"Written at Random"

There’s nothing I do but with ease when I’m at leisure;

Awake, I find east window reddened in sunlight.

Nature contemplated calmly has its own pleasure;

I enjoy four seasons with all men in delight.

Law is formless but reigns over heaven and earth;

Thoughts assume various shapes and change like wind and cloud,

Wealth can’t seduce me; poverty won’t reduce mirth.

A man who attains this of his deeds may be proud.

Cheng Hao

"I cannot tell you ...."

I cannot tell you if the dead,

Who loved us fondly when on earth,

Walk by our side, sit at our hearth,

By ties of old affection led....

But this I know--in many dreams

They come to us from realms afar,

And leave the golden gates ajar

Through which immortal glory streams.

The Dead

And if with prayer and praise thy heart is filled,

Its fever cooled, its stormy passions stilled,

If thou dost catch faint glimpses of that shore

Where sorrow dies, and parting is no more,

And thou canst almost solve death's mystery,

O, then, God's handmaid, Beauty, dwells with thee!

Albert Laighton, Beauty

"Mere colour ...."

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde

"You are never alone ...."

You are never alone or helpless.  The force that guides the stars guides you too.

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti