wind #2

You are young.  So you know everything.  You leap

into the boat and begin rowing.  But listen to me.

Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without

any doubt, I talk directly to your soul.  Listen to me.

Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, and

your heart, and heart’s little intelligence, and listen to

me.  There is life without love.  It is not worth a bent

penny, or a scuffed shoe.  It is not worth the body of a

dead dog nine days unburied.  When you hear, a mile

away and still out of sight, the churn of the water

as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the

sharp rocks – when you hear that unmistakable

pounding – when you feel the mist on your mouth

and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls

plunging and steaming – then row, row for your life

toward it.

~ Mary Oliver ~

(West Wind)

A Charmed Life

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

...that you can live a charmed life, and that there is a

formula by which you can make this work.

Here is the formula: You can live a charmed life by

causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the

source of 'charm' -- of charming moments and

experiences -- in the life of another.

Be everyone else's Lucky Charm! Make all who you

touch today feel 'lucky' that you crossed their path.

                                             Do this for a week and watch things change. Do it

Neale Donald Walsch

Kindness

.......one of my favourite poems!

 

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the
Indian in a white poncho lies dead
by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night
with plans and the simple breath
that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness
as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow
as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness
that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day
to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.

by Naomi Shibab  Nye

Someone is loving you right now

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

...that someone is extending love to you this day, and

hoping so dearly that you will receive it.

You have asked for someone to love you right now,

and God has answered your prayer. Look. Listen.

That loving person is right in your world. Open the

door for them to come in.

I promise you, I'm not making this up. Someone is

loving you right now. Look. Listen. Let it in. 

Neale Donald Walsch

There, I've said it twice. God wanted me to make sure

you really got it.

Attittude is Everything

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

...that you cannot tailor-make your situation in life, but you

can tailor-make your attitudes to fit those situations.

World famous motivational speaker Zig Ziglar said that, and

he was profoundly right. How you shape your attitude is not

a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

Does it sound as if I'm saying that attitude is everything?

Good. Because I am.

Neale Donald Walsch

Only when

"Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realize that you cannot eat money."

Indian, Proverb-Cree