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“Ubuntu” is very difficult to render into a Western language… It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.
Desmond Tutu

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There is a simple but profound Lakota prayer: Mitakuye Oyasin.These two words mean All My Relations or We are All Related.To pray this prayer is to petition God on behalf of everyone and everything on Earth.Mitakuye Oyasin honors the sacredness of each person's individual spiritual path, acknowledges the sacredness of all life (human, animal, plant, etc.) and creates an energy of awareness which strengthens not only the person who prays but the entire planet.http://www.healthynewage.com/mitakuyeoyasin.html

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‘The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson

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speaking of love(of
which Who knows the
meaning;or how dreaming
becomes

if your heart's mind)i
guess a grassblade
Thinks beyond or
around(as poems are

made)Our picking it. this
caress that laugh
both quickly signify
life's only half(through

deep weather then
or none let's feel
all)mind in mind flesh
In flesh succeeding disappear 

EE Cummings

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…the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes

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wine,
starry child
of earth,
wine, smooth
as a golden sword,
soft
as lascivious velvet,
wine, spiral-seashelled
and full of wonder,
amorous,
marine;
never has one goblet contained you,
one song, one man,
you are choral, gregarious,
at the least, you must be shared…

your
glorious
spring dress
is different,
blood rises through the shoots,
wind incites the day,
nothing is left
of your immutable soul.
Wine
stirs the spring, happiness
bursts through the earth like a plant…

A jug of wine, and thou beside me
in the wilderness,
sang the ancient poet.
Let the wine pitcher
add to the kiss of love its own…

your love an inexhaustible
cascade of wine,
light that illuminates my senses,
the earthly splendor of life.

But you are more than love,
the fiery kiss,
the heat of fire,
more than the wine of life;
you are
the community of man,
translucency,
chorus of discipline,
abundance of flowers.
I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.
Drink it,
and remember in every
drop of gold,
in every topaz glass,
in every purple ladle,
that autumn labored
to fill the vessel with wine;
and in the ritual of his office,
let the simple man remember
to think of the soil and of his duty,
to propagate the canticle of the wine. 

Pablo Neruda 

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Amazing poem…

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because it's

Spring
thingS

dare to do people

(& not
the other way

round)because it

's A
pril

Lives lead their own

persons(in
stead

of everybodyelse's)but

what's wholly
marvellous my

Darling

is that you &
i are more than you

& i(be

ca
us

e It's we) 


E.E. Cummings

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Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Lay your shadow on the sundials
and let loose the wind in the fields.

Bid the last fruits to be full;
give them another two more southerly days,
press them to ripeness, and chase
the last sweetness into the heavy wine. 

Whoever has no house now will not build one 
anymore.
Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long 
time,
will stay up, read, write long letters,
and wander the avenues, up and down,
restlessly, while the leaves are blowing. 

Rainer Maria Rilke 

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne

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Encounter in the Chestnut Avenue

He felt the entrance's green darkness
wrapped cooly round him like a silken cloak
that he was still accepting and arranging;
when at the opposite transparent end, far off,

through green sunlight, as through green window panes,
whitely a solitary shape
flared up, long remaining distant
and then finally, the downdriving light
boiling over it at every step,

bearing on itself a bright pulsation,
which in the blond ran shyly to the back.
But suddenly the shade was deep,
and nearby eyes lay gazing

from a clear new unselfconscious face,
which, as in a portrait, lived intensely
in the instant things split off again:
first there forever, and then not at all.


Translated by Edward Snow 

Rainer Maria Rilke 

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
John Keats
Ode to Autumn.

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 HITHER hither, love—
'Tis a shady mead—
Hither, hither, love!
Let us feed and feed!

Hither, hither, sweet—
'Tis a cowslip bed—
Hither, hither, sweet!
'Tis with dew bespread!

Hither, hither, dear
By the breath of life,
Hither, hither, dear!—
Be the summer's wife!

Though one moment's pleasure
In one moment flies—
Though the passion's treasure
In one moment dies;—

Yet it has not passed—
Think how near, how near!—
And while it doth last,
Think how dear, how dear!

Hither, hither, hither
Love its boon has sent—
If I die and wither
I shall die content! 

