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  • Of Man’s Perfection in Love

    Jacopone Da Todi

    O minstrel, raise thy plaintive melody,
    and let thy song be tender to my soul:
    upon the subtle ninefold modes of love
    display the secrets of a lover’s heart.
    One moment parted from the Friend, I die:
    revive my heart with thy life-giving stream
    that I may come into the lovers’ ring
    and grace the lovers’ circle. Let me pass
    one moment from the world, and for an hour
    I will not heed my selfhood: being lost
    to this false being, let me swiftly move
    to realms of drunkenness where, like the drunk,
    I will commence the dance, and raise the cry
    of yearning love – for truly I do yearn
    for my Beloved – standing in the field
    of high ambition. I will shake my wings
    like sacrificial bird, and fly at last
    from empty word to true reality.
    Then will I tell in order, each by each,
    the beauty of the Friend, the lover’s love.

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  • Stillness

    Stillness

    by Robert Goslin

    Tormented friend, why do you still enquire
    And thirst to know the sum of things entire?
    The more you strive, the less you will succeed;
    The mind cannot fulfil the spirit’s need.
    Striving too hard begets a troubled mind
    And those who strive will always stay confined.
    For you are not the body, not the mind
    But LIGHT IMMORTAL , mortally enshrined.

    So live in bliss – enjoy the simple task;
    Seek not to know, and do not dare to ask
    Why you are here, or what your fate will be.
    Be still and listen to the symphony
    Which your surroundings play in unity.
    The part cannot exist without the whole;
    The whole cannot exist without the part;
    And reason has no place in cosmic art.

    When stillness reigns, you are the sum of things;
    The Nothing and the All that Oneness brings.
    When stillness reigns, you are Infinity
    And sense the nearness of Divinity.
    Just as the pigeon navigates in flight
    And homeward speeds before a hint of night;
    So too, the soul, will homeward soar one day
    Without a mind to guide it on its way.

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  • On the road

     

    Yosy Flug

    My friend, the traveler
    Remember
    We are here,
    Hidden under various disguises,
    Posted
    As guards, guides and companions
    Along your life’s journey,
    Waiting
    To give you assistance
    To extend a helping hand
    To provide succor.

    We are
    But a reflection of your virtues
    Manifesting in time
    Of necessity.
    Savings
    Placed by your forgotten
    Selfless deeds
    In the inexhaustible
    Divine
    Treasure-house.
    Yours for the taking
    When the need arises.

    We are
    The friend
    Of friends
    Whose face is always hidden
    Yet ever revealed
    In the silent smile
    Of your heart,
    In the caress of the wind,
    In the soothing coolness of spring water.

    And the secret is
    That
    Forgetting yourself
    You too
    Are one
    Of
    Us.

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    yosy