Happiness

Today’s Poem: Beauty by George Sterling

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Beauty

George Sterling

The fairest things seem ever loneliest:
    The whitest lily ever blooms alone,
    And purest winds from widest seas are flown.
High on her utmost tower of the West
Sits Beauty, baffling an eternal quest;
    From out her gates and oriels unknown
    The murmurs of her citadels are blown
To blue horizons of the world’s unrest.

We know that we shall seek her till we die,
    And find her not at all, the fair and far:
Her pure domain is wider than the sky,
    And never night revealed her whitest star;
        Beyond the sea and sun her feet have trod;
        Her vision is our memory of God.

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Today’s Quote: Be A Lamp Full of Light

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Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly. ~ Abdu’l-Bahá

Today’s Poem: Ode to Joy by Friedrich von Schiller

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Ode to Joy

Friedrich von Schiller

O friends, not these clays!
But let’s tune into more pleasant ones
And happier!

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,
Daughter from Elysium,
We enter, drunk with fire,
heavenly thy sanctuary!
your spells bind again,
What fashion Strictly divided;
All people become brothers,
Where your gentle wing rests

Whoever made the big hit
to be a friend’s friend
Whoever has won a devoted wife,
Mix in his cheers!
Yes, who even has a soul
His names on the earth round!
And whoever hasn’t been able to steal
Weeping out of this covenant

All beings drink joy
At nature’s brushes;
All good, all bad
Follow their trail of roses
She gave us kisses and vines,
A friend tried in death;
Pleasure was given to the worm,
And the cherub stands before God!

Happy how his suns fly
Through Heaven’s magnificent plan,
Run, brother, your course,
Happy like a hero to victory

Be embraced, millions
This kiss for the whole world!
Brothers! Over the starry tent
Must live a dear father
You fall down, millions?
Do you sense the Creator, world?
Look for him over the starry sky!
He must dwell above the stars

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Today’s Poem: A Song by James Avis Bartley

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A Song

James Avis Bartley

Amid the tempest, wild and dark,
  Upon Life’s troubled sea;
One only star illumes the scene,
  With heavenly brilliancy.

Oh! sweetly o’er the howling deeps,
  Its venturing beam shines out;
And bright, relieves my weeping eye,
  And calms my soul from doubt.

That star is pure Religion’s light.
  A pole star, calm but blest,
It guides my lost and trembling bark,
  To Heaven’s sweet port of rest.

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Today’s Poem: Greenness by Angela Weld Grimke

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Greenness

Angela Weld Grimke

Tell me is there anything lovelier, 
Anything more quieting 
Than the green of little blades of grass 
And the green of little leaves?  

Is not each leaf a cool green hand, 
Is not each blade of grass a mothering green finger, 
Hushing the heart that beats and beats and beats?

Today’s Quote: It’s All About Letting Go

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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Today’s Poem: Walkers with the Dawn

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Walkers with the Dawn

Langston Hughes

Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
Walkers with the sun and morning,
We are not afraid of night,
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness—
Being walkers with the sun and morning.

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Today’s Poem: Sure on This Shining Night by James Agee

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Sure on This Shining Night

James Agee

Sure on this shining night
Of star made shadows round,
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground.
The late year lies down the north.
All is healed, all is health.
High summer holds the earth.
Hearts all whole.
Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder wand’ring far
alone
Of shadows on the stars.

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Today’s Thought: Let’s Enjoy the Ride

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We’re all together in this joy ride on planet earth through the cosmos. It makes so much more sense to work together and set aside differences. It’s our only ride, we have the potential to make it a great one. It takes setting aside past grievances and the courage to believe that solutions to difficult problems are possible if we shake hands and put our minds into cooperative action.

Today’s Quote: Listen for the Music, It’s There

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Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song. ~ Richard Llewellyn

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