Poems Spring 2008                                             
 

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserves your love and affection.

Buddhist saying

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

All the things we see, touch, taste, hear, smell, remember and describe are transient. The peace we find in stillness is never-ending and always the same.

Doug, New Zealand

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear, and play.

Baba Hari Dass

Try. Fail. Try again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.

Anon

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Love alone is capable of uniting beings in such a way as to complete and fulfil them; for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin