Nurturing Poems
(Formerly “Reminders for myself”)
Nurturing Poems
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the
... See moreVery little grows on jagged rock.
Be ground. Be crumbled,
so wildflowers will come up
where you are.
You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different. Surrender.
Be ground. Be crumbled,
so wildflowers will come up
where you are.
You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different. Surrender.
Be Ground. Be Crumbled. (A New Year’s Resolution)
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always Widening rings of being. —RUMI
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Rumi (Coleman Barks): “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
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Came across this poem today. Loved it. Love it. This should be celebrated more.