Thursday, August 26, 2010

Sun and Moon

The words SUN /MOON
The Wordsmiths Kahlil Gibran/
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sun
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.  
Buddha
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. 
Mother Theresa
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. 
John Lennon

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. 


 Moon
Crescent Moon North Pole
Full Moon Agnes Waters
 









If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
Confucius
You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
Keith Richards

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mohandas Gandhi

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
Indian Proverb 

Symbolism

The Sun 

The sun is an emblem of glory and brilliance. It is also a symbol of authority. It represents happiness, life and spirituality. The rising sun is a symbol of hope.
The Moon
 The image of the moon is a symbol of the goddess Diana and indicates, in its bearer, the serene power to endure mundane duties. It is also a symbol of the Virgin Mary
Crescent Moon 

A symbol of the aging goddess (crone) to contemporary witches and victory over death to many Muslims.

Sun and Moon joined as one.

A universal pagan expression of the merging of opposites. Like the yin and yang, the marriage of  the male sun and the female moon represents unity in diversity, compromise instead of conflict, and conformity to a new consciousness where all is one.

 Wordsmiths of the Week


Kahlil Gibran
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?"

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls



Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
 The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.


Robert Louis Stevenson

The broad sun,
The bright day
White sails
On the blue bay
When the sun comes after rain
And the bird is in the blue,
The girls go down the lane
Two by two.


The saints are the sinners who keep on trying."
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
"To be what we are capable of becoming, and to achieve what we are capable of achieving, is the only end of life.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry Jekyll!

  With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

  This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life."

    If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek."

Monday, July 19, 2010

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. 

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

Sunday, June 20, 2010

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

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.

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

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











Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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 

"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

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 

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