These beautiful words will serve us as good inspiration for our daily practice.
Be Empty of Worrying – By Rumi
Be empty of worrying
Think of who created thought
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open
Move outside the tangle of fear thinking
Live in silence
Flow down and down
Into always widening
Rings of being
An Inner Life – By Anonymous Author
To achieve the strength we need in living, an inner life must be lived apart from the world.
To wear the whole world as a loose garment is the key to serenity.
Loosen your hold on earth, its cares and its worries.
Unclasp your hold on other people and material things.
Let go of resentments, they hurt only you, not the person, persons or institutions you resent.
Relax your grip, and the tide of peace will flow in.
Live in today, not in regrets over what happened yesterday, not in the fear and apprehension of what tomorrow may bring.
The past is gone as a cloud of dust.
Tomorrow may never come.
We are faced with living just one day… Today.
Try to relax, rejoice, and be glad in it!
Stream of Life – By Rabindranath Tagore
The same stream of life
that runs through the world
runs through my veins
night and day in rhythmic measure.
It is the same life that shoots in joy
through the dust of the earth
into numberless waves of flowers.”
When I Was The Forest – By Meinster Eckhart
When I was the stream, when I was the forest,
when I was still the field
when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing,
when I was the sky itself,
no one ever asked me did I have a purpose?
No one ever wondered was there anything I might need?
for there was nothing I could not love.
It was when I left all we once were that
the agony began, the fear and questions came,
and I wept, I wept.
And tears I had never known before.
So I returned to the river, I returned to the mountains.
I asked for their hand in marriage again,
I begged—I begged to wed every object and creature,
and when they accepted,
God was ever present in my arms.
And He did not say,
“Where have you been?”
For then I knew my soul—every soul—
has always held Him.