Of holiness the virtue

 

Reason, in its eternal aspect, is unnameable.

Simplicity though insignificant, 

the world not dares to subject [it].

Princes [and] kings if they can keep it,

The ten thousand things are going of themselves to pay homage.

Heaven [and] earth mutually combined,

thereby drop sweet dew.

The people will have none as their commanders,

but of themselves they will be righteous.

[When] at first creating order [it becomes] the nameable.

[When] the nameable also already exists

then in turn one is going to know where to stop.

is the reason why there is no danger.

To illustrate:

Reason's being in the universe 

resembles rivers [and] streams [in their relation] to great rivers [and the oceans,

indeed.

Sustain contracts

 

"Sustain contracts"

The Way leans on the positive instead of the negative in any dealings.

Eyes

When your eyes are tired 

the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone 

no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark 

where the night has eyes

to recognize its own.

There you can be sure 

you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb 

tonight.

The night will give you 

a horizon further than you can see.

You must learn one thing.

The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds 

except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet 

confinement of your aloneness

to learn 

anything or anyone 

that does not bring you alive 

is too small for you.

 

What's left

What's left

is one, only,

Not wise

to want it all.

"So many bodies ...."

So many bodies, so many opinions!

But my Beloved, though invisible, is in all these bodies.

There is no life at all without the Beloved;

the Self lives as each and every one.

What, then, 0 friend, are you searching for like a fool?

The object of your quest is within you, as the oil is in the sesame seed.

As the pupil is in the eye, so is the Lord in the body;

The deluded do not know Him, and search for Him without.

The lock of error shuts the gate; open it with the key of Love.

By opening the door, you shall wake the Beloved.

Kabir says: 0 brother, do not pass by such good fortune as this!

'O Innocence, ...."

Juveniles day out ....

O Innocence, with laughing eyes!

Thou art a cherub from the skies,

A wanderer from heaven.

Harvey Rice, “Innocence”

"Color"

Wear it

Like a banner

For the proud –

Not like a shroud.

Wear it

Like a song

Soaring high –

Not moan or cry.

Langston Hughes

"For once you have tasted flight ...."

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Leornado da Vinci