John Keats 

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O soft embalmer of the still midnight!
Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,
Our gloom-pleased eyes, embowered from the light,
Enshaded in forgetfulness divine;
O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close,
In midst of this thine hymn, my willing eyes,
Or wait the amen, ere thy poppy throws
Around my bed its lulling charities;
Then save me, or the passed day will shine
Upon my pillow, breeding many woes;
Save me from curious conscience, that still lords
Its strength, for darkness burrowing like a mole;
Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards,
And seal the hushed casket of my soul.
Literature Network » John Keats » To Sleep

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Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer's Tale Of The Flowre And The Lefe

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everymans and everywomans favorite
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Lord Byron


CLXXIII. “She walks in beauty, like the night”


SHE walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies,

And all that's best of dark and bright
 

Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
 
Thus mellow'd to that tender light

Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
 

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impair'd the nameless grace
 
Which waves in every raven tress
 
Or softly lightens o'er her face,
    

Where thoughts serenely sweet express
 
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.


And on that cheek and o'er that brow

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
 

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
  
But tell of days in goodness spent,—


A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent

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A very beautiful poem indeed torchholder - it is definately a favourite of mine - and of course John Keats - so many beautiful words too…

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in honour of my beloved Robert:


I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
A luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night. 

Robert Frost 

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Night, the beloved.  Night, when words fade and things come alive.  When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.  When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
 ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Peace flows from time, endless, never changing. Only perspective altered, we feel the peace, but take it for frantic feeling, chasing the tail of every thought holding you still. It's been so long, when will you learn? Stagnation is death and death is what you fear, so why do you love your rotten swamp so? Let go of the seed, that it may live! Fear sends waves of negative energy to you, let it pass, it cannot harm, only when you face it can you end it, truly!

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thanks Jake!

A tree's leaves may be ever so good,
So may its bar, so may its wood;
But unless you put the right thing to its root
It never will show much flower or fruit.

But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
Leaves for smooth and bark for rough,
Leaves and bark may be tree enough.

Some giant trees have bloom so small
They might as well have none at all.
Late in life I have come on fern.
Now lichens are due to have their turn.

I bade men tell me which in brief,
Which is fairer, flower or leaf.
They did not have the wit to say,
Leaves by night and flowers by day.

Leaves and bar, leaves and bark,
To lean against and hear in the dark.
Petals I may have once pursued.
Leaves are all my darker mood. 

Robert Frost 

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Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company.  Only a few love to be alone.  ~Jens Jensen, Siftings, 1939

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We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. 

Robert Frost 

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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie

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“Kilmeny had been she knew not where,
And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare;
Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew,
Where the rain never fell, and the wind never blew.
But it seemed as the harp of the sky had rung,
And the airs of heaven played round her tongue,
When she spoke of the lovely forms she had seen,
And a land where sin had never been;
A land of love and a land of light,
Withouten sun, or moon, or night;
Where the river swayed a living stream,
And the light a pure and cloudless beam:
The land of vision it would seem,
And still an everlasting dream.”

“Durante” (as quoted by George Macdonald)

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love the poem ….

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep

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LOST AND FOUND

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Thank you Nicole - it is a blessing to find God's light within and even more of a pleasure to find this light reflected in our relationships with one another…

First verse of “To a Sky-Lark” - William Wordsworth

Up with me! up with me into the clouds!
For thy song, Lark is strong;
Up with me, up with me into the clouds!
Singing, singing,
With clouds and sky about thee ringing,
Lift me, guide me till I find
That spot which seems so to thy mind.

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“BELOVED VALE! I SAID, WHEN I SHALL CON” 

“BELOVED Vale!” I said, “when I shall con 
Those many records of my childish years, 
Remembrance of myself and of my peers 
Will press me down: to think of what is gone 
Will be an awful thought, if life have one.” 
But, when into the Vale I came, no fears 
Distressed me; from mine eyes escaped no tears; 
Deep thought, or dread remembrance, had I none. 
By doubts and thousand petty fancies crost 
I stood, of simple shame the blushing Thrall; 
So narrow seemed the brooks, the fields so small! 
A Juggler's balls old Time about him tossed; 
I looked, I stared, I smiled, I laughed; and all 
The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.


William Wordsworth

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Chartless - Emily Dickinson

I never saw a moor
I never saw the sea
Yet know I how the heather looks
And what a wave must be

I never spoke with God
Nor visited in heaven
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given

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I HAVE NOT TOLD MY GARDEN YET

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The Soldier - Rupert Brooke 1887-1915

If I should die, think only this of me
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.  There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam
A body of England's, breathing English air
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home

And think, this heart, all evil shed away
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given
Her sights and sounds;  dreams happy as her day
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven

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THE DAISY FOLLOWS SOFT THE SUN

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In today already walks tomorrow.  ~Friedrich von Schiller

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THESE ARE THE DAYS WHEN BIRDS COME BACK

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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane

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A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence. 


 ~Leopold Stokowski

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Music is the poetry of the air.  ~Richter

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Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?  


