"May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder." ― John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong Rather than dreading the light of a new day, of fearing its unknowns, and of bemoaning its absences, look instead to rise and great this day with a …
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Words of Love
“Beannacht / Blessing" by John O'Donohue On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue …
Your Soul
“You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain When it falls slow and free. Imitate the habit of twilight, Taking time to open …
The Gift of Encouragement
"One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own." - John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong I realized in a new way today one of …
The Sun
"The Sun" by Melville Madison Bigelow Heart of the worlds! thy mighty pulses beat Upon the furthest planet’s untrod shore; They gild the surges of old seas that roar Beyond man’s power to pierce their safe retreat. Great Heart! and yet thy morning pulse-beams greet The little rose a-tint with blushes o’er. See! spreads his …
Perpetuity
"Perpetuity" by Frank Dempster Sherman I heard a sweet voice singing in the night A tender love-song written years ago, To ease a poet’s heart of that deep woe Born of long absence from its dear delight; And as the music like a bird took flight Across the shadowed world and vanished so, I thought …
Forgiveness
"Forgiveness" by John Greenleaf Whittier My heart was heavy, for its trust had been Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong; So, turning gloomily from my fellow-men, One summer Sabbath day I strolled among The green mounds of the village burial-place; Where, pondering how all human love and hate Find one sad level; and how, …
The World
"World" by William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at …
True Love
"Love" by Thomas Hood Love, dearest Lady, such as I would speak, Lives not within the humor of the eye;— Not being but an outward phantasy, That skims the surface of a tinted cheek. Else it would wane with beauty, and grow weak,— As if the rose made summer,—and so lie Amongst the perishable things …
Encouragement
"Encouragement" by Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney When first peeps out from earth the modest vine, Asking but little space to live and grow, How easily some step, without design, May crush the being from a thing so low! But let the hand that doth delight to show Support to feebleness the tendril twine Around some …
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