I have sought the Hidden Beauty in all things

Hidden Beauty

I have sought the Hidden Beauty in all things,

In love, and courage, and a high heart, and a hero’s grave,

In the hope of a dreaming soul, and a seagull’s wings,

In twilight over the sea, and a broken Atlantic wave,

I have sought the Hidden Beauty in all things.

I have found the Hidden Beauty where the river finds the sea.

Or the dark cloud finds the rainbow, or the desert finds the rain,

Where the night sails out on the dawn Wind and the darkness ceases to be,

Or the Spirit builds a rainbow from whirling rings of pain,

I have found the Hidden Beauty where the river finds the sea.

Eva Gore-Booth

"Enlightenment is simply being ...."

“Enlightenment is simply being, the act or fact of being a human with consciousness that you are following the will of God.”

"There is one thing that even I who have no wordly entanglements ...."

"There is one thing that even I who have no worldly entanglements, would be sorry to give up, the beauty of the sky."

"A solitude ten thousand fathoms deep ...."

"A solitude ten thousand fathoms deep
Sustains the bed on which we lie, my dear:
Although I love you, you will have to leap;
Our dream of safety will have to disappear."

"The best sea: has yet to be crossed ...."

"The best sea: has yet to be crossed;
The best child: has yet to be born;
The best days: have yet to be lived;
and the best word that I wanted to say to you,
is the word I have not yet said."

"They say - what say they - let them say."

"They say - what say they - let them say."

"Hurt no living thing ...."

CAN I?

"Hurt no living thing;
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep."  

"I don't want to be near you ...."

“I don’t want to be near you

for the thoughts we share

but the words we never have

to speak”