Kiss the earth

Walk and touch peace every moment.

Walk and touch happiness every moment.

Each step brings a fresh breeze.

Each step makes a flower bloom.

Kiss the Earth with your feet.

Bring the Earth your love and happiness.

The Earth will be safe

when we feel safe in ourselves.

By Thich Nhat Hanh
Gary Hall

Too lazy to be ambitious

Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

Ryokan

A dream within a dream

Take this kiss upon the brow! 
And, in parting from you now, 
Thus much let me avow– 
You are not wrong, who deem 
That my days have been a dream; 
Yet if hope has flown away 
In a night, or in a day, 
In a vision, or in none, 
Is it therefore the less gone? 
All that we see or seem 
Is but a dream within a dream. 

I stand amid the roar 
Of a surf-tormented shore, 
And I hold within my hand 
Grains of the golden sand– 
How few! yet how they creep 
Through my fingers to the deep, 
While I weep–while I weep! 
O God! can I not grasp 
Them with a tighter clasp? 
O God! can I not save 
One from the pitiless wave? 
Is all that we see or seem 
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allen Poe

This body is not me.

I am not limited by this body.

I am life without boundaries.

I have never been born,

and I have never died.

Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars,

manifestations from my wondrous true mind.

Since before time, I have been free.

Birth and death are only doors through which we pass,

sacred thresholds on our journey.

Birth and death are a game of hide-and-seek.

So laugh with me,

hold my hand,

let us say good-bye,

say good-bye, to meet again soon.

We meet today.

We will meet again tomorrow.

We will meet at the source every moment.

We meet each other in all forms of life.

contemplation on no-coming and no-going - thich nhat hanh

The ocean of peace lies ahead of me.

Sail the boat, O pilot

You are my constant companion now.

Take me in your lap.

Along our journey to the infinite.

The pole star alone will shine.

Giver of Freedom

Set me free.

May your forgiveness and compassion

Be my eternal resources for the journey —

May the mortal ties fall away,

May the vast universe

Hold me in embrace,

And with an undaunted heart

May I come to know the Great Unknown.

last writings - rabindranath tagore - december 1939

The sun shines down,

and its image reflects a thousand

different pots filled with water.

The reflections are many,

but they are each reflecting the same sun.

Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are,

we will see ourselves in all people.

amma

Start the day with love

Start the Day with Love;
Spend the Day with Love;
Fill the Day with Love;
End the Day with Love;This is the way to God.

sri sathya sai baba

May the long time sun

May the long time sun
Shine upon you,
All love surround you,
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on.

You may not believe in magic, but don’t you think it strange
the amount of matter in our universe has never slightly changed?

That all which makes your body was once part of something more,
and every breath you ever breathe has seen it all before.

There are countless scores of beauty in all the things that you despise.
It could once have been a shooting star that now makes up your thighs!

And, atoms of forgotten life -who’ve long since ceased to roam-
may now have the great honor to call your crooked smile their home.

You may not believe in magic (but I thought that you should know)
the makings of your heart were born fourteen billion years ago!

So next time you feel lonely, when this world makes you feel small,
Just remember that it’s part of you – and you’re part of it all.

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity." P Coelho