Words and Sword

Words

Words spoken

may soon pass away

and forgotten be,

But when spoken

in love and kindness,

are like beautiful flowers,

and even though

they fade and die

from conscious memory,

their fragrance lives on

embedded in the

deeper mind –

forever.

 Dick Innes 

Pen and Sword

The Pen is mightier than the Sword

For though the Sword is stronger

It lives on only as long as the welder

The written word last longer

The Sword is weaker than the Pen

When the swordsman dies, it's gone

But if you strike a writer down

The words he penned live on

The Sword can only fight body

It rusts and crumbles with time

And wouldn't it be more satisfying

To conquer your enemies mind?

The world would be a better place

If Pen fought all the words of man

To conquer not bodies by Sword

But minds by the written hand

The Pen is mightier than the Sword

For thus it's life is longer

Swords are steel, hate and blood

Strange that words are stronger

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SWORD

Hamlet

Shakespeare

And lay your hands again upon my sword:
Never to speak of this that you have heard,
Swear by my sword.

Symbolic Swords

The sword is a alchemic symbol of purification. Here we experience the metaphorical sword cleanly piercing the spiritual soul of man. This symbolic action sacrifices physical bondage to release a path to ethereal (enlightened) freedom. 

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In Buddhism the sword symbolism deals with discrimination of thought. In this light, swords cut away ignorance. 

Excalibur 

King Arthur’s supernatural power has been attributed to the enchanted Sword in the Stone named Clarent. According to the story, Clarent is previously the sword of King Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur. He plunged it into a block of rock by magic and before he gasped his last breath, he swore an oath that only the true and rightful king can pluck it.

 The young Arthur, who was only in his teens at that time, succeeded in pulling it out, earning him the kingdom and the throne. The same Sword in the Stone was used as personal weapon of King Arthur and from that time on, it was known as the Excalibur.

Bee Gees 

Words

You think that i don't even mean
a single word i say 
It's only words and words are all I have
to take your heart away

Friend Enemy Peace

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. he lived, thought, and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore him at our own risk.


                                           Martin Luther King

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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies

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Love has power that dispels Death; charm that conquers the enemy

                                                        Kahlil Gibran 

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

                                               Mohandas K. Gandhi 

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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." 

                                                      Abraham Lincoln  

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"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."
                                                       Peace Pilgrim 

 

                                  

Poetry on a Friend

H. W. Longfellow

 I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
 

William Shakespeare 

When to the session of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death¹s dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish¹d sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Green Day Know Your Enemy

Nobel Peace Prize 2009

Barack Obama

President of the United States. Born Barack Hussein Obama on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu. He was awarded the peace prize October 2009.On accepting the peace prize in Oslo Norway Obama said 

   I am at the beginning, and not the end, of my labors on the world stage. Compared to some of the giants of history who've received this prize -- Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela -- my accomplishments are slight.

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility.  Peace entails sacrifice."

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Theresa

Peace 

Henry Vaughan

My Soul, there is a country

 Afar beyond the stars,

 Where stands a winged sentry

 All skillful in the wars;

 There, above noise and danger

 Sweet Peace sits, crown'd with smiles,

 And One born in a manger

 Commands the beauteous files.

 He is thy gracious friend

 And (O my Soul awake!)

 Did in pure love descend,

 To die here for thy sake.

 If thou canst get but thither,

 There grows the flow'r of peace,

 The rose that cannot wither,

 Thy fortress, and thy ease.

 Leave then thy foolish ranges,

 For none can thee secure,

 But One, who never changes,

 Thy God, thy life, thy cure

Heart and Earth

        Quotes 

         Mother Theresa

Every generation there are certain persons born unselfed, with a love in their hearts that is not entirely self - love, a love that looks across visible horizons and wonders.What can I do to help! There will always be instruments of God on earth because in every age there are persons born who are attained with the source but of themselves, men and women are nothing.   

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The coin which you drop into the withered hand

Stretching towards you

Is the only golden chain that binds

Your rich heart to the loving heart of God.

                                                      Kahlil Gibran

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"Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart."
         Henry Ward Beecher 

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"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
    John Andrew Holmes, Jr. 

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Humanity is a beautiful river

Singing its way and carrying

With it the mountains secrets

Into the heart of the sea

  Kahlil Gibran

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Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard

  William W. Purkey 

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Put A Little Love In Your heart Jacki De Shannon

"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."
-Abraham Lincoln

"What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

-Chief Seattle 

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             Oh if a heart on earth

                 Could find a freeway of love

                   Down a lifeless desert byway 

                                                  Oh a highway to heaven

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I Feel The Earth Move  Carole King

Unchain My Heart Joe Cocker

Sweet Words of Love Flow

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. 
Kahlil Gibran
How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

James Beattie

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Maya Angelou

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Ronald Reagan

How Sweet it is to be loved by you.  Marvin Gaye 

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Bram Stoker

Let Your Love Flow  Bellamy Brothers 

 

Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.

Just let your love flow like a mountain stream
And let your love grow with the smallest of dreams

 Rollin With The Flow Charlie Rich

Cant take it with you when youre gone.
But I want enough to get there on.
And I aint ever growin old.
So, I keep on rollin with the flow

 Sutta Nipata

Let your love flow outward through the universe,

To its height, its depth, its broad extent,

A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.

Then as you stand or walk,

Sit or lie down,

As long as you are awake,

Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;

Your life will bring heaven to earth.

Sutta Nipata

Is "Sweet Home Alabama" Really Sweet?

Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" which was written in response to two of Young's anti-southern slavery songs, "Southern Man", from the album After The Gold Rush and "Alabama", from the album Harvest.

"Sweet Home Alabama"

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you