Sacred Poetry from Around the World
Ojibway Song by Ojibway (Anonymous) English version by Ivan M. Granger Sometimes I go about pitying myself. Yet all the while I am carried by winds across the sky. — from This Dance of Bliss: Ecstatic Poetry from Around the World, Edited by Ivan M. Granger / Image by ahermin / Usually, [ ]
Remember gratitude.
They Speak by Dorothy Walters They speak of enlightenment. Can darkness dispel Darkness? light illumine Light? O, My Invisible, you and I know the secret ways. — from The Ley Lines of the Soul: Poems of Ecstasy and Ascension, by Dorothy Walters / Image by Ricardo Gomez Angel / A short one today from my [ ]
All exploration is self-discovery.
We awaken in Christ’s body by Symeon the New Theologian English version by Stephen Mitchell We awaken in Christ’s body as Christ awakens our bodies, and my poor hand is Christ, He enters my foot, and is infinitely me. I move my hand, and wonderfully my hand becomes Christ, becomes all of Him (for God [ ]
The awakened heart is the true church.
The Vast Man by Kahlil Gibran But sweeter still than laughter and greater than longing came to me. It was the boundless in you; The vast man in whom you are all but cells and sinews; He in whose chant all your singing is but a soundless throbbing. It is in the vast man that [ ]
Be just selfish enough to insist on what is spiritually important to you.
I’m ceded–I’ve stopped being Theirs by Emily Dickinson I’m ceded–I’ve stopped being Theirs– The name They dropped upon my face With water, in the country church Is finished using, now, And They can put it with my Dolls, My childhood, and the string of spools, I’ve finished threading–too– Baptized, before, without the choice, But this [ ]
Opening, seeing, and serving, these are enough.