![]() Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing Īnd let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.įor reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. How the floor receives the bottoms of shoesĪgainst the earth’s sweet flowing breast Īlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.īlessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. ![]() And you need to be.Įdgar Guest (1881-1959), known as the “People’s Poet”Ī human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. ![]() Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. It doesn’t have to be walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meaning no other brain ever managed to encounter. ![]() It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at it’s most spectacular moments, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. )īe who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. (Note: Robert Frost said he wrote this poem while experiencing what researchers today would now call “the flow state.” Some preliminary research indicates that listening to the recitation of this poem may help facilitate this state in the listener. for answers about life, are not to be found on the outside, but inside-within our Self. The search for the highest value, the search for truth. All life must be soothed, must be harmonious.”ĭon’t chase after your fulfillment. All life must be healed, not just a part. But Transcendental Meditation has the greatest healing power because it heals the mind, the body, and the soul all at once. Everything charming in Nature has healing power. A good, pleasing movie is healing when one is fatigued. If a child is hurt, healing power is on the lap of mother. Attend to your inner health and happiness.Įverything pleasing in Nature has healing power.
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