Be Drunk in Love – Rumi
Posted On April 9, 2011 at 9:28 pm in picture, rumi
Be Drunk in Love Since Love Is Everything That Exists
- Ghazal 455 Rumi
- More on Rumi
“Hope” is the Thing With Feathers – Emily Dickinson
Posted On 9:15 pm in picture
“Hope” is the thing with feathers-
That perches in the soul-
And sings the tune without the words-
And never stops -at all-
- Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson
Photo: Pavitrata Taylor
To See A World In A Grain of Sand – William Blake
Posted On April 7, 2011 at 8:29 pm in picture, quotes
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
From: Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
Photo: Tejvan Pettinger
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
Posted On 8:18 pm in love
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high – piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
-Excerpt from John Keats – When I Have Fears that I may cease to be
Quotes about Poetry
Posted On 8:06 pm in quotes
” Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
- John Keats
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”
- Robert Graves,
“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.”
- Emily Dickinson
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. “
- Novalis
“To have great poets there must be great audiences too. “
- Walt Whitman
“Poetry I read to lighten my mind and enlighten my heart.
Poetry I read to sweeten my bitter mind.
Poetry I read to replace my heart’s sorrows with my soul’s ecstasy.
Poetry I read to transform my human mind-jungle into my divine heart-garden.”
- Sri Chinmoy
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary”
- Kahlil Gibran
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
- Robert Frost
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
- W.B. Yeats
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
- Joseph Joubert
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
- Paul Valéry
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
- George Sand
Quotes on Peace
Posted On March 27, 2011 at 8:58 am in quotes
World peace can be achieved
When, in each person,
The power of love
Replaces the love of power
- Sri Chinmoy
“Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.”
- Lao Tse
” Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by
which we arrive at that goal. “
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. “
~ Mother Teresa
“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
~ Dwight Eisenhower
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- Poems on Peace
- Quotes on Peace by Sri Chinmoy
- Short poems on peace
Quotes on Self-Pity
Posted On January 23, 2011 at 9:41 am in love
Self-pity does not
Console one’s mind.
Self-pity cannot
Strengthen one’s heart.
Self-pity only makes one
A real stranger to oneself.
Sri Chinmoy [1]
“Self-pity is a real stranger to self-perfection.”
- Sri Chinmoy [2]
Self-pity is, indeed,
A wasted pity.
But self-concern is undoubtedly
A rewarding and illumining experience.
- Sri Chinmoy [3]
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
- Samuel Johnson
Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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[1] Excerpt from Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 203 by Sri Chinmoy
[2] Excerpt from Fortune Philosophy by Sri Chinmoy
[3] Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 17 by Sri Chinmoy
Quotes about John F. Kennedy
Posted On January 19, 2011 at 11:56 am in quotes
” The inaugural Address of Kennedy on January 20, 1961 is eloquent evidence that the mantric utterance is no longer India’s monopoly. There are sentiments in that soul-stirring address that are as deep as the Atlantic in their outlook; ideals as high as the Himalayas and resolutions as powerful as Atomic Power.”
“...my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.“
- Sri Chinmoy 1
“Hope is strength. Hope is progress. When the sun of hope is eclipsed, the inevitable fear of bondage looms large. Kennedy, with his breadth of outlook and depth of insight, can help immensely to restore this hope to man.”
- Sri Chinmoy 2
“President Kennedy is, as it were, the lineal descendant of the American nation’s traditional leadership. As George Washington was the Father of the United States, as Abraham Lincoln was its Saviour, as Franklin D. Roosevelt was the Voice of America, even so is John Kennedy the Noble Defender of World Freedom and World Peace.”
- Sri Chinmoy 3
“If America wants to be friends with all the world, who can be her enemy? Says her mouthpiece, President Kennedy:”
“We are not against any man, or any nation, or any system, except as it is hostile to freedom.“
- Sri Chinmoy 4
~
Alone he stood
Above all storms of life.
He stood alone
To challenge pain and strife.
Alone he stood
To feed a blooming race.
He stood alone
To change earth’s tearful face.
- Sri Chinmoy 5
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- John F Kennedy – featured in – America the Beautiful
- Unique – John F. Kennedy
- Sri Chinmoy, ‘John Fitzgerald Kennedy’ from Kennedy: The Universal Heart: Agni Press, 1973. ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, ‘John Fitzgerald Kennedy’ from Kennedy: The Universal Heart: Agni Press, 1973. ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, ‘John Fitzgerald Kennedy’ from Kennedy: The Universal Heart: Agni Press, 1973. ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, ‘John Fitzgerald Kennedy’ from Kennedy: The Universal Heart: Agni Press, 1973. ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, ‘Alone he Stood’ from Kennedy: The Universal Heart: Agni Press, 1973. ↩
Quotes on Dreams and Reality
Posted On November 24, 2010 at 9:54 am in love
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
— John Keats
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
— John Lennon
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
— Anaïs Nin
What will you accomplish
By treasuring yesterday’s dreams?
You have to treasure
Only today’s reality.
- Sri Chinmoy
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