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Spirit of Wisdom to Wield

    CHORUS OF SPIRITS Our spoil is won, Our task is done, We are free to dive, or soar, or run; Beyond and around, Or within the bound Which clips the world with darkness round. We’ll pass the eyes Of the… Spirit of Wisdom to Wield

    Tranquility

      One who was suffering tumult in his soul Yet failed to seek the sure relief of prayer, Went forth—his course surrendering to the care Of fierce wind, while mid-day lightnings prowl Insiduously, untimely thunders growl; While trees, dim-seen, in frenzied… Tranquility

      Invictus

        Out of the night that covers me,Black as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeoning of chanceMy head is… Invictus

        The Knower

          As “the Knower,” Krishna is the unchanging consciousness That watches the creative drama within the Field of His being, and He declares that the power to discriminate between “the Field” and its “Knower” is the essential condition of wisdom. But… The Knower

          Divine Omnipresence

            God be in my head, And in my understanding; God be in my eyes, And in my looking; God be in my mouth, And in my speaking; God be in my heart, And in my thinking; God be at my… Divine Omnipresence

            Depth in Silence

              Meditation is done in silence.  By it we renounce our narrow individuality, and expatiate into that which is infinite.  Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret hiding God.  The strength of resolve which… Depth in Silence

              Fiery Martyrdom

                There was a Being whom my spirit oft Met on its visioned wanderings, far aloft, In the clear golden prime of my youth’s dawn, Upon the fairy isles of sunny lawn, Amid the enchanted mountains, and the caves Of divine… Fiery Martyrdom

                True Love

                  True Love in this differs from gold and clay,That to divide is not to take away.Love is like understanding that grows brightGazing on many truths; ‘t is like thy light,Imagination! which from earth and sky,And from the depths of human… True Love

                  Hints and Guesses

                    Men’s curiosity searches past and future And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint— No occupation either, but something given And taken, in a lifetime’s… Hints and Guesses

                    The Banner of Becoming

                      What a handful of dust is man to think such thoughts! Or is he, perchance, a prince in misfortune, whose speech at times betrays his birth? I like to think that, if men are machines, they are machines of a… The Banner of Becoming

                      Mindfulness

                        All consciousness is a kind of attention.  It begins the moment we awake from sleep, though it is partially present in our dreams.  It began in our infancy when we first took notice of forms around us.  At that time,… Mindfulness