Allspirit Inspiration Page 24
Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover
a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending
cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be
achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which
rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such
a method is love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace
by Swami Vivekananda
Behold, it comes in might,
The power that is not power,
The light that is in darkness,
The shade in dazzling light.
It is joy that never spoke,
And grief unfelt, profound,
Immortal life unlived,
Eternal death unmourned.
It is not joy nor sorrow,
But that which is between,
It is not night nor morrow,
But that which joins them in.
My Voyage
Rabindranath Tagore
I thought that my voyage had come to its end
at the last limit of my power, that the path before
me was closed, that provisions were exhausted and
the time had come to take shelter in a silent
obscurity.
But I find that Your will knows no end in me,
and when old words die out on the tongue, new
melodies break forth from the heart; and where the
old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its
wonders.
From: The Heart of God selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter
Life of Life
By Coventry Patmore
WHAT’S that, which, ere I spake, was gone!
So joyful and intense a spark
That, whilst o’erhead the wonder shone,
The day, before but dull, grew dark?
I do not know; but this I know,
That, had the splendour lived a year,
The truth that I some heavenly show
Did see, could not be now more clear.
This know I too: might mortal breath
Express the passion then inspired,
Evil would die a natural death,
And nothing transient be desired;
And error from the soul would pass,
And leave the senses pure and strong
As sunbeams. But the best, alas,
Has neither memory nor tongue!
If you contact God within yourself, you will know that He is in
everyone, that He has become the children of all races. Then
you cannot be an enemy to anyone. If the whole world could
love with that universal love, there would be no need for men
to arm themselves against one another. By our own Christlike
example we must bring unity among all religions, all nations, all
races.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda in Man’s Eternal Quest
Harvest
By Eva Gore-Booth
THOUGH the long seasons seem to separate
Sower and reaper or deeds dreamed and done,
Yet when a man reaches the Ivory Gate
Labour and life and seed and corn are one.
Because thou art the doer and the deed,
Because thou art the thinker and the thought,
Because thou art the helper and the need,
And the cold doubt that brings all things to nought.
Therefore in every gracious form and shape
The world’s dear open secret shalt thou find,
From the One Beauty there is no escape
Nor from the sunshine of the Eternal mind.
The patient labourer, with guesses dim,
Follows this wisdom to its secret goal.
He knows all deeds and dreams exist in him,
And all men’s God in every human soul.
The one who tunes himself not only to the external but to the inner
being and to the essence of all things gets an insight into the essence
of the whole being, and therefore he can to the same extent find and
enjoy even in the seed the fragrance and beauty which delight him in
a rose. He, so to speak, touches the soul of the thought. It is just as
by seeing the plant one may get an idea of the root. And in this way
things unknown are known and things unseen are perceived by the
mystic, and he calls it revelation.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Only those who partake of the harmony within their souls know
the harmony that runs through nature. Whosoever lacks this inner
harmony feels also a lack of it in the world. The mind in chaos finds
chaos all around. How can one know what peace is like if he has
never tasted it? But he who has inner peace can abide in this state
even in the midst of outer discord.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Intuition can be described as a glimpse of knowledge that one
has stored within oneself, that comes at a time when it is needed.
It is a disclosure of one’s own spirit that unveils all things. It is by
seeing the cause of every fault in oneself that one is able to have
insight into human nature.
…
In order to make the intuition clear, the best thing is to stop the
imagination.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed and growing sweet–
all this universe, to the furthest stars
and beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.
Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace ……
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
from The Enlightened Heart Ed. Stephen Mitchell
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