{"id":559,"date":"2020-08-21T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T08:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/?page_id=559"},"modified":"2020-12-02T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:17:58","slug":"contemplative-poems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mindfulness.zone\/?page_id=559","title":{"rendered":"Contemplative Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cYou are the drop, and the ocean<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are kindness, you are anger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are sweetness, you are poison<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please do no dishearten me\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are the chamber of the sun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are the abode of Venus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are the garden of all hope<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh Beloved, please let me enter\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rumi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cTo become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life<\/strong>\u201d. Oscar Wilde<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy<\/strong>\u201d. Rabindranath Tagore<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Autobiography in Five Short<\/strong> Chapters<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters I.
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter II.
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I still don’t see it. I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in the same place. It isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter III.
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there, I still fall in.
It’s habit. It’s my fault. I know where I am. I get out immediately.

Chapter IV.
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter V.
I walk down a different street.

\u00a9 1977 Portia Nelson, There\u2019s a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/73_Voet2fnc\n<\/div>
Words spoken by Wayne Dyer on a beautiful translation of the Tao Te Ching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou are the drop, and the ocean You are kindness, you are anger You are sweetness, you are poison Please do no dishearten me\u00a0 You are the chamber of the sun You are the abode of Venus You are the garden of all hope Oh Beloved, please let me enter\u201d Rumi \u201cTo become a spectator … <\/p>\n

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