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"Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points." ~D.T. Suzuki
Showing posts with label Khalil Gibran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Khalil Gibran. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Today I Rise

Today


I Rise


"Where are you?
Where are you, little girl
with broken wings but full of hope?
Where are you,
wise women covered in wounds?
Where are you?"
Today is International Women's Day

Women have a right to be treated with
decency, fairness and RESPECT!

"The world is missing what I am ready to give: 
My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace."
Today I Rise from Blaze of Grace on Vimeo.
Celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women.
International Women's Day (March 8)
is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

www.internationalwomensday.com

Make a Pledge For Parity
"Honor your daughters. They are honorable."


“I tell my story, not because it is unique,
but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.”

Malala Yousafzai

“Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted
for something and
that this thing must be attained.”

Marie Curie





And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said: 
      Your children are not your children. 
      They are the sons and daughters 
of Life's longing for itself. 
      They come through you but not from you, 
      And though they are with you, 
yet they belong not to you. 
      You may give them your love but not your thoughts. 
      For they have their own thoughts. 
      You may house their bodies but not their souls, 
      For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, 
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. 
      You may strive to be like them, 
but seek not to make them like you. 
      For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. 
      You are the bows from which your children
 as living arrows are sent forth. 
      The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might 
that His arrows may go swift and far. 
      Let your bending in the archer's hand 
be for gladness; 
      For even as he loves the arrow that flies, 
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Khalil Gibran
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.

There is no greater agony
than bearing an untold story inside you.

If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude

Maya Angelou
A woman should be like a single flower,
not a whole bouquet.

Anna Held
Hold your head up, woman by Argent
Enjoy
© 2016 MU-Peter Shimon

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Human Desire

Human
Desire

All You Need Is Love
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions
may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height
and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots
and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire,
that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you
that you may know the secrets of your heart,
and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace
and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness
and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh,
but not all of your laughter, and weep,
but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart,"
but rather, "I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love,
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.



Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires,
let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook
that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart
and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then sleep with a prayer
for the beloved in your heart
and a song of praise upon your lips.

The Prophet
Khalil Gibran
Paintings by Khalil Gibran - Music by John Lennon (Oct. 9 is Lennon's Birthday)
Enjoy © 2014 MU-Peter Shimon