Wednesday August 31, 2005 21:56

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and
endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry
vigil and its head bent low with patience.
The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy
voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky.
Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my
birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all
my forest groves.

Rabindranath Tagore
From Gitanjali

Sunday August 28, 2005 9:22 AM

The 'Self' is one ..
Ever still
the 'Self' is:
Swifter than thought
swifter than the senses ..

Though motionless
It outruns all pursuit ..

Without the 'Self'
never could life exist ..

The 'Self' seems to move
but is ever still ..

It seems far away
but is ever near ..

It is within all
and It transcends all ..

The 'Self' is everywhere ..

Bright is the 'Self'
Indivisible,
untouched
wise
Immanent

and transcendent ..

It is the 'Self'
Who holds
the cosmos together ..

Isha Upanishad 4-8

Sunday August 21, 2005 18:02

In the pursuit of learning one knows more every day;
In the pursuit of the way one does less every day.
One does less and less until one does nothing at all, and when one does nothing at all there is nothing that is undone.

Lao Tzu (trans. D.C. Lau)

Saturday August 13, 2005 11:51

The Eye of the Intellect

Do you not see that God
is inviting you to heaven?
Why do you throw yourself
into the pit of hell-fire?

In order to ascend to
the abode of the righteous,
make knowledge your feet
and obedience your wings.

In the battleground of
our demented world,
make a sword from patience
and a shield from the faith.

Pluck the bud of wisdom
from the branch of religion;
graze the hyacinth of obedience
from the fields of knowledge.

This world is not the abode
of people who are wise;
it is but a passage for us;
therefore traverse it.

Excerpt
From a poem by Nasir-i Khusraw

Friday August 12, 2005 10:28

So the 3100 mile race is over for me for this year having taken 57 days+12:52:21 to complete the distance. Checkout the Blog and the SCMT site for details.
Normal activity is resuming...

41,005
Forgiveness
Is the brightest sun
Of our outer life.

41,006

Gratitude
Is the vastest ocean
Of our inner life.

Sri Chinmoy
From 77,000 Service-Trees

If You Will Think

If you will think
of ourselves
as coming out
of the Earth

rather than
having been
thrown in here
from somewhere else

You see that
we are ..
.. the Earth

we are ..
The consciousness
.. of the Earth ..

These are
the eyes
of the Earth ..

And this is
the voice ..

.. of the earth ..

~ Joseph Campbell ~

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