it's how you play that matters
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that you don't really win or really lose.
But that's not the point,
it's how you play that matters.
It's fitting - I've never been very competitive. Always had a strong desire to live a life of peace, beauty, strength, light and love.
This of course is challenging, especially in America, not to mention the corporate world and environment. But to live in Spirit, die in Spirit - is the most beautiful and fragrant way to live. I don't think there is any better way.
Access: PublicTo quote the great Persian poet, Hafiz
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the Sun never says to the Earth:
You owe me.
Just look at a love like that.
It lights the Whole Sky."
seeing God everywhere
Deeps
then to try to figure it all out."
Maha Lakshmi
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When I eat, may I taste your fagrance on my lips,
When I speak, may the words be filled with your Loving Grace
When I work, may it be filled with your goodness
May my ears be forever attentive to your calls in Nature,
so that my footsteps on earth, may reclaim the lotus blossoms of your feet,
to which I bow before in utter surrender.
You Are The Sun
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You are The Sun
Happiness, Content, Joy.
The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.
Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.
The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the long dark night, Apollo to the Moon's Diana. A positive card, it promises you your day in the sun. Glory, gain, triumph, pleasure, truth, success. As the moon symbolized inspiration from the unconscious, from dreams, this card symbolizes discoveries made fully consciousness and wide awake. You have an understanding and enjoyment of science and math, beautifully constructed music, carefully reasoned philosophy. It is a card of intellect, clarity of mind, and feelings of youthful energy.
What Tarot Card are You?
I beheld Thee . . .
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Suddenly, O Father, I beheld Thee, hiding there.
The perfume of Thy presence, it exhaled.
The blush of Thy purity colored its petals.
The gold of Thy wisdom shone in its heart.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Awake by Rumi
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AWAKE
by Rumi
"The Breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
Where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep."
The Beauty of Creation Bears Witness to God
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The beauty of the sea,
The beauty of the wide air around you,
The beauty of the sky;
Question the order of the stars,
The sun whose brightness lights the day,
The moon whose splendor softens the gloom of night;
Question the living creatures that move in the waters,
That roam upon the earth,
That fly through the air;
The spirit that lies hidden,
The matter that is manifest;
The visible things that are ruled,
The invisible that rule them;
Question all these.
They will answer you:
"Behold and see, we are beautiful."
Their beauty is their confession of God
Who made these beautiful changing things,
If not one who is beautiful and changeth not?
- Saint Augustine
QaR
August 2008 