Hundreds Of Paths Up The Mountain-Hindu teaching

There are hundreds of paths up the mountain,
all leading in the same direction,
so it doesn’t matter which path you take.
The only one wasting time is the one
who runs around and around the mountain,
telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.
Hindu teaching

Spirit quote by rabindranath tagore

Your speech is simple, my Master, but not theirs who talk of you.
I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.
I know that my heart would open like a flower;
that my life has filled itself at a hidden fountain.

Your songs, like birds from the lonely land of snow,
are winging to build their nests in my heart against the warmth of its April, and I am content to wait for the merry season.
Rabindranath Tagore

Blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton

Blessing the boats
by Lucille Clifton

may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that

The Soul's Prayer by Sarojini Naidu

The Soul's Prayer
Sarojini Naidu

In childhood's pride I said to Thee:
O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath,
Speak, Master, and reveal to me
Thine inmost laws of life and death.

Give me to drink each joy and pain
Which Thine eternal hand can mete,
For my insatiate soul can drain
Earth's utmost bitter, utmost sweet.

Spare me no bliss, no pang of strife,
Withhold no gift or grief I crave,
The intricate lore of love and life
And mystic knowledge of the grave.

Lord, Thou didst answer stern and low:
Child, I will hearken to thy prayer,
And thy unconquered soul shall know
All passionate rapture and despair.

Thou shalt drink deep of joy and fame,
And love shall burn thee like a fire,
And pain shall cleanse thee like a flame,
To purge the dross from thy desire.

So shall thy chastened spirit yearn
To seek from its blind prayer release,
And spent and pardoned, sue to learn
The simple secret of My peace.

I, bending from my sevenfold height,
Will teach thee of My quickening grace,
Life is a prism of My light,
And Death the shadow of My face.
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The joy in nature by Thomas Merton/Nature quote

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity,
a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.
This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother
of us all, "natura naturans."
There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity,
a silence that is a fountain of action and joy.
It rises up in wordless gentleness,and flows out to me from
the unseen roots of all created being.
Thomas Merton

Real action is in silent moments by RALPH WALDO EMERSON/Serenity and silence quote

Art by Daniel Gerhatz


But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk;in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,-"Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Soul quote

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature,
or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche





The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Spirituality quote by Soren Kierkegaard

My lord! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not
awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking
from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
Soren Kierkegaard

DREAM OF A BLESSED SPIRIT by: W.B. Yeats

DREAM OF A BLESSED SPIRIT
by: W.B. Yeats

ALL the heavy days are over;
Leave the body's coloured pride
Underneath the grass and clover,
With the feet laid side by side.

One with her are mirth and duty;
Bear the gold-embroidered dress,
For she needs not her sad beauty,
To the scented oaken press.

Hers the kiss of Mother Mary,
The long hair is on her face;
Still she goes with footsteps wary
Full of earth's old timid grace.

With white feet of angels seven
Her white feet go glimmering;
And above the deep of heaven,
Flame on flame, and wing on wing.

Vision quote

Art by vladimir volegov


Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

DON'T RUSH by Linda Fallen

DON'T RUSH
Linda Fallen

You have eternity in front of you
And it's also close behind
Don't rush the spiritual pathway
When there's much for you to find
You don't have to be led by others
You already know the way

All your thoughts and feelings
Are the lessons of the day
You were the first breath of life
You will also be the last
You were the Ancient Wise Ones
In the echoes of the past

Search for simple values
As you find the pot of gold
The Source of all that is
Will help you to unfold

You are your own Captain
You are standing at the helm
Let Spirit steer your rudder
From the purest Highest Realm

Wisdom quote by Buddha

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and
rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because
it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers
and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been
handed down for many generations. But after observation and
analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and
is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept
it and live up to it.
Buddha

Two wings

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you
by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings
to fly - not one.
Rumi

Inner knowing

The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams
are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and
light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge
and transformation.
Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive.
Listen...as the whispering beat repeats: be...gin, be...gin,
be...gin. It's really that simple. Just begin... again.
Royce Addington

Earth and soul

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting
from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground,
each seed according to its own kind¦each one knowing what to do,
each one demanding its own rights on the earth.
So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...
let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.
Emily Carr

Half life by Stephen Levine

Half Life
Stephen Levine

We walk through half our life
as if it were a fever dream
barely touching the ground
our eyes half open
our heart half closed.

Not half knowing who we are
we watch the ghost of us drift
from room to room
through friends and lovers
never quite as real as advertised.
Not saying half we mean
or meaning half we say
we dream ourselves
from birth to birth
seeking some true self.

Until the fever breaks
and the heart can not abide
a moment longer
as the rest of us awakens,
summoned from the dream,
not half caring for anything but love.

Mystic emotion

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
Albert Einstein

You Are Me by Thich Naht Hah

You Are Me
Thich Naht Hah

You are me and I am you.
It is obvious that we are inter-are.
You cultivate the flower in
yourself so that I will be beautiful.

I transform the garbage in myself so
that you do not have to suffer.
I support you you support me.
I am here to bring you peace
you are here to bring me joy.

The Soul's Expression by Elizabeth Barret Browning

The Soul's Expression
Elizabeth Barret Browning

With stammering lips and insufficient sound
I strive and struggle to deliver right
That music of my nature, day and night
With dream and thought and feeling interwound

And inly answering all the senses round
With octaves of a mystic depth and height
Which step out grandly to the infinite
From the dark edges of the sensual ground.

This song of soul I struggle to outbear
Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole,
And utter all myself into the air:
But if I did it,--as the thunder-roll
Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would perish there,
Before that dread apocalypse of soul.

Be water by Bruce lee

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive,
but adjust to the object,and you shall find a way around or
through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things
will disclose themselves.


Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee