Fireflies, Tagore – Inspirational Quotations and Poems

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A Love poem by Rabindranath Tagore,  “Fireflies,”  one I really enjoy reading.   Rabindranath Tagore was the first one non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature. Love poems by Rabindranath Tagore are spiritual and mercurial which mesmerize lovers. Optimism, joy, hope and sorrow in love are best described in love poems by Rabindranath Tagore.

Like any other beauty of God, love can’t be described in words.  Through love poems by Rabindranath Tagore, lovers can understand the divine feeling of love. Rabindranath Tagore has poured the light of hope on love through all of his poems.

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An excerpt from Fireflies

The world knows that the few are more than the many.

Let not my love be a burden on you, my friend, know that it pays itself.

Dawn plays her lute before the gate of darkness, and is content to vanish when the sun comes out.

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

The dew-drop knows the sun
only within its own tiny orb.

Forlorn thoughts from the forsaken hives of all ages,
swarming in the air, hum round my heart
and seek my voice.

The desert is imprisoned in the wall
of its unbounded barrenness.

In the thrill of little leaves
I see the air’s invisible dance,
and in their glimmering
the secret heart-beats of the sky.

You are like a flowering tree,
amazed when I praise you for your gifts.

The earth’s sacrifical fire
flames up in her trees,
scattering sparks in flowers.

Forests, the clouds of earth,
hold up to the sky their silence,
and clouds from above come down
in resonant showers.

The world speaks to me in pictures,
my soul answers in music.

The sky tells its beads all night
on the countless stars
in memory of the sun.

photo source: Fireflies.org.

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One Vast Garden, Ananadamayi Ma – Inspirational Quotations

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It’s raining again so i decided it was time to create a video of my garden. I can’t sit in my garden this summer, it’s far too wet, but I can look at my photos. Actually, i spent the morning weeding and cutting back tree branches, until the skies opened and drenching rain poured down, putting an end to the weeding work. I am sure my 1/3rd of an acre garden has been the biggest joy and sense of achievement in my life, although it is hard work.

I don’t expect to live here  for too many more years.  But I have such fond memories of sweet summers and dazzling golden falls, through my collection of digital photos. Now with you tubes on line, we ‘all’ can capture our pleasant moments and keep them forever. We’re Really blessed that way.

This you tube, should you decide to watch is better seen on LARGE screen.

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“I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe.

All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies

are about in this garden in various ways ,

each has his own uniqueness and beauty.

Their presence and variety give me great delight.

Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden.”

~ Anandamayi Ma

 

Rumi – A Poem – Inspirational Quotations

Once a man came and knocked at the door of his friend.
His friend said, “Who art thou, O faithful one?”
He said, “‘Tis I.” He answered, “There is no admittance.
There is no room for the ‘raw’ at my well-cooked feast.
Naught but fire of separation and absence
Can cook the raw one and free him from hypocrisy!
Since thy ‘self’ has not yet left thee,
Thou must be burned in fiery flames.”
The poor man went away, and for one whole year
Journeyed burning with grief for his friend’s absence.
His heart burned till it was cooked; then he went again
And drew near to the house of his friend.
He knocked at the door in fear and trepidation
Lest some careless word might fall from his lips.
His friend shouted, “Who is that at the door?”
He answered, “‘Tis Thou who art at the door, O Beloved!”
The friend said, “Since ’tis I, let me come in,
There is not room for two ‘I’s in one house.”

~♥Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī♥~

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Persian lawyer-divine and Sufi, widely considered literature’s greatest mystical poet, understood very well the uncontrollable and idiosyncratic impact of poetry. Yet one wonders if even he, for all his intuitive grasp of language, humanity and the cosmos foresaw the deep and diverse influence his own work would have on readers throughout the world seven centuries after his death-or the myriad meanings enthusiasts would draw from his sprawling and contradictory poems. In the Islamic world today, Rumi is read for much the same reasons he was revered during his life: for his excellence as a poet; for his rare ability to empathize with humans, animals and plants; for his personal refinement; and, above all else, for his flawless moral center and ability to direct others towards good conduct and union with Allah.

Excerpt kindly provided by Eileen judd

Unending Love, A Poem by R. Tagore, Inspirational Quotations

Just another beautiful poem from R.Tagore. Here again he reminds us that life is eternal, that life is a journey through love and pain, from lifetime to lifetime.

Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever. Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain, It’s ancient tale of being apart or together. As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge, Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time. You become an image of what is remembered forever. You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount. At the heart of time, love of one for another. We have played along side millions of lovers, Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting, the distressful tears of farewell, Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever. Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you The love of all man’s days both past and forever: Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life. The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours – And the songs of every poet past and forever. ~Rabindranath Tagore

From Selected Poems, Translated by William Radice

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“The Newborn” – Inspiritual Quotations

The spiritual master who has planted the love in the heart of the disciple will always look after  it, as the gardener looks after a plant; he does not want it to die. The disciple must surrender completely; only then the Teacher will judge if he is ready for more.  Love cannot be more or less for the Spiritual Teacher. For him the very beginning and the end are the same; it is a closed circle. His love for the disciple does not go on increasing; for the disciple, of course, it is very different; he has to complete the whole circle. Then as the disciple progresses, he feels the Master nearer and nearer, as the time goes on. but the Master is not nearer; he was always near, only the disciple did not know it. Like a new born, helpless, the disciple, does not want to return to the womb or darkness again, but craves the light and freedom. That light is love.      

“THE NEWBORN

Muhammed spoke to his friends
about a newborn baby, ‘This child
may cry out in its helplessness,
but it doesn’t want to go back
to the darkness of the womb.

And so it is with your soul
when it finally leaves the nest
and flies out into the sky
over the wide plain of a new life.
Your soul would not trade that freedom
for the warmth of where it was.

Let loving lead your soul.
Make it a place to retire to,
a kind of monastery cave, a retreat
for the deepest core of being.

Then build a road
from there to God.

Let every action be in harmony with your soul
and its soul-place, but don’t parade
those doings down the street
on the end of a stick!

Keep quiet and secret with soul-work.
Don’t worry so much about your body.
God sewed that robe. Leave it as it is.

Be more deeply courageous.
Change your soul.”

- Attar, from THE HAND OF POETRY: FIVE MYSTIC POETS OF PERSIA (ISBN 0930872479)

Bright And Beautiful As You Are – Inspirational Quotations

 

Romantic Paris print by daniel wall with thanks

BRIGHT and luminous as your are…

you went to the world of darkness, and engaged in combat with it;

and the world of darkness obscured your light, and encompassed

you with darkness, and blinded you, and made you lose sight of all

that you had seen, and forget all that you had known; and in the end,

you were captured and held prisoner.

- Hermes