I'm smiling to myself today.

 

I am smiling to myself today,

There's no wish left in my heart,

Or perhaps there's no heart left,

Free from all desire,

I sit quietly like Earth,

My silent cry echoes like thunder,

Throughout the Universe,

I am not worried about it,

I know it will be heard by no one,

Except me.

 

(Rumi)

 



To let be.

 

 

"The truth is, you cannot try to let go,

trying, is the opposite of letting go,

to let go is to relinquish trying,

to let go is much more like

to let be."

 

(Adyashanti)



Seeds.

 

"Don't judge everyday by the harvest you reap,

but by the seeds that you plant."



Lesson in life.

 

A wise man sat in an audience and cracked a joke,

everybody laughed like crazy

after a moment he cracked the same joke again,

this time less people laughed

He cracked the same joke again and again,

when there's no laughter in the audience,

He smiled and said,

"you can't laugh at the same joke again and again,

but why do you kept crying over the same thing

over and over again?"



Floating.

after Havens

 

"Clouds come floating into my life

no longer to carry rain

nor usher storm,

but to add color to my sunset sky."

 

(Rabindranath Tagore, in stray birds)



Gracias a la vida,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life, which has given me so much,

Me dio dos luceros, que cuando los abro

It gave me two bright eyes, that when opened,

Perfecto distingo lo negro del blanco

Can perfectly distinguish black from white,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life, which has given me so much,

Me ha dado el oido que todo su ancho

It gave me an ear that, in all of its breadth,

Graba noche y dia grillos y canarios

Records, night and day, crickets and canaries,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life, which has given me so much,

Me ha dado el sonido y el abecedario

It gave me the sound and the alphabet,

Con el las palabras que pienso y declaro

With them the words that I think and declare,

Madre, amigo, hermano, y luz alumbrando

Mother, friend, brother, and the light,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life which has given me so much,

Me ha dado la marcha de mis pies cansados

It gave the ability to walk with my tired feet,

Con ellos anduve ciudades y charcos

With them I traversed cities and puddles,

Valles y desiertos, montanas y llanos

Valley and deserts, mountains and plains,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life which has given me so much,

Me dio el corazon, que agita su marco

It gave me a heart, that causes my fame to shudder,

Cuando miro al bueno tan lejos del malo

When I see good so far from bad,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life which has given me so much

Me ha dado la risa, me ha dado el ilanto

It gave me laughter and it gave me tears,

Asi yo distingo dicha de quebranto

With them I distinguish happiness and pain

Los dos materiales que forman mi vida

The two materials from which my life is formed.

 

(Violeta Parra 1917-1967)

 



Inner child.

 

"I am a sorrowful child, never grown up,

From the grassy north shore, I followed

a bright white road into

a city full of gears, narrow alleys and wooden shacks,

In a bland shade of smoke,

I kept dreaming of green lands,

I believe in  dreaming,

the sky and sea spray, will cover my sorrow,

cover my undiscoverable grave,

Only untill then I will know,

 wheather the grasses and wild flowers will gather,

with the dim lights,

to kiss over my sorrows."

 

(from; curricullum vitae,

by Gu Cheng, 1956-1993)



Impermanence.

after Anthony Rider

 

"Impermanence is a principle of harmony.

When we don't struggle against it,

we are in harmony with reality."

 

(Pema Chodron)