PEACE POETRY

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Comment by desmond dillon on November 30, 2012 at 11:14am

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The madness of Love is a blessed fate

and if we understood this we would seek no other.

It brings into unity what was divided and this is the truth:

bitterness it makes sweet

it makes the stranger a neighbour

and what was low it raises high.

To souls who have not known such Love

I give this good council:

if they cannot do more let them beg Love

for amnesty and serve with faith and think..

'It can happen, Loves power is so great!'

Only after death is man beyond cure.

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   Hadewijch the Beguine      13th Cent.  Belgium

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Comment by desmond dillon on October 31, 2012 at 10:44am

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let us fall in love again

and scatter gold dust all over the world.

let us become new spring

and feel the breeze drift in heavens scent.

let us dress the earth in green

and like the sap of a youngster

let the grace from within sustain us.

let us carve gems out of our stony hearts

and let me light our path to love.

the glance of Love is crystal clear

and we are blessed by its light....

Rumi

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Comment by desmond dillon on October 1, 2012 at 10:14am

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   it is vital that we have a clear and focussed appreciation of our own life.

   not in thought  but felt in the heart....

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Comment by desmond dillon on August 3, 2012 at 4:40pm

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the man of my heart dwells inside me

everywhere i look it is he

in my every sight

in the sparkle of light

Oh! i can never lose him

here, there everywhere

wherever i turn he is right there.

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Rabindranath Tagore   19th Century

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Comment by Serene on July 21, 2012 at 2:14pm

Enjoy the colorful day!

Comment by Serene on July 21, 2012 at 1:44pm

You suffer from the one thing or situation you emotionalize most. Enjoy!

Comment by desmond dillon on July 21, 2012 at 10:09am

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hiding in this cage of visible matter

is the invisible life-bird

pay attention to her

she is singing your song.

Kabir

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Comment by desmond dillon on July 20, 2012 at 2:21pm

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'I am not a poet

I don't earn my living from poetry.

I don't need to boast of my Knowledge.

Poetry is the wine of love

that I accept only from the hands

of my Beloved.'

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Rumi   (Hidden Music)

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Comment by janice wilson on June 28, 2012 at 7:08pm

i hope you don't mind me sharing this beautiful poetry in words , excerpt here

it is so beautiful , so focusing one on what really matters in life * thank you

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The fact is you’re alive; I’m alive. In this world, many problems come, and people get stuck in them: “This should happen to me,” or “That should happen to me.” I have seen it and experienced it myself. The thing is, if you have patience, even that will pass.

Life is trying to teach us. We need to learn, to understand. Again and again, no matter what happens, the question always comes: What is the most important thing to you? What do you want in your life? Do you want joy? Do you want the peace of your heart?

Pay attention to that. This is what life is teaching us. Whenever our attention is swayed from that, we feel pain. We wander here and there, trying to be free of that pain. Then it becomes clear that in our life we want true happiness.

People do so many different things to find it. Recently, I was reading a newspaper, and I thought, “The stories don’t change—just the names.” It’s the same thing over and over again: Someone did this; someone did that. “I haven’t done this; I haven’t done that.” That’s all we keep thinking about: what we need to do and all the things we haven’t done. We forget to express gratitude for the gift of this life, this human body.

Who can express true gratitude except a human being? Maybe all the insects and animals express it in their own way; I don’t know if they do or not, but the human being can. And it is so important that from our heart we express gratitude for what we’ve been given.

Truly, only the person who has experienced it can do that. So, experience what has been given to you. Don’t weigh your life by what isn’t there; look at what you have been given. If we weigh our lives on the scale of the heart, we will see that we have been given so much that we can’t even grab it all. There is no bag we can fill with what we have been given. And we are receiving every day, every hour.

One breath. Just one breath—coming and going—what is the value of it? It is priceless. There is no amount of money or gold or diamonds in this world that is equivalent to the value of just one breath. People have made so many different advancements. They have gone to the moon. But who can bring back a breath? Nobody.

Without doing anything, we are being given this gift. The Creator doesn’t say, “You’re a sinner. You did this; you did that.” Whether someone is in pain or in joy, the Creator is giving the gift of life equally to everyone. But what if the one who is thirsty stops going to the water? How will their thirst be quenched? That’s why thirst is there. It beckons us, reminds us. All our attention goes there so that we don’t forget.

In your life, don’t put aside joy, because if you lose your joy, what will be left? We can waste our breath in worries or we can accept joy in our life. The one who accepts it will understand and fulfill their life. -Prem Rawat (Maharaji)

Comment by desmond dillon on June 28, 2012 at 5:15pm

  'your joy is your sorrow unmasked'    Kahlil Gibran  The Prophet

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