"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?" Khalil Gibran

Nobility by Alice Cary
True worth is in being not seeming-
in doing, each day that goes by,
some little good -- not in dreaming
of great things to do by & by.
For whatever men say in their blindness,
and spite of the fancies of youth,
There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
and nothing so royal as truth.


He asked for Charity, by Saint Francis of Assisi
God came to my house & asked for charity
And I fell on my knees & cried, 'Beloved, what may I give?'
'Just love,' He said.
'Just love.'

With Passion, by Rumi
with passion pray.
with passion make love.
with passion eat and drink and dance and play.
why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God?

"all our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind" khalil gibran

"prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone." thomas merton

"only from the heart can you touch the sky" rumi


"...genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" t.s. eliot 

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." Charles Bukowski

"...Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself..." Thomas Merton

"...Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy..." Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear." Rumi

                                                                                                                    

"Worry is a misuse of imagination." Dan Zadra

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." Rumi

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art." Rumi

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free." Rumi