Inspirations

 “Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.”

 ”Coincidences have never been idle for me, instinctively, but as meaningful as I was to find they were to Jung. I have always had a hunch that they are a manifestation of a law of life of which we are inadequately aware and which in terms of our short life are unfortunately incapable of total definition, and yet however partial the meaning we can extract from them, we ignore it, I believe, at our peril. For as well as promoting some cosmic law, coincidences, I suspect, are some sort of indication to what extent the evolution of our lives is obedient or not obedient to the symmetry of the universe.”

– Laurens van der Post, Jung and the Story of Our Time, p.47


 

” Ten Thousand Idiots”

By Hafiz

 It is always a danger to aspirants on the path

When they begin to believe and to act

As if the ten thousand idiots

Who so long ruled and lived inside

Have all packed their bags and

Slipped town or died

 

Love Poems from God

How did the rose ever open its heart

and give to this world all of its beauty?

It felt the encouragement of Light against its being;

otherwise we all remain too frightened.

Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

  a small list of books that inspire me:

  • “Songs of Kabir”  Translated by Rabindranath Tagore
  • “An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West” by Christopher Bamford Steiner Books
  • “The Golden Key”  by George MacDonald
  • “A Story Like the Wind” & “A Far Off Place: by Sir Laurens Van der Post
  • “A Mantis Carol” By Sir Laurens Van der Post
  • “The Subject Tonight Is Love ” Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz – Versions by Daniel Ladinsky
  • “I Hear God Laughing” Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky
  • ” Behaving As If The God in All Life Mattered” by Machaelle Small Wright
  • “The Brain That Changes Itself:Triumphs From the Frontiers of Brain Science ” by Norman Doidge, MD
  • “My Stroke of Insight:A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
  • “A Wrinkle in Time”  by Madeleine L’Engle

 this week’s shortlist of  loved Music

  • Eric Whiteacre “Sleep” – The Virtual Choir
  • Solace  by Michael Hoppe
  • Kelly McCabe -Sacred Rites -Sacred Flute -Japanese Flute Music for Meditation
  • Chopin ( any & all)
  • The Burns Sisters
  • Vangelis

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