Month: July 2018

Today’s Quote by Paulo Coelho on Courage

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If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

Paulo Coelho

The More He Does For Others ~ Poem from the Tao Te Ching

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81 – The More He Does for Others

True words aren’t eloquent;
eloquent words aren’t true.
Wise men don’t need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.

The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others,
the happier he is.
The more he gives to others,
the wealthier he is.

The Tao nourishes by not forcing.
By not dominating, the Master leads.

 
Translated by Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching Verse 81

Today’s Music: “Ain’t No Sunshine” Performed by Bill Withers

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Today’s Quote is all about Courage

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“Come to the edge.’ ‘We can’t. We’re afraid.’ ‘Come to the edge.’ ‘We can’t. We will fall!’ ‘Come to the edge.’ And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.”

Guillaume Apollinaire

Love’s Living Flame ~ Poem by St. John of the Cross

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Love’s Living Flame

O Love’s living flame,
Tenderly you wound
My soul’s deepest center!
Since you no longer evade me,
Will you, please, at last conclude:
Rend the veil of this sweet encounter!

O cautery so tender!
O pampered wound!
O soft hand! O touch so delicately strange,
Tasting of eternal life
And canceling all debts!
Killing, death into life you change!

O lamps of fiery lure,
In whose shining transparence
The deep cavern of the senses,
Blind and obscure,
Warmth and light, with strange flares,
Gives with the lover’s caresses!

How tame and loving
Your memory rises in my breast,
Where secretly only you live,
And in your fragrant breathing,
Full of goodness and grace,
How delicately in love you make me feel!

Today’s Music ~ “Here for a Good Time” Performed by George Strait

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Today’s Quote on Not Quitting by Richelieu

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Fail!—Fail?
In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word
As—fail!

Richelieu.

The Harp ~ A Poem of Love

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The Harp

An old, worn Harp that had been played
Till all its strings were loose and frayed,
Joy, Hate, and Fear, each one, assayed
To play. But each in turn had found
No sweet responsiveness of sound.

Then Love the Master-player came
With heaving breast and eyes aflame;
The Harp he took all undismayed,
Smote on its strings, still strange to song,
And brought forth music sweet and strong.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

 

Today’s Quote on The Meaning of Life

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The meaning of life comes to us mostly in great revealing flashes and intense emotions.

—Dean Farrar.

 

I and the Bird ~ Poem about Life

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I and The Bird

I, and the bird,
And the wind together,
Sang a supplication
In the winter weather.

The bird sang for sunshine,
And the trees for winter fruit,
And for love in the spring time
When the thickets shoot.
And I sang for patience
When the teardrops start;
Clean hands and clear eyes,
And a faithful heart.
—Arthur C. Benson.

 

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