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Journal Entry: Mon Aug 10, 2009, 4:02 PM

A Magnificent Inspiration from William Cullen Bryant

To A Waterfowl

Whither, 'midst falling dew,
While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue
Thy solitary way?

Vainly the fowler's eye
Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along.

Seek'st thou the plashy brink
Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,
Or where the rocking billows rise and sink
On the chafed ocean side?

There is a Power whose care
Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,--
The desert and illimitable air,--
Lone wandering, but not lost.

All day thy wings have fann'd
At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere:
Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,
Though the dark night is near.

And soon that toil shall end,
Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,
And scream among thy fellows; reed shall bend
Soon o'er thy sheltered nest.

Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven
Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,
And shall not soon depart.

He, who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.

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Poetry and Features for Inspiration

Journal Entry: Tue May 19, 2009, 4:43 PM

Look To This Day

Look to this day,
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course lie all
The realities and verities of existence,
The bliss of growth,
The splendor of action,
The glory of power –

For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day.
Such is the salutation of the dawn.

(A Sanskrit Proverb)

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Poetry and Features for Inspiration

Journal Entry: Sat Mar 21, 2009, 2:58 PM

A Magnificent Inspiration from Sri Aurobindo

The Call to the Quest

O Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race,
O petty adventurers in an infinite world
And prisoners of a dwarf humanity,
How long will you tread the circling tracks of mind
Around your little self and petty things?

But not for a changeless littleness were you meant,
Not for vain repetition were you built;
Out of the Immortal's substance you were made;
Your actions can be swift revealing steps,
Your life a changeful mould for growing gods.

A Seer, a strong Creator, is within,
The immaculate Grandeur broods upon your days,
Almighty powers are shut in Nature's cells.

A greater destiny waits you in your front:
This transient earthly being if he wills
Can fit his acts to a transcendent scheme.

He who now stares at the world with ignorant eyes
Hardly from the Inconscient's night aroused,
That look at images and not at Truth,
Can fill those orbs with an immortal's sight.

Yet shall the godhead grow within your hearts,
You shall awake into the spirit's air
And feel the breaking walls of mortal mind
And hear the message which left life's heart dumb
And look through Nature with sun-gazing lids
And blow your conch-shells at the Eternal's gate.

Authors of earth's high change, to you it is given
To cross the dangerous spaces of the soul
And touch the mighty Mother stark awake
And meet the Omnipotent in this house of flesh
And make of life the million-bodied One.

The earth you tread is a border screened from heaven;
The life you lead conceals the light you are.

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Poetry and Features for Inspiration

Journal Entry: Sun Mar 1, 2009, 12:29 PM

A Poem from the beloved Hafiz

With That Moon Language

Admit something:

Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.”

Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise
Someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this,
This great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives with a
Full moon in each eye that is
Always saying,

With that sweet moon language,
What every other eye in
This world is
Dying to
Hear?

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The Poetry of Inspiration

Journal Entry: Tue Feb 3, 2009, 4:34 PM

A Poem from the beloved Rumi

I
like when
the music happens like this:

Something in His eye grabs hold of a
tambourine in
me,

then I turn and lift a violin in someone else,
and they turn, and this turning
continues;

it has reached you now. Isn't that
something?

-- Jalaludin Rumi

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Journal History

Aug 10, 2009 Poetry and Features to Inspire Us
May 19, 2009 Poetry and Features for Inspiration
Mar 21, 2009 Poetry and Features for Inspiration
Mar 1, 2009 Poetry and Features for Inspiration
Feb 3, 2009 The Poetry of Inspiration
Jan 15, 2009 Features for a Joyous New Year
Dec 21, 2008 Features for the Season of Joy
Oct 19, 2008 Celebrating Inspiration with Features
Aug 19, 2008 Home again, and so very grateful!
Jun 28, 2008 Radical Idea for Radical Minds, + Awesome Features

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