~Michael Torke

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An Essene Blessing

As the wheel of the seasons
Turns me ever forward
Toward my last season,
My heart tells me that there's more.
My eyes observe the seed as it grows
Into the tree.
And from this tree
More seeds will come
To once again be trees.
The essence of my spirit
Lives within each seed,
And my tree will grow anew.
Blessed is my spirit
For it will never die.

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The Essene Blessing is truly beautiful Andrew

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May you have -
Walls for the wind
And a roof for the rain,
And drinks bedside the fire
Laughter to cheer you
And those you love near you,
And all that your heart may desire
Celtic Blessing

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And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

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Henri Frederic Amiel
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

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To Music (by Rilke)

Music. The breathing of statues…

http://picture-poems.com/rilke/features/braidedstream.html

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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Ernest Dimnet

Enjoyed the picture and the poem - many thanks
landscape is so vast, to experience landscape is to experience our own internal vastness/depth of being

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.  


~James Bryce

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If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.  ~Toni Morrison

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A good book has no ending.  


~R.D. Cumming

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it.  


~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

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We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.  ~Henry Miller

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Touched by an Angel 
 
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

Maya Angelou

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May it be, an Evening Star,
 Shines down, upon You, now…
 
May it be, when darkness falls,
Your heart, it will be True…
 
You walk, a lonely road…
How far, How far, from home……

Mornie, utulie..!!….. (darkness has come)
Believe, and you, will find your way……
 
Mornie, alanti ..!!…..(darkness has fallen)
A promise, lives, within you, now

May it be, the shadows call,
Will fly away from you…. 

May it be, your journey on,
To light the day for You…
 
When the night, is overcome…
You may rise, to find the sun…

Mornie, utulie…!!
Believe, and you will find, your way …

Mornie, alanti…!!
A promise, lives within you, now

A promise, lives within you, now…

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The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
~John Greenleaf Whittier, My Psalm

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Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.  

~Geoffrey Fisher

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“Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see” William Newton Clarke

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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.  


~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

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Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is 
      still dark.
                                                                             - Rabindranath Tagore

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Faith is a Dog that now walks on Two Legs, thanx to the Faith and Love of Its owner, and the Dogs own Faith. Well Named. Torch. 

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Praying, for a dream.


Here, root yourselves, beside me.

I am the tree, planted by the river,

Which, will not, be moved.


I, the rock, I the river, I the tree

I am yours–your passages have been paid.

Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need

For this bright morning, dawning, for you.

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Lift up your eyes, upon The day breaking for you.

Give birth again,To the dream.

Women, children, men - Take it into the palms of your hands.

Mold it into the shape of your most Private need.
 
 Sculpt it into The image of your most public self.


Lift up your hearts.

Each new hour holds new chances, For new beginnings.


Do not be wedded forever To fear,
 
 yoked eternally To brutishness.


The horizon leans forward, Offering you space,
 
 to place the new steps of change.

 You may have the courage,

To look up and out upon me.

 
 The rock, the river, the tree, your country.

I am yours–your passages have been paid.

Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need

For this bright morning dawning for you.

Maya Angelou (excerpts from) 

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Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  ~Standing Bear

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“Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence … What are the fruits of silence? They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character.”
~Ohiyesa, Santee Sioux~

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

  ~Robert Fripp

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All deep things are song.  It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!  


~Thomas Carlyle

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels. 

~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, “The Opera”

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He who sings scares away his woes. 


~Cervantes

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Music is love in search of a word.

~Sidney Lanier

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There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

~Lord Byron

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Music is what feelings sound like.

 ~Author Unknown

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Music is the poetry of the air.  


~Richter

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As Once the Winged Energy of Delight 
 
As once the winged energy of delight
carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.

Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.

To work with Things in the indescribable relationship,
 is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.
 
Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions…
For the god
wants to know himself in you
 
Writer and poet, Rilke
 was considered one of the greatest lyric poets of modern Germany

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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. 

~Frederick Buechner

Thank you torchholder - just so powerful and beautiful…

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I love Rilke, Torch!

Here is the beginning of his Sonnets to Orpheus:


A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence!
Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear!
And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence
a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.

Creatures of stillness crowded from the bright
unbound forest, out of their lairs and nests;
and it was not from any dullness, not
from fear, that they were so quiet in themselves,

but from just listening. Bellow, roar, shriek
seemed small inside their hearts. And where there had been
at most a makeshift hut to receive the music,

a shelter nailed up out of their darkest longing,
with an entryway that shuddered in the wind-
you built a temple deep inside their hearing.


Translated by Stephen Mitchell 

Rainer Maria Rilke