heartsteps

Reality is intricate and vast.
You are real.
Life is cosmically generous.
You are gifted, alive.
The Universe holds.
You are embraced,
you belong.
It is enough.
You are enough.

Do not be centered in
your self for the world,
but be a Self centered in God.

Love and let Love.

Listen – life is in love
with you!
Your life longs for
your trust.

Your life holds and
and graciously
carries you through.

Every breath is an act
faith and courage.

Your body believes.

Breathe.

Be inspired and let go.
Be faithful.
Be brave.

Be.

Alla Renee Bozarth

Be still and know that I’m with you,
says the Lord.
Be still and know I am you,
says the Tao.

We are part of nature and nature is part of us.
We are held by the hand of God
and we are the hands of God.

Do not try to live as if you are separate
You are not.
You are of God,
Part of the Tao.
You are within the landscape.
You are elements of the seasons.
You are of both heaven and earth.

Be known for what you are, and make your actions harbingers of a better future.
Flow like water around obstacles.
Do not batter your head against a brick wall.
Flow under it and when it collapses,
you will be long gone.

Hold true to God
rest in the Tao,
and you will be carried to where the future needs you.

Martin Palmer

What
Do sad people have in
Common?

It seems
They have all built a shrine
To the past

And often go there
And do a strange wail and
Worship.

What is the beginning of
Happiness?

It is to stop being
So religious

Like

That.

Hafiz

To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.

Shirdi Sai Baba

Gentle souls, walk with me sometimes through
the breath of strangers, which parts like rain,
tremblingly brushes your cheeks, then behind you
with the parting tremble joins together again.

Strong, compassionate ones who reach the plateau
of the heart’s new capital, settle here, mark
how your arrows love the bull’s-eye and the bow,
how tears extend your eyesight through the dark.

Don’t be afraid to suffer. Learn to give back
heaviness to the dead weight of the Earth,
its mountains and seas, nothingness to the black

hole inside the Earth’s core. Though all the trees
you planted as children now have the girth
of monsters, still there are spaces … and the breeze.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Like two golden birds perched on a tree,
the ego and the self are united companions:
one eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree,
while the other looks on without eating.
As long as you identify with the ego,
you will feel attached to both joy and sorrow.
But if you know that you are the self, the lord of life,
you will be freed from suffering.
You will transcend duality
and move into a state of Oneness.

Bhagavad Gita

By practicing kindness all over with everyone you will soon come into the holy trance, definite distinctions of personalities will become what they really mysteriously are, our common and eternal blissstuff, the pureness of everything forever, the great bright essence of mind, even and one thing everywhere the holy eternal milky love, the white light everywhere everything, emptybliss, svaha, shining, ready, and awake, the compassion in the sound of silence, the swarming myriad trillionaire you are.

Jack Kerouac

Does one really have to fret
About enlightenment?
No matter what road I travel,
I’m going home.

Shinsho

Love not the shapely branch,
Nor place its image alone in your heart.
It dies away.

Love the whole tree;
Then you will love the shapely branch,
The tender and withered leaf,
The shy bud and the full-blown flower,
The falling petal and the dancing night,
The splendid shadow of full love.

Ah, love Life in its fullness.
It knows no decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

O God,
whose heart is broken
by the violence in the human race,
forgive us that we have lacked
the imagination and collective will
to create a warless world.

Forgive us for breaking faith
with those who gave their lives,
for the unconscionable gap between the rich and the poor,
for corruption and deceit in high places,
for the profit gained by the sale of weapons,
for the spirit of domination in our world leaders,
for learning so little from the deaths of 100 million
in the past century.

In you alone is our hope;
in your power, which can purify the human heart
and set our feet on the path of peace, do we trust.
You can do great things
in willing hearts.
Break, then, our hardened hearts.
Break them with grief, with memory, and with hope.
In the name of the Prince of Peace.
Amen.

Bruce Sanguin