Inspiration

Poetry, beauty and wise words inspire me daily.  If these images inspire you, feel free to print or share.  I recommend placing them on your altar, post them where they’ll be a reminder, carry them with you during your day and read them often, use them as journalling prompts or lovingly gift them to a special person.  These images are a reflection of you, you are Divine Light and Love.

Weaves of Grace

by Sadhguru

As a Weaver strives to put
one thread upon another
Every thread as crucial
as the other, for bare threads
to evolve into graceful fabric.

So is life my Beloved
Every thread as crucial
as the one before and after.
Weave you should the threads
of life of complex texture and hue
into a fabric of beauty and grace
fit for the boundless Being – Divine

Fabric not just a device to
cover the body of parts private.
Fabric that shall allow you to
touch the organic beauty of
Creation and become a passage
to privacy to cohabit the
Inner Divine. Threads of
love, threads of prudence, threads of
play and threads of work
Threads of closeness and distance
Threads soaked in sanity of
Sense and insanity of Bliss

Threads of such varied texture
and hue, to weave it all into
One graceful Garment.
Devotion my Beloved the
only way. Ungraced
by Devotion it can all
turn into messy knots.

Make life a weave of Grace
My Beloved

“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind” Rumi

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime, and be yourself” Hermann Hesse

“Rise, awake, and gain knowledge.” Katha Upanisad

“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom” Rabindranath Tagore

There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.

- Thomas Merton

Householder’s Prayer

The altar is in my heart.

The sun and the moon are my gurus.

I trust the earth to support me.

Each time I close my eyes, I enter the void.

My heart is the portal to my sacred cave.

I whisper the names of the Divine as I prepare my meals.

I notice the flow of my beloveds’ breath as they fall asleep,

and I synchronize my breath to the flow of love.

I place a blessing in the pause between the breaths.

I hold the power to create a new reality with every thought.

I honor silence as a blessing.

I explore who I am and who I am not in the mirror of relationship.

I question my beliefs with curiosity and courage.

I honor my ancestors.

I lay down all self-doubt with compassion and forgiveness.

I remember the light of my soul as I enter the dream state.

I recall the beauty of truth as I transition from sleep to waking.

I know the vibration of truth.

I remember that nothing is mundane.

I honor the power of the transition as a portal to transformation

Everything is an offering. My life is a sacred ritual.

—Tracee Stanley

Breath flows in, filling, filling,

In this moment, drink eternity.

Breath flow out, emptying, emptying,

Offering itself to infinity.

Cherishing these moments,

Mind dissolves into heart,

Heart dissolves into space,

Body becomes a vibrating field,

Pulsating between fullness and emptiness.

Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras

There is a current of love-energy that flows

Between Earth below and Sun above.

The central channel of your spine is the riverbed. 

The streaming is as delicate and powerful

As the tingling touch of lovers.

Entering here,

Radiance arches between above and below.

Your whole attention resting in the subtle,

Vibrating in the centre of the spinal column,

Tracing this current between Earth and Sun,

Becomes magnetism relating all the worlds.

Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras