Luna Arjuna's Blog (86)

"A lot of you despise me,

And I don't understand why.

I am not ugly or deserving of your hate.

I survive every day on the streets,

That used to be meadows.

There are no tasty seeds,

Because you turned trees into buildings.

I eat what you throw on the ground,

Because I have no choice.

Water is harder…

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a psychic phenomenon which has afflicted the human race in one form or another since the dawning of time. There are different degrees of schizophrenia, the symptoms of which often manifest in young people.…

Spirituality

What is it to be spiritual? Is it to wear a robe and shave the head, or perhaps to go to church and be reverent in the eyes of the world? Many people associate being spiritual with a traditional religion, or a psychic…

The Shining One

Whenever someone is touched by the spirit, the divine light shines through the flesh like a ray of sunshine through a cloud. Or when in love and consumed with the passion of life, the inner glow is unmistakable for all to…

The Broken Heart

People suffer the heartbreak of parting from their loved ones because their love is personal. Although everyone has a knowledge that such love is transient in the vast cyclic movement of life and death, this fact of…

The Call of the Spirit

Who at some time has not paused to ask: ‘What’s it all about?’ We live in a transitory world, which to a child can appear as a permanent structure – only for pieces to gradually disappear as the body ages and the…

Letting Go

People are often advised to ‘just let go’ of any emotional pain or anxiety as though it’s something that can be done without first confronting the source of negativity. If it were a case of simply letting go, then everyone…

My Kind of Spirituality

My kind of spirituality is the kind that needs no name. It respects no rules and fits no form. It’s as unique as an evening star, and fluid as the morning mists.

My kind of spirituality doesn’t come…

Never Too Late for Love

Regardless of age and past experience, it’s never too late for love. The attraction between man and woman is divine and never changes as an imperative for spiritual union. What does change as people get older, or…

The Religious Idea

The religious idea crystallised early in humanity’s evolutionary past due to the increasing separation between original unity and the divisive outer world. Energetically retained within the human…

~Desiderata~

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,…

A Life of Love

Our time on earth is a journey back to love, our original state of being. The fundamental impulse behind every action is to unite with love. But it’s self-evident that something has gone seriously awry…

Love and Emotion

Love is more profound than emotion. The fundamental difference between the two is that love never causes pain, whereas emotion creates all the problems in the world. Emotion is the mind’s concept of love, which is conditioned by the feelings generated by the self-interest…

Let there be PEACE on EARTH

And Let it Begin with ME.

“The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.”

~ César Chávez

“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

~ Francis of…

SHE GATHERED

She gathered beautiful things along the way to pass on, but not clothes or jewels.

She gathered starlight when she couldn’t sleep… and sprinkled it on her stories so that the children of her children would listen in wonder and remember with delight.

She gathered lessons, learned at rock…

"I shall live beyond death,

and I shall sing in your ears

Even after the vast sea-wave

carries me back

To the vast sea-depth.

I shall sit at your board though

without a body,

And I shall go with you to your

fields, a spirit invisible.

I shall come to you at your

fireside, a…

"THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER”

The girl in the photo is Anne de Gaulle; the third daughter of Yvonne Vendroux and General de Gaulle. She was born on New Year's Day in 1928. Her features, as you can appreciate, are characteristic of what we now call Down syndrome, and in Anne's case it was severe, so much so that she could barely walk…

CLAIR DE LUNE

Your soul is a chosen landscape

Where charming masquerades and dancers are promenading,

Playing the lute and dancing, and almost

Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.

While singing in a minor key

Of victorious love, and the pleasant life

They seem not to believe in their own happiness

And their song blends with the light of the moon,

With the sad and beautiful light of the moon,

Which sets the birds in…

EARTH SONG

Listen to things more often than beings.

Hear the voice of the fire, hear the voice of the water,

Listen in the wind to the sighing of the bush:

This is the ancestors breathing.

Those who are dead are never gone;

The dead are not down…

I lied and said I was busy.

I was busy but not in a way

most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.

I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.

I was busy calming a racing heart.

I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes this is my busy,

and I will not apologize for…