Spirits of the Dead
Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy.
Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness- for then
The spirits of the dead, who stood
Do It Anyway
"Do It Anyway" was a spiritual message engraved on Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, India.
The Traveler in the Night
Flooded streets
Begin the rebirthing
of a lost society
With silent intensity,
As night skies give
Clear guidance to
The lost traveler.
He laughs at the
thought of deception.
For it reveals more than
it hides.
Zohar and Kabbalah
A taste of Zohar poetry. (Bereshit) In the Beginning - At the head of potency of the King. He engraved engravings in luster on high. A spark of impenetrable darkness flashed within the concealed of the concealed, from the head of Infinity...
What Have We Become?
A preacher shuns his brother
Cause his bride's a different color
And this is not acceptable
His papa taught him so
It was love that he'd been preaching
But this was overreaching
The boundaries stretchin' further
Than his heart would choose to go
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
The Gods of the Copybook Headings is a poem published by Rudyard Kipling in 1919, containing "age-old, unfashionable wisdom" that he saw as having been forgotten by society and replaced by "habits of wishful thinking.
Please Call Me by My True Names
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16 where he studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. His teachings and practices aim to appeal to people from various religious, spiritual, and political backgrounds, intending to offer mindfulness practices for more Western sensibilities.
