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 numbers, tear The lingering remnant of their yellow hair, And shivering wolves, surprised with darkness, […]
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 bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the horror of the […]
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 underlying substance of “the Field’ is as eternal in its own mode as its […]
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 end, and at my departing. — Sarum Missal
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 afterwards shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary […]
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 sleep, and on the air-like waves Of wonder-level dream, whose tremulous floor Paved her light […]
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 fantasy,As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fillsThe universe with glorious beams, and killsError, the […]