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Posted on Feb 14th, 2008 by hrtScholar : with one Heart... hrtScholar
Ireland 598

Spread out your hands, lift up your head, open your eyes, and we'll pray…. 

   Annie Dillard

getty images

              From Sonnets to Orpheus

A tree climbed there. O pure uprising!

O Orpheus sings! O towering tree of hearing!
And all was still. Yet even in that hush
a new beginning, hint, and change, was there.

 

Creatures of silence pressed from the bright
freed forest, out of lair and nest:
and they so yielded themselves, that not by a ruse,
and not out of fear, were they so quiet in themselves,

 

but simply through listening. Bellow, shriek, roar
seemed small in their hearts. And where there was
just barely a hut to receive it,

 

a refuge out of their darkest yearning,
with an entrance whose gatepost trembled –
there you crafted a temple for their hearing.
                       Ranier Rilke

warriorHeart

expanding my gaze
     your sky,
                                                   (kind, divine, infinite, yes)
  illuminates a path
                    home..  
            Namasté
         tess

"I believe that peace lies within the small and the magnificent. Born in blades of grass, living in golden sunlight, filtering through dusty shadows that whisper of tinkling piano keys. Growing in the quiet that can be found in a world that is never silent, and dying in the abandon that comes after the rain, only to be born again." sonya kitchel
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'Tell us more about your home, Charlie,' Hijohn said. ‘Who owns the water?' 

cardiffBytheSea

…'Nobody owns it. You can't own water where I come from.' 
‘Somebody's got to own it,' Littlejohn said. ‘Somebody always does.' 
'We believe there are Four Sacred Things that can't be owned,' Bird said. ‘Water is one of them. The others are earth and air and fire. They can't be owned because they belong to everybody. Because everybody's life depends on them.'

from Starhawk. The Vision of the City. Nov 2007 


this moment


 


 

                        


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Merry Mary : Quite Contrary
about 23 hours later
Merry Mary said

This is so prfoundly beautiful, thank you so much!

Hard to beleive 40 people have viewed it and i am first to comment.
I can tell you put such love and thought into creatign something beautiful here for your friends and for your heart's sake.

from mine to yours, i hail the light within you.
Namaste,

mary

hrtScholar : with one Heart...
1 day later
hrtScholar said

thank you mary! you are consistently, kind and thoughtful..a wonderful presence here on gaia..I feel a connection with you spiritually and am grateful.
the journey is Now, my dear friend….~in loving kindness,I bow,tess

Jung Girl : Yogi Girly Golightly
1 day later
Jung Girl said

I love this…..read it at the beginning of my Saturday……perspective makes all the difference in my world….thank-you for this.

hrtScholar : with one Heart...
1 day later
hrtScholar said

thank you Jung Girl for taking time to notice and pausing here with me..(with you..) it's a beautiful soCali day, hope your Heart is full..!I am heading over to OB to Coop and then dog Beach with the Wuffs!
I bow to the divine that dwells in your Heart,tess

Merry Mary : Quite Contrary
3 days later
Merry Mary said

oh my, off to the ocean with the pups, oh my indeed! what a life!

thanks fo ryour kind words too, pal!

hrtScholar : with one Heart...
4 days later
hrtScholar said

I am so grateful to live close to the pacific ocean, Mary..it's a part of me now ~breath,
  surrendering, loving, healing, being…
Namaste dear One..
tess

kcidybom : Manager - Bank of Cosmic Connection
10 days later
kcidybom said

You have a gift - putting words and images from many sources into a meaningful and beautiful whole.  Thank you.

hrtScholar : with one Heart...
10 days later
hrtScholar said

thank you Albert, thank you for noticing..

did I tell you, I appreciate how you take a pause, on some of the hot spots

here on gaia and “don't react” in your commentary.

 Instead, you offer support through loving kindness and a sincere wisdom that reflects balance.

That you are indeed, awake, which is a gift, my friend.  What a great poppa you must be..:) 

 My blog is a reflection of my life and am drawn to the dharma of

poets, revolutionaries, artist, teachers, healers, lovers, (you see where I am going); am drawn to those who reveal healing in their work, healing self, healing each other, healing our beautiful diverse world


my healing began here…

      in a torrent of grief, my boat 

                 capsized 

          everything fell away

    except this one precious

                 breath…  

              Namaste

                   tess 


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