This journey has taken its toll
     My body, older, less agile
          Struggles as it faces
The cold, the rain, and...
                                       uncertainty.

Yet, my heart knows where I must be.

As I shed these ill-considered
    Personal choices, commitments,
          And, yes, relationships

I find myself inner resolve, focused
    On what I know
          Is best for me.

What I seek has been inside of me
    All along, ...and, now,

It will be fulfilled, and
   I'll be transformed into who
        and where I'm meant to be.

The universe is programmed to manifest, through you, the highest possibilities for your creativity and joy. And that never, ever changes. In God's Mind you are never too old; in God's Mind you are never inadequate; in God's Mind you are not your resume or your failures. In God's Mind, there is no mistake that you are not given the opportunity to correct, nor anything anyone did to you that cannot be compensated for when you forgive and move on.

 

Nothing about your material circumstances has the power to stop the engine of cosmic intention that you be blessed. And you are blessed "eternally," which means moment after moment after moment. In any instant, regardless of what has happened in the past, the universe has arranged and is continuing to arrange infinite possibilities for you to prosper. If you cannot see this now--if despair and anxiety hang like a veil before your eyes, preventing you from mustering any faith in God at all--then in this moment lean on mine. One mind joined with another, regardless of their position in time or space, can remove whatever chains would bind us and deliver us to that sweet, sweet realm where things come full circle and there is always a chance to begin again.

Marianne Williamson,

The Law of Divine Compensation

Spiritual experience is a fact. Spirituality may be defined as an atmosphere of good, the realization of God. It cannot--and does not--borrow its light from another, no matter how great or noble that other may be. It springs from within, coming from that never-failing fountain of life, which quenches every thirst, whose Source is in eternity; the well-spring of self-existence. It is a revelation of the self to the self, putting one back on the track of his own self-dependence on Spirit, his own at-one-ment with Reality.

Ernest Holmes,

The Science of Mind

One basic truth that is of inestimable value and usefulness is this dictum: all fear is fallacious and not based in fact. Fear is overcome by walking directly through it until one breaks through into the joy that the fear is blocking. The joy that follows facing any spiritual fear comes from the discovery that it was merely an illusion without basis or reality.

David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., 

Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self

Of all the world Those who want Freedom are few. Those who are burning for Freedom are even fewer. Those who strive one pointedly are even fewer. Those who do not return to the senses are even fewer. Those who go on the razors edge are even fewer still. Those who do not fall off this edge are even fewer still. Those who attain the Self are so few! Strive, strive, it is so rare that you are here. You have a mountain of merits to bring you here. Do not waste it! Strive! Sri H. W. L. Poonja, The Truth Is

You should have
             heard him.
                      his voice was
unforgettable, irresistible, hi voice
was an imaginary garden woven though with fragrance.

Did you ever have a family?
                      Their eyes are closed.
That's how I know
            we're there
                      inside it.
it's made of sound and steam
that weaves between dark
dining room, bright kitchen.
We're there because I'm hungry,
and we'll all be eating soon
                     together, and the hunger's sweet.

                       -- Alan Shapiro, "Song and Dance"

Questioner:  How are we to treat others?

Ramana Maharishi:  There are no others.

I have been thinking of the difference between water

         and the waves on it.

Rising, water's still water,

            falling back,

                     it is water,

will you give me a hint

         how to tell them apart?

 

         Because someone has made up the word

                     wave, do I have to distinguish it from water?

 

         There is a Secret One inside us;

         the planets in all the galaxies

                     pass through his hands like beads.

 

         That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.

    Kabir