The teacher is who learns from pupils
They are everywhere, emerging out of suffering
Leading you to the threshold of mind
Where all ancestors worked for the same cause
And all descendants unite inevitably
The strongest souls are those who
hold the most love in their service
there are no scars in rebirths, only
karmic residue, personal tendencies
Your living is determined not so much
by what life brings to you as by the
attitude you bring to life, perception is
The quantum variable, in silence’s vein
We find new teachers in purity
New levels of humility, where wisdom
Ceases to worship itself, but melts into spirit
There sweetness of friendships remain
Rising as faith like a knowledge in the heart
Beyond every proof, boundless as unconditional love
Yesterday is but today’s false shadow-memory
And tomorrow is but a Beloved-dream
Faith is the living oasis of the present
The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness
You pray in your distress, but you have been here before
We are all a prophet, we’ve all forged bonds of love
Arisen from the same loaf of mind
Alone in the same music of our hours of separation
Give your hearts, risk all to give
For in the moving sea lies the greatest rewards
We wanderers, ever seek the lonelier way
That we might trap divinity in a sunset
On some height we thought we were the first to climb
When love of higher things beckoned us
We followed him, though his ways were hard and steep
Even while the earth sleeps we travel
And give praise to the scattered winds of our legacies.
Very wonderful Wuji. Gibran had a major influence on my young philosophical life.
Great to hear Doug, who else did? I’d be much obliged to find more names
We he was not an eastern mystic, but Joseph Campbell did. You won’t find much poetry with his work, but you will find a great deal of wisdom and truth.
Yeah I am familiar, I’ve done Jung so might as well do Campbell, thanks mate.
Eleven syllables: ” perception is
The quantum variable” and wisdom to the eleventh power.
“The strongest souls are those who hold the most love in their service” I needed that line today. Thank you 🙂
Outstanding- so beautiful. Gibran worthy for sure!
Thank you Journey, I can’t rhyme but I’m all about the journey too…
The fact that we are able to experience the journey at all is amazing! The way your gift manifests itself- you don’t need rhyme.