Heart

 And Even The Light Of The Sun

And even the light of the Sun will fade, at the last,

And the leaves will fall, and the birds will hasten away,

And I will be left in the snow of a flowerless day,

To think on the glories of spring, and joys of a youth, long past.


Yet be silent, my heart! Do not count it a profitless thing,

To have seen the splendour of Sun, and of grass, and of flower!

To have lived and loved! For I hold that, to love if but for an hour,

Is better for man and woman, than cycles of blossoming spring.


From ‘Magdalen Walks’

Oscar Wilde

In Times Of Trouble

When we have got into a tight spot,

And everything seems to go against us,

When it seems as though we could not hang on,

For another minute – we must not give up,

Because that is likely to be the time

When our tide is about to turn!


After: Harriet Beecher Stowe, 

I am the One Who Suffers In Silence Poetry .....By: Mr Dragon

There is no fire to warm my heart.
There is no glacier to soothe my soul.
For I am what comes of pain and suffering.
I am the one who suffers in silence.
But when my burden grows too great to bear,
There is no place for me to hide.
No person to share my pain.
No friend to help me through the darkness.
I am the one who suffers in silence.
I am the one with a heart of frozen fire.
A heart of burning crystal, a heart that does not exist.
I am the great masquerader.
I wear masks of lies and masks of deception.
I wear masks of emotion and masks that one cannot see.
I am the one who suffers in silence...

Love

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
-Marianne Williamson

LOve

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
-Louis de Bernieres

Jiddu Krishnamurti on effort, acceptance and contentmen

t"For most of us, our whole life is based on effort...Why do we make effort? Is it not, put simply, in order to achieve a result, to become something, to reach a goal? Is not all such effort the activity of the self? Is not effort self-centered activity? If we make an effort from the centre of the self, it must inevitably produce more conflict, more confusion, more misery. Yet we keep on making effort after effort. Very few of us realise that the self-centered activity of effort does not clear up any of our problems. On the contrary, it increases our confusion and our misery and our sorrow....Does happiness come through effort? Have you ever tried to be happy?...You struggle to be happy and there is no happiness is there? Joy does not come through suppression, through control or indulgence...Therefore happiness does not come through effort, nor joy through control and suppression; and still all our life is a series of suppressions, a series of controls, a series of regretful indulgences....Does not effort mean a struggle to change what is into what is not, or into what it should be or should become? That is, we are constantly struggling to avoid facing what is. A man who is truly content is the man who understands what is...That is true contentment; it is not concerned with having few or many possessions but with the whole significance to what is; and that can only come when you recognize what is, when you are aware of it, not when you are trying to modify it or change it.So we see that effort is a strife or a struggle to transform that which is into something which you wish it to be....Effort is a distraction from what is. The moment i accept what is there is no struggle..."

How Do We Keep Our Mind Centred And Not Get Entangled With Emotions ... By Sanjib Mukherjee,

Keeping the mind centred and serene, is one of the primary goals of any spiritual discipline, and can be attained with a little understanding of the mechanics of the mind.
Imagine knowledge as being a vast and limitless ocean with our emotions represented by the tidal waves. No matter how high each wave will rise, ultimately, it will always fall and merge back into the ocean.
The same principles apply to our emotions, as they come and go at will, but eventually flow back into the depths of knowledge.
Problems arise when we lose awareness of our infinite nature, and start identifying ourselves with our fleeting emotions. “I am happy, I am sad, I am content” etc, are all examples of how easily we define ourselves with the most prevalent emotion at any given time.
It’s this very identity that becomes the root cause of so many miseries, and why we eventually lose complete track of our centredness.
No emotion can ever exist forever; you can never be happy all the time, nor can you be depressed all the time. These feelings continuously rise and fall within us, and quite often we have no control over these emotions when they do present themselves. A common misconception amongst many spiritual seekers is the notion that an enlightened soul never gets angry or never gets upset. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Anger, frustration and sadness are all naturally occurring feelings that arise within us, and are a part of our psychological make-up. However, the difference between a saint and most common individuals is that the saint will always acknowledge these emotions and simply move beyond them.
They never identify themselves with these feelings, and continuously remind themselves of their connection to their infinite knowledge through regular inner contemplation (meditation) and study of the scriptures.
The process of not getting entangled with our emotions is not an easy one to achieve, but by simply being aware of this phenomenon. Too often, we get entangled with small-minded matters, and too often, we forget that everything in life will come and go. Only our infinite nature will stay forever. Realisation of this one simple statement is the key to spiritual growth and unbreakable inner peace.Begin to observe your emotions closely. Whenever you feel yourself moving away from your centredness, rather than saying “I am angry” say, “Anger has risen within, and in no time will fall back to where it came from.” This shift in mindset will automatically bring you back to your natural self.