Sunday Soul Search

"...Ask for a clear mind and a strong heart that I may be “Captain of my soul.”~ Leaves of Life, by Margaret Bird Steinmetz

Besmirch - interesting word... especially when it comes to money. How did money come to be besmirched?
Cogent morality play about love, memory, and what is needed for a full and rich life." The Giver Phillip Noyce

Daily prayer message from my Jess

Enchantment - what a lovely word

Find this movie:

Giver : American social science fiction film directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the novel by Lois Lowry. 

Hafiz: 

Jessica Kelly:

"Let silence take you to the core of Life." ~ Rumi

"Moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open." ~ Rumi

NOT POOR

We are not poor. We are just without riches,

we who have no will, no world:

marked with the marks of the latest anxiety,

disfigured, stripped of leaves.

Around us swirls the dust of the cities,

the garbage clings to us.

We are shunned as if contaminated,

thrown away like broken pots, like bones,

like last year’s calendar.

And yet if our Earth needed to

she could weave us together like roses

and make of us a garland.

For each being is cleaner than washed stones

and endlessly yours, and like an animal

who knows already in its first blind moments

its need for one thing only—

to let ourselves be poor like that—as we truly are.

        ~ Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours, III, 16

           Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

"Over abundance of control" ~ Avengers
Project Happiness
Quote from Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

"Spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of renunciation, and above all, for the spirit of joy and gratitude." ~ Amiel

"The secret of goodness and greatness is in choosing whom you will approach, and live with, in memory or imagination, through the crowding obvious people who seem to live with you." ~ Robert Browning

"Undressing" by Rumi

Welcome difficulty, as a familiar comrade...

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes / and jackets that serve to cover,

and then are taken off. / That undressing,

and the naked body underneath,

is the sweetness that comes after grief.
Year with Rumi