Waking up this morning, I smile Twenty-four brand new hours are before me I vow to go through them in mindfulness And look on all beings with eyes of compassion.
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An egg hatches to present the chick, A bud blossoms to exhibit the flower, A cocoon cracks to give forth the butterfly, A seed sprouts to mature into the tree, A diamond is polished to display its brilliance. A man is to be stripped to his very core: Stripped of his material possessions, Stripped of [...]
I remember a wonderful moment As before my eyes you appeared, Like a vision, fleeting, momentary, Like a spirit of the purest beauty. In the torture of hopeless melancholy, In the bustle of the world’s noisy hours, That voice rang out so tenderly, I dreamed of that lovely face of yours. The years flew quickly. [...]
O incomparable Giver of life, cut reason loose at last! Let it wander grey-eyed from vanity to vanity. Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of madness! Let me be mad, as You; mad with You, with us. Beyond the sanity of fools is a burning desert Where Your sun is whirling in [...]
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, “Poor truant, passionate fool! Life’s book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not [...]
HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly [...]
May today be for you A truly special day A time of sober reflection As you quietly celebrate For God has surely blessed you Through all the years gone by But the best years are still to come As you journey on through life
Allons! the road is before us! It is safe–I have tried it–my own feet have tried it well–be not detain’d! Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d! Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn’d! Let the school stand! mind not the cry [...]
从明天起，做一个幸福的人 喂马，劈柴，周游世界 从明天起，关心粮食和蔬菜 我有一所房子，面朝大海，春暖花开 从明天起，和每一个亲人通信 告诉他们我的幸福 那幸福的闪电告诉我的 我将告诉每一个人 给每一条河每一座山取一个温暖的名字 陌生人，我也为你祝福 愿你有一个灿烂的前程 愿你有情人终成眷属 愿你在尘世获的幸福 我只愿面朝大海，春暖花开
when two violins are placed in a room if a chord on one violin is struck the other violin will sound the note if this is your definition of hope this is for you the ones who know how powerful we are who know we can sound the music in the people around us simply [...]
