Heart and Mind
May your heart and mind be open, and your body and soul, energy and spirit and community be nourished.
~ Lama Surya Das
Heart and Mind
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Your Spirit
Your Spirit
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
― Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit
A WEIGHT of awe
By William Wordsworth
A WEIGHT of awe, not easy to be borne
COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR
IN THE SUMMER OF 1833
XLIII. THE MONUMENT COMMONLY CALLED LONG MEG
AND HER DAUGHTERS, NEAR THE RIVER EDEN
A WEIGHT of awe, not easy to be borne,
Fell suddenly upon my Spirit–cast
From the dread bosom of the unknown past,
When first I saw that family forlorn.
Speak Thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn
The power of years–pre-eminent, and placed
Apart, to overlook the circle vast–
Speak, Giant-mother! tell it to the Morn
While she dispels the cumbrous shades of Night;
Let the Moon hear, emerging from a cloud;
At whose behest uprose on British ground
That Sisterhood, in hieroglyphic round
Forth-shadowing, some have deemed, the infinite
The inviolable God, that tames the proud!
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Steve Winwood
(Weil)
Balto Soundtrack 1995
Deep in the night
the winds blow cold
and in a heartbeat
the fear takes hold
Deep in the storm
there’s a place that’s soft and still
where the road waits to be taken
if you only will
The voices inside you
can lead your soul astray
Believe in what you dream
Don’t turn away
don’t you turn away
Reach for the light
You might touch the sky
Stand on the mountaintop
and see yourself flying
Reach for the light
to capture a star
Come out of the darkness
and find out who you are
Somewhere in time
the truth shines through
and the spirit knows
what it has to do
Somewhere in you
there’s a power with no name
It can rise to meet the moment
and burn like a flame
And you can be stronger
than anything you know
Hold on to what you see
Don’t let it go
don’t you let it go
Now, there’s no turning back
when your destiny is calling
Listen to the thunder roll
and let your heart break free
Reach for the light
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I Am Not Yours
By Sara Teasdale
I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
Oh plunge me deep in love — put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.
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Driftwood
By Sara Teasdale
My forefathers gave me
My spirit’s shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.
But it was my lovers,
And not my sleeping sires,
Who gave the flame its changeful
And iridescent fires;
As the driftwood burning
Learned its jewelled blaze
From the sea’s blue splendor
Of colored nights and days.
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Close the Language-Door
By Rumi
There is some kiss we want
with our whole lives,
the touch of Spirit on the body.
Seawater begs the pearl
to break its shell.
And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild Darling!
At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door,
and open the love-window
The moon won’t use the door,
only the window.
From: Like This Versions of Rumi by Coleman Barks
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