Poems Autumn 2006                                             

If you want to know God,
Then turn your face towards your friend,
And don’t look away.

Rumi

Relax the body completely.
Let the mind remain in its unformed state.
Become like a hollow bamboo
So that everything flows through.

The song of Mahamudra

Out beyond the ideas of right doing and wrong doing
There lies a field.
I’ll meet you there.

Rumi

Speech is silver
Silence is golden.
Speech takes you outwards
Silence takes you inwards.  

One hundred years from now
It will not matter what my bank account was like,
The sort of house I lived in or the kind of car I drove,
But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

The best thing any mortal hath
Is that which every mortal shares.

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

If you want to learn something, read about it.
If you want to understand something, write about it.
If you want to master something, teach